People often ask me whether I am bothered by the hatred of the Jewish people around the world.
Let me remind you that neither Israel nor the church was ever designed to be loved by the world. Israel was chosen to reveal the one true God to the nations, and the church was sent to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. Both stand as a testimony that confronts a world in rebellion against God.
Jesus Himself warned His followers:
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you… If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.”
— John 15:18, 20 (NKJV)
He also said:
“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”
— Luke 6:26 (NKJV)
If the world loves us because we have compromised the truth, something is wrong. But if the world hates us because we faithfully represent Christ, we are simply sharing in what He Himself experienced.
Everything God did in Israel and through Israel had one ultimate purpose. As the prophet Ezekiel repeatedly declared:
“Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”
When Israel rejected the Messiah, the responsibility of taking the gospel to the nations was entrusted to the church, made up of both Jews and Gentiles. Yet God’s story with the nation He calls His inheritance did not end there.
As a believer, I am committed to proclaiming the good news of the Hope of Israel. That is exactly how Paul referred to the Messiah when he declared:
“For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
— Acts 28:20 (NKJV)
As a Jew, I am equally committed to proclaiming the good news that the Lord is not finished with His people. Just as He promised, His plans for Israel are to give them “a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11), until the day when “all Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26).
The Gentile nations lived in disobedience before the coming of the Messiah. Israel, as a nation, stumbled by rejecting Him when He came. Yet God has sovereignly used both to accomplish His redemptive plan, showing mercy first to the Gentiles through Israel’s stumbling, and one day showing mercy to Israel as well.
That is exactly what Paul wrote:
“For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”
— Romans 11:30-33 (NKJV)
Before anyone misunderstands what I am saying, let me make one thing absolutely clear.
If you’re wondering whether I am suggesting that being Jewish is enough to be saved, the answer is no.
I will take you back to the words of Jesus Himself, spoken to one of the most respected leaders of the Jewish people, Nicodemus:
“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
— John 3:3 (NKJV)
If a leader of Israel needed to be born again, then so does every Jew. And if a religious Jew needed the Messiah for salvation, then so does every Gentile.
Salvation has always been, and will always be, by grace through faith in the Messiah. There is only one Savior, one gospel, and one way to the Father.
The distinction between Israel and the church is not about two different ways of salvation. It is about two distinct callings within God’s redemptive plan. The same Messiah who saves all who believe today is the One who will one day fulfill every promise He made to Israel.
The hatred of the world does not concern me. What concerns me is whether we remain faithful to God’s calling. Israel must remain Israel. The church must remain the church. And together, both continue to testify to the faithfulness of the God of Israel until the King returns.
Momma is a wreck, I have to be boarded tonight pre surgery tomorrow to remove a sebaceous cyst from my tail. I’ve never been boarded b4 and it’s thunderstorming. Pray for both of us please!!
🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: The SAVE America Act has ADVANCED in the US Senate, 51-48
GREAT WORK, @BasedMikeLee!
KEEP PUSHING, PATRIOTS!
We can get this done! 🇺🇸
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. This Democrat senator just started YELLING at the TOP OF HIS LUNGS and Sec. Pete Hegseth had the perfect response
SEN. PETERS (D): "WIN THE WAR! The men and women need leadership! WHEN WILL YOU SHOW LEADERSHIP?!"
HEGSETH: "Why don't YOU show some leadership and stand up to your fellow Democrats who won't FUND the troops! Who stand and play partisan politics while YOU don't give us the money!"
"You want to stand up here and talk about the troops? You won't show ANY political courage to actually fund our department because you have Trump Derangement Syndrome and can't actually commit to anything meaningful!"
🫳🏻🎤
Something is very wrong here.
In Wisconsin, there's only 4 million voting aged adults.
But there's 7.13 million registered voters.
Pass the SAVE America Act today.
A 31-year-old illegal alien named Raul Ortiz Moran just raped and murdered a two-year-old girl in Louisa, Virginia. That's a toddler.😭
Virginia is a sanctuary state, so he was protected from ICE.
