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This interview was held with Rev Willem J.J. Glashouwer, president of Christians for Israel International, for the Dutch EO radio and tv magazine, \u201cVisie\u201d, 2013 \u2013 nr. 40.<\/em><\/p>\n

He was an ardent atheist, but an intense experience of God turned his life upside down. Today Rev Willem J. J. Glashouwer (68) flies literally all over the world on behalf of Christians for Israel to point out the \u201cmystery of Israel\u201d to churches and fellow pastors.<\/span>\u00a0Like stringing beads on a thread Rev Willem Glashouwer \u2013 since 1999 full time President of Christians for Israel International \u2013 sums up the places where he recently delivered teachings on Israel. From Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth to Birmingham, London, Gillingham and Ashford. \u201cMy wife and I returned yesterday from a tour in England and Scotland,\u201d he tells in his living room in Amersfoort. \u201cTomorrow morning I\u2019m going to fly to Far East Russia, beyond Siberia, for a new series of teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n

This frequent flying sounds pretty back-breaking.<\/b>
\n\u201cIt is back-breaking. But I get so much blessings and energy in return when I see that people gain new insights into God\u2019s plan with Israel. The Lord gives me the strength to do this; He called me to do this work and I do it joyfully. There are few places I haven\u2019t been yet. Fortunately my wife supports me for 120 percent!\u201d<\/p>\n

You are 68 years old, and in November you will be 69. Still not having a mind for slowing down a bit? Smiling: \u201cWhen I became 65 I said: \u201cDear Lord, it has been enough.\u201d But in my entire life I have never been busier. He had other plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attacked
\n<\/b>As a minister\u2019s son Rev Willem J. J. Glashouwer (\u201cthe black sheep of the family\u201d) fervently undermined the faith of Christians. \u201cAlthough I grew up in the vicarage, since my infancy faith just slipped off of me like raindrops on a raincoat. It just didn\u2019t mean anything to me. I also challenged people with their faith, fellow students at the Gymnasium for example. Faith? A form of wishful thinking; if you can\u2019t cope with your own problems why not create a god and hang upon him your problems as hats on a hallstand? God as a projection of the human mind. The theory of evolution for me was a perfect explanation for everything. And for the rest: hurray for the good times.\u201d<\/p>\n

That must have hurt your parents
\n<\/b>\u201cCertainly. My mother could get very angry about what I did and said. But my father used to say: \u2018Leave him alone. Let him be.\u2019 Maybe he anticipated that everything was going to be alright with me in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bliss
\n<\/b>Around the age of twenty he was converted radically. \u201cI woke up in the middle of the night and there is no other way I can describe it than this: \u2018I found myself praising the Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit\u2019; an indescribable feeling of ecstasy, happiness and bliss. The following night I had the same experience. And again the third night, but then it was so intense that I said: \u2018No, please Lord!, please stop! my heart is about to burst \u2013now I do know that You really exist!\u201d<\/p>\n

A long process of \u2018re-thinking\u2019, of transforming his mind started. Willem was seized by the message of the Bible. He decided to study theology at one of the Universities in Holland and \u2013 like his father \u2013 ultimately became a minister in the national Church of the Netherlands, the Dutch Reformed Church.<\/p>\n

U-turn
\n<\/b>This sudden change from atheist to convicted Christian was not the only U-turn in Willem\u2019s path of life. \u201cWhen I was a minister of a big congregation in Katwijk, businessman Karel van Oordt \u2013 never met him before or even heard of him \u2013 asked me whether I would be willing to succeed him as chairman of \u2018Christians for Israel\u2019. I had never heard of that organization either!\u201c<\/p>\n

