Posted on 04/14/2002 1:37:21 PM PDT by Jack Black
In Genesis 13:14 we read:
And the Lord said unto Abram, after than Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art northward, and soutward, and eastward and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it for I will give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mam're, which is in Hebron, and built there an alter onto the Lord.
A few questions on this. Is there a standard interpretation of what the modern boundaries of this land grant are?
Would the children of Abram include the Arab nations as well as the Jews? Do both the Jews and Arabs agree on this? (guess that's a rhetorical question)
Later in Numbers 33 we read:
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the palins of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye are passed over the Jordan into the land of Cannan;THey ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down their high places; And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therin, for I have given you the land to possess it. ... But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; hten it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides and shall vex you in the land where you dwell.
More over it shall come to pass , that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
Finally the exact boudaries are given in Numbers 34:
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Give these instructions to the Israelites: When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your special possession, these will be the boundaries.
The southern portion of your country will extend from the wilderness of Zin, along the edge of Edom. The southern boundary will begin on the east at the Dead Sea. It will then run south past Scorpion Pass in the direction of Zin. Its southernmost point will be Kadesh-barnea, from which it will go to Hazar-addar, and on to Azmon. From Azmon the boundary will turn toward the brook of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.
"Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
"Your northern boundary will begin at the Mediterranean Sea and run eastward to Mount Hor, then to Lebo-hamath, and on through Zedad and Ziphron to Hazar-enan. This will be your northern boundary.
"The eastern boundary will start at Hazar-enan and run south to Shepham, then down to Riblah on the east side of Ain. From there the boundary will run down along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee, and then along the Jordan River to the Dead Sea. These are the boundaries of your land." Then Moses told the Israelites, "This is the territory you are to divide among yourselves by sacred lot. The LORD commands that the land be divided up among the nine and a half remaining tribes. The families of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance of land on the east side of the Jordan River, across from Jericho."
It was on that occasion that the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying, "To your descendants, I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, Euphrates......"
God promised the land to Abraham, and his seed. That was before Egypt.
Since when were ink pen marks referred to as tattoos???
Due to the Israelites not completing with suitable vigor the genocide against the Caananites that is desribed in the book of Joshua, God revoked the covenant. The Israeli's land grant from God is not valid, since it has been revoked for about 100 generations.
ANSWER: Explicitly and exclusively? NONE.
>Then the LORD said to Moses, "Give these instructions to the Israelites...
All Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews. (Click on my Profile for details.)
They were not putting tattoo's on the Palestinians, unless you think that going to Disneyland and having your hand stamped is a "tattoo."
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