The Miracle of Zionism

"Israel is the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago." - Historian Barbara Tuchman

"Israel is the only nation on the face of the earth that was created by a sovereign act of God" - Pastor John Hagee

"All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" - Author / Atheist, Mark Twain (long before the Holocaust and Israeli-Jewish statehood)

"They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their Empire were but a Bauble in comparison of the Jews. They have given religion to three quarters of the Globe and have influenced the affairs of Mankind more, and more happily, than any other Nation ancient or modern." - President John Adams - His 1808 response letter criticizing the depiction of Jews by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The "Spirit of Palestine" Down Through the Ages

Since the very beginning of the foundation of ancient-biblical Israel there has always been a Gentile-world movement to destroy the nation of Israel. It's a phenomenon within and of itself that long before the Crusades, Inquisitions, Pogroms, and Holocaust, that took millions of Jewish lives, the Jewish "Haggadah" which is the religious text that sets out the order of Passover would state: “in every generation they rise up against us to destroy us”.
It has been stated by many in the secular Gentile world, "I know that there has to be a God, because antisemitism is so irrational that it can be only explained by the spiritual".

King David stated three thousand years ago: "Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter" - Psalms 44:22. And in Psalms 83: 2-12 that was written well over two and a half millenniums ago, depicts how the Gentile nations that surrounds Israel, conspired to blot out the God of Israel and His Name YHVH, by blotting out the nation of Israel itself!

If one was to apply the context of Psalms 83 to modern Israeli history since the First Aliyah (1881-1903) and especially since statehood (1948) a whole new world view through the eyes of the Bible would emerge. With that biblical view in mind, certain questions come into mind:
  • If the Biblical spirit of anti-Israel as depicted in Psalms 83 is alive and well in this modern era, what nations of the earth are guilty of displaying such national anti-Israel tendencies?
  • If indeed in every generation there arises a force to annihilate the Israelite people as the ancient Jewish Haggadah states and given the fact that the Nazis Israelite-annihilators were of a generation ago, who might it possibly be during this present generation to fulfill this role of the Israelite-annihilators in light of Psalms 83?
  • Now here is the real kicker question; if the anti-Israelite spirit as depicted in Psalms 83, could be transformed into the form of a new modern "state" among the nations of the world, what type of a new-state could it possibly become?
To me it's quite simple. One can either look at the Middle East situation through the eyes of the Hebrew Bible that includes the context of Psalms 83, or they can look at the Middle east through the opposite lens of the Hebrew Bible, namely the US-lead Quartet. Just the phenomenon of historical antisemitism alone causes me to view the entire world and especially the Middle East situation through the eyes of the Hebrew Bible.

The term "circle of violence" used primarily by the world media, depicts aggression coming from both of the Israeli - Palestinians sides of the conflict avoids three key main concepts in understanding the true nature of the conflict:
  1. The term does not consider the factor of whether or not the Palestinians are indeed effected by the world-historical phenomenon of antisemistism (Judaism-racism).
  2. The term does not consider the tell-tall signs of the "nature of aggression" that the Hamas' and al-Fatah's covenants decree, compared to the non-aggressive nature that the Israelis' Independent Declaration of 1948 displays.
  3. The term does not take into account the Jew-murdering, anti-Israel historical concept implications that name "Palestine" historically derives from!
The term "circle of violence" and others with the same connotation, are used so that Israel can appear to be equally guilty of same terrorists mentality as the Palestinians in order that only the Jewish Israelis - the recipients of the continued world-historical antisemitism - can be the only ones blamed in and for the conflict, as seen recently in the UN Goldstone Report! Isn't that amazing?

Can modern antisemitism be spiritually linked to ancient historical antisemitism?1 The phenomenon of antisemitism itself that goes far beyond the natural realm more than suggests that it can! Therefore, what antisemitic historical movements and causes from the ancient past that carried with it the same overall goal and motivation as today's so-called Palestinians? What might be considered the "spiritual ancestors" of the modern Palestinian anti-Israel / anti-Judaism Cause? Could the Hebrew Bible give us some indications of the ancient-past "Spirit of Palestine" earthly manifestations?

