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PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM
 
      The Israeli’s relocation from the Gaza strip is on many people’s minds. Many grieve. Others make jokes about it or grumble that the Israeli’s that resist the relocation are against peace. It is not just Zionist political activists and Orthodox Jews that oppose the relocation. Though they’re not in the majority, many Christians stand in unity with those Jewish brothers and sisters that claim God’s covenant with the Jews and Israel.
 
      The boundaries of Israel, including the Gaza strip, are far less than that promised to Abraham in Genesis 13:14, confirmed in Genesis 15:7 and 17:8, and better described in Genesis 15:18. Genesis 13:14 states that the land promised by God to Abraham’s offspring is “forever” as God said it is to be an “everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you and your generations to come”. The Bible is also clear that nations that mistreat Israel will be punished (Genesis 15:14). As He told Abraham about the promise for his “great nation” to come, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse” (Genesis 12:3).
 
      I am familiar with replacement theology that argues that the everlasting covenant to Abraham’s offspring is no longer to the Jewish people or Israel but to those that claim and follow Jesus Christ as their long-awaited Messiah. Replacement theology is commonly accepted, but I think it’s important in light of current events in the Middle East to prayerfully consider the alternative—that God’s covenant is intact with the Jewish People and Israel. God is unchanging, and though revelation is progressive in the Bible, the Old Testament demonstrates how God kept His covenant with His people even when they strayed far into idolatry and He allowed them to be overtaken by their enemies. If that covenant is intact, world events will progressively manifest, in the natural, the supernatural consequences of opposing and dividing Israel. There has possibly never been a more critical time to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Annie Bukacek MD

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