Four Blood Moons (10 page)

Why is this important? Because the world is about to explode into World War III over who owns the land of Israel, as Iran races toward the development of a nuclear bomb that will destabilize the world forever. The greatest geopolitical threat to America and the world can be resolved by answering the question: to whom does the land of Israel truly belong? God resolved this controversy centuries ago.

In the following pages, I have given twenty-five Bible references to emphasize God's desire for the Jewish people to exclusively own this land forever.

1. Now the L
ORD
had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,

From your family

And from your father's house,

To a land
that I will show you.

I will make you a great nation;

I will bless you

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you;

And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

(G
ENESIS
12:1–7)

2. The L
ORD
said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward and westward; for all the
land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever
.”

(G
ENESIS
13:14–15)

3. Then He said to him, “I am the L
ORD
, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
to give you this land to inherit it
.” And [Abram] said, “L
ORD
God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.

(G
ENESIS
15:7–10)

4. And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. On the same day the L
ORD
made a covenant with Abram, saying: “
To your descendants I have given this land
, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

(G
ENESIS
15:17–21)

5.
Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac
. But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.

(G
ENESIS
25:5–6)

6. There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar [Gaza]. Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.
Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these
lands
, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” So Isaac dwelt in Gerar [Gaza].

(G
ENESIS
26:1–6)

7. Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the L
ORD
stood above it and said: “
I am the L
ORD
God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants
.”

(G
ENESIS
28:10–13)

8.
I have come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
to bring them up from that land to a good and large land
, to a land flowing with milk and
honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

(E
XODUS
3:8)

9. God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the L
ORD
. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name L
ORD
I was not known to them.
I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers
.”

(E
XODUS
6:2–4)

10. Therefore say to the children of Israel: “I am the L
ORD
; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the L
ORD
your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And
I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage
: I am the L
ORD
.”

(E
XODUS
6:6–8)

11.
Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob
, and My covenant
with Isaac
and My covenant
with Abraham
I will remember; I will remember the land.

(L
EVITICUS
26:42)

12. Command the children of Israel, and say to them: “When you come into
the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance
—the land of Canaan to its boundaries.”

(N
UMBERS
34:2)

13.
See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the L
ORD
swore to your fathers
—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.

(D
EUTERONOMY
1:8)

14. Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people,
to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel
. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea [Mediterranean Sea] toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.

(J
OSHUA
1:2–4)

15. . . . and send rain on
Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance
.

(1 K
INGS
8:36)

16. O seed of Israel His servant,

You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!

He is the L
ORD
our God;

His judgments are in all the earth.

Remember His covenant forever
,

The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

The covenant
which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac,

And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel for an
everlasting covenant
,

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the allotment of your inheritance.”

(1 C
HRONICLES
16:13–18)

17. Then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and
bring them back to the land which You gave to them and their fathers
.

(2 C
HRONICLES
6:25)

18. You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, And brought them water out of the rock for their thirst, And told them to
go in to possess the land

Which You had sworn to give them
.

(N
EHEMIAH
9:15)

19. He remembers His covenant forever,

The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,

The covenant which He made with Abraham,

And His oath to Isaac,

And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,

To Israel as an everlasting covenant
,

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

As the allotment of your inheritance.”

(P
SALM
105:8–11)

20. Also your people shall all be righteous;

They shall inherit the land forever
,

The branch of My planting,

The work of My hands,

That I may be glorified.

(I
SAIAH
60:21)

21. “Behold, the days are coming,” says the L
ORD
, “that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,” says the L
ORD
. “And
I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers
, and they shall possess it.”

(J
EREMIAH
30:3)

22. I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and
bring you into your own land
.

(E
ZEKIEL
36:24)

23.
Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth
,

And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy,

Then I will say to those who were not My people,

“You are My people!”

And they shall say, “You are my God!”

(H
OSEA
2:23)

24. I will also gather all nations,

And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;

And I will enter into judgment with them there

On account of
My people, My heritage Israel
,

Whom they have scattered among the nations;

They have also divided up My land
.

(J
OEL
3:2)

25.
I will plant them in their land
,

And no longer shall they be pulled up

From the land I have given them,

Says the L
ORD
your God.

(A
MOS
9:15)

I have provided these scriptures to establish in your mind how urgently God wants mankind to understand the eternal importance of His covenant of the Land with the Jewish people!

God never breaks covenant! The above body of scriptures proves beyond all reasonable doubt that God gave to the Jewish people a specific piece of real estate that was to be theirs and was forever sealed by a blood covenant. That covenant cannot be rescinded by Russia, Syria, Iran and its radical legions, Hamas, Hezbollah, or even the United Nations and America. God will crush any nation that tries to drive the Jewish people off their sacred soil called Israel (Joel 3:2).

Some Christians teach that God has broken covenant with the Jewish people. This teaching has come to be known as
Replacement Theology;
some refer to it as
Supersessionism
.

Replacement Theology is a doctrine that presents three false concepts:

1.    God is finished with the Jewish people.

2.    The New Israel (the Christian church) takes the place of the Jewish people in the economy of God forever.

3.    God has broken covenant with the Jewish people and substituted His covenant with the Christian church.

One of the texts typically used as a foundation for Replacement Theology is the parable of the fig tree (Matthew 21:18–22).

These verses are falsely interpreted by Replacement advocates who teach that the fig tree represents the Jewish people, with the emphasis being put on the words of Jesus, “Let no fruit grow on you
ever again
” (Matthew 21:19). But the true message of this parable is the
authority
of the believer, not the state of Israel. In 21:21–22 Jesus said to His disciples, who saw the withered tree:

Assuredly, I say to you, if you [the believer] have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

The central theme of this text is the authority of the believer in all things—even power over nature, not the replacement of the Jewish people.

National Israel was reborn in May 1948 and is today one of the most prosperous nations in the world. It has more patents for new inventions per capita than any nation on earth.
¹
Spiritual Israel never ceased to be, and national Israel is flourishing like few nations on the face of the earth!

The second Replacement concept, asserting that the Christian church has replaced the Jewish people, is a complete disregard for Scripture. God made an eternal covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their seed forever that the land of Israel belonged to them by a blood covenant that was eternal.

Why is the ownership of the land of Israel so crucial to our generation? Specifically, there are about 120 million hostile Arabs screaming for the blood of the Jewish people today, and threatening to plunge the Middle East and the world into World War III.

What is the issue? It is the
issue
that has Iran building a nuclear bomb . . . the
issue
that has Hamas and Hezbollah loading long-range missiles to attack Jerusalem . . . the
issue
that is at the heart of the foremost geopolitical crisis of our generation: to whom does the land of Israel belong?