Pharaoh of Egypt 1530BCE:
Pharaoh wanted to keep the Jews in his Gentile land where they could continue to be oppressed at the whim of gentile leadership as would be the case in all future Gentile lands. He was vehemently opposed to the Jews having their own land where they could worship in peace and closeness to their God YHVH (Exodus 3:18-19). Regardless of how many signs was giving Pharaoh that pointed to God's favor towards the Jews, it caused Pharaoh's heart to be all the more hardened. In this modern era, the Gentile world allowed the Jews to have a state over their direct guilt of the Holocaust. However they never intended the Jews to return to their ancient homeland for the purpose of their God-favoring covenant! The 1975 UN resolution declaring "Zionism" as God chosen people, to be racism proves this to be true! Now, the Quartet - like Pharaoh - is striving to retrieve their letting Israel go - forgetting their guilt of the Holocaust!

Balak, King of Moab:
Is it a far fetched idea to suggest that Balak who wanted Israel cursed and "driven from the land" (Numbers 22:6) is eternally and spiritually linked to today's Palestinians who shout "death to Israel" and has whose religious chants include driving Israel "into the sea"? Can it be said that this ancient King of Moab who lived around 1200 BCE (over 3,200 years ago) was a direct ancient-past expression of say, today's 1988 Hamas Covenant? Would the "Spirit of Balak" that wanted Israel cursed by God and driven from the land, be in today's world, a supporter of a Hamas-lead Palestinian State?

Haman, Councilor to King Ahasuerus - 4th century BCE:
Haman, who probably represents the Nazis more than any other modern antisemitic force, is spiritually linked to the 9th. century CE Islamic hadith that states: "The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim or servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him". - Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj al-Qushari ( 821 - 873 CE) Book 41 No. 6985

Hamas is spiritually dedicated and therefore spiritually linked to this ninth-century hadith as well as to their prophet Mohammad, who murdered men of the Banu Qurazah Jewish tribe of Yathrib Arabia. The question is, would the spirit of Haman who tried to have all the Jews murdered, be supportive in this ninth-century hadith? If so, we therefore have a spiritual link:
  • King Balak of Moab from 1200BCE
  • Haman - Councilor to King Ahasuerus - 4th century BCE
  • Mohammed - False Prophet Jew-murderer 7th century CE
  • Hadith for Jew Murder 9th. century CE
  • Nazism - 1933 - 1945
  • Hamas 1987 - present
Of course there are many more "Spirit of Palestine" movements that produced like-minded "Judenrein" anti-covenant expressions down through the epochs of time that would be placed within the above time-line between Balak and Hamas. These would include but not limited to:
  • King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 586BCE - Temple destroyer - Jewish banishment from the covenant land.
  • The foreign tribes placed in Samaria (West Bank) by Sennacherib, who themselves hired (UN / Quartet) advisers for their Spirit of Palestine Cause (Ezra chapter 4). 536 BCE
  • Sanballat, Tobiiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites (Jordanian army) and the Ashdodites (Palestinian Gazans) who made jihads and fatwas against Nehemiah (Nehemiah 4) 443 BCE
  • Antiochus IV Epiphanes 164BCE - Outlawed all forms of Judaism especially Jewish temple-worship. (The Hanukkah story).2
  • Titus Flavius Vespasianus 70CE - Temple destroyer - mass-murderer of Jews in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).
  • Emperor Hadrian 132 - 135CE - banishment of Jews from covenant land - renamed Israel "Syria Palaestina" (the name that still stands among antisemites) - renamed Jerusalem to "Aelia Capitolina" (today's so-called "Al-Quds") - and raised the Dome of the Rock shrine over the Temple Mount in the form of the deity "Jupiter".
  • The Crusaders 1095 - 1291CE - Murdered the Jewish population of Jerusalem including the burning of synagogues with Jews locked inside.
  • The Inquisitions (Medieval, Spanish, Portuguese, Roman) 1184- 1870
  • The Pogroms 1821 - 1946
  • Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) - Responsible for the 1929 Hebron massacre, the anti-Jewish riots of 1938-39 - Nazi (Hitler interviewed) sympathizer and radio broadcaster - Recruiter for the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the Nazi SS Handschar.
It doesn't take a lot of effort to see this "Spirit of Palestine" within the ancient biblical text. As pointed out in the above time-line, the same scenario that Ezra and the rest of the Jewish nation faced is almost exactly what the State of Israel faces today. There was a political and spiritual force within the Judea and Samaria (today's West Bank) whose origins were not indigenous to the land and arrived there via the conquest and banishment of the true indigenous people of the land (since the Exodus) which was the Jewish people.

