God settled who was to own the land where Rachel’s Tomb Exists
He settled it forever at Bethel (The House of God) & Bethlehem
Where He gave the West Bank, Gaza, and all Israel to Jacob!
It will all be Jacob’s when Christ returns at His 2nd Advent!
Jacob took his brother by h is h
eel as Esau came out First!
Esau was the Firstborn but Jacob became the Inheritor!
He was given much more land than the land of Israel!
Arabs have No God given right to the land of Israel!
Ishmael & Esau have no legitimate claim to Israel!
November 9, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Hosea 12:3-5 – He (Jacob) took his brother (Esau) by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: [4] Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; [5] Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
Genesis 28:10-15 – And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. [11] And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. [12] And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. [13] And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; [14] And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. [15] And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis 35:9-20 – And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. [10] And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. [11] And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; [12] And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. [13] And God went up from him in t he place w
here he talked with him. [14] And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. [15] And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. [16] And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. [17] And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
[18] And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. [19] And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. [20] And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
THE ORIGINAL LAND GRANT GIVEN TO ABRAHAM BELONGS TO ISRAEL – ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC THROUGH JACOB, WHO GOD RENAMED ISRAEL! THE DESCENDANTS OF ISHMAEL HAVE NO CLAIM TO IT!
Genesis 17:20,21 – And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. [21] But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL LAND GRANT PROMISED BY GOD TO ABRAHAM
This is the West to East Boundary of the Land Grant
Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
The River of Egypt was not the Nile, but a small river in the Northern Sinai now a part of Egypt.
This is the Northern Boundary of the Land Grant
Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.
The Sea if the Mediterranean Sea
Hamath is modern day Hama in Northern Syria
This is the Southern Boundary of the Land Grant
Ezekiel 47:19 – And the south side
southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
The River is the Euphrates
The great sea is the Mediterranean
Kadesh is just across the Egyptian side of the border about half way between Gaza and the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Begin 2 Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert
November 9, 2010
Begin Excerpt 1 from Institute for Contemporary Affairs
Rachel’s Tomb, a Jewish Holy Place, Was Never a Mosque
Nadav Shragai
(Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)
UNESCO has declared that Rachel’s Tomb near Jerusalem is the Bilal ibn Rabah mosque – endorsing a Palestinian claim that first surfaced only in 1996 and which ignores centuries of Muslim tradition.
As opposed to the Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs which also serve as the location of mosques, Rachel’s Tomb never served as a mosque for the Muslims. The Muslim connection to the site derives from its relation to Rachel and has no connection to Bilal ibn Rabah, Mohammed’s first muezzin.
Rachel’s Tomb, located some 460 meters south of Jerusalem’s municipal boundary, has been identified for over 1,700 years as the grave of the Jewish matriarch Rachel.
Many generations of Jews have visited the place for prayer.
The depiction of Rachel’s Tomb has appeared in thousands of Jewish religious books, paintings, photographs, stamps, and works of art.
There is a Muslim cemetery on three sides of the compound mainly belonging to
the Bedouin Taamra tribe, which began burying its dead at the site due to its proximity to a holy personality. Members of the Taamra tribe harassed Jews visiting the tomb and collected extortion money to enable them to visit the site.
With this background, Moses Montefiore obtained a permit from the Turks to build another room adjacent to Rachel’s Tomb in 1841 to keep the Muslims away from the room of the grave and to help protect the Jews at the site.
Jewish caretakers managed the site from 1841 until it fell into Jordanian hands in 1948. In contravention of the armistice agreement, Jordan prevented Jews from accessing the site during all the years of its rule (1948-1967). On October 19, 2010, the anniversary of her death, some 100,000 Jews visited Rachel’s Tomb.
In 1830 the Turks issued the firman that gave legal force to Rachel’s Tomb being recognized as a Jewish holy site. The governor of Damascus sent a written order to the Mufti of Jerusalem to fulfill the Sultan’s order: “the tomb of esteemed Rachel, the mother of our Lord Joseph…they (the Jews) are accustomed to visit it from ancient days; and no one is permitted to prevent them or oppose them (from doing) this.”
Ironically, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, whose government has been described as “neo-Ottoman” in outlook, told the Saudi paper al-Watan (March 7, 2010) that the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb “were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.”
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
Ottoman Imperial Decrees Debunk Erdogan’s Claim
Former Israeli UN ambassador Dore Gold noted on Monday that “Erdogan did not even bother to have his people check the Ottoman records before making such an outlandish comment about Rachel’s Tomb never being a Jewish holy site.” The Turkish premier’s comments constituted “another example of how leaders who view themselves as Israel’s adversaries are ready to deliberately distort history in order to advance their narrow political objectives.” (Jerusalem Post)
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