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Israel, the Land of Promise

If you have ever been to Israel, you know that there is something special about that place. Many who travel there for the first time curiously feel that they have somehow returned home, not ever having set foot there before. There is something so familiar about it, and the land itself creates a deep emotional connection that carries on long after you’ve gone. There is so much biblical history that has taken place there, and so much yet to be fulfilled. You get a sense that you are standing in a spot where the past, present,, and future of God’s plan all collide. It is Eretz Yisrael ארץ ישראל, the land that was promised to Abraham and his descendants, and the land upon which God placed His own name (Lev. 25:23, Eze. 38:16, Isa. 14:25). It is the homeland of the nation of Israel, and something amazing is happening there. God is bringing His people back into the land and they are flourishing. Since regaining sovereignty over Israel in 1948, they have faced many wars and countless problems from their Arab neighbors and the world overall, but God has kept them through it all and caused them to succeed in the face of nearly impossible odds. There is surely no other place like it on earth. It is the one place that God calls His own, and He will not allow anything to happen to thwart His plans for the land, nor the covenants that He made with His people Israel.

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The Land Belongs to God

If you have ever been to Israel, you know that there is something special about that place. Many who travel there for the first time curiously feel that they have somehow returned home, not ever having set foot there before. There is something so familiar about it, and the land itself creates a deep emotional connection that carries on long after you’ve gone. There is so much biblical history that has taken place there, and so much yet to be fulfilled. You get a sense that you are standing in a spot where the past, present,, and future of God’s plan all collide. It is Eretz Yisrael ארץ ישראל, the land that was promised to Abraham and his descendants, and the land upon which God placed His own name (Lev. 25:23, Eze. 38:16, Isa. 14:25). It is the homeland of the nation of Israel, and something amazing is happening there. God is bringing His people back into the land and they are flourishing. Since regaining sovereignty over Israel in 1948, they have faced many wars and countless problems from their Arab neighbors and the world overall, but God has kept them through it all and caused them to succeed in the face of nearly impossible odds. There is surely no other place like it on earth. It is the one place that God calls His own, and He will not allow anything to happen to thwart His plans for the land, nor the covenants that He made with His people Israel.

 

 

God Promised the Land To The Jews

God promised the land to Abraham (Genesis 12:1,2), He confirmed the promise with Isaac (Genesis 26:3), and again with Jacob (Genesis 28:13), later named Israel (Genesis 32:28).  The relationship of God to Israel, and Israel to the land carries on as the central theme throughout nearly all of the Old Testament, but it does not end there. Israel plays a significant role in the New Testament as well, all the way through Revelation.  Why would the land of Israel play such a central role in the Bible if God does not consider the land to be important and want to fulfill His purpose through it? There is quite plainly something that God wants to reveal through that very unique and contested piece of real estate.

He [is] the LORD our God: his judgments [are] in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word [which] he commanded to a thousand generations. Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. Psalm 105:7-12

A Promise to Restore the Land and Return Its Inhabitants

There are those who argue that the land covenant that God gave to Israel was conditional and because they turned from God and did not follow in His instruction, well that’s it! They just messed it up too badly.  God has already fulfilled His promises to them they say, and He no longer has any obligation to return them to the land. There’s one glaring problem with this argument. Numerous Old Testament prophets tell of Israel’s future return to the land and that they will never again be uprooted from it. This final ingathering is happening right now, and it shows no sign of slowing. We are watching this unfold in our time, and it is amazing to behold. What happens in the land of Israel is the key to understanding the End Times, and it is a testament to the entire world of the faithfulness of the God of Israel to keep his promises that He made about His land to His people. Here’s what God has to say through Ezekiel about what the end of the story looks like in the Land:

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. Ezekiel 37:21-28

Evermore sounds pretty final, doesn’t it? Would the God of Israel that placed His own name upon the land say such a thing, and then change His mind?

God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?  Numbers 23:19

Israel as a nation has been scattered to every corner of this world, but God himself is regathering them to their own land. The children of Israel will not only return to the land, but they will have it better off there than they ever did before.

¶ But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, [even] all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ezekiel 36:8-11.