There is spiritual reason as to why that today's most vicious enemy of modern Israel calls themselves "Palestinians". Not only is the renaming of Israel to "Palaestina" synonymous with the Hadrian Jew-murder and banishment that went along with that particular renaming, but the Arabic pronunciation of Palestine is "Philistine" which also illustrates a very Biblical significance.3

The Palestinian government leaders and clerics are notorious for expressing the words "our land" in every way they can in verbal attempts to claim the land of the covenant for themselves. I didn't notice until recently that their "spiritual-linked ancestors" - the real Philistines - did the exact same thing!
"Our god [Dagon / modern Allah] hath delivered into our hands our enemy [Samson], and the destroyer of OUR COUNTRY, which slew many of us." - Judges 16:24

The 4th chapter of the Hebrew Bible (Joel 3 in the Christian Bible) is quite an amazing prophetic chapter. In starts off by address the return of Jewish people back into the Land of the Covenant. Then it addresses the Gentile nations who was responsible for scattering Israel to be among the nations and outside of Israel to begin with and of whom placed forbidden Gentiles people powers within the Land of the Covenant.

Today's culmination of this Gentile sin is the "Quartet - Palestinian Cause"! It's in this amazing chapter that its referral to the area of "Gaza" is only time the English pronounced word of "Palestine" is mentioned in the 1611 King James Version (verse 4). As mentioned in previous blogs, it is also within this chapter that "Hamas"- pronounce in Hebrew - the language of the covenant land, is literally within the text pertaining to the innocent blood Judah (Jews) has shed due to the Christian-Rome's and Islamic-Ishmaelite Egypt's violence (verse 19).

The Palestinian rewriting of history that includes Palestinian Arab-Canaanites, Jewish temple denial, and of course Holocaust Denial, is really quite laughable. However, when the "spirit element" is added to this equation, then yes, the spirit of Palestinians were indeed "there" with every enemy ancient Israel ever faced or dealt with including the Philistines!4

Not only does the Palestinians spiritually connect with the pass, but the reverse is also true. Today's Palestinians spiritually represent the culmination of all historical enemies of Israel coming to meet Israel in this final age, and guess what, they have the world in the form of the Quartet, and all other forces (i.e. NGOs, world media, the Vatican, World Council of Churches, and academic institutions, ect.) backing them!

It's this powerful "Spirit of Palestine" that Christian Replacement Theology or supersessionism adheres to being made part of its ranks. Literally "all" Christian expressions of antisemitism stems from their Replacement Theology including Christian-antisemitism coming from the far right-wing white-supremacy groups such as the Aryan Brotherhood. All white-supremacy groups support the Palestinians hands down in all areas of the conflict with Israel because white supremacy groups along with all other replacement theology advocates, are spiritually of the "Spirit of Palestine"!

As Dore Gold pointed out in his book "The Fight for Jerusalem" Christian Replacement Theology was a strong movement during the late nineteenth century both in Germany and in the USA. What stifled this movement was none other than the Holocaust! What gave rise to Christian Zionism (the spiritual opposite of replacement theology) was the realization that Christian Replacement theology was not only responsible for laying the foundation of the Holocaust via men such as Martin Luther, but also played major role "during" the Holocaust as well! The Vatican (also of the Spirit of Palestine) signed the Concordat that was a spiritual agreement between the Vatican and Nazism, and Kristallnacht (The Night of the Broken Glass) was a commemoration of Martin Luther's birthday!

So here we are again; Christian Zionism is on the decrease and replacement theology is on the rise again. There is a Hussein in the White House leading the Quartet with an Islamic supporter and Jew-hater Tony Blair representing the Quartet. If your Jewish and Judaism is your faith, building a home in your ancient homeland is now a crime. Almahdinejad is currently test firing the improved Sejil 2 and the Shahab-3 rockets both capable of hitting Israel, and not one Gentile power is doing a single thing about it! The world of the "Spirit of Palestine" is at work against the everlasting covenant God has with Israel.

