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Israel: The Super-Sign of the End Times (Part 1) (Dispensational Caucus)
BibleProphecyBlog.com ^ | 2/1/2011 | Todd Baker

Posted on 02/01/2011 12:08:29 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta

Preachers and theologians are often fond of saying that History is “His story,” meaning that God plans and determines the details and events that make up human history ruling over the process from beginning to end to fulfill His great purpose for Mankind. Nothing could be truer of Israel. The history of the Jewish people is “His story” played out within human history, which has been revealed, foretold, and written in the Bible.

Israel’s history is supernatural from beginning to end. It began with the Patriarch Abraham some 4,000 years ago when God called this nomadic wanderer from Ur of the Chaldeans (Modern day Iraq) to leave his homeland and go into the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:1-3). Abraham obeyed that call and became the father of the nation Israel and the Jewish people. Though Abraham, and Sarah his wife, were well beyond the age of having children (Genesis 18:11), God miraculously rejuvenated the ninety-year old body of Sarah to bear them a son; Isaac through whom God would raise up the people and nation the Messiah would come through (Genesis 21:12).

With the promised child came the Promised Land — the land that is called Israel - where Abraham and his descendants would live. In Genesis 13:15 and 17:7-8, God promised to give the land to Abraham and his descendants (the Jews) for an “everlasting possession” under the unconditional terms of an “everlasting covenant”:

“For all the land which you see I have given it to you and your descendants forever. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.”

Here we observe from Israel’s inception that the history of the Jewish people and their divine destiny is inextricably bound up with the land God promised them. The covenant referred to in Genesis 17:7-8 is formally called the Abrahamic Covenant. It is an eternal covenant made between God to Abraham and his descendants forever. God essentially established through this Covenant with Abraham a people from him (the Jewish people), a place for them (the land of Israel), so that the purpose of blessing all the nations of the world could occur in perpetuity, that is forever. Thus God gave the land of Israel to the Jews forever and to no other ethnic group or nation, protestations from the Arabs, Palestinians, and international community notwithstanding.

One of the basic laws of Bible interpretation is the law of first mention. The law of first mention states that when a thing is mentioned for the first time in the Bible it carries the same meaning all throughout the Scriptures. It establishes the Bible as consistent in its meaning from beginning to end as it applies to persons, places, events, and things.

In Genesis 13:15 we have the first mention in Scripture stating that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and the Jewish people forever. This truth is reiterated throughout the rest of Scripture and establishes the rightful owners of the land to be the Jews granted by divine right. There is no deviation or alteration by God from this covenant. It stands for all time. The ongoing struggle for Israel’s right to live in the Land of Promise has already been settled once and for all by the eternal counsel of God as codified and enacted in the Abrahamic Covenant. God has spoken and His Word on this matter is settled forever (Psalm 119:89); thus all the political wrangling about who the land belongs to is quite simply moot and in the end irrelevant and inconsequential.

The current Middle East crisis centers around who owns the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. But unbelief coming from the world disputes and dismisses the whole issue being settled by the inerrant Word of God. One cannot begin to understand the current Middle East crisis and how it relates to Israel’s past, present and future without knowing and understanding the fundamental importance of this divine covenant. Author Richard Booker wisely wrote:

“Indeed the key to understanding today’s headlines and tomorrow’s news lies in the past within the sacred covenant God made with Abraham.” (Richard Booker, Blow the Trumpet in Zion, p.17).

In the series of articles to come, we will explore how this is true throughout the divine panoramic plan God has for Israel in the past, present, and future as revealed through Bible prophecy.


TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; History
KEYWORDS: eschatology; theology
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1 posted on 02/01/2011 12:08:33 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: whattajoke

Who is forcing you to click on the articles?


3 posted on 02/01/2011 12:20:29 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: whattajoke

You do realize that this is a Caucus thread, correct?

If you must complain and be contrary to the cause of the Caucus, do so elsewhere.


4 posted on 02/01/2011 12:22:08 PM PST by paladin1_dcs
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To: paladin1_dcs

Thank you.


5 posted on 02/01/2011 12:22:51 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: whattajoke

Thank you, it’s greatly appreciated.


7 posted on 02/01/2011 12:29:15 PM PST by paladin1_dcs
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To: RBIEL2

Can you post the Scripture where God said that His everlasting covenant with Israel is conditional upon their behavior?


9 posted on 02/01/2011 12:39:34 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
Thus God gave the land of Israel to the Jews forever

Descendants of Israel became known as Israelites.

There were 12 Tribes, one of which is the tribe of Judah.

The first place Jew or Jewish appears in the Bible is in the book of Esther.

There is a lot that happened before the book of Esther.

Israel or the Land of Israel was given to all the tribes.

10 posted on 02/01/2011 12:55:56 PM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

While there’s nothing in Scripture to say that His covenant is anything but everlasting, that’s not the same as to say that Israel is acting in righteousness.

I suspect that this is still the second day that is mentioned in the Valley of Dry Bones, we’ve not gotten to the Third day yet where Israel has the Spirit breathed back into them.


11 posted on 02/01/2011 12:58:15 PM PST by paladin1_dcs
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To: Quix

bflr


12 posted on 02/01/2011 1:00:42 PM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: paladin1_dcs
God says that it is not for the Jews that He keeps His covenant, but for His holy name:

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went. 23“I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. 24“For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. 25“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27“I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. 28“You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God. 29“Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you. 30“I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations. 31“Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. 32“I am not doing this for your sake,” declares the Lord GOD, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel!” (Ezekiel 36:22-32)

God will fulfill all of His promises to Israel during the Millennial reign.

13 posted on 02/01/2011 1:03:22 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: RBIEL2
Does every good question have to devolve to a Bible 101 level.

No, but you really do need to be able to provide Scripture to validate claims about Scripture.

Israels security and peace are related to its fidelity to God.

Well, we can rest assured that that is only an opinion and is contrary to what God said. Never does God condition His everlasting covenant with Israel on their behavior.

15 posted on 02/01/2011 1:10:45 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: RBIEL2
There are covenants which God made with Israel which were conditional.

The covenant God made with Abraham giving the specified land to Israel is everlasting, cannot be destroyed, and is not conditional on Israel's behavior.

Not moronic, just simple Biblical truth.

17 posted on 02/01/2011 1:26:05 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: RBIEL2

how does the sexual revolution play in to G-d’s plan for israel...

not coveting thy neighbors wife has nothing to do with his daughters.../ sarc

just kidding...

t


20 posted on 02/01/2011 1:41:14 PM PST by teeman8r (armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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