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In my Scripture studies, I found that the Judean hills and the mountains of Israel have been remapped.
They have been relabeled as the West Bank and according to the media the area is "occupied" by the Jews.
The political world is wrong about that.
There's no Israeli occupation in the so-called Palestinian border areas and as you might guess, this is not a typical Bible commentary.
Here's one thing to think about regarding those hills in Judea, Yeshua of Nazareth (aka Jesus) was not a settler nor an occupier.
Jesus never taught in the West Bank.
King David never tended sheep there either.
Jesus the Jew did do not live and teach the heart of Torah in a so-called "settlement" or walk across "occupied territory."
If that's enough you can stop reading, but there's more.
Palestine is a Roman map label.
It was never a nation, just a slanderous road sign born out of Roman Emperor Hadrian's map label back in the 2nd century.
The Roman idol worshipper Hadrian hated. He hated Jews so he used a Roman map to relabel the land of Judah, aka Judea as "Syria Palaestina" following the Bar Kokhba revolt by the Jews of Judea against the tyranny of Roman occupation in 135 AD that started in 63BC when Pompey marched into Jerusalem.
Hadrian hated and relabeled Jerusalem. He called it Aelia Capitolina and then banned all Jews from Judea.
Hadrian hated like Hitler and Haman.
They were all big time anti-Semites that hated the Jewish people.
Hadrian hated them so much he wanted to not just wipe them off the map, but wipe their memory off the face of the planet.
His dark goal was to remove the family name Judah from the land that Almighty God granted to them.
By the way, the name Judea comes from Judah, that's the family name where the word Jew comes from.
Jews are from Judea and the Bible is the deed.
The West Bank is just a counterfeit map label. It was declared by a new Arab country called Jordan and adopted by global governments filled with bureaucratic politicians, not Bible believers.
Believe it or not, the lines in the sand we call Jordan never existed before World War II.
A year after the WWII battle smoke began to clear the air, Jordan's state lines were drawn up by political pens in 1946.
It happened just before the British walked away and turned their backs on their mandate to protect the Jewish land.
The facts on the ground are that in 1948, the Arabs attacked as the Brits sailed away. The British left the Jews to fend for themselves and it will happen again.
After the Mandate map was invaded and occupied by Jordan, the West Bank name appeared.
Today, Jordan's borders encompass the ancient areas east of the Jordan River, not west.
Today's Jordan was known in the Bible for thousands and thousands of years as Moab, Gilead and Edom.
Did you know that Jordan's largest city and capital is the very ancient city of Ammon?
With Jordan's new map label, why has the name of Ammon never changed?
The Bible gives the 3,800 year old backstory on Ammon.
Long ago, there was guy named Ammon. He was the grandson of Lot, Abraham's nephew.
After Ammon died, for thousands of years, the descendants of Ammon were the people that lived where Ammon lived and so they called themselves Ammonites.
Ammonites lived in Ammon, and the city is named after Ammon.
Yup, the people that have lived there over the millennia trace back to Abraham's nephew who had a grandson. They are the Ammonites and their hangout is still called Ammon.
So, what's up, why was Judea relabeled?
The Romans are the answer, but there's even more to the story.
Grab a compass. The only truth about the West Bank is its a direction on a compass that depends where you stand.
Literally and figuratively...
Stand on the east bank of the Jordan River and look across, there you will see the west bank of the river right there along the water's edge.
That's it, nothing more.
The rest of the land beyond the river bank stretching west a very short distance toward the Mediterranean Sea now carries a new political map label owed in large part, not just to a Roman, but to an Egyptian.
Yasser Arafat died a few years ago, but he's must be remembered as a modern Egyptian map magician.
Arafat rebranded himself with the help of the media, a mufti and a Roman map.
He called himself a Palestinian.
By doing so, the Egyptian outcast from Egypt effectively relabeled the land the Romans called Palestine because they hated the Jews.
If you're still with me, you need to know the rebranding had a purpose, to mock the Bible and wipe Judea the home land of the Jewish people off the map with a name spun off from ancient arch enemies along the coast, aka the Philistines.
Arafat's media name, like the checkered black and white scarf he wore was fake. His persona was a media contrivance. With that scarf and a new name, he re-branded himself as Yassir Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize hero.
The truth is he was not Palestinian and was never a hero, despite the Nobel Prize joke on the planet.
Arafat was born in Cairo.
Cairo is in Egypt.
The Egyptian Arafat turned his back on Cairo and his homeland.
Well actually, he was kicked out of Egypt and his birth record there provides his real name.
It is Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini.
That's a mouthful and take note Yassir Arafat is no where to be found.
Bottomline, Arafat was an Egyptian renegade.
Yassir Arafat is just a media stage name for the castaway that became a left wing darling for myopic misled journalists that forget the facts, and choose to ignore the Bible, birth records, geography and of course... the facts of history.
Speaking of history, while there's not much truth to Arafat's fame and fable.
Arafat’s anti-Semite mentor was the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini. The mufti was trained by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. This is the same mufti that teamed up with Hitler in 1941 to share his Palestinian plan to destroy the Jewish people.
Al-Husseini begged Hitler to send his army to the Middle East to wipe them out, but Hitler got side-tracked and ended up dying is a hole, hiding underground.
The so-called grand mufti led the Arab terrorism against Jews between WWI and WWII.
He stirred up evil from 1920 until Arafat took over in 1967 when Al-Husseini died.
There's more to the story, all we have to do is turn the history page back to September 1970.
Thanks to Arafat's bizarre Nobel Peace Prize, 1970 is a forgotten chapter in time linked to a terror group called "Black September" that is also linked to grand mufti Amin Al Husseini's granddaughter.
She married Ali Hassan Salameh, the founder of PLO's Black September.
The facts on the ground are that in 1970, Arafat led a militant group called Fatah as the Egyptian outcast was headlining an attempt to violently overthrow the new Jordanian government east of the so-called West Bank.
The Black September terror gang carried out a horror scene that included guerrilla warfare, hijackings and assassination attempts on Jordan's Hashemite king.
Arafat's guerrilla terrorist group is also linked to the 1972 murder of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic Team in Munich, Germany.
Why do people forget the facts on the ground along the Jordan River bank?
Had the Bible been read and believed by the media and map makers after the world's two great wars, there is no way we'd use that contrived "West Bank" media label or continue to use a Roman map label called Palestine.
That West Bank name is nothing but a state of chaos and confusion.
Not only that, Arafat should have never received that Nobel clown prize in 1994.
For crying out loud, "fake it till you make it" is not truth, it's an aphorism that suggests that by imitating truth, a person can achieve the goals they seek. The merchants of politics and media don't tell the truth about much, if anything.
That includes the Bible and its Middle East map.
Instead, the political left and most of the media ignore facts on the ground in the Bible as they disguise the truth with deception and hidden agendas.
Their words promote emotional fiction and anti-Semitism as they rely on ignorance and memory loss.
Bottomline, the Bible's holy homeland and its people have been relabeled as occupiers by the media hungry politicians of propaganda.
Still have doubts? Let's take Gaza as another example.
By the way, the Philistines were from Philistia. Today it has a new name, it's called the Gaza Strip.
The media says the people there are Palestinians persecuted and imprisoned by Israeli occupiers of Palestinian land.
The behind the stage scene is the truth, but to see it we have to look behind the curtain.
Under extreme pressure from George W. Bush, the 43rd President the President of the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered a Jewish withdrawal plan from Gaza in 2005.
Israel then ordered the IDF to forcefully remove some 8,000 peaceful Jewish people out of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli security forces even demolished their homes on the way out.
Since that forced eviction under extreme U.S pressure, Gaza has been Palestinian land.
Evere since, Gaza is ruled by elected terrorists that call themselves Hamas.
Yet, under their self rule of their Palestinian land, Gaza has become ground zero for evil terrorism.
Their terror includes rocket launches by ultra-violent Hamas jihadi terrorists operating under misguided deception, headlines and map labels.
Gaza was given away, there's no occupation.
Oddly, six months after the evacuation order by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the revered, decorated war hero of Unit 101 and elder statesman of Israel suffered a massive stroke in January 2006, and he fell into a coma.
He never recovered and died in 2014.