Why did you say yes after all?
\n<\/b>\u201cWhat he said, among other things, was this. Who is willing to stand in the gap for Israel and who will fight the sin of the replacement theory in Christianity? My personal involvement with Israel began when this elderly brother said to me, \u201cYou know, there are many Christians who love \u2018dead\u2019 Jews.\u201d I said: \u201cI beg your pardon?\u201d Then he said, \u201cYes, the Jews of the past \u2013 Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, Jeremiah, David, Paul, Peter, John, and all the others. The Jews of the Bible. Jews that are long gone. And there are Christians who love Jews who are not yet born \u2013 the Jewish generation that will live in the prophetic future when Israel will be the centre of the earth, and Jerusalem will be the city from which peace will flow out and fill the earth.\u201d Then he continued with passion in his voice: \u201cBut who will stand with the Jewish people today? Who will love them in the name of Jesus? Who will stand at their side in their lonely battles with the whole world against them? Who will speak to the church to tell her to repent of her terrible past? Who will try to start reading the Scriptures anew to find out what the real relationship is between Israel and the church? What about the church\u2019s Jewish roots? What about our prophetic future together? The church and Israel may have very different views about who Jesus really is, but this difference doesn\u2019t mean much to the powers of darkness. Those powers hate us both, the two peoples of God who believe in the same God, and they will persecute Bible-believing Christians just as much as they will the Jews and Israel. History makes this quite clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

That really hit me right between the eyes and got me thinking. I started asking questions, \u201cWhat has God to do with Israel? Even today? Even while the vast majority of the Jewish people does not believe that Jesus is their Messiah and the Son of God?\u201d These questions drove me to re-read the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testament \u2013 God\u2019s totally trustworthy Word that He revealed to the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Finally I said: but why me? \u2018We prayed for it,\u2019 so he told me, \u2018and we believe that it should be you\u2019. Ultimately I agreed, reluctantly.\u201d Well, being the chairman now of this very small Dutch organization \u2018Christians for Israel\u2019 I had to deliver sometimes some lectures about Israel. But what was I going to say about Israel? I had no idea!\u2019 Willem realized that Israel was a blind spot for him. \u201cSo I had to go back to the Bible again to find out what Israel is all about. The search to understand the \u2018mystery Israel\u2019 never ends. Once you are seized by the mystery of Israel you want to learn and understand more and more. I found out that we, Gentiles, got to know God through and by Israel: for salvation is from the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n

His intense study of the Bible resulted in the book Why Israel?<\/i> (Publisher Barnabas) that has been translated into almost thirty languages, including English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic.<\/p>\n

A different sound
\n<\/b>That he flies from pillar to post these days is especially caused by the unexpected success of that edition. \u201cI follow the book, ha-ha! Because of these translations I get invitations from all over the world for lectures, to come and teach about Israel from a Biblical perspective. I very much like to do that, experiencing that more and more pastors and churches open up for this new understanding about Israel. As Christians for Israel we have a message for the churches in the first place. Sometimes I say: I try to convert the churches \u2013 which is a hell of a job!\u201d<\/p>\n

Convert? What is wrong?
\n<\/b>Replacement theory \u2013 the opinion that the Biblical promises for Israel were transferred to the New Testament church and that Israel\u2019s role is over, that the Church replaced Israel as the chosen people of God \u2013 is still deeply inside the blood of the church. Although it is no longer said and taught so openly as in previous centuries. But God has made everlasting covenants with His people Israel, and He still holds uncompromisingly to these promises. All the promises He made with Israel, He will fulfill for Israel. And all the promises He made with the Church He will fulfill for the Church. But we should not try to make a kind of unholy mix of the two \u2013 as so often happened in the past, in Church-history, by many theologians. \u201cPensively: \u201cThe church has not only thrown Israel overboard, but has also narrowed salvation down to the idea of immortal souls floating bodiless in heaven\u2026 The Biblical concept of the Kingdom vanished and together with that the understanding of Israel and of the meaning of creation itself \u2013 this earth, human beings with body, soul and spirit (citizens of two worlds) on their way to the resurrection of the body and the renewal of the Universe itself. I hope one-day a new way of Christian thinking will arise, with Israel in its proper place and understanding of the Kingdom to come. A new Biblical theology.<\/p>\n

