About our Site

Israel My Beloved - with "My" referencing the LORD God Almighty - exists to affirm Israel's special place in the Creator's world-encompassing plans and designs.

This website has been built primarily to magnify God's Name, to move those who visit our pages to worship Him for Who He is and to praise Him for what He is doing.

All the features produced on these pages will serve to communicate three messages: one to Israel, one to the Church, and one to the world.

Our message to Israel:

From our position here in Jerusalem, atop the mountains of Israel, we bear witness to the great events taking place in the reborn Jewish state, and declare to you, the whole house of Judah: "Behold your God."

In the midst of the hatred and violence directed against you: "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. The LORD will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace." (Exodus 14:13-14)

As international hostily grows and you feel increasingly alone, we urge you: Chazak ve amatz: Be strong and of good courage. For just as God did not bring you out of Egypt to destroy you in the wilderness, so He has not brought you out from all the nations among whom He scattered you to see you destroyed in the midst of the earth.

No, God has restored you to your land to do you good, not evil. Although these are often dark and difficult days in the extreme, we want to encourage you to trust in your God and rest in His assurance.

"For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up." (Jeremiah 24:6)

And as we see God at work in your midst to faithfully perform all that He has promised you, we gentiles from different languages of the nations are here to grasp your sleeve and say:

"Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." (Zechariah 8:23)

Our message to the Church:

For 2000 years, Christianity has shown the Jewish people anything but the love and mercy taught and lived by our Messiah. As a result, the cross, a sign of great sacrifice, immeasurable love and eternal life to us, is a symbol of gross selfishness, enduring hatred, and violent death to the Jew.

In relation to the Jews, we Christians have a dismal past we need to confront and deal with, and a glorious, hope-filled future with them we need to work towards. The arrogance which we have so long born towards Israel must be replaced with overwhelming compassion for the nation so dearly loved by our Lord.

For as Paul tells us, we do not support the root, but the root supports us. And if God did not spare some of the natural branches, we would do well to remember that He may not spare all the grafted in ones either.

The Bible tells us that the end of this wicked age will not come until God has restored the Jews to the land of Israel, the city of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, and until He has restored them in their relationship to Himself.

We are called, nay commanded, to stand with and rejoice in the unfolding of His purposes in these days, to align ourselves with what He is doing in Israel even as the world aligns itself against Him.

Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: "For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, and sing to Your name." And again he says: "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!" And again: "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples!" (Romans 15:8-11)

Our message to the world:

God loves you, and through His Son and through His restorative work in the Middle East, he is preparing to finally bring true and lasting peace to Israel, the Arabs, and all mankind. By opposing what He is doing you stand in direct opposition to your Creator.

Do all you can, if you will not hear, to force, coerce and pressure Israel into surrendering the land that the LORD God, in His mercy, has restored to them. Gang up, threaten, blackmail, bring all the diplomatic and economic weaponry at your disposal to bear, your efforts will be to no avail:

"Hear the word of the LORD, O nations...'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and KEEP him as a shepherd does his flock.' (Jeremiah 31:10)

And beware, for he who touches Israel touches the apple of God's eye (Zechariah 2:8).

The day is coming soon when you will stand before God in the Valley of Judgement because of the way you have behaved towards Israel.

"For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land. ... Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow-- for their wickedness is great."

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness. The LORD also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; the heavens and earth will shake; but the LORD will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. "So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no aliens shall ever pass through her again." (Joel 3:1-2, 12-17)

What this site is not:

While all those working on this site are believers in Jesus, IMB will not be a "Christian" site in the popular sense of the word. Here we will not be utilising "churchy" terminology; we will not be writing or speaking in super-spiritual, out-of-this-world language. We will be dealing with very down to earth realities, the same realities as those confronted by Israel's ancient prophets and leaders.

Israel My Beloved will also not be a romantic, out-of-touch-with-reality, site which portrays Israel through rose-colored spectacles. We know that Israel is a human, sinful nation, not a saintly one. Our solidarity with the Jews is not based on, and cannot be shaken by, their actions at any given time. We love, support and identify with them totally because God loves them and calls them His own.