Shakings, Weighings and
Divisions:
Syria, Annapolis and the Return of
YHVH
Part Two of Three –
Dividing Up the Land of Israel: What Does The Bible
Say?
Across the globe the spiritual electronic
chatter is picking up right now. Subtle changes are taking place in society, in
the spirit and in spiritual warfare. World events are unfolding quickly, revealing wicked plans which target the land of Israel and the Jewish
people.
Islamist jihadi goals are many, and they
include wiping out all opposition to Islam, weakening and destroying the West
and Christianity, and annihilating Israel's land and people.
Multinational power players closely tied to oil are interested in consolidating
and increasing their hold on the world's reserves. They are playing poker with
world resources. They are playing chess, using world leaders and recalcitrant
countries as pawns. Sometimes even the foreign policies and military forces of
major powers are being redirected and manipulated for power and
profit.
This is part two of our three part October
newsletter. In this newsletter we will quickly run through biblical perspectives
regarding the biblical borders of Israel (from Abraham to the Second
Coming), and what God thinks about moving or adjusting those borders. In our
third newsletter we will focus on what the USA and the international community are planning
and doing regarding dividing up the land; how the Annapolis conference fits into this flow; and why
Israel's main leader is going along
for the ride.
Borders in the
Book
The Scriptures teach that all
international borders of all countries are overseen and established by God.
These in turn are subservient to God's heart and plan for the Jewish
people:
"When
the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided all mankind,
He set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of
Israel. For YHVH's portion is His
people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. In a desert land He found him, in a
barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; He guarded him as
the apple of His eye" (Deut. 32:8-10). It is the nations' borders that are to be
delineated based on the priority of Israel, and not vice versa. From the
Bible's perspective, altering Israel's borders is an expression of
rebellion against the God who established those
borders.
YHVH promised a land to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob – one with specific borders (Gen. 12:1; 13:14-17; 15:7-21; 17:8; 26:4; 35:11-12). At the end
of time, God promises the Jewish people that they will return from exile to that
very same land and to those very same borders:
"This is what YHVH
says: 'Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work
will be rewarded, declares YHVH. They will return from the land of the enemy. So
there is hope for your future, declares YHVH. Your children will return to their
own borders'"
(Jer. 31:16-17; see also Num. 33-35; Josh. 13-21).
God informs Israel
that He has established borders for other neighboring nations, and that the
Jewish people need to honor these borders (Deut. 2:4-12, 19-23). However other warlike tribes who fought
against Israel (and who had
no promise from God regarding the lands they had squatted on) were fair game,
and their land eventually became part of Israel's inheritance
(Deut.
2:24-37).
At the End of Days YHVH clearly delineates
the future borders of Israel while promising to return the
Jewish people to their own land (Ezek. 47-48).
Bordering on
Disaster
The Scriptures declare that God is in
favor of just borders. YHVH does not take matters lightly when a neighbor's
boundaries are ignored, or when bullies steal land from weaker elements of
society. "Do not move an ancient boundary
stone set up by your forefathers" (Prov. 22:28). "Do not move
an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their
Defender is strong; He will take up their case against you"
(Prov.
23:10-11).
The Scriptures point out that some nations
scorn and reject the right of God to delineate the borders of His land of Israel. These nations claim the land of Israel as their own and, in doing so, end
up opposing the God of the Bible.
O God, do not keep
silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still. See how Your enemies are astir, how
Your foes rear their heads. With cunning they conspire against Your people; they
plot against those You cherish. "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a
nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." With
one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You. . . Make their
nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, who said,
"Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God." (Psa. 83:1-5, 11-12).
But all who devour you
will be devoured; all your enemies will go into exile. Those who plunder you
will be plundered; all who make spoil of you I will despoil. But I will restore
you to health and heal your wounds, declares YHVH, because you are called an
outcast, "Zion
for whom no-one cares". This is what YHVH says: I will restore the fortunes of
Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwellings; the city will be rebuilt on
her ruins, and the palace will stand in its proper place. . . Their children
will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before Me; I
will punish all who oppress them. (Jer.
