Why Give Away What God Gave You
? Will God Approve It?
August 29, 2007
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To the unbeliever, whe
ther Jew or Gentile, giving back the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and sharing control of the Temple Mount, is no big deal, especially if it will bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians. But to believers, at least most of them, to give the land to believers in the false god Allah, must be considered as an insult to the true and only God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
(Israel).
It is quite true that Israel has been “in the doghouse” in its relationship with the true God, since they rejected his Son Jesus, and they will remain in spiritual darkness until the veil over their eyes is lifted in the Negev Wilderness. But they are still “the apple of God’s eye,” and the remnant will be restored to fellowship with God at the Second Advent of His Son!
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
II Corinthians 3:11-16 – For if that (the Law) which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. [12] Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: [13] And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that (the Law) which is abolished: [14] But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
[15] But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. [16] Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
They will return to the Lord, His Son, in the Negev, and the remnant of Israel will be returned to fellowship with God.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Ezekiel 39:21-29 – And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward. [23] And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. [24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
[25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
[27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. [29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
GOD GAVE THE LAND TO JACOB (ISRAEL) HE PROMISED TO ABRAHAM’S SEED.
Genesis 28:1-4 – And Isaac called JACOB, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. [2] Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother. [3] And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; [4] And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; THAT THOU MAYEST INHERIT THE LAND WHEREIN THOU ART A STRANGER, WHICH GOD GAVE UNTO ABRAHAM.
THIS IS THE LAND GOD PROMISED TO GIVE TO ABRAHAM’S SEED ISRAEL.
Genesis 17:1-3,7,8 – And when ABRAM was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. [2] And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. [3] And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, [7] And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
[8] And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, THE LAND WHEREIN THOU ART A STRANGER, ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN, FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION; and I will be their God.
God gave Esau, the firstborn of Isaac, the birthright of the firstborn, but Esau sold it to his brother Jacob (Israel) for a bowl of pottage.
How did God react to this?
Genesis 25:29-34 – And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: [30] And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. [31] And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. [32] And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? [33] And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. [34] Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Hebrews 12:16,17 – Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
[17] For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Now, if you are a believer, after having read all the Scriptures up to this point, do you think Israel is justified in giving away what God gave them as their promised land of Canaan?
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Israel offers Palestinians control of Ramallah, Nablus and Jenin
JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
August 28, 2007
The teams of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem Tuesday, ahead of a private meeting between the two leaders.
Israel Radio reported that during the extended talks the Israelis gave their Palestinian counterparts general offers on core issues. An unnamed official was quoted as saying that the points on which the sides reached some degree of accord would then be discussed in more detail in higher-level negotiations.
Vice Premier Haim Ramon is slated to head the Israeli negotiating team, and Olmert and Abbas are also set continue meeting in the next few weeks.
Among the proposals made by the Israeli team was an offer to share control of the Temple Mount between the three major religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) and to cede control of the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem to the PA.
The policing of major West Bank towns Ramallah, Jenin and Nablus would also be given to the Palestinians.
During the discussions both sides agreed to work towards a joint security conference with representatives from Israel, Egypt, US and the PA to examine ways to stanch weapons smuggling from Egypt.
However, a proposal to dig a tunnel along the Philadelphi corridor was dismissed because of technical difficulties, Israel Radio reported.
Olmert and Abbas also discussed Abbas’s request to release more Palestinian prisoners.
Israeli government spokesman David Baker said Olmert told Abbas he would soon present a plan Israeli security officials are drawing up to permit greater freedom of movement within the West Bank, which is restricted by IDF roadblocks, Baker said.
Both sides also agreed to continue the meetings between Israeli and Palestinian ministers to discuss nature preservation, economy and culture.
A joint Palestinian-Israeli economic council will be launched, apparently in October in Tel Aviv, in the presence of Olmert, Abbas and international Mideast envoy Tony Blair, Baker added.
The prime minister emphasized that renewed relations between Hamas and Fatah would lead to halting of discussions.
An unconfirmed Al Jazeera
report claimed that the Israeli proposal made no mention of the Palestinian “right of return,” but that it called to create a demilitarized Palestinian state within the borderlines of June 4th 1967.
In exchange for large settlements Israel would like to keep, it would turn over unsettled ground equal in size to the Palestinians, the Qatar-based channel claimed. Neither Palestinian nor Israeli sources verified any of the details reported by Al Jazeera.
Upon entering the prime minister’s house Abbas paused to write a brief comment in the prime minister’s guest book. “I am honored to meet with you in your home. I hope and wish that peace between us will move forward, and the two people will witness the peace that we wish to arrive at,” he wrote.
But just before the meeting Abbas warned that a planned international peace conference would be a “waste of time” if it failed to address the core issues of Palestinian statehood – borders, refugees and Jerusalem.
Abbas pressed Israel to be more specific on how it planned to approach the peace talks, saying Olmert’s proposed “declaration of principles” would not suffice. US President George W. Bush has called for a Mideast peace conference, expected to take place in November, to advance a final Israeli-Palestinian accord.
“If there is a clear framework including final status issues, we will welcome this and go to the conference,” Abbas told Voice of Palestine radio.
Olmert began the meeting by congratulating Abbas on the work of Palestinian security forces in Jenin on Monday. The PA forces rescued an IDF officer who lost his way and drove into the hostile Palestinian town.
Olmert also thanked Abbas for freezing the bank accounts of approximately a hundred charities associated with Hamas.
Earlier Tuesday, an article in the Arab daily Al Quds reported that Hamas had given Abbas a proposal on how to end
the enmity between the group and Fatah.
The report, quoted by Army Radio, said the offer was given to Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar in Gaza, and he transferred it to Abbas.
Abbas has yet to respond to the proposal.
Abbas’s position since June has been to eschew any dialogue with Hamas until the Islamist group apologizes for taking over Gaza and returns the control of the Strip to the Palestinian Authority.
But Fathi Hamad, a Hamas senior in Gaza, said only moments after Abbas and Olmert began their meeting in Olmert’s official residence in Rehavia that Abbas was “behaving as if he is working for Olmert, and by this, bringing his own end nearer.”
The PA chairman, on his side, issued a “message of reassurance” to his people early Tuesday morning, saying that he would only be willing to discuss a Palestinian state if Olmert offers him a final agreement, and would reject any temporary solution.
Abbas also said that while he was willing to conduct secret negotiations, any agreement reached secretly would have to pass the test of a referendum among the Palestinians in the West Bank and be approved by the PLO’s Legislative Council.
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