Israel is only Mideast state safe for Christians, envoy to U.S. says.
In Wall Street Journal op-ed, Michael Oren compares what he calls the current repression of Christians in the Muslim world to the expulsion of Jews from Arab states.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is safe for Christians, Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren wrote in an op-ed column for the Wall Street Journal on Friday, comparing what he said was the suppression of Christian communities in Arab states to the twentieth-century expulsion of Jews from these nations.
In his article, Oren cited the continuing violence against Egypt’s Coptic Christians, the burning of Iraqi churches, a Saudi ban on Christian worship and the desecration of the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank as instances indicating a threat to Christianity in the Muslim world, adding that conversion “to Christianity is a capital offense in Iran, where last month Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death.”
Source: Israeli daily Haaretz
My comment:
Despite Messianic Jews being persecuted and troubled in Israel, Michael Oren tells the truth about Israel being the only safe place for Christians in the Middle East. Neither Messianic Christians nor Messianic Jews are crippled or killed for their faith.
While Evangelical Christians will be beheaded if they lead Muslims into faith in Jesus in Saudi Arabia and Iran, Israel let even anti-Jewish “Christians” come on pilgrimages to their “holy land”.
It is worth noticing that a secular, or semi-religious Jew like Michael Oren acknowledge that Evangelical Christians are the only true friends of the Jewish people.
When “Christians” join Islam on their attacks on Israel, they are like a man who tries to cut of the roots of the three he sits in. Slowly the three will die, and the man will come crashing down to the ground.
Jesus says that when a blind man leads another blind, they will both fall into a pit.
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Oren is raising an important point. Coptic Christians in Egypt are at increasing risk of genocide. It would be a wonderfully magnanimous gesture from Israel, if the borders of Israel would be opened to Coptic Christians as immigrants. Christians in the west would be wildly enthusiastic and likely to grow even stronger in their affection and loyalty toward the nation of Israel.
I don’t see any differences between those religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam). Christianity is just a man made religion. Christians are not the Chosen People of Yah. Christianity, Judaism and Islam have one single goal, to destroy Yah’s Chosen People. The Holy Land will be returned to Biblical Israel and Yah will dwell with His People, and this Land will be a safe place.
Mr. Oren, Israel is not a safe place yet.
ZECHARIAH 8: 3, 7-8
(3)THUS SAID YAH; I AM RETURNED UNTO ZION, AND WILL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM: AND JERUSALEM SHALL BE CALLED A CITY OF TRUTH; AND THE MOUNTAIN OF YHWH OF HOSTS THE HOLY MOUNTAIN
(7) THUS SAID YHWH OF HOSTS; BEHOLD, I WILL SAVE MY PEOPLE FROM THE EAST COUNTRY, AND FROM THE WEST COUNTRY (WESTERN HEMISPHERE)
(8)AND I WILL BRING THEM, AND THEY SHALL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE , AND I WILL BE THEIR MIGHTY ONE, IN TRUTH AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Right now, Jerusalem is not called a city of truth, and Yah is not dwelling there, it says that when Israel is back in Jerusalem Yah will dwell with them in truth and in righteousness. There is no truth (the laws and commandments) in Jerusalem, there is no righteousness (keeping the laws and commandments) there either.
Israel will be gathered and returned back to the land of Israel, when the Messiah Returns. Luke 21:24 states that Israel shall be in the land of our captivity until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Times of the Gentiles or Europeans will be fulfilled when Yahoshuah comes back. Upon his arrival he will gather scattered Israel, those whom the Most High has found worthy, and return them to the Land.
This is what the Bible says about those religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam). John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
As it is written in the book of Obadyah.
Verse 2 “Behold, I have made you small among the heathen: you are GREATLY DESPISED.”
