“That’s Kuwait! That’s Iraq! That’s
Saudi Arabia! That's 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.
*****“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;’
*****
“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 so much, '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.
*****“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.
*****"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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