Defilement of the nations by their “hatred for ZION” (for which YHWH is “jealous with a great jealousy” Zech 1:14-17; 8:1-8), by their violent DENIAL of Israel’s twice-blood covenanted borders (Gen 12:1-7; 15:4-21; Ps 105:6-8; Rom 15:8) which has been the trigger of every righteous war of independence (Nu 23:9) God’s “people of inheritance” have had to endure, is the WORST CASE of “friendship with the world” which is “hatred for God” (Ps 129:5-8), a principle which James 4:4,5 (see Amplified Bible) appears to derive from Numbers 5’s teaching on the “spirit of jealousy” given to expose ADULTERY through an “offering of memorial” which “brings that iniquity to remembrance.”
Applied to the nations’ spiritual adultery and treason against YHWH’s eternal household – the House of Jacob, WHOSE INHERITANCE IS THE NATIONS, in their Messiah (Ps 2:7,8; Is 54:3; Lk 1:33; Rom 4:13; Eph 2:11,12,19), every tombstone and every wound, physical or emotional, inflicted on Israel by neighbours refusing reconciliation through the truth, and instead, resisting the Holy Spirit by fighting an unjust war, marks its transgressor for terrible judgment.
As we register and try to make sense of a sea of emotions and thoughts as we empathize and share the trauma of our adopting nation by witnessing a continuous procession of images of the flower of Israel’s youth (either slain and “of blessed memory,” or injured and maimed) self-sacrificed for national preservation in honour of the covenant-keeping God of Abraham and David (Gen 17:8; 2 Sam 7:18-29; Jer 31:7,10,17,31-36; 33:14-26) and therefore, for the heritage of their brothers still exiled and unconscripted far and wide (including co-heirs of grace), we should never doubt that DEFERMENT of judgment is NO CONSOLATION to the guilty (Is 42:13-15).
Instead, Israel’s birthright shall be vindicated, and every persecution, every loss and injury to self and reputation, is an indelible memorial, bringing to remembrance the prejudice and complicity, by iniquity condoned, and perpetrated by proxy, of an arrogant, adulterous, conceited world.
YHWH will not be mocked by His precepts being set aside (Gen 12:2,3; Is 51:22,23; 60:12; Gal 6:7,8).
Those who mock Jewish inheritance of Jerusalem as future world Hebrew capital, as capital of Israel, YHWH’s footstool; and who mock His Sabbaths, and His elect, national firstborn son’s set apart destiny as chief of nations under the restored monarchy of the dynasty of David, ratified by their New Covenant, face RUIN or EXTINCTION (Ex 4:22,23; Deut 26:16-19; 32:8,9; Jer 31; Lam 1:1,7b; 2:1; Micah 4:1-8; 7:8-20), because “YHWH TZVAO’T SHALL REIGN in Mnt Zion and before His ancients, gloriously,” by having “placed salvation in Zion, for Israel My Glory” (Is 24:21-23; 45:17-25; 46:13; Mk 11:10; Lk 1:32,33).
So Father, we thank You for the treasure concealed for us in Torah (Matt 13:44,45,52) to help us discern the scope of “friendship with the world,” to “make us wise for salvation” (Acts 24:14; 2 Tim 3:14-17; James 4:4), and we declare to the heavenlies that in Your “great jealousy” (Your yearning for Israel with a “jealous love” on account of Your love for the fathers – Deut 4:37-39; Rom 11:25-29; James 4:5) You SHALL regard every insult to the Holy Spirit of grace by wilful infraction of Your covenant with Israel, as a “memorial bringing iniquity to remembrance” (Nu 5:15b), for justice to be done through Yeshua, Your Righteous Arm (Is 53; Jn 5:27; Heb 10:26-39). Amein.
