Why Israel Still Matters in God’s Plan

Dave Robbins: Good afternoon, everyone.
I’m Dave Robbins with Endtime Ministries, and I thank you for
joining me on this edition of “The Endtime Show.”
You know, there are some in the media that are questioning the
modern state of Israel, echoing the old belief of replacement
theology, that the church has replaced Israel in God’s plan,
but is this true?
Well, absolutely not.
In this episode of “The Endtime Show,” we’re gonna unpack this
enduring doctrine and reveal why understanding the truth is more
vital than ever.
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Dave: With a clear understanding of biblical prophecy concerning
Israel, Endtime Ministries firmly rejects the ideology of
replacement theology.
The idea that because the Jewish people rejected Jesus as the
Messiah, that God has rejected them in return forever
and always.
According to this view, God judged Israel, scattered them
among the nations, and transferred his promises to the
church, now labeled as the spiritual Israel.
And this belief implies that God no longer has a plan for the
Jewish people and that the modern state of Israel holds no
spiritual relevance.
Well, we, Endtime Ministries, completely disagree with this
perspective, and I want to make sure you understand why.
These days we’re seeing more influential figures, whether
it’s in theology, in the media or culture, social media
influencers, that lean into replacement theology, often
casting doubt on the legitimacy of supporting modern Israel.
I’ve seen many of these lately, so let’s go back to where all of
this started, because before I’m done with today’s program, I
want to make sure you understand that we absolutely do support
the nation of Israel and that God has much in store for the
nation of Israel in the end time, including saving the
nation of Israel at the time of his return, but many of them
before that time, so we’re gonna talk about it.
So let’s go back 2,000 years, Jesus Christ is born.
Now here’s the promise, you remember that God promised
Abraham, he said, “In your seed,” speaking of the coming
Messiah, “shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.”
But despite all of the miracles, despite all that God had done,
Jesus was rejected by the majority of the Jewish people.
We know that there–obviously there were many that did see him
as the Messiah, but the vast majority of them did not.
So John writes about it in his Gospel, in John 1 verses, I
think, 10 and 11, he says–speaking of Jesus, he
says, “He was in the world, the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
But verse 12 says, “But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God.”
So Jesus, even in his rejection, he loved the Jewish people.
He prophesized to them just before his death.
He looks over Jerusalem, this would be in Luke chapter 19,
verses 43 and 44, and he gives us the account, he’s–Jesus is
now prophesying over the Jews, over Jerusalem, and he says,
“For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall
cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep
thee on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground,
and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee
one stone upon another;” he says, “because thou knewest not
the time of thy visitation.”
In other words, you didn’t hear the voice of God, you were
disobedient to God and consequently, you’re going back
into exile.
Now, you understand the initial exile, the first exile, was when
they–Jeremiah prophesized about it.
The book of Daniel was written while Daniel was in
Babylonian captivity.
Jeremiah said, “Because of your disobedience and you’re
stiff-necked and your backsliding, you’re going down
into Babylonian captivity for 70 years,” and of course, Daniel
was down there when he wrote the book of Daniel.
So that was the first exile, but Jesus said, “Guess what, you
guys are going to go into another exile because you did
not understand, you did not know the time of thy visitation,” so
the prophecy came to pass, didn’t it?
A few years later, in 70 AD, the Roman armies came against
Jerusalem led by General Titus, and they destroyed the city of
Jerusalem, they burned the temple to the ground and not one
stone of the temple was left on another.
And now, I didn’t say the Temple Mount, the Temple Mount is still
there today, but the temple itself is gone.
So this prophecy was so thoroughly fulfilled that today,
the Jews don’t even know for sure where the temple was
located up on the Temple Mount.
But with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, that began
Israel’s second exile.
They disobeyed God, they didn’t heed the message of God, they
didn’t obey him, and so they had to be exiled out of the land.
Well, that happened, and God was doing exactly what he said, “If
you persecute me, you disobey me, then I’m gonna drive you
into exile.”
The first exile, remember, 70 years.
Well, this exile is gonna be 1,878 years.
What did the Jewish people do that was so terrible that they
were going to be exiled for 1,878 years from their
Promised Land?
Well, they rejected the promise, the covenant, the seed of
Abraham, the Messiah, the Savior of the world and God manifest in
the flesh, and that’s the reason that their punishment was
so extreme.
