Why haven’t more so-called ‘devout Christians’ in the West spoken up for Palestine?

Whose side is Jesus on, those who embody indifferent complacency?

Both as much as I hate to say it and as needless as it is to state, the large bulk of self-professed “Christians” are far from living up to their name.

Why specifically their lack of compassion for Palestine though? The entire world can see with fully opened eyes and hear with pricked-up ears the endless rivers of blood and oceans of tears from the Holocaustically brutalized people of Gaza, suffering for over a year watching their entire families’ lives extinguished by the bombs of Jewish Nazism unless they too already met an untimely departure from this world, far too young for death and robbed of any practical dream they once possessed.

Yet the large swaths of so-called “devout Christians” (at least here in the West)—who profess to live by the righteousness of Jesus Christ—are noticeably silent. Shame! As far as I can observe, these appear to constitute the recurring themes:

1. Most who “grow up in the church”—IOWs constituting the “Judah” half¹—become incredibly complacent, believing “we are God’s true people” often alongside outlandishly absurd notions i.e. “once saved, always saved” (OSAS), contorted into an ulterior belief of superiority over the (remaining) lost sheep of humanity who are not Christians.

2. A large portion cherry-pick how to view the Bible based on their private interpretations² rather than taking it as it plainly says, ignoring its emphasis of sympathetic compassion.

3. Mainstream forms of Christian eschatology often entail some negative view of the “Islamic world” (needless to add, most of Palestine’s people are devout Muslims), and although the Bible commands a fundamental love of one’s neighbor with no asterisks, blinded masses too easily twist the gospel message of love into an accursed false gospel whether they realize it or not.

4. Cultural Western privilege.

5. Belief in “literal ethnic Jews” (this applies more specifically to the “Christian Zionist” crowd) as a chosen people and therefore a double standard of excuses must be granted for the Fourth Reich whenever they steal from, r*pe, murder, pillage, and otherwise persistently brutalize the Palestinian people.

(pts. 3 and 5 apply mainly to the more dispensationalist-leaning crowd, but nevertheless let’s assume this posting isn’t addressed exclusively to them)

There is once again NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN: just as the Hebrews of ancient Old Testament days in their oftentimes backsliding majorities departed from the precepts of Jehovah’s commands, so too do the modern self-professed and so-called “Christians” in their large majorities ignore the inspired word of God. Because the Christian church since 34 A.D. has become the true constitution of spiritual Israel replacing literal Israel as God’s body of believers, therefore the same hallmark attributes defining ancient Old Testament Israel’s problems also define that of New Testament Christianity’s. When the Hebrews of the Old Testament disobeyed God, did they forsake compassion for the oppressed and downtrodden? Definitely:³

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

And:⁴

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

“Stopped their ears”… remind you of this?⁵

Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned [Stephen].

(remember, the stoning of Stephen in 34 A.D. marked the conclusion of the 490-year final period of probation for the Jewish nation⁶)

In the first century when the gospel was preached to all nations, was the Jewish nation any better than the Gentiles? Paul answers this question:⁷

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Once again, there is no new thing under the sun: in the Christian church representing the antitypical twelve tribes of Israel, the “northern house of Israel” are the once-non-Christians who convert to Christianity,⁸ and the “southern house of Judah” therefore is represented by those who grew up in the church. In a nutshell, those who grew up in the knowledge of the truth⁹ aren’t intrinsically of any better worth than those who were reared without. Just as it was wrong for some early Jewish Christians in the 1st century to at various early points assume their superiority over Gentiles, so too is it equally wrong for modern “Christians” who were raised in the church and knowledge of Jesus Christ to assume some fundamentally superior standing relative to those still on the “outside.”

Try telling the average theologically “conservative” Christian unconcerned with Palestine’s endless bleeding sufferings that God will reject their lukewarm souls from His true body of believers if they don’t start clinging to the love of Christ. Do you think they’ll take you seriously and repent for the better in humility? Well, did the Jews of Jeremiah’s time take seriously the prophet’s stern warning?¹⁰

Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

Clearly not. In Jeremiah’s days, his warning that the Jews would be destroyed and rejected for their disobedience to God was met with outrage, because the Jews believed they were unconditionally chosen and in “no way” could be met with a national, collective rebuking from the Almighty. Is the modern-day mainstream comprisal of the “Christian church” any better? Obviously not.

Let’s read a bit of what the New Testament says, shall we?

“And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” —Mark 12:29-31

“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the LEAST of these, YE DID IT NOT TO ME. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.” —Matthew 25:41-46

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.” —I Corinthians 1:27-29

“For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” —Galatians 5:14

“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to ALL men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” —Titus 2:11-14

“Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?” —James 2:5-7

Did you especially catch that Matthew passage about the separation of the sheep and goats? Let’s more or less wrap this up now:¹¹

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I [God] am holy.

And what does the holy character of God look like?

“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” —Luke 19:10

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” —John 3:16-17

“…who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” —I Timothy 2:4

If it is the intent of God that all men be saved and that His kingdom be filled with the redeemed from every people, multitude, nation, and tongue,¹² why should the people claiming to be His devout followers stray from the precepts of Jesus Christ, forsaking His love and coldly disregarding the sufferings of the brutalized innocents around the world? How can any professed “Christian” refusing to stand for the oppressed and brutalized Palestinian people today expect in their own future trial and tribulation that the living God will stand up for them?

1. Cf:

Are Zionist ‘Jews’ legitimately Jewish?

2. Cf. II Pet. 1:19-21.

3. Jer. 7:5-8.

4. Zech. 7:9-11.

5. Acts 7:57-58a.

6. Cf. Dan. 9:24-27.

7. Rom. 3:9-18.

8. Cf. Rom. 9:25-26; I Pet. 2:9-10.

9. Cf. Jn. 14:6; II Pet. 2:20-22.

10. Jer. 26:8-9.

11. I Pet. 1:15-16.; cf. Lev. 11:44.

12. Rev. 5:7-10, 7:9-10, 14:6-7; cf. Matt. 22:8-9.