Zionophobia: Abraham’s Family Feud Reviewed; Zionophobia Defined; Zionism Is Out of The Lord’s Perfect Timing & Plays into Lucifer’s Anti-Semitic Strategy

		69.	The sons of Hagar are among the Arabs of today.  They are ensconced in the real estate promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all three of whom fulfilled the eternal life clause of the Abrahamic and Palestinian covenants.
		70.	The sons of Hagar from Ishmael down to this day were never the recipients of the Abrahamic and Palestinian covenants nor have those who followed Islam since the seventh century complied with the eternal life clauses of these covenants and thus cannot even visit the kingdom once it is established following the Second Advent.
		71.	However, until the Second Advent, the sons of Hagar will habitually persecute the sons of Sarah for they are galled over the fact that they were excluded from the covenants and at present are viciously bitter over the Jews presence in Palestine.
		72.	The war which was fomented in Genesis still rages today.  There is no solution short of the Lord’s return yet future.  
		73.	Therefore, in the meantime the Jews’ presence in the land is a very present danger to them as Lucifer will marshal all his forces against them in an effort to drive them wholesale into the sea.
		74.	In view of these things the Christian’s proper biblical view of Zionism is one of grave concern for the welfare of those who regather into the land.  To address this I have coined the term Zionophobia which I define as follows:
			Zionophobia: a vigilant concern for the safety of the Jews of Israel due to the proximity of Islamic forces influenced by Lucifer’s anti-Semitic strategy to annihilate them.
		75.	Zionophobia finds its rationale in the following biblical principles:
1.	Israel ceased to be a nation within the plan of God in a.d. 70.
2.	With the destruction of the Temple the spiritual life of Israel cannot be observed and consequently the Jews are presently unable to function as a nation within the plan of God.
3.	The Millennial Temple will not be dedicated by the Lord until after the Second Advent (Daniel 9:24) therefore the Jews cannot observe the lone ritual of the millennial kingdom, which is the Feast of Tabernacles, until then.  (Leviticus 23:33-43 compared with Zechariah 14:16)
4.	The Feast of Tabernacles: hK*s% Sukkah: The English translation is from the Latin tabernaculum meaning “booth” or “hut.”  This final feast on the Jewish spiritual calendar is also known as the Feast of the Ingathering for it was observed after all crops had been harvested and gathered.
5.	This is a picture of the Lord’s grace to the Jews during their wanderings in the Jornada but also implies the ultimate harvest of true Israel into the millennial kingdom.
6.	The Lord will not execute the “regathering” of the Diaspora until after the Second Advent, described in:
Isaiah 11:11 -	Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people [ Israel ], who remain [ survive the Tribulation ], from Assyria, Egypt, Pathos, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea [ areas of dispersion known to Isaiah in the 7th century b.c. ].
Isaiah 11:12 -	And He will lift up a standard for the nations, and will assemble the banished one of Israel, and will gather together the Diaspora of Judah from the four corners of the earth [ a global ingathering to millennial Israel ].
7.	This means that during the Church Age the Jewish people are disbursed throughout the world for their own protection against satanic persecution.
8.	We know this persecution will continue without pause until the Second Advent.  It began in Genesis 21 and has continued with varying degrees of intensity down to this very day.  The documentary verses are:
Genesis 21:9 -	Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian—the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham [ Ishmael ]—mocking [ Piel stem of qj^x* sachaq: mockery & derision ].
Genesis 25:18 -	They [ the twelve tribes of Ishmael ] settled from Havilah \hav' i‑la\ to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria [ Arabia ]; he settled in defiance of all his relatives [ the descendants of his half-brother Isaac ].
Galatians 4:29 -	Just as at that time [ Genesis 21:9 ] the one born according to the flesh [ Ishmael by Hagar ] kept on persecuting [ inceptive imperfect active indicative of dièkw, diōkō ] the one born according to the Holy Spirit [ Isaac by Sarah ] so it also is the case today [ the sons of Hagar continue to persecute the sons of the Sarah ].
