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TO WHOM DOES PALESTINE BELONG?
God spoke to Abraham when He was west of the Dead Sea: "Lift up now
your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward
and eastward and westward; for all the land that you see will I give to
you, and to your seed for ever. - Arise, walk through the land according to
the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to
you." Genesis 13:14-17. "On the same day the Lord made a covenant with
Abram, saying, Unto your seed will I give this land from the river of Egypt
to the great river, the river Euphrates." Genesis 15:18. "And I will bless
them that bless you, and curse him that curses you; and in you shall all
families of the earth be blessed!" Genesis 12:3.
The same promise God gave to Isaac and Jacob: "The land that I gave to
Abraham and Isaac, to you will I give it, and to your seed after you will I
give the land" (Genesis 35:12, 26:3-4; etc.).
One bright day God led Moses up on the top of mount Pisgah, east of
the river Jordan, opposite Jericho, and shewed him the whole land from
Lebanon unto the desert Negeb and unto the Mediterranean Sea and said,
"This is the land that I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob,
saying, Unto your seed will I give it" (Deuteronomy 34:1-4).
To Joshua, Moses' attendant, God spoke, "Moses My servant is dead; and
now, rise up, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land
which I give unto them, the children of Israel. Every place whereon the
sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river
Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the
going down of the sun, shall be your border" (Joshua 1:2-4). Specifying
the borders of the land of Israel, God said, "I will set your bounds from
the Red Sea (Pvo Mym = [werbeH]) even unto the sea of the Philistines (the
Mediterranean Sea), and from the wilderness unto the river (Euphrates)"
(Exodus 23:31; and in Joshua 13:3: "From the Shihor, which flows before
Egypt").
The northern border begins at mount Hor (near Batrum, abut 43 km
north of Beirut) on the Mediterranean Coast and runs eastward (Numbers
34:7-9; Joshua 13:5). This land God commanded His people Israel to
conquer. The king of Jerusalem Adoni-zedek gathered the kings of the
Amorites against Israel, but God cast down great hailstones from heaven
upon them and destroyed them before Israel. (Read Joshua 10.) Afterwards
the sons of Judah took Jerusalem (Judges 1:8).
When David became king (about 1000 B.C.), he first of all reconquered
Jerusalem with the stronghold of Zion from the Jebusites and made Jerusalem
the capital of his kingdom (II Samuel 5:6-9). There king Solomon built the
glorious temple of God on mount Moriah, where Abraham had sacrificed his
son Isaac to God. (But God spared Isaac and showed Abraham a ram that was
to be slaughtered in his stead; - cf, the Lamb of God in Isaiah 53.)
When the northern tribes of Israel separated from the kingdom of Judah,
Jerusalem remained the royal city of Judah, as God had promised David:
"that David My servant may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the
city that I have chosen for Myself to put My Name there" (II Kings 11:36;
14:21). "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
the tribes of Israel, will I put My Name for ever" (I Kings 9:3; II Kings
21:7; etc.).
What God has given to the children of Israel, He has never taken back,
nor give to any other people on earth. Whoever wants to take Jerusalem
from Israel, fights against God Himself and will be judged by Him.
Every nation and every ruler who lifted up his heel against Israel,
has been overthrown. Every one who did good to Israel, has been abundantly
blessed by the Almighty with peace and prosperity. This law is dramatically
illustrated by all examples in world history, with no exception, for God
has promised. "I will bless that bless you, and curse him that curses
you!" (Genesis 12:3; 27:29; Exodus 23:22; Numbers 24:9)
IT IS NOT AT ALL THE TASK OF MODERN DIPLOMATS AND GOVERNMENTS TO
DECIDE, WHAT SHALL BELONG TO ISRAEL AND WHAT SHALL BELONG TO THE
PALESTINIANS, FOR GOD HIMSELF, THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE OF THE WHOLE WORLD, HAS
LONG AGO DECIDED THIS AND DECLARED HIS ETERNAL DECISION IN HIS HOLY WORD AS
TO WHOM THE WHOLE LAND OF PALESTINE BELONGS FOR EVER, AND NO ONE SHALL DARE
TO MOVE THESE LANDMARKS (DEUTERONOMY 27:17; 19:14).
The gathering of the Jews from all countries of the world into the
Land of their Fathers in this century is a miracle of God before our eyes.
It is the fulfillment of the Word of God through the prophets of Israel.
Do you believe the Word of God, or not?
Read for yourself, what the Bible says about the gathering of Israel:
"Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, As
the Lord lives, who brought up the children out of the land of Egypt; but,
as the Lord lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of
the north, and from all the lands whither He had driven them. For I will
bring them again into their land, which I gave unto their fathers."
(Jeremiah 16:14-15; 23:7-8.)
"I will turn your captivity, and I will gather you from all the
nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, says the Lord;
and I will bring you again into the place whence I have caused you to be
carried away captive." (Jeremiah 29|14.)
"Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will turn the captivity
of My people Israel and Judah, says the Lord; and I will cause them to
return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess
it." (Jeremiah 30:3.)
"I will go to give Israel rest. The Lord has appeared from afar to
me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I
have drawn you with loving-kindness. I will build you again, and you shall
be built, O virgin of Israel!"
"Hear the word of the Lord, you nations, and declare it to the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him,
as a Shepherd His flock. For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him
from the hand of one stronger than he, and they shall come and shout for
joy upon the height of Zion, and they will rejoice in the goodness of the
Lord." (Jeremiah 31:2-12.)
All these prophecies of God spoke more than 2500 years ago. Today
they are being fulfilled before our eyes! Israel became an independent
state in 1948, exactly seven times (=7 x 365 1/4 years) after the kingdom
of Judah lost in independence in 610 B.C., at the death of king Josiah in
the valley of Megiddo. Look, how precisely God fulfills His Word in spite
of insurmountable hindrances!
