Saturday, February 18, 2017

Israel has the right to the land of Israel %07 - 8 - 1

Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” God owns the heaven and the earth including the land of Israel. Our Creator God has the divine authority to lease what He wants to whomever He chooses. God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his seed though unconditional covenants.

In Genesis 15 God instructed Abram to construct an offering and then caused Abram to enter a deep sleep. God foretold of the time that the Israelites would be strangers in a land not theirs, however, when they would come out of a period of enslavement they would be given an unconditional title to. Genesis 15:18, “In the same day the LORD made a covenant (H1285) with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed (H2233) have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.” This was a unilateral land covenant granted to Abram and his descendants signifying that it’s fulfillment was dependent for on God alone.

“Genesis 17:1-6” The covenant was to be accomplished in due time. The promised Seed was Christ, and Christians in him. And all who are of faith are blessed with faithful Abram, being partakers of the same covenant blessings. In token of this covenant his name was changed from Abram, “a high father,” to Abraham, “the father of a multitude.” All that the Christian world enjoys, it is indebted for to Abraham and his Seed.”
[Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary]

God renewed His covenant with Abram and changed his name to Abraham and circumcision was then instituted as an outward sign of this covenant. Genesis 17:7-8, “7 And I will establish my covenant (H1285) between me and thee and thy seed (H2233) after thee in their generations for an everlasting (H5769) covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

H1285, covenant, in the sense of cutting, a compact, made by passing between pieces of flesh, confederacy, league.
H2233, seed, figuratively fruit, plant, sowing time, posterity, child.
H5769, everlasting, generally time out of mind, past or future, eternity; continuance, eternal, perpetual, beginning of the world and without end.

God put the Gentiles on notice; Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” Books have been written about the price to pay for opposing God and Israel.

"In Eye to Eye – Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel you will gain a greater understanding of the biblical significance of what is occurring today in the nation of Israel. You will read about the consequences that the leaders and their nations have experienced after pressuring Israel to divide her land."
[Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel by William Koenig]

Mr. Koenig became a White House correspondent in 2001 and has a weekly Online Newsletter.


As America has Done to Israel by John P. McTernan has a similar theme.

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