| Isaiah 66: | 8: Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. |
With a population of about six million, Israel has now become the focus of world attention. Geographically and economically, Israel sits at the control center of the world. Its capital, Jerusalem, has been revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims for centuries and the God of Israel, the Creator of the mighty universe, has been worshipped by billions of souls since time began.
Why does this tiny nation exert so great an influence on mankind? The answer is, because YAHWEH, the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is with Israel. Through Israel came His prophets. Through Israel came His law. Through Israel came the Holy Bible, and most importantly, through Israel came YESHUA (Jesus) the King of Israel, the only begotten Son of God. Yes, the Almighty God is with Israel and that is why this tiny nation is so important. To be sure, other nations and individuals count in God's sight, but only as they consciously or unconsciously relate to His Son Jesus, His Holy Word the Bible, His Law and His people Israel. Let us now consider some little known facts about this amazing - almost incredible - nation.
| Hebrews 6: | 13: For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself. |
Here is what Scripture says about Israel being the Chosen Nation.
| Deuteronomy 7: |
6: For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God
hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people
that are upon the face of the earth. 7:The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people. 8: But because the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your fathers ...
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| Deuteronomy 10: |
15: ... The Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He
chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is
this day.
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| Deuteronomy 14: |
2: For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath
chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations
that are upon the earth.
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| Isaiah 41: |
8: But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed
of Abraham my friend. 9: Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
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| 2 Chronicles 20: | 7: Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? |
Only two men in all Scripture are referred to as friends of God. They are Abraham and Moses (Exodus 33: 11). As the texts above prove, Israel was chosen, because of Yahweh’s love for His friend Abraham. That is why throughout the AVITW - USA Website, Israel is referred to as, the Chosen of God!
Quoted, but not agreed, by Richard Rubenstein, Professor of Religion, Florida University:
Quoted From: The Longest Hatred, A Study Guide to Thames Television Series On Anti-Semitism, Page 5:
In a leaflet entitled The Jews and Their Lies, published in 1543, Martin Luther wrote:
Over two thousand five hundred years ago the same hatred against the Jew was voiced, this time, because Israel clung to the law of her God. Listen to these words spoken by the enemies of the Jews to king Ahasuerus.
| Ezra 4: |
12: Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us
are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city ... 13: Be it known now unto the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute and custom; and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the king. |
In our generation, we can plainly see, Arab/Muslim hatred of Israel. The following five quotations, taken from pages 201-202 of Ramon Bennet’s masterful book When Day and Night Cease, will prove the point, if proof is needed, anti-Semitism is very much alive in our day.
Imam Hassan al-Bana Former leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood once said:
“Israel will exist and continue to exist until Islam eliminates it, just as it eliminated what preceded it referring to the defeat of the Crusaders”
Gamal Abdel Nasser was quoted in Time Magazine, December 1967 as saying:
King Farouk of Egypt said:
King Idris of Libya said:
Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Muslim Mufti 1946:
| Psalm 83: | 4: They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. |
Quotations from more recent times are as follows:
Mahamud Azahar, Senior Leader in the Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement, to a rally in Gaza city, October 1996:
From a handbill distributed by the Israeli Islamic Movement. Haaretz Newspaper Sept 1, 1996:
Yasser Arafat visiting Jerusalem, speaking before Palestinian forces in Gaza on September 24 1996. From the BBC Oct 21, 1996:
Yasser Arafat Quoted: From The Maariv Newspaper, October 4th, 1996:
Yasser Arafat At A Press Conference In Norway On 29/10/96:
Being surrounded by enemies bent on her annihilation, Israel is a nation under constant threat. Never a week passes, but she is in the news. The media of most nations does not favor Israel; for she is, more often than not, portrayed in the worst possible light. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the peoples of the world are being brainwashed against God's chosen people. Let us again remind the reader, Yahweh is still with his people Israel. He calls the nation, MY PEOPLE!
| Exodus 3: |
10: Come now therefore, and I will send thee (Moses) unto Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of
Egypt.
