Good Morning “Facts Seekers.” Today we are in Joshua 15.
As we read through these few chapters, they can read almost like a lineage. Name after name, city after city, territory after territory. What is the point? Perhaps part of the point is just that… there were a lot of city’s, and a lot of territory given to Israel! If you watch the news today or listen to Anti-Semites or Jewish Protestors you might be influenced to sympathize with Palestine.
Through the years, territories have been conquered and then taken back, Kings, governments and recently even the United Nations have been involved in pressuring redistributions.
Without going into complete history lesson on the lands of Israel, suffice it to say that Israel only occupies a small portion of the “Promised Land” today - some 8,000 square miles as I understand it. When God took Moses to the top of Mount Nebo and showed him the “Promised Land”, they were supernaturally looking at approximately 300,000 square miles.
I would not dare teach a history lesson on the subject and couldn’t even if I wanted to. Suspiciously most comparison maps found on the internet today, only go back to 1947 and show the Holy Land occupied by Palestinians. They are interestingly enough put out by Al Jazeera. As I understand it, part of the “oppression” and injustice that anti-semites claim toward Palestine, comes from the moving back into the Holy Land by Jews which began in 1948. Ok but whose land was it way before that, and what happened? Frankly that’s research we all should do.
Who does the land rightly belong to? Here’s the real question in my mind? Who had the ultimate authority to “give it” in the first place, and who was it given to? One only need dig into chapters 12-21, and grow bored reading the seemingly endless list of territories to find the answer. Maybe that’s part of the point.
Acts 17:24-28 “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children…”
Love you all! Dig in!
As we read through these few chapters, they can read almost like a lineage. Name after name, city after city, territory after territory. What is the point? Perhaps part of the point is just that… there were a lot of city’s, and a lot of territory given to Israel! If you watch the news today or listen to Anti-Semites or Jewish Protestors you might be influenced to sympathize with Palestine.
Through the years, territories have been conquered and then taken back, Kings, governments and recently even the United Nations have been involved in pressuring redistributions.
Without going into complete history lesson on the lands of Israel, suffice it to say that Israel only occupies a small portion of the “Promised Land” today - some 8,000 square miles as I understand it. When God took Moses to the top of Mount Nebo and showed him the “Promised Land”, they were supernaturally looking at approximately 300,000 square miles.
I would not dare teach a history lesson on the subject and couldn’t even if I wanted to. Suspiciously most comparison maps found on the internet today, only go back to 1947 and show the Holy Land occupied by Palestinians. They are interestingly enough put out by Al Jazeera. As I understand it, part of the “oppression” and injustice that anti-semites claim toward Palestine, comes from the moving back into the Holy Land by Jews which began in 1948. Ok but whose land was it way before that, and what happened? Frankly that’s research we all should do.
Who does the land rightly belong to? Here’s the real question in my mind? Who had the ultimate authority to “give it” in the first place, and who was it given to? One only need dig into chapters 12-21, and grow bored reading the seemingly endless list of territories to find the answer. Maybe that’s part of the point.
Acts 17:24-28 “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children…”
Love you all! Dig in!
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