The God of Israel Is Sovereign

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Before a single Israelite soldier crossed the Jordan, a Canaanite harlot understood what today’s cultural elites refuse to concede: the God of Israel is sovereign, and no nation stands against Him for long.

Godless secularism holds that God has no place whatsoever in life or the public arena. With calculated duplicity, its disciples insist that Biblical faith is acceptable - but only as a private matter confined to the home or church sanctuary - even as they impose their own ideology far and wide and vie to control America’s spiritual, intellectual, educational, economic, and vocational levers of cultural power.

Day and night, they jockey for dominance, micromanaging education, government, law, and culture as though faith in Jehovah were little more than superstition and delusion.

Yet even Rahab the harlot - a Canaanite and the great-great-grandmother of King David -believed. As Joshua and the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob neared the end of their 40-year wilderness detour, Rahab in Joshua 2:9-11 told the two Israelite spies:

“I know the LORD has given you this land. … For we have heard how the LORD made a dry path for you through the Red Sea when you left Egypt. … For the LORD your God is the supreme God of the heavens above and the earth below.”

Godless secularism, by contrast, is never neutral; it is a subterfuge and negotiating ploy designed to gain an advantage. Its adherents replace Biblical truth with human opinion, empowering secularists, cultural elites, popular sentiment, and secular government to become the final arbiters of what is true, right, and good.

Take the last 60 years. The State’s celebrated robed priesthood, aided by secularized public officials, prohibited state-sponsored prayer in public schools in 1962 [Engel v. Vitale]; barred state-sponsored devotional Bible reading in 1963 [Abington School District v. Schempp]; discovered a constitutional “right” to abortion in 1973- a ruling overturned in 2022 [Roe v. Wade; Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization]; ordered the removal of posted Ten Commandments from public-school classrooms in 1980 [Stone v. Graham]; constitutionalized same-sex marriage in 2015 [Obergefell v. Hodges]; and interpreted Title VII to encompass sexual orientation and transgender status in 2020 [Bostock v. Clayton County].

America’s public schools have consequently saturated millennials and Generation Z with the doctrinal dogmatism of godless secularism as representing absolute truths that cannot be questioned or debated. Its poisonous after-effects extend beyond Biblical illiteracy to a virulent strain of antisemitism now spreading throughout the nation’s secularized under-40 population.

Alongside this stands their sensationalist tale that the founders established America as a religiously pluralistic, culturally homogeneous, and secular nation - a historically ignorant claim readily disproved by the record. Early America contained considerable ethnic and denominational diversity, but its public culture remained overwhelmingly Protestant and Biblically literate, and, in hindsight, proved historically exceptional.

Godless secularism outside the church, however, is not the only force distorting America’s understanding of Israel. Our December 2025 opinion piece struck a nerve among adherents of replacement theology - the belief that because most of Israel rejected Jesus as Messiah, the Christian Church replaced Israel as God’s covenant people. Under this view, God’s promises to Israel were transferred to the Church, fulfilled solely in a spiritual sense through Christ, or rendered inapplicable to the Jewish people as a distinct nation.

Yet the Church neither inherited nor replaced Israel in Yahweh’s land covenant. The promise was made to Abraham in Genesis 12:7 - “To your descendants I will give this land” - reaffirmed to Isaac, renewed to Jacob, and repeated to Moses at Nebo in Deuteronomy 34:4: “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’”

One covenant, reaffirmed to 4 men across approximately 470 years - never altered, never withdrawn, and never forgotten.

Thankfully, millions of evangelicals still believe that the land belongs to the Jewish people and that Christ will one day reign from Jerusalem. The Apostle Paul affirmed the same various times:

† “God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.” [Romans 11:2]

† “Do not be arrogant toward the branches.” [Romans 11:18]

† “A partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.” [Romans 11:25]

† “As regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” [Romans 11:28-29]

Put plainly, although many Jewish people have rejected Christ, God has neither rejected the Jewish people nor canceled His promises to Israel. Paul warns Gentile Christians against becoming arrogant or looking down upon the Jews. Christianity came through Israel: the patriarchs, covenants, Scriptures, prophets, apostles, and Jesus Himself were Jewish. Every identifiable biblical author was Jewish, aside from Luke, the beloved physician and probable lone Gentile author. Gentile believers entered into blessings God first promised through Israel; they did not replace Israel.

Israel’s spiritual blindness is partial and temporary. Some Jews already believe in Jesus and are known today as Messianic Jews, while Paul anticipates a future time when many more will recognize Him as Messiah. Jewish people are not automatically saved by ancestry; Jews and Gentiles alike must come to God through faith in Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, Israel remains beloved because of God’s promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Human unbelief does not nullify God’s faithfulness.

Adolph Saphir [1831-1891], the Hungarian-born Jewish Christian theologian and biblical expositor, understood this clearly. “There is no safety in distance from God,” he observed. Jew and Gentile alike must draw near to God through Jesus Christ, whose cross is the foundation from which every blessing of redemption flows.

Rahab possessed neither Israelite birthright nor natural claim upon the promises. She had only what she had heard, and she believed before the walls fell.

Replacement theology says the church has taken Israel’s place. Rahab tells the church something far truer: faith depends not upon pedigree, but upon believing the Word of the living God.

Gideons and Rahabs have begun to stand.

The question for America’s secularized under-40 generation is whether they will stand with the covenant-keeping God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, or go down with the walls.

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