They Will Not Win

 

            And so the war between Israel and Hamas wages on, the seventy two hour cease-fire did not solve a thing as Hamas began to fire their rockets at Israeli cities again on Friday. At the exact time the seventy two hour cease fire was officially over the rockets began to fly through the air with dozens more following. This action by Hamas does not surprise me, they hate the Jewish people and their desire is to eradicate every Jew and take the land of Israel and claim it as their own; this is what they live and breathe to do. Just this past Friday an official from the Palestinian Authority posted on Facebook a call for the Arabs to drive Israel into the sea (1). Why should this rhetoric by the Palestinian leaders surprise anyone, especially those who hold pro-Hamas rallies in Europe, the US, and Canada? Do these people even know the history behind this land; I assume that most of them do not because of their placards that call for Israel to free Palestine. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and many others who border the land of Israel and are in fact their neighbours, want to eradicate the Jew and confiscate their land. What kind of neighbours are they anyway? They have an agenda and they mean to carry it out; no cease-fire is going to stop their plans.

            The bible mentions the Palestinian people in the book of Psalms, and it mentions how their main goal is to destroy the Jewish people and confiscate their land; yes it is Israel’s land. God gave the Jewish people the geographical territory they now possess this present day and even more of the extended geographical territory surrounding their borders. God made a covenant with Abram before he changed his name to Abraham—father of many nations—and promised that he would give to him and his descendants the land from, “the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (Gen.15:18, KJV). He then proceeds to add to this territory by giving to Abram and his descendants the geographical areas in verses nineteen through twenty one, these areas along with the area of the river of Egypt, which is the Nile River, to the great river Euphrates, encompass every inch of the land that Israel possess today, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, along with portions of Egypt, Iraq, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and also included is all of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

            God said to Abraham—after he changed his name from Abram—that he would give to him and his descendants the whole land of Canaan (2) as an everlasting possession (Gen.17:8). The Lord later confirmed to Isaac that he will give these same lands to him and his descendants just as he promised his father (Gen.26:2-4), then he appeared to Jacob—whom the Lord later named Israel—and passed on this same promise to him and his children (Gen.28:10-14; 35:9-13). The Lord reassures Joshua that he has given this land to the descendants of Jacob—Israel—and that he must go now and possess it (Jos.1:1-4). The people who now claim that Israel is occupying their land, the Palestinians, led by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, were never promised and given this land by God, but only the descendants of Israel through Jacob, through Isaac, through Abraham. Ishmael and his descendants, the son of Abram by the Egyptian maidservant Hagar, and Esau and his descendants, the twin brother of Jacob, were never partakers of this promise.

            The men in charge of Hamas, and the people who lead the Palestinian Authority, cannot seem to find it in their hearts and minds to end their conflict with Israel. They will not stop until they have reached their goal of wiping Israel off the face of the map, they will not even recognize Israel as a sovereign nation. The want the land and they despise the Jew so much that they will not stop until every last Jew is wiped out. The Psalmist, Asaph, saw this conflict nearly three thousand years ago and writes down what he saw as he was led along by the Spirit of God in Psalms, chapter eighty three. He saw how these enemies of Israel are very cunning as they conspire against the people living in Israel (Ps.83:3), he maybe saw the sophisticated tunnels that Hamas engineered under the earth to attack Israel. They say they want to completely destroy Israel so that even the name of Israel will be forgotten (Ps.83:4).

            Asaph saw in his vision more nations and people groups, than just the people who drive Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, who are dedicated to completely destroying Israel, but nonetheless Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are included in this list and are mentioned in verse seven being listed as the descendants of Philistia. All the descendants listed in these verses want to destroy Israel and confiscate their land, but right now the ones who are making the headlines are the people who reside in the Gaza Strip, the descendants of Philistia, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, and all their Arab supporters.

            Asaph prays and writes that God will not let them away with this violence against his people, he says to make them, “like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind” (Ps.83:13, HNV). He asks the Lord to make them ashamed of what they desire to do to Israel so that men will seek the Lord (Ps.83:16), and that they “be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish” (Ps.83:17, HNV). I can see from these predictions that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are putting themselves in jeopardy if they continue in their attempts to eradicate the Jews—this goes for any of the other groups who choose to destroy the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.   

 

(1) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183854#.U-ZDIJt0yM9

(2) http://www.bible-history.com/map-israel-joshua/