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Johnson Calls Support for Israel ‘a Matter of Faith’
In a recent interview with Joel Rosenberg, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shared his love for Israel, calling it “a matter of faith.”
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From All Israel News:
The U.S.-Israel alliance, he said, is “a special alliance — it’s unlike any other in the nation because we have a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.”
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The Speaker’s own personal convictions on these matters “goes back to the opening book [the Bible] in Genesis.”
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“You know, blessed is the nation that blesses Israel and cursed the nation that curses Israel. There are all sorts of theological interpretations of how that applies to us today, but I take it literally.”
Speaker Johnson clearly holds the Jewish nation in high regard. In this interview, he shared both secular and biblical reasons to support Israel:
“So, it’s a matter of faith to me. But if you just set the faith issues aside and you just look at it practically — if you’re just looking for America First as an agenda and the interest of America, it is clearly within our interest to have a close alliance with Israel as the only stable democracy in the region, which is a tinderbox for all the reasons we know, and to have a strong presence there.”
As intercessors, we know that God is not done with Israel. The promises He made in the Old Testament still apply, and that includes the promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse it. To hear the Speaker of the House affirm this theological truth so openly is an answer to our prayers.
Let’s thank God for the faith of Speaker Johnson, and let’s pray that more members of the House come to see Israel as he does!
Share your prayers in the comments below.
(Excerpt from All Israel News. Photo Credit: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson)
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TR (below) is mostly if not all right, I believe. Sure, there have always been individuals who believed the “doctrine” which Darby popularized, but Schofield (a scoundrel) and Graham (a misled preacher with serious doctrinal errors) made His (Darby’s) false teaching all a part of American evangelicalism ( I said American “evangelicalism,” not American “Christianity.” ) The truth is that the book of Revelation was written to the 7 churches that existed after the crucifixion of Christ and before the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Yet the false prophets (such as Darby, Scofield, and Graham) attribute that book (Revelation) to our modern day of works-righteous Christianity, and they even can’t agree among themselves how to twist it for that purpose. John says right at the beginning of that book that he was writing it (Revelation) to those seven churches, not to “western” Christians. Meanwhile, Jesus said during his last supper with the disciples that He was replacing the old covenant with the new covenant. The old covenant, of course, is the Jewish sacrificial system that ended when the temple was destroyed in 70 AD, or rather when the curtain that separated its courtyard from the holy of hollies was split from top to bottom at the second Jesus died on the cross when darkness fell upon the earth, even as pagan civilizations also testify in their own historical records. Yet the false teachers of today cling to the old work-based-system of salvation for the sake of patronizing the Jews and Israel which are in effect their (little?) gods, all in violation of the first commandment of the old covenant, much less in violation of Jesus commandment to “love God with all of your heart and soul.” Jesus, the Christian’s God, said Himself that the (old-covenant) temple would be permanently destroyed (which happened in 70AD as He promised) and would be replaced with the new-covenant temple which He would build in 3 days, which is exactly what happened when He rose from the dead 3 days after He was crucified and which was when the old covenant died when He died only to be resurrected and replaced 3 days later. So to (supposedly) see the “Jews” (or rather the zionists) rebuild the temple, bring back the sacrificial system (such as the “red heifer), and establish an earthly kingdom in Jerusalem to honor and observe that old covenant is to not only trash the New Covenant (which is salvation through faith in Christ alone) but it (in my opinion) is to blaspheme God. After all, if you came to abolish the old covenant by being crucified, how would you feel if you had to come back to the same planet for a thousand years to see it all thrown back in your face? He told the Jews plainly, “My kingdom is not of this world.” (They also wanted Him to rule from Jerusalem and usher in a “thousand years” of Communist utopianism). Meanwhile, Paul instructed