Israel and Gaza: The Price of Disobedience?

Israel and Gaza: The Price of Disobedience? by IM Jacobson.

Excerpts from The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Chronicled by IM Jacobson.

After more than a week of retaliatory strikes against Gaza for rocket attacks upon Israel from locations inside that region, Israel has entered Gaza with troops and armor. Hundreds of people have been reported killed in the first hours of the invasion and thousands are reported to have been injured.

As is the case in any armed conflict, there is no shortage of people who attempt to assign blame. The Israeli government claims that Hamas, being recognized by the Palestinian people as the legitimate government is either allowing rocket attacks from areas under Hamas administration or making the same. The Palestinians blame Israel, saying that Israel occupies the land illegally. Blame can be accurately fixed, using a controversial ancient record known as the Bible.

Although most people generally discount or dismiss the biblical record as unreliable, it is interesting that whenever war breaks out in the middle east the attention of the world focuses squarely upon the conflict, being motivated by the fear of potential fulfillment of a final prophetic battle, typed Armageddon. When one examines the Biblical record for the roots of the present conflict, it becomes clear that the blame falls squarely upon Israel.

About 4,000 years ago, God brought Abraham out of his home in Babylon, to a land of God's choosing, and made a covenant with Abraham, saying "I will make you into a great nation" (Genesis 12:2) That land which was known at the time as Canaan, was given to his seed through Isaac and Jacob (named Israel), for an "everlasting possession." (Genesis 17:8) Because she is a stiff-necked people and refused numerous times to hear correction, God eventually cast her away in the same manner in which she cast him.

Being stripped from the land in two dispersions, first by the Assyrians and at last by the Babylonians, they lost their land and their identity. The seed of Israel, along with her nation and worship, were lost. For all intents and purposes, Israel has been since the first century AD, nothing but a long dead corpse, dry as any who littered the vast desert of history. Israel was promised many things which were never fulfilled prior to the expulsion from the Promised Lands. Among those promises were that the twelve tribes of Israel would lose all trace and memory of their lineage until the "fulness of the Gentiles be come in"...

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