Michael Stark

Christian, Husband, Father, Engineer. I Stand With Israel 🇺🇸🇮🇱. Zionist.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Just so we’re clear:

[A Cloistered Hermeneutic @Exodus15_11]

Jew-hating supersessionists do not believe the words of holy Scripture as the details are "too Jewish" for their counterfeit 'Jesus' which leans heavily into that of the Aryan counterfeit.

The above describes most of global Christianity (a term God never used) who demand the birth right, so to speak, be given to them rather than to Israel.

This envy is why their theology, derived from Covenant Theology, has redefined when the Church began, who Israel are, what a covenant requires, and what the Kingdom requires.

Because they control the vocabulary, like any effective authoritarian regime, will use that control of the vocabulary to make false associations with their religiously-sanctioned dictionary.

To them, the Church is Israel, the so-called fabricated Covenants of Grace and Works are umbrellas over the main storyline of eschatology, and the role of the Jews has been rendered as a coincidence of nature and spiritually irrelevant.

This is the dark and hard heart of Replacement Theology.

[Lior 🐝🐝 @ChaiLife613]

For all you “Replacement Theologians”.

[Sarah @italiathetruth]

Don’t forget to tell Muslims, ‘Merry Christmas’ this season! 🎄 ✝️

[Dr. Smith @napleszionist]

The Siege of Jerusalem
The First Crusade
July 15, 1099

"They burned the Jews alive in the chief synagogue [of Jerusalem], circling the screaming, flame-tortured humanity singing 'Christ We Adore Thee!' with their Crusader crosses held high."

David Rausch, Legacy of Hatred (1984)

"The massacre at Jerusalem was carried out deliberately; it was the result of settled policy. Jerusalem was to become a Christian city. The Jews, too, must be destroyed. They had all rushed to the chief synagogue, where they hoped to receive shelter and protection. The Crusaders, hungry for simple solutions, burned down the synagogue with the Jews inside"

Earlier that day, while the Crusaders "ran over the mutilated bodies [of those they had killed] as though they were a carpet spread for them," one of their leaders, Raymond of Aguilers, quoted Psalm 118:22 with approval: "This is the day the Lord has made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it."

Robert Payne, The Dream and the Tomb. A History of the Crusades (1984)

[Mandy ✝ @SpringSteps]

⚠️ Christians in the West need to hear this!

A Christian who lived under Hamas rule in Gaza describes the persecution Christians face, along with a serious warning for Western Christians.

Please take a moment to listen. 👇

[PRAYER HARBOR @PrayerHarbor]

Please pray for Penny. She’s thirteen months old, born with a rare heart condition that required incredibly cutting edge open heart surgery. God is in control and holds every heartbeat in his hands. Please pray for a complete restoration and a miraculous ending. Thank you.

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

There isn't a different path to heaven for the Jewish people.

There isn't a different Gospel.

We all need the same Yeshua who died and rose again.

There is no salvation apart from Him.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Highly recommend praying with your kids before bed. Hearing their little voices call out to their Creator, listening to their prayers, and watching them learn to bring everything to the Lord is one of the coolest and most edifying things in the world.

[Jack Hibbs @RealJackHibbs]

New podcast episode "Rapid-Fire Questions: Round 5" out now! https://t.co/8NN1plVtmw

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

This doesn't sound at all like mere criticism of Israel.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

I've been studying the Bible for 30 years and I JUST learned this mind-blowing detail about John the Baptist and Elijah.

The Bible is GOD-BREATHED scripture. Just wait for the payoff, @CarlosErazoGTG delivers 👇

[A Cloistered Hermeneutic @Exodus15_11]

Kyle's post is a really good example of what happens when people become indoctrinated by Covenant Theology and Reformed Theology.

[Andy Woods @dr_andywoods]

Acts 113 – Warning Against Antisemitism. Acts 19:21-22. Dr. Andrew Woods
https://t.co/rBA8z8CUcQ

[Amir Tsarfati @beholdisrael]

Good afternoon from Galilee, Israel.

I see many conservatives in Israel who are deeply discouraged as the liberal left, with the help of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas Arab politicians, takes control of parliament and appoints its people to key positions.