Out of ashes of the Holocaust came the State of Israel. But as it stands now that state that rose from out of the ashes of the Holocaust cannot continue to exist as it is, for it is currently set towards a path of certain destruction and the world "Spirit of Palestine" knows it, causing them to be ever-united in their cause. But because the world implications are so great in this last antisemitic go-around in there final setting against Israel and her covenant, what will rise out of the ashes this time is none other than the judgment of nations, and the nations recognizing Israel in her true covenant place. As it was prophesied in ancient times:

"I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land." - Joel 3:2 (Joel 4:2 in the Hebrew Bible)

"And the Gentiles shall know that I YHVH do sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." Ezekiel 37:28

Notes:
1. "Spiritual linking" spiritual makeup of past generations is noted in the New testament:
Matthew 23: 35-36 states:
"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation."

2
. Simon Maccabee's letter to the then "Spirit of Palestine":
The Jewish right to the Land of Israel was expressed in a letter from the Jewish leader Simon, the only survivor of the five Maccabee brothers to king Antiochus, whom they had just defeated. Antiochus demanded the return of the 'occupied territories' -- that is territories the Maccabees liberated during their recent war.

Simon writes: "We have neither taken foreign land nor seized foreign property, but only the inheritance of our fathers, which at one time had been unjustly taken by our enemies. Now that we have the opportunity, we are firmly holding the inheritance of our fathers."

3. "Palestine" is not an Arab word. It is a Roman word and name which in and of itself exposes to the antisemitic lie that the Jews "stole" Arab land. It further indicates that the "Palestinians" (or as I like to say, "the Haj Amin al-Husseini people") are indeed an Arab people that embraces the ancient Roman doctrine of detaching Jews from their ancient homeland (the original purpose of Hadrian naming the land in 135 CE). They have taken on the Roman name for their so-called Arab homeland signifying the spiritual link and spiritual alliance between Edom and Ishmael.

4. Though today's modern Egypt is not connected with ancient Egypt in language, culture, common shared history, and religion, as the enemy of Israel's everlasting covenant they become connected to ancient Egypt as enemies of the God of Israel. Therefore we can see the spiritual element behind Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser speech delivered on August 31, 1955:
"Egypt has decided to dispatch her heroes, the disciples of Pharaoh and the sons of Islam and they will cleanse the land of Palestine....There will be no peace on Israel's border because we demand vengeance, and vengeance is Israel's death."
Also modern white supremacist David Duke defends the ancient Persian Haman claiming that we don't hear about "Haman's side of the story" much like we don't hear much about the Palestinian's side of the story due to the Jewish controlled media. The reason Duke as a self-proclaimed Christian will take up for Haman (a Jewish annihilation seeker) is because Duke is spiritually linked to Haman. Being that Duke is the most identified "Aryan" supremacist in America (one of Nazism's favorite self-identifying terms) isn't it amazing that the term "Iran" from which Haman lived, stems from the word "Aryan"? > http://www.iranchamber.com/people/articles/aryan_people_origins.php

28 comments:

Joe Whitehead said...

To Charles,
I agree with most all of the posted article except for perhaps adding an issue from the last paragraph.

When something is declared "wrong" I always ask, "based upon what?"
The primary cause of the Holocaust was "rejection of the Torah".
If the German people was Torah-principle minded, Hitler would have never seen daylight of the German chancellery, much less the advent of the Holocaust.

The Jewish people are the chosen (priestly) people called by the one true God of Israel to be a light unto the nations (Isaiah 42:6, 49:6,60:3) to demonstrate the "whole duty of man" (Ecclesiastes 12:13.

It is much more effective to teach the Torah and man's whole heart devoted to God - from which ones fellow man was created, than to try harnessing the wild human heart towards some self-control (can't we all just get along) understanding.

Thanks for your post,
-Joe

Anonymous said...

From the website elijahnet.net where it says
"For the Redemption of Israel" an article is headlined:
"THE LAND IS NOT "PALESTINE" " and it says