A year after the withdrawal, Hamas which is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood stunned the world as they won the Gazan election and the majority of seats in the last Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) election.
That election may have rigged, I don't know, but in the end Hamas was elected by so-called Palestinians.
Get this, that's the last open election that's been held to date or will likely ever be again.
After all the Palestinian votes were counted, Hamas' hatred was sanctioned and they violently took control of none other than Palestinian Authority facilities including PA weapons and military equipment.
Hamas operatives then proceeded to kill, maim or imprison Fatah loyalists as they ousted the PA from the Gaza Strip relegating Fatah and the PLO over to Ramallah in the so-called West Bank.
Today, when they are not fighting each other, they are killing Jews.
Yup you read it right, there has not been a election vote cast in Gaza since that election, and that fact will come back to haunt Gaza because the Hamas Charter declaration of Islamic Jihad is simmering against the Jewish people.
There's more... Hamas is backed by Iran's money and dark vows to wipe Israel off the map.
It will all boil over one day in utter madness.
Hamas' charter is called the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
It's a covenant with a death wish.
You can read its militant Jihad goal to destroy Israel and create an Islamic Caliphate state on an old Roman map with the label Palestine.
It's a nightmare goal embedded in Gazan schools where children are taught to hate Jews with body mind and soul.
There's even an internal battle between Hamas and their Gazan rivals known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad or PIJ for short. PIJ is the second largest terror group embedded in Gaza and considered to be more extreme than the DNA of their Muslim Brotherhood branch brothers.
Then there's Fatah over in the so-called West Bank.
They call their PA political home Ramallah Nablus.
But the truth of Ramallah is its historic location is near ancient Mizpah.
Mizpah is first mentioned in Genesis 31:49 and many other times in the book of Judges as well as 1 Samuel and other books in the Bible.
Believe it or not, Mizpah is where the Israelites fought off a raid by the Philistines.
That raid is mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah as one of the towns resettled by the Jewish exiles returning from Babylonian captivity and dispora were violently attacked by the Philistines.
Not only that, Mizpah is where Judas Maccabeus and his army encamped before the Battle of Emmaus during the Maccabean Revolt. You find that fact in the history book known as the book of 1 Maccabees.
Have you heard of the Road to Emmaus?
The road story is in Luke 24.
Mizpah was in the hills, while Emmaus was on the plain.
Jeremiah lived in Mizpah and he notes this interesting fact:
Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, [that is] with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. Jeremiah 41:3 NASB95
Jeremiah's account of Ishmael wasn't the original Ishmael, but the story line is critical.
It's important to dig into today's Ishmael story.
Today, the Temple Mount remains in Ishmael's, err I mean Islam's control. It's under the rule of the Muslim Waqf from Amman, Jordan and that's a big part of the conflict of good vs. evil truth in Gaza and the West Bank.
Ishmael radicals scream Allah Akbar.
I don't know about you, but on 9/11, I heard that for the first time. It was report on the news, shouted by those that say they follow Ishmael.
Soon, I learned it means Allah is greater.
It's true Abraham asked God to extend His covenant to the descendants of Ishmael, but that wasn't the plan God had in mind.
Almighty God had another one, yet He promised to make a great nation from Ishmael, yet at the same time He gave His covenant land promises to Isaac and his descendants.
Ishmael never got a map, no land deed. There you have the Middle East conflict in a nutshell.
Today, we still have the so-called Middle East conflict and it is spreading globally. It's the conflict of extreme radical terrorists that when you think about it ask the original deceptive question... did God really say?
The so-called West Bank is a part of the deception. It's a tiny area that's smaller than Delaware, and the real name is Judea and Samaria.
The West Bank name is just like the Roman label, just a new label on a manmade map. The real map is Judea and Samaria despite the Oslo II Accord labels that divided the area west of the Jordan River into three areas with one twilight zone.
That zone is Zone A. It has been violently unmanaged by the PA since 1994.
There's another zone that's managed by Israel, its Zone B. Finally, there's a third, its Zone C with security control shared between Israel and the PA.
Imagine this in your neighborhood...
"This road leads to "Area A"
Under the Palestinian Authority
The Entrance for Israeli Citizens is Forbidden
Dangerous to Your Lives
And is Against The Israeli Law"
Red warning signs sit along all roads that lead to Area A say that. The reason it's against Israeli law because the Jewish people stand for life.
The West Bank truth is it's deadly in the twilight zone of Area A.
Why?
The PA policy protect no Jews.
Did you know Jesus of Nazareth aka Yeshua the Jew told the 12 Jewish disciples:
"You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as the remotest part of the earth."
Jesus never mentioned the West Bank for a reason.
It's just a Palestinian label for chaos and crime against Jews. It's the anti-thesis of witnessing about Jesus the Jew, but His love your enemy assignment remains.
It's hard, but pray for the enemies of Israel, it's not too late to repent.
Judea and Samaria has been around before the day the book of Kings was divided.
In the not too distant past, the book was divided into 1 Kings and 2 Kings. That's important because the book of Kings provides the outline of events to come in the global goal to divide Judea and Samaria.
The book of Kings was penned during the Babylonian Exile c. 550 BC. It shares lessons learned that believe it or not point toward the end of our chaotic human story and God's Kingdom redemption plan for the planet.
Judea and Samaria have been around for thousands of years and so it will remain in the Kingdom of God ruled by Messiah.
You need to know there's a city in Judea and Samaria that's the place the final redemption will revealed.
The holy city is Jerusalem.
The truth is, Jesus the Jew is coming back there to end the conflict, chaos and confusion.
To sum it up, since recorded history began after the promise to Abraham, Judea and Samaria has been known by its rightful name. That is until the Romans invaded and relabeled their maps following the Jewish revolt against the Roman occult-led cruelty against the people of the book of life.
The hidden truth today about that Roman relabel is that Palestine was purposed as a parody to mock the Jewish people and wipe the name Judah out of history and its place on the planet.
According to Roman history, the Jews of Judaea were wiped off the map, or so they thought.
That Roman name penned on maps came to global focus during the British Mandate period of 1923-1948. It had evolved out of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement after the Ottoman Turks from Turkey were defeated and tossed out after 400 years of Turkish occupation of the land of promise.
Get this, the British Mandate is not an original name either, actually it's the Palestine Mandate issued July 24, 1922 in London by the Council of the League of Nations for the Jewish people. That was before Hitler's Holocaust and the WWII battles of Allies vs. Axis began.
Get this, the British Mandate was not established not by the British, but given as a mandate by the League of Nations Council under Article 22 of The Covenant of the League of Nations, the forerunner to the United Nations.
The mandate looked to Biblical truth, but oddly kept Rome's map label.
The mandate called for:
"The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; andWhereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country..."
In the book of truth called the Bible, the name Judaea points everyone back to Jerusalem, yet Judaea always includes not only Jerusalem, but Shechem, Bethlehem and Hebron where the Cave of the Patriarchs is located.
Jerusalem is the vortex. It's where David purchased the Temple Mount from a Jebusite and Hebron is the spot that Abraham paid for the land deed to the burial Cave of Machpelah some 3,800 years ago.
What about Samaria? It points to the land area immediately north of Judaea up to the Galilee.
So there you have it, the truth.
Judea and Samaria was relabeled as Palestine, then rebranded as the West Bank on post 1948 maps after the one day old nation of Israel in self defense, fought battles after surrounding Arab nations invaded the British Mandate area. Arabs attacked, not Palestinians.
The tiny reborn baby nation was put into self-defense and they still are.
At that time, Transjordan which was drawn on a map in 1946 and relabeled as Jordan in 1949 illegally annexed and occupied Judea and Samaria in 1950.
Jordan called their incursion of occupation the West Bank, but things changed in the Six-Day War in 1967. Jordan's war claim on Jerusalem in Judea met with Biblical reality and ended with a shofar blast from rabbi Goren at the Temple Mount.
Just open the Bible, you won't find the West Bank. You'll find that king David was born in Judea.
You'll also see that Jesus (Yeshua) was born in Judea.
Bethlehem of Judea is ground zero for the house of bread, that's the meaning of its Hebrew name. It's located just 5 miles south of Jerusalem in the same mountains and hills where David cared for his father's sheep as a young shepherd.
