Palestinian's Israel Problem

So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River - the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites." (Genesis 15:18-21 NLT)

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him. God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be named Jacob, but your name will be Israel." So he named him Israel. God also said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you. I will give to you the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac. And I will give the land to your future descendants." (Genesis 35:9-12 CSB)

The problem with Palestinians is their perception, as quoted from this article in "Hamas's forever war against Israel has a glitch, and it isn't Iron Dome By HAVIV RETTIG GUR 22 May 2021, 5:38 pm | The Times of Israel"

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The interview is one of countless expressions of what amounts to Hamas's most fundamental belief about its enemy: that the Jews of Israel are an illegitimate usurper polity, the last vestige of European colonialism, and therefore doomed to failure like all other European colonial projects from the last century. Israel in Hamas's telling is not a people competing with the Palestinians for a single uncomfortably narrow strip of land. It is, like the Soviet Union, East Germany, or the South African apartheid regime before it, a thin patina of political institutions and concepts that will burn away in the harsh light of sustained resistance.
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The Palestinians thought that driving the Jews out of Israel is like driving the British out of India or the French out of Vietnam. But they did not know that it may be easier to drive the Chinese out of China or the Indians out of India than to drive the Jews out of Israel. Israel's rights to the land of Canaan is guaranteed by God Himself.

Then the Lord's word came to Jeremiah: Aren't you aware of what people are saying: "The Lord has rejected the two families that he had chosen"? They are insulting my people as if they no longer belong to me. The Lord proclaims: I would no sooner break my covenant with day and night or the laws of heaven and earth than I would reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David and his descendants as rulers for the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will restore the captives and have compassion on them. (Jeremiah 33:23-26 CEB)

Israel's Palestinian Problem

Ephraim's envy will cease; Judah's harassing will end. Ephraim will no longer be envious of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim. But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west. Together they will plunder the people of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects. (Isaiah 11:13-14 CSB)

According the prophet Isaiah, Israel's Palestinian problem will not be solved until all the twelve tribes of Israel are restored.

"Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland. "See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away." The Lord has spoken. (Joel 3:4-8 NIV)

Israel's Enemies

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you." (Genesis 12:3 BSB)

Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you. (Numbers 24:9b ESV)

Those whom God wanted to destroy, He first make them enemies of Israel.

The classic example is the Pharaoh of Egypt.
For Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." (Romans 9:17 NIV)

Then we have the Canaanites in Canaan.
So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death. Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. For it was the LORD himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses. (Joshua 11:16-20 NIV)

In the future, we have Gog of Magog.
The word of the Lord came to me: "Son of man, face Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him and say, 'This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, including horses and riders, who are all splendidly dressed, a huge assembly armed with large and small shields, all of them brandishing swords.
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You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight. (Ezekiel 38:1-4,16 CSB)

The Christian's Only Weapon

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12 ESV)

The Bible is the only offensive weapon in a Christian's armoury. It is the sword of the Spirit and can cut between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow and expose our innermost thoughts and desires.

Every Christian should invest time in sword fighting. The Lord used this sword to fend off all three temptations from the devil. And this is still the only weapon we have.

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Ephesians 6:17 NIV)

To My Children - 3

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psalm 90:12 KJV)

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. (Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV)

I have spoken on things and events, the two types of things and two types of events. Now I want to talk about time.

Our time is limited and evil (Psalm 90:9-10). It is a one way street going towards death. We should use it wisely.

Invest your time in things that you can take beyond the grave. To live beyond death, you need eternal life. To have eternal life, God must know you and you must know God. To know God, you must do His will. To do His will, you must first know His will. To know His will, you must know His Word. Therefore, invest your time in reading the Bible. Then you will know His will. Then you can do His will. Then you can know God. Then you can have eternal life.

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:3 ESV)

Invest Wisely

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. (Matthew 25:27 ESV)

We ought to invest our time wisely. We have friends who taught us how to invest our money by putting aside of our income. We also learn to invest part of our time daily by putting aside time to read the Bible. This is a very good investment of time. If we increase our Bible knowledge, we will know God better. When we know God better, we can do His will better. If we do His will, we will know Him.

If we know God, we have eternal life.

The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him." (John 14:21 HCSB)

What To Know

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV)

Reading books about swimming will increase your knowledge about swimming. But only when you jump into the pool, then you will know how to swim.

Reading books about investing will increase your knowledge about investing. But only when you put money to invest, then you will get rich.

Reading the Bible will increase your knowledge of God. But only when you do God's commandments in the Bible, then you know God.

It is good to know how to swim. It may save you from drowning.

It may even be better to know how to invest. You can become rich.

But it is best to know God. Because you will have eternal life.

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:3 ESV)