The promised land of Israel is a beautiful portrait that the Lord is painting of His love and faithfulness. He puts on full display through Israel’s relationship to the land, that He has all things in His hands. No plan of man to divide the land or to destroy it will ever succeed, because the Lord keeps His promises forever. It is His land to do with what He wills  and in the end, His perfect plan will be completed. Israel will be fully regathered and brought into to the land for the last time, the land promised to Abraham and his descendants, forevermore.

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Billboard Spotted In Tel Aviv For The ‘Abraham’s Shield’ Plan To Work In Conjunction With The Abraham Accords That Will Ensure The Safety Of The Israel

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The ‘Abraham’s Shield’ Plan of the Coalition for Regional Security is a new Israeli political-security initiative that paves the way for the State of Israel to emerge from wars of attrition to a reality of security, stability and prosperity

Things are certainly starting to get interesting in the Middle East, no doubt about that. Over on the Jerusalem Post, I was reading the headline article talking about how the White House thinks there will be “big announcements on countries that are coming into the Abraham Accords.” We wrote about that the other day, the big news being that Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia might be the next three Muslim nations to sign the Accords with Israel. But no sooner than I had sat down to write about it, when something called the ‘Abraham’s Shield’ Plan exploded across my desktop.

“And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.” Exodus 6:8 (KJB)

According to their web site, the ‘Abraham’s Shield’ Plan of the Coalition for Regional Security was established about a year after the October 7 massacre and represents a broad and diverse group of public figures, security, diplomacy, business, high-tech, economics, research, and opinion leaders, who joined together to ensure the security of the State of Israel by promoting the ‘Abraham’s Shield’ Plan.

The coalition harnesses under one umbrella the multitude of bodies, research institutes, and organizations that believe in the need for a new political-security vision that combines military, political, and economic power, and in leveraging the regional opportunity as a central path in the journey to strengthen Israel’s security.

Christian, you better wake up, the end times are happening without you. It’s time to get into the game!

The nascent Alliance boasts some heavy hitters from the Israeli military, finance, cyber security, tech sector and various political figures as well. It seems to be highly funded and well underway. Just how Abraham’s Shield will interact with the Abraham Accords is yet to be seen, but from their marketing alone, it would seem they are looking to ride the coattails of the burgeoning Accords.

As we have said from the beginning of all this back in 2020, a Temple is going to be built in Jerusalem, and the Abraham Accords is going to be the covenant that Antichrist will confirm at the start of the time of Jacob’s trouble. Look at the billboard image spotted in Tel Aviv at the top of this article, the stage is set and all the key players seem to be in place. All we need now is for the main character to arrive. Everything else is just a distraction.

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Donald Trump Explodes And Loses Control As Ceasefire Falters After Iran Fires Rocket That Kill Four Jews In Beersheba And Israel Vows To Repay

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President Donald Trump issued a blunt warning to Israel on Tuesday to “not bomb Iran” as he departed for the NATO summit in The Hague, taking a critical position just 24 hours after brokering a fragile ceasefire already threatened after a missile strike from Iran.

President Donald Trump went full-tilt explosive after hearing that Iran had broken the ceasefire with an attack on Israel that wound up killing 4 in Beersheba, ordering Israel not to respond. He dropped an expletive deleted as he exclaimed that both sides, Israel and Iran, had no idea what they were doing. Those are words spoken by a man who has very little understanding of why Israel and Iran are at war with each other, and have been since 1979. That’s the memo.

“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.” Zechariah 14:16 (KJB)

Donald Trump is not so much about peace in the Middle East as he is about scoring notches on the legacy belt of his presidency. But making peace is a tricky thing if you don’t understand the nature of the conflict. “Israel has to calm down, I have to get Israel to calm down,” he said. “I’m gonna see if I can stop it.” Why didn’t he say that about Iran, why is it always Israel that has to ‘calm down’? As we have long told you, Iran will break any and every treaty or deal they make, that’s who they are. Israel needs to fight this war until the regime in place in Tehran falls to the ground. Anything less is a pathetic waste of time, treasure and human lives. The prophet Daniel says “and unto the end of the war desolations are determined”, I agree with that.