It's called "Bethlehem Judah" in the Biblical book of Judges six times, twice in the book of Ruth, and once in each of the books of second Samuel, Micah as well as Matthew for a good God reason:
It's not Bethlehem, West Bank... it's Bethlehem Judah!
The sheep pastures there were very special in David and Yeshua's day and they will remain so to the end of Gentile chaos and all of the miss-mapped confusion.
The hillside pastures outside Bethlehem are special because they were home ground for the tithe of sheep destined for offerings at the Temple altar and take note, the north Sheep Gate remains in Jerusalem today.
It always will.
The Sheep Gate is the entry point where the sacrificial sheep were brought up and around the city of David from Bethlehem. The sheep were herded in by shepherds from the south side of the Temple Mount. The reason the gate is not on the south side is simple, that area was the City of David and it remains so today.
The shepherds outside Bethlehem that you may have read about in Luke 2 that were keeping watch over their flocks by night weren't just ordinary shepherds. Those sheep were very special.
Oh, and it wasn't winter, but don't tell Santa.
Today in Jerusalem, not far from Sheep’s Gate you'll find the “Lions’ Gate” and search all you can, look for yourself, there's no West Bank gate and there never will be.
What's the Lion and Sheep gate connection?
They stand today as an eternal poetic parable, a prophetic two trip metaphor.
In the end:
The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. Isaiah 11:6
After David died, his son Solomon became king. He built The Temple with the Most Holy Place that his father had planned for the mountain (see 2 Chronicles 3:1).
David purchased the spot from a Jebusite by the name of Ornan for 600 shekels of gold. See 1 Chronicles 21:18-26. By the way, gold is important in the Bible, it points to the divine presence. Today, Jerusalem is the city of gold.
That was not the only purchase David made with a deed from the Jebusites (Jebusite = men of Jerusalem). He bought the threshing floor too and he paid the price for the oxen with 50 shekels of silver owned by Araunah (see 2 Samuel 24:18-25).
It's not certain but it is thought that Araunah and Ornan (1 Chronicles 21:15) refer to the same Jebusite man. I don't know.
Bt I do know silver is important, it's prophetic. It points to that threshing floor and it points toward redemption.
David paid the price for that real estate with gold and silver under Almighty God's explicit plan for that redemption location, and David built an altar to The LORD Elohim God Creator of the Universe.
The reason is the Almighty God if Israel owns it.
That threshing floor altar represents God's ownership and divine authority over the planet and His plan for its' redemption.
A man named Gad shared a for sale sign with David for the location next to the Mount of Olives. It was at the Mount of Olives across the Kidron Valley that happens to be the site of the unusual holy service that removed death's uncleanliness noted in Numbers 19. It's described in the Bible as known today as the red heifer sacrifice. It required cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet cloth.
Does that sound familiar?
If not, take a few minutes and read John 19.
The red heifer altar location sat atop the Mount of Olives and faced the Temple Mount with its massive entrance doors and the veil before the Most Holy Place. Before the red heifer altar was established, the Mount of Olives was the place that David ascended as Absalom sought to kill him.
There with friends, David wept. You can read about that in 2 Samuel 15:30-32.
Sound familiar? If not, Jesus wept too, check out Matthew 26:26-45.
The Bible reveals the truth about the so-called West Bank. Jerusalem and Bethlehem aren't there, they are in Judea. In fact, the majority of the Bible is written about events that occurred and will occur in Judea and Samaria.
The truth is you don't "occupy" land owned by and gifted by The Creator, you return to it. The occupiers are not the so-called Jewish settlers.
The truth is really pretty simple.
The so-called West Bank is the thousand's year old deeded home land of Jews from Judea. A thousand years or so after Ornan the Jebusite sold the Temple Mount acreage to David, a young twelve year-old Jewish boy at bar mitzvah age arrived on the scene discussing Torah with the rabbi's after Passover.
That Jerusalem conversation was a midrash during the week of Unleavened Bread.
You can read about that in Luke 2:39-52.
A few years later, based on the accounts from the Jewish talmidim, they tell us that Master Rabbi Yeshua taught in synagogues and hillsides all across Israel's homeland. Again, you'll never find the disciples give any account about a single event in the West Bank.
If not the West Bank, where did Yeshua teach, preach and heal?
Judea and Samaria
The Galilee and the Golan Heights
The Jordan Valley and beyond.
You'll never find the "West Bank" mentioned in the world's most published book.
That book is the Bible, it reveals God's divine gospel peace plan for the redemption of the planet despite the evil plans of today's bureaucrats that seek to divide the Promised Land with their own peace plan called a two state solution. It's a disaster and Gaza is the proof.
There's already a two state solution in effect. Israel gave Gaza away and the people of Gaza elected a terrorist organization called Hamas to run the place. As already noted, the election victors immediately attacked, killed or imprisoned the Fatah officials that lost that election.
Gaza is a militant terrorist state. The only reason that both Egypt and Israel imposed sanctions on Gaza was Hamas. Yes, you read that correctly, Egypt and Israel.
What everyone refuses to see is that a "two state solution" is a diplomatic formula for more terror in Gaza and Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”).
Take a look across the Promised Land from Gaza to Judea and Samaria where Jacob was given a vision of the future of God's promise to Abraham and Isaac. That blessing is in Genesis 28:10-17:
Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of Elohim were ascending and descending on it!
And behold, Y-H-W-H stood above it and said, “I am Y-H-W-H, the Elohim of Abraham your father and the Elohim of Isaac.
The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely Y-H-W-H is in this place, and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of Elohim, and this is the gate of heaven.” Genesis 28:10-17
The Newer Testament describes Yeshua's first ministry trip. It started in earnest with His declaration for repentance about 80 miles north of Jerusalem in the upper Galilee, the home land assigned to Ephraim. There, He declared the ancient truth spoken by every prophet that everyone should repent and turn back to God's Word, the Bible.
The Sermon on The Mount should be front and center for people confused by green political lines on a map. It's time to turn back to the map of the Bible.
Yeshua started what is thought to be His first sermon at that mountain hill in The Galilee. The big message in "The Sermon on the Mount" remains a critical Kingdom message that many have forgotten:
Do not think God's law (Torah) is done away with (see Mathew 5:17).
With the Ten Commandments as the sermon's foundation outline, Yeshua explained the spirit of God's Torah message and the good news of The Father's heart of lovingkindness and forgiveness as Yeshua taught of the Kingdom to come.
That Kingdom of God gospel was revealed in God's blessing and unbroken promise to Abraham, Issac and Jacob.
Abraham was David's forefather and he arrived in the land of promise as a friend of God. He was a sojourner from Ur of the Chaldees under God's direction to kick start God's plan for blessing the planet in redemption. By Sarah he had a son Issac, and by Rebecca Issac had Jacob.
Almighty God's Kingdom plan includes an virtually hidden two trip process just as Moses came down from the mountain twice to deliver God's Ten Commandment outline of the Torah. The second trip was required because people willingly broke God's covenant with them that they had promised to keep.
Like Moses, Messiah will make two trips for the same reason.
On the first rip Yeshua broke the death curse, the second trip will restore the Kingdom of God as it was in the beginning and bless the planet as the King and High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
David wrote about this in Psalms 110:
The LORD says to my Lord:“Sit at My right handUntil I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”The LORD will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,Your youth are to You as the dew.The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind,“You are a priest foreverAccording to the order of Melchizedek.”The Lord is at Your right hand;He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath.He will judge among the nations,He will fill them with corpses,He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.He will drink from the brook by the wayside;Therefore He will lift up His head.
There's more to the backstory of that Kingdom promise, it includes many nations. That promise was delivered to king David by Nathan, a friend and prophet in none other than Judea.
It's critical to understand that neither Abraham nor David lived in a "West Bank" divided by red warning signs marking Area A, Area B or Area C or with walls standing against terror.
The thing you need to know about those walls standing today is that Ezekiel 38:11 and Ezekiel 38:20 declare they will come down one day because...
I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 38:23
Greatness and holiness summarizes God's Gospel. The Creator of the Universe revealed that to Nathan so that David could know, the truth.
