EXCERPT_ 3.
DISOBEDIENCE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. DRIVEN INTO EXILE
Once the Children of Israel were settled in the land of Canaan, many forgot Us, the Elohim of their ancestors, who had brought them out of slavery from the land of Egypt, blessed them and settled them in their own lands. Thus many of them followed and worshipped other gods, which were idols and the works of men’s hands. Before they entered the Promised Land, I, Yahweh, spoke through Moses, their leader and told them of the blessings which would be theirs if they were obedient to Me, Yahweh, their Elohim. I also told them what would become of them if they were disobedient. The blessings which they were to receive, and likewise the curses are recorded in Deuteronomy Chapter 28. The Children of Israel were disobedient and thus the curses fell upon them. Among those curses were:
62 “And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of [YAHWEH] the LORD thy [Elohim] God. 63And it shall come to pass, that as [YAHWEH] the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so [YAHWEH] the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it”.
64 “And [YAHWEH] the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. 65And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but [YAHWEH] the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
67In the morning thou shalt say, Would [Elohim] God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would [Elohim] God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68And [YAHWEH] the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.” Deuteronomy 28: 62-68.
THE PROMISE TO RETURN THEM TO THEIR OWN LAND FULFILLED!!
I, Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel, had promised that they would be taken out of the lands from which they were scattered and that they would return to their own land, which I gave to their ancestors: Thus it is recorded in My Word:
12 “Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith [Adonai YAHWEH] the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13And ye shall know that I am [YAHWEH] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I [YAHWEH] the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith [YAHWEH] the LORD. . . 21And say unto them, Thus saith [Adonai YAHWEH] 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:
22“And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all. . . 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever. . . 26Moreover 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. 27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their [Elohim] God, and they shall be my people. 28And the heathen shall know that I [YAHWEH] the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore” . Ezekiel 37: 12-28. (Emphasis supplied)
4 “And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: 5For I, saith [YAHWEH] the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. . . 8For thus saith [YAHWEH] the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. . . 12And [YAHWEH] the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. 13Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation”. Zechariah 2: 4-13 (KJV).
“And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country”. Ezekiel 34: 13 (KJV).
14 “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. 15And 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 [YAHWEH] the LORD thy God”. Amos 9: 14, 15.
“For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody”. Isaiah 51:3.
1 “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God”. Isaiah 35: 1-3.
Many of the Children of Israel were driven into exile and were scattered throughout the world for almost 2000 years. However, many of them were left behind so that there was always a Jewish presence in Israel, the land of their ancestors. In the 1880s the Jews began to return to Israel in large numbers from the countries where they had been exiles. The numbers of returning Jews to the land of their ancestors increased after the extermination of the Jews in Europe. They were given a homeland by the British, from the British Mandatory Territory, in addition to lands which they already possessed. They worked hard and rebuilt their country amidst much hostility, from the Arabs; and at mid-night, May 14, 1948, when the British Mandate over Palestine expired, Israel became an Independent State.
It should be noted that the Jews who returned to Israel from exile in the early years, did not return to prosperous and flourishing land, but to a land that was partly a desert and a barren wilderness. This desert and wilderness with its marshy swamps, they turned into a thriving, fertile and prosperous land. Thus that which I have spoken in My Word, has been fulfilled:
14 “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. 15And 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 [YAHWEH] the LORD thy God”. Amos 9: 14,15 (KJV).
3 “For [YAHWEH] the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of [YAHWEH] the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody”. Isaiah 51: 3 (KJV).
The history of Israel from the A.D. 60s when the Romans invaded and began to rule, down to the last empire, the Ottoman Empire, which was defeated by the British during World War I, in A.D. 1917, is well documented.
It must be noted that part of the Ottoman Empire was the land of Ancient Israel, which became known as Palestine. That was the land I promised Abraham and which the Children of Israel, under the leadership of Joshua, captured. Concerning the lands of Ancient Israel, I made this promise to Abraham:
14 “And [YAHWEH] the LORD said unto Abram. . . Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever”. Genesis 13: 14, 15 (KJV).
And to, Joshua, My servant:
“. . . arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. 3Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. 4From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast”. Joshua 1: 2-4 (KJV).
The Fulfilment:
8 “And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. . . 11And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. 12And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them”. Joshua 24: 8-13 (KJV).
During the rule of the Romans, the Jews were persecuted, and millions were killed. Great numbers were also driven from the land of Israel (the Promised Land) and eventually, they were scattered in all the countries of the world, as Moses prophesied in Deuteronomy 28: 64-67. Likewise, through successive Empires, the Children of Israel suffered persecutions, massacres and exile at the hands of their captures. In spite of their suffering, massacres and being exiled, Jews have always remained in Israel, thus maintaining an unbroken Jewish presence there for the past four thousand years.
In the 1800s Jews began returning to Israel from many lands and the numbers of Jews increased. During the time of the holocaust, many Jews returned to Israel, the land of their ancestors, to seek refuge. Many were inhumanely treated by the British and were barred from entering Israel; including over 4,000 Jews on the ship, Exodus, who were taken off and put on another vessel and sent back to their deaths in Germany. However, after Israel became an Independent State, they returned in large numbers from Europe. They also returned from other countries and still continue to do so.
Following the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine after World War I, by the United Nations, Britain took mandatory control over a part of the territory of Palestine (part of Ancient Israel), which consisted of Jordan, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Israel.
This territory, Britain partitioned and gave the greater portion to the Jordanians. And the rest which consisted of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, was partitioned between the Palestinian Arabs and the Palestinian Jews. This, however, was unacceptable to the Arabs, who had fought in World War I, upon the premise that land would be given to them. At the same time, a homeland in Palestine (Ancient Israel) was promised to the Jews. Thus when Palestine was divided up and part of the territory given to the Jews, the Arabs were angry because they had fought and shed their blood in the War for the land, which they were not prepared to share with the Jews.
Britain’s role in the partitioning of the British Mandatory Territory of Palestine meant giving a homeland to the Jews, and this led to great hostilities against the Jews. The hostilities began even before the land was partitioned in 1923. Arab aggression against the Jews continued and in 1929 they massacred many Jews in Hebron and drove the rest out. The Jews on the other hand, also fought back; so there were casualties on both sides.
The partitioning of the British Sector of Palestine created untold troubles for both the Arabs and the Jews, as well as great suffering on both sides. The hostilities among them were unending and this spilled over to the British, who were the cause of the troubles. The hostilities against the British included the Great Arab Revolt between 1936-1939. Likewise, the Jews who were suffering because of what the British had done, also rose up against them. Thus much blood was spilled over that territory from the very outset and continues to be shed.
The history of the Palestinians and the Jews because of the partitioning of the British Mandatory Territory of Palestine, is a troubled and bloodied one. President Bush, you and others are trying to bring the hostilities to an end, and to establish peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis. However, there is nothing that any of you can do that will end the hostilities, or bring peace between them.
The hatred and hostilities will continue and WILL only be brought to an end, when I, Yahushua Ha Mashiach, the Saviour of the world, return in the near future to put an end to all hostilities and to bring in everlasting peace and righteousness. It must be noted, however, that the hatred, persecution, driving out and massacring of the Jews by the Arabs, did not begin with the division of Palestine after World War I. These hostilities go back as far as A.D. 638, when Jerusalem and other lands in the Middle East (Ancient Israel), including Syria and Egypt came under the Arab Islamic Empire. The persecution, driving out and massacring of the Jews by the Arabs, continued down to the end of the Ottoman Empire's rule in Palestine in 1917 A.D.
NB: SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS POST ARE TAKEN FROM THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE.
