 has. How can you come to such a conclusion? It’s very clear. You have to be a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—Jacob’s name was turned to Israel. The Jews are the whole Israeli people—it comes from the tribe of Judah, but the Jews are now, whatever tribe they are from, they’re called Jews. And to imagine that the white races—whatever that means—we know the history from the Vikings. Tom, I have to confess, I’ve got some Viking blood in me, 25 percent Norwegian, but I’m about—the other 50 percent or whatever, English. And the Vikings came down and raided the coasts of England and France. There is a lot of Viking blood in the British and the French, and these were not nice guys. They got all the way up into Russia, up the rivers you know. We know the history of these people. They didn’t come from the Holy Land. They were never over there at all. Incredible, but you cannot convince people with the truth. And the Word of God is quite clear.
On the other hand, the Bible does seem to confuse people, because it says, “He is not a Jew who is one outwardly….” Just because you are physically Jewish does not mean you are a real Jew. Well, because you have to have the relationship with God that Abraham had, and it is speaking in reference to inheriting the land.
Tom: But you have to begin with, you have to be a descendant, a physical descendant of Abraham, right? Not that…Abraham had Ishmael; he had other sons under Keturah.
Dave: So it’s not just descended from Abraham, but from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God said, “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” 12 times; 203 times He says He is the God of Israel. He never says He is the God of the Arabs or of the Americans or the French. Although the scripture does say “he is not a Jew which is one outwardly.” And that becomes confusing, and that causes some people to say, “Well, the church—we are the spiritual Jews.”
So Paul, in Romans:9:1-3, he kind of lays that to rest. He makes it very clear. He talks about his brethren after the flesh. He.” Now if you are going to say that the church is Israel—well, they are not related to Paul in the flesh, certainly not, and why would he wish himself to be accursed? For example, if you went to Romans:10:1: “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel…” Well, if Israel is the church, then we would have to say, “My prayer to God for the church is that they might be saved,” but they are already saved. But he says, “…who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises, whose are the Father’s and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came.” So, that’s quite clear. There is a physical Israel, and you must be a physical Israel to be a real Jew. You must be physically descended from Jacob, that is Israel, to be a real Jew. But then you must also believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and if you do not have that faith, then no matter what your physical qualifications may be you are not qualified.
Tom: Dave, in this chapter you talk about David. Now, he meets the qualifications of what you have been talking about. David, a son of…a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, a man after God’s own heart, and not that we look to men but still, in terms of a model of what a Jew ought to be, you would think that all men in Israel would look to him to follow after—his thoughts, his ideas, what he had to say, how he acted, all of those things.
Dave: Their greatest king, whom they certainly admire. They name a lot after him; they call their flag the Star of David, and so forth. And he certainly set a classic example, and you read his psalms—Psalm:27:4: “One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.” Or Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd…” you know, “He makes me lie down….He’s the one that shepherds me and guides me,” or his desire in Psalm:139:23-24, which we already quoted: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” But they do not follow—the Jews today do not follow David in that passion that he had after God.
Tom: And look…you know, as a byproduct of his love for God, look how…you want to talk about success, you know, as a byproduct, here he is—he begins as a shepherd boy, lowly position, and then becomes the greatest king, as you mentioned earlier, militarily, politically, every which way, you would think—and this is a real Jew.
Dave: But tragically, so many Jews today do not believe in God. It’s amazing, Tom, yet they know that they are Jewish. They do not want to intermarry, most of them—some do. Most of them have a sense of this Jewishness that has retained their identity, and yet they don’t recognize the Scriptures. They don’t recognize the God who brought Abraham into this land, the God who gave this land to them, and Fiddler on the Roof says it pretty well: (singing) “Tradition…” It’s just tradition. How could tradition be so strong and yet God has kept these people an identifiable ethnic group. And we know who they are, and God is working in them to this day.
Tom: Dave, we’ve got about a minute and a half left, but going back to David—you point out, he had rather harsh words for, really, present-day Israel—mostly atheistic. In Psalm 14 he writes:  would think that would prick their hearts.
Dave: You would think so, but if you don’t really believe in God, you don’t really believe the Bible is God’s Word—well, they want to take their own way, and it’s a pragmatic thing: “Well, we’re back in this land; we love this land but we’ve got these enemies around us—these Arabs, these Muslims—let’s see if we can’t work out some compromise, some deal with them.” And, Tom, it is suicide because the Muslims have sworn to exterminate them. And we have been through that before—there is no doubt about it, this is their intent. How can you compromise and make a deal with people that have sworn to exterminate you? You can’t—but they do.
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