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"Make Israel Great, Again?"
by John & Kelly Sielski 09/29/2020
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“When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel (or, 'make Israel great again’)?” ~Acts 1: 6 (KJV)
Can we see the political influence of Judas Iscariot upon the other eleven apostles of the Lamb? Here, after the resurrected Christ… with nail scars in His hands and feet, and the scar from the soldier’s spear in His side… has showed Himself alive by many infallible proofs over the course of forty days, while speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God (how His death on the Cross single-handedly fulfilled all the Law and the Prophets), and then commands them to wait for the Promise of the Father; even despite all of this, the eleven apostles still have only one thing on their feeble, little minds: (and, I paraphrase) “Lord, will You at this time make Israel great again?” Over two-thousand years have come and gone, and we have learned absolutely nothing! Judas Iscariot was a political zealot. Judas Iscariot also carried the money bag; and like most politicians, was a thief. Judas Iscariot was also a racist. Judas Iscariot didn’t betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; because thirty pieces of silver weren’t worth that much, back then. Judas Iscariot wanted to give Jesus “the push” He needed… that Judas felt He needed; to prove Himself, who He was and is, to the whole world, and so that the Romans (Gentiles) would finally bow to the Jews and their King, and so that the Jews would finally be able to rid themselves of an ethnicity whom they hated. And who would get all of the credit, for giving Jesus that “push”? Why Judas, of course; and with that credit, all of the recognition, power and position that would go along with it… in “the new kingdom”. Sound familiar? |