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God's Plan for Israel
March 5, 2026 · 51 min
In this powerful message, Pastor Jeff reveals the unbreakable, eternal covenant God made with Israel—not because of their perfection, but to showcase His perfect faithfulness to every nation on earth.
Series God's Plan for Israel March 5, 2026 · 51 min · God's Plan for Israel
In this powerful message, Pastor Jeff reveals the unbreakable, eternal covenant God made with Israel—not because of their perfection, but to showcase His perfect faithfulness to every nation on earth. ...more Show the full description Show less In this powerful message, Pastor Jeff reveals the unbreakable, eternal covenant God made with Israel—not because of their perfection, but to showcase His perfect faithfulness to every nation on earth.
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Pastor Jeff Schwarzentraub serves as president of Pastor Jeff Ministries, a national and global ministry designed to equip believers and challenge them to take
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In this video 0:00 Welcome, Announcements, and Opening Prayer4:50 God Initiates Relationship Through Abrahamic Covenant27:15 Chosen by Grace, Eternal Covenant Secured38:51 Regathering and Restoration Promised43:46 Salvation from the Jews—Stand with Israel
Welcome, Announcements, and Opening Prayer 0:00 Amen. Thanks. As we welcome all of our campuses today, I wanted to give a special shout out, to the 30 first marine expeditionary unit that is watching from Camp Pendleton in California0:12 this morning, streaming it. So excited to have you with us. Excited about that. Yesterday, in this building, we had our Warrior Summit just shy of 2000 men that were here. It0:24 could not have been better. Right, men? This was our third time doing the Warrior Summit after Victor Marx. He spoke first after watching him. There were several people like, if0:36 nothing else happened, that was a great day. And then it just kept getting better and better and better. There's a variety of guys. I could tell you all about it, but we put together a little video just to show you what0:46 yesterday was about so that you can, see what took place yesterday. So check out the screens.1:02 The Warriors Summit was amazing. There's so many things that got from all those speakers. The 1 that really stuck out to me was the anatomy of the courageous and cycle that Pastor Jeff talked about. What it1:14 means to be a man, how to act like a man, to take charge of my life, and to be a blessing to my world. Some of the prayers have just been incredible. Just praying with that small group, sharing1:26 our lives together is probably 1 of the best things. Papa Nick's talking about how we've seen the damage of what an absent father can do, but how amazing the power of a present father. Victor gave us permission as
1:38 men to attack our situation in a godly way. Clearly, he's done it himself.
1:43 It's incredible to have fellow believers around you, especially men, who are able to encourage you and just pour into your life, and that's something that's just been really powerful today and awesome to see.
1:56 Amen.
1:58 1 of the things that we do at our men's conference that I don't see done at a lot of men's conferences around the country is we do kind of a first Tuesday element of prayer and worship. It's fun to watch guys, especially
2:07 guys that haven't really been to church before or haven't been part of what we do here before, to just take steps of faith and pray with other guys. It was a super powerful day. I also know that events like that cannot
2:19 happen without the help of serving teams. We had so many people serving yesterday. So on all our campuses, if you served yesterday, would you please stand so we can recognize you and for your service to our team. Thank
2:29 you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. 1 final announcement. My good
2:41 friend Seth Gruber is, bringing his event here called the last stand on June fourth and fifth. Kim and I were out in California. I spoke at the event last year. I'll be speaking this year. There's several speakers,
2:53 many of them that you know nationally that will be here. And Kim leaned over to me last year while the event was going on. She's like, if this was at Brave, we would pack the place. Like, why does he wanna do it in
3:04 California? And I'm like, well, I'm not gonna call him. 4 months later, he called me and he said, would you guys be willing to host it there? I'm like, yeah. We've already prayed about it. Come. So, so they're coming.
3:14 It's a great opportunity. There's a code for you if you wanna get a discount, to be part of that. I'm not sure when the discount goes away, but would love to have as many of you kinda in and out and be a part of that on
3:24 Friday night and all day Saturday, as we, stand with Seth and his ministry, the White Rose resistance for all that they're doing to support the life of the unborn. Okay? So with that, let's continue our worship this
3:34 morning. Let's go before the Lord and get ready to hear his living and his active word among us. Father in heaven, we give you all the glory, all the honor, all the praise for who you are. Lord, we pray right now. We're
3:45 called and commanded to pray for our leaders and those in authority over us. We pray for president Donald Trump, vice president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, our secretary of war, all of
3:57 the entire cabinet. Lord, there's a lot of decisions that are being made right now that affect the entire world and we pray for them. We pray for the leaders and heads of states of other nations. Lord, would you just
4:06 have your way? What sometimes seems to us is unraveling is simply you unfolding your plan right at the feet of Jesus. So Lord, we trust you. We bless you. We ask protection over our nation and our allies.