This is why we need increased deportations!
What do you think should happen to him?
Brethren, the sky is about to crack open!
The Lord Jesus Christ is coming for His own — and it could be at any moment!
You had better make sure you are found worthy to escape all these things that are coming upon the earth, even as written in the Book of Revelation.
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." (Luke 21:36)
Repent, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be ready! The King is returning!
Hallelujah! Maranatha! 🙌
🇺🇸🇮🇱Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel:
“Mamdani is an evil anti-Semite who lies about serious things like "genocide" to stoke Jew hate. If anyone should be arrested, it's the Mayor.”
Thank you, @GovMikeHuckabee 🙏
Everyone knows the 2020 election was stolen.
Everyone knows Joe Biden was an illegitimate President.
Everyone knows Nancy Pelosi staged J6 to cover up the election fraud.
It really happened and people need to go to prison for it.
Tisha B’Av – The Saddest Day on the Jewish Calendar
In just a few days, Jews around the world will commemorate Tisha B’Av (the Ninth of Av) - the saddest and most solemn day on the Jewish calendar.
For nearly 2,000 years, this has been a day of fasting, mourning, and remembering the greatest national tragedies to befall the Jewish people.
But Tisha B’Av is far more than a memorial of past disasters. It stands as a powerful reminder that God always keeps His Word - both in judgment and in restoration.
What makes this day so remarkable is not only what happened on it once, but how many pivotal events in Jewish history have occurred on this very date. From the sin of the spies in the wilderness to the destruction of both Temples, from expulsions and massacres to the darkest chapters of Jewish history, the Ninth of Av has become synonymous with national mourning.
The question is: Why this date?
Jewish tradition traces the pattern back to the wilderness.
It all began with the twelve spies.
After hearing the evil report of ten of the spies, the children of Israel rejected God’s promise and refused to enter the Promised Land (Numbers 13-14). According to Jewish tradition (Ta’anit 29a), the people wept on the Ninth of Av.
God’s response was sobering. Because they wept without trusting Him, this day would become a day of genuine mourning throughout Israel’s history.
Sadly, it did.
Here is what happened on or around this day throughout history:
▪️ The children of Israel rejected God’s promise and refused to enter the Promised Land after believing the evil report of the ten spies.
▪️ The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, sending Judah into exile.
▪️ The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans under Titus in AD 70 - exactly as Yeshua had foretold:
“Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
Matthew 24:2
▪️ Betar, the last Jewish stronghold in the Bar Kokhba Revolt, fell to the Romans in AD 135, ending Jewish sovereignty and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
▪️ Emperor Hadrian plowed Jerusalem under, rebuilt it as the pagan city of Aelia Capitolina, and banned Jews from entering their own holy city.
▪️ The Jews were expelled from England in 1290.
▪️ The Jews were expelled from France in 1306.
▪️ The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, ending more than a thousand years of Jewish life on the Iberian Peninsula.
▪️ The First Crusade unleashed horrific massacres against Jewish communities throughout Europe in 1096.
▪️ World War I broke out in 1914, setting in motion the chain of events that ultimately led to the Holocaust.
▪️ The mass deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began in 1942.
▪️ Numerous other expulsions, pogroms, massacres, and persecutions of the Jewish people have occurred on or near this very date.
Why did God allow these things?
The destruction of the First Temple came because Judah persisted in idolatry and rejected God’s prophets.
The destruction of the Second Temple came after Israel rejected her Messiah. As Yeshua wept over Jerusalem, He declared:
“If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace!… because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Luke 19:41-44
God’s judgment is never arbitrary. It is always righteous.
But judgment is never God’s final word.
The same God who scattered Israel also promised to gather her.
The same God who judged Jerusalem promised to restore her.
The same God who allowed the Temple to be destroyed has promised that the Messiah will one day reign from Jerusalem.
Even Tisha B’Av itself will not remain a day of mourning forever.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth month, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah.’”
- Zechariah 8:19