Praying for the Peace of Jerusalem

Prayer Points From an African Evangelical Perspective

By Rev. Moss Ntllha, CP Guest Contributor Sunday, October 18, 2015

This is especially true of American Evangelicals involvement. Israel is very much a secular nation today and you cheer its government on in a form of idolatry that substitutes looking to their own geographic borders, nationalism, and military might instead of the Lord Almighty. Could you be wrong?

Are American Evangelicals really "blessing" Israel by questionable end-times interpretation of select scriptures that can in no way supersede the clear message of God's plan for how we should live and treat others as revealed in Christ's words and deeds?

Don't we believe that at the foot of the cross, the ground is level and there is a place in God's heart for all human kind, including Palestinians?

When we read the Gospels, the words and actions of Jesus, do we as His followers really believe that His plan was for the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to dispossess the Palestinian people of their land and homes that had been in their families for generations? To take water from their underground reservoirs and send in Israeli soldiers to destroy water cisterns constructed by poor families to catch the rain that God sends for all?

Does this reflect the Golden Rule or show love for one's neighbors and even for one's enemies who Jesus also commanded us to love?

As Evangelicals who prioritize sharing the Gospel to all nations, I believe that it will be difficult to preach Christ with integrity anywhere else in the world, if we can't preach Him in Bethlehem today, where He was born.

Palestinian Christians have asked those of us outside the crucible of the Holy Land to help them end the pain they suffer at the hands of Israeli policies: settlements, demolition of their houses, arbitrary incarceration of their teenagers, water shortages, isolation as the barrier Wall is completed and the list continues.

If you think I am exaggerating you should do some research on the Internet or better yet, go there and see for yourself.