Israel's Everlasting Possession

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Israel's Everlasting Possession

Read the wonderful promises of how God promised the land of Israel to His people for an

EVERLASTING POSSESSION.

It belongs to them by God’s divine order.

The land of Israel is ultimately God’s land!

“The land is MINE” (Leviticus 25:23).

“(God) will be merciful unto HIS land, and to HIS people” (Deuteronomy 32:43).

God is called “the God of the land” (2 Kings 17:26-27).

“Then will the Lord be jealous for HIS land, and pity His people” (Joel 2:18).

“They have divided up MY land” (Joel 3:2).

“The LORD’S land” (Hosea 9:3).

God gave it to His people Israel by divine covenant!

“I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land… all the land of Canaan, for aneverlasting possession” (Genesis 17:8).

Genesis 12:7; 13:14-17; 15:7, 17-21; 17:7-8; 24:7; 26:3-5; 28:12-15; 35:10-12; 48:4 and 50:24.

Exodus 3:8, 17; 6:2-8; 15:17; 32:13; 33:1-3; Leviticus 20:24 and 26:42-45.

Deuteronomy 1:6-8; 6:23; 11:9, 24, 26:15; 32:49; 34:1-4; Joshua 1:1-6; 2:24; 1 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 7:24; 1 Chronicles 16:15-19; 2 Chronicles 20:7 and Nehemiah 9:8, 24-25.

Psalm 47:4; 69:35-36; 94:14; 102:13-16; 105:6-12; 42-45 and 147:2.

Although the Israelites were scattered across the nations because of disobeying God’s commandments, God promised He would bring them back to their land. God cannot fail His promises!

“Therefore, behold the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but, the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers” (Jeremiah 16:14-15 and 23:7-8).

“Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: if those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus saith the Lord; if heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord” (Jeremiah 31:34-37).

“Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly which my whole heart and with my whole soul” (Jeremiah 32:41).

“Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations any more” (Ezekiel 39:28 RSV).

There is not only one promise of them coming back to the land, but over 100 promises. You will be inspired as you read every promise! Jews are now living in Israel from 102 nations of the world and 88 different languages, and all speaking or learning Hebrew!

Leviticus 26:40-42, 44-55; Numbers 10:29b; Deuteronomy 30:2-6; Nehemiah 1:8-9; Psalm 69:35-36; 102:13-16; 106:44-47 and 107:2-3.

Isaiah 2:1-4; 10:20-22; 11:11-12, 16; 14:1-2; 27:6, 12-13; 32:17-18; 35:10; 41:8-109; 43:5-6, 13; 44:3-5, 26; 49:8-13; 22-23; 51:3, 11, 14; 54:2-8; 56:6-8; 57:14, 18; 58:12; 60:4, 9-21; 61:4-5 65:9-10, 21 and 66:8.

Jeremiah 3:12, 14, 17-19; 18; 7:7; 11:4-5; 16:14-16; 23:3, 7-8; 24:6-7; 25:5; 29:12-14; 30:3, 10-11, 17-24; 31:3-14, 16-28, 35-37; 32:15, 21-22, 37-44; 33:10-16; 46:27-28; 50:4-5 and 19-20.

Ezekiel 11:17-20; 20:5-6, 34, 40-44; 28:25-26; 33:24; 34:11-16, 27-31; 36:8-12, 22-28, 33-38; 37:1-28; 39:25-29; 47:13-23 and 48:29-35.

Hosea 3:4-5; 11:11-12; 14:4-7; Joel 3:1-2; Amos 2:10; 9:11-15; Micah 2:12; 4:1-8; 11-12; Zephaniah 2:6-7; 3:19-20; Zechariah 1:17; 2:4-8,12; 3:19-20; 8:1-8, 20-23; 9:16-17; 10:6-10; 12:1-14 and Romans 11:25-36.

The following Scriptures are being fulfilled right now as hundreds of believers from USA and other countries work with the vinedressers on the hills of Samaria (the West Bank)—planting, pruning and harvesting the grapevines. Check out www.hayovel.com 

“And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers” (Isaiah 61:5).

“Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria, the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things” (Jeremiah 31:5).

