The “calling card” Bible verse for Muslims vowing to “wipe Israel off the map” is Psalms 83:4: "They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."
Jeremiah 31: [35] 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.
Jeremiah 33: [19] And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
[20] Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
[21] Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
“God says, ‘If you can take the ordinances of heaven, the way I structured heaven to operate, and cause creation not to work, then may also my covenant be broken with David,’ ” explains Richard Jordan.
“Now, there’s an interesting response:[23] Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, [24] Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
“There are going to be some people who don’t like what God said. They say, ‘Look, we just need to make Israel no more a nation.’ In Psalm 83 you can see them talk; it actually tells you who they are. In our day, it’s people like the United Nations, the World Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, Covenant Theology.
“Talking specifically about the Tribulation, Jeremiah says these people see Israel out there in captivity and they say, ‘See, no more.’
“Verses 25-26: [25] Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
[26] Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
“The only way to get rid of Israel is to get rid of the earth and God says, ‘Not gonna happen.’
“The first time in your Bible God ever says He’s going to make a covenant is in Genesis 9 and He does it with Noah and it’s a fascinating thing: [8] And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
[9] And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
[10] And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
[11] And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
[12] And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
[13] I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
“Every time you see a rainbow at the end of a rain, you see ‘my bow,’ which is a reference to Ezekiel 1:
[26] And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
[27] And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
[28] As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
When Ezekiel goes into the throne room of God he sees the glory of God there as a rainbow. It’s a manifestation of all the seven colors that are in the light. Around the throne of God is this great-multi-colored rainbow that demonstrates His glory.
“You remember Joseph had a coat of many colors. The first coat of many colors God dressed Adam and Eve with; He dressed them with His light. It’s a badge and a uniform demonstrating the glory of God. It’s a sign, ‘I’ve made a covenant between me and the earth. I’ll never allow the earth to be destroyed again.’
“That covenant is a covenant that God makes with the earth that the earth will be a stable platform for the accomplishment of His purposes and you never have to worry about the earth being destroyed again as it was in the Flood."
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