David learned from Nathan that it was not The LORD's gospel plan for the planet for David to build The LORD a house. Instead, Almighty God told Nathan to tell David that The LORD would build the house at the end of days, but not any regular house of stone or wood, The LORD would build a family of God whose stones are people with tents of flesh and with hearts cut with a new covenant.
It's time to read Jeremiah 31, all of it.
If you ask me, I think that is what a young Jewish bar mitzvah boy from Nazareth by the name of Yeshua was midrashing about with the rabbis at The Temple Mount after Passover (see Luke2:41-52).
My thought on that is only a guess, but I think it's also likely they were talking about the fact that Abraham's blessing starts with repentance. Perhaps, because it was Passover they also discussed that Almighty God's gospel plan will be fulfilled as outlined in the seven appointed Feasts of The LORD.
The Feats represent key moments in time within God's gospel plan and Almighty God will use His appointed times to build His household made up of repentant children blessed in forgiveness and they will ALL know The LORD.
Let's take a close look back at the household of God Q&A outline and why they were given to Nathan to be declared in Judea. Here we see the House of God in the Kingdom of God is not about a building, it's about a forever House of people with Messiah as King:
“But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, 'Go and tell my servant David, thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.
In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep that you should be prince over my people Israel.
And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more.
And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel.
And I will give you rest from all your enemies.
Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.
When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’
In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, 'Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD.
You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!
And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD! Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever.
And you, O LORD, became their God. And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.
And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
For you, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’
Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you.
For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.'” 2 Samuel 7:11-29
If you call yourself a Christian and read that translation, you might ask --- what did The LORD mean when He said:
"When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men."
It points back to Leviticus 14:52 "cleanse the house" instruction as well as the Numbers 8:7 "water of purification" and to Ezekiel 45:18 "cleanse the sanctuary."
If you believe Jesus carried no iniquity, perhaps your view of taking on the sin of the world may be different from The LORD's view of what He has spoken to Isaiah. Remember, God's ways are above our ways and understanding (read Isaiah 55:6-9).
As the willing lamb of God, Yeshua voluntarily carried the iniquity of everyone on that cross in Judea because it's been God's plan to remove the curse of sin and death from the planet ever since Genesis 3:15.
What does this have to do with the West Bank?
It's front and center
Ground zero for the Gospel of God.
Almighty God said: "I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more."
Maybe there's a hidden reason why the world's politicians of propaganda have dubbed Judea and Samaria to be an "occupied" West Bank... They disagree with God's gospel plan.
The plain truth is Jews are from Judea.
If you ask me, that's why politicians and mass media alike reject the Biblical name for Judea and Samaria. It's as if the Moabites and the revelings of the Ammonites are back in place, but we now call them politicians that want to divide the land and wipe out God's big plan for blessing humanity.
The headlines are filled with stories of Islamic Jihad terror groups causing tribulation, chaos and havoc in God's chosen land with words of hate, knives, guns, makeshift bombs, car ramming, suicide bombings and rockets flying across the skies from Gaza.
Yet, despite all this, Almighty God will fulfill His plan and goal for the Promised Land and bless the planet.
Despite the opinions of antisemitic people and liberal media organizations that ignore God's voice to side with the PA and the PLO, the truth is that most so-called Palestinians are descendants of Tunisians, Algerians, Libyans and other Arabs who arrived as the Ottoman's invasion faded after 400 years.
The Ottoman Turks occupied Islam's outposts across Israel and kept it in a state of virtual wasteland after the Romans destroyed everything they could get their hands on. But the Ottomans weren't the first, there's a backstory as Muslim armies arrived on the scene during the Arab invasions of the 7th century after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD.
Muhammad's father-in-Law Abu Bakr, took over as the first caliph (Arabic for successor). Caliph Bakr quickly took over Arabia in the ridda wars but died in 634 AD, He was succeeded by the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab who spread Islam throughout the Middle East with war campaigns against the Byzantine Empire. Al-Khattab's conquests took what was left of Roman Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.
Khattab's attacks then turned on the Sassanid Empire in Iraq followed by Egypt and then Anatolia and Armenia to the north (today's Turkey). What you need to know is that Khattab's attacks spread Islam to the Turks.
Today, I'm told by people that live in Judea and Samaria that many Arab peoples living and working in the area are peaceful and believe it or not love the land and people of Israel. They appreciate that the Jewish people drained the swamps, created incredible farms, planted trees, vineyards and restored the olive orchards.
Many there are good folk just like Araunah the Jebusite who offered David the threshing floor for free, but David insisted he had to pay the price.
Yet, like former Christian Arabs thT lived in Judea and Samaria before they were run out in fear of jihad, many Arabs suffer in poverty and persecution from their own government sponsors of pay for slay terrorism. The Arabs live in a fanatic, illegitimate nightmare claim set to drive the Jewish people out of their land grant promise from Almighty God.
We already noted the Ammonites. There's a modern day Ammonite and he was no friend of Judah.
He was a Lebanese-Arab American history professor at Princeton and Harvard University, and the media claim is is was a leading authority on Arab and Middle Eastern history, after all he had a PhD. He claimed there was no historical justification for a Palestinian or a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Get this, when Professor Philip Hitti, PhD testified against the partition plan before the Anglo-American Committee back in 1946, he spoke this truth:
“There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history, absolutely not.”
As a historian, he understood the Roman label for the land map was an illegitimate claim to Rome's political and temporary military control. Professor Hitti knew the Romans imposed the name as a reminder of the Philistines that fought against Israel and he also knew the Roman Empire ended in flames in Rome as its temporary empire went up in the smoke of history.
He knew there were no Palestinians, but he lied like a serpent saying:
"Sunday schools have done a great deal of harm to us because by smearing the walls of classrooms with maps of Palestine, they associate it with the Jews in the minds of the average American and Englishman."
He said the land was the immemorial home of the Arabs and they would never submit. Can you imagine the conversation he would have had with Joshua?
By the way, the guy that argued most with Professor Hitti about that His deception was another PhD that taught at Princeton, a German-born Jew, a physicist who developed the theory of relativity and his equation E = mc2 won the Nobel Prize. His name was Albert Einstein and he altered our understanding of modern physics.
In his article written for Encyclopædia Britannica, Einstein titled his entry "Space-Time." Einstein wrote it the 13th Encyclopædia edition and said:
"The more universal a concept is the more frequently it enters into our thinking; and the more indirect its relation to sense-experience, the more difficult it is for us to comprehend its meaning."
And, “we can think away things but not the space which they occupy.”
In a way, that applies to the concept of the West Bank vs. Judea and Samaria.
Professor Hitti is not the only Muslim witness about Palestine. There's another, it's the Supreme Muslim Council. Their tourist booklet dates the site of the Temple Mount back some three thousand years and I have a copy.
"A brief guide to al-Haram al-Sharif."
The Council published their first guide to the Temple Mount in 1924, and reprinted it for many years. You can still find reprints and buy them, just search the Internet for the title: "A brief guide to al-Haram al-Sharif."
If you want to save some pennies, Google Books maintains free digitized copies of the originals online.
This little Muslim guide book declares the location's “identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This booklet says according to universal belief, it is the place on which ‘David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.’”
It notes the eastern gate as David's gate and the legend of a judgment spot where verdicts were given during Solomon's reign. It also points out that Solomon's stables are in the vast subterranean substructure as well as a small chamber, "now used as a place of Moslem worship."
Reference is given at the end of the tourist tract to the vaults as likely dating "as far back as the construction of Solomon's Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 AD."
The Muslim tourist guide never mentions the area as part of a disputed territory known as the West Bank. That guide starts out by stating that Muslim rule over the Temple Mount was part of an Islamic occupation that began in 637 AD, noting: “In that year the Caliph Omar occupied Jerusalem.”
It also records "the capture of the Holy City by Saladin" and construction using massive columns thought to be from Justinian basilica whose Byzantine rule was a 100 years before Caliph Omar ever arrived or the Koran existed.
In 1918, World War I ended the Ottoman occupation. Did you know that by the end of World War II in 1945, Bethlehem's population including the immediate area around the ancient town of Judea was 85% Arab Christian? Today, that census demographic has dwindled to around 10% in Bethlehem as Arab Christians have virtually vanished in all areas across Judea and Samaria. The Arabs in that area that once followed the Jewish Messiah now account for less than 2% of the total population of Bethlehem.
