“Behold I am going to
make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the people around; and when the
siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah. It will come about in that day that I will
make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples” (Zech. 12:2-3a).
Hey Gang: Perhaps it
is time for a quick review! Zechariah makes it pretty clear in the final
chapter of the Age of the Gentiles: There will be great controversy across the
earth as to who really owns the land of Israel.
The sons of Ishmael would have the world believe that the Hebrew people
have never had the rights to the land of “milk and honey” and have done all in
their power to erase any memory of those days of the patriarchs and kings
of Israel. (They must not read printed history books).
They claim there has never been a temple on the temple mount. An interesting article recently appeared in a
newsletter from a national ministry pertaining to the Barbary Coast pirates of
Thomas Jefferson’s time who were harassing all shipping that came near to their
countries- kind of the like the Somalia pirates of today.
To find out why they were doing this a contingent of world
leaders went to the Barbary Coast and met with one of the guru’s and asks the
question, “Why are you doing this when we have not harmed you in any way”. The official remarked, “Because we are told in
our holy book, as sons of Islam, we are to harass and kill all infidels who do
not believe as we do.”
In the
Bible, God spoke to Abraham, father of the Jews and directs him to take up his
bed and leave the country of his birth and go to the land of Canaan. God says, "I will make you a great nation, And I
will bless you, And make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless you, And the
one who curses you I will curse, And in you all the families of the earth will
be blessed" (Genesis 12:2-3).
Later in Genesis
God promises Abraham, “To your descendants
I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the
river Euphrates" (Gen. 15:18). Notice “I
have given this land”. You must
decide in your own mind and heart if God changes His mind.
Two chapters
later, God tells Abraham, “I will
establish my covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout
their generations for in everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your
descendants after you" (Gen. 17:7).
The Bible
also says Israel must be mindful of God's covenant with Abraham, "O seed of Israel His servant, Sons of
Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the Lord
our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
Remember His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand
generations, The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac. He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Saying,
'To you I will give the land of Canaan, As the portion of your
inheritance." (I Chron. 16:13-18).
Soooo, my
friends, what say ye? Several years
back, William Koenig wrote a book which he titled Eye to Eye. He
subtitled the book ‘Facing he Consequences of Dividing Israel’. In the book he chronicles 57 catastrophic
events that occurred in our land that occurred as talks were proceeding on the
dividing of the land. The most notable-
Katrina devastated our country during that time when the world mandate that
Gaza would be ethnically cleansed of all Jews and given to the
Palestinians.
I remind you
of this event at this time, because we are half way through the Jubilee Year. Our President indicated last fall that he
would support the France resolution that Judah and Samaria and East Jerusalem
must be evacuated by all Jews and turned over to the Palestinians in eighteen
months. In March 2016 VP Biden visited Israel to push for this to happen for
the legacy of Obama. Will God remain
silent if the world dictates the covenant land, half of the Eternal City is
given to Israel’s enemies? I think not
yet!
Psalm 122:6
tells us to “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem”.
Yeshua Messiah is their only Peace.
Blessings,
Gramps
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