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| Exodus 10: |
3: And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith
the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself
before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
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| Psalm 81: |
8: Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou
wilt hearken unto me; 11: But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 13: Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! |
| Genesis 32: |
27: And he (the angel) said unto him (Jacob) What is thy name? And he
said, Jacob. 28: And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. |
In the course of time, the Almighty delivered His people from Egyptian slavery, gave them His law, and placed them in the Promised Land, with the intention of using Israel as a channel of truth and blessing to all nations. Remember, through Israel came God's Word the Bible, God's Law and God's Son Jesus. The apostle Paul wrote of Israel:
| Romans 3: |
1: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision? 2: Much every way: chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. |
But alas! Israel, in the main, failed to obey her God. Israel rejected the Almighty's law, slew His prophets, and broke the everlasting covenant. The story of Israel's rebellion goes back a long way; long before New Testament times.
| 2 Kings 17: |
9: And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not
right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all
their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10: And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 12: For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. 13: Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14: Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 15: And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 16: And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
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| Jeremiah 6: |
16: Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest
for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17: Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. 18: Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 19: Hear O earth: behold I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. |
Israel's greatest mistake, however, was not that of rejecting Yahweh's law, tragic as that error was; it was in rejecting Yahweh’s SON, Yeshua their Messiah (Jesus Christ).
| Matthew 27: | 22: Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. |
Before we Christians join Luther in his wild attack on the Jews, when he wrote “May (we) all be free of this insufferable devilish burden - the Jews,” the reader should remember, ancient Israel's rebellion has been duplicated over and over again by the Christian church.
Modern Christians are no better than those ancient Jews. They too have set aside the law of God and by their multiple sins, blaspheme and crucify afresh His Son. Yes, all nations are guilty of lawlessness; of sin. All have come short of the glory of God. So, let us not look down on the Jews, because we Christians are no better! Bear that fact in mind!
| Romans 3: |
10: As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not
one: 11: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. |
| Deuteronomy 4: |
25: When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall
have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a
graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight
of the Lord thy God, to provoke Him to anger. 26: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27: And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations ...
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| Deuteronomy 28: |
64: And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of
the earth even unto the other ...
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| Leviticus 26: |
33: And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a
sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
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| Ezekiel 20: |
23: I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I
would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the
countries; 24: Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
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| 1 Kings 14: | 15: For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. |
The Savior has predicted Israel’s FUTURE scattering, at the last 3 1/2 years (also see Matthew 24: 15-31).
| Luke 21: |
20: And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know
that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21: Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. 22: For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23: But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. 24: And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. |
| Ezekiel 11: |
16: Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far
off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the
countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries
where they shall come. 17: Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel
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| Isaiah 41: |
8: But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend. 9: Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and NOT CAST THEE AWAY. 10: Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. 11: Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12: Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 13: For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. 14: Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
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| Jeremiah 31: |
35: Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the
ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which
divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of Hosts is His
name: 36: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37: Thus saith the Lord; If heaven can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord. |
In other words, the People of Israel, for all that they have done, will continue to be Yahweh’s chosen people, as long as the measureless universe exists! God Almighty has given us that assurance. He even sealed it with an oath! It is therefore, absolutely impossible for Israel to be anything other than the Chosen of God!
‘But,’ some will say, “You have only quoted Old Testament texts. In the New Covenant and New Testament, you’ll find, God has replaced Israel with the Gentile Church. All the of the favors and promises, He previously made to literal Israel, are now transferred over to the Gentile Church, with perhaps a few Jews who accepted Jesus as the Messiah, being included.”
Is this the case? Has the Almighty cast off His people Israel? Has He transferred all of His favors to the Christian Church, and, in the process, inadvertently violated His own oath? The very idea is monstrous, if not blasphemous! For the fact is, the New Testament teaches no such thing! Indeed, the New Testament teaches the very opposite. It quite plainly states:
Scripture even goes further and adds this sobering warning:
Any Gentile believer who boastfully assumes, God has cast away His chosen people Israel in favor of them, is in danger himself of being cut off from God! That is a stunning warning. Heed it! Again, we say, Heed it!