Meanwhile, Jews are condemned by politicians and media for having homes and synagogues in Judea and Samaria. They are attacked by Islamic terrorists like Gog financed by Hamas, the violent, corrupt geo-political religious sponsor of terror firing rockets from Gaza whenever they can.
By the way, Hamas is an Arabic acronym.
It's from the words "Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya" which translates as "The Islamic Resistance Movement." Hamas resists God's plan revealed to David with the goal to destroy Israel.
Truth is stranger than fiction, "hamas" is also an old Hebrew word חמס and it means violence. It first appears in Genesis 6.
That's in Noah's story and hamas is the reason for the season of the flood's destruction:
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth [eretz-land] was filled with violence [hamas]. And God saw the earth [eretz-land], and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. Genesis 6:11-12
Today's professors of headlines are misleading people to say the least. The violence starts not with so-called settlers in occupied settlements that seek to defend themselves, but with radical terror group gangsters that want to make Judea and Samaria a jihad outpost for Mecca and Medina.
They think they will accomplish their goal with violence, car rammings, guns, knives, rocks, burning tires, make-shift bombs and rockets. There's a big problem with Palestinian intifada attempts to drive Judea's Jewish people into the sea. The judgment lesson is seen in the destruction of the flood, but the details at the end of this conflict with God is found in Ezekiel 38 as well as Joel 3 and Zechariah 12.
Today, the Palestinian vortex for violence is headquartered in plain sight on a tiny West Bank map.
It's Nablus (actually Shechem), and the town's location provides the prophetic picture. Shechem is located smack dab between the mountains of blessings and curses. What goes around comes around, just like Ecclesiastes 1:9 says, there's nothing new under the sun.
Few people seem to know, modern Nablus has only been governed by the Palestinian National Authority for 16 short years as of this writing, that's it. Their so-called authority was planted there in 1995 as a result of the Oslo Accords. Oslo I was signed in 1993 in Washington, D.C. and Oslo II was signed in Taba, Egypt, in 1995.
Why are they labeled the D.C - Egypt Accords?
It's important to remember Shechem is also the area that the kingdom of Israel was divided in two during the dark days of the conflict between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
You can read all about that in 1 Kings 12.
Fast forward to about a hundred years ago. Despite what Professor Hitti said, as usual Einstein was right and there's a witness in the dirt. The land was virtually deserted until migrant Arabs moved into Judea and Samaria after World War I when the Ottoman Turk occupiers lost the land they occupied to General Allenby.
Why did the Arabs come?
At that time, Jewish agricultural and economic development that started at the turn of the century created perhaps the most scarce commodity in the Mid-East... jobs. Employment doors were opened in the former desolation of desert and swamps cleaned up by Jewish people returning to purchase the land back from the destruction of the diaspora that started in 70AD.
Everything changed when Jewish diaspora ended after Hitler took his own life on April 30, 1945 while hiding in a hole in the ground. A short time later in 1967, after the Six Day War, ancient Jewish communities began to spring back to life even in Judea and Samaria like the picture of resurrection promise shown in Ezekiel 37.
The facts on the ground are that only a few Arab sojourners sought to move in before the post Ottoman restoration began 50 years before the Six Day War that started a revival.
If you don't believe me, that's fine, but will you believe Einstein, if not how about Mark Twain?
In what may be his first reality, non-fiction book, Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) published his journal comprised of 50 newspaper reports that he wrote during his 1867 travels across the Promised Land. At that time, Jerusalem was under the weight of the oppression of the caliphate of the Ottoman Empire that was headquartered in today's Turkey before its new name was adopted in 1923.
In what may be his first reality, non-fiction book, Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) published his journal comprised of 50 newspaper reports that he wrote during his 1867 travels across the Promised Land. At that time, Jerusalem was under the weight of the oppression of the caliphate of the Ottoman Empire that was headquartered in today's Turkey before its new name was adopted in 1923.
The Ottoman Turks occupied Israel for 400 years and kicked out the remnant of Jewish people remaining from Rome's destructions in 70AD and 132 AD. The Turks left the land barren and utterly desolate.
They invaded the land in 1517 and occupied God's deeded land promise until 1917, when the Ottomans were defeated in the first World War. Victory was in large part due to the Jewish people that had arrived around 1900, they fought side by side with Britain's military led by General Edmund Allenby.
Just 50 years earlier, Mark Twain wrote what he had witnessed in the Promised Land.
In 1869, he complied his eyewitness accounts into a book: “The Innocents Abroad." It's label came after the title line of his letters that were syndicated as journalist's reports in leading American newspapers written aboard the steamship "Quaker City."
You don't have to believe me, you can read them for yourself right here: "Traveling with the Innocents Abroad." Bookstores can sell you a copy too, that's where I got mine.
The "Quaker City" steamship left port from New York on June 8, 1867. Amazingly, 100 years later on June 10, 1967, Jerusalem came back under Israel's control.
Near the end of the 400 year Ottoman land grab, Mark Twain traveled with 77 others. He recorded how sparsely populated the Bible land grant was as it had become a desert devoid of human life, vegetation, vineyards and forests.
The destruction started with the Romans as they chopped down trees to use them as siege works against the ancient Jewish cities and communities. As one kingdom after another invaded Israel until the Ottomans arrived, the land grew even more desolate.
Deforestation caused loss of precious soil, any anyone can see today that resulted in the loss of grasses and ancient farms as trees and vineyards thousands of years old were destroyed. The soil washed away from the hillsides leaving rocks strewn about everywhere that are in almost any photograph you can find.
Another outcome was the prolific loss of the wildlife you can read all about in the Bible.
Mark Twain was not the only person to write about the land desolation. The Oxford professor and Dean of Westminster described the same desolation.
Arthur Stanley's book, in the 1877 edition published by John Murray in London titled "Sinai and Palestine In Connection with Their History" tells the same story.
Dean Stanley described the Jordan Valley as desolate as well as the Galilee towns including Capernaum who's name was lost because the town perished.
He also wrote that Jerusalem was not only desolate but in a ruinous state and the road to Jericho empty.
Stanley was like a prophet, he wasn't spot on in his description, but he wrote of Jerusalem's future prosperity because he believed the Bible.
"It is possible that. in the changes to the Turkish Empire, Palestine may again become a civilized country, under Greek or Latin influences; that the Jewish race, so wonderfully preserved, may yet have another stage of national existence opened to them, that they may once more obtain possession of their native land, and invest it with an interest greater than it could have under any other circumstances."
Believe it or not, just about the time of that edition, Jewish people returned home and began to drain the swamps at the turn of the century, they cultivated the land that was purchased at that time as well as during the British Mandate period after World War I. Whether the pilgrims knew it or not they arrived on the scene to prepare the land for Messiah's return. Stanley was right after all.
Many came recognizing the regathering in the land as the beginning of the redemption, understanding they were taking part in the fulfillment of prophecy. Many felt a move of the Spirit of God, compelled by hope and obligation to move to Israel.
Others came seeking relief from persecution and anti-Semitism.
As redemptive improvements came to the land, that's when many impoverished Arabs from surrounding areas without vibrant economies moved in seeking jobs and a better life without Ottoman oppression.
Who could blame them?
For more detail on the truth about the West Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations once provided a narrative of the modern timeline of the background events woven into today's conflict in the area from 1914 to 2007 but it's been taken off-line. Surprised?
In addition to the Jewish restoration of the ancient land, some 2,600 years ago before their exile to Babylon, the prophet Zephaniah was told by Almighty God to record for the world that not only would He restore His people to His land, He would restore the Hebrew language and why.
For more detail on the truth about the West Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations once provided a narrative of the modern timeline of the background events woven into today's conflict in the area from 1914 to 2007 but it's been taken off-line. Surprised?
In addition to the Jewish restoration of the ancient land, some 2,600 years ago before their exile to Babylon, the prophet Zephaniah was told by Almighty God to record for the world that not only would He restore His people to His land, He would restore the Hebrew language and why.
That had to be a very odd thing for Zephaniah to be told to write, after all he was Jewish and he spoke Hebrew, every Jew did at the time.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
That truth was strange indeed, after all, Alexander the Great would not be born until 356 BC and Greek occupation and its language had not yet spread its influence into the Middle East.
