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From the river to the sea

The Israeli flag portrays two blue lines above and below the six-pointed star. These lines represent “the river” (Euphrates) and “the sea” (Mediterranean). It depicts the Israeli claim to this territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has always worked toward this goal, and this is why he has always rejected the two-state solution. Now he is being open about it, saying,

“This conflict is not about the lack of a state of Palestinians but the existence of a Jewish state,” he said, according to a translation from i24News. “Every area we evacuate, we receive terrible terror… and therefore I clarify that in any arrangement, in the future the state of Israel has to control the from the river to the sea,” he continued, repeating a phrase that Israeli supporters have claimed is a call for genocide when used by pro-Palestinian supporters.

“This is what happens when you have sovereignty,” Netanyahu said. “I say to my American friends, stop trying to impose on us a reality that will jeopardize us. A prime minister of Israel has to be able to say ‘no’ even to the best of friends.”

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Netanyahu has always opposed a two-state solution, which was the basis of UN Resolution 181 in 1947. The Israelis were happy to embrace that Resolution as long as they could ignore half of it. They refuse to allow any homeland for Palestinians. Israeli settlers regularly grab more Palestinian land and then claim that any Palestinian opposing this is a terrorist. The Israeli government says that those settlements are illegal, but they refuse to enforce their own laws.

This refusal to recognize any territory for Palestinians is an old problem that is now catching the attention of the world as a whole. The world is now recognizing that it is the Israeli government that is refusing to implement UN Resolution 181—and dozens more over the years.

In 1948 Christian Zionists rejoiced over the passage of Resolution 181, supporting it wholeheartedly. But later, they criticized it because it “divided My land,” which (they said) should have gone entirely to the Israelis. Palestinians ought to have been expelled from the river to the sea and their land given to a Jewish immigrant. But that was not part of the deal.

From a biblical standpoint, the closest passage I can find to God’s condemnation of them dividing up His land is in Ezekiel 36:5, where we find God condemning the Edomites for dividing up the land among themselves.

⁵ Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated [nathan, “gifted”] My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.”

Hence, the prophecy says that it was not the Palestinians who divided the land for themselves but Edom. All one has to do is trace the history of Edom to see the modern fulfillment of this. Further, God here condemns “the rest of the nations” along with “all Edom,” without telling us specifically why those other nations were complicit in this.

The answer seems to be that the nations in question were represented by the UN itself, which passed Resolution 181 dividing up the land between Edom and the Palestinians. Hence, it is known as the Partition of Palestine. Now that Esau-Edom has proven itself unworthy of holding the birthright and of failing to bring forth the fruits of the Kingdom, the nations are now having second thoughts about Resolution 181.

Resolution 181 is already dead, having been broken long ago, but it makes me wonder if perhaps the UN will pass another resolution to repeal 181 altogether. As long as they continue to try to enforce 181, they will fail, due to Israeli opposition. The Israelis themselves have built up such a history of atrocities that it is virtually impossible for the two states to coexist at this point. Resolution 181 is long dead and now stinketh.

I have written many times that God’s solution is to destroy Jerusalem (Jeremiah 19:10, 11; Isaiah 29:1-6) so that no one gets to keep the land (Isaiah 29:7, 8). Isaiah prophesies that God Himself will lead the foreign armies to lay siege to Jerusalem (“Ariel”), and after it has been laid low, those same armies will find their own dreams unrealized. In my view, Isaiah 29:5, 6 describes a nuclear event, in which case, nuclear fallout would make the land uninhabitable.

The Mideast seems to be on the fast track toward disaster. I believe that 2024 will be the climactic year that will change the course of history and see the establishment of a more equitable world order known as the Kingdom of God. The Zionist world order will soon end, and we will experience a thousand years of peace.