Christians to not be yoked with unbelievers, even as are most Jews of today and even as are most of the people who live in Israel (according to TR). After all, the Jewish geneology was observed and recorded (both in the temple and in the bible) for the purpose of documenting the coming of Jesus and confirming His arrival, Him (Jesus) being the last “descendant of Abraham” that would matter and who had been promised for 6,000 years. But wait! Jesus’ geneology was not only through Mary (a Jew), but it was half through the Holy Spirit (since she was a virgin when she conceived Jesus). Even worse, she (Mary) was not even a full blooded Jew because she had a non-Jewish cross bred ancestry (such as through Rahab the harlot, David’s live-ins, and Ruth the Moabite). Furthermore, the “Jews” at the time of Jesus birth were technically only from the southern kingdom of Israelites, namely only of the tribe of Judah and not including the northern kingdom of Israelites, such as the tribes of Zebulun, Issachar,, Gad, Manasseh, etc.,. Thus, all of today’s discussion about “Jews” and “antisemitism” could not even apply any more to the old covenant, even if the old covenant could still be possible, because it couldn’t possibly include all of the northern kingdom of the “seed of Abraham” which were of the other decendants of Jacob but which hated the descendants of Judah, the “Jews,” but were equally “God’s chosen people” at the time He delivered to Abraham and his descendants the old covenant. And all of that just said does not even give consideriation to the other descendants of Abraham which were of the geneology of his other son (Ismael, the son of his concubine) and which became the God-hated enemies of Israel, and later, became the enemies of Christians, most notably today’s Muslims and, yes, today’s Palestinian Jews. Thus, all of the discussion today about so-called “Jews,” “anti-semitism,” and the “promised land of Israel” is all a red herring because it can only apply to ethnic “Jews” and not to Abrahamic “Jews.” Of course anybody can be an ethnic Jew or a citizen of Israel even as anybody can be a Muslim or a citizen of Samaria, which is included in the land of the old covenant. In other words, at this late day in the earth’s gene pool, probably most people on the planet have at least some Jewish heritage, so who exactly can be biblically entitled to “God’s promised land”? To claim that biblical “right” would be to start a conflict, even as is happening right now in “Palestine,” Samaria, and Lebanon. And even the false teachers show their lack of biblical intelligence in this matter by saying there will be 144,000 Jews to rule the planet during the (supposed) millineum, and that those “144,000” will consist of 12,000 Jews from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Well duh!, all of those “twelve tribes” (Judah, Zebulun, Issachar,, Gad, Manasseh, etc.) have been so interbred by now that it would be impossible to seperate them by tribe as was specified 2000 years ago in Revelation. Meanwhile, all of the Jewish geneology records were destroyed in 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, so who is going to honor any “Jew in Name Only” (JINO) who claims he or she should be considered a member of one of the twelve tribes who gets to help boss everybody else around from the so-called “holier than thou” headquarters in Jerusalem? So its all just ignorant fantasy that JINOs use to get attention and be treated special, and CINOs (Christians in name only) do the same in order to act out their mothering instinct to “needy” infants whom they presume to need their protection, or rather their idolatrous worship (or maybe only their tourism dollars, such as through the likes of Kenneth Hagan).
Or at least that is my opinion, and I welcome anyone who disputes it. But give it your best shot, because I have had this opinion for many decades, and the more anyone tries to convince me that I am wrong, the more I feel that I am right. Thanks for your time, and thanks for your reply if you choose to give it.
Three corrections to the above post with apologies: First, at the time of His birth, Jesus had been promised to the world as messiah for roughly 4,000 years, not 6000. Second, although some have said that Mary had three or four non-Jewish-blood ancestors (Ruth, Rahab, Tamar, and according to a certain Jewish legality, Bathsheba), I found in my bible only one of those that is for certain (in my opinion), and that would be Ruth. Also, John Hagee is more into Israel tours whereas Kenneth Hagin is more into eschatology, at least according to my research.
The historical account is undisputed, the Khazar people converted to Judaism in around 740, thus becoming known as “Ashkenazi Jews”, from then until today. They are a group of people claiming a heritage that is not their own, they do not meet the Biblical requirements to claim God’s everlasting covenant to Abraham; they are NOT God’s chosen people.
