For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

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. (Joel 3:1,2)

Israel tries to divide God's miracle land

WorldNetDaily
August 23, 2008

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73129

You may have read the news.

Under the corrupt and misguided leadership of Ehud Olmert, Israel is preparing to divide the country in half – giving almost the entirety of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority, the sworn enemies of everything good and decent in the world.

This latest "land-for-peace deal" will form the basis of a new Palestinian state.
And the world will live in peace and harmony forever more.

Well, not exactly.

Here is the fundamental problem as I, a Christian Arab-American journalist and former Middle East correspondent, see it: It's not Israel's land to give away. It's God's holy land – land he has entrusted to His people.

I know Olmert doesn't believe that. I know very few politicians in Israel believe that. I know most Israelis don't believe that. But that disbelief doesn't change reality.

Just because most Israelis, and perhaps even most Jews worldwide, are secular-minded souls, self-conscious about being "God's chosen people," doesn't mean you can take the land you were given miraculously and throw it away.

That's what Israel is about to do. And there will be consequences.

God commands Israel not to do what it is about to do.

The land can't be divided. It can't even be sold or exchanged, according to Ezekiel 48:14. But worse, the Israelis are giving it away to their enemies – and, quite frankly, the enemies of God.
God did not have Moses part the Red Sea for this.

He did not bring His people out of Egypt for this.

He did not bring them out of captivity repeatedly for this.

And He certainly did not perform His biggest miracle of all – regathering the Jews 2,000 years after their dispersion and recreating the forgotten land of Israel – to see it frittered away like this.

Who says the rebirth of Israel is a bigger miracle than the Exodus?

God does.

Throughout much of the Bible, God refers to Himself as the One who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. It's one of the names of God. It is how He was known to His people – through His miraculous works.

However, God says in Jeremiah 23:7-8 He will be known later for the miracle of the regathering of the children of Israel – an even greater miracle than the Exodus: "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land."

This is a miracle that took place 60 years ago – and it was bigger, in God's eyes, than the parting of the Red Sea, than the manna from heaven, than the giving of the law on Mount Sinai, than the walls tumbling down at Jericho.

Isaiah prophesied, too, that Israel would be reborn. He even predicted it would happen in one day (Isaiah 66:7-8). Do you know of any other nation in the history of the world that was literally born in a day?

But it was still God's land, says Jeremiah 3:18: "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers."

It wasn't the United Nations that gave Israel the land.

It wasn't Israel's military prowess that delivered the land.

It wasn't the hard work of the Zionists that made it happen.

It was foreordained. It was God's work. And He didn't entrust His land because He wanted it
given away to non-believers.

Do I disagree with what Israel is doing?

Yes.

Do I believe Israel is performing a great evil?

Yes.

Do I believe Israel will face dire consequences as a result?

Yes.

But it doesn't matter what I believe.

What matters is what God says.