What is behind it?  Why is Islamophobia such a thing today and why is it used to speak against God’s own?  Why is Islamophobia bad, and antisemitism against the Zionist to be good?  And these both happen. They are happening, and there is a reason for both too be occurring.  But are they both the same?  No.  Not when there are 1.3 billion Muslims in this world and yet we treat them like they are a minority, who are in love with all of mankind; while these same folks are treating Jews as if they are a great majority equaling a threat to the world, and as if they are hating mankind.  This is pure idiocy.  Muslims are no more a minority in this country than is Israel. Israel is a true minority throughout the world, if your thing is siding with minorities.  But this non-Minority nonthreatening segment of the Muslim population puts up with their own radical brothers, who are calling for the death of America on the very streets of America while “peacefully” waving Iranian flags, and then burning the Stars and Stripes. Both are yet the enemies of God and they are not yet His people. 

I don’t know if we understand, but God judges His own people and He sometimes uses people like these radical Muslims to do that.  Do those who were His people need to repent?  Yes they do, but for some reason they have not.  Their greatest sin is the rejection of God’s Son (Their Messiah) and this is unfortunately true of most Jews as well as many in the Christian denominations. 

Hosea 1:8  After Gomer had weaned Lo Ruhamah, she became pregnant again and had a son.

Hosea 1:9  The LORD said, “Name him Lo Ammi. You are no longer my people, and I am no longer your God.

Now if you believe every word of this book; then this very next verse blows your mind. 

Hosea 1:10  “Yet, the Israelites will become as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore. No one will be able to measure them or count them. Wherever they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be told, ‘You are the children of the living God.’ (GOD’S WORD)

In Hosea God rejects them, for their Adultery and then in the same passage He reclaims them. Seems confusing doesn’t it. What is going on?

There are two things to consider with this.  Is God about to judge all of those today calling themselves His but, who truly are not; even as He had done with Israel of old, and will He use Muslims to do it?  And then, what are we to take from these verses as stated which seem completely contradictory concerning those who will be numberless and His people, yet who will be coming from a group, who were not His people.  In fact some might even ask: has God gone mad; for what He says here certainly seems to defy man’s logic.  For here we see a people cut off and then, who seem to proceed to become His own and become more plentiful than can be numbered?

So consider, we have those of the Church today, who claim that their love of God and neighbor is the only way to display “True Christianity”, and yet, they show hatred for anything and anyone associated with the righteous teachings of God, while at the same time “loving and embracing” those, who plan on killing them, and who insist that they worship a false god. 

So, how can a nation, who has been declared to be no longer His people (Israel) so cover the earth, such that, they are found to be not only His, but they are to be so numerous that they cannot be counted? If we did not have the whole cloth of His Word to explain all this; then we would indeed think along with His enemies that this God must have gone mad. 

The Church needs to understand its heritage and its relationship to the people of God, and to the nation of Israel in order to understand all this. 

If you refuse to admit that your eternal inheritance is contained in the promises made through Abraham a chosen Gentile, which inheritance was passed then to Israel through Isaac and Jacob, who himself became Israel, and then it was passed to all in the Church by Jesus as told us in Ephesians; then you have just missed it.  Yet, this Church has those in it, who are now in the Christ, Israel’s own Messiah.  But just as it was in Israel, there are those not yet in Christ.  But short of knowing this One, they cannot understand the above prophesy.  This is why today so much of the Church stands against the land of Israel, who are yet to be added to their Messiah, and become brothers with us.   Yet these same ones (Christian’s), who will stand for a people determined to destroy both them and The Jews of the promised land, will not be with those, who are His people, unless they too repent along with the Jews. 

How does what Jesus told the chief priests and elders here in this Matthew verse apply to the above prophecy in Hosea?  For this too is prophecy. 

Does this justify the antisemitism being pushed?  Paul helps us answer this question when speaking concerning what makes one a Jew:

Romans 2:28  A person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision a matter of how the body looks.

Romans 2:29  Rather, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is something that happens in a person’s heart. Circumcision is spiritual, not just a written rule. That person’s praise will come from God, not from people. (GOD’S WORD)

So what happens inside a persons heart to make one a Jew?  And, can one meeting this description deny that they are among those who cannot be numbered?   On what basis?  I had tried to whet your appetite for this in an earlier post.  The happening is a promised new covenant thing.  Jesus said that one must be born again, he had also said that His blood was the blood of the new covenant, which was the promise of this new birth given long ago to Israel in Jeremiah 31.  

