Psalm 121:4

Psalm 121:4

He who watches over Israel

For 2,000 years, many people will have scorned this verse or at least disputed its integrity. There must have been Jews who have read it, memorised it and pondered if it could be true. To be fair they’ve always believed in the restoration of their nation and the coming of Messiah. Not so many Christians; there have been whole generations who have written off Israel and who have believed that the time of the Jews ended in AD 70 under the destructive powers of the Roman Empire.

God is faithful, when He makes a promise, He will keep it. The author of Psalm 121 unquestioningly believed that His God would watch over Israel, and indeed He was right, even though the Jewish people subsequently fled to the four corners of the earth and suffered indescribable persecution for centuries from just about every nation under the sun. Whilst the world despised them and the Satan rubbed his evil hands with glee, the Lord watched on. Despite all the setbacks and discrimination, the Jews miraculously survived and in the early 20thcentury began to drift back to their land, the land of Israel. Why did the Lord allow this to happen? Because He had another Israel to watch over, the Gentiles who were being grafted into the vine. For 2,000 years He would allow every nation on the earth to hear the good news about His Son, Jesus Christ. Every man and woman who has lived would have the opportunity to seek the Lord and to repent and have faith in Him. All of us who have heard His voice calling have been brought into the spiritual Israel and inherited the blessings of being God’s chosen people. Now our time is coming to an end, the time of the Gentiles is drawing to a close and the Jews have not only returned to their land but have miraculously defended themselves and turned the arid desert to a land flowing with milk and honey. 

All of this is happening, unnoticed, under the noses of the ignorant, but we know! We know that “He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” Hallelujah!

 

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