Perhaps some perspective on who owns what:
PROPERTY RIGHTS 11-22-2001
The purpose of this article is to prove that the Jewish race along with those who have converted to Judaism OWN the entire land now commonly referred to as Israel and Palestine by Divine grant and title; that this land was deeded to the Jews in perpetuity by God Almighty; and that this title to the land has never been and never shall be revoked.
GOD OWNS EVERYTHING
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
GOD AFFIRMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO OWN AND KEEP PERSONAL PROPERTY
Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not steal.
GOD DECIDES WHO GETS WHAT AND HOW LONG THEY KEEP IT
Daniel 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
IT IS A SIN TO COVET (regard with resentful envy) ANYTHING THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO SOMEONE ELSE
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
GOD GAVE A CERTAIN AREA OF LAND TO ABRAHAM AND HIS DESCENDENTS
Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Genesis 15:18-21 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: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Nehemiah 9:6-8 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. 7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Note that the land that God gave to Abraham is much larger than the present nation of Israel now occupies. The non-Jews who now occupy much of this land are trespassing. The land deeded to Abraham includes the Sinai Peninsula, all of Lebanon and Jordan, parts of Syria, and Iraq, and even a little of Kuwait. All of this land (and possibly more, depending where on the Nile River you measure from) BELONGS to the descendents of Abraham, and "in Isaac shall they seed be called" (Genesis 21:12). In Judaism, this larger area of land has been referred to as "Greater Israel". I affirm their claim. The Jews own all that land by Divine title, and they are authorized to remove and displace every other race, tribe or religion that occupies ANY of it - including all Christians.
GOD PROMISES TO PRESERVE NATIONAL ISRAEL TILL THE END OF THE WORLD
Jeremiah 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
Even if the Jewish nation is temporarily driven from the land as a punishment for their bad behavior, yet the Lord God declares that Israel will be the last nation left intact in the world. America and France and China (etc.) will all cease from being nations before Israel ceases from being a NATION. Even in dispersion, the Jews were and are a nation - a nation in TEMPORARY dispersion.
Jeremiah 31:35-37 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
The land of Israel has been the national homeland of the Jewish race since God made His promise to Abraham, and whether the Jews were there in great numbers or TEMPORARILY driven out and scattered across the world, they were still a nation in God's sight with a national homeland.
Jeremiah 7:7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Those who try to make these promises apply to The Church instead of the Jews are simply denying the plain language of scripture. Yes, I know that there are what the Bible calls "True Jews", but the above language refers not to a people defined by their spiritual character, but to a people defined by race and national culture. Those who say that the Jews have forfeited their right to OWN THE LAND because of their sins have refused to face the UNCONDITIONAL nature of God's promise to Abraham and the later, prophetic reiterations that prove THAT GOD INTENDS TO PRESERVE AND DEFEND THE NATION OF ISRAEL for the Jews until the end of the world.
GOD PREDICTS THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWISH HOMELAND IN THESE LATTER DAYS
Jeremiah 16:14-17
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
After the Babylonian captivity, the Jews returned FROM THE EAST. Look on a map: Babylon is EAST and not NORTH of Israel. Germany, Eastern Europe and Russia (where the most of the Jews now in Israel came from in the 1940's and later) are all north of Israel.
I affirm that Jeremiah 16:14-17 is a prophecy specifically about the modern State of Israel.
Furthermore, the reference to hunters and fishers agrees with how and why the Jews went back to Israel starting in the late 1930's and the 1940's: because they were being HUNTED DOWN and pursued. The persecution during that time was nearly worldwide, and they fled to Israel from the lands of their dispersion to escape the "hunters and fishers" that were after them.
Luke 21:24 ........and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Jesus PREDICTS the restoration of Jewish control over Jerusalem, and anyone who denies that THAT is what Luke 21:24 says, is JUST A LIAR. As it is now, the Palestinians still control a part of Jerusalem, so there is yet more to be fulfilled. It seems likely that when the Jews regain control of the entire city, THE END is truly here.
THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM TO COME IS A POLITICALLY AND GEOGRAPHICALLY JEWISH KINGDOM
Zec 14:16-17 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
GOD THREATENS TO DESTROY ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO TAKE ANY OF THAT LAND AWAY FROM THE RACIAL JEWS
Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Psa 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
AND NOW.....THE "RANT".........
