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Announcer: This is Viewpoint with attorney and author Chuck Crismier. Viewpoint is a one-hour production confronting the issues of America's heart and home. And now, with today's edition of Viewpoint, here is Chuck Crismier.

Chuck Crismier: Israel National News declares that the Year of Aliyah, that means to go up, to return, to go up to Mount Zion, to return to Jerusalem, to return to Eretz Israel. A major financial opening for diaspora Jews has arrived, signed in the Knesset on March 30th.

What is it about? Well, last year, 21,900 Olim, that is Jewish people from around the world, arrived in Israel from 105 different countries. It spread from France—France grew 45% year over year—Australia 67%, Germany 34%, the United Kingdom 19%, North America held steady. Russia, the historic top source, dropped 57% as the Ukraine war wave normalized.

On March 30th, though, the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, signed into law the most generous immigration tax package the State of Israel has ever offered. New Olim, that is those making Aliyah, arriving between November 5th of 2025 and December 31st of 2030, will pay zero Israeli tax on all foreign source income for ten years.

That includes salary, rental income, dividends, capital gains, interest, retirement profits from foreign domiciled businesses, no cap. They will pay zero Israeli tax. Wow. In other words, what Israel is seeking to do is to make it easier for people, Jewish people around the world, to return to Eretz Israel, called the land of Israel.

Now, why would that be? Is that because we revere Israel as a state? No, it has nothing to do with Israel as a state per se. It has everything to do with the land called Eretz Israel that God called his land. And he said, "I've given them to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for an eternal leasehold inheritance."

And even though I dispersed you for 1,500, 2,000 years, I'm going to bring you all back. I'm going to bring you back because of my promise to Abraham. Not because of your promise, not because you're so good, not because you're so righteous, not because you're so holy, but because I promised.

I'm going to keep my word whether they keep theirs. And they will deal with that after they get back to the land. That's God's viewpoint, and he declares it such in his word over and over again. So today on Viewpoint, we have a decision to make. In fact, we have a viewpoint to be dealt with.

And that viewpoint is coming from all over the country and one of our listeners, actually. And we're going to deal with it here. They say fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and maybe that's so here today on Viewpoint.

But when a man who's only read the Bible for the past two years has declared all of these horrific things concerning Israel, concerning idolatry of Israel and so on, and wants to speak as an authority on behalf of Christians and on behalf of America, maybe somebody who's been reading the Bible since he was five years old—in other words, for the last 76 years—might have something on him.

So today on Viewpoint, not a matter of pride, but a matter of having dealt with the scriptures and understanding of these issues for many, many years and also exposed to numerous denominations and viewpoints all across the country for many, many years, we deal with it here today: Is our support of Israel idolatry? Is support of Israel idolatry?

So I want to share with you, as we launch into the program here today, a short handwritten message inquiry that I received from one of our listeners in San Antonio, Texas. The message was written on March 17th, but it didn't get to me until last week.

Here it is: "Thankful for your ministry. Might you please help me clear up some confusion?" Well, that's what we're trying to do here today on Viewpoint, to clear up some confusion. "Some teach that the true Jews are both Jews and Gentiles who are by faith in the Redeemer sacrifice.

Many Christians take promises about Israel's future and apply them to the modern state and government of Israel. Does this create a false motivation to support Israel for Abraham's blessing? Should we not treat Israel as any other nation?

Our government may support Israel for strategic reasons. Should one not agree with the government of Israel's decisions, does this mean that they're anti-Semitic? How much of the delusions being made are from business enterprises to expand in Israel? Just a few questions. You are one of the most brilliant Bible-informed voices, so thank you for being amenable to discuss by phone and speaking with you is a blessing."

Apparently, I had spoken with this person by phone, not concerning necessarily this issue, but something else, and the person was very pleased and happy that we were willing to do that, which I do very readily, by the way. So we're going to take a look at this subject.

The writer of this note presents a number of different issues or questions. We're going to deal with each one of those but go beyond them because the issues that we're dealing with are much deeper even than those presented in this note.

So first of all, "Some teach the true Jews are both Jews and Gentiles who are by faith in the Redeemer's sacrifice." That is absolutely true. The Bible teaches that. The Apostle Paul, who was a Jew, said they are not all Israel which be Israel, but they are Israel which are circumcised in the heart and not just in the flesh.