4:18 Lord, we just pray that you would do a great work. And And, Lord, we're excited together here this morning because we get a chance to hear you. We get a chance to hear from your living and active word. And, Lord, we as a
4:27 people believe that every time your word is faithfully and accurately proclaimed, that it is you who are speaking. So our prayer this morning is speak, Lord, for we are ready to hear. And so now for all those who have
4:37 gathered who desire to hear the Lord Jesus Christ speak directly to you, who will believe what he tells you, and who will, by faith, put into practice what he shows you, will you agree with me very loudly by saying the
4:47 word amen? Amen. As I told you, today I'm gonna begin a series on Israel and God's plan for Israel. When I woke up yesterday morning and
God Initiates Relationship Through Abrahamic Covenant
4:59 saw all of the strikes that had been done on Iran, it was almost as if I realized every time I get ready to preach on a topic, the Lord makes it more prominent that this is a topic that needs to be
5:11 preached on. This topic about Israel is super important for us as believers in Christ to know what God says. And what I wanna let you know is I really don't care if you agree with my opinion and you
5:23 shouldn't care that I agree with yours. But as born again believers, we should care very much about what God has to say about Israel. Would you all agree? And and and here's what I find.
5:34 What I find is when I'm watching talking heads, social media, people on the news, a lot of people have a lot of opinions. And they usually talk about their opinions. What they think, what they believe, what they
5:46 discern. But I rarely it's it's very rare that I hear somebody open the word of God and say, but this is what God says. And this is what God means when God says what he says. And I think it's
5:58 important for us as believers in Christ to know the word. I think it's important for us to realize that when God wrote this book, this isn't a suggestion. This is his living and inerrant word.
6:10 The Bible says that the grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our Lord stands forever. The the word of the Lord is good useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness so that the
6:20 man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Jesus said, thy word is truth. And above all, you must understand that no prophecy had its origin in the will of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from
6:31 God. This is God's word. This is God's book. This is eternal. This is inerrant. This is unchanging. All 66 books make up 1 story of God and who he is and how he's worked out
6:42 redemption. So when we read this book, this book is God speaking. When this book is preached, this is God speaking. And we need to take God at his word. And I
6:55 was out in Washington DC last year to meet the deputy director for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. And while we were there, a couple of us met with a New York Times reporter that I had met before. And she asked me, what
7:06 do you think the biggest issue in the church going forward is? I said, simple. It said, it's your view on Israel. It's what God says about Israel and you're actually gonna believe it or not. I don't know how long this
7:16 series is. I don't know if it's gonna be 2 weeks or 3 weeks. It'll be exhaustive enough to give you handles for where we're going, but it won't be exhaustive enough where we'd be spending the next 2 years just talking
7:26 about the nation and God's God's purpose and plan for them. So I want you I wanted to remind you, let's just let the word of God speak. Let's let the word of God teach. I'm gonna give you 5 truths today
7:38 from God's perspective of what he believes about Israel. So we're gonna start in Genesis chapter 12, if you wanna turn your Bible there. And while you turn your Bible there, let me just give you a
7:50 brief history that when God created the world in Genesis chapter 1 and 2, we read in Genesis chapter 1 that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh. This might be a good time for me to pause and tell
8:01 you about a hallmark of my ministry and what I believe is super important. I believe that teachers of the word of God will be judged more harshly. And the reason for that is the scripture says that. The other reason for
8:11 that is when the word of God is being taught, people are being persuaded to go in a direction. I take that charge very seriously. And a hallmark of my ministry has always been what the word of God
8:23 says is what the word of God means. I don't try to twist it, turn it, change it. Sometimes that comes across challenging, sometimes offensive, sometimes gracious, sometimes encouraging. But if I've been
8:35 faithful to the text, I feel like I've done my job. So when I taught in the book of Genesis and I taught about Genesis chapter 1 and I taught that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh, I told you
8:45 what day meant. Do you know what day means in Hebrew? Day. And, it means day. And it's 24 hours. And God even goes so far as to say, and there was evening and there was morning. And then he says day 1.