Trump Goes Absolutely Berserk on Iran and Israel as Ceasefire Deal Crumbles

FROM MEDIAITE: Speaking to reporters before takeoff, the president said that both Israel and Iran had breached the terms of the truce and made clear he was “not pleased” with Israel’s promise to launch retaliatory airstrikes after agreeing to the deal.

Asked by a reporter about whether Iran had violated the ceasefire Trump replied: “They violated but Israel violated it, too.”

The president continued: “Israel as soon as we made the deal they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I had never seen before. The biggest load that we have seen. I’m not happy with Israel.”

He added: “You know, when I say ‘okay, now you have 12 hours’ – you don’t go out in the first hour just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either. But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land, I’m not happy about that.”

Before departing, he said: “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don’t know what the f*** they are doing.”

In a further post on Truth Social just moments later he wrote:

ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS. IF YOU DO IT IS A MAJOR VIOLATION. BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

The comments come as the Israeli military vowed to carry out “intense” retaliatory strikes on Tehran following ballistic missile attacks from Iran that struck Beersheba on Tuesday morning, killing at least four civilians. In response, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a “forceful” counteroffensive, targeting what he described as “the heart of Tehran.”

Trump says Iranian missile didn’t land, but it did and it killed Jews

Israel’s top military officials framed the action as a response to a “grave violation” of the US-brokered ceasefire and vowed Iran would “pay.”

Tehran denied any role in the attacks. Iranian state media claimed that “reports published about missile launches from Iran toward the occupied territories after imposing a ceasefire on the Zionist regime are denied,” accusing Israel of fabricating the provocation. The ceasefire agreement – announced late Monday by Trump from Palm Beach – was meant to phase out hostilities within 24 hours. READ MORE

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June 19th Is The 23rd Of Sivan In The Hebrew Calendar, And What Happened On That Day In The Book Of Esther May Portend The Next Phase Of Israel’s War With Iran

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In the book of Esther, King Ahasuerus on Sivan 23 issued the decree authorizing the Jews to defend themselves against their enemies, June 19th is Sivan 23.

Sometimes in the Bible you find an amazing nugget, other times you find some fascinating coincidence. This one from the book of Esther is one of those two things, and we will let the reader decide. In Esther 8, we see Mordecai on the authority of King Ahasuerus have a writing written which authorized the Jews to rise up against their enemies, which result in the ‘good day’ celebrated every year on the Feast of Purim. Sivan 23 was not only a ‘good day’ for the Jews, it was a game-changer of a day. Do you know what tomorrow, June 19th is, on the Hebrew calendar? The 23rd of Sivan. That’s the memo.

“Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.” Esther 8:9 (KJB)

How does this tie in with the war in the Middle East happening right now between Israel and Iran? For the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped clue after clue that he is planning on the United States striking the Iranian nuclear plants, and taking them out. With each passing day, the chatter regarding when this might be has swelled to a fever pitch. For this to happen on Thursday, the 23rd of Sivan in the Hebrew calendar, would place it squarely between an amazing coincidence and a true biblical nugget. Donald Trump as King Ahasuerus ‘issuing a decree’ and authorizing the Jews to defeat their enemies on the exact same day it happened in the book of Esther? Game on.

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President Trump has approved of plans to attack Iran, maybe on Sivan 23

FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: US President Donald Trump told senior aides that he approved of plans to attack Iran, but he is waiting to see if Iran will abandon its nuclear program before giving the final order, three sources familiar with the discussions said to the Wall Street Journal.

As previously reported by The Jerusalem Post, Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) Gen. Michael Kurilla met with US President Donald Trump and presented him with military options regarding Iran. The WSJ reported that when Trump was asked earlier if he had decided whether to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities, the president said, “I may do it, I may not do it.”

He also repeated his insistence on Iran’s unconditional surrender: “The next week is going to be very big, maybe less than a week.” On Wednesday, Trump reportedly arranged for a meeting with Iranian Foreign Ministry officials.

On Wednesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender, as Iranians jammed the highways out of Tehran, fleeing from intensified Israeli airstrikes. He warned that if US attacked Iran warned that if it attacked Iran, the United States “without doubt will face irreparable harm.” READ MORE

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But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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