So the physical descendants of Abraham, while they were not even actually Jewish, they were Hebrews. They weren't even called Jews at that time. But they were the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Abraham was a Syrian. He came out of Ur of the Chaldees, went to Haran where the rest of his family was there, and from there came to the Promised Land where God, because of his obedience, called him his friend.

The only person in the Bible called the friend of God, believe it or not. Now, was David a friend of God? You could say he was because God called him a man after his own heart, but there's only one person in the Bible called the friend of God, and that's Abraham, or as they say in Israel, Avraham.

Yes, indeed. The Apostle Paul said that they are not all Israel which are called Israel. In other words, they're not all Jews which are called Jews. But from God's viewpoint, they are true Jews who are circumcised in the heart and not just in the flesh. In other words, who do the will of God and have received the sacrifice of Yeshua as the Lamb of God, the only Paschal Lamb who would take away the sins of the world. True Jews.

If true Jews are both Jews and Gentiles who by faith have embraced Yeshua's sacrifice on the cross and committed to live with him, to serve him in spirit and in truth for the rest of their lives as the only Redeemer, the sacrificial Lamb who would take away the sins of the world, if those are the true Jews, then what do we do with the rest of the Jews?

That's the foundation for the rest of the discussion. What do we do with the rest of the Jews? Does God care about them? Well, does God care about them as Jews? Does God care about them as the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? The answer is an unequivocal yes from the scriptures.

In the Old Testament—and by the way, you cannot understand the viewpoint of God without understanding the Old Testament because it expresses his viewpoint, his viewpoint on almost all the issues. And everything in the New Testament is explanatory in some respects or fleshing out of what God has already said.

You see, there was no Bible when Jesus was on the earth other than what is called the Tanakh, which is the Torah—the first five books—the words of prophecy, wisdom literature and prophecy, and the prophets. That was the Bible. Jesus referred to them as the Law and the Prophets.

That's the only Bible the Apostle Peter had. It's the only Bible the Apostle Paul had. It's the only Bible the Apostle John had. It's the only Bible that Jesus had and his brother James had. That's the only Bible. When it says all scripture is given by inspiration of God, that's what it was talking about. It wasn't talking about the New Testament because it was not scripture at that time.

Perhaps you don't understand that, but it is true. So if we understand that, then we understand that you cannot understand the New Testament without a foundation in the Old Testament. When the scripture said, "Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth," what was the root of truth the Apostle Paul was talking about to Timothy? It was the Old Testament, friends. That's what it was.

If we can't get that straight in our minds and heads, then you're going to have to start back at the very beginning. Let's start at the very beginning, the very best place to start. That's the place to start. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning, and that was not the seventh inning for the seventh-inning stretch. That's not the big inning. It wasn't a baseball game; it was the creation of the universe.

So we move forward now, and the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, now referred to as Jews—the ten northern tribes were not referred to as Jews. Only those who came from Judah, the two southern tribes, only they were referred to as Jews. The ten northern tribes were referred to as Ephraim or Joseph or the descendants of Jacob, but they were not referred to as Jews.

They were long gone because of the Assyrian attack on them, as had been prophesied would happen, that dispersed the ten northern tribes throughout the face of the then-known earth. They were gone and are now referred to as the ten lost tribes.

So what we're talking about now when we talk about the Jews, we're talking about the descendants of Abraham vis-a-vis those that came from the tribe of Judah and arguably Benjamin, the two southern tribes. They lasted another 135 years. They were dispersed in 70 AD by the Romans who came in at the final destruction, destroyed the second temple and dispersed the Jewish people throughout the face of the earth, just as God had said would happen in Deuteronomy chapter 28.

So God fulfilled his promise that because the Jewish people did not, or Israel itself did not, follow and obey him, he was going to send them to and through another boot camp wilderness. And that was going to last, depending on who they were, it was going to last somewhere between 1,900 years and 2,500 years.

That's a long period of time, but from God's perspective, it's only two days. Remember, a day with the Lord is as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. So we have them dispersed throughout the face of the earth, both Ephraim, the ten northern tribes, and Judah, the two southern tribes.