8:57 And then there was evening and morning day 2. I mean, he's so explicit. So I'm just the kind of guy that's gonna take the word at face value and say this is what it means. So you need to understand that in
9:09 my hermeneutic, the way I'm coming to the text is when God says it, it's clear, it's understandable, you can understand it if you can read. And the reason for that is when I get around people that read Genesis
9:21 1 and say, well, it's a day, but you don't understand. That's like millions of years. Then why would I want to go on and read Genesis chapter 2? I mean,
9:33 why would I why would any of it make sense? Why would John 3 16 really mean what it says? Why would why would anything work? Right? I mean, God saw all that he had made and it was very good. If it had been millions of
9:44 years and there have been sin and all this, that's not very good. So nothing fits if you don't take the word at what the word says. So that's where I'm coming from this text to teach you about the nation of Israel and
9:55 God's plan for Israel. So what you have when you get to Genesis 12, just so you know, is God creates the world. The world population begins to boom, but the world lives so wickedly that God raises up Noah who preaches
10:07 for 120 years, a preacher of righteousness. And the only people that listen to him are his 3 sons and their wives. And he, along with his wife, their 3 sons, and their 3 wives, get in an ark that Noah built over that
10:17 hundred and 20 year period, and God destroys the world. And he starts to repopulate it. Then he repopulates it. And you think, now they're gonna get it right. And they don't because they say, we don't need God. Actually,
10:28 we'll be our own gods and we'll build our own tower to God and we'll we'll we'll decide everything. And God sees the heart of man and how wicked it is and how man can accomplish anything if they put their heads together
10:38 and they're united. So God scatters them. Languages. And that's where you get all the different nations. And so God, because he loves the world, had a
10:50 plan of redemption. And this is where we are when we get to Genesis chapter 12. So So I wanna read the first 3 verses because God has sought out a man. His name's Abram. Abram literally means exalted
11:02 father who has a wife named Sarah. And here's what he's gonna say to this man. I'm gonna read the first 3 verses then we'll unpack them. It says, now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and from your
11:14 relatives and from your father's house to the land which I will show you and I will make you a great nation and I will bless you and I will make your name great and so you shall be a blessing and I will bless those who
11:25 bless you and the 1 who curses you I will curse and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. Bible scholars call that the Abrahamic covenant. Why? Because God's making a covenant or a
11:37 promise which means father of a multitude. But let's look at these words and let's unpack these words together so we can see what God wants to do. And here's what I want you to see first of all. Here's my
11:49 first point. I'm a give you 5. This is point number 1. God initiates his relationship with Israel. God initiates his relationship with Israel. Okay. Notice this. Now the Lord
12:01 said to Abram Who's initiating that conversation? God is. God sought out Abram. God's seeking Abram. And here's what he tells him, go forth from your country and from your relatives
12:13 and from your father's house. God calls him and he says, here's my command, leave. Go. You're gonna go somewhere. And Hebrews eleven:eight says, Abraham went even though he didn't know where he was going. That was
12:25 his faith step, to do what God called him to do. Now, what's he gonna promise?
12:38 Land that I will show you. When anybody has her to guess what the word land means in Hebrew, means land. It's a geographic spot of dirt. That's what
12:50 land is. That's what it means. You need to know that because in the coming weeks, land still means land. Give.
13:06 And then he says this. So, and I will show you. And I will make you a great And
13:09 then he says this.
13:09 And I will make you a great And then, nation? Okay? To have a nation, you need an economy, you need governments, and you need a border. Now, that's an unpopular
13:21 opinion in some places, but that's what a nation is. You economy with that
13:33 nation with those borders. I mean, that's what you have to have. So he's promising him a land where there's gonna be a people, where there's going to be a government, an economy, and borders. That's that's what he's
13:44 telling him. He goes, that's what I'm going to do for you. Then he continues to say, and I will bless you. And I will
13:56 Bless means this. It means to favor. It means to be gracious unto you. It means to give you what you don't deserve. And make your
14:08 name great. This nation is going to be known. This nation is going to be great.