Others have gone much further and quoted more scripture than I have quoted to prove that the modern and restored nation of Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy. But those who are (for whatever their reasons) disposed to deny that the modern carnal Jews own that land and refuse to acknowledge that these Jews are still being used by God as a sign to the whole world, will NEVER BE CONVINCED by any amount of 'scripture and plain reason'.
Let me make it perfectly clear to you that anyone who rejects Jesus Christ's self-made claims is UNacceptable to God. All Christ rejecters, if found to be so at The Judgement, are damned, whether Jews or Gentiles. The fact that the Jews "own the land" does not make them "saved". The Christ rejecting Jews OWN THE LAND, but still they will be damned if they utterly and ultimately refuse and reject Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was and IS the predicted Messiah of the Jews, and He will fulfill the prophecies yet unfulfilled at His 2nd Coming. All the Jews that live through the tribulation will be forced to admit that Jesus Christ was and IS the very Messiah they claimed to be looking for. STILL - this mere concession does not save their souls from damnation, for at that time they will not have any power to refuse or resist the rule of Jesus Christ as the King of Kings; the King of the Jews; the God-Man; and the creator and rightful heir to all the earth.
ON THE OTHER HAND - I (a racial Jew converted to Christianity) utterly reject the modern so-called "Hebrew Roots Movement". This is an attempt to divide The Church into separate groups of Jews and Gentiles, and the "Jewish group" likes to think of themselves as superior. In order to distinguish themselves from the "Gentiles", the so-called "Messianic Believers" (or whatever new name they create for themselves) have invented an exclusive jargon that they use in all their communications. "GOD" has become "G-d" and the common name of Jesus is replaced with any number of other pronunciations and spellings. The Holy Ghost is now the "ruach quodesh" to them, and their list of exclusive terms and usages appears to be growing every day. Some of these groups have even gone to wearing yamulchas, prayer shauls, (and some, even) wearing Bible-times costumes and sporting other symbols of cultural Judaism. They appear to be making every attempt to distinguish themselves from the rank and file Christians.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Just a month ago I received a note from a "leader" of one of these so-called "Messianic Believers" groups in which he FLATLY DENIED the Divinity of Jesus Christ. I believe that the so-called "Hebrew Roots Movement" is heading for heresy, if not open APOSTASY, in EVERY CASE. They are looking, acting and speaking more and more like a "cult" all the time.
The ONLY Divinely spelled and pronounced NAME for the Savior we have is in the New Testament, and in the New Testament (which is GREEK and not Hebrew), the name of the Savior would be "EE-AY-ZOOS".
I understand that when a Spanish speaking person speaks to another Spanish speaking person, he will say "HAY-SOOS" when referring to the name of the Savior, and so it is perfectly fine for people who normally speak Hebrew and commonly understand the name of the Savior as "Yeshua" (or whatever) to use that pronunciation with each other. But for English speaking people to simply REPLACE the commonly known and universally received name of the Savior (Jesus) with a contrived pronunciation is a sign TO ME that they are still rejecting The Jesus Of History and The Jesus Of The Christian Church. They want to be anything BUT, "Just Another Christian".
MY SUMMARY: the racial Jews and their converts are STILL "The Chosen People", but that does not mean that they are "the saved people". The Jews still own all of Palestine by Divine Title and all those who attempt take that land from them by any means are ENEMIES OF CHRIST AND GOD. All Christ REJECTERS are damned, whether Jew or Gentile. There is only ONE CHURCH, and this is what the Lord says to this "ONE CHURCH"...
1 Cor 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Let me now make this perfectly clear: I reject the religion of anyone who insists that The Church must adopt specifically Jewish customs and jargon. I believe that anyone who persistently denies that the modern Jews OWN all the land that God gave to Abraham is NOT SAVED, and is also and therefore the deliberate enemy of God AND His Christ. You may have wavered on these questions up until now with good reason - for the argument over these things is long, loud and persistent: but now is the time for you to choose sides deliberately and finally be whatever you really are. The current uproar in the Middle East is certainly a prologue to the close and summation of this age
...........and how anyone cannot see how the existence of the modern State of Israel is a providential miracle of prophetic fulfillment utterly eludes me... I conclude that they are wilfully self-blinded.
Psalm 35:27
Just Another (ordinary) Christian, and,