9.	Not only is this persecution in evidence today but it will remain so throughout the Church Age and then become intensified during the Tribulation.  This final effort will be the ultimate manifestation of anti-Semitism in human history.  We get a brief synopsis from:
Thieme, R. B., Jr.  Armageddon.  2d. ed.  (Houston: R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries, 2002), 7-8:
Because of the unique promises of God to Israel, Satan sponsors antagonism toward the Jews throughout history.  Satan reasons that if he destroys all Jews, then God cannot fulfill His promises to Israel.  Therefore, during the Tribulation, Satan fosters a period of unparalleled anti-Semitism and launches a concentrated attack against Israel aimed at the final elimination of all Jews.  (p. 7)
The Tribulation is divided into two periods of approximately three and one half years each (Daniel 9:27).  The first half of the Tribulation is characterized by power politics in which four major spheres of influence struggle for world domination.  In the second half, lawlessness and anti-Semitism drastically increase.  At the end of the Tribulation, Satan attempts to annihilate the Jews by gathering the gentile armies of the world against Palestine.  So intense is the severity of the second half that it is known as the “great tribulation.”  (p. 8)
Matthew 24:21 -	“For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.”
This period is referred to by other descriptive terms in Scripture.  For example:
Jeremiah 30:7 -	“Alas! For that day is great, there is none like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s distress [ the persecution of Israelites in the Tribulation ], but he will be saved from it.
v. 8 -		“And it shall come about on that day,” declares the Lord of the armies, “that I will break his [ Lucifer’s ] yoke from off their necks, and will tear off their bonds; and strangers shall no longer make them their slaves.
v. 9 -		“But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
v. 10 -	And fear not, O Jacob My servant,” declares the Lord, “and do not be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity.  And Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid [ the peace of Jerusalem, Psalm 122:6 ].
v. 11 -	“For I am with you,” declares the Lord, “to save you; for I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, only I will not destroy you completely.”
10.	Revelation 7:14 also mentions the “great tribulation.”  These passages all refer to the seventieth week of Daniel which we studied in Daniel 9:24-27.
		76.	From points 1-10 and their supporting passages we draw the following conclusions:
Zionism is support for a Jewish national state in Palestine since a.d. 70 and fulfilled in May 1948.
From our study we have identified a very present danger to Jews who are residents of the State of Israel.  Their neighboring cousins include not only the Palestinians but also all Arab countries, each driven to anti-Semitic zeal by the teachings of Islam.
Divine protection of these Jews is problematic since by definition they are unbelievers and as such have rejected Jesus as Messiah and thus have returned to the land in advance of Lord’s perfect timing.  This danger is addressed by:
	Thieme, Armageddon, 3:
Since a.d. 70, when the legions of Titus destroyed Jerusalem, the Jews have been scattered and persecuted all over the earth.
Palestine is a portion of the real estate that God has promised to Abraham and his descendants.  The actual boundaries of the promised land extend from the Nile and the Red Sea in the southwest, the desert in the south, and the Mediterranean in the west to the Euphrates in the northeast.  (Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31)
Although the Jewish people throughout the world are conscious of their homeland, today they are entering Palestine as unbelievers and therefore modern Israel does not constitute the prophesied theocracy.  These waves of immigration have caused a vicious reaction in the Arab world.  The Arab states who are engaged in a bid for power and political solidarity in the Middle East seek to eliminate Israel and establish an Arab nation in its place.  But there will be a future time, prophesied in the Bible, when Jesus Christ Himself regathers Jewish believers and they will fully possess this Land and live in peace.
The Lord would never allow the Jews to experience genocide.  But since they are outside the timing of God in their return to the land they have placed themselves in grave jeopardy and imminent danger from the murderous assault of Islamic jihad.  Thousands have died as a result of terrorist attacks over Israel’s 56-year history.
We do not know when the Rapture might occur.  But should it occur within our lifetimes those unbelieving Jews we know, and especially the residents of the State of Israel, would become candidates for salvation during the Tribulation and potential residents of the new millennial client nation.
Therefore, it is the Christian’s solemn duty to pray for the Jews; to exhibit a pro-Semitic disposition to society, to oppose anti-Semitism, to support a pro-Israeli foreign policy, to offer any aid, assistance, or benevolence toward any and every Jew, to offer any the Gospel when led by the Holy Spirit, and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
	Psalm 122:6a -	Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.