14:20 This nation is going to have influence. Now notice what he says next. I will bless those. That means I will favor those who
14:32 bless you. I will favor those who favor you. I will be gracious to those who are gracious to you. And what else does he say? And the 1 who curses you, I will
14:44 curse. Curse means to speak bad of. Curse means to do bad things to. Curse means to mistreat. The 1 who mistreats you speaks bad of you. I will mistreat and speak bad of
14:57 And in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed. This This is called the Abrahamic Covenant. So let's just unpack it. What's he promising? Abraham. First of all, here's the
15:09 question. Why would God pick Abraham? Like that becomes a question like, why Abraham? Why why why the Jews? Why not somebody else? Because God's the 1 who initiated it and everybody
15:21 God picks, he picks by grace. How many people here are born again? Why'd he pick you? He didn't pick you because you're great. He didn't pick you because you were
15:32 awesome. Picked you in spite of all that. He picked you by his grace. So he calls Abram, says I've got to get the message out somehow. I got to get it through a group of people somehow. I'm starting with you, and here's
15:44 what I'm gonna promise you. Land people, which are an ethnicity, a nation, influence, and blessing to all the nations. So here's what you have. You have a people, you have a place, and you have a purpose. All the nations
15:56 of the earth will be blessed. Now, if you read through your Bible and you know it really well, you see Leviticus 26. You can read all the blessings and curses there. You can read in Deuteronomy 28 all the blessings and
16:05 curses there. And what you notice in Israel's history is there a light to the nations. What God wants them to
16:17 do. And God blesses them. The purpose of that is so other nations would look on, watch how Israel is behaving and say,
16:29 kind of favor for behaving like that, we wanna do that. When Israel didn't do what God wanted them to do, and they disobeyed, and God punished them severely, like had the Assyrians and the Babylonians and everybody
16:41 come in and torture them. They would look at Israel and say, whoever their God is is the most powerful God in the universe. We don't wanna act like that. And God was saying, you're gonna have influence. You can do it my
16:52 way and receive blessing, they can be blessed, or you're not going to do it my way. You're going to get curses, and the world will say, I don't want to do that because we don't want to be cursed. Like, you know, so this
17:03 is what he promises them. He promises them a land,
17:21 The 1 who doesn't and is mistreating, cursing, speaking bad of, God says, Yeah, I'm against you too. Right? And all throughout the scriptures, this Abrahamic covenant
17:33 remains. Drawer? I mean, this is God saying, I'm initiating a relationship with Abram. And we're gonna see it in the
17:45 coming
18:02 God says he's going to form a great nation. He calls on Abram. Abram's wife, Sarah, was barren. I mean, if you're God and you're going to pick some to form a nation through, you might want to pick a fertile couple.
18:15 But why did God pick that? Because God wanted to know he's the 1 that's gonna open the womb. God's always the 1 that opens the womb. For you ladies that can't get pregnant, that are trying to answer, God is the 1 that
18:25 opens wombs. Pray to him. Ask him to open your womb. We've seen it over and over again. Happy to pray with you. But here's the truth. He he wants to know that I'm the 1 that's gonna provide all that. I'm the 1 that's
18:34 gonna do that. I am the Lord. I'm gonna be known. I'm gonna have my name great. And you read through the scriptures and God's always the glorious 1. And yet this nation's always been under attack. And I wanna take you
18:44 back in your Bible. Just hold your finger there. Turn back to Genesis chapter 2 real quick because I want you to see this. It's so important. It's so important as we get started. In Genesis chapter 1, we see the 6 days
18:54 of creation. We see God rests on the seventh. And in Genesis chapter 2, we begin to see day 6 unfold. God gives us more information as to what happened that day. And he shows us what happened prior to Eve's creation out
19:05 of Abraham out of Adam's rib. And it says this, before he was created in Genesis 2 15, Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to
19:17 keep it. The Lord God commanded the man saying, from any tree in the garden you may eat freely. I mean most people miss that. Do you see what God did? Do you see how gracious God is? Everything I've created is for you. I
19:28 just want you to know, I made it so that you can enjoy it. That's the kind of God that I am. But he does make 1 caveat. He says in verse 17, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. For in
19:39 the day that you eat of it, you will surely die. Is God being clear? I mean, did God say, eat whatever you want, but there's a tree in the middle called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that has fruit on it. Of
19:50 that fruit, do not eat, because on that day that you eat that fruit, you will die. Was he clear? How clear was he? Crystal clear. Crystal clear. Right? I feel like I'm doing a few good men movie. Yeah.
20:03 So so he was crystal clear. And then what happens? I want you to fast forward to Genesis chapter 3 verse 1, where you see the enemy take the form of a serpent. It says, now the serpent was
20:15 more crafty than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, indeed has God said, you shall not eat from any tree of the garden? Here's what he says.
20:36 Clear, there's a voice from the pit of hell that says, did God really say that? Sexual intimacy is only between a man and a woman. In marriage, we tend to say, did God really mean that?
20:48 Did it really Yeah. He did. I mean, everything God says, he means. Want you to keep that voice in mind when you think about what we
21:00 just said, that God's gonna give Israel a land, a people, a nation, influence, and blessing. This is gonna be a people, a place, and a purpose. What do you hear in our culture today about the nature of this? They say
21:12 stuff like this. They're not really Jews. Those can't be the real Jews. What are they attacking? They're attacking the ethnicity and the Then they say
21:24 stuff like this. This isn't their country. What are they attacking? The land. You need to understand something just just to get a little history here. Israel is not an occupier.
