And now comes the blessing. There is the people, there is the land, the seed, and now comes the blessing. Now, the Lord had said to Abraham, “Get out of your country, from your family, from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make you a great…” what? “…nation.” Not a religion. And then He said, “I will…” what? “…bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing, and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you. And in you all the families of the earth…” not all the individuals “…all the nations will be…” what? “…blessed.” The blessing is connected to the seed that is connected to the land that is connected to the promise that was given to Abraham. Do we understand that? The blessing could only come when the seed is in the land.
In fact, every time God wanted to punish Israel, that’s when they had to leave. And every time God wanted to restore Israel, this is when He brought them back to the land. Remember that. And I want to tell you something. Even the Arabs knew that a hundred years ago. I’m going to quote what the leader of the holiest sites to the Muslims said, the Sharif of Mecca Hussein, after whom King Hussein of Jordan was named. This is the grandfather of King Hussein of Jordan. Look what he wrote to his people over a hundred years ago. He wrote in Al-Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca in 1918. Look what he wrote. “The resources of the country are still virgin soil and will be developed by the Jewish immigrants. One of the most amazing things until recent times was that the Palestinian used to leave his country wandering over the high seas in every direction. His native soil could not retain or hold on him. At the same time, we have seen the Jews from foreign countries streaming to Palestine.” Remember that’s in 1918, when they came from Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain, and America.
Now if I stop here, you would say, “Ooh, look. He’s saying that the Palestinians were here and the Jews are those who came from outside.” Watch this. The same Hussein, the Sharif of Mecca continued. It says, “The cause of causes could not escape those who had a gift of deeper insight. They knew that the country was for its original sons.” The Muslim is telling his own people that the land actually does not belong to them, but to the original sons. For all their differences, a sacred and beloved homeland, the return of these exiles to their homeland, will prove materially and spiritually an experimental school for their brethren who are with them in the fields, factories, trade, and all things connected to the land. He basically said we want those original sons to come back to their original homeland because that is when what is going to come? The blessing.
Jeremiah 16:14-15
“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.”
There are several things we need to note about this passage. One, it is prophetic. Two, it reveals that something unprecedented will take place. Three, this event concerns the Jews. And, lastly, that there is a land that belongs to the Jews according to God.
Genesis 12:6-7
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 17:7-8
“And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
The Jews right to the land of Israel as an everlasting possession was established all the way back in Genesis. That means that while they were driven out of the land by God for their idolatry and disobedience, the land remained theirs. When they were slaves in Egypt for over 400 years, the land was theirs. When they were captives in Babylon, the land was theirs. When they were scattered among the nations, that land was theirs. The saying “the Lord brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt” has now been replaced with “the Lord has brought Israel back into the land which He gave to their fathers.”
Zechariah 8:7-8
“Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Behold, I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west; I will bring them back, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.’”
With the Jews back in their land and in possession of Jerusalem that means not only is God not finished with them, but He is going to be their God and save them at the end of the tribulation. Because of that, we can conclude that Jesus must be coming for His church soon!
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus,