Two Times journalists drive the length of Israel to discover what it means to be Israeli today. The Sea of Galilee was 700 feet below sea level in Biblical times. The third peak is 500 yards to the W. On the southern peak a hole scooped out is surrounded by an oval of hewn stones; at its southern end is the temple nearly destroyed, with Roman moldings, and of later date than the stone oval, of stones from 2 to 8 ft. long, 2 1/2 broad and thick.Hermon in Hitchcock's Bible Names anathema; devoted to destructionHermon in Naves Topical Bible A mountain in the north of Israel -Called SIRION De 3:8,9; Ps 29:6 SION De 4:48; Ps 133:3 SHENIR De 3:9; 1Ch 5:23; So 4:8Hermon in Smiths Bible Dictionary (a peak, summit), a mountain on the northeastern border of Israel, De 3:8; Jos 12:1 over against Lebanon, Jos 11:17 adjoining the plateau of Bashan. There are to be 7 years of Tribulation before Jesus Christ steps foot in Jerusalem to take His throne. 2 I will send foreigners to Babylon Also, clearly the Hebrew calendar is wrong. She has to preach the good news (the Gospel). The principle of the generality of the elections ensures the active right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 18 years old, to vote and the right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 21 years old, to be elected. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Abraham!, Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said. It's a very specific land, but certainly not the land that we refer to today as Israel, which is a small part of what God actually promised. Joseph was to be blessed with precious things from the deep (Heb tehom: sea, abyss) lying beneath (Deut 33.13), Asher was to dip his foot in oil (Deut 34.24) and Zebulun and Issachar were to find treasures hidden in the sand (Deut 33.19). They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. God was going to give the Israelites the land that was west of the Jordan. In Jesus I pray all my prayers. But International law firmly states that Israel is not in occupation, link. (NASB) Genesis 24:7. 4:48). The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. "The dew of Hermon" (Psalm 133:3) is used proverbially of an abundant, refreshing dew. 27:4). So how many survive these onslaughts on Israel? Also, Israel is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab women may vote. Its altitude is 1,100 ft. above tide, and the stream falls about 600 ft. in the 5 miles of its course to the head of the Jordan. Lets read the incredible test that earned Abraham an incredible reward for his descendants. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham! The Hill Country, or mountain region were part of the mountains of Lebanon, and they were naturally divided into four regions: Upper Galilee in the north, below that was Lower Galilee, the Mountains of Judah, and the Hills of the Negeb Desert.4. It rushes down to the plain in a foaming torrent, and joins the Leddan about 5 miles south of Dan (Tell- el-Kady). As mentioned, Jewish tradition takes this to be the Nile (although some dispute this, link, link). The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. Israel is governed by a western-style multiparty parliamentary system. And [this is] the east side.Joshua 1:15 - Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.Joshua 3:14 - And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;Psalms 114:5 - What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Secondly, God said that He would make the descendants of Abraham into a great nation which would be Gods servant and witness in the world. As the scriptures say, Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith. From the western base of a hill on which once stood the city of Dan, the northern border-city of Israel, there gushes forth a considerable fountain called the Leddan, which is the largest fountain in Syria and the principal source of the Jordan. While there has not yet been a peace treaty between Israel and Lebanon, the two countries' 1949 armistice line serves as Israel's de facto northern border, while Israel's border with Syria remains unsettled. In 1967 the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon (and later Iraq) attacked Israel, but were defeated in just six days despite the huge Arab superiority in armour, aircraft and troops. Whilst involving the whole world, it is essentially a time of suffering for those Jews who have returned to the Promised Land. I will be a wall of fire around her he who touches you, touches the apple of (the Lords) eye (Zech 2.5,8). Put simply, todays church is often blind to her Jewish roots. So God could use Abraham for the future and He rewarded him through several unconditional promises. Jewish maps, though few and far between, represent the centrality of the Land of Israel in the history and hopes of the Jewish people. The descendants of Jacob (Israel) were the twelve tribes of Israel and they settled in the Promised Land of Canaan (enlarge map). cataract or else breast-plate, from senar "to clatter" (Deuteronomy 3:8-9; Ezekiel 27:5); among the Sidonians Sirion, the breast-plate, a name given from the rounded snowy top glittering in the sun, from shaarah "to glitter" (Psalm 29:6). But a Hermon dew was a dew such as falls there, the snow on the summit condensing the summer vapors which float in the higher air, and causing light clouds to hover round and abundant dew to fall on it, while the air is elsewhere without a cloud and the whole country parched. I disagree that all we can do is watch bible prophecy play out. They are of course the twelve tribes descended from Jacob (whose name was changed by God to Israel). The sacredness of Hermon may be inferred from the allusion in Ps 89:12 (compare Enoch 6:6; and see also BAAL-HERMON). Your southern sector shall extend from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern border shall extend from the end of the [Dead Sea] eastward. To the east is impassable desert. So the land set apart must include a holy place for the LORDs temple or sanctuary. Before Moses died he blessed the tribes of Israel and some of these blessings involved blessing of the sea and the land. Abraham answered, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. And the two of them went on together. Moreover, as a direct result of Article 80, the UN cannot transfer these rights over any part of Palestine (vested as they are in the Jewish People) to any non-Jewish entity, such as the Palestinian Authority. Jos 3:15 The channel or bed of the river became brimful, so that the level of the water and of the banks was then the same. The Kishon River was the river which drained the Plain of Esdraelon and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea just north of Mount Carmel. Why? 8. 