While verses 10 – 16 tells us of Edom’s injustice against the Israelites and the prophesy of their curse. “For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off for ever.
verse 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you was as one of them.
verse 12 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress,
verse 13 You SHOULD NOT HAVE ENTERED INTO THE GATE OF MY PEOPLE IN THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY: yeah, you should not have look on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands ON THEIR SUBSTANCE IN THE DAY OF THEIR CALAMITY:
verse 14 Neither should you have stood in the crossway, to cut off his that did escape; neither should you have you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
verse 15 For the day of YHWH is near upon all the heathen: as you have done, IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU: YOUR REWARD SHALL RETURN UPON YOUR OWN HEAD.
verse 16 For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea they shall drink, and they shall shallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been”.
Aharon,
Need to stop smoking that stuff! Making you mind crazy. Israel is the only nation that the bible shows as being intact through till the coming of Christ. of course the Magog Invasion will be destructive, but not as bad as what will happen to all surrounding Islamic states.
Jimmiekrackkorn,
I don’t smoke nor drink, and I’m not crazy. This is what the Bible says in In JOEL 3: 1-2:
FOR BEHOLD, IN THOSE DAYS, AND IN THAT TIME, WHEN I SHALL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM.
(2) I WILL ALSO GATHER ALL NATIONS, AND WILL BRING THEM DOWN INTO THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT (YEHOSHAPHAT), AND WILL PLEAD WITH THEM THERE FOR MY PEOPLE AND FOR MY HERITAGE ISRAEL, WHOM THEY HAVE SCATTERED AMONG THE NATIONS, AND PARTED MY LAND.
This verse says that when Yah bring back Judah (Yahudah and Jerusalem) from captivity, He will also bring all nations to the valley of JEHOSHAPHAT or valley of decision, and plead with them. AND NOTICE THE REASONS WHY HE WILL PLEAD WITH THEM 1. Because they scattered Israel and 2. Because they HAVE PARTED HIS LAND WHICH IS THE LAND OF ISRAEL. This is the main fight in the land today. Who gets this much land and who gets that much land, The Arabs want this much of the land, and The Jews want that much and so on. They have parted the father’s land according to their own evil heart’s and desires.
Yah said THEY have parted his land (they being the nations and not Israelites). But the Jews who claim Israelite Heritage is part of “THEY” (or nations)….that are parting the land. This fact along let us know the Jews are not descendants of Biblical Israel. The Arabs, Jews and Christians all have had a hand in our scattering and these are the ones now parting the land. Yah said he would plead with them for these two reasons (scattering his people and parting his land)
Before true righteous Israel and those other Nations who will become partakers of the covenant. Can enter back into the land, the land will have to be cleanse first as it is written in
NUMBERS 35:33: SO YOU SHALL NOT POLLUTE THE LAND WHEREIN YOU ARE; FOR BLOOD IT DEFILETH THE LAND: AND THE LAND CANNOT BE CLEANSED OF THE BLOOD THAT IS SHED THEREIN, BUT BY THE BLOOD OF HIM THAT SHED IT.
Jews, Arabs, Christians and even Israelites have historically shed blood in Israel, as this verse tells us in order for the land to be cleansed of all this bloodshed. The blood of those who shed it is required; this is why in Joel 3:2 Yah said he was going to bring all nations to the valley of JEHOSHAPHAT, this will be pay day, and this will be the “cleansing process”. So all those who have shed blood in the land, will have their blood shed. Remember Joel 3:1 says at this time Israel will be returning back to the land, Zechariah 8:3,8 says that When Israel return Yah will dwell with them.
Yah is not going to dwell in an unclean defiled land / place. So when true Israel is back, the land will not be defiled with blood shed. Take a look at the land now is it without bloodshed?? Have those who have historically shed blood, had their blood shed, so the land can be cleansed???? This is what is required for cleansing of the land.
ANSWER TO ALL THESE IS NO!!!! So Israel IS NOT and CAN NOT be back home as a sovereign nation. The true Hebrew is still in Exile in the lands of their captivities. Just as scripture said we would and should be.
i also believe Israel is the safeest place for christians to dwell in.
We as christians need to see the jewish roots of our faith. Yeshua was a Jew and because we believe in the Messaiah Yeshua thats why we can also call God as our Father like thr Jewish people does.