Flaking off
\n<\/b>That the support for Israel has flaked off in the past decades also in Christian circles does hurt him. \u201cIt damages the church and also our nation. God says: \u2018Whoever blesses Israel, will be blessed. But whoever curses Israel, will be cursed\u2019 This blessing of Israel and standing with the Jewish people is crumbling away in Christian countries, especially in Europe\u2026 And now Europe is rapidly changing. We created a spiritual vacuum by despising and killing the Jews. We cut the root and stole the fruit. First the church cut the root spiritually and theologically, and then we started to cut the root physically by murdering the Jews \u2013 ultimately by the millions. And now old and new gods enter into this self-created vacuum. Almost as a judgment of God. As if He is saying: \u2018You didn\u2019t like My people?\u2019 I will send you other strangers with another god; let\u2019s see how much you like that\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Secularization and the arrival of the Islam are judgments from God?
\n<\/b>\u201cYes, God is withdrawing Himself. Churches and cathedrals have become museums. Europe has entered into the post-Christian era. Fortunately there are still some pockets of light in this darkness of Europe. Some churches that return to the Word of God, believe the truth of the Bible. Churches that repent for the behavior against the Jews and show it by deeds that are true fruits of true repentance. These Bible-believing churches are growing, also in Europe. I travel a lot worldwide and the \u2018theological crust\u2019 that many Christians and churches have developed over the centuries in the lands of Christianity concerning Israel, I do not find in many countries in the rest of the world. As soon as you explain from the Bible what Israel is all about, they understand and start praying for Israel, and start blessing Israel in a very practical way.\u201d<\/p>\n

On October 6, 2013 it was Israel Sunday again. Good tradition?
\n<\/b>In itself a very good tradition. But then he continues passionately: \u201cBut I do see that the Israel-Sunday in many churches is changing into a kind of Pro-Palestine Sunday, and is encouraging the churches more and more to support the Islamic Arabs than God\u2019s people Israel. Just one Sunday a year and then implemented like this\u2026 Showing the \u2018unquenchable solidarity\u2019 with Israel? No way. If we understand the Bible correctly, every Sunday should be an Israel-Sunday! Of course, being \u2018Christians for Israel\u2019 does not mean being \u2018Christians against Arabs or against Palestinians\u2019. But first things first!\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Syria
\n<\/b>War in Syria, tensions between Israel and Iran: is Rev Glashouwer lying awake at night because of this? \u201cNo, Israel is the greatest sign of hope that the world has ever seen. We are a special generation, because two unique signs of the times that were mentioned by Lord Jesus are being fulfilled right in front of our eyes. One: restoration of Israel on a national level after nearly two thousand years of exile \u2013 which will ultimately lead to a spiritual restoration. God\u2019s first born son Israel, will one-day recognize God\u2019s only begotten Son. Two: the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom to all the nations, for the first time in history \u2013 by powerful satellites, radio\/TV-programs, internet and other electronic highways. Hundreds of hours every day. In practically all the languages of the world. \u00a0Jesus\u2019 Coming in Glory and His Kingdom of peace and righteousness must be very near!\u201d<\/p>\n

Are you looking forward to it?
\n<\/b>\u201cI think that would be fantastic! I once had these ecstatic experiences. Seeing God and creation itself being cleansed from everything that doesn\u2019t belong in it must give the ultimate experience of ecstasy, happiness and feelings of bliss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will you then say again \u2018\u2018Ho, Lord, please stop!\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

Laughing: \u201cProbably not!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Israel Sunday
\n<\/b>The first Sunday in October \u2013 this year (2013) it was on October 6 \u2013 the Protestant church in the Netherlands expresses her \u2018unquenchable solidarity with Israel\u2019, by giving careful thought about the position of Israel. Many other religious communities follow this custom as well.<\/p>\n

Rev Willem J.J. Glashouwer (1944) studied theology at the Universities in Utrecht and Groningen in the Netherlands. Besides being a pioneer for and working for twenty years with the \u2018Evangelische Omroep\u2019- Evangelical Broadcasting Company, between 1970 and 1992 he held several positions at the \u2018Evangelical College\u2019 in Amersfoort, the foundation \u2018House on the Mountain\u2019 in Jerusalem and as advisor of the foundation \u2018Friends of Amcha\u2019 (aid to survivors of the Holocaust). As a minister he served Dutch Reformed congregations in Tull en \u2018t Waal and Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands. For twelve years he was chairman of Christians for Israel; in 1999 he became fulltime chairman of \u2018Christians for Israel International\u2019. He is married with Marianne; they have four children and six grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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