“I normally like Pat, but he’s on the wrong side of the Bible on this one.”
We need to base middle eastern policy on US security interests, not scripture. To that end, support for Israel is the only realistic policy. If that happens to coincide with scriptural adherence, then so be it.
We ignore God at our peril.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in
pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah 12:3
The term “in that day” as used in the Old Testament commonly
indicates what is refered to prophetically as the “end times”