Now, the prophets, the ancient prophets said very clearly, voicing the word of the Lord, that he was going to, that is God was going to in his mercy and fulfillment of his promise, his covenant, the marital covenant that God made with Israel at Mount Sinai, he was going to bring them back in the fullness of time to Eretz Israel, to the land of Israel.

Why was he going to do that again? Because he had already promised the land to them as an eternal leasehold inheritance. You say, "Why do you call it a leasehold?" Because God says, "I own the land." He didn't say Israel owns the land. He said, "I own the land. It's my land."

Okay, so it's God's land. We've got to get that through our heads. It's not the Jewish people's land, but it is theirs as an eternal inheritance. It is the land of Israel. So when the people of Israel are called back to the land of Israel, it is to fulfill what is called Tikvat Israel, that is the hope of Israel.

The hope of Israel traditionally has been seen as the return of the Jewish people to Eretz Israel, the land of Israel. Not because it's an idol, but because it's the place that God ordained for them to live and receive his blessing if they would do his will. Now, that brings up another issue, then. People will say, "Well, did they do his will?"

The answer is no. They didn't do his will, and that's why God dispersed them, just as the ancient prophets foretold that would happen. In fact, it began with Moses in Deuteronomy chapter 28. It's called the blessings and the cursings. You need to go back and read it. God says exactly what he was going to do.

He said, "If you'll obey my voice, all blessings are going to come upon you." But starting in verse 15 and on through verse 60-some at whatever it is, he said, "But if you don't obey my voice, then all these curses are going to come upon you and ultimately you'll be dispersed throughout the face of the earth, and it ain't going to be pretty."

"In the morning you'll wish it were evening, in the evening you'll wish it were morning, for the fear that is going to come upon you." And that's been the condition of the Jewish people for 2,000 years, almost. That being the case, God said, "Okay, as we approach the end of the age, I am going to, whatever it takes, I'm going to bring you back to the land just like I promised."

"And then I'm going to test you once again." Now, I'm tying together a lot of scripture here. I'm not going to quote a lot of scripture; it's not necessary. If you don't know your Bible, get to know it. And don't say you know the Bible if you don't know the Old Testament. You don't know the Bible, and you don't know God's viewpoint. You just don't.

The prophets said that God was going to bring Israel, the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, particularly the Jewish people, he was going to bring them back to Eretz Israel. As for the ten northern tribes, we don't know where they are. We don't know exactly who they are.

There have been many who have theorized who they were. Some say that they're Americans or British Israel, as one group of so-called Christians have said. Others say, "Well, they're just dispersed. We don't know who they are." Some say they have all kinds of theories. We're not here to deal with theories. It's irrelevant. You don't know who they are, but God does.

What he's going to do to bring the ten northern tribes back is up to him, and you can do nothing about it because you don't know who they are. And don't pretend that you do because you can't. You say, "Well, we can do it through DNA." All right, go through all of the eight billion people in the world and give them all DNA tests, and maybe you can figure it out.

It's a useless endeavor because only God knows for sure. Leave it to him. There are some things that we don't know, and we can leave to him. The problem is we want to know what we don't know and we don't want to do what we do know. And that's our problem. That's been Israel's problem, and that's America's problem, that's Christians' problem. We don't want to do what we know is what God wants us to do, but we want to try to figure out what he doesn't tell us.

Jeremiah said that God is going to send out, if necessary, hunters and fishers to bring the Jewish people back to Eretz Israel. Why would God do that? Is it because the land is an idol? No, it's because God owns the land. He decreed from the beginning that that was the land of promise.

That's why he sent Abraham there. That's why he called Abraham his friend, because Abraham obeyed God like most Christians don't. Abraham actually did God's will like most Christians don't. I'm just being real honest with you here. Let's be honest with one another. God honored Abraham because he obeyed his voice.

In the book of Samuel, God says, "I will honor them that honor me." Is America honoring God today? Absolutely not. So why do we think America should be so great then as compared to Israel? Are we idolizing America? Maybe so. People aren't thinking about it that way.

God has said he was going to bless the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "I will bless those that bless you, and I will curse those that curse you." Now, that brings up the next question: Is Israel as the State of Israel the object of God's promise as made to Abraham? In other words, "I will bless those that bless you, I will curse those that curse you."