Today, Jews are responsible for all the ills in the world, and they use banking, parasitism, freemasonry, communism, liberalism, feminism (LGBTQ), and Zionism to destroy society, and take control of the world and plan to create a one world satanic communist dictatorship in which they will rule over the depopulated enslaved earth and engage in their pedophilia, child sacrificing, and adrenochrome drinking without resistance forever.
This is an Anti-Semetic trope which was used and DISPROVED in the Nuremberg Trial and has NO PLACE here. ALL of mankind has sinned and fallen short of Yeshua’s GLORY!
Your focus is filled with hatred, can you not see that?
God’s Coming Kingdom is a ONE NEW MAN CULTIVATED OLIVE TREE KINGDOM and you are evidencing the EXACT ARROGANCE which Scripture warned against! What will happen to those who spew such arrogance and lies–they will be CUT OFF!
He is pulling in a Harvest even now in Israel! He is REGATHERING them and there are 64 Promises in Scripture which attest to Him bringing them BACK to the UNILATERAL, EVERLASTING ABRAHAMIC COVENANTAL LAND with all His Heart and FOR HIS GLORY!
Jewish Believers are Grafted back in and Christians are grafted in–BOTH SIDES REQUIRE GRAFTING and humility and thanksgiving for such a gracious SALVATION!
You are spewing the “anathema gospel”–which will bring a curse upon your head! Please repent-
According to Ezekiel 33.
Are you unaware that such hateful words will be written down in your book of life! We are called to account for every careless word–and your words sound like the Nazis!
Please study:
Genesis 12:2, Gen. 15, Exodus 12, Ruth 1:17-18, Ruth 2:12, Romans 9-11, Eph 2, Rev 7, Rev 14 and Rev.19.
We are NOT CALLED to be hateful to Jewish People! We are called to provoke them to jealousy with our love!
Please REPENT because Gen.12:3 and Numbers 24:9 will be charged against you on the Day of Judgment and it is a fearful thing to fall into the Hand of THE LIVING GOD WHO is COMING BACK SOON for His Davidic Throne!
Repent and understand that God still has plans for them. PULL OUT that evil and wicked root and lie in your heart –for you align yourself with EVERY SINGLE GROUP WHICH SPEWED such hatred and YHWH WIPED THEM OUT!
“LET all deceitful lips be made DUMB and SILENCED” but LET YHWH BE MAGNIFIED!
Please read Scripture and not whatever hateful stuff you have been reading. For the sake of your soul, please repent and do NOT spew such hatred!
Courageous, truthful reader post has responded above to a – Tragic – and unscriptural IFA position.
We are commanded to not be deceived, to call out evil, and to protect and instruct other people in love. Contributor TR did that.
Revelation 2:9 (ESV) “I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.”
The lands and people living in today’s political State of Israel are irrationally confused with the biblical nation-people of God’s Israel.
Brought to the burgeouning Evangelical movement in the 1880s by JN Darby (whose most notable and famous student was satanist Alistair Crowley) and CI Scofield (a disreputable criminal), Zionist funders and Oxford Press promoted heretical doctrine and conflated ideas about Zionism and the modern, satanic (literally; do your homework) state of “Israel” – an entity created in 1948 but conceived and planned long before. Ironic, it was created by genocide and is falling because of genocide. A brand new exegesis and new eschatology flourished among just one group of Christians, aided by people like DL Moody, the Grahams, J Falwell, John Hagee, et al.
Today’s population in the political State of “Israel” is about 99% non-semitic. Do your homework. Genetic testing is only one measure. The Khazars adopted the wicked Talmud from the line of Pharisees long ago, and simply adopted the name “Jew”. The terms “Israel” and “Jew” are used promiscuously, and intentionally so. The translations of these two words and their biblical origins versus modern useage should be studied and used cautiously. New Testament guides our reading of OT, not the other way around.
The Zionist’s involvement in promoting usury, political subversion, and vice are legendary – dating back over 1000 years.
