To the east is impassable desert. Battle of Jezreel Valley. 33:5 ). Hebrews 11:9 (NASB). God bless & keep & save ALL His children, bring us all to repentance and safely Home.AMEN! In fact, Messianic Jews expect such a temple to be built in the near future, and we find a graphic description of such a temple in Ezek 40-48. Why bother with tiny Israel? It seems that, given free choice (free will), mankind made the wrong choice. If we are in the Millennium, the Rapture would have been long time ago. In these maps, Israel is portrayed including all land currently under its authority. In fact, the number of Jews in Israel today has increased by over 7,000 percent in just 100 years! However, it was temporary and did not last. Lets read with an open mind what the Bible tells us about our origins and our future. Despite the intervention of the God of Israel to protect her, two end-time wars against Israel must surely take their toll? If you are so far stuck in negative thinking that you think God doesn't have a promised land for your life, go back and read Jeremiah 29:11. The modern name of Hermon is Jebel eth-thilj, "mount of snow," or Jebel esh-sheikh, "mount of the elder," or "of the chief." some are looking for the antichrist but Im Looking for Jesus Christ to come in the clouds. 2. At the very end of this age prophecy indicates that all nations (Gentile and Islamic) will attempt a final invasion of Israel: I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle (Zech 14.2) Jos 4:12,13 From their vicinity to Jerusalem the lower fords were much used. 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. Sometime after the death of Joseph a new king reigned over Egypt. (136 miles in a straight line. After all, Israel is just some 8 million people living on land the size of Wales! The is a solution, but prophecy indicates that it will not occur in this present age. I believe Gog is an evil prince of darkness and Magog, Meshech and Tubal are all in Turkey. 4The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestockthe calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. [US Energy Information Administration, Wikimedia Commons], Israels past and future borders. thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?Joshua 18:7 - But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.Joshua 19:34 - And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.Joshua 22:7 - Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. There are 21 governmental and intergovernmental entities (including the EU) that financially support Israeli NGOs, link, although some of these are politically biased and represent the interests of foreign governments, link. No voter ever votes for an actual person. We are meant to hasten the day (2 Peter 3:12). They believe that prophecy shows that Israel will become (if not already) Gods main witness in the world. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,Numbers 32:29 - And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:Deuteronomy 3:27 - Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.Deuteronomy 12:10 - But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;Joshua 13:8 - With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;Zechariah 11:3 - [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.Joshua 1:11 - Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.Judges 10:8 - And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.Deuteronomy 27:2 - And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:Joshua 18:19 - And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast. The 20th century saw a rapid aliyah to Israel and this required a governmental framework with laws. At last, the Gentile nations acknowledge and value the unique role of the Jew: Still others become priests and keep charge of the (new) Jewish temple in Jerusalem (Isa 66.21, Exod 44.15). 14Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them. The real reason for the aggression is spiritual, not political or even humanitarian. This will happen at some point in the future. This collection of free Bible maps and chronologies are the most accurate in the world available today. Such prophecies are brief and full of symbolism little detail is revealed. 11. The above map shows how the Promised Land was initially divided amongst the twelve tribes of Israel. Israel is considered by third parties to be the only free country in the region in that there is a climate of respect for civil liberties, freedom of expression, significant independent civic life, an independent media, and a military under civilian rule, link. It is well known that there is a geological fault line running east-west through the Mount of Olives and just south of Jerusalem, link. G_d He keeps His promises. Map Rameses Israel was thrust out of Egypt ( Ex. This is a mystery accepted by faith. As we read on in the Bible we discover that man in immortal (spirit) form will one day live with his Creator God on a new and perfect earth! At the outset it seems unfair on the rest of mankind. Whilst involving the whole world, it is essentially a time of suffering for those Jews who have returned to the Promised Land. Nu 34:12 The Jordan rises from several sources near Panium (Banias), and passes through the lakes of Merom (Huleh) and Gennesaret. The article has now been amended, stressing the traditional Jewish interpretation. Unfortunately, as long as Arab countries refuse to recognize Israel and continue to attack her, such peaceful cohabitation is impossible. What? And just as a Palestinian state would maintain a demographic balance in favour of Palestinians, so the Jewish state of Israel maintains a demographic balance in favour of Jews by controlling immigration. Are boycotts effective anyway? Jesus talked about world events at the end of the age in Mat 24.3. Picture Study Bible - StudyBible with Pictures and Maps. 