So if one is a Jew who is one inwardly; then they are of this Covenant.  Do we not represent the fulfillment of this prophecy concerning a number too great to count?  We lay claim to their Messiah and this new covenant birth.  We fulfill these prophecies. 

Hosea 1:10  “Yet, the Israelites will become as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore. No one will be able to measure them or count them. Wherever they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be told, ‘You are the children of the living God.’ (GOD’S WORD)

This becomes interesting when we further consider what Paul tells us that both Jews and Gentiles are, those spoken of in these verses.  We began with Hosea’s message above now we will look at its fulfillment.  Paul says:

Romans 9:24  This is what God did for us whom he called-whether we are Jews or not.  25  As God says in Hosea: “Those who are not my people I will call my people. Those who are not loved I will call my loved ones.  26  Wherever they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called children of the living God.” (GOD’S WORD)

He includes here even us who are not Jews.  

Previously in Chapter two of Romans, we saw that he stated this just a little clearer, beginning in verse 25 and going forward in Romans, that we are these, who were not His people yet are being called His people.  Listen carefully:

Romans 2:28  For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.  29  But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from people, but from God. (NASB2020)

So to argue that we have not been joined to God’s people Israel is to argue against what Paul is revealing here in the word.  

It seems that even Satan the leader of God’s enemies the Muslims is pushing those, who are under him toward the destruction of both believers in Jesus and even the Jews, who are not yet His.  But why? – because Jews must be present at the end of the age because they are those, who will in the end complete this body of God’s people and they also come from those who were not His people.  They must come to be believers in Jesus their Messiah and ours, because it is so told us in Romans 11, that then all Israel will be saved.  Who is all Israel?  We who were not His people, who have become His people. 

So Paul has explained all of this in his teaching on the Olive tree.  The Jew’s are placed in this tree as its natural branches.  They are present there in that tree from its beginning. But knowing the scriptures as we do, we know that with God pruning takes place for His people and; therefore we are told that Jews who were proven to not be believers were cut off, but Paul in Roman’s 11 makes clear that God has always had a remnant of Believers among the Jews of Israel. He has always cut away unbelief from among His people.  At one point right in front of Moses, He had the ground open up and swallow the rebellious of Israel.  They slip right down into the pit before their very eyes. So when Gentiles began to be grafted into Israel even before Christ came they also became Part of Israel represented in this the Olive tree.  Some of those gentiles were in the lineage of David and thus of the Christ. 

Jesus has always been the root of Israel for this tree.  He is identified in the Old Covenant as this root. He tells us in a similar metaphor that he is the vine and we are the branches.  There He describes the pruning process. 

Paul proceeds to tell us that if we do not remain true to this faith of our calling that we too, can be pruned from this tree, but it will only come due to one’s unbelief.  This would be no different for gentiles; then it was for the many, who were not faithful heretofore. The remnant had been given as our example in Hebrews 11.  Paul maintains that this future (which possibly is already our present and occurring in the here and now) could be seen as a falling away of gentiles from belief, and thus it would make room, as Paul says for the future purged of Jews from Israel.   Thus it would be their Re-inclusion into what had begun as theirs.  And this will occur when Israel is put through the final Great Tribulation as they are refined as pure gold.  They will be added back among a people, who are now called His people, and together they will be so many (a great multitude) such that they cannot be numbered. 

Now the warning:

Neither Jesus nor Paul intended that you must fall away.  Jesus died for whosoever will.  But, You who stand with Israel’s enemies are in danger of fulfilling Jesus warnings of falling away and thus fulfilling what is said both in Matthew 24 and Mark 13.  What is happening in these days is serious because it will with certainty lead many to this eternal destruction of which both spoke.  I beg you my brothers remain in Christ, and to those of you reading this who are not yet in Him, if you still can believe, but have not searched until you have found Him; then do so before you slide into unbelief.   Pray for your enemies, yes, that they too may awaken.  To do that one must know these enemies for who they are, and then do not make your bed to be with them. Certainly you are not to join with them in their unrighteous causes.  These causes are an abomination unto God. These their worldly causes are: abortion, the multitude of Genders, same sex marriage; all these are no different than Adultery and Idolatry against God, and remember it was for Israel’s adultery against God that He cut them off.  All of these abominations come from the world.  We are told to be in the world but not of it.  

Lastly we are told to pray for our leaders and for the peace of Jerusalem.  I began this post with Islamophobia. Know that the world hates you because you identify with Christ.  The world therefore must love Islam because it must identify with your enemies. Don’t think that you must do the same.  To embrace Islam is to be engaging idolatry.  Pray for the people, they are your enemies.  Right now they are not His people, so they are still eligible to yet become His people.  We all came from such.