They actually stared the Messiah right in the face, God manifest
in the flesh, in the form of Jesus Christ, and they
rejected him.
Now, I will say that those that understood the prophecies, the
Old Testament messianic prophecies, they knew, they
recognized Jesus who he was, but just a very, very small amount
of people did that.
The vast majority, they didn’t even understand him, so they
rejected him.
In Ezekiel 37, it prophesized about the rebirth of Israel
after the second exile.
It says that God took Ezekiel to a great valley that was full of
dry bones.
The Lord asked Ezekiel, “Can these bones live?”
And Ezekiel responded, “O Lord GOD, thou knowest.”
What was God showing Ezekiel?
Well, we believe that God was showing him Hitler’s
horrible holocaust.
You know, they stacked up their bod–if you’ve ever been to a
Holocaust museum or seen some of the documentaries on the
Holocaust, they stacked their bodies up as they killed 6
million Jews, a horrific situation.
In the Holocaust museums and things, you can see videos of
them, they were pushing dead bodies with bulldozers and
things, just a horrific demonic sight.
Well, I believe that Ezekiel saw a picture of the concentration
camps when the Lord asked him if these bones could live.
The Lord was asking, can this nation come back together?
Because he tells Ezekiel, “This is the whole house of Israel.”
And Ezekiel replies, “Well,” he “said, I–you know, I don’t
know, I mean, this looks like an impossible situation.”
And God told Ezekiel, “You prophesy to those bones.”
And as Ezekiel prophesized, the bones started coming back
together, sinew came on the bones, muscle tissue, internal
organs, human flesh.
And the rest of the prophecy said that God would bring the
children of Israel from the north, the south, the east and
the west, and that he would gather them back into their
own land.
And of course, it happened after World War II.
When God–when Israel came back together, it was a
miraculous event.
You say, “Well, how did that happen?”
Well, in 1939, the world’s worst war broke out.
Over the next six years, 52 million humans met violent
deaths, and among these were 6 million Jews that Adolf Hitler
shipped off to concentration camps.
Now, there are people today who are totally trying to block this
entire horrific event from history, they’re Holocaust
deniers, is what people would call them.
But the fact is this is very, very real and it’s prophesized
about in Ezekiel chapter 37, which is going to be the
gathering back together of the nation of Israel, which a lot of
people even deny should be the case because–that because the
Jews rejected the Messiah when he came the first time, Jesus
Christ, that they are–have been totally rejected forever and
there’s no more validity to the nation–modern nation of Israel
or the Jews in the plan of God at all, which absolutely is not
true, but it is a belief system that is being talked about in
the news as we speak, which is certainly a horrible false
narrative for the nation of Israel, right?
But just when the Jewish people thought that their lives could
get no worse, well, it did.
Hitler’s horrible gas chambers and crematoriums, they cruelly
snuffed out young and old alike, innocent Jews.
Hitler’s goal was to rid the earth of the Jews once and for
all, he called this extermination campaign the
“Final Solution.”
Well, when the magnitude of Hitler’s horrible holocaust was
revealed to the world, the collective guilt of the world’s
nations compelled them to finally grant the Jewish people
a place to call home.
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the
area of the British mandate into an Arab state and an
Israeli state.
Well, of course the Jews, they were thrilled out of their mind
to have a homeland after almost 2,000 years of being shifted
through the nations and they–of course, they accepted the
partition plan with great joy.
This is when the Third Temple era actually began.
Well, of course, the Arabs immediately rejected the United
Nations plan and they didn’t want a state, they simply wanted
to eradicate the Jews from any part of that land.
That’s what the–the PLO was created, the Palestinian
Liberation Organization, they wanted to liberate that land of
Jews, but–and, you know, at the–after World War II, after
28 years of managing ongoing Jewish-Arab tensions in
Palestine–is what the region was called, there was no country
called Palestine, just that region there–Britain decided to
end the British mandate, and on May 14, 1948, British forces
withdrew and the Jews immediately declared Israel’s
independence that very day.
So the next day, and I mean the very next day, five Arab
nations, which would be Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and
Iraq, they attacked this fledgling nation, and
they–despite being vastly outnumbered, Israel survived and
even expanded its territory beyond what the UN had
initially granted.
And so the 1949 Armistice, that confirmed these gains, but the
biblical promise to Abraham was not yet fully realized.
