A call for clarity in an age of confusion and distortion - October 27 2025 By HOM Team A quick note: This reflection comes from a Jewish Israeli follower of Messiah Yeshua.I usually refrain from public theological debates, focusing on my home, my work, and building communities wherever we are. But for some time, I’ve felt a growing burden to write this — to help those seeking clarity amid the mounting confusion surrounding Israel, prophecy, and God’s faithfulness. This is written for readers who are biblically aware — or at least curious about how Scripture frames these events.It is not meant to minimize real political complexity, human pain, or moral failures in our region.It is a biblically informed reflection — not propaganda, not politics.Its goal is to help readers discern truth in an age when deception has become mainstream. Across the global Church, even in circles that once stood firmly in biblical solidarity with Israel, something is changing.More and more voices — including those from evangelical backgrounds — are now turning against Israel. Yes, some do so from sincere moral concern. But others have been swept into what can only be called a spiritually charged, media-engineered narrative, funded and amplified globally, designed to erode the historic link between believers and the Jewish nation. This narrative trades in distortion, selective outrage, and emotional manipulation. It portrays Israel as uniquely wicked, as though her human failings somehow nullify her right to exist. But its deeper goal is far more dangerous: to disconnect the Church — especially younger generations — from Israel’s biblical calling and prophetic destiny. And in doing so, to disconnect them from their own.Because Scripture ties the destiny of the nations to Israel’s redemption.As Yeshua said: “Whatever you did to the least of these My brothers, you did to Me.”(Matt 25:40)The way nations treat the covenant people will play a role in their own judgment. Now, let me be clear. I am not among those who think any nation or leader is above accountability.Truth invites scrutiny.But what we are witnessing today is not scrutiny — it is deception, meant to rewrite both history and theology, to portray God Himself as one who breaks His word. We humans love simplicity. We want clean categories: good or evil, right or wrong, holy or unholy.But the God of Scripture rarely fits into our boxes. When Joshua asked the Angel of Adonai, “Are You for us or for our enemies?” the Angel replied simply: “No.” (Josh 5:13–14)The question itself was wrong.God’s purposes are larger than our sides. He judges and redeems at the same time. He disciplines and restores simultaneously.And the same is true for Israel. We must reject both extremes — the idolization that says Israel can do no wrong, and the condemnation that says her flaws prove divine rejection.We are called to love Israel biblically, not blindly — prophetically, not politically.Truth can withstand the light. One of the loudest objections I hear today is moral:“How can this secular, political, and as human and sinful as any other, state possibly be the fulfillment of God’s promises regarding the return from exile?” Part of the answer can be found in Ezekiel 36, where God outlines His sequence of redemption: “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I act, but for My holy Name, which you have profaned among the nations…I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries and bring you into your own land.Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean — from all your defilements and from all your idols will I cleanse you.”[Ezek 36:22–25] The divine order is clear: regathering first — cleansing later.Israel’s imperfection doesn’t disqualify her restoration; it confirms it.God Himself declares that He will act “for His Name’s sake.” If He waited for the nation to become righteous before restoring her, He would never act at all. But because His integrity is at stake, He gathers first, then purifies.Prophecy always unfolds in layers — partial, growing, then final fulfillment. And this brings us to Jeremiah 30–33, which forms the theological backbone of Israel’s restoration.Many claim these prophecies were fulfilled under Ezra and Nehemiah. But that view simply cannot hold. The northern tribes of Israel never returned. Only Judah came back from Babylon.So when Jeremiah speaks of both Israel and Judah returning, he is pointing to something that never yet happened in history. Critics often reply that these promises are “metaphorical” — fulfilled spiritually in the Church.But Jeremiah’s language will not allow it.He writes of “the land I gave their fathers” and of “their own nation dwelling in safety.”He introduces a New Covenant made “with the house of Israel and the house of Judah” — not an abstraction, but a concrete people and place.If both simply meant “the Church,” there would be no reason to name them separately. The pattern is unmistakable: Historical layer: Judah’s return from Babylon — partial. Spiritual layer: Redemption through Messiah — available to Jew and Gentile alike. National layer: The final restoration of Israel and Judah under Messiah’s reign — future and literal. Ezekiel shows how God restores; Jeremiah shows whom and when.Together they reveal the heart of divine sequence: mercy before merit, faithfulness before worthiness. Some argue modern Israel cannot be of God because its birth involved secular leaders, flawed politicians, and even global agendas.But since when has God restricted Himself to perfect instruments? Cyrus — a pagan emperor — is called “My anointed” in Scripture, chosen to rebuild Jerusalem.Herod — by some theologians — fulfilled the prophecy that “the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former.”Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Artaxerxes — all pagan rulers — became tools in God’s redemptive timeline. If He could use them, He can surely use secular Zionists, imperfect leaders, and even hostile powers to fulfill His purpose.The tool does not sanctify itself — the purpose sanctifies the outcome.As with Cyrus, God can use and then judge the very instruments He employs. God’s restoration of Israel has never been a reward for righteousness — it is a testimony to His character.If His covenant depended on human virtue, it would have collapsed long ago.But He swore by Himself. “If My covenant with day and night stands not… then also My covenant with David My servant may be broken.”[Jer 33:25–26] When He restores Israel in her imperfection, He magnifies His own faithfulness.Her unworthiness becomes the stage for His mercy; her repentance will one day display His justice.As Hosea reveals, He redeems her because of His love, not because of her worthiness. A newer form of replacement theology now claims that God’s promises apply only to born-again Jews — that the Messianic remnant is “true Israel.”But Paul dismantles this in Romans 11. “A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved.”[Rom 11:25–26] If “all Israel” referred only to believing Jews, the sentence would make no sense.Paul explicitly distinguishes between the remnant now and the nation that will yet turn. Even Peter, in his first sermon after Yeshua’s resurrection, said: “To you first God, having raised up His Servant Yeshua, sent Him to bless you, in turning every one of you from your iniquities.”[Acts 3:26] And Paul echoed: “The gospel is the power of God unto salvation — to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.”[Rom 1:16]“Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile.”[Rom 2:9–10] If the Church had replaced Israel, such distinctions would be meaningless.God’s covenant faithfulness still begins with the people He first called. If God covenanted eternally with Jacob’s descendants, then “fulfilling” it through an unrelated group called “spiritual Israel” is not faithfulness — it’s deception.It’s like signing a lifelong contract with John Smith and his heirs, then transferring it to another family because they share the name. Would any honest court uphold that?Then why attribute such dishonesty to the God of Truth?Jeremiah is explicit: as long as the sun, moon, and stars endure, Israel will remain a nation before Me forever.[Jer 31:35–37] Divine faithfulness cannot violate its own word. Some critics go further, claiming modern Jews aren’t even descendants of Israel — that Ashkenazim are Khazars, impostors.Yet these same people call them “Christ-killers.”You can’t have both. If they’re not Israel, they bear no guilt of Israel.If they are Israel, then they remain the covenant nation. And the myth ignores millions of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and North African Jews — some tracing their lineage straight back to Babylonian captivity and beyond.Among them are my own mother’s ancestors, Levites who preserved ancient forms of worship. The Jewish people are not a political invention; they are a 4,000-year-old covenant community that has outlived every empire on earth. Let’s be clear: none of this is political.It’s about truth — biblical, historical, and spiritual. Israel has failings like any nation.Many Arabs suffer deeply and deserve compassion and justice.The political landscape is complex and imperfect. But none of this negates the prophetic reality of what God is doing.Ethnicity, politics, and prophecy are intertwined in ways human analysis cannot untangle. Isaiah foresaw a day when Egypt, Assyria, and Israel would be “a blessing in the midst of the earth” (Isa 19:24–25) — a regional awakening of reconciliation yet to come.We can labor even now for glimpses of that promise. Without truth, we wander in darkness.With the God of Truth, we begin to see again. The message of Messianic Jews to the sons of Ishmael has never been one of superiority or conquest, but of reconciliation and redemption. If you are willing — if you will repent as we all had to — if you will come in humility as we all must — then you too can return to the tent of Abraham.In Messiah, there is redemption and restoration, not through war, but through humility and honor, through the Spirit of Truth and the Prince of Peace who unites both Isaac and Ishmael under one covenant of grace. While some cry in Arabic, “Bi-rūḥ wa-bidam, nafdeek yā Falastīn” — “By spirit and by blood we will redeem you, O Palestine” — we say instead, “Bi-rūḥ wa-bidam fadaytani ana” — “By Spirit and by blood You redeemed me.”For we are the ones who need redemption first — our hearts, our nations, our destinies. This is not political.It is the universal invitation of the Redeemer of Israel, who heals the family of Abraham divided for millennia. Friends, this is not a theoretical argument — it’s a battle for truth itself.If God could break His covenant with Israel, then He could break His promises to the Church.But He will not. Stand for truth. Examine everything. Critique without hatred; support without idolatry.Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.Pray for the repentance and redemption of all peoples — Isaac’s sons and Ishmael’s alike — that together we may glorify the God of Abraham. Because the same God who keeps His promise to Israel will keep His promise to the Kehila — the Ekklesia, the Church.And may the Spirit of Truth lead us beyond politics, beyond fear, beyond deception — into the full revelation of His faithfulness and His glory. HOM team, October 2025May be shared freely with attribution for educational and spiritual use.