30:16-20)
Plundering The
Land
God gets even more specific and points a
finger at the descendants of Esau or Edom (southern Jordan) who invaded Israel
in 605 B.C and settled in the Hebron hills south of Jerusalem (part of today's
"West Bank"). Ezekiel says that these Arab attempts to take over the biblical
land of Israel create anger and jealousy within the breast of
Israel's God. This prophecy helps us
to understand the context of Obadiah 1:9,18 and Malachi
1:2-5.
The word of YHVH came
to me: "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it and
say: 'This is what YHVH says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch
out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste. . .Because you harbored
an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time
of their calamity …therefore as surely as I live, declares YHVH, I will give you
over to bloodshed and it will pursue you . . . Because you have said, "These two
nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them," even
though I YHVH was there, therefore as surely as I live, declares YHVH, I will
treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of
them and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. Then you will
know that I YHVH have heard all the contemptible things you have said against
the mountains of Israel. You said, "They have been
laid waste and have been given over to us to devour." You boasted against Me and
spoke against Me without restraint, and I heard it. This is what YHVH says:
While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. Because you rejoiced
when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, that is how I
will treat you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir,
you and all of Edom. Then they will know that I am
YHVH.'" (Ezek. 35:1-15)
In Ezekiel 36 God says that many nations
(and not only some Arabs) have designs on the land of Israel. But the Lord's response to those
designs will always be burning anger and scorn.
Son of man, prophesy
to the mountains of Israel
and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of YHVH. This
is what YHVH says: The enemy said of you, "Aha! The ancient heights have become
our possession."' Therefore prophesy and say, This is what YHVH says: Because
they ravaged and hounded you from every side so that you became the possession
of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and
slander, therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of YHVH: This is what
YHVH says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the
desolate ruins and the deserted towns that have been plundered and ridiculed by
the rest of the nations around you – this is what YHVH says: In My burning zeal
I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against Edom, for with glee
and with malice in their hearts they made My land their own possession so that
they might plunder its pastureland. Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills,
to the ravines and valleys: 'This is what YHVH says: I speak in My jealous wrath
because you have suffered the scorn of the nations. Therefore this is what YHVH
says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer
scorn. But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for My
people Israel, for they will soon come
home.
(Ezek.
36:1-8)
Having a Hernia on the
Day of the Lord
The ancient Hebrew prophets describe a
future event – an international invasion and conquest of the land of Israel. When the nations of the earth come
to divide Israel and
Jerusalem, God
Himself will cause the Jewish people to become like an immoveable rock. Any
nation who tries to move this boundary stone will suffer an instant and
painful hernia.
This is the word of
YHVH concerning Israel. YHVH, who stretches out the
heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man
within him, declares: I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding
peoples reeling. Judah will
be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of
the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the
nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. On that day I will
strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness, declares YHVH. I will
keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the
horses of the nations (Zech. 12:1-4).
When Messiah Yeshua returns, He will judge all nations for the
part they will all have had in dividing up the land of Israel. "In those days and at that time, when I restore the
fortunes of Judah and
Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring
them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into
judgment against them concerning My inheritance, My people Israel,
for they scattered My people among the nations and divided up My
land" (Joel 3:1-2).
The Scriptures actually teach that when
the nations invade the land of
Israel and divide up Jerusalem, this will be the
main trigger that causes Yeshua to return to earth:
A day of YHVH is
coming when …I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be
captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go
into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. Then
YHVH will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of
battle. On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of
Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving
south
(Zech.
14:1-4)
Dividing up the land of Israel is serious stuff. It is definitely
not a neutral issue from God's perspective.
We
live in amazing, awesome days, when biblical issues are daily transformed into
screaming headlines. How we need the fear of the Lord to fall on us all in a new
and ardent way, as we see these events
unfold.
Pray
for the leaders of your nation and for the leaders of Israel
who do not yet understand God's heart and strategies as revealed in these
abovementioned Scriptures; that God would grant revelation, repentance and
divine counter-strategies which honor Him, His word and His
people.
Coming soon – the third newsletter in this
series, which will clarify what the USA and the international community are planning
and doing regarding dividing up the land; how the Annapolis conference fits into this flow; and why
Israel's main leader is going along
for the ride.
In Messiah Yeshua's love,
Avner
Boskey (for Rachel, Daniel, David, Asaph and
Elisha)
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