There has been much speculation since the election of Donald Trump as to whether he will make significant changes to Israel’s position among the nations by relocating the US Embassy back to Jerusalem and other landmark changes regarding the so called ‘Two State’ solution.
One can only imagine the fallout from just these two issues alone should they be changed from the current policies as they stand.
The issue of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel should not be questioned but for the bogus claims of the Islamic religion and the Palestinian Arabs regarding the fictitious ‘ascent of Mohammed’ to heaven from the third holiest site in Islam.
Islam’s association with Jerusalem dates back to ~650 AD and that by conquest, whereas Israel’s claim to Jerusalem dates back over 3000 years by decree of the Almighty… which no Bible believing person should ever question.
“As long as deep in the heart, The soul of a Jew yearns, And forward to the East To Zion, an eye looks Our hope will not be lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free nation in our land, The land of Zion and Jerusalem.”
Islam has its holy sites of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, Israel has only ever had Jerusalem as its capital and Israel as its homeland.
For the United Nations or such as the Paris summit to decide where a sovereign nation should locate its capital city is ludicrous.
For the UN to decide the borders of a sovereign nation of more than 3000 years is also ridiculous, remembering that the present State of Israel is approximately 1/600th the land mass of the surrounding Arab/Islamic states.
Christians for Israel denounces UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Yesterday, Friday 23 December 2016, the United Nations Security Council convening in New York passed a resolution condemning Israel’s establishment of “settlements” in Jerusalem, Judea or Samaria since 1967 as “flagrant violation of international law”. Fourteen of the fifteen Security Council members voted for the resolution. It is the first time the U.S., which abstained, has not used its veto right to block such a resolution…
Yet again the West, by calling these territories “Palestinian”, conveniently forgets that it was Arab aggression that evicted the Jews from these territories in the first place in 1948. It is just another example of the preparedness of Western leaders to accept Islamic historical revisionism and to exonerate Israel’s neighbours and the Arab Palestinian leadership of any responsibility in the conflict.
This is because it takes the “1967” lines as the boundary of the Palestinian state that the UN is so determined to create. Those lines were created because Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and the Arab Palestinian leaders, rejected the UN Partition Plan of November 1947, and on 15th May 1948 launched a full-on war against the fledgling state of Israel that was intended to drive the Jews into the sea. Had they accepted that plan (as the Jewish leaders did), there would already be an Arab Palestinian state. Instead, they rejected any right of the Jewish people to national self-determination. Just as they had done ever since the Mandate for Palestine was set up in 1920 to enable the establishment of a Jewish national home. That rejection, repeated in 1956, 1967 and 1973, has resulted in almost 70 years of conflict costing thousands of lives. And it is the same basic rejection of the right of the Jewish people to self-determination that underlies this resolution.
By effectively accepting Palestinian claims to exclusive sovereignty over the old city of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and all of Judea and Samaria, the Security Council is undermining the sovereign right of the State of Israel to determine its own borders. There is no other dispute in the world where the UN purports to be entitled to determine the outcome. Yet the nations of the world feel they have the responsibility to resolve this dispute, and the right to determine Israel’s foreign policy.
For the people of Israel, the question of borders is not just a question of legal rights, but a matter of life and death. Israel’s enemies know that the 1949 Armistice lines are indefensible. Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban referred to them as the “Auschwitz lines”. If an Arab Palestinian state is created based on those lines, and that state is controlled by Hamas, Hizbollah or any other fundamentalist Islamic regime, the Jewish state of Israel will face certain destruction. Given all that is happening on Israel’s doorstep, this is not an unlikely scenario.
By passing this resolution, our nations have again abandoned the Jewish people and sided with their enemies. It is a continuation of 2000 years of arrogance and pride that has resulted in pogroms, persecution and attempted genocide.
Press Release from Christians for Israel …24/12/2016
WHO’S PROMISED LAND?
Genuine students of Scripture will already know that Israel’s claim to the whole of the land as promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and reiterated many times by the prophets is by decree of the Almighty and not subject to the whims of Islamic inspired propaganda and the UN.
If at least those who claim to be gentile Christians would speak on behalf of Israel’s God given sovereignty over this land, an important point would be made.
From Scripture we know that the ‘Two State Solution’ is no solution at all as it is in direct opposition with His will and will bring His wrath on those who support or promote it. (Joel 3:1-2)
…the ‘Two State Solution’ is no solution at all as it is in direct opposition with [God’s] will…
RESTING IN GOD’S PROMISES
Israel has every right to determine its own Capital city and borders under God’s guidelines, but Israel and the Jewish people have a responsibility to accept that their heritage as a people and as a sovereign nation is subject to God’s unchanging Word.
Ultimately, He is the Hope of Israel, not the nations, not the UN, not arms nor even nuclear deterrents…
“Hope of Isra’el, Adonai! All who abandon you will be ashamed, those who leave you will be inscribed in the dust, because they have abandoned Adonai, the source of living water…” – Jeremiah 17:3
ISRAEL’S DELIVERANCE IS IN GOD’S HANDS
“Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are very strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the LORD! Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, And will not call back His words, But will arise against the house of evildoers, And against the help of those who work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; And their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, Both he who helps will fall, And he who is helped will fall down; They all will perish together. For thus the LORD has spoken to me: “As a lion roars, And a young lion over his prey (When a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, He will not be afraid of their voice Nor be disturbed by their noise), So the LORD of hosts will come down To fight for Mount Zion and for its hill. Like birds flying about, So will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; Passing over, He will preserve it.” – Isaiah 31:1-5
REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE LORD OH ISRAEL…
“We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions. Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God. They have bowed down and fallen; But we have risen and stand upright.
Save, LORD! May the King answer us when we call…” – Psalm 20:5-9
Yahweh is not only the Hope of Israel, but in the long term, He is Israel’s Only Hope!
Israel’s National Anthem is named The Hatikvah, which embodies the yearning of the Jewish heart for more than 2 Millenia ‘to be a free nation in our land’
All Scripture quotations are from the Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern Jewish New Testament Publications 1998
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