Is the State of Israel, as we know it today, the object of God's blessing? The answer, I think, would be yes and no. It's not either-or; it's yes and no. To the extent that the people who make up the State of Israel, as we know it today, to the extent that they are following Yeshua, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who they said, "His blood be upon us and on our children," to the extent that they're doing that, then yes, God will bless them.

Now, how about those who continue to resist Yeshua as Lord and Savior? Well, they didn't know Jesus as Lord and Savior when God made the statement, the promise to Abraham, did they? Did they? No. They didn't know anything about Jesus at that time. But they did know about obeying God.

So if they're obeying God in the spirit of truth as they understand it, the question is not whether they're going to get to heaven without embracing Jesus, as some say, that they're under a different covenant. The question is, are they obeying God as understood in the Torah and in the Tanakh until the revelation, their eyes are opened, the veil is drawn away and they see and look upon him whom they have pierced? In the meantime, God will bless. But does that mean we have to agree with everything the State of Israel does? No.

Does the Temple Mount matter today? Absolutely, the Temple Mount matters today. It's always mattered because God told Abraham to go to a place that he would point out to him called Mount Moriah, and there he was to sacrifice his only son of promise, Isaac, which he was willing to do and did, except that God intervened.

God intervened and caused an intermission in Abraham's faithful actions so that the sword that he raised up to kill his son was delayed because God provided himself a ram. From that moment on, the Temple Mount, not then known as the Temple Mount, was ordained by God as the place where God chose to put his name there.

That's what the Bible says. And Jerusalem in a broad sense is also the city where God chose to put his name. But the Temple Mount is the epicenter of Jerusalem. It is the epicenter of the world, quite frankly. And ultimately, we know that Jesus, Yeshua, was sacrificed on that very place as the only Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world. And when he gave up the last breath before he died, he said, "It is finished."

Now, what was finished? The whole process of redemption from Abraham on through now the sacrifice of Yeshua on the very same mount, the Temple Mount. Now, there have been two previous temples on the Temple Mount. The first was built by Solomon, who was David's son. God would not allow David to build the temple because he had been a man of war.

So Solomon was allowed to build the temple with all of the things that David had gathered together for the building of the temple. And so it was dedicated, and the Shekinah glory of God came upon the temple such that the people were just, they were just amazed and shocked how God showed up to ordain and bless that temple made with hands.

A temple made with hands? Yes. Well, doesn't the Bible say God doesn't live in a temple made with hands? Absolutely, it does say that. So why did God allow a temple made with hands to carry the Shekinah glory, the glory of the Lord? Because God knew that human beings needed some way to identify with his presence on planet Earth.

He had previously instructed Moses to build a tabernacle through the wilderness. Remember that? And what happened when God instructed Moses to build the tabernacle, and they did? It was built after the model that God showed Moses existed in heaven. And when that tabernacle was built, God showed up in the tabernacle made with hands with the Shekinah glory of the God, and every time, every day, he showed up with the pillar of cloud, the pillar of fire to bless the children of Israel and to display his glory present among the people. That's all that it represented.

So we've got the Tabernacle, the first temple, and then the second temple after the destruction of the first temple by Babylon. So we have the second temple, also built with hands. Then it was expanded to its then glory at the time of Jesus by Herod the Great, who was not a godly man. But Jesus showed up in that same temple in his triumphal entry four days before his crucifixion and said, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer for all people,' and you have made it a den of thieves."

Jesus himself declared that temple to be ordained by God. He said, "It's my house." It's true also that God doesn't live in temples made with hands. So again, the "my house" was an earthly illustration of that which was more important in the mind and heart of God, that ultimately the ultimate temple, friends, will be your heart. That's why you and I are to watch over our hearts, for out of it is the issues of life. And we're not doing a very good job of it.

So does Israel need the temple? From the Jewish perspective, absolutely Israel needs the temple. Why does Israel need the temple today? People will argue, "Well, Jesus fulfilled all of those things. He became the sacrificial lamb. So it's all done. They don't need the temple."

Yes, they do need the temple. Here's the reason: because they haven't received Yeshua yet. They're still under the law. They're still under the law that requires their sacrificing their own lambs there at the Temple Mount. So just two days ago, from Israel National News came this: "Police foil attempt to offer a Passover sacrifice on the Temple Mount."

