Why There’s So Much Opposition Against Israel

• Now one final fact about this situation which is very, very critical is what is the real issue behind it all? I mean it is absurd— approximately half the resolutions of the United Nations have been made about Israel. You couldn’t imagine anything less appropriate or more ridiculous. There must be a reason.
• Why is it that every time you open your newspaper or turn on your television there’s something about this little strip of territory that contains about six million people? A drop in the bucket of the world. What is the reason for the pressure, for the opposition, for the conflict? I’ll try to tell you. Let me turn to Matthew chapter 23, the last words of the chapter, very sad words, Matthew 23 verses 37, 38 and 39.
• Now this is the farewell of Jesus to Jerusalem. It’s a very sad and tragic farewell. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” And it’s plural.
• There is a certain collective will of the Jewish people. They, as a people were not willing. Then He says, “See! Your house is left to you desolate;” When He says your house it means the temple because they called it habiat, the house. And true enough; within a generation it was totally desolated. Then He goes on in the last verse: “for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’” Now this is plural. You plural.
• It’s not Jerusalem. It’s you Jewish people. “…you will not see me again until you Jewish people say ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD.’” That’s the standard Hebrew greeting. Baruch haba b’shem Adonai. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD. So He says, “I’m not going to come back until you are ready to welcome Me.