"It is Biblically incorrect to speak of the land of Israel as "Palestine." There are seven places in the Bible where the Hebrew word "p'leshet" is used; Ex.15:14, Ps.60:8, Ps.87:4, Ps.108:9, Is.14:29 & 31, and Joel 3:4. Sometimes it is translated as "Palestine," other times it is translated as "Philistia." Regardless of which English word is used, the reference is to the land of the Philistines. Essentially, the references speak of God's judgments on the Philistines.
"Palestine" is not a Biblical synonym for the land of Israel. It is simply a designation for a small coastal strip in Canaan, from south of Jaffa to south of Gaza. (cf. Jer.47:1-7; Ezek.25:15-17; Am.1:6-8; Zeph.2:4-7) The name "Palestine" was applied by the Romans to Judea after they had crushed the Bar Kokhba Rebellion. It was intended as a punishment signifying that the Jews would never again live there.
Some 18 centuries later, in the greatest miracle of all that time, the Roman decree was nullified when a language, a people, and a land were brought forth from the dead. The house of Jacob began to again possess their possessions. God demonstrated that His power, His faithfulness, and His Word are greater than the weapons and the decrees of men.
Even as Isaiah had prophesied, "Then it will happen on that day that the Lord will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And He will lift up a standard for the nations, and will assemble the banished ones of Israel, and will gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." (Is.11:11-12)
The return of a remnant from Babylonian captivity was the first return. In it, the dispersed of Judah were not regathered "from the four corners of the earth." The second regathering has taken place in this century. It is not yet complete, but it is evident to all.
Biblically, the land was called Canaan, the land of the Canaanites. God destroyed the Canaanites because of their iniquity, and gave the land to Israel, the people He created, for an inheritance forever. Though it is the common usage of many, God never calls the land of Israel "Palestine." It is interesting that almost none of the Bibles that have maps have maps entitled "Israel". They have maps of "Canaan" and maps of "The Holy Land," but they do not have maps of "Israel." They have maps of "The divided kingdoms of Judea and Israel," but no maps of "Israel." They have maps of the "Land of the Twelve Tribes," and maps of "The Empire of David," and "The Empire of Solomon," but they do not have maps of "Israel."
They have maps of "Palestine in the time of the Maccabees" and "Palestine in the Time of Christ." That is absurd. There was no "Palestine" in the time of the Maccabees or in the time of Christ. "Palestine" did not come into existence as a designation for the land of Israel until the second century. It is like publishing a map entitled "The British Empire in the time of Christ," or "Downtown San Francisco in the time of the Maccabees."

Anonymous said...

The article continues
"Such designations show, whether intentionally or not, an anti-Biblical, anti- Judaic bias. So do the maps labeled, "Palestine Today." The geographical annihilation of Israel stands in open hostility to the Word of God. It is an evasion and denial of an important Biblical truth.
Since the re-establishment of the State of Israel, those who believe the Church is the "New Israel" have a dilemma. Having the "old Israel" raised from the dead makes the "New Israel" very uneasy about the theological position it has carved out for itself. That is why some who hold this position actually hope that Israel will be destroyed. They are unwilling to turn from their false theology. That is why they embrace "Palestine," but reject Israel; and call for an end to "the Israeli occupation of Palestine." To use God's designation of the land as "Israel" would make the call far less appealing. After all, how many people could be stirred up about ending "the Israeli occupation of Israel"?
Those who want to follow and glorify the Lord would do better to use His designation for the land of "Israel". As far as God is concerned, there is no question about to whom the land belongs. It is His land, and He gave it to the Jewish people for an everlasting possession.
He has given other lands to other peoples. "And He made from one every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitations." (Acts 17:26) It is God who determines what land belongs to what people. The God of Israel has spoken very clearly about the land of Israel."

Anonymous said...

Also from elijahnet.net an article is headlined
"WAS THE PROMISE ALREADY FULFILLED?" this article says

"The promise by the God of Israel of the land of Israel to the children of Israel did not expire. Neither the Law nor the New Covenant cancel God's promise to Abraham. Part of the original promise to Abraham and his descendants concerning the land of Canaan was that it would be theirs "for an everlasting possession." (Gen.17:8) When they were disobedient, they would be driven off the land, but it would still be their everlasting possession. Both possession and time seem to be different with God than they are with man.
"By faith [Abraham] lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise." (Heb.11:9) It was their land, but it wasn't yet in their possession. Obadiah prophesied of the future destruction of Edom for gloating over the destruction of Jerusalem: "For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head...But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions." (Obad.15,17)
Because of the sins of Judah, God had sent judgment and removed them from the land. The land was still one of their possessions, but they no longer possessed it. While that judgment was still in progress, God warned those who sought to take Israel's possessions for themselves. "Thus says the Lord concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, 'Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.' " (Jer.12:14)

Anonymous said...