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. But God has compassion on His people (Deut 30.3-5) and promised that He would bring them back from the nations and place them back in their own land: And (the Lord) will lift up a standard for the nations, and assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth (Isa 11.12) This protects Israels desire to maintain the status quo and refrain from reaching an accommodation with the Palestinians. Compare that with all the Arab lands around Israel. Bible Maps Division of the Promised Land to the 12 Tribes of Israel Map Holy Land division among the descendants of the 12 sons of Jacob The 12 Tribes of Israel descended from Abraham through his son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. A Journey Into a Divided Israel. World Ancient Map Canaan Origins of the Canaan civilization center on the regions currently forming part of Palestine. And all the kings of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. Resolutions accuse Israel of settling in Occupied Palestinian Territory, and ignore Article 80 of the UN Charter which upholds the right of Jews to settle anywhere west of the Jordan! Out of the 6.2 million Jews in Israel (2015), the demographic is: Orthodox (20%), traditional (38%), secular (42%). It seems that, for believers, time has gone full circle to what God planned in the beginning. In John 3 Jesus said: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Right at the beginning we read a mystery, namely, that the God of the Bible reproduces His kind. Its up to an individual to choose to believe in Jesus and be born a second time! Here is a quote from Herodotus (440 B.C. From its fountain heads to the Dead Sea it rushes down one continuous inclined plane, only broken by a series of rapids or precipitous falls. But Israel will be at peace with her neighbours in the Millennium! Jerome refers to this, and no doubt it is one of those Baal high places set up by the former inhabitants, and so often condemned in the Old Testament. Corrupt world governments will have been crushed and Christs Kingdom will embrace the whole earth (Dan 2.35). Israel's borders explained in maps 16 September 2020 More than 70 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders are yet to be entirely settled. CHRISTIAN GREEK SCRIPTURES. In Egypt God is with Joseph and blesses him. He said to me: It is done. There is a caveat here: this amazing transition to immortality is conditional, as explained below. And the border shall go down to the Jordan and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. Here we find the blessings (fruit) of the symbolic tree of life first mentioned in Genesis 2.9 in the Garden of Eden. Image: Israeli tank, 1973. Mount Seir road: Israel make the 11-day trek from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea (1:2,19). 3. Marantha! I am sounding the ALARM!!! Mans life span may well extend to at least 100 years (Isa 65.20,22) but physical death inevitably follows. Abraham, born in Ur Kasdim in today's Iraq, was instructed to go . Or is there any value in being circumcised? No one knew until it happened. 7. That is a huge land area! This will be in terms of abundant agricultural produce grains, fruit and wine (Ezek 36.29,30) and nations will remark that desolate land has become like the garden of Eden (Ezek 36.35). More than 70 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders are yet to be entirely settled. 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). So the restoration of Israel will be a sign or witness to the nations that the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, the only true God, loves mankind. Hermon near Hasbeiya, 1,700 ft. above the sea, and descends 1,500 ft. in its course to the plain. NO! The two principal features in its course are its descent and its windings. [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], Wikimedia Commons. 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). 