“The return for the patriarchate is a lump-sum payment of $2 million and a yearly rent of just $300,000 — less than previous offers and a paltry sum for one of the world’s most valuable properties”
It’s quite a large area, see the picture:
“some four acres in all”
Real estate developers; they’re the best.
Prayers for all parties involved. I’m going to look into and prayerfully consider this situation more. I’m considering if maybe — just maybe — it might be the most helpful thing from a Christian point of view for the Armenian church there to yield the land to the Jewish people. For now, the Kingdom of Heaven and the New Jerusalem, when there will be a new heavens and a new earth, haven’t arrived, and while this world goes on, it’s important for Christians to consider that God did give Israel to the Jews. That’s a preliminary opinion. I’m sure this is very hard on the Christians who have been there over a thousand years, yet if they should relinquish that land, then God would give them the strength to do so, and comfort them in it.