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The Zionist mess in the world today all began with Jacob’s mistaken idea that he had to help God fulfill prophecy. The problem with this was that he tried to help Him fulfill his understanding of His word. Therein lies the rub.
Before Jacob and Esau were born, they fought in the womb, and the word of the Lord said that the outcome of this struggle would be that the elder would serve the younger—that is, Esau would serve Jacob (Genesis 25:23). When the boys grew up, Jacob took this seriously and sought an opportunity to make it happen by the power of the flesh. When it appeared that the dominion would be given to Esau, he lied to his father in order to fulfill the word of the Lord.
At that point in his life, Jacob still did not understand the sovereignty of God. Neither did he believe that God was able to strip Esau of the birthright at His appointed time. He was too short-sighted, and his faith was yet weak.
It is now apparent that Esau had been given 76 more years to prove himself unworthy, so that God could lawfully strip the firstborn of the birthright. Jacob took the birthright 76 years early. As a result, Isaac prophesied to Esau in Genesis 27:40 KJV, “it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.”
In other words, Esau was to be given the dominion at some point. The dominion mandate was to be taken from Jacob for a season in order to allow the divine process to be fulfilled in a lawful manner.
This is what took place in 1948. Most Christians fail to recognize this, however, because they do not know the history of Esau, whose nation was known as Edom (or Idumea in Greek). Idumea was conquered by Judah in 126 B.C., and the Idumeans converted to Judaism. This is recorded in every encyclopedia and every history book dealing with that topic.
This meant that Jewry was to fulfill two sets of prophecy. Zionism manifests the spirit of Esau-Edom, who desired to possess the land that Jacob’s descendants had settled (Malachi 1:4). Esau himself was a Zionist. The carnality and self-interest of modern Zionists have caused them to steal the land, believing that they were fulfilling prophecy.
The problem we all face when hearing (or reading) the word of God is that we think we know what it means and how it must be fulfilled. Rather than leaving it to God to fulfill, we try to help God. Yet when it has played out, we discover that we really did not understand the word very well—or at all.
Jewry as a whole had long established that the “return” (as they understood it) should not be attempted prior to the coming of the Messiah. Though many had their own understanding of how this would take place, they were restrained from making it happen. Hence, Zionism was a fairly recent heresy in Judaism itself when it asserted that Jews could not wait for the Messiah.
Even now, there is a substantial number of Jews who follow the older tradition and who oppose Zionism. They have been browbeaten often into silence, but the recent genocide in Gaza has emboldened many of them to speak out against this great evil. They see this genocide as a vindication of their belief that Zionism is heresy.
There is also a lesson for us in all of this—over and beyond the obvious. Many of you have heard the word of the Lord or have studied the sure word of prophecy. We all have our own understanding of the word, and only genuine revelation that is tried and tested by fire will stand the test of truth. The point is that we should not lean unto our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5), nor should we hold too tightly to our view of prophecy. In the end, the Messiah will provide us with the full standard of truth by which we can measure truth and righteousness.
In the example of Jacob, we see that he did not become an Israelite until he was in his 98th year. This is when he wrestled with the angel Peniel and was given the name/title Israel as a testimony of his new-found faith in God’s sovereignty. It took many decades for God to refine Jacob’s faith sufficiently to qualify him as an Israelite—that is, an overcomer.
We too, as individuals, need such refining. Unrefined faith makes us mere Jacobites, i.e., “deceivers” who remain in a state of relative self-deception.
What we are now witnessing in the Gaza genocide is the full-blown carnal religiosity of Esau-Edom. These Zionists have cast off the wise restraints of the rabbis who counseled them to not attempt to return until the coming of the Messiah. Their impatience has led them to establish a foothold through UN Resolution 181, followed by an illegal occupation of all Palestinian land that was supposed to serve as a Palestinian state.
This has now culminated in the attempt to kill Palestinians and expel the survivors to Egypt, so that Israeli settlers can move in and lay claim to the land. This is their carnal understanding of prophecy. The Messiah, however, would not approve of this. Certainly, from a Christian point of view, Jesus would not approve this if He were the Israeli Defense Minister.
Our lesson is that we should all be aware of the difference between truth and our understanding of truth. This takes a certain level of humility. Yet if we learn the lesson from Jacob’s experience, we will be able to avoid trying to fulfill prophecy by the power of the flesh. Patience is required. Then when God begins to move, we simply observe what He does and adjust our understanding accordingly.
Dr. Stephen Jones has been writing blog posts since 2005 on a variety of topics from Bible Studies to World News, and he has been writing books since 1992. Dr. Jones' most important writings came after God brought him back into the full-time ministry in 1991. It is here that all his earlier years of searching the Scriptures began to come into clear focus. He combines a knowledge of the Old and New Testaments with a personal revelation of God that began and developed during the "wilderness" period of his life, which he often refers to as God's True Bible College... Read More
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