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and frankly I am a little bit different than most evangelicals on this issue.
Most stand for Israel because they think the Jews are wonderful people or something.
I don't. I know that they are in general, terrible people.
But that's part of the point.
all throughout the Old Testament God calls them a rebellious and stiff necked people. God didn't choose the best people on Earth, He chose the worst. Why? To prove that He can make something out of even the worst people.
In the sermon on the Mount, when Jesus was talking to an audience of Jews, He said that few would find the way to Life.
Shortly after, a Roman (Gentile) centurion had a servant of his healed by Jesus simply speaking the command, not even going to his home to heal him, just say the command, the Centurion believed Jesus had authority over all things. Jesus marveled over his faith and said MANY would sit with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Few Jews.
Many Gentiles.
Zechariah 13 says 2/3 of Jews will be utterly destroyed, condemned. 1/3 would be put through Tribulation and refined.
and Revelation 7, says 144,000 Jews ultimately get saved when Jesus comes back.
That's a few.
then follows with an uncountable multitude of Gentiles.
That's many.
It is a consistent narrative in the bible that Jews are awful people, and only a few will make it to heaven. But I support them because they are a part of a plan of God's, to save that few.