A native Israeli & a ‘Fisher of Men’
speaks to the biblical role Israel still holds
in God’s plans

Guest Article
by Guy Cohen

Guy Cohen leads the Harvest of Asher congregation in Acco, Israel, the city of his birth. This is one of the many Messianic Jews of Israel carrying on the same mandate the first century Apostles carried in the Book of Acts to Revelation. He is a young, anointed man of God.

As a Messianic Jewish congregational leader, I often engage in conversations with fellow believers and Christian leaders concerning Israel, the Jewish people, and God’s unfolding plan in history. While some of these discussions are encouraging and fruitful, others leave me deeply troubled, particularly when I encounter teachings that suggest God has rejected Israel or that the Church has replaced Israel in His covenant purposes.

It is important for me to make one thing clear from the outset: my disagreement is not with Arabs living in Judea and Samaria or anywhere else, nor does it stem from ethnic or national considerations. I believe that every human being is created in the image of God and is worthy of dignity, love, and fair treatment. Jews and Arabs alike are in need of God’s grace, and none of us stands before Him on the basis of our own righteousness.

My disagreement is theological. It concerns the question of whether God remains faithful to the covenants He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and whether the promises given to Israel remain in effect.

According to my understanding of the Scriptures, the answer is yes.

I had a SUDDEN startling remembrance that a week prior to the Trump announcement that the United States was signing a MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) with Israel’s deadly enemies, Iran, the state sponsor of terrorism against Israel – not only by Iran but by Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen – I received an email from Lou Engle‘s ministry saying they had entered into partnership with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

Christians wake up! That is a betrayal of the Messianic body of believers in Israel on an EQUAL LEVEL as Trump’s betrayal of Israel as a nation!.

I believe in the principle that what happens in the earthly realms is a REFLECTION of what is happening in the Church.

How can we expect Trump not to betray Israel, when the current leading Christian intercessory figure in the United States with longstanding interaction with Israeli Messianic Jewish leaders, betrays the whole Israeli Messianic body by forming an alliance with an organization with a long history of opposition against ANY Jewish believers in Jesus?

Trump should have known better and so Lou Engle should have too.

Let me add, I am not making Lou Engle an enemy, but he should repent from this. And don’t tell me I should only tell him privately. I have no ability to reach Engle privately. You tell your leaders who do have personal contact with Engle to reach out to counsel him about this terrible misstep he has made which is on par with the one Trump made.