Why did they try to do that? Because they know that under the law they must offer a sacrifice or they are out of sync with God's commands. And they will be that way until they receive Yeshua as Lord and Savior. That's why. It's not whether Christians need the temple; it's whether the Jewish people need the temple who have not yet come to the place where they look upon him whom they have pierced and receive him as their only son.

Then how about this rebuilding of Israel? How about the return to Israel? Well, an interview came with Rabbi Dov Lior just a couple of days ago from Israel National News, and I'm just going to read to you the headline. He said, "We must work day and night as one nation to continue the ingathering, to continue the rebuilding, to continue all together in the battle to safeguard our inheritance from enemies without and within, striving alongside Hashem—that is, God—for the rebuilding of the temple."

What this rabbi is saying in a ten-page article is this is our greatest responsibility before God. He calls it the greatest Mitzvah, which means duty or command. Now, you say, "Well, I thought the great ingathering was when the people will come to Jesus Christ and be saved." That's true. But that doesn't mean there isn't another ingathering that God himself ordained and said would take place and told us through the prophets that was necessary for it to take place for the people to come back that had been dispersed throughout all the land of Israel, to come back to Eretz Israel and build a nation.

That's what they're doing. God commanded it. But we are so blinded in our thinking that we just don't get the bigger picture from God's viewpoint. It is not a matter of making Israel a God. It's a matter of rebuilding and bringing the people back to Eretz Israel, the land of Israel, because of God. Because he said, "I give you the land. That's where I want you. That's where I want you," he said.

Now, we've got people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and a number of others who are breaking their back to try to mock the idea of Israel and the idea of rebuilding the temple and the idea of making Aliyah, the idea of supporting Israel and so on. They're ignorant. Maybe they're just trying to get clicks, I don't know, but they're ignorant to the Bible.

They do not understand. They have an either-or view of things, and it's not accurate. It's just not accurate. So, question: if we, if you or I personally disagree with something that Benjamin Netanyahu does or that the Israeli Knesset does, does that mean that we are anti-Semitic? The answer is no, not in and of itself.

But then you've got to answer, okay, but why do you say that? Why are you against what they're doing? And that goes to your heart. Not their heart, your heart. And that's our problem. Because as Jeremiah said, the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it?

So what is our responsibility as followers of Yeshua, of Jesus Christ? Our responsibility is to bless the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to, shall we say, offer them Shalom, which is not just generalized peace, it is well-being, it is completeness of fulfillment of God's promises, protection, and all that God would have for a people that he chose to be his people.

They were the initial called-out ones. They were the Ecclesia. They were the church in the wilderness, my friends. The Bible says so. Your only hope and my only hope is to be grafted into them. Read Romans chapter 11. The Apostle Paul made this very, very clear. He said there's no question about it; they didn't do God's will.

So they suffered, and you're going to suffer too if you don't do God's will. But there's a possibility for them to be grafted back in if they'll embrace Yeshua and do God's will. And now there's a possibility for you to be broken off, but if you will repent and do God's will, then you can be grafted into it. Now, that's mercy, and his grace will make it possible.

With only 12 minutes to go, we try to wrap this up as best we can. There's so much confusion out there, and people have an idea of either-or. Everything is either-or. Most things are not either-or, except things such as, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," said Jesus. "No man shall come to the Father but by me." There is no other way. There's no either-or, there's no both-and, it's one way.

But so many of these other issues are both-and issues if we really understand it from God's viewpoint. This is an expression that came in response to a question that I asked the infamous, all-knowing AI: "Has Israel become an idol?"

Critics, including some Jewish voices, argue that for many, the State of Israel has become a form of modern idolatry, replacing traditional Judaism's universal ethics with a tribal devotion that elevates the state over God or moral law. This perspective suggests that intense political, emotional, or religious veneration of the land and state functions as a false god.

Some analysts and critics claim that Israel's supporters often treat the state as having unconditional value, shielding it from criticism and justifying its actions above all else. As a result, state idolatry. Critics argue, though, that Zionism, when elevated as the primary component of modern Jewish identity, can replace Jewish ethical tradition with an ideological focus on the state itself, creating a virtual object of worship.