Who were the key Bolshevik and Nazi leaders? Do your homework. Find the documentary “EUROPA: The Last Battle”, (find a link on Yandex dot com or some other uncensored search engine). Judge truth with knowledge and discernment. Don’t follow men, and find yourself deceived by them. Do Christians ever study Christian genocides? No, Christians generally don’t even know they exist. These histories are purposefully censored from the web and history books and church sermons. Who were the perpetrators and victims of the Bolshevik Revolution? Do you know about the Holodomor – the biggest holocaust: 20 million Christians SLAUGHTERED by Zionists? And others. Where did all the Christians in the middle east go? Lebanon was once a Christian-majority nation. Who just slaughtered and drove out millions of Christians across the Middle East over the last 20+ years? It’s not who you were told. Do your homework.
Who destroyed the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem? Who killed Christians and destroyed their churches across Gaza?
There is no defence for genocide. There is no defense for teaching apostacy. There is no reason for widespread apathy and ignorance if churches were functional bodies, behaving scripturally. For example, 1Cor 12
How do you, personally, know if you are deceived and what the enemy is (“IS”, not “might be”) using to deceive you? Cf, Matthew 10:16, 24:4, 24).
Pray for wisdom, courage, and truth.
Thank you Father for a President and Speaker of the House that loves, respects and supports Israel. We pray for more and more to rise up in Israel’s defense and bless Israel with wisdom from You Lord. Bless Israel with shalom.
Moses,
“Bless Jacob ISRAEL and be Blessed”
Joel,
“Do Not Divide MY LAND”
Christians cannot only have blessings WITHOUT ALSO THE CURSES
SHALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM OHAVAYICH
Yes, thank You Father God for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Please continue to bless him and keep him with Your Godly wisdom and understanding in all matters. In Yeshua’s NAME, amen.
Thank you Speaker Johnson for your faith & belief that we need to always support Israel! I can’t financially support Israel, but I pray for peace with the countries that surround Israel; but, for the Jewish people in Israel and around the world to come & accept Jesus as their personal savior!
We thank you Father God for the Jewish people who have believed & accepted Jesus!
As in Ezekiel 36:26 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will put My Spirit within you and you will keep my judgements and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, you shall be my people and I will be your God.”
Speaker Johnson, keep up the good work & pray God gives you even more wisdom & discernment as you continue to head in your position!
TR is mostly if not all right. Sure, there have always been individuals who believed the “doctrine” which Darby popularized, but Schofield (a scoundrel) and Graham (a misled preacher with serious doctrinal errors) made His (Darby’s) false teaching all a part of American evangelicalism ( I said American “evangelicalism,” not American “Christianity.” ) The truth is that the book of Revelation was written to the 7 churches that existed after the crucifixion of Christ and before the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Yet the false prophets (such as Darby, Scofield, and Graham) attribute that book (Revelation) to our modern day of works-righteous Christianity, and they even can’t agree among themselves how to twist it for that purpose. John says right at the beginning of that book that he was writing it (Revelation) to those seven churches, not to “western” Christians. Meanwhile, Jesus said during his last supper with the disciples that He was replacing the old covenant with the new covenant. The old covenant, of course, is the Jewish sacrificial system that ended when the temple was destroyed in 70 AD, or rather when the curtain that separated its courtyard from the holy of hollies was split from top to bottom at the second Jesus died on the cross when darkness fell upon the earth, even as pagan civilizations also testify in their own historical records. Yet the false teachers of today cling to the old work-based-system of salvation for the sake of patronizing the Jews and Israel which are in effect their (little?) gods, all in violation of the first commandment of the old covenant, much less in violation of Jesus commandment to “love God with all of your heart and soul.” Jesus, the Christian’s God, said Himself that the (old-covenant) temple would be permanently destroyed (which happened in 70AD as He promised) and would be replaced with the new-covenant temple which He would build in 3 days, which is exactly what happened when He rose from the dead 3 days after He was crucified and which was when the old