A STUDY IN GENESIS

Let’s set the record straight once and for all! The land of Israel belongs to one group of people, the Jewish people. Clear and simple. For those who believe it is someone else’s, they are denying verse seven of Genesis 15.

“Then He said to him, “I [am] the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”

The word inherit is the Hebrew word, YARAS which means “to seize and take possession off, and to establish an heir.” God gave them that land for Abram and a particular bloodline through Isaac and Jacob. It is critical we understand this blood lineage and how it comes about. It is through the three that the Jewish people come about. Not any other way, the promises are to them and no one else. For those who claim it is not, they deny the sovereign will and control of God over all that He has created. He alone can give a piece of land, He alone can define the decrees and measurements that bring about what we know.

For the unbeliever this might be hard to understand or even laughable, however for the believer this should be a comforting thing to know that God is in control and when He says something He means it. For if He does away with His promises to Israel and the land, for their actions, what does that mean about you? For King David was promised an heir to sit on the throne, which the Angel Gabriel identified would be Jesus Christ. This has not happened. But if the Jews have failed to live up to God, and He has moved onto a new group of people, what says that Jesus will not do that to you and I? I thank the Lord that He is a God who takes His own word seriously for I am but a whisp in the air to His all knowing, all powerful, and all present self.

This is why God is not done with Israel, this is why the land is no one’s but the Jews and this is why there must be a seven year tribulation where they identify Jesus as the Son of God and their King and Messiah. For those who disagree, they can take it up with Jesus who says in, Malachi 3:6 “For I [am] the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.” We can take this very verse and place our names in it; He does not change, therefore, those who are His and fail to uphold what God is doing in our life are not consumed. Next week we will jump into this very theme and see how Abram asked God for a sign and how God had to make the covenant through His own authority and power due to man’s lack of ability to do so.

Hold until relieved, our Blessed Hope is coming,

JL