Some even quote Esther 7:4: “For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated.”

Allow me to remind them, and all of us, that the story did not end there. Mordecai expressed confidence that deliverance would come even if Esther refused to cooperate with the plan to expose Haman:

“For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” - Esther 4:14

And indeed, everything was turned upside down. The Jews went from facing annihilation to overcoming those who sought to destroy them:

“On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them. The Jews gathered together in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could withstand them, because fear of them fell upon all people.” - Esther 9:1–2

Yes, I want to throw up when I see what is happening to my nation. But at the same time, I know that my God is far greater than this!

As I understand Ezekiel 38, Russia, Iran, and Turkey will form a coalition against us to seize spoil and plunder. That suggests there will still be something here worth coveting. I guess good things are still coming…

And for us, the followers of the Messiah: chin up and look up, because our redemption is drawing near! - Luke 21:28

Awaiting His Soon Return,

Amir

[🌷 LIZZIE🌷 @farmingandJesus]

Church, Jami has inboxed me and they are looking at end of life decisions tomorrow for baby phinehas as he is declining rapidly … I pray to see a miracle Lord if it be your will. 💔

Please pray for this family for whatever the outcome will be😭💔🙏🏼👇🏻

Life hurts, Jesus … we need you 😢

[Sarah @italiathetruth]

Another Christian killed by Muslims.

May the Lord strengthen his church during this time.

[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

N.T. WRIGHT, ISRAEL, AND THE PROMISES GOD NEVER REVOKED

On November 2, renowned New Testament scholar N.T. Wright called the belief that modern Israel fulfills biblical prophecy a "totally unbiblical idea." @NTWrightSays

He described it as "simply unwarranted" and even "a very dangerous thing to believe."

Really?

Then we need to open our Bibles.

Because this disagreement is about much more than the modern State of Israel. It concerns the faithfulness of God to the everlasting promises He made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants.

God does not make everlasting promises with expiration dates.

Wright argues that God's promises to Israel find their fulfillment in Messiah and His worldwide people. He does not believe God has broken His promises. Rather, he understands their fulfillment differently.

But that raises a serious question.

Does fulfillment in Messiah require the people, land, and national restoration promised by the prophets to lose their original meaning?

Let's examine Scripture.

GENESIS 15:18 | GOD PROMISED THE LAND
God made a covenant with Abraham involving identifiable descendants and a specific geographical inheritance.

And according to Hebrews 6:13–18, God swore by Himself because there was no one greater by whom to swear.

His covenant commitment rests upon His own faithfulness.

The land was not an afterthought. It was part of the promise.

JEREMIAH 31:31–37 | GOD GUARANTEED THE NATION

God explicitly promised the New Covenant to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Then He tied Israel's continuing existence as a nation before Him to the fixed order of creation.

Think about that.

Has the sun stopped shining? Has the moon disappeared? Have the stars ceased their appointed courses?

Then why should we conclude that God's national promises to Israel have expired?

EZEKIEL 36–37 | GOD PROMISED RESTORATION

Here is something profoundly important.

God declares that He will restore Israel for the sake of His holy name, not because Israel deserves it (Ezekiel 36:22–23).

He promises to gather the Jewish people from the nations, return them to their own land, cleanse them, and give them a new heart (Ezekiel 36:24–28).

Ezekiel 37:21–22 goes further. God promises to gather Israel from the nations and make them one nation in their land.

Notice the prophetic sequence.

Physical regathering. Spiritual renewal. National restoration under the coming King.

The reestablishment of Israel in 1948 is consistent with the physical regathering described by the prophets. That does not mean every restoration prophecy has already been fulfilled.

Israel's promised spiritual transformation and recognition of Yeshua as Messiah still await their ultimate fulfillment.

But dismissing Israel's prophetic significance altogether is difficult to reconcile with these passages.

And remember WHY God promises to act.

His own holy name is at stake before the nations.

ROMANS 11 | GOD HAS NOT REVOKED HIS CALLING

Paul could hardly be clearer about Israel's continuing significance.

He describes Israel's partial hardening until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in (Romans 11:25).

