Op-Ed: Adonai and the Jews

By James Wilson • June 22, 2025

The following Op-Ed was submitted by James Wilson. Op-Eds do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of those at the Idaho Dispatch.

The world has sought extermination of the Jews since time immemorial. Beginning with the Egyptian Pharoah who murdered every male Hebrew child – and inadvertently gave advent to Moses and the Exodus – to the Nazi Holocaust that unintentionally triggered resurrection of Israel – their genocidal attacks have continued – and failed. Israel always emerges a witness to God in His glory.

The cost in lives has been astronomical, especially to Israel’s enemies. In seventy-seven years Israel has been forced to fight seven major wars as well as uncountable inside-her-borders skirmishes, and limited combat actions. In no case has Israel been the aggressor. In every case she has ended the war in a stronger position than when it began.

Israel was attacked by overwhelming enemies at her birth in 1948 (Independence), 1956 (Suez and Sinai), 1967 (Six Day War). 1973 (Yom Kippur), 1982 and 2006 (Hezbollah via Lebanon), and in the current war that began with the massacre of October 7, 2023. Iran has been the shadow antagonist in the last three of these.

Israel has been ever eager to make peace, from the Camp David Accords to – and through – the Abraham Accords; this is good and of God. Yet sometimes Israel has acted to her own detriment, as when Israelis gifted (or offered to gift) land ceded to them by God in the Old Testament in exchange for peace that never materialized. Bible believing Christians and Jews breathed sighs of relief in such moments, knowing – from their perspective – that bartering away God’s inheritance does not end well for those who reject what God has conferred. In the event, their adversaries always cheated, reneged, or simply declined to accept the deals Israel offered, leaving the latter with a fresh chance to honor their God instead of second guessing His provision for them.

All things taken together – and with due respect for Israel’s uncanny ability to fight well against better endowed enemies – there can be no reasonable doubt that Israel, and Jews everywhere, are alive today only because of the dynamic intervention of a power greater than theirs. Bible believers know this to be the God called Adonai – Master and Lord – by the Jews for more than three thousand years, or the more direct Yahweh – I AM. But no one of reasonable intelligence can avoid reaching the conclusion that Israel has an all powerful – if unseen – best friend.

The Old Testament is shot through and through with incidents and seasons of astronomical levels of apostacies and idolatries. Adonai is not tolerant of this behavior; He says of Himself that He is a jealous God. He has twice permitted the destruction of Jewish culture and society – by the Babylonians before Christ and the Romans after – and he could have prevented the Holocaust, but chose not to. (Christians and others who might see this history as justifying so-called replacement theology beware; it is a family matter between an occasionally indignant Parent and His wayward children. He says Woe unto any who might join the pile-on when His children, the Jews, are down.) Yet this same God promises again and again through the mouths of seven Old Testament prophets – Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, Zechariah, and Micah – that He will not forget His loved ones. He will instead gather them from the four corners of the world to which He has scattered them, and their end will be infinitely more blessed than their beginning.

These promises have nearly all been fulfilled – pragmatically and for anyone with eyes to see – in the last century. And what about all those sevens?

In Biblical parlance seven is the number of completion, as in “On the seventh day God rested; His work was done.” Seventy-seven years and seven wars, seven prophets with impressive track records for accuracy, and October 7. One might almost say – and I will – that the beginning is over and the new day is dawning. Eight – speaking of dawning – is the Biblical number of beginning. By October 8 Israel had begun what may well be the last battle she will fight for her existence. The stakes are as nuclear as they are apocalyptic. The world at large is still singing the same tired tune that Israel must follow rules set down by the anti-Semitic leaders of the United Nations, but Israel is defying them. Meanwhile – and this is unprecedented – much of the Arab/Muslim world is actually standing with Israel in the culture of the Abraham Accords. The United States is standing stronger with her than ever before. But some Americans opine that this is not our war.

Get a clue, brothers and sisters. If you are Christian – or Jewish – remember the most profound Biblical Blessing of Israel, Genesis 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse; and all the peoples of earth will be blessed through you.” (To curse – remember – is to reject, attack, or simply to make of no account.) If a pre-believer reflect that Iran has killed hundreds of Americans and attacked our shipping through proxy. She threatens America (labeling us the Great Satan) more virulently than she does Israel; if she achieves nuclear weaponry she will eventually achieve intercontinental delivery systems. Israel’s problem is without question our problem.

For myself, I don’t want to see American boots on the ground if it can be avoided. I praise Adonai if we content ourselves with arming Israel – so long as we weigh in with the bunker busters they need to finish the job – and fly the planes to deliver them if need be. A nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to us as much as to Israel. Adonai is our God too, if we will have Him. He is the real deal, our loving Abba, and the only game in town.

James A. Wilson is the author of Living As Ambassadors of Relationships, The Holy Spirit and the End Times, Kingdom in Pursuit, and his first novel, Generation – available at Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, or at praynorthstate@gmail.com