Posted by
Patriot Pastor on Monday, May 19, 2008 3:55:32 PM
Here is a story that fits perfectly with the situation in Israel today. Note the strong similarities. Hamas is demanding that Israel give back the land they took in 1967. Do you remember who attacked whom? The Sinai Peninsula was rightfully captured by Israel since the Egyptians attacked Israel, yet it now belongs to Egypt again and wrongfully so. The same thing happened in this historical account.
"Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, 'What is between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?' The king of the sons of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, 'Because Israel ??took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the Arnon as far as the ?Jabbok and the Jordan; therefore, return them peaceably now.' But Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the sons of Ammon, and they said to him, 'Thus says Jephthah, "Israel did not take away the land of Moab nor the land of the sons of Ammon. For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel ?went through the wilderness to the ?Red Sea and ?came to Kadesh, then Israel ?sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' but the king of Edom would not listen. ?And they also sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. Then they went through the wilderness and ?around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. And Israel sent ?messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to our place.' But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people and camped in Jahaz and fought with Israel. The Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they ?defeated them; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. ‘So they possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, and from the wilderness as far as the Jordan. Since now the Lord, the God of Israel, drove out the Amorites from before His people Israel, are you then to possess it? Do you not possess what ?Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, we will possess it. Now are you any better than ??Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them? ?While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; ?may the Lord, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon. But the king of the sons of Ammon disregarded the message which Jephthah sent him." Judges 11:12-28
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update. LaHabra, CA : The Lockman Foundation, 1995, S. Jdg 11:12-28
They fought against Israel again and God defeated them. Israel has done far too much appeasement already. The demands from Hamas currently are totally out of line. Israel is to return all the land taken in 1967 and all Israel gets is a 'promise' that those who are currently shelling them will stop for up to ten years. Their promises are worth about as much as snow in Alaska. Remember that it was not long ago that a deal was struck to give the Palestinians the Gaza strip and to uproot all the Jews from their homes, crops and businesses. Remember what the result was. The next day they began shelling Israel from the new 'occupied' territory.
Another issue is the name Palestine, rather than Israel. The following is the historical account of how the name came to be. All one has to do is a bit of research to discover that there is NO land of Palestine in the first place. The word Palestine comes from the word Philistine. There are no Philistines alive today!
"Where did the term Palestine originate from? How did the world and the church get into the habit of calling the land of Israel “Palestine”? One of the guides we use in our tours to Israel is Zvi Rivai, an Israeli Messianic believer, who has done considerable research on this subject. Zvi informs us that before 135 A.D., the Romans used the terms Judea and Galilee to refer to the Land of Israel. When Titus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Roman government struck a coin with the phrase “Judea Capta,” meaning Judea has been captured. The term Palestine was never used in the early Roman designations.
It was not until the Romanscrushed the second Jewish revolt against Rome in 135 A.D. under Bar Kochba that Emperor Hadrian applied the term Palestine to the Land of Israel. Hadrian, like many dictators since his time realized the propaganda power of terms and symbols. He replaced the shrines of the Jewish Temple and the Sepulchre of Christ in Jerusalem with temples to pagan deities. He changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitalina, and changed the name of Israel and Judea to Palestine. Hadrian’s selection of Palestine was purposeful, not accidental. He took the name of the ancient enemies of Israel, the Philistines, Latinized it to Palestine, and applied it to the Land of Israel. He hoped to erase the name Israel from all memory. Thus, the term Palestine as applied to the Land of Israel was invented by the inveterate enemy of the Bible and the Jewish people, Emperor Hadrian.
It is interesting to note that the original Philistines were not Middle Eastern at all. They were European peoples from the Adriatic sea next to Greece. It may have pleased Hadrian to utilize this Hellenistic term for the Jewish land. In any case, the original “Palestinians” had nothing to do, whatsoever, with any Arabs." Taken from the web site of Zola Levitt Ministries
Israel has every right to the land which she now has. The stated goal of Hamas is to never become a dual state with Israel but to push her into the Mediterranean Sea. If Mr. Bush doesn't get with the program soon, Israel will be reduced to a few square miles. They cannot afford to give up one more square inch of land. Appeasement has not worked and never will with an enemy who seeks your destruction.