Tuesday, January 15, 2019

ISRAEL! WHOSE LAND DID YOU SAY IT WAS?

Can Christians herald the new nation of Israel since 1948 as the resurrected and re-gathered “last days Israel” prophesied in the Bible, the Israel to return to the land, blessed by God olam v’olam (“forever and forever”)? Modern Israel is opposed to God’s authentic King and Messiah, Yeshua, and the son of the Landlord, the divine King and Messiah had quite a lot to say about who inherits His kingdom estate! God has not covenanted the blessings and privileges of Avraham, Ytzack, and Yacov to the physical descendants who resist YHWH, refuse His New Covenant, discard His Messiah, and snub their nose at Yeshua, while continuing to live secular lives in opposition to God in the Holy Land.  
Can modern Israel, living in noncompliance to God’s decree concerning His Son, dictate the terms of their proprietorship or tenancy in the land according to political and/or national laws of military conquest –and while disregarding the Lordship of Yeshua? When one stops to regard the seriousness of Yeshua it is not a hard question, really. The Bible is simple and direct concerning the only begotten son of God, the Way, Truth, and Life, and the Landlord’s son. 
Zionists, both secular and religious claim the land belongs to the Jews, that the land is Israel’s. Period. Fundamental Christians and Christian Zionists join in promoting Israel’s entitlement to the land due to God’s unconditional covenant He made with Avraham, Ytzack, Yacov, andYacov’s dozen. The “Zionist” logic goes, that the Jews are descendants of the twelve tribes, they survived the Holocaust, they are back in the land, therefore, they are the heirs of the land. The unconditional aspect is lifted so high that they miss the conditional part of the individual participant who may inherit and enjoy the land IF he/she is truly a son or daughter of Avrahamby faith. From Adam andHavvah to the New Jerusalem, no one gets the land or can even abide in it for every long without the spirit of YHWHshua
Evangelical prophecy connoisseurs interpret Israel’s presence in the land today as the prophetic fulfillment of Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones (Ezekiel 37) and other OT prophesies that speak of Israel’s return to the land in the acharit hayomim, or, the last days. Those prophecies are true, and in the last days Israel has and will continue to return home as dry bones –but to receive the land they must receive His breath! Zechariah 13:8 says that two-thirds of last days Israel who return home will perish, and only one-third come through the fire or judgment –perhaps the Great Tribulation. We cannot lie to Israel, comforting them to believe they are the chosen people and the land is theirs, especially if they are without Yeshua. 
The Arabs also allege a legal inheritance to the land, advocating that Allah made His covenant with Ishmael, that Ishmael’s birth order was preeminent to Isaac’s, Esau’s birthright was stolen by Jacob, and that the land was first inhabited by their Canaanite cousins before Israel’s entry. The Israeli Palestinians who are Arabs claim that the land belongs to them due to tenure, and that the 84 percent majority Jewish Israelis of modern Israel are merely immigrants to Palestine since the Holocaust. Middle-Eastern Muslims argue the land belongs to Islam vis-à-vis Allah. But, Allah is a devil, and his prophet Muhammedwas a false prophet and is now in the hell compartment of Sheol, awaiting the lake of fire (ghenna) in the last of the latter days. Muslims need Yeshua, too! 
Our Lord did not promise Nahoror his descendants, Lotor his two sons and their seed, Ishmaelor his twelve tribes, Esauor the Edomites, or the boys of Avrahamand Keturah to inherit The Promised Land of Israel. The Bible is clear. Neither does the Bible promise any blessing to the non-remnant of Avraham, Ytzack, and Yacov-except the blessings that rain upon all man. Shaul/Paul made this a certain warning in the NT Scriptures. It is the sons of promise that inherit the blessings and not the sons of the bondwoman, Hagar, and he was not talking about Jews and Arabs in Galatians 4:22-31. Shaul/Paul was talking about the spiritual birth in contrast to those who born only in the flesh. Jerusalem and the Jews of Shaul/Paul’s day were likened to Hagarin verse 25 (“present Jerusalem”), not born miraculously like unto Ytzack, but born by a natural fleshly birth, in the flesh, walking in the flesh, fleshly –like Ishmael. 
In Romans 9 Shaul/Paul is clear that it is the remnant who inherit the blessings, and “all Israel shall be saved” (Romans 11). This is the last days remnant Israel. Today, God is gathering His remnant. This is what CMI is all about, the Father’s work of gathering all that the Father has given to the Son. Those the Father has NOT given to the Son do not get the land, be they Jews, Arabs, Palestinians, Irish, Dutch, Asians, African-American, and etc. etc. The Landlord remains Lord of Israel! 

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