The Apostle Paul confirms these facts when he cautions Gentile believers in Jesus, not to imagine, God has abandoned or cast away His people Israel. To be sure, the Most High has cut away some unbelieving, dead branches from the Olive of Israel and in their place grafted in believing Gentiles. But, let no one smugly imagine, God has gotten rid of the Jewish nation and replaced it with the Christian Church! That is certainly not the case. We repeat, those who make these boastful, groundless claims are themselves at risk of being cut off from the Olive of Israel. This terrifying, New Testament warning should cause all Christians to treat Israel with absolute care; for she is still the Chosen of God! Here are a few New Testament texts to prove these astonishing facts.
| Romans 11: |
1: I say then, Hath God cast away His people? God forbid. For I
also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2: GOD HATH NOT CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE...
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Romans 11: |
17: And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive
tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and
fatness of the olive tree; 18: Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19: Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20: Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21: For if God spared not the natural branches, TAKE HEED LEST HE SPARE THEE NOT. |
Yes, the people of Israel are STILL the Chosen of God; and will continue to be so as long as the immeasurable universe exists. That is what the Almighty God of Israel says in His Word. We had better believe it!
| Deuteronomy 30: |
1: And it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee, the
blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call
them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven
thee. 2: And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3: That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and GATHER thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. 4: If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5: And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
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| Isaiah 11: |
11: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his
hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,
which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and
from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea. 12: And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
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| Isaiah 43: |
3: For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour:
I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4: Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5: Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and GATHER thee from the west; 6: I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
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| Ezekiel 11: | 17: ... Thus saith the Lord God; I will even GATHER you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. |
More prophecies concerning the re-gathering of Israel are found at Jeremiah 29:14, 31:10, 32:34-41, Nehemiah 1:9, Psalm 107:3, Ezekiel 34:12-31, 37:21. Is a re-gathering of Israel taking place? To be sure it is. Consider the statistics of Jews returning to Israel since the nation was declared a State on 14th May 1948.
| 1948 | ... 657,000 |
| 1950 | ... 1,203,000 |
| 1958 | ... 1,810,000 |
| 1962 | ... 2,069,000 |
| 2010 | ... 7,624,600 |
| 2011 | ... 7,836,000 |
Currently tens of thousands of Jews, especially from the former Soviet Union, are returning to the land of their fathers.
| Isaiah 43: |
5: Fear not for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east,
and GATHER them from the west. 6: I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
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| Ezekiel 39: |
27: When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them
out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of
many nations; 28: Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which cause them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. 29: Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. |
Yes, Bible prophecies concerning Israel's return to the Promised Land are being fulfilled before our very eyes. The descendants of Jacob are returning, in their millions to the land, God promised Abraham so long ago. the Christian church, in the main, stands bewildered at events it doesn’t understand, simply because, it believes, Israel was abandoned by God and replaced by the Christian Church. Oh what a tragic misconception that is!
| Ezekiel 22: |
15: And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the
countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. 16: And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. 17: And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. 18: Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. 19: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20: As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so I will gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. 21: Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. 22: As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.
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| Ezekiel 36: |
21: But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had
profaned among the heathen, whither they went. 22: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. 23: And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. 24: For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 25: Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from your idols, will I cleanse you. 26: A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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| Zechariah 13: |
8: And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two
parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left
therein. 9: And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God. |
That refining work has already begun! Israel is being purified, refined by fire, persecution and war!
| Genesis 15: |
18: In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto
thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great
river, the river EUPHRATES.
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| Genesis 24: |
6: And Abraham said unto him (Eliezer his servant) Beware thou that thou
bring not my son thither again. 7: The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that swore unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son (Isaac) from thence.
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| Genesis 28: |
1: And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto
him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2: Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3: And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 4: And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. 10: And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. 11: And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12: And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13: And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. |
Later the prophet Moses recalled God's words to Israel:
| Deuteronomy 11: |
24: Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be
yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
EUPHRATES, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
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| Joshua 1: |
1: Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass,
that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,
saying, 2: Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou , and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. 3: Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river EUPHRATES, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. |
Here we are given the boundaries of an extremely large tract of land; stretching from the Mediterranean sea to the great river EUPHRATES. A land, which Yahweh promised to Abraham and his seed. I have absolutely no doubt, Yeshua, the King of Israel, will restore the land to its rightful owners, the descendants of Jacob, when, at his return, he will liberate Jerusalem.