The Hebrew language was alive and well in Zephaniah's day. The prophecy about the return of the Hebrew language had to be mind bending for Mr. Z:
"For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of The LORD, to serve him with one consent." Zephaniah 3:9 KJVCan you imagine what Zephaniah must have been thinking as he wrote down God's promise in his Hebrew scroll?
The thing is, the promise he was given is not yet complete.
Hebrew is restored, but people are not calling on God's name just yet. Instead, we use terms like God, The LORD, or Adonai. The promise is not finished, this remains:
That day of rising up will not be a good day for those that choose to ignore the Bible, terrorize Israel, seek to divide it or worse yet, wipe Israel off the map.“Therefore wait for Me,” declares YHVH,“For the day when I rise up as a witness."
There's another big promise, it was given to Jeremiah after the Babylonian exile as the Almighty God of Israel revealed a righteous restoration would come to the land of Judah and the holy hill of Jerusalem:
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,To be restored by God means to put it back permanently.
"Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah
and in its cities when I restore their fortunes,
The LORD bless you, O abode of righteousness,
O holy hill!'" Jeremiah 31:23
The truth is the land of Judah is not occupied except by those that follow a false-god while opposing the voice and promises of the one true God, the God of Israel.
Restoration is a process.
Hebrew was a forgotten language, lost when the Promised Land was desolate just as Mark Twain and Dean Stanley described, yet the language has been restored in Israel by the Jewish people. The land too is being reinvigorated right before our eyes despite the ancient taunts of Moab, Ammonites and the conflict of Esau vs. Jacob that remains.
Zephaniah is the prophet that also dutifully recorded these words from the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel:
"Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation, before the decree takes effect -- before the day passes away like chaff -- before there comes upon you the burning anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the LORD.
"I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them." Zephaniah 2:1-2; Zephaniah 8-9There's another important prophecy we need to know. Check out Amos 4 where the prophet wrote about the wasted land.
Amos 5 describes the desolation, yet the good news is that Amos 9:13-15 reveals the end that we can see past the threshold before us today.
Biblical truth is hard for the world to accept when they call the area the the West Bank because people reject the Bible and it's real name, Judea and Samaria.
The Bible tells us the mind and heart of Esau rejected the right to the first born son's inheritance, he sold it for a bowl of soup because he despised it, then he hated his brother for it. It's much the same today as terrorists despise Judah.
Judea and Samaria is hidden in plain sight on U.N. maps with a West Bank label because people among the nations ignore the eternal promises of Almighty Elohim God.
It's sad to say, but many in church pews think that God's word and His forever promises are old and done away with. The problem is many learn in Sunday school a claim that God's Hebrew words of constitutional promise for life in the Kingdom of God are dead, hung on the cross and that a new entity called the church has replaced the assembly of Israel.
Just as Jesus preached to repent in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, it's time to repent for the Kingdom is at hand (see Matthew 4:12-17).
The truth about the death on the cross is that death met its end. Yeshua willfully paid the death penalty as a sinless life offering for sin that began in Eden and resurrection by the power of God overcame death. That's not new, it's revealed in the promise of eternal restoration in Genesis 3:14-15.
Restoration to new life was true 2,000 years ago and it is today, because the voice and promises of Almighty God of hosts remains unchanged.
Yeshua the shoot of Jesse and Judah took on sin and death as a freewill offering and arose in resurrection life. He was awakened from three days in the grave just like the sign of Jonah promise.
Zechariah 3, Zechariah 6 and Zechariah 8 speaks of this and the promise of peace to come to Israel through the authority of the Jewish Messiah, High Priest and King:
The reality is the Torah of God stands forever for all and there' no blank page.
The truth about the West Bank is in the Bible's deeded name to all the land that includes Judea and Samaria as a key portion to the land allotted by the God of Israel for Abraham's descendants, both native born and grafted-in faith sojourners among them in the end.
"Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you—indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch. For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. ‘In that day,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’” Zechariah 3:8-10
Then say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD. Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor and sit and rule on His throne. Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices.”’ Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the LORD to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah. Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the LORD.” Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place if you completely obey the LORD your God. Zechariah 6:12-15
For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. It will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.’" Zechariah 8: 12-13If the words of The Prophet's including those of Moses are long gone, hung on a cross as some think, then that would mean God changes, as Paul said God forbid (Galatians 3:21). That would mean He could change his mind about the work on the Passover cross.
The truth about the West Bank is in the Bible's deeded name to all the land that includes Judea and Samaria as a key portion to the land allotted by the God of Israel for Abraham's descendants, both native born and grafted-in faith sojourners among them in the end.
After all, Abraham was once a stranger and a sojourner there. Genesis 23:3-4
Today, there are Jewish souls living in the tiny area of the biggest prophetic news story the world will ever see.
These words are well worth repeating:
"I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you."
That blessing ties back to the good news gospel given to Abraham:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 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. Genesis 12:2-3
When we look north at the area bordering southern Syria, we have to know Yeshua of Nazareth did not gather his twelve disciples near a disputed area called the Golan Heights.
The truth is that the land area described in the Bible as the Galilee includes the land grants of Manasseh, Naphtali and Zebulon.
Before that time, Manasseh's land was occupied.
It was called Bashan the land of Og and the name of the capital of his pagan Amorite outpost was Golan. You need to remember giant king Og. He attacked Moses as Israel and the sojourners with them headed toward the Promised Land. The giant lost his battle to the people that carried the Torah of God.
Instead of welcoming them, Og chose to terrorize and attack and Bashan the land of Og fell into oblivion as its king went to the grave. It's the prophetic lesson for today.
Remember, it was Og that viciously attacked, not Israel.
The name may be changed, but the truth remains, like Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights is a big part of the covenant land of promise as is the Jordan Valley. The people that choose to follow Almighty God will be restored to the eternal home promise. The area called the Galilee is part of the Kingdom to come promise Yeshua declared, and the truth about the West Bank is its Judea and Samaria.
The name may be changed, but the truth remains, like Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights is a big part of the covenant land of promise as is the Jordan Valley. The people that choose to follow Almighty God will be restored to the eternal home promise. The area called the Galilee is part of the Kingdom to come promise Yeshua declared, and the truth about the West Bank is its Judea and Samaria.
The Heavenly Father's words will not fall void on a modern map label or a West Bank headline.
The Kingdom promises Yeshua declared are not new either, they were given to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David, not Esau, Moab, the Ammonites or king Og of Bashan.
Ezekiel gives the world an amazing prophecy coming about right now in the mountains of Judea and Samaria. They were once occupied by Jordan until the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949 yet the mountains will be redeemed. The promise has already begun.
As in the past, Ezekiel's words speak truth today about the land promise first given Abraham, it about God's Kingdom and Jesus (Yeshua) preached about the Kingdom everywhere He went. The promises stand and you need to know them:
"And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say: You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the enemy hath said against you:
Aha! even the ancient high places are ours in possession; therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD:
Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the rest of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD:
Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD:
Surely in the fire of My jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed My land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with disdain of soul, to cast it out for a prey; therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys:
Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: I have lifted up My hand: Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
But you, O mountains of Israel, you 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 be tilled and sown; and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded; and I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings; and ye shall know that I am the LORD." Ezekiel 36:1-11
"And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
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, [even] they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." Ezekiel 37:22-28The Bible, not a political view of a map or a media headline label is the key to understanding this everlasting promise.
Almighty God has never changed His mind about His deep love for the Jewish people or the sojourners with them and the end of day assignment that He has given many Jewish people is to prepare His land like a garden for Messiah whether they think its the first or second trip.
Look at Israel today and you will see that redemption assignment is alive and well.
Look at Israel today and you will see that redemption assignment is alive and well.
We are living in Bible times!!
The Bible is not old. There are many prophecies that have engaged since Isaiah wrote of the nation to be born in a day on May 14, 1948! That day was the 5th of Iyar, the 5th month of the Biblical year. It was also the 20 day of the Omer Count after Passover in 1948, a big day of redemptive promise on God's calendar.
