“Is Israel, Israel?”

   I have always believed that there are no dumb questions…‘IF’ the person asking the question sincerely desires an answer. I can only choose to believe the many who ask the question of the title of this tidbit…are sincere!
  First, this question is only asked of Israel!!! In other words, no other nation is questioned regarding their past-present identity! For example, no one asks if the great historical nations like China, India, or Egypt are the same as contemporary China, India, or Egypt!! No one has the chutzpa to ask of the more recent nations: Is Canada, Canada? Is Russia, Russia? Is Bulgaria, Bulgaria? And…what about the United States?
  Furthermore, regarding nations like Ghana, which was born in 1957; Nigeria in 1960; and Sudan, which is recognized as the most recent independent nation, born in 2011; YET…not ONE media personality or political pundit asks whether these nations are legitimate!!!
  So, why is this question directed ‘ONLY’ at Israel? The simple answer is: closeted anti-semitism! People like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and a host of liberal Social Media pundits, all accuse Israel of genocide to support their ‘declaration’ that the contemporary state of Israel is NOT…Biblical Israel!! On the other hand, groups like the Black Hebrew Israelites just boldly shout: “Black people are true Jews; the real Israel!”
  However, if contemporary* Israel is not Biblical/historical Israel, may I ask two questions:
1.Who are the people presently in the land of Israel, who call themselves Jews? AND...
2.Who are the real Jews/Israelites?
    The first reason I believe that contemporary* Israel is in fact Biblical/historical Israel is a ‘natural’** reason, or what I call the ‘Persecution Argument’. In short, the ‘Persecution Argument’ goes like this: No other nation in the world, or in the history of the world, over such an extended period of time, has ever experienced such persecution as the Jews/Israel!!! If you follow the Jews back in time for thousands of years, you will find one glaring, common denominator: PERSECUTION! Everything from murder***; to expulsion from countries; to being blamed for plagues; all the way down to prohibition from living spaces and certain types of employment! Sadly, the word “Jew” is, and has been, synonymous with persecution!
    So…why is Jewish persecution more intense and more common than any other? The number one reason is God’s unique calling upon the Jew! Deuteronomy 7:6-8 declares
6.For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7.The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8.But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.****
    Therefore, because of God’s unique call on Israel/Jew, Satan has repeatedly tried to destroy them from their beginning (Gen 12:1-3), when God created Israel(Is43:15)---to this present day, all the way to the future (Rev12)!! In other words, because Satan cannot attack God, he attacks those whom God loves! Thus…the origin of Jew-hatred, and its action of persecution…is Satan!
   Because it is only natural to ask why persecution exists anywhere, at anytime, for any group or person, it is therefore reasonable to ask why Israel has been persecuted, and so intensely persecuted...for 2700 years! And I repeat, the ‘Persecution Argument’ contends that reason is God’s unique call on the Jew.
   If you require more evidence for my ‘Persecution Argument’, look no further than the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is not responsible for the mass murder of the most people in history, it is determined by most to be the worst tragedy because of the creativity the Nazis used in slaughtering Jews! Here is the question: Did Hitler not know he was slaughtering the wrong people? Was Hitler not aware that…the Biblical/historical Jew had passed away, and the contemporary Jew he tried to annihilate…was not Jewish!?!?! 
   Considering Tucker Carlson's and Candace Owens' views on contemporary Israel/Jews, for either of them to attempt to answer the previous question must be quite confusing!! However, I assure you…it was not confusing for Adolf Hitler! He perfectly understood what he was doing!
   On the contrary, this confusion would have quickly disappeared if Hitler had simply chosen to annihilate millions of Black people instead!!! Remember, according to the Black Hebrew Israelites, Blacks--are the real Jews(Rev2:9)!
  And what’s more astonishing is that before the Jews were burned in Nazi ovens, why did not a single Jewish victim shout, “Hey Adolf, you’ve got the wrong people, we ain’t the real Jews, the Blacks are!” Let me tell you, if any pseudo-Jews had faced Hitler’s gas chambers, I think they would have quickly capitulated, confessing to their real identity! However, the record is clear…there was no Jewish capitulation on the actual identity!
  Allow me to offer one more piece of evidence for my ‘Persecution Argument’. World War 2 ended in 1945 when many Jews who survived the Nazi genocide fled to what is now the land of Israel. Tragically, a mere three years after surviving Hitler’s genocide--the same Jews—faced a second genocide when they were attacked by 6 surrounding Muslim Arab nations—who promised to push the Jews into the Mediterranean Sea!!
   Gratefully, in God’s providence, those 6 Muslim nations neglected to read Deuteronomy 20:4: “For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” Therefore, on May 14, 1948, which Isaiah so accurately prophesied would happen “IN ONE DAY” (Is66:8); after 2534 years (586BC to 1948)---the nation of Israel was re-born!
   Can you literally name another nation in history with so many attempts, and differing methods to destroy it, than just the few I have mentioned about the nation of Israel?!?!
  So, “Is Israel, Israel?” Their unique persecution shouts a resounding…YES! There has never been, nor will there ever be---more than one nation of Israel! I repeat, No such ‘Biblical/historical Israel’ and ‘contemporary Israel’ exists!  
 
  To be continued!
 
 *To ask “Is Israel, Israel?” requires the existence of ‘contemporary Jews’ and ‘historical Jews!’ First, why is this even a question? And second, to answer “Is Israel, Israel?” requires the following:
1.Who are the historical Jews? & Who are the contemporary Jews?
2.When did the division or transition happen?
3.How did the division or transition happen? 
Just one problem…these three questions can only be answered by an anti-semite!!!!
**I will offer spiritual reasons in future tidbits.
***Both accused of murder; AND being murdered!
****Other passages confirming Israel’s unique call: Deut26,18,19; Jer31:35-37; Rom1:16.