Some views hold that identifying the land of Israel as an inseparable birthright or object of worship, rather than a political entity, can constitute idolatry. On the other hand, many view Israel not as an idol but as a safe haven, a fulfillment of historical dreams, a central legitimate component of Jewish identity, culture, and security.

The Bible itself often warns against setting up idols in the heart, which some religious interpretations apply to the over-elevation of any nation, not just Israel, or political structure, including modern Israel or the United States for that matter. Opinions are mixed. Some agree with the notion that the worship of Israel resembles idolatry, while others argue that the state is a necessary tangible realization of Jewish hope and safety rather than an idol.

Here's the problem that I have with this statement, which by the way is not too bad, not too shabby as a comprehensive distillation of thought out there. But when it talks about agreeing with the notion that worship of Israel resembles idolatry, who is worshipping Israel? I don't know of anybody that worships Israel.

Mike Huckabee, who is the ambassador the UN to Israel, I don't think he worships Israel. He worships the God of Israel, and he values Israel for the same reasons that God does. God is the one that chose them as the apple of his eye, and he never reneged on it. Some people might say, "Well, didn't God divorce Israel?" Yes, he did. But he never remarried.

Oh, I never thought of it that way. You know why? Because God never cast away his marriage covenant at Sinai. He never did. He said, "Because you are engaged in fornication and idolatry and adultery on every high hill and under every green tree, I set you aside."

But he never remarried. Why? Because he married Israel at Mount Sinai. He's the one that made the covenant. They broke the covenant, but he says, "Look, I am willing to forgive you if you will humble yourself and return unto me." So he says in the book of Malachi, "Return unto me, and I will return unto you."

He's saying the same thing to you, my friend. Have you committed adultery? If you've been watching porn, you committed adultery from Jesus' viewpoint. You looked upon a woman with your eye to lust after her, you committed adultery. Can God forgive you? He can, but you've got to repent. You've got to come clean with him. You've got to repent, just like Israel.

And that's how we, you see, become the Israel of God. Just as they become the Israel of God again, are grafted back into the original olive tree, so we can be grafted in and enjoy the salvation of the Lord together. For they are not all Israel that be Israel, and they are not all Jew that be Jews, but they are Jewish or Israel which are circumcised in the heart and not just in the flesh, and not want-to-be Christians.

We're covering a lot of ground here today. Has Israel become an object of worship, set a question. One says, "I wouldn't say an object of worship, Israel's more of a symbol of hope. My great-grandmother would tell me how people dreamt of a land called Israel, where one day Jewish people would live quietly and peacefully, where an army of Jews would protect the state and finally the Jewish people would have quiet."

Israel is no longer a dream. It's a safe haven for Jews all over the world. It's a startup nation, the most advanced country in the Middle East with one of the strongest militaries in the world. And we cannot say, friends, that God didn't bless them to accomplish that. If you say that, you're becoming God in your own eyes.

"We no longer need to fear, run and hide," he said. "We no longer have to live in countries that are not our own. We will no longer be slaughtered, massacred, kicked out of our homes and hated for the religion we were born into." So it's Tikvat Israel, the land of hope. Israel's hope.

That's what God intended it to be. But he wanted their hope ultimately to be in him. So he gives them this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. He said it's going to be like no other land on the planet. Ultimately, it's going to be better than the Garden of Eden if you will obey my voice.

Notice the word "if." It's the biggest little word in the scripture and perhaps the most important. If you obey my voice. Do you know that that same "if" is given throughout the New Testament to Christian believers? If you, then I. Oh, we don't like to read it that way because we've created theologies that don't like that word, but it's still there in the Bible. It's still there in the Bible.

So should we treat Israel like any other nation? Yes and no. It's a nation. We should hold Israel to act responsibly. Yes. But we have to view it not from your perspective, but from God's perspective. That's our problem. We have only our own perspectives. We don't have God's perspective, and he's the one who chose them.

You didn't choose them. He chose them, and he said, "I didn't choose you because you were so wonderful, because you were so cool, because you were so lovely or so powerful. I chose you because I chose you." And friend, that's the only way you have any hope of getting into the kingdom. Not because you're so great, so wonderful, such a great Christian, go to such a great church. Nothing like that.

