[338]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - WHAT OF ISRAEL THE NATION?
Israel will always be a thorn in the side of haters and detractors and those who dismiss the great, unfulfilled promises for Israel found in scripture. In fact the Old Testament prophetic books are so full of prophecy such as the coming Day of the Lord and the Restoration of Israel.
I would say to those who dismiss Israel and claim to be Christians, GO and seriously read the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah and Zechariah carefully for starters, and note the hundreds of points referring to Israel under enemy threat and its glorious restoration. Search for them in scripture.
Israel is well and truly in the news right now in April 2026 and God will not let the matter rest. Those who oppose Israel have the curse of God on them. I am not being dramatic. This verse says it and history proves it. {{Genesis 12:2-3 “and I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great, and so you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and THE ONE WHO CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE. In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed,”}}
The leaders of the world currently, mainly curse Israel – Starmer of Britain, Marcon of France, very much Spain, Albanese of Australia, the Democrats of the USA – all these have the curse of God upon them for God is not mocked and those who dare oppose Abraham’s seed will suffer the consequences.
However those who bless Israel will be blessed. President Trump is upholding Israel and its protection, and I believe JUST FOR THE PRESENT, the USA will be blessed. I fear for the USA when Trump has gone, unless the Rapture happens very soon, as I think it will.
The poem looks broadly at the history of Israel and sad to say Israel had been so wayward. It is as if the nation has never been able to walk the straight path, but some Christians are like that too.
The poem traces Jewish failures and persecution over time BUT has God forsaken His people? Here is a vital passage for those like Luther who wrote off the Jews and persecuted them badly – {{Romans 11:1-2 “I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be for I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?”}}
Another critical passage from Romans is this one – {{Romans 11:11-12 “I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? MAY IT NEVER BE, but by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. Now if their transgression be riches for the world and their failure be riches for the Gentiles, HOW MUCH MORE WILL THEIR FULFILLMENT BE!”}}
God took up the Gentiles because of Israel’s fall so once the Gentile Church is removed in the Rapture, the Messiah turns again to Israel and their fulfillment will be glorious.
Paul is very passionate about his ethnic people. Here is more of Paul – {{Romans 11:25-27 Brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and thus all Israel will be saved just as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion. He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.” “And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”}}
The fullness of the Gentiles will come in VERY, VERY soon. How glorious it will be for Israel when all ungodliness is removed from them.
NOTE THIS VERSE CAREFULLY – {{Romans 11:27 “And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”}}. God has a covenant with Israel, but right now they do not know it. That is the covenant sealed through the blood of Christ/Messiah.
{{Jeremiah 31:31-33 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel AFTER THOSE DAYS,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.”}}
That covenant has already been made which is the one concluded at the cross. Jesus told His disciples of the new covenant in His blood. That was for the Church BUT that same sacrificial death on the cross was also for Israel. It is not realised just yet but the time is close.
The implementation of that new covenant will be this – {{Zechariah 12:10-11 “And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born. IN THAT DAY there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.”}}
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WHAT OF ISRAEL THE NATION?
O, Israel, O Israel, how do I deal with you?
God’s turmoil over His nation has been so sad.
They are a wayward people; always it was true.
God looked for fruitfulness but all He got was bad;
A stiff-necked people departing from what is right.
They served other gods, and wilfully rejected
All that was wholesome, good and righteous in God’s sight.
By rebellion and sin, they were much infected.
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The prophets they persecuted; some they killed.
They silenced God’s message by shutting up their ears.
Artemis and Moloch they worshipped as they willed,
Yet the patience of God extended over years.
Warning after warning they refused to accept,
Until such time that He expelled them from the land.
Nebuchadnezzar was the Lord’s servant adept
To punish that nation, which from the land, was banned.
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Abraham was promised all nations would be blessed,
And they have been through him, but by their deeds they failed.
God’s story ends not with failure, for God has stressed
A glorious future though now in time still veiled.
Israel’s land has been restored now to some extent,
And gone, the two and a half thousand years of loss.
Their land is theirs though Messiah is still absent.
They refuse to accept His sacrificial cross.
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For two thousand years the Jews have been sought; murdered
By Satan’s cohorts, evil demonic agents.
They have been framed, tortured, pillaged, killed and perjured,
And hardly anyone ventured for their defence.
Disgraceful are those who have written Israel off,
And replaced the nation’s prophecies with the church;
Who deny their restoration, dismiss, and scoff,
And prate Invented Theology from their perch.
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But Israel has a wonderful future ahead.
In the Tribulation, God takes her up again.
Through sorrow and hardship she’ll pass, but then instead
Of defeat, Israel, will great promises obtain.
Messiah comes as Lord of lords and King of kings
To establish in Israel His thousand year reign.
Israel knows Messiah with healing in His wings –
Chief nation in all the earth that none will disdain.
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Ronald Ferguson 30 January 2022 Metre = 12 throughout ABABCDCD etc.