“And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God” (Amos 914-15).

The Jews are not living in Occupied Territories but “their own land.”

“For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land” (Ezekiel 36:24). Read also Ezekiel 28:25; 34:13 and 37:14, 21). God has also promised to make them one nation, not two. “I will make them one nation upon the mountains of Israel” (Ezekiel 37:21).

Woe to those who seek to divide and do evil against the land of Israel!

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat. Then I will enter into judgment with them there on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; and they have divided up My land” (Joel 3:1-2). Read also Genesis 12:3; Psalm 129:5; Jeremiah 51:24; Ezekiel 25:7; 35:1-15; 36:1-8; 38:18-23; Obadiah 15 and Zechariah 12:1-9.

God not only remembers the people of Israel, but the land of Israel!

“Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember: and I will remember the land” (Leviticus 26:42).

We must faithfully pray for the land of Israel! Every individual believer, every family and every church should be constantly praying for Israel at this time. As the nations of the world are coming against Israel, God’s people must pray and stand with God’s eternal Word. Take these promises and bring them before the Lord. We are told in Isaiah 62:6-7 to remind the Lord of His promises.

“I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before mefor the land…” (Ezekiel 22:30). Also Ezekiel 13:5.

What about Jerusalem?

“Even though you are exiled to the farthest corners of the universe, I will bring you back to Jerusalem. For Jerusalem is the place in which I have chosen to live” (Nehemiah 1:9 TLB).

Out of all the cities in the world, God chose Jerusalem to put His name, and to one day reign from this city!

Deuteronomy 12:5, 11-12; Ezra 7:15; 1 Kings 8:29; 9:3; 11:13, 32; 2 Kings 21:4, 7; 2 Chronicles 6:5-6; 7:16; 12:13; 20:9; 33:4; Nehemiah 1:9; Psalm 48:1-2, 8 ; 68:16; 78:68; 87:1-3, 5; 132:13-14; 135:21; Isaiah 8:18b; 14:32; 18:7c; 24:23; 40:2, 9-11; 68:15-16; Jeremiah 3:17; Ezekiel 5:5; Joel 2:32; 3:16-18, 20; Amos 1:2; Micah 4:7; Zephaniah 3:14-16; Zechariah 1:14-17; 2:10-12; 3:2; 8:2-3, 22; 14:9-11 and Matthew 5:34-35.

“The house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem” (Ezra 1:3, 5; 2:68; 3:8; 5:2, 15-17; 6:3a, 12, 14—18 and 7:15, 19, 27).

God calls Jerusalem, “MY holy mountain” (Joel 2:1; 3:17) It doesn’t belong to anyone else. Read also Psalm 2:6; Isaiah 65:12, 25; 66:20 and Ezekiel 20:40).

God is called the “God of Israel,” but He is also called the “God of Jerusalem” (Ezra 7:19).

King David of Israel captured Jerusalem around about 1003 BC.

We do not know the exact date of the following Scripture, but at least we know that the Jews celebrate 3,000 years of their history of Jerusalem.

“And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spoke unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shall not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David. So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the City of David” (2 Samuel 5:6-7, 9).

The Jews will not only return to Israel but to their city of Jerusalem!

Psalm 147:2; Isaiah 2:2-3; 27:13; 31:5; 33:20-21; 35:10; 44:26-28; 52:1-10; 65:18-19; 66:10-13; Jeremiah 3:17-18; 31:6; 50:5; Ezekiel 5:5; 20:40; Joel; 2:32; 3:16-21; Obadiah 17; Zechariah 2:4; 3:3-8; 8:21-23; 12:1-14 and 141-21.

Woe to those who tamper with Jerusalem!

Isaiah 29:8; 31:4-5; 50:28; 51:24; 52:9-10; 60:14; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:2 and Zechariah 14:12-15.

We must faithfully pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord (the margin of my Bible says, “you who are the Lord’s reminders”), keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6-7). Read also Psalm 122:6-9; 137:5-6 and 147:2.

“Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed: all came to pass” (Joshua 21:45 NASB).

“Not one word has failed of all His good promise” (1 Kings 8:56 NASB).

Compiled by Nancy Campbell,www.aboverubies.org