Question: Is it consistent for Christians to pray for the peace and prosperity of Jerusalem, or to help along any of the present schemes to reinstate the Jews in their land?
Answer: God has given Christians a heavenly calling (Heb. 3:1). A heavenly inheritance (1 Peter 1:3-4); and blessed them with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 1:3).
For their sins the Jews were driven out of Palestine. They smote the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek ... Therefore Jehovah gave them up as a nation till the time when she which travaileth hath brought forth (Mic. 5:1,3). Then Israel as a nation will be restored. At the present time, “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Luke 21:24). God’s word about Israel now is, “Not My people” (Hos. 1:9). And they are now as described in Hosea 3:4. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for the Gentiles sakes; they were broken off from the olive tree of God’s testimony on the earth, that the Gentiles might be grafted into it. Their only escape now from judgment is in the mercy of God shown alike to Jew and Gentile (Rom. 11:28-32). Those who receive the gospel of the grace of God, cease to be Jew or Gentile, and are in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:28).
Consistently, therefore, as Christians, we pray for their conversion to the Lord Jesus (whose name they now hate), that they might be saved (Rom. 10:1), and thus be children of God, the Father (Gal. 3:26); members of the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13); temples of the Holy Spirit, (1 Cor. 6:19). Israel, as a nation never had, nor in the future ever will have these blessings. Every Christian has them now, and for eternity.
We know also that their national place will never be theirs in possession until the coming of Christ, their true King, in His glory (Zech. 12:10; 13:1; 14:4-5. Rom. 11:26-27).
The Apostle Peter, who was chosen to feed Christ’s sheep, converted from among the Jews (John 21:15-17; Gal. 2:7-8), wrote 1 Peter 5:8,
“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”
He said nothing of them getting back to their own land.
Christians have nothing to do with that, except that we look forward to the day when our Lord will reign, and we shall reign with Him.