Dave: Many people argue America is not mentioned in the
prophecies of the Bible, but they will miss so much about the
coming events that will happen in the end time if they don’t
get that understanding.
What do these beasts symbolize?
That’s what we need to answer because if we can’t understand
what these beasts symbolize, there’s no point in even
studying this, right?
If you don’t believe that America is mentioned in the
Bible, you’re gonna be stuck when it comes to figuring out
all these prophecies.
But once you understand this, America has a prophesized
future, it’s given to us in the Bible.
And the America will not be part of the world government, but
we’re gonna be protecting Israel against the world government.
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Dave: But you say, “What are we talking about here today, Dave?”
Well, I wanna make sure you understand that this false
teaching of replacement theology, that is diametrically
opposed to the Word of God.
That God completely replaced the nation of Israel with the church
and that there’s no more plan for the Jews in Israel in the
plan of God, that simply is not true.
And I wanna make sure that I get that point across to you today
because God does have a plan for the Jewish people in the end
time and the nation of Israel, a–much of end time Bible
prophecy is focused right there on the nation of Israel and
Jerusalem, but many–there are many people that are denying
that they should even exist, right?
And that it’s just a complete, you know–they shouldn’t even
have a place in history anymore, and that it’s just a total
mockery of the international system.
Well, Jerusalem was under foreign occupation from 70 AD
until 1948.
East Jerusalem was under Jordanian control from 1948 to
1967, and yet during this span of almost 1,897 years of foreign
occupation, Jerusalem was never made the capital of any
occupying power.
Well, once Israel officially declared Jerusalem to be its
eternal undivided capital, the nations of the world declared
this illegal and unacceptable.
Every nation on earth chooses its own capital and it is
accepted by the United Nations, except for one, and that
is Israel.
However, God is not finished with this story.
And this is where it gets very good because I wanted to
talk–I’m talking today about replacement theology.
The–it’s dan–it’s a dangerous teaching in the news today that
Israel is simply–the modern day nation of Israel is a hoax, and
they’re saying that the United States should not support them,
as in when recently that we went in and bombed Iran and their
nuclear aspirations because Iran was seeking to destroy Israel
and the United States.
There were people that were saying, “Oh, we shouldn’t do
that, we shouldn’t try to protect Israel.
Israel, that’s a mockery of the international system.
They are a–they’re a joke, and we shouldn’t even be in
alignment with them at all.”
Huh, are you kidding me?
And so I wanted to make sure we talked about this today because
God is not finished with Israel and God is not finished with the
Jewish people.
The apostle Paul rejected the idea of replacement theology,
the idea that the church has placed Israel–has replaced
Israel in God’s plan, and the apostle Paul rejected that idea
loud and clear.
In Romans chapter 9 through chapter 11, the apostle Paul
directly addresses the question, has God rejected his
people Israel?
And his answer is unequivocal, he says, “By no means.”
Paul reminds us that he himself is an Israelite, he–he’s a
descendant of Abraham.
“And God’s promises,” he says, “are irrevocable.”
Paul paints a powerful image here of an olive tree, and he
says that the Jewish people are the natural branches.
Some have been broken off because of unbelief, yes, but
Gentiles, the wild branches, have been grafted in.
It doesn’t say that God cut the original olive tree down,
does it?
Doesn’t say that.
It says, and even more striking is that those natural branches
can be–even though they’ve fallen off, they can be grafted
back in.
There’s no talk of replacement here, it’s a message of
inclusion, not exclusion.
But I know of churches today that are actually teaching
replacement theology, they allude to it, and I’m thinking,
well, do what, what are you–replacement theology, that
God has no more plan for–that God rejected the Jews and the
nation of Israel and they have no more plan–no more–they’re
not mentioned anymore in the plan of God, that they’ve been
rejected totally forever?
The apostle Paul taught against that.
In Ephesians, Paul, the apostle Paul speaks of Jews and Gentiles
being made into one new man.
Not one overtaking the other, but the two becoming one
in Christ.
And he–he’s talking about unity, not secession.
This is very, very critical when you’re talking about the false
narrative of replacement theology.
So at the heart of it, Paul holds on to the hope that all of
Israel will be saved, he’s teaching this, Romans 11:25-26,
all of Israel, “When the fullness of the Gentiles be come
in, all of Israel will be saved.”
The apostle Paul tells us that.
