I understand why every nation
around Israel wants to boot all the Jews out and take
possession of this entire
small sliver of land. Satan is behind it and feeding their hate and greed. Not
only that, this is a long-standing feud between the generations of Isaac and
Ishmael that God foretold in the Bible. I get that.
However, it makes no sense
when religious leaders and entire denominations in this country are siding
against Israel. These so-called religious leaders have been schooled in the
Bible, at least I would hope so, and yet they cannot or do not want to see, the
obvious.
There is little need for me
to say much in this article other than to point out the obvious by the
Scriptures.
GOD SPEAKING TO ABRAHAM:
“The LORD appeared to Abram and
said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to
the LORD, who had appeared to him.” (Genesis 12:7 NIV)
“All the land that you see I
will give to you and your offspring forever.” (Genesis 13:5 NIV)
GOD SPEAKING TO ISAAC:
“Stay in this land for a
while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your
descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to
your father Abraham. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the
sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations
on earth will be blessed,” (Genesis 26:3-4 NIV)
GOD SPEAKING TO JACOB:
“There above it stood the
LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God
of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.”
(Genesis 28:13 NIV)
JACOB RELEATING GOD’S PROMISE
TO JOSEPH:
“and said to me, ‘I am going
to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples,
and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants
after you.’” (Genesis 48:4 NIV)
MOSES SPEAKING TO GOD:
“Remember your servants
Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make
your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your
descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance
forever.” (Exodus 32:13 NIV)
GOD DEFINES THE BOUNDARIES OF
THE LAND TO ABRAHAM:
“On that day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the
Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—the land of the Kenites,
Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites,
Girgashites and Jebusites.” (Genesis 15:18-21 NIV)
GOD DEFINES THE BOUNDARIES OF
THE LAND TO JOSHUA:
“Your territory will extend
from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the
Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.” (Joshua 1:4 NIV)
NEHEMIAH INFORMING SANBALLAT,
HORONITE AND TOBIAH THEY HAVE NO CLAIM TO THE LAND:
“I answered them by saying,
“The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding,
but as for you, you have no share in
Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it (emphasis mine).”
(Nehemiah 2:20 NIV)
Does God stutter? Isn’t it
very, very clear to whom the land belongs, even the boundaries? This isn’t
rocket science. The land of Israel, including the boundaries provided by God
belongs to the Jewish people because it is God’s land and He gave it to
Abraham, his sons Isaac and Jacob and their
descendants, not through Abraham’s sons Ishmael and Esau and their descendants.
By the way, I haven’t even
mentioned these few facts:
· Saul, David, Solomon and all of Israel’s kings served
over what territory? It’s an easy question.
· When Assyria dragged the people from the northern
kingdom and Nebuchadnezzar dragged the people from the southern kingdom where
were the northern and southern kingdoms located?
· When Cyrus gave permission for the Jews to go back to
their land, where did they go?
· When the Romans ruled over the Jewish people, where
were they living? Could it have been Israel?
I think this is interesting
also. The Iranian leaders of today want to drive the Jews into the sea
(Mediterranean I’m sure), but their very own ancestor, Cyrus, allowed the Jews
to go home to Israel and rebuild. So Cyrus, an Iranian (Persian) king, knew
that Israel belonged to the Jews.
But many of our so-called
Christian leaders today in this
country with bachelor, masters and doctorate degrees can’t figure this out.
Unfortunately, they are leading their respective congregations into this blind
alley of Satan’s lies, and because of this a whole generation of ignorant
people can’t see the Truth even though it’s plastered throughout God’s Word,
the Bible.
God gave Abraham another
promise that we all had better take seriously. It goes like this.
“I will bless those who bless
you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be
blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3 NIV)
The United States of America
has been blessed over the past many years primarily because of our kindness to
Israel and her people. Notice the first phrase in this verse; “I will bless
those who bless you.”
Do we really want to be
associated with the next part of that same verse, “and whoever curses you I
will curse?” We’re already in trouble with God because of our rejection of God
and our sins we have endorsed as a nation. Do we really want to add more fuel
to the fire?
Grant Phillips
Email: grantphillips@windstream.net
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