There is much confusion and disagreement today as to whether the Jews have a claim to the land they now possess, and to some they do not currently possess. The Muslims claim that they have the right to the land since they are sons of Abraham through his son Ishmael. The following scriptures in the Torah show clearly to whom God has given the land.
In (Genesis 12) the Lord said to Abram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.”
So, Abram went as Adonai had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated, as well as the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time, the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing–all the land of Canaan–as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:8)
Then God said, (Genesis 17:19) “Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.” Ninety-year-old Sarah had remained childless for so long that she doubted God’s promise. She thought she should help God out and asked Abraham to have a child with her maidservant, Hagar; – but Isaac was the promised son born to Abraham by Sarah.
And as for Ishmael, God also blessed him. He made him fruitful and gave him land and great wealth. But the Lord established His covenant with Isaac, who was born by Sarah.
Now let’s examine who owns the land. In (Leviticus 25:23) God said: “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.” God owns the land. He leased it to the Jewish people.
Canaan was bigger than the land Israel has today. It included Palestine, Lebanon, western of Jordan and parts of Syria. I mentioned this in my previous article, Israel’s Promised Borders – Standing with Israel. Israel today owns only about one third of it.
The term of the lease is not up to the Palestinians or Hamas. (Psalm 105) reminds us that “He remembers his covenant forever, the word He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant He made with Avraham, the oath He swore to Isaac, and established as a law for Jacob, for Israel as an everlasting covenant; to you I will give the land of Canaan as your allotted heritage.” It is a one-state solution, and nobody has the right to change it to a two-state solution. God requires a one-state solution. He never said that Isaac and Jacob had to share it with their cousins.
Today Israel experiences terror on every side! The enemies conspire against her and plot to take her life. But Israel must trust in the Lord. He preserves those who are true to him, but the enemies He pays back in full.
(Genesis 12:3) says God will bless them who bless you and curse those who curse you; – that’s Israel and the Jewish people. In the seed of Abraham all families of the earth are blessed. That is why America needs to support a one-state solution.
Just recently the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that his kingdom would not recognize Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state. Will the Trump administration join the demands of the Muslims in the Abraham Alliance? – Today America’s future hangs in the balance!!
The Bible warns what will happen to nations that try to divide the land. (Joel 3:2) “I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land.”
Standing with Israel 