03/02/2026
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BLESSING ISRAEL
March 1, 2026
TEXT: Genesis 12:1-4
The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram left, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
INTRO: We live in a world that has chosen to hate Israel. This is not a new development, it’s been going on for thousands of years. The Israelites are a nationality of people that have been attacked physically, mentally, and emotionally from the time of Abraham to today. 6 million Jews, men, women, and children, were killed in the German genocide from 1941-1945. There has never been a group of people that the world has hated longer, or that the world has tried to extinguish from existence, over, and over, and over again. The world has and will continue to hate everyone who serves the one true God. That may include you.
In Genesis 12, God called Abram out of Ur, away from family, away from comfort, and into Holy covenant, at the ripe age of 75. God’s promises were many in that calling. God promised Abram: “I will make… I will bless… I will make your name great… you will be a blessing… I will bless… I will curse (those who curse you) all peoples will be blessed.”
This is not just a personal pinky swear kind of promise, God is making a public covenant declaration that will change the course of all humanity on the earth from this point forward. Abram, later to be renamed Abraham, will become the father of a nation, that will be called Israel. And through Israel God would reveal His law, His prophets, and ultimately His own Son, Jesus the Christ, our Messiah.
At the heart of this covenant is a very serious warning and divine promise to everyone that will be born on this earth from that point forward.
• Bless Israel → Receive blessing.
• Curse Israel → Receive divine judgment.
God has tied His own name to this people, calling them His children. To touch them is to touch what He has chosen as His own. God’s very identity is attached to these people, like it or not.
Some people want to argue that this promise of God was only temporary. To them I say, the scriptures disagree with you. In Genesis 17:7, God declares His covenant with Abraham and his descendants was to be an “everlasting covenant.” Everlasting does not expire with time or change with any political climate. Even through the prophet Jeremiah, God affirms His position. “Only if the sun, moon and stars disappear… will Israel ever cease being a nation before me.” (Jeremiah 31:35–36)
The very survival of the Jewish people through exiles, persecutions, dispersions, genocide, and the regathering of them back to promised land, is itself a testimony to the faithfulness of God and of His need to keep His word. Only God could pull this continual existence of the Jews off. Empires have risen and fallen. You have seen Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Rome, Germany and the many oppressors in our own day, try to end Israel and her people, and yet Israel still remains. Why? Because God keeps His covenants, and is bound to uphold His word.
Blessing Israel is more than just saying bless you, as you might say when someone sneezes. To bless Israel, you must align yourself with God’s Holy redemption plan. We accept Israel as the chosen people of God, the apple of God’s eye, and choose to bless them by supporting them in many ways.
If you accept them as God’s chosen people, this will cause you to pray for them. Psalm 122:6 declares: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you be secure.” God loves all people. God also loves His chosen people Israel, and we should love them also. Loving them, we should want them to be secure.
Jerusalem is not just a city; it is the spiritual epicenter of all biblical history and prophecy. God chose it as center stage for His coming and going. The land of Israel is a place God has chosen for the world to watch, and to see Him do all that He said He would do.
We gentiles are voyeurs into the holy actions of the Family of Israel. The apostle Paul reminds gentiles in Romans 11:1–2 that God has not rejected His people (the Jews). We gentile believers have been grafted into the vine—and that vine has Jewish roots. We are actually adopted, or grafted into the very nation of Israel. Israel is now my family, and Israel is now my home. To bless Israel is to love her as we love our own country and family. So we pray for her peace; speak out against antisemitism; recognize and teach Israel’s role in salvation history; thereby honoring the Jewish roots of our faith. For through Israel came the law, the scriptures and the blessed Savior. The entire world is dead in our sins without Israel.
It is true that the fulfillment of Genesis 12:3 is found in the Savior Jesus Christ. Even the New Testament book of Galatians 3:16 declares, the “seed” promised to Abraham refers ultimately to Christ.
Remember, through Israel came:
• The covenant - The law - The prophets - The Messiah
For anyone to curse the Jewish people, or Israel, is to despise the very channel through which God brought salvation into the world. Jesus was, is, and always will be a Jew. John 4:22 tells us that salvation is “from the Jews”. Since this is the very testimony of Holy Scripture, how could we ever consider contradicting the words of God?
And yet, many people today do just that. I have watched some famous journalists curse the nation of Israel, and in a very short time their famous names have become little more than a byword for personal failure. Why? Because you cannot contradict the word of God. Bless Israel, and you will be blessed, curse Israel, and you will be cursed. It doesn’t get any more direct, and simple than this…
History also shows a consistent pattern. Nations that have persecuted the Jewish people have faced decline and God’s judgment. While we must be careful not to oversimplify geopolitical events, Scripture is clear: God takes personally how any and all nations treat Israel. In the book of Joel 3:2, God declares judgment on nations that scattered His people and divided His land. This is not political rhetoric, it is a God given prophetic warning.
When we as individuals bless Israel, we place ourselves under God’s favor. When we curse or seek Israel’s destruction, we oppose the very God we claim to worship. I don’t care what the political pundits might tell you, God holds the only opinion which matters.
The same is true of Nations. All nations that bless Israel will be blessed, and all nations that curse her will be cursed. Blessing Israel does not mean endorsing every governmental decision without wise discernment. Israel is a nation like any other in terms of human leadership, therefore, mistakes can be made. But we cannot forget Israel is also attached to God through covenant, she will always remain uniquely chosen, and divinely connected to God.
