I think we are in it already. The symbolic 1000 is always used in scripture to represent something rather than an exact time. The Greek for a thousand is often a X or + . It seems satisfactory to see the X (cross) years as the time we are in. I certainly don’t think Christians should take a position that Israel is right, come what may. However, I am more concerned at the antisemitism that lies behind much hostility to Israel. Other countries do much worse and no eyebrow is raised. That Israel alone is treated with opprobrium suggests an anti-Semitic impulse.”

If physical descent from Abraham is key, then the descendents of Ishmael and Esau are also included in the promise. The “traditions of men” is referring to the Talmud, which is nothing more than COMMENTARY from Judahite Rabbis on their interpretation and opinion of the Torah and Mosaic Law & Prophets. And Yahusha said their father was the devil. So called “Jewish” people today are not a race of people my friend! If you say you are “Jewish” you are saying you practice a NON Abrahamic religion known as Judaism and Judaism today was known as Pharisaism in the New Testament times. Our Lord Yahusah/Yahushua (Jesus Christ) totally condemned the Pharisee & ENTIRE Sanhedrin and told them their Father was THE DEVIL. Wow. John Hagee, an evangelical pastor and influential founder of Christians United for Israel, explained the prophecy to TBN Networks in December 2022. Elijah was a “prophet father” (or prophet master) and a prophet priest. Much of his prophetic career was directed against the Tyrian Baal cult, which had become popular in the northern kingdom (Israel) during the reign (mid-9th century bce) of King Ahab and his Tyrian queen, Jezebel. Elijah’s struggle against that cult indicated a religio-political awareness, on his part, of the danger to Yahweh worship in Israel—namely, that Baal of Tyre might replace Yahweh as the main god of Israel.

To think Christianly about land and promise is to think differently than Judaism. The New Testament changes the spiritual geography of God’s people. The kingdom of God is tied to neither an ethnicity nor a place. Because the early Christians understood this, they carried their missionary efforts to the entire world. God loves Ephesus just as much as he loves Jerusalem. Indeed, God loves the entire world and all its people equally. A resident of ancient Judea was called a Judean; so when the 2nd draft of the KJV Bible was introduced in the 1800’s a NEW WORD was ADDED to replace IEWE and that was the word “Jew” (an abbreviation for a “Judean”— a person living in ancient Judea — but Yahusha (aka: Jesus Christ) is NOT from Judea and NEVER WAS and therefore Yahusha (JESUS) IS NOT a “Jew” or a Judean! The Antichrist will unite the world during the Tribulation. Those who bear his mark and worship him will join his army to battle against the Lord. Evil will make its final stand against the Lord and all that is good. Muslims need to wake up to Israel’s plans for territorial expansion and urgently put in measures to stop it. Romans 15:16 He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

The clearest articulation of this settler Zionist strategy in the Middle East is perhaps contained in a document authored by Oded Yinon, which featured in a quarterly Hebrew periodical in 1982.Jesus interacted with soldiers (Matt. 8:5–13) and called them, as others, to repent of sin. But he never spoke of military service itself as a sin. The apostle Paul wrote of the role of the state to “bear the sword” against “the wrongdoer” (Rom. 13:1–4). This authority is hardly boundless. Every state is accountable to the justice of God and, if it acts unjustly, is subject to the judgment of God. The very Roman government of which Paul wrote was pictured later in Scripture as a “beast” state to be opposed (Rev. 13:1–18). Subsequently, of course more Gentiles were converted than Jews but Scripture sees a vast turning to God by the nation at the end of the present age.