'HOLY LAND' - WHOSE LAND IS THIS?

We’re exploring the miraculous survival of the Jews despite repeated efforts since 1948 to wipe out Israel:

 

So the Arabs have never accepted the UN recognition of a Jewish home state and have waged war on Israel ever since 1948.

Yes and now the United Nations recognizes an Arab state of ‘Palestine’ which has never existed before as a nation, comprising people who are fractured politically and geographically anyway! 
I wonder if anybody has reminded the U.N. of this:

“For behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.”                       Joel 3

Plead?...what’s He mean by that?

Shaphat or judge, the United Nations for dividing up this land…and whose land is it anyway?

"The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine..."                Leviticus 25

It’s God’s land, hey?...and what does He think of it?

"A land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it..."                        Deuteronomy 11

Okay, God may have given the land to Abraham but which of his family were to inherit it?

Psalm 105 tells us that Isaac is the only son God recognises, followed by grandson Jacob or Israel. By the way, here is the land description:

"...from the brook of Egypt (Wadi el Arish) to the great river, the River Euphrates..."             Genesis 15 & Numbers 34

Hang on!...that means Israel is entitled to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria too!

There are interesting times ahead for the Middle East…don’t you think?

So British Empire troops liberated Palestine from the Ottoman Empire in 1917 but was God doing anything for the Jews before that?

The London Jews’ Society changed its name to ‘The Church Ministry among Jews’ or CMJ in 1809. Meanwhile Jerusalem was occupied by the Islamic Ottoman Empire where Christians were not permitted to erect a place of worship.   The 7^th Earl of Shaftsbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, persuaded Lord Palmerston the then British Foreign Minister to establish the first foreign consulate in Jerusalem in 1838: the British Consulate became a haven for persecuted Jews and on 24 January, 1849, an adjoining chapel now known as Christ Church was dedicated.

That’s impressive! God uses His Scriptures to inspire Christians in Europe, especially Britain, to anticipate the return of Jews to Palestine and provide refuge for them in a hostile Muslim community until it’s time for liberation.                      
No wonder the British were given the privilege of liberating Jerusalem!

…and notice that the chapel was dedicated 48 years before the 1^st Zionist Conference was held in 1897, and its interior looks more like a synagogue with altar inscriptions in Hebrew, the original language Eliezer ben Yehuda revived among Jews in 1881.

If you ask me it’s all miraculous: the military, political and spiritual forces all coinciding in the preparation for the return of the Jews to God’s Land.  

Let’s see if God has also worked for the Israelis in…

Miracles on the battlefield…NEXT: 
Click on:http://hotspuds.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/miracles-on-battlefield.html

Acknowledgements:  
hatikvah.co.uk   
thedestinyofbritain.org.uk   
Photo credits:   
church/allaboutjerusalem.com  
altar/commons.wikimedia.com