Christian Author: U.S. Answerable to God for Pushing Israel's Withdrawal from Gaza
by Jim Brown
March 3, 2005
(AgapePress) - A Christian author and Middle East expert says the U.S. and other countries backing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza expulsion plan will be held accountable to God for those actions.Sharon is currently coordinating the Gaza withdrawal plan with Palestinian leaders, despite hostile objections from Jewish settlers. The plan to pull settlements out of Gaza has been hailed by President George W. Bush as "historic and courageous," and applauded by the European Union -- but it still has its critics, including many evangelical supporters of Israel.
Among those critics is Christian author Dave Hunt, who writes for an Oregon-based ministry called The Berean Call. Recalling God's instructions in Leviticus 25:23 -- "The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants" -- Hunt says God will hold the U.S. and other nations responsible for pressing Israel to give away its land.
"Of course, the Israelis are accountable, too," Hunt says. "They have been trading this land for peace with an enemy that is sworn to exterminate them. But the worst thing they have done is to give it away."
The author notes that the Old Testament prophet Joel unambiguously states that God will judge all nations for scattering His chosen people, the Jews, among the nations, and for dividing His land. Hunt, who as authored numerous books on Israel and Bible prophecy, believes he knows why President Bush and his administration have called for Jewish settlers to be expelled from Gaza.
"He's got some advisors who are re-constructionists," the author states. "They deny that Israel has any more importance in God's plan, that God has excommunicated Israel because of her disobedience and she no longer has any part in this, so they spiritualize the promises of the restoration of Israel. They say that belongs to the church now."
Hunt notes that when Israel was conquered in the past, the conqueror did not divide the land as is happening now, but instead possessed it.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a news reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
