Dr. Couch, will there be a judgment against liberals, allegorists,
amillennialists, and preterists, who deny or disdain Zion, the Jewish
people, and Israel?
I personally think so. It is not a small matter to say that the church
has replace Israel, and that God will go against all His promised to the
nation of Israel. That is a major theological twist, turn, and
departure from all that the Bible teaches! There is a spectrum of hatred
against the Jews returning to the Land of Israel, and a disdain to the
fact that there is coming an actual, historic millennial kingdom in
which Christ rules and reigns in Zion, the Holy Land! Liberals seem to
hate the most, and the Reformed guys just ignore the fact of God
restoring the Jews to a place of favor again.
I could not help but think of Psalm 129 and especially verse 5. God
says, “Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.”
The word hate is “sanah” and can be translated: “be unable or
unwilling to put up with,” or “to slight and ignore.” Or, “to disdain.”
(Holladay Hebrew Dictionary) The Reformed guys “disdain, ignore, and
slight” the Jewish people. They think we dispensational and
premillennial teachers are foolish.
By the way, Zion here in Psalm 129 is not the church, the new Israel.
It is not an allegorical use of the word Zion. Zion here represents the
Jewish people, their land, and their covenant promises. The nay-sayers
will “be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows
up” (v. 6). They also refuse to bless the Jewish people. Verse 8 closes
the Psalm with these thoughts: Those who the Jews and go by Israel do
not say: “The blessing of the Lord be upon you (the Jewish people); or,
we bless you in the name of the Lord.” They just ignore God’s earthly
people!
Thanks for asking,
Dr. Mal Couch