That's why the scripture says, "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due season." That goes for Israel, and it goes for us Gentiles. So yes, you can disagree with something that Israel does. It doesn't necessarily mean you're anti-Semitic. But it might mean you're anti-Semitic depending on your attitude.

If you don't have a godly attitude and you're going to replace it with a fleshly attitude, elevating your viewpoint over God's viewpoint, you're an idol. You've created an idol; you've created yourself as a surrogate God. That's our problem.

So I took the risk of going to the infamous wisdom of AI again, and I asked a question: "What is Chuck Crismier's view of Israel?" And I got two different responses. They were similar.

One said, "Chuck Crismier hosts the Viewpoint radio program and head of Save America Ministries, holds a deeply pro-Israel evangelical Christian view, often framing support for Israel as a spiritual imperative." That's true. I do. That's what I've just said. God says the same thing.

They went on to say, "Hating Israel is hating God." Well, it depends on what you mean by that. I say if you hate what God has said he loves and has chosen, you're hating God. On the other hand, in other words, you can't say, "I'm blessing Israel" or "blessing the Jewish people" and hating them at the same time. You can't do that.

So "Crismier has explicitly stated this perspective, framing the defense of Israel in spiritual rather than political terms," and that is true. Biblical prophecy and end times: "He often links current events in Israel to the end times, viewing them as signs preceding the coming of Messiah." Absolutely true. So does Israel, by the way.

A spiritual watchman: "Crismier presents himself as a voice to the church who declares a vision for Israel and the nations during a cataclysmic hour." That's true. "He frequently highlights Iran as a significant threat to both Israel, referring to it—Israel—as the little Satan and the United States the great Satan, from the words of Iran, arguing that Iran is trying to trigger the end times." It's true. From their own words.

"He discusses Tikvat Israel, or the hope of Israel, which he describes as the longing for a redeemer to restore Israel, the Jewish people, to their biblical prophesied purpose." I agree. "His commentary found at saveus.org merges his background as a lawyer with prophetic interpretation of modern geopolitics." That's true.

The other interpretation was: "Chuck Crismier holds a deeply eschatological pro-Israel perspective, viewing the nation as central to end-times prophecy and the soon return of Messiah." Absolutely true. "He emphasizes a biblical, often literal connection between modern Israel and divine prophecy, focusing on the rise of anti-Semitism and the need for Christian support for Israel." True.

"Crismier positions the modern State of Israel at the center of history's final hour." True. "Viewing current events in the Middle East through a lens of unfolding biblical prophecy." True. "He frequently discusses the Jewish concept of Tikvat Israel, the hope of Israel, as a messianic hope for restoration, interpreting this through a perhaps critical lens of traditional Jewish thought versus Christian belief in Jesus." True.

"He warns of increasing global and American anti-Semitism, viewing it as a sign of the end times and a cause for spiritual alarm." True. "Crismier highlights threats to Israel, particularly from Iran, framing them in terms of historical biblical enemies." Absolutely true. "His commentary often focuses on preparing believers for the second coming by understanding Israel's critical role in divine history." Absolutely true.

So AI did a pretty good job. Missed a few little isolated nuances, but I thought did a fantastic job of distilling where I'm coming from. I'm not sure how they did that; maybe they got inside my mind, I don't know.

But here on Viewpoint today, we've done our best to try to help understand: no, we are not necessarily to agree with everything that is decided by the Knesset, or everything that Benjamin Netanyahu has in his mind, but neither are we to agree with the nonsensical views of Jewish jurisprudence and their attorney general who's doing everything they can to get rid of the Prime Minister of Israel, just as the same forces under the Democrat party have been trying to get rid of Donald Trump in exactly the same way.

In other words, friends, we're going through the same tribulation that Israel is going through. Now the question is, do we agree with what God has to say or not? Our attitude will tell the difference. Thanks for joining us. Become a partner, friends. Send your gifts by faith to Save America Ministries. I hope this has been somewhat helpful. And we've covered a lot of ground here, and I hope again it's been helpful. God bless, be a blessing, and become a partner, friends. Send those gifts to Save America Ministries. That's what we're seeking to do.

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