So Small The Land

Often it amazes me that one feature of Biblical Revelation is that little piece of land called Israel (once Canaan)

The Bible seems centred around that tiny strip of land at the east end of the Mediterranean and it's inhabitants.

Another thing I find quite astonishing too is that God Himself gave the Israelites full Title to the Land and the Deed to it has been kept in the Bible carefully folded in Psalm 105: 7-11.

He is the Lord our God, His judgements are in all the earth.
He remembers His Covenant forever, the Word which e commanded for a thousand generations. A Covenant 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."

And there it is. The Title and Deed to the land of Israel.

I can't think of anyway God could have made it plainer who owns Israel. He owns it, but, He handed it down to the Israeites.

Paul makes mention of it in Romans 9:4 " to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the Covenants and the Promises........"

So why all the fuss with the Arabs? They have no right to the land!

Something else also strikes me as being quite interesting here.

In 1917, the Balfour Declaration promised the Jewish people a geographical piece of land including Jordan.
Then, in 1922, Winston Churchill created an Arab area called Transjordan which later became Jordan. One stroke of a British pen and bingo 78 percent of the total area given to the Israelites as a Jewish National Home was given to Arabs.

What this meant was that the Jewish people were alloted 22 % of their original inheritance from God because man decreed it.

But there is more! Jews are not allowed to live in Jordan while Arabs are free to live in Israel!!!

And what happens to the Jewish people? They are subjected to continual harrassment and and pressure, political aggitation and open acts of aggression!

But God has a little something to say about that in the book of Joel.3:2

"I will also gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgement with the there on account of My people, MY heritage, Israel whom THEY HAVE SCATTERED among the nations.

THEY HAVE ALSO DIVIDED UP MY LAND"

The odd thing here is that dividing up the land is called a partition.

On November 29th 1947 that is exactly what the United Nations did when they voted to divide Palestine into two areas. One for Arabs, and one for the Jewish Nation.

Hmnnnn ... the Bible is a amazing book. Looks as though God has it all under control for Israel!