"Fear not, for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east,
and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the
south, Keep not back: bring My sons from afar, and Mr daughters from the
end of the earth, every one that is called by My Name, and whom I have
created for My glory: I have formed him, yea I have made him." (Isaiah
43:5-7.)
"Who are these that come flying as a cloud, and as doves to their
dovecotes?" (Isaiah 60:8.)
"In My holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says
the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve Me, the whole of it, in
the land; and there will I accept them, and there will I require your
heave-offerings and the first-fruits of your offerings, with all your holy
things.
As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the
peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein you have been
scattered; and I will be hallowed in you in sight of the nations. And you
shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of
Israel, into the country which I lifted up My hand to give to your
fathers." (Ezekiel 20:40-42.)
Now hear the Word of God about the mountains of Israel - that very
area (West Bank), that many nations allot to a Palestinian state. God
doesn't care what the nations decide, nor what the Pope says, for "behold,
the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on
the scales; He weight the islands as fine dust. - All the nations are as
nothing before Him; they are esteem by Him less than a cipher, and
emptiness." (Isaiah 40:15-17; Psalm 2:4-12.)
"Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord
God: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient heights
have become our possession. - Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
Israel, and say to the mountains, You mountains of Israel shall shoot forth
your branches, and yield your fruit to My people Israel: for they are at
hand to come. For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you
shall the tilled and sown. And I will multiply men upon you, and all the
house of Israel, the whole of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and
the waste places shall be built. And I will multiply upon you man and
beast, and they shall increase and bring forth fruit; and I will make it
better that at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the Lord. And
I will cause men to walk upon you, even My people Israel; and they shall
possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more
henceforth bereave them of children." (Ezekiel 36:1-2, 6-12.)
"Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel
from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them form
every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one
nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one King to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into
two kingdoms any more at all. - And they shall dwell in the land that I
have given unto Jacob My servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they
shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's
children for ever: and David My Servant shall be their Prince for ever."
(Exodus 37:21-28.)
"I will turn again the captivity of My people Israel, and they shall
build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and drink the wine thereof; and they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit
of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be
plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says the Lord your
God." (Amos 9:14-15.)
"Cry saying, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem
and for Zion with a great jealousy, and I am wroth exceedingly with the
nations that are at ease; for I was only a little angry, but they have
overstepped all limits. Therefore thus says the Lord: I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies: My house shall be built in it, says the Lord of
Hosts, and the line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. Cry further,
saying, Thus says the Lord of Hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with
prosperity, and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem." (Zechariah 1:14-17.)
"Jerusalem shall be inhabited as a city without walls for the
multitude of men and cattle therein; and I, says the Lord, I will be unto
her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Ho, ho! flee from the land of the north, says the Lord; for I have
scattered you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord. Ho!
escape, Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. For thus says the
Lord of Hosts: After GLORY, has He sent Me unto the nations that made you
a spoil; FOR HE THAT TOUCHES YOU TOUCHES THE APPLE OF HIS EYE!" (Zechariah
2.)
ISRAEL, do not fear the nations: SEEK ONLY THE PLEASURE OF GOD!
"Sing aloud and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for behold, I come, and I
will dwell in the midst of you, says the Lord. - And the Lord shall inherit
Judah as His portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. Let
all flesh be silent before the Lord: for he is risen up out of His holy
habitation!" (Zechariah 2.)
"Thus says the Lord of Hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great
jealousy, yea, I am burning with jealousy for her. - Thus says the Lord of
Hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the land of the sun-rising and
from the land of the sun-setting; and I will bring them, and they shall
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be
their God, in truth and in righteousness." (Zechariah 8:1-8.)
Now read what God will do to all the enemies of Israel:
"Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the
foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him: Behold, I
will make Jerusalem a cup of bewilderment unto all the peoples round about,
and also against Judah shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem. And it
shall come to pass in that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome
stone unto all the peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall
certainly be wounded, and all the nations of the earth shall be assembled
together against it.
In that day, says the Lord, I will smite every horse
with astonishment, and his rider with madness; but I will open Mine eyes
upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse with blindness. - In
that day will I make the leaders of Judah like a hearth of fire among wood,
and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples
round about, on the right hand and on the left. - In that day will the Lord
defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that stumbles among them in
that day shall be as David; and the house of David as God, as the Angel of
the Lord before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will
seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will
pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
Spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on ME WHOM THEY
PIERCED, and they shall mourn for HIM, as one mourns for an only son, and
shall be in bitterness for HIM, as one that is in bitterness for a
firstborn son." (Zechariah 12.)
Also upon Russia and its allies the Lord will reveal His glory, when
they will suddenly attack Israel: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince
of Rosh (=Russia), Meshech, and Tubal; and I will turn you back, and drag
you along, and I will cause you to come up from the uttermost north, and
will bring you upon the mountains of Israel. And I will smite your bow out
of your left hand, and will cause your arrows for fall out of your right
hand. You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, and all your
bands, and the peoples that are with you: I have given you will be meat
for the birds of prey of every wing, and to the beasts of the field. You
shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord God. -
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there for burial in Israel, the valley of passers-by to the east of the
sea; and it will block the way of the passers-by; and there shall they bury
Gog and all the multitude; and they shall call it, Valley of Hamon-Gog.
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may
cleanse the land; and all the people of the land shall bury them; and it
shall be to them for renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the
Lord God. - And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations
shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid
upon them. And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God
from that day and forward." (Ezekiel 38 and 39.)
EVERYONE WHO ACCEPTS THE HOLY BIBLE AS THE WORD OF GOD, NOW KNOWS,
ALL OF PALESTINE BELONGS TO ISRAEL FOR EVER.
Ulf Oldenburg
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