I have been thinking about the genocide taking place in Palestine for weeks now, debating whether this was something that I should tackle on my social media or on my blog. After going back and forth, I thought that it would be best to share my thoughts on my blog where I can speak freely and without censorship.
When the new year began, I had decided that I would stay away from the things that cause me stress or at least limit my exposure to it. But after several days, I guess about two weeks into the new year, I realized that was unsustainable for me. I care too much. I despise evil and wrongdoing and while I can’t physically stop what is happening, I do have a voice and I can certainly speak out against it.
As a Christian, it is our obligation to shun all forms of evil. We are to hate what God hates, in fact in Proverbs 6:16, it says, “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are abomination to him; haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.” Do you realize that the whole world including my country has stood back and watched Israel do all of those things in a matter of months without impunity?
They have literally executed all of the things that God hates on another group of people, people that God himself made in His own image. Why is this okay? Where is the outrage? Where is the righteous anger? But I think what bothers me just as much, maybe more are the “Christians” that repeat like parrots, “Israel has a right to defend itself and we have to defend them because they are God’s chosen people.”
How is it that a person who claims to be a Christian can repeat and support something that is not biblically accurate? Jesus himself states, in John 8:24, “I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins. And in Matthew 7:21, Jesus says, “Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” In other words, those who believe in Jesus and do the will of the God, are God’s chosen people. Furthermore, we live under the new covenant, as Paul so eloquently states, in Galatians chapter 3, beginning at verse 27,
“For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise”
How is it that Christians so easily discard these scriptures to suit a superiority narrative?
Even in the Old Testament, God did not allow the indiscriminate killing of any people. For those that want to reference the killings committed by the Israelites, let’s go back to what God told Moses before they entered the promised land, “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.” Leviticus 8:24 & 25. God punished for sin. Sin leads to death and only God can decide life or death, because only God can know the heart of a person.
Bottom line, what Israel is doing is an abomination and they are trying to justify their actions as though God authorized them to execute collective punishment on a people that they have kept in a concentration camp for years! Every Christian should openly condemn these atrocities. But they haven’t. They support this evil boldly. Which leads me to ask why? Why are they so comfortable and so unwilling to condemn what is obviously wicked? It is my belief that deep down, they still believe there is a distinction. That it is their duty to support the destruction of anyone that threatens their way of life. That is not a characteristic of a Christian. We are commanded to live peaceably amongst all men. “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord”, Hebrews 12:14. We are to pursue peace so that people will see the Lord in us.
If you as a Christian are still supporting this genocide, I want to encourage you to ask yourself why. To search your heart to find out why you are still holding on to what is not true. Knowing this, “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings”, Acts 17:26. This includes every nation, including the Palestinians.
Every people is entitled to self determination not by the will of man but through God’s design.
Peace will never come to the Middle East as long as a Zionist apartheid state is given continued support. Take away the support and their regime dies.
So my question is this, will “Christians” continue to throw our support behind people that consider us dogs or are we ready to remove our support until they dismantle their system of hate that has destabilized an entire region for three quarters of a century?
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17
In Christian love,
AngelaChristine
One Mom Growing in her Faith with Grace 