His vision is not one of replacement but of a divine plan
that makes room for both Jew and Gentile, side by side, sharing
in God’s mercy and in his salvation plan.
So no, the apostle Paul did not teach, did not preach
replacement theology, he preached the gospel of the
kingdom of God to everyone, all of the apostles did, and
reconciliation, fulfillment, and the faithfulness of God, who
keeps his promises.
If God makes you a promise, you can hang on that your
eternal salvation.
If God makes you a promise, you can–I don’t care if it may take
20 or 30 years, and in this case, almost 2,000 years, if God
makes you a promise, he will keep it.
And well, even from Abraham, 4,000 years, and he’s keeping
his promises to Israel and to the world, who Paul is
preaching to.
So when we talk about the plan of God in the end time and
to–and talking about replacement theology, not only
did Paul talk to us in Romans chapter 9 through 11, in
Ephesians in different places, but the Bible also talks about a
great end time revival of a Jewish-Gentile church mixed, and
to ignore that is to ignore God’s plan for the human race in
the end time.
And so I want to talk about revival, the prophecy clearly
foretells–because Endtime Ministries is going to have a
huge role in Israel in the end time and the facilitation of
this great end time revival.
In Israel today, there are Jews and Gentiles that have been born
again according to the New Testament plan of salvation and
many Jews are very open to that.
Now, there are some Jews that are just diametrically uh-uh, we
don’t want anything to do with that, or diametrically opposed
to it, but there are many Jews that are very, very, very open
to that, and so let’s talk about this end time revival.
The prophecies clearly foretell there’s a revival coming in
which all of Israel shall be saved.
You said, “No, Dave, that’s just–that’s impossible.”
Okay, well, with God, nothing is impossible.
I mean, didn’t the Midianites look like an impossibility to
Gideon when he had only 300 men?
He thought, “There–there’s no way we can do this,” but God.
And all throughout the Bible–look at Goliath
and David.
David, this little–you know, the runt of the litter of Jesse,
and yet he goes down and smites Goliath and kills him with–the
guy had armor all over him, but he’s got one little chink in his
armor and it’s right here between his–where his eyes, he
sees out, and David hit him right there and boom, killed
him, and went up and used his own sword to cut his head off.
That looked like impossible, but God.
And all throughout the Bible, there is time after time–when
Israelites come out of Egyptian bondage and they come to the Red
Sea and it–the–Pharaoh’s armies are closing in
behind them.
Well, the pillar of cloud goes around behind them and they–the
Lord says, “Moses, put your staff out over the Red Sea,” and
he does that and it parts.
It looks like a total impossibility,
impossible situation.
The Red Sea parts, and the Bible says that a wind blew through
there and they didn’t have to walk through in 2 feet of mud,
they walked through on dry ground.
And then when they get on the other side, some of them were
still down in there, but the Lord closes the sea behind them
and takes out Pharaoh’s army.
So I mean, over and over and over in the Bible.
Noah building an ark and surviving a global flood that
killed everybody on the planet, but Noah and his family survives
and he gets–the Lord gives him all the animals and I mean, they
repopulate the earth.
Think about that, it looked like totally impossible, right,
but God.
Well, when we look at this situation in Israel in the
future, to many it would look like an impossibility.
That right there when the Lord plants his feet upon the Mount
of Olives, that all of Is–the apostle Paul, in Romans chapter
11, verse 25 and 26, that all of Israel will be saved when the
fullness of the Gentiles be come in, to most people on the
planet, that looks like a total impossibility, never gonna
happen, but God.
And so I want to talk to you about this revival today because
the revi–the prophecies of the great end time revival help me
to explain to you that replacement theology is a
false narrative.
And so this great end time revival that’s coming, this
great Jewish-Gentile revival in the end time, that’s going
to happen.
There will be Jews saved prior to this, and we’ll get into
that, but that’s going to happen at the time of the Battle of
Armageddon, when all of Israel will be saved.
That’s when Jesus comes to the Mount of Olives and places his
feet there, that’s in Zechariah chapter 14.
So we’re gonna do a deep dive into this subject because I want
you to know.
You’re hearing about it in the news all the time, replacement
theology, replacement theology.
They don’t say that, but they’re alluding to it when they talk
about the nation of Israel, that we shouldn’t stand with them,
they have no more place in the plan of God.
But that simply is not true, and I wanna make sure
you understand the truth.
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