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Chapter 17
Alabama Blesses Israel
In 1943, five years before Israel became a nation, the state of Alabama
passed a resolution unanimously calling for the creation of the state of
Israel. Back then, Alabama led the Nation in supporting Israel, and we
are doing it again now in 2002. On April 4th 2002 the Alabama
Governor signed Resolution 85 (enrolled as Act 2002-258), which
passed UNANIMOUSLY in both the Alabama state House and Senate.
This resolution was modeled after the 1943 resolution and calls for the
unequivocal support of the state of Israel. It also includes Alabama
governor Don Siegelman’s “Good Friday and Passover Proclamation
Day of Remembrance” on March 29th 2002 in response to the
“Passover Massacre” that killed 28 people in Israel this Passover 2002.
My friend Robert Somerville and I attended an “Israel Now” rally in
Birmingham on Tuesday April 23 2002, which celebrated this
proclamation that the state of Alabama is making and sending to
Washington. 29 About 2,000 Jews and Christians attended this event
which was sponsored by the Birmingham Jewish Federation, and was
held at Samford University which is a Christian campus in Birmingham
Alabama. When we as Christians begin to understand our role as
“protector and friend” of Israel (Isa. 40:1-2), then Messiah will be
revealed to the Jew through our actions and our love. God is love, and
the Jew provides an “acid test” to see if we are living the real gospel or
if we are just playing church games.
It may be easy to write off this event as just another solidarity
gathering, but we must understand the times and seasons in which we
live. I believe that this natural coming together of Jew and Christian is
preparation for the spiritual “grafting in” where the Israeli nation
receives their Messiah: “For if the Jew’s being cast away is the
reconciling of the world (saving of the Gentile nations), what will their
acceptance (of Messiah) be but life from the dead?” (Rom 11:15).
Paul called it a “mystery” (Eph. 3:3) and says that God has created
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