Derek Prince - God's Going To Deal With Israel In A Special Way
Now I believe the next judgment will be the judgment of Israel, a special people set apart by God. And though they’ve been disobedient, and unfaithful in many, many centuries, God has never finally rejected them. What is the Scripture we say? The Lord will not reject His people, for His great name’s sake because it has pleased the Lord to make Israel, His people. What God does for Israel is not because of Israel’s desserts, it’s because of the Lord’s name, that His name may be glorified. God is going to deal with Israel in a special way.
Here’s a principle, that I want to pass on to you about blessing and judgment. God blesses the Jews direct, but He blesses the Gentiles through the Jews. Those of us who are Gentiles here need to remember that. Every spiritual blessing we have ever received we owe to the Jewish people. Jesus said in John 4:22: Salvation is from the Jews. A very simple statement. Every single blessing that you’ve ever, received in salvation you owe to one people, the Jewish people. God expects you to recognize that and act accordingly. But when it comes to judgment God judges the Gentiles direct, He judges the Jews through the Gentiles. Let me repeat that. God blesses the Jews direct, He blesses the Gentiles through the Jews. God judges the Gentiles direct, He judges the Jews through the Gentiles.
You go back through hundreds of years of Jewish history, persistently God has used Gentile nations to judge them, for their disobedience and their unfaithfulness. The next judgment is going to be the judgment of Israel in the great tribulation. We’ll just look at one Scripture, Jeremiah 30:3-7. Jeremiah 30:3-7. For thus says the Lord, The days are coming that I will bring back, from exile my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord. I will cause them, to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they shall possess it. No matter what any government or politician likes to think, it says: they shall possess it. And everybody who knows the Bible, knows what land that is, there’s only one land.
A preacher, a friend of mine once said: If the return of the Jews to their land, were from God, there would be peace. He didn’t know His Bible, because this is what God says in connection with the return of the Jews: The words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel. For thus says the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear and not of peace. Ask now and see whether a man is ever in labor, with child. So why do I see every male with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labor and all faces turned pale? The greatest pressure, that Israel has never experienced is immediately ahead. It’s after they’ve returned to the land. Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Notice not saved from it but saved out of it. And there God will deal in judgment with the Jewish people. At the end of the tribulation their judgment will have taken place.