covenant died when He died only to be resurrected and replaced 3 days later. So to (supposedly) see the “Jews” (or rather the zionists) rebuild the temple, bring back the sacrificial system (such as the “red heifer), and establish an earthly kingdom in Jerusalem to honor and observe that old covenant is to not only trash the New Covenant (which is salvation through faith in Christ alone) but it (in my opinion) is to blaspheme God. After all, if you came to abolish the old covenant by being crucified, how would you feel if you had to come back to the same planet for a thousand years to see it all thrown back in your face? He told the Jews plainly, “My kingdom is not of this world.” (They also wanted Him to rule from Jerusalem and usher in a “thousand years” of Communist utopianism). Meanwhile, Paul instructed Christians to not be yoked with unbelievers, even as are most Jews of today and even as are most of the people who live in Israel (according to TR). After all, the Jewish geneology was observed and recorded (both in the temple and in the bible) for the purpose of documenting the coming of Jesus and confirming His arrival, Him (Jesus) being the last “descendant of Abraham” that would matter and who had been promised for 6,000 years. But wait! Jesus’ geneology was not only through Mary (a Jew), but it was half through the Holy Spirit (since she was a virgin when she conceived Jesus). Even worse, she (Mary) was not even a full blooded Jew because she had a non-Jewish cross bred ancestry (such as through Rahab the harlot, David’s live-ins, and Ruth the Moabite). Furthermore, the “Jews” at the time of Jesus birth were technically only from the southern kingdom of Israelites, namely only of the tribe of Judah and not including the northern kingdom of Israelites, such as the tribes of Zebulun, Issachar,, Gad, Manasseh, etc.,. Thus, all of today’s discussion about “Jews” and “antisemitism” could not even apply any more to the old covenant, even if the old covenant could still be possible, because it couldn’t possibly include all of the northern kingdom of the “seed of Abraham” which were of the other decendants of Jacob but which hated the descendants of Judah, the “Jews,” but were equally “God’s chosen people” at the time He delivered to Abraham and his descendants the old covenant. And all of that just said does not even give consideriation to the other descendants of Abraham which were of the geneology of his other son (Ismael, the son of his concubine) and which became the God-hated enemies of Israel, and later, became the enemies of Christians, most notably today’s Muslims and, yes, today’s Palestinian Jews. Thus, all of the discussion today about so-called “Jews,” “anti-semitism,” and the “promised land of Israel” is all a red herring because it can only apply to ethnic “Jews” and not to Abrahamic “Jews.” Of course anybody can be an ethnic Jew or a citizen of Israel even as anybody can be a Muslim or a citizen of Samaria, which is included in the land of the old covenant. In other words, at this late day in the earth’s gene pool, probably most people on the planet have at least some Jewish heritage, so who exactly can be biblically entitled to “God’s promised land”? To claim that biblical “right” would be to start a conflict, even as is happening right now in “Palestine,” Samaria, and Lebanon. And even the false teachers show their lack of biblical intelligence in this matter by saying there will be 144,000 Jews to rule the planet during the (supposed) millineum, and that those “144,000” will consist of 12,000 Jews from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Well duh!, all of those “twelve tribes” (Judah, Zebulun, Issachar,, Gad, Manasseh, etc.) have been so interbred by now that it would be impossible to seperate them by tribe as was specified 2000 years ago in Revelation. Meanwhile, all of the Jewish geneology records were destroyed in 70 AD when the temple was destroyed, so who is going to honor any “Jew in Name Only” (JINO) who claims he or she should be considered a member of one of the twelve tribes who gets to help boss everybody else around from the so-called “holier than thou” headquarters in Jerusalem? So its all just ignorant fantasy that JINOs use to get attention and be treated special, and CINOs (Christians in name only) do the same in order to act out their mothering instinct to “needy” infants whom they presume to need their protection, or rather their idolatrous worship (or maybe only their tourism dollars, such as through the likes of Kenneth Hagan).
Or at least that is my opinion, and I welcome anyone who disputes it. But give it your best shot, because I have had this opinion for many decades, and the more anyone tries to convince me that I am wrong, the more I feel that I am right. Thanks for your time, and thanks for your reply if you choose to give it.