The First Mistake
The Second Mistake
| Romans 11: |
16: For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy; and if the
root be holy, so are the branches. 17: And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou (Gentile) being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree. 18: Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19: Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20: Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear. 21: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He spare not thee. 25: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, UNTIL the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. |
The Third Mistake
| Romans 2: |
28: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. |
For further information see Who/What is a Jew.
| Galations 3: | 29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. |
The Fourth Mistake
| Hebrews 8: |
8: ... Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new
covenant WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL and with the house of Judah: 9: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10: For this is the covenant that I will make WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: |
The Fifth Mistake
| Revelation 7: | 4: And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of ALL the tribes of the children of Israel. |
| Zechariah 2: |
8: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto
the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the
apple of his eye.
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| Deuteronomy 32: | 10: He found him (Israel) in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. |
How true were the words of the mercenary prophet Balaam, who, in spite of himself, declared this eternal fact as he lifted up his eyes and beheld the camp of Israel:
| Numbers 24: | 9: Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee. |
Mankind does not recognize the promises Yahweh made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, so, they are unimpressed with Israel's claim to the Promised Land. The world dismisses the divine promises as religious lunacy. Mankind, and this includes modern Israel, the Muslim nations and the Christian Church, is about to learn two STUNNING, STINGING TRUTHS:
| Daniel 5: | 21: And he (Nebuchadnezzar) was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. |
Peace in the Middle East will only come when YESHUA THE PRINCE OF PEACE, the KING OF ISRAEL arrives. Till then, expect mounting hatred, turmoil, violence and war.
We will end this section with a divine warning to every nation, religious group or individual who harbours a secret hatred for Israel; the chosen of God! Pay careful attention to this divine warning! Because you may be on extremely dangerous ground!
| Jeremiah 12: |
14: Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch
the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold,
I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah
from among them. 15: And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. 16: And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. 17: But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. |
| Revelation 11: |
1: And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood,
saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that
worship therein. 2: But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
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| Revelation 11: |
7: And when they (the Two Witnesses) shall have finished their
testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall
make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8: And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
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| Zechariah 14: |
1: Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in
the midst of thee. 2: For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. |
During this harrowing period of time, the Antichrist will rule the entire earth, using, as his capital, the captured city of Jerusalem. Thanks be to Yahweh the Almighty God of Israel, the Antichrist's rule will end at the return of Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ). The Scriptures tell us, Yeshua will return with the heavenly host and his resurrected saints, to the city of Jerusalem! The millennial (1000 year) reign will then begin and all the nations of the world will be required to keep the law of Israel's God; the same law He gave for mankind through His servant Moses so long ago.
Believe it or not, at that time, all mankind will be required to keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth)! The Bible is packed with prophecies about the millennial reign, when the LORD God of Israel will govern all of mankind through His Son Yeshua, and His people Israel! It is future, which no words can describe; simply because, no human mind can properly imagine such glory!
| Zechariah 14: |
3: Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in the day of battle. 4: And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5: And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 6: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. 8: And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9: And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
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| Zechariah 14: |
16: And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the
nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to
worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the FEAST OF
TABERNACLES. 17: And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18: And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the FEAST OF TABERNACLES. 19: This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
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| 1 Corinthians 2: | 9: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. |
More texts concerning this last-day confrontation can be found at Zechariah chapter 12, Hosea 10: 10, Micah chapter 4 and Joel chapter 3. See our lesson on the Signs of Christ’s Return.
No one should forget, through Israel came The Law of God, the Prophets, Apostles of God, the Word of God and Yeshua the Messiah, the only begotten Son of God. Sad to say, Israel miserably failed to obey the Almighty. Instead Israel rebelled, broke the everlasting covenant, stoned the prophets and crucified her Messiah. As a result, Yahweh scattered His chosen people to the four quarters of the earth.
1. Failing, incorrectly supposing, the Most High had abandoned His people Israel and transferred his work to the Christian Church.
2. Failing to recognize the fact, Israel was not abandoned, but merely blinded for a period of time. Israel’s eyes are being opened.
3. Failing to recognize, when a convert, from whatever nation, accepts Jesus Christ as Savior, that person is grafted into the Olive of Israel and becomes an Israelite, a spiritual Jew!
4. Failing to recognize, the new covenant, which, like the old, is made between God and His people Israel; not with the Gentile church.
5. Failing to see, the 144,000 sealed servants of God, mentioned in the book of Revelation, are in fact, ALL Israelites!
