The Holy Land
Jonathan Brickman
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Do you long for the holy land?
Do you "ooh" and "aah" when people tell you of all of the wonderful things they saw and learned in the land of Israel?
Do you expect to find that people are unusually holy there, if you can go some day?
Do you think that the nation in this world called Israel is a very good place?
Do you think it a moral obligation for God-fearing people to help kill or control everyone who threatens the nation called Israel?
Perhaps it would surprise you to know: there is no longer a land called holy, in this world. Even the city once called the Holy City, is not holy anymore, according to God. According to God, the city in which our Lord was crucified, is called Sodom and Egypt: it is waiting for God to destroy it by fire.
You therefore do not have to consider that Jews without the Lord Jesus have any grounds whatsoever for justification, even in the eyes of God, who was not at all unaware or impotent during their slaughter in the middle of the last century.
You do not have to consider that they have grounds for justification, any more than you must consider that USAmericans, or Iranians, or Iraqis, have grounds for justification. God will release you from these filthy binding chains of sin and obligation, if you wish it.
If you wish it, God will release you from these chains, into His peace, into longing and working for the only truly holy land, which is the Kingdom of God, in Heaven. If you would like to know more, please ask God to teach you the truth of these things. You can do much which is worthwhile, if you are loosed. But if you are not at all loosed, you can do nothing but futility, building sand-castles and wrestling with shadows, all the days of your life.