2 Kings 18. There has been over 7400% increase in Jews in Canaan since 1900. 10. Of that day and hour no man knoweth is a Jewish euphemism for Rosh Hashanah. Israel today is an island of less than nine million immigrants surrounded by a sea of three hundred million enemies, many of them eager to wipe the tiny nation off the map. Image: Eli E. Hertz. clearly, you dont know how to add. Jesus is about to Come to get His READY bride! This of course is nothing new. And during the final war against Israel prophecy says that God will again clearly intervene to protect His people: Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle (Zech 14.3). Israel is often accused of being the aggressor in conflicts, whereas Israel claims she wages defensive war after provocation, link. During Old Testament times Israel was referred to originally as the land of Canaan, which was the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. We have also had the blood moon tetrad taking place ON Gods Holy feast days! This battle concludes with the Second Coming of Christ to reign as King over all the earth (Zech 14.9), the last form of human government (probably centered on the EU) having been taken away like chaff in the wind (Dan 2.34,35). You can accept or decline the use of additional cookies, which we use only to improve your experience. 13The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. We should also ask, What of the non-Jewish population those who currently war against the Jews? In the coming age this conflict is resolved by the LORD. Rising 9,500 feet, it is seen even from the Jordan valley and the shores of the Dead Sea. 3. Under Gods call, Abram (later called Abraham) migrated from the city of Ur sometime between 1900 and 1750 BC to Gods appointed land, Canaan (todays Israel). It is interesting to compare the future biblical borders and land division with the current situation in Israel. More , Image: Known oil and gas fields in the Levant Basin. First, through Abrahams descendants came the offer to all men of reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ. Blessed are those who wash their robes. Israel rebels against God and refuses to enter the land (1:22-33). The New Testament comes very close to using the expression "promised land" when the book of Hebrews says, "land of promise." This map features the biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel as described in Genesis 15:18 and Genesis 17:8. The part held by the Sidonians was "Sirion," that by the Amorites Shenir, infested by devouring "lions" and swift though stealthy "leopards," in contrast to "the mountain of myrrh" (Song of Solomon 5:6), the mountain of the Lord's house (Isaiah 2:2), the good land (Isaiah 35:9). Abraham lived with his family in Ur of the Chaldeans (modern day Iraq). The term means Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, so the destruction of Israel and the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the land of Israel is the declared objective of militant Islam, link. 4. The West Bank refers to an area bounded by the so-called Green Line and the west bank of the River Jordan (SEE MAP). Land Promise Fulfilled physically by Joshua, Saul, David, Solomon etc. Ezekiel 40.2 and Zech 14.10 suggest that the millennial Jerusalem is elevated above a plain. The Brook Cherith flowed into the Jordan River at the very north portion of the Dead Sea. The Bible is one book that was written over a thousand years by different authors that share the same story of God saving sinners through Jesus Christ. Lebanon means the "white" mountain, the Mont Blanc of Israel. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Today we see the return of the Jews back to their God-given homeland (Canaan). Over the past 100 years Israel has engineered a national water carrier system and desalination plants, and she drains water from large aquifers under the desert. 7. If we are in the Millennium, the Rapture would have been long time ago. This is the second death. The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place of My feet glorious (Isa 60.13). "This is the place of My throne" (Ezek 43.7). Dear brethren, please also not that the GREAT sign spoken about in Revelation took place in the heavens directly above Jerusalem on the 23rd September 2017. The rise of Palestinian Arab nationalism coupled with the rapid growth of Palestine's smaller Jewish population - especially after the advent of Nazism in the 1930s - saw an escalation in Arab-Jewish violence in Palestine. Over half of Israels saline soil is arid or semi-arid and only 20% is arable. ENLARGE. God sent His only Begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have Everlasting Life. UPDATE (Jan. 3, 2023): I have completed all the . NO! The Jewish state would include a long but thin strip of coastal Palestine as well as the Negev. Yes we believe in a nominal 6000 years of human government plus 1000 years of kingdom rule making a complete 7000 years on this earth. Its precise dimensions are given in Ezek 45.1-5 and it is in the center of this special section of land (see Fig.4). Kadesh Barnea was the original place where God intended the Israelites to enter the Promised Land. Hermon" (Dt 3:8; Josh 11:17; 1 Ch 5:23, etc. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. This came to fruition in May 14, 1948. 15However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you: 16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. They are coming from all over the world, from wherever they have been scattered amongst the nations. Its snows are carried to Damascus and to the towns on the seaboard, where, mingled with the sharab, "drink," they mitigate the heat of the Syrian summer. Lets read some of the fine print in the contract. Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever (Ezek 43.7) He wrote in the 8th Psalm: When I consider your heavens,the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars,which you have set in place,what is mankind that you are mindful of them,human beings that you care for them?. In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews. The Maritime Plain actually was divided into 3 main sections: Phoenicia to Mount Carmel in the north, Sharon in the middle, and Philistia in the south. "Israel shall fill the world with fruit" (Isaiah 27.6). First, an amazing promise to those who trust in the risen Jesus: Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds. 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