Our relationship with Israel must always be: Godly, Prayerful; Humble towards her; Biblically grounded in how we see her; and always motivated by a God given love for her.
I can tell you this is not something I fully understood until I spent physical time in Israel, and had the pleasure of interacting with her chosen people. You can sense the historical importance, and feel the presence of God in that place, and I believe that God is still central in the hearts and minds of most of His chosen people. To this day they still carry the title of God’s chosen people, and that is precisely why the world wants to kill them all. You see, if they can kill God’s chosen people, then evil can claim they have defeated God. Why? Because God’s word would no longer be accurate… But as long as they are alive, God’s word continues to remain true.
Friends, we do not bless Israel out of some false sense of nationalism, but we bless Israel out of complete reverence for God’s Holy Word. God is making His case for love and forgiveness to the world through the Jewish people. God has chosen Israel as the focal point of when and where He is going to prove His existence through the tests of time.
Jesus came once, and we know He is coming again. Before His next return there are numerous things that must happen. If you have looked at Revelation with any serious study, you are aware of some of that. If you haven’t studied eschatology much, do not worry, the people of God are saved in the end, and that’s a fact!
Genesis 12:1–4 calls all of humanity out, and demands that humans make a serious decision. Will we align with God’s will towards His people, and His covenant purposes, or not? Will every human choose to bless what God has blessed? Let me come back to that…
Do you have any Idea just how much the Jews have blessed the world?
Jews make up about 0.2% of the world's population but have won approximately 22% of all Nobel Prizes awarded from 1901 to 2025. This remarkable statistic highlights their significant contributions to various fields recognized by the Nobel Foundation, something that has become a bit of a political pendant, likely lessoning the real Jewish number.
Jews represent a significant portion of Nobel Prize winners, despite being .2% of the global population.
Between 1901-2025: there have been about 965 Nobel Laureates
Of that 965 at least 220 were Jewish. Well over 22%
Let’s consider the Breakdown by their Field
Field Jewish Winners Total Winners Percentage of Total
Chemistry 37 196 19%
Economics 40 100 40%
Literature 17 120 14%
Peace 9 110 8%
Physics 56 230 24%
Physiology or Medicine 61 230 26%
Point Being: Jews make up about 0.2% of the world's population. Their representation among Nobel laureates is significantly higher than their population percentage, indicating a strong cultural emphasis on education and intellectual achievement.
Even though they make up only .25 % of the world’s population, the Jews have still given the world far more than any other nationality. God certainly blessed them, and they have been an incredible blessing to the world. I have often wondered how many more breakthroughs could have been made in various fields, had their enemies not killed so many of God’s chosen people. Only God knows the answer to that question!
How can we start to bless Israel today?
1. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
2. Reject antisemitism in all forms.
3. Thank God for the Jewish roots of our faith.
4. Share the gospel with love for both Jew and Gentile alike.
The promises of God are as true today, as they have ever been. God is still bound by His word, and His promises have carried into our own lives today. What God said thousands of years ago, He still upholds today.
“I will bless those who bless you… and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” If you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you have been grafted into the family of God. That means this same promise is now applicable to you. Maybe you have never thought of yourself as a Jew, but Christians are just that. Maybe you have remained quiet as the haters have run around trashing your Jewish family members. Maybe you think you can stay quiet and hide your connection with Israel.
Good luck with that. The only reason we have avoided the attacks Israel has received is because it has been harder for the evil to reach us. But with ICBMS, Dirty bombs, and years of unregulated immigration, we are in the sights of the terrorists, I assure you.
May we be counted among those who bless Israel. May we be counted by the Father among the people that speak out about the things of God, and better defend the people of God. Being silent is the sin of omission, and frankly, just pathetic. If you are part of a family, you should not be ashamed, and should be willing to help defend that family. You should want to learn about your family, your history, all those who have gone before you.
Some of you might be wondering what you can do to bless Israel. Support them through your buying, through your posts online, through speaking up against antisemitism. There are so many ways you can bless Israel.
Remember you can:
1. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
2. Reject antisemitism.
3. Thank God for your Jewish family of faith.
4. Share the gospel with God’s love, both for Jew and Gentile alike.
Listen to me for a moment, and realize that we have been blessed. This nation America was started as a Christian nation. IN fact one of the earliest supreme court rulings suggested that schools could, and implied should teach the bible to students. The separation of church and state is a relatively modern mantra, starting in the early 60’s.
I share that only to suggest, believers are blessed of God, in order to be a blessing in the world. While Israel has blessed the world, the US has blessed the world as well. The people that want to curse the US & Israel face the promise of God to be cursed. Look around the world… Look at the nations that rise and fall. Those who bless God’s people will be blessed, and those who curse God’s people will be cursed.
You and I have a purpose, and that is to bless the others. We cannot just be blessed to retain the blessings for ourselves, but we must give to others, out of the abundance of our God given blessings. The more they bless us, the more we bless them, and the perpetual blessings of God just grow, and multiply.
This sermon was written before the Israel & US attacks on Iran. Those attacks come after several decades of the Ayatollah’s terror attacks throughout the world. He and his proxies have killed thousands, of Israeli’s and Americans. This sermon was not political in the least, but biblical. And I only bring this recent event up, to show that God still blesses those who bless Israel, and curses those who curse Israel. Study your history, and keep a watchful eye, and you will see the hand of God at work in the world, in and through the people of the one true God.