21:36 They're not a colonizer. God gave them the land about 2000 years before the name Palestine even existed. K? And you'll see it in the text today. You'll see it.
21:49 And then they say, because these people aren't real Jews and this really isn't their their land, then they say they're not a blessing. They're a what. They're a So when people talk like that, here's what they're saying.
22:00 Did God really say that he's gonna bless the Jews? Did God really say that that's their land? Did God really say that they're a blessing? Born again believer. What's the answer? Yes, he did.
22:12 That's God's word. That's not my word. I'm not making this up. I'm just telling you what God established with Israel. God initiates his relationship with Israel through his pursuing grace. And what you've seen in
22:24 history for the nation of Israel is they're always under attack. From the time their nation formed until now, they're always under attack. We see it in the Old Testament
22:46 Herod. And about the time where Jesus was born, when he got wind that a king was going to be born, what'd he do? He slaughtered all the Jewish boys under the age of In the Old Testament, when Haman's going to
22:58 kill all the Jews and God raises up Esther and the wisdom of Mordecai to save them from the Jews. And Haman gets hung on the own his own gallows that he built. And then you see it in
23:09 modern day history. I mean, you you you see, even before modern day history, you see it with Nero to the Jews in the first century. You see it with Hitler to the Jews in the twentieth century in a you see it with Hamas
23:19 to the Jews on October seventh of 20 23. It never ends. I mean, you have a state the size of New Jersey or smaller, and you have 7 nations all around it that want them all dead. Every
23:31 single day. Now just before you say this, like, who cares about the Jews? Who really cares about that? Can I answer that for you? God does. God does. And if you love the God
23:43 of the Bible, so do you. So you. And I get why it's a golf clap because it's not a popular
23:55 opinion. Because God's not popular in our culture, and his opinions don't matter in our culture. But I'm telling you what God's saying so you can think about it, and you can act the way God wants you to act. I got to
24:04 listen to Mike Huckabee, who's our ambassador to Israel, talk about what people in the West don't understand is when people wanna see Israelis die, they're just the appetizer.
24:17 America's the entree. So when you hear death to America and you watch Muslims coming in and you watch all this stuff and, yes, we're to love everybody and care for everybody and all that stuff is great, but you're seeing
24:27 what's going on in New York. You're watching what's going on in Texas. It's gonna happen here. You cannot be passive on this stuff. The Muslim God and Jesus Christ are different gods. They're different forms of religion.
24:38 They're different ways. They're 1 is going to heaven and one's going to hell. Period. End of story. So here's what you see. I
24:50 want you I want you to see this. When you hear people talk and they say, well, my opinion is the Jews aren't really who they say they are. That's not really their land. They're not really a blessing. That's the spirit,
25:00 but that's not the holy spirit. That is a wicked demonic evil spirit that is getting them to speak those evil demonic wicked words. If you are a born again
25:12 believer, you stand with Israel period. End of story. Period. Now, I should make 1 caveat because some people are listening. I wanna clap, but I don't know that I
25:24 can because I don't know that I agree with everything Israel's done. To which I would say, good. Even God doesn't agree with everything Israel's done. This whole book is about everything Israel's
25:35 done wrong and God still loves them. Right? So do you have do you have to agree with everything the state of Israel does? No. United States of America
25:47 does? No. You do not. You agree with everything your family does. I mean, how how how You don't have to agree with everything. What you have to agree with is that God has
25:59 made a covenant with Israel and their special Of all the nations of the world Now let me just say this, because I'm a patriot. I love America. I will stand for the pledge. I put my hand in my heart. I'm grateful for all
26:11 of you that have served and will serve. I'm a patriot. I've been told that my great grandfather who was governor of Delaware is 1 of 6 people that signed both the declaration and the constitution. I'm very proud of my
26:21 heritage. I'm also aware of how our nation was formed. I'm also aware of how many born again Christians, signed those documents. I'm also aware of how our constitution was formed with the Judeo Christian
26:32 ethic, and I'm for it. I do believe we live in the greatest nation in the world. There's no question. You can applaud that. That's good. But God has
26:44 a special relationship with Israel that he does not have with the United States of America. He has a covenant relationship with them that he sought out that makes it different than us.
26:56 Do you see the difference? Because the difference is in the word of God. What you don't read about in the book of Revelation is America. What you read about is his real That's his covenant people. That's his point of
27:05 view. That's who he's looking at. That's his heart. You'll see that in the coming weeks. But I want you to see that God initiates his relationship with Israel. 2 is this. God chooses Israel by grace. We've already talkedShow more
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