He then declares that all Israel will be saved (Romans 11:26).

And concerning Israel, Paul writes:

"As regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers." Romans 11:28 (ESV)

Then comes his unmistakable declaration:

"For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable." Romans 11:29

Notice Paul's language.

Israel. Gentiles. Forefathers. Election. Irrevocable calling.

Paul does not treat Israel's unbelief as evidence that God has abandoned His covenant purposes.

And he issues a warning to Gentile believers:

"Do not be arrogant toward the branches." Romans 11:18

The Gentiles were grafted into the olive tree. They did not become its roots.

The inclusion of Gentiles does not require the exclusion of Israel.

Wright interprets Romans 11:26 as describing God's salvation of a united people of believing Jews and Gentiles, rather than a future national turning of ethnic Israel.

But Paul has just distinguished Israel's partial hardening from the fullness of the Gentiles. And in verse 28, he still identifies Israel as beloved because of the patriarchs.

That distinction deserves serious attention.

ACTS 1:6–8 | YESHUA AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL

After His resurrection, the disciples asked Yeshua whether He would restore the Kingdom to Israel.

Notice His response.

He did not explicitly declare that Israel had been replaced.

He did not announce that the Davidic promises had lost their national significance.
He told them that the timing belonged to the Father's authority and directed them to their worldwide mission.

The mission to the nations and the restoration of Israel need not be competing promises.

ZECHARIAH 12–14 | THE RETURNING KING

The prophets identify Jerusalem, the house of David, the Mount of Olives, and nations coming to worship the King.

Zechariah 14:4 describes the LORD standing upon the Mount of Olives.

Zechariah 14:9 declares that the LORD will be King over all the earth.

Zechariah 14:16 describes nations coming to Jerusalem to worship Him.

The King is real. The return is real. The city is real. The Kingdom will be real.
A worldwide Kingdom does not make Jerusalem irrelevant.

And the fulfillment of God's promises through Yeshua does not require the cancellation of Israel's covenant inheritance.

There is a common thread running through centuries of theological interpretation. National promises become exclusively spiritual promises. Specific geographical commitments become metaphors for something broader.

The issue is not whether Scripture contains symbolism. It certainly does.

The issue is whether our theological framework is allowed to redefine promises that God Himself made remarkably specific.

I respect N.T. Wright's scholarship and his defense of the historical resurrection of Yeshua.

But no theologian, regardless of reputation, is above the authority of Scripture.

And this controversy must not be confused with unconditional approval of every policy or action of Israel's government. Biblical covenant promises and modern political decisions are not the same thing.

The real question is whether the reestablishment of a Jewish nation in the ancestral homeland can be dismissed as having no prophetic significance when the prophets repeatedly anticipated Israel's regathering.

God promised a people.

God identified a land.

God guaranteed Israel's continuing existence.

God foretold a spiritual restoration.

God promised a coming King.

And God declared His gifts and calling irrevocable.

If God promised Israel a land, a national restoration, and a coming King, where does Scripture tell us those specific promises no longer require fulfillment?

The same God who keeps His promises to the Church will keep His promises to Israel.

He has not forgotten His people.

He has not revoked His calling.

He will not break His Word.

The Cross guarantees God's faithfulness. It does not cancel it.

"For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable." Romans 11:29

[Adi @Adi13]

I no longer care whether my posts are being seen or suppressed. I have broken no laws in my country, the United States of America, and I will not be silenced for expressing my views.

Now, I’m going to say something that may offend some people, but I believe it needs to be said.

If mosques are being used to recruit individuals, promote intimidation, or organize efforts to impose Islamic beliefs and rules on American society, then the government should seriously consider whether those institutions are functioning as political organizations rather than solely as places of worship.

A mosque, like any other house of worship, should be a place for prayer and religious practice—not a place to organize threats against the American way of life or plan to impose religious beliefs on others.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental American right. But freedom of religion does not mean the right to force your religion on an entire nation.

America protects your right to worship. It does not require Americans to surrender their freedoms to your beliefs. 🇺🇸

There is a difference between practicing your religion and trying to impose it on everyone else.