03/12/2023
Does Israel, or Ukraine, or Mexico or America or Canada or any other nation-state “own” the land the currently live on and control? No! Only God owns ALL the land because HE made it, and the story of history is God changing tribe-city-nation temporary tenants over millennia. This includes ISRAEL - the Kingdom of Israel, after its peak of glory under King Solomon, was divided because of Solomon’s idolatry against God. Then the northern Kingdom - starting with the idolatry and child sacrifice of Jeroboam - was destroyed by God through the Assyrians, never to recover. Then the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed in 587 BC when God destroyed Jerusalem through the Babylonians, and as He prophesied through Jeremiah, they were allowed to return AS TENANTS 70 years later. Again Israel rebelled against God - for the final time - at the murder of Christ. And Jesus warned the rebellious Jews what would happen to the tenants of Israel - the dirt of it - if they rejected the Messiah, which describes the final destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD: Luke 20:13 “What shall I do?’ asked the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’
14But when the tenants saw the son, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others.”
And when the people heard this, they said, “May such a thing never happen!”
17But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:
‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone’b?
18Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.” OF COURSE I support Israel - and any other nation - against barbarian organized criminals like Hamas and Isis and the Mexican drug cartels and the Eastern European and Chinese mafias for that matter, but DO NOT MAKE the terrible mistake of believing God does not own the land, or that He owes anyone anything through the absurd claim that He hasn’t yet fulfilled His part of any covenant. He has done it ALL through the Messiah! Honor and obey Almighty God the ultimate land owner - “the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof” (King David of Israel)