The Bible is not old. There are many prophecies that have engaged since Isaiah wrote of the nation to be born in a day on May 14, 1948! That day was the 5th of Iyar, the 5th month of the Biblical year. It was also the 20 day of the Omer Count after Passover in 1948, a big day of redemptive promise on God's calendar.
Years before, long before WWI, a Scotland Yard policeman wrote a book in 1881 titled: The Coming Prince, his name was Sir Robert Anderson. The detective wrote: "But Israel's history has yet to be completed; and when that nation comes again upon the scene, the element of miraculous interpositions will mark once more the course of events on earth."
He did that while studying God's calendar. If you're not familiar with God's calendar, you need to be, it's woven in the design our solar system. You also need to know that has been kept by the Jewish people for thousands of years.
He did that while studying God's calendar. If you're not familiar with God's calendar, you need to be, it's woven in the design our solar system. You also need to know that has been kept by the Jewish people for thousands of years.
You should also know too that Yeshua knew it and lived it.
At the start of His ministry, Yeshua of Nazareth relocated in the lower Galilee and gave an assignment to His disciples about Judea and Samaria that put a bookend to the 40 days of fasting that started His yeshiva time teaching the disciples. The fasting was in a wilderness area, most likely the Jordan Valley.
If you say you believe the Bible, 1948 is your wake up call too.
Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. Isaiah 66:8
Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone … and bring them into their own land Ezekiel 37:21
He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isaiah 11:12That labor of Zion was the Holocaust.
Shortly after the nation was reborn, the newly formed Knesset voted to make Hebrew the official language of Israel. Thanks to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda the prophecy of Zephaniah 3:9 was revealed for a reason:
For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech,Isaiah declared that Israel's deserts would produce abundant fruit too and that is now an everyday occurrence in Israel as even Europe's supermarkets are filled with Israeli fruit harvests. The Israeli farming success is so great it is being exported to the world by MASHAV in fulfillment of Isaiah 27:6:
that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.
In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shootsNot only that, returning Jews and born in the land Jews have planted hundreds of millions of trees with the help of sojourners with them. The Jewish people water them with advanced computer controlled irrigation systems far above any other nation's technology or practice.
and fill the whole world with fruit.
They have planted world renown wineries everywhere. There are over 300 of them in the former parched dry land fulfilling the words recorded by Jeremiah and Amos:
Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit. Jeremiah 31:5
Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD,Yet, Zechariah warned that in the end, Jerusalem would become a city of conflict.
when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. Amos 9:13
The reason, the ways of the world oppose the ways of God. It's been that way since the beginning.
Today, Judea and Samaria are at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict debate across the world.
Jerusalem has again become the focus of global attention to its prominence as God's witness to the world He wants to bless.
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. Zechariah 12:3In June 1967, Israel took back Jerusalem as the city holding God's name at the end of the Six Day War. The reality is war against the Jewish people that started in May 1948, spiked in 1967 and again in 1973 on Yom Kippur.
It will again likely during another appointment of The LORD because evil remains, evil remains, the battles of the war against God's people and promise continue in the form of cowardly terrorism spurned by the deceiver, the dragon.
Did you know the Palestinian education system supports a jihad of antisemitism?
The battle that began in Israel on day 21 of the Omer Count following Passover in 1948, continued on in 1967. June 5, 1967 was day 41 of the Omer Count and it was a Sabbath day that this happened:
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:6There are many other prophecies fulfilled since 1948 and 1967 and others will come. These you've read here just scratch the surface, so dig in and keep your prayers going up for upcoming battles and rockets from Gaza as curses try to obliterate blessings.
None of this is new.
Pharaoh chased after Israel during the Omer Count 3500 years ago seeking to destroy. He chased them relentlessly to the sea until The Lord God of Israel split the water and the Pharaoh drowned with his army of chariots.
It's the original message of the advisory to fall for the deception that God does not mean what He says and that He changes His mind. Don't listen to that lie any longer. The occupied West Bank is a lie, a replacement theology from a dark pit.
Most people don't realize the truth about the mountains of Israel in Judea and Samaria because they read media biased headlines and ignore God's promises in the most published book of all time, the Bible.
Most politicians don't read and believe the words of Yeshua in Matthew 24 either. They think of Judea and Samaria as occupied so they want to divide like a curse, so like I said, the only occupiers are the people that reject the God of Israel and the Jewish people that are there to prepare the land for the return of the Messiah who will fulfill the promise Almighty God gave to Abraham:
"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.”
It's not the first trip, Messiah's return will be like the Jewish people who have returned to the Promised Land. The good news is when Yeshua returns, all the conflict and battles about the land and its people will come to an end, but it won't be pretty.
The Day of the Lord will be a big problem for those who oppose the God of Israel just as it was when Joshua (Yehoshua) arrived and crossed the Jordan River with the 12 tribes and the sojourners with them.
The problem today is the boundary stones of the Bible have been moved and disputed. The focus of the dispute is in the United Nations. The UN opposes God's boundaries.
That's a problem that carries a curse, because in the wilderness Almighty God instructed Moses to declare:
“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess." Deuteronomy 19:14This boundary stone inheritance with a dire warning:
"Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor's boundary stone." Deuteronomy 27:17
To bring you up to date on the modern boundary stone shift called the West Bank, this short video from Dennis Prager can help you understand the simple truth behind the Mideast boundary stone conflict.
The Student Alliance for Israel is Ithaca College's student organization dedicated to supporting Israel summarizes the truth about the West Bank:
"Palestine was never an exclusively Arab country, although Arabic gradually became the language of most the population after the Muslim invasions of the seventh century. No independent Arab or Palestinian state ever existed in Palestine. When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."That's true about the West Bank.
Prior to partition, the people we call Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose their representatives for the upcoming Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted:
"We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.
In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine these words: "There is no such country! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
Later, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said: "Palestine was part of the Province of Syria" and that, "politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity."
A few years later, Ahmed Shuqeiri, who became the chairman of the PLO, told the Security Council: "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria. Palestinian Arab nationalism is largely a post-World War I phenomenon that did not become a significant political movement until after the 1967 Six-Day War and Israel's capture of the West Bank."
Nearly 100 years ago, The Balfour Declaration in large part set the public stage for the establishment of the modern nation state of Israel.
Three years later after the close of WWI ended, The Council of the League of Nations declared The Palestine Mandate in 1920:
"Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country..."Below is a map from Eli Hertz, it clearly shows the map mandate that started with Balfour's Declaration that still carried the name the Roman label after their conquest. Take note, there is no West Bank nor Jordan for that matter. No one had ever heard of the West Bank. Take a look to the east and you'll see Babylon was given a new name, it's Iraq.
The so-called West Bank is headline and political fiction, a deception. The label now known as the West Bank only arose from the headlines of the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949.
BBC News provides a historic map over time of the conflict that first arose with the historic events in 1947 that began at the United Nations. The BBC maps clearly show the areas that are buried beneath the headlines today.
For more background about the nations that seek to divide God's promised land, you might consider some other headlines I've found. They are posted at: Zechariah's Vision and "The Quartet."
It's time to reconsider the West Bank conflict. According to Yeshua, it's connected to Jerusalem and Judaea:
"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains" Matthew 24:15-16Yeshua (Jesus) warned there would be tribulation in Jerusalem.
Titus made it so.
Im' no prophet, but there may be more. It was if He said if you think there was grave tribulation in 168 BC when a statue of Zeus was put up by Antiochus we haven't seen the fulfillment of all desolation horrors just yet.
Yeshua's warning for Judea was spoken some 200 years after the Maccabees.
In 70 AD, the Roman General Titus killed those that did not heed Yeshua's grave warning to head for the hills. Not long after the Legions destroyed the Temple, Rome's Emperor Hadrian had idol statues of two fake-gods, Jupiter and himself put on top of the Temple Mount.
Prophecies are often like a calendar, they cycle, so Daniel's abomination may occur again.
Im' no prophet, but there may be more. It was if He said if you think there was grave tribulation in 168 BC when a statue of Zeus was put up by Antiochus we haven't seen the fulfillment of all desolation horrors just yet.
Yeshua's warning for Judea was spoken some 200 years after the Maccabees.
In 70 AD, the Roman General Titus killed those that did not heed Yeshua's grave warning to head for the hills. Not long after the Legions destroyed the Temple, Rome's Emperor Hadrian had idol statues of two fake-gods, Jupiter and himself put on top of the Temple Mount.