The article continues
"During the Babylonian captivity, the Lord told Ezekiel the specific physical geography by which the land of Israel would one day be divided among the tribes of Israel. (Ezek.47&48) It was a different division than that given by Joshua. The land has not yet been allotted as the Lord described to Ezekiel, but one day it will be. That will be in a day when Jerusalem is called, "The Lord is there." (Ezek.48:35)
There are numerous examples in both Tanakh and the New Covenant Scriptures where the Lord speaks of what is future as though it were taking place in the present or had taken place in the past. For example, John, the forerunner of the Lord, was born, "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying: 'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David His Servant.' " (Lk.1:67-69) Yeshua had not yet been born, but the Holy Spirit spoke of the redemption of Israel as having been accomplished.
The claim that the Hebrew for "forever" or "everlasting" really means "to the end of the age" is only partly true. In some cases it does mean that, but that is not all that it means. The English word "always" provides a helpful parallel. It means "every time," but it also means "as long as," and "forever."
There are actually several different Hebrew expressions used to signify "forever." Most of them use the word "olam" by itself or with a prefix or suffix. Examples are "me-olam", "le-olam", and "olamim". Looking at the use of such words in context is very helpful in understanding the meaning that they are given in the Bible.
"Olam" is used quite often. Here are some examples of how it is used in terms of the children of Israel and the land. God promised Abraham, "And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." (Gen.17:8) "Then Jacob said to Joseph, 'God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, and He said to me, "Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession." ' " (Gen.48:3,4)"

Anonymous said...

& continues
"He has remembered His covenant forever the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.' " (Ps.105:8-11)
The word is used to describe God's relationship with Israel. For example, "The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.' " (Jer.31:3) "And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me." (Jer.32:40)
It is also used to describe the length of time that God is God (Gen.21:33), that He is King (Jer.10:10) and His reign endures (Ps.66:7); how enduring are His arms (Dt.33:27), His righteousness (Ps.119:142), His salvation (Is.45:17), His lovingkindness (Is.54:8), His light (Is.60:19,20); and how long the righteous will live and the wicked will be abhorred (Dan.12:2).
"Me-olam" is used to describe when the personification of wisdom was established. "The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth." (Prov.8:23)
When David sought to build a house for the Lord, the Lord, in return, promised to build David a house. (2Sam.7) The phrase "ad olam" appears several times in this chapter. The Lord told David, "When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me... And your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever." (vv.12-14,16) This section is generally understood to be speaking immediately of Solomon, but also to be speaking prophetically of Yeshua, the greater Son of David. It is explicitly applied to Yeshua in Hebrews 1:5.
David responds to the promise of the Lord by praying. "For Thou hast established for Thyself Thy people Israel as Thine own people forever, and Thou, O Lord, hast become their God. Now therefore, O Lord God, the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as Thou hast spoken, that Thy name may be magnified forever, by saying, 'The Lord of hosts is God over Israel'; and may the house of Thy servant David be established before Thee." (vv.24-26)"

Anonymous said...

& continues
"The same phrase, "ad olam," is also used in Psalm 9:7: "But the Lord abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment." In these cases, "ad olam" is used to signify how long the throne of the Son of David will be established; how long Israel is established as the people of the Lord; and how long the name of the Lord is to be magnified and the Lord will abide or sit as king.
"Le-olam" is used often in the Bible. Moses used it, for example, in interceding with God when Israel built the golden calf. "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants to whom Thou didst swear by Thyself, and didst say to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.' So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people." (Ex.32:13)
It is also the word that is used to describe how long the mercy of the Lord endureth (1Ch.16:34), the truth of the Lord lasts (Ps.117:2), His word stands firm, His righteous judgments abide (Ps.119:89,160), His counsel stands (Ps.33:11), and His name lasts (Ps.135:13); how long the Lord will reign (Ps.146:10), His glory (Ps.104:31) and the Lord Himself shall endure (Ps.9:7).
It is also used to explain how long Yeshua is a priest according to the order of Melchizedek. (Ps.110:4) In Hebrews 7:3, Melchizedek is described as "...having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he abides a priest perpetually." The same Greek phrase that is translated in this verse as "perpetually" [eis to dienekes], also appears in Hebrews 10:12-14, referring to Psalm 110: "But He [Yeshua], having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified."

Anonymous said...

& lastly says
"Forever, le-olam, the land of Israel belongs to the people whom God did not destroy in the wilderness. Forever, le-olam/eis to dienekes, Yeshua is a priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Forever, [eis to dienekes], the sacrifice of Yeshua atones for sins. Forever [eis to dienekes], those who are sanctified are perfected by that sacrifice. It is incorrect to say that these words and phrases only mean "to the end of the age." That is not the way that the Lord uses them in the Bible."

