In Genesis 15, when God gave Abraham the perimeters of the land (designed for Israel), it was from the river Nile all the way over to the Euphrates.
“That’s Kuwait! That’s Iraq! That’s Saudi Arabia, Jordan!" explains Jordan. “Do you realize Jordan was created by the British in the early 1900s as a land for the Arabs? You see, the Arabs have a land; it’s called Jordan.
"The British drew Saudi Arabia in the sand. They drew Kuwait. All those Arab interests over there, they were created by Europeans as political entities. They’ve nothing to do with history and they didn’t exist 200 hundred years ago. They didn’t exist 100 years ago, most of them.
“God said, ‘That land belongs to me and I’ve deeded it to the nation Israel.’ Now, when you take that land and you realize it belongs to Israel, you get an explanation for the irrational hatred of the nation Israel through history.
“Many books have been written to try and explain why for 2,000 years a nation that
had no homeland or national people have been persecuted like the nation Israel has for the past 2,000 years. They don’t have a homeland, so it’s not about getting territory from them. They didn’t have any territory until 1947.
"It’s not about trying to gain political clout; they didn’t have any. They had no political entity. It isn’t even about trying to take wealth from them because as a nation they had no wealth.
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“You say, ‘Well, what’s the explanation for this irrational passion to exterminate? This insane obsession to exterminate this people?!’ Well, the only real explanation is not a political battle; it’s really a spiritual battle.
“If you fail to 'rightly divide' God’s Word, you’re going to wind up in the Christian camp that says God is through with Israel. I have an article written by R.C. Sproul where he says all the promises God made to Abraham about possessing the Promised Land were fulfilled under Joshua in the Book of Joshua.
“Now this guy’s a brilliant man, educated. You listen to him, he just wows you with all the stuff he knows. I read that and I say, ‘This guy’s nuttier than a fruitcake!’
"God told Abraham, ‘I’m going to give you that land forever.’ You know how long forever is? Well, if it happened in the life of Joshua, it was 110 years because that’s how long Joshua lived.
“So now you know forever is 110 years. People argue, ‘Well, He didn’t really mean that! Forever is just a metaphor.’ Does that make any sense to you? See, that’s how you become an unbeliever. You profess to be a Believer but you don’t believe the book you get your profession out of.
“If forever doesn’t mean forever, when God says, ‘I give you the gift of eternal life,’ how long is that? I mean, if God couldn’t figure out what forever was for Abraham, maybe He couldn’t figure out what it is for you either!
"Okay, you can’t trust one place, how come all of a sudden you can trust another place?! You don’t know you can. Maximum confusion.
“Besides that, you go back in the Book of Moses; Moses predicted that when Israel goes into the land they’re going to rebel. God’s going to judge them, put them out of the land and regather them. None of that happened in the Book of Joshua.
“Joel 3:4 says, ‘Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;’
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“The name Palestine was given to the Promised Land in 135 A.D. by the Romans. They were so mad at the Jews they’d gone in in 70 A.D. and destroyed the Temple, gone back in 115 A.D., tried to put down the rebellion, and in 135 A.D. they finally went in there and they were so angry at the Jews for rebelling again and making them send 50,000 Roman troops down there for no reason.
"The attitude was, 'Just take care of you bunch of pipsqueaks,' that they wiped them out. They renamed the territory (up to then it had been called Israel and Judah) after the Philistines, not the Arabs. And the Jews living in the land from then onward were called Palestinians.
“The first people ever called Palestinians in history were Jews. You see, they’ve politically co-opted the name. But that thing in Psalm 83 said they were craftily counseling: ‘Come sit at the peace table with us. Give us land for peace.’
“Macintyre used to say about the Communists that they believe ‘in a piece of this and a piece of that 'til they’ve got it all,' and that’s the Arab view. That’s Islam’s view: ‘Give us a piece of that and this 'til we got everything.’
“Joel 3:2 says, ‘ 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.’
“He’s saying, ‘We’re going to get the United Nations together, bring them against Israel and plead with them there (gonna punish them) about my people and my heritage Israel who they have scattered among the nations and parted my land.’ I want you to see that verse.
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“There are two reasons for God’s judgment on the nations. One is they scattered His people. They persecuted His people, but two, they parted my land.
“Leviticus 25:23 specifically says the land is not to be sold. You’re not to partition; you’re not to divide it out. To partition and divide the land is in direct defiance of the God of the Bible.
"Every road map for peace being offered Israel is to swap land for peace. It’s the Europeans that came in and partitioned the land. And any plan where you’re going to swap land for peace; whether you’re suggesting it or doing it, you’re doing it in defiance of the God of the Bible and it will not work.
“The United Resolution 181 that you hear so much about did exactly that. It’s the official positions of the nations. All that stage setting tells you how these passages one day can be brought to fulfillment.
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"Jeremiah 16:14 says, '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.'
“One day God’s going to bring Israel back. God Himself is going to bring Israel back, restore them in their land, set them up in their kingdom and it’s going to be such a tremendous event that they’re going to forget all about it, and the reason that’s not answered, humanly speaking, outside of what God says, is the rebellion of man against God’s Word.
“Now, you’re not going to solve all of that over there in Middle East today. All of that stuff is going to move toward where it is. I don’t know if what’s going on there today is what it is but there’s some bad times coming.
“These passages are stage-setting events to show you how . . . one hundred years ago nobody could understand some of those verses because there was no—the political things that have happened in the last 50-80 years weren’t there. You just had to, by faith, understand them.
“I read all that and I say to you, ‘God knows what He’s doing. That’s why He has peace with all this.”
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