11. The Farah River flowed east and empties into the Jordan River near Shechem and just east of Mount Gerizim. A center to Syria and Israel; the watershed of the Jordan fountains, and of the Syrian Abana and Pharpar of Damascus, the Orontes of Antioch, and the Leontes. Israel's Major Rivers and Seas1. Contents. The Negev desert has large underground supplies of brackish water, which can be exploited using these advanced technologies, and it now produces more than 40% of the countrys vegetables and field crops. In reality there can be no lasting, workable two-state solution. They failed to keep to the ways God had stipulated in the contract. PARADISE (EDEN) WAS LOST, BUT THE APOSTLE JOHN WROTE THAT IT WILL BE RESTORED IN THE FUTURE. Prophecy indicates that there will be several major wars against Israel in the near future, just before Christ returns to rule the earth as King (Zech 14.9). After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain to administer by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations). This of course is nothing new. 2. In his first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 15 verses 50-54, Paulwrote: What I mean, friends, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in Gods Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality. As the story recounts, the first humans failed the test and were driven away from Paradise. In Romansthe 3rd chapter, the apostle Paul wrote: It seems that mortality was the consequence of eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. And of course, as we mentioned, the Arabs claim . Currently, Israel has strong support from some western NGOs like Freedom House. Additional Detailed outlines: a. They believe that since God rejected Israel then the Christian church is now Gods chosen people, not the Jewish people. Furthermore, the significant sign of Jesus coming is the gospel being preached to all nations (Matt 24:14) and as followers of Jesus he gave us a command to proclaim the Gospel to all nations in the famous great commission in Matthew 28:18-20 (note not a suggestion but a command and if we love Jesus we will obey his commands-John 14:15, 23, 15:16). Crossing site of the Israelites into the Promised Land. Israels enemies should take note of Gods promises to Israel: Whoever assails you will fall because of you no weapon that is formed against you will prosper (Isa 54.15,17) 11:3, 17; 13:11; 12:1), and is seen from a great distance. And so many other signs, including the solar eclipse that just happened across USA and another to take place 7 years from now that will make a large CROSS over USA! 14; Num. Some cookies are necessary to make our website work and cannot be refused. ENLARGE. There were fords over against Jericho, to which point the men of Jericho pursued the spies. These fords were rendered so much more precious in those days from two circumstances. God indeed intervenes in world affairs! The Natural Divisions (Five Great Divisions)There were five natural divisions laying parallel to each other running through the entire land from north to south. We see the majority of the nation now following Gods Holy Feasts and keeping the Jewish Sabbath. These tribes (enlarge image) are listed in Gen 49. More at https://www.factsaboutisrael.uk/religion-and-state-in-israel/, 1948 israel was not reborn those people in Israel do not have the biblical history of the israelites they did not build the pyramids they do not look like the paintings of israelites in Egypt and they have not been taken into bondage by slave ships as prophesied in Deuteronomy. The following facts all of them support our theory that it is some earthy stuff in the water which makes it salt.[3]. Certainly, the evidence to date is that each time Arab nations attack Israel, they are defeated and their end-state seems worse than their first. Personally, I believe that we are AT PRESENT living in the Millenium. Kadesh Barnea was the original place where God intended the Israelites to enter the Promised Land. In fact, Israel becomes the focus of world attention as she once more takes up her role as God's witness to the nations (Isa 43.1,10 and 2 Sam 7.23), link. Mortality was the consequence of the wrong free will choice. 3. Thus, N., S., E., and W. represent the whole earth. A very good point. It has three summits, a quarter of a mile from each other; hence arises the plural "Hermons" (Psalm 42:6), not "Hermonites." Kadesh Barnea: Israel sends spies to scope out the land and they return with news of its goodness and its giant inhabitants. The physical features of the Ghor, through which the Jordan flows, are treated of under PALESTINE.Jordan River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE jor'-dan (yarden, "flowing downward"; 'Iordanes): 1. (1.) So Islam wants the Levant back! This differs from the first past the post system in the US and UK, and permits small parties to be elected. The millennial age is one of firm government from Christ, but also one of universal peace. Spies Are Dispatched It had been more than a year since the children of Israel had left Egypt. Map showing one interpretation of the borders of the Promised Land, based on God's promise to Abraham ( Genesis 15 ). Beside the ruins of Banias, the ancient Caesarea Philippi and the yet more ancient Panium, is a lofty cliff of limestone, at the base of which is a fountain. It splits east-west with half the mountain moving north and half moving south, generating a very large valley reaching to Azal (Zech 14.4,5). In one sense indeed, that is, in so far as it was the eastern boundary of the land of Canaan, it was the eastern boundary of the promised land. And they two went on.1 Chronicles 19:17 - And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set [the battle] in array against them. Any Old Testament map attests to the number of cities, towns, and villages which sprang up near ancient trade routes, intersections, water sources, hill tops, and valleys. 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