Prophecies are often like a calendar, they cycle, so Daniel's abomination may occur again.
The reason, the true Gospel of God, the gospel of the kingdom of God has not been preached throughout the world as a testimony to all nations and people are not repenting, only a few see the whole gospel for what it is and Judea and Samaria are front and center.
Yeshua preached on the gospel of the Kingdom of God all across Israel and beyond, it's not limited to the gospel as you may know it, it's tied to the promise Nathan was instructed to give to king David and that is linked to Abraham's promise:
Whether you believe me or not, one thing is certain, the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria has a great promise and future ahead as the end of confusion and cursing will come to light.
For now desolations continue, they include sanctions from the UN despite violence, terror attacks, stone throwing, stabbings, shootings, car ramming and the murder of innocent Jewish men, women and children.
Yeshua preached on the gospel of the Kingdom of God all across Israel and beyond, it's not limited to the gospel as you may know it, it's tied to the promise Nathan was instructed to give to king David and that is linked to Abraham's promise:
“This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. Matthew 24:14Did you see it? Jesus says: then the end will come. There's nothing secret about the return.
Whether you believe me or not, one thing is certain, the West Bank aka Judea and Samaria has a great promise and future ahead as the end of confusion and cursing will come to light.
For now desolations continue, they include sanctions from the UN despite violence, terror attacks, stone throwing, stabbings, shootings, car ramming and the murder of innocent Jewish men, women and children.
These Palestinian desolations are a nightmare that is accelerating as a result of hatred.
A future headline story for Judea and Samaria is found in the prophecy of Genesis 24:60 given to Isaac's wife Rebecca:
"They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
'May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them'"
The truth of the West Bank is seen in its past.
Long ago, the ancient conflict that is in the news started in today's Iraq with the Babylonians. After they marched on Jerusalem and captured the city taking the Jewish people into exile a new king arose, his name was Baalis.
Baalis was the king of Ammon, whose kingdom was located in current-day Jordan with it's capital city Ammon. Baalis, like Jordan's Hashemite king Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, objected to a continued Jewish presence in the so-called West Bank because he wanted to annex the west bank of the Jordan River and bring the area into his kingdom.
Baalis was angry when he discovered that the Babylonians had appointed Gedaliah to be governor of Judea and Samaria and he was incensed that a small number of peasant Jews remained behind. He hated the fact that they were given the right to farm the land and live outside the control of Babylon.
So Baalis devised an old plan that started with Cain, Baalis wanted to kill Gedaliah. Unlike Cain, Baalis convinced Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to carry out the assassination plot.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
Terrorism is not new to the Middle East. The truth is since 1964, terror and violence has been the true PLO legacy of the West Bank. What goes around comes around.
Yet, in a deep sense, almost hidden God’s hand, His providence becomes visible despite the violence of the antisemitic enemies of the Jewish people that want to drive them into the sea just like Pharaoh.
The PLO needs to reconsider Pharaoh's hard lesson.
Today, Palestinian terror attacks remain as does the name Ishmael.
There is grave international pressure among the nations too as they seek to divide the heartland of Judea and Samaria. The UN seeks to cut away the west bank of the Jordan river's land area promise for the Jewish people and give it away in a false reality tight zone called a Palestinian State.
It's a very old plan from the adversary to thwart God's word including His promise given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It's a very old plan from the adversary to thwart God's word including His promise given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Any UN peace plan that divides God's land grant is like the abomination of desolation because it is against God's covenant promise to bless the nations of the planet.
Today, we see darkness manifested at the Temple Mount like the days of Nebuchadnezzar as prayer to the God of Israel is desolate atop the mountain location of God's House of Prayer.
If the desolation of sacrilege repeats from the apocalyptic prophecies described to Daniel and repeated by Yeshua of Nazareth become a reality with a man standing declaring himself to be God in the holy place of the name of the living God of Israel, it will be time to run for the hills.
Today, we see darkness manifested at the Temple Mount like the days of Nebuchadnezzar as prayer to the God of Israel is desolate atop the mountain location of God's House of Prayer.
If the desolation of sacrilege repeats from the apocalyptic prophecies described to Daniel and repeated by Yeshua of Nazareth become a reality with a man standing declaring himself to be God in the holy place of the name of the living God of Israel, it will be time to run for the hills.
Let that sink in. Judea mountains are supposed to be a safe place without walls, not divided into Area A, B or C.
What can you do about Judea and Samaria today?
It is time to pray, time to honor God's covenant promise. Time to stand with Israel and support its people as a sojourner with them. It's time to live out the song of Psalm 133:
The God of Israel is sovereign and His promises include the land and life evermore. They are both secure, so "wake up" to the truth about the West Bank. There is a blessing for Ishmael too, but its not in the Koran, it's in the Bible. Ishmael, God's promises are irrevocable, it's time to believe:Behold, how good and pleasant it iswhen brothers dwell in unity!It is like the precious oil on the head,running down on the beard,on the beard of Aaron,running down on the collar of his robes!It is like the dew of Hermon,which falls on the mountains of Zion!For there the LORD has commanded the blessing,life forevermore.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. Genesis 17:20Shalom.
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Update April 26, 2018: Consider this on the other side of Mahmoud Abbas' opposition to the Bible:
"The State Department’s omission of the word ‘occupied’ when referring to the territory of Judea and Samaria may ultimately facilitate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict."
By: Daniel Krygier, World Israel News
"A US State Department report recently dropped the word ”occupied” in reference to Judea and Samaria for the first time since 1979. In isolation, this move may seem insignificant, but it may also indicate a new US Middle East policy in the making that could facilitate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict."
"Ever since the Arab countries failed to destroy Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967, the international community has increasingly framed the conflict as an “Israeli occupation of Palestine.” However, the international term “Occupied Palestinian Territories” is political and not rooted in international law or documented history. “Palestine” is the Roman name for occupied Judea, and no “Palestinian” Arab state has ever existed in the Land of Israel."
Update September 26, 2014: One News Page reports... At the U.N. today, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of genocide and he demanded a deadline to end Israeli "occupation" of the West Bank:
It means we need to know "Who is the One Called Jesus.
Update September 26, 2014: One News Page reports... At the U.N. today, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of genocide and he demanded a deadline to end Israeli "occupation" of the West Bank:
In a speech at the U.N. General Assembly Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of conducting a "war of genocide" during the 50-day summer conflict in Gaza but stopped short of saying he will pursue war crime charges against the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court. Abbas said, "This last war against Gaza was a series of absolute war crimes carried out before the eyes and ears of the entire world, moment by moment."
He continued, saying the devastation unleashed "is unmatched in modern times." Abbas also said he will seek a U.N. resolution to set a deadline for Israel to pull out of Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 war but did not include a three-year deadline as his aides had said he would. The recent Gaza war killed 2,100 Palestinians and has weakened Abbas domestically, with his Hamas rivals enjoying a surge of popularity among Palestinians for fighting Israel. Sixty-six soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
What does this all mean?
It's time for you to repent and return to God's voice, return to hear and do His word and walk in the faith of His Kingdom path so that you can ready your lamp for your coming assignment.
It means we need to know "Who is the One Called Jesus.
Consider a prayer: Please, God guide me by your Spirit as to what I should hear and do.
It's time to repent and return to God's voice, return to hear and do His words and walk in the faith of His Kingdom path so that you can ready your lamp for your assignment.
Stretch out your hand, and take from the tree of life, and live forever.
Open a Bible, read it, listen to God's voice and do Yeshua's teaching about the forever jots and tittles.
You can learn how the things which are written in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms are concerning Messiah and you can teach others to live life like Jesus, it's love in God's way:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." John 3:16-17
Today is the time, open your eyes if you're dead in your own valley of dry bones.
Look up and you'll recognize Messiah from Abraham's promise passed on to Isaac and Jacob as written by Moses in the Torah. You can see Him too in the Prophets and the Writings.
Repent and walk your Emmaus Road with Messiah. Study the Scriptures He taught every Sabbath that are filled with doing life God's way in the Kingdom, and tell others about Him. Be a gatekeeper until the house is complete.
Shalom.