Anonymous said...

israelnationalnews.com has an article headlined
"From the River to the Sea, Palestine is already free"

‘Palestine’ derives from ‘Israel’, and has nothing to do with the word ‘Philistine.’ Debunking a myth. Op-ed.
Alan Perlman
Jan 23, 2023 this article says
"There is no question that the name we today pronounce as “Palestine” was imposed on the Land of Israel by the Roman conquerors. This was standard Roman procedure to weaken or destroy the Jewish connection to their land. Thus, they also renamed Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina, and Shechem to Neopolis (now Nablus in Arabic).

It seems universally assumed that Rome derived the name Palestine from the name of Israel’s Philistine enemies, an assumption endlessly repeated even by Israel’s friends and supporters. But this assumption, however, is entirely incorrect. The name “Palestine” has no connection, linguistic or otherwise, to the biblical Philistines. Not only that, the actual source for the name “Palestine” bolsters Israel’s claim to the land.

But before examining the source of the name “Palestine,” let’s take a closer look at the Philistines. The Philistines were not native Canaanites; they were later invaders from Crete and the Aegean islands. The Bible called these invaders “Pelishtim” (which later devolved into the familiar “Philistine”). Not surprisingly, the Hebrew term Pelishtim means invaders or squatters. And the areas under their control was collectively called Peleshet (i.e., territory held by the invader or squatters). The Philistines completely disappeared by the end of the 5th century B.C.E.

It is no small irony that the Arab invaders to the Land of Israel have built up a mythology, inconsistent and absurd, linking themselves to the Philistine invaders. Consider their oft cited and foolish claim that Jesus was the first Palestinian (which by their reckoning would make the first Palestinian Jewish), while simultaneously denying that there was a Judea or that the Temple Mount ever held the Holy Temples.

But to the issue at hand, if no linguistic connection exists between the Roman-applied name “Palestine” and the Philistine invaders, where did the name come from?

An excellent book by Stuart Arden, called “Sense and Nonsense – What You Need to Know About the Arab-Israeli Conflict” (Gefen Publishing House, 2013), provides the details, and they are stunning. [See the footnote at the end of this article.]

Upon conquering Israel, Rome called the territory Provincea Judaea. Though it derived that name from the Kingdom of Judea, Rome applied it to the entire conquered territory. This included land on both sides of the Jordan, Samaria, the Coastal Plain, most of the Galilee and the Golan Heights – in short, the whole Land of Israel. However, after the Bar Kochva revolt, Rome sought to erase the link to Judea, and chose the name Palaestina, or more fully, Syria Palaestina. In that designation, “Syria” identified a wide region – the entire Levant; and “Palaestina” (the name that concerns us) identified a specific area within the Levant."

Anonymous said...

The article continues & Lastly says
"The name was actually first coined by the ancient Greek historian/geographer Herodotus in the 5th century BCE, when he wrote of a “district of Syria, called Palaistine.” To the Romans, this seemed the perfect name replacement for Judea. Especially since the name derived from the Philistine enemies of the Jews – except that it didnt.


Herodotus knew that the Philistines occupied only a relatively small portion of the Land of Israel consisting of five city states: Gaza, Ashkelon and Ashdod on the Mediterranean coast, and Gath and Ekron a bit further east. (And, In fact, the area occupied by the Philistines was collectively termed Philistia.)

By contrast, Herodotus applied Palaistine to the whole area located between Phoenicia in the north and Egypt in the south, and he also described it as the “land of the circumcised.” Clearly, Herodotus was calling the whole land of Israel, whose inhabitants he knew to be Jews, “Palaistine.” The question is “Why and how did he choose that name?” And the explanation is at once wonderful and compelling, And it absolutely confirms the Jewish connection to the land.

As a historian/geographer, Herodotus was familiar with the legends, accounts, and history of the people of Israel. And one particularly key account is that of the Patriarch Jacob wrestling a man/angel all night, before going on to encounter his brother Esau. Jacob emerged victorious from that wrestling match, and the man/angel gave Jacob a new name: Yisrael (Israel) – “because you strove with G-d and man and prevailed.” And he blessed Jacob/Israel (Genesis 32:25 – 30).

Yisrael/Israel means the one who wrestled/strove with G-d.

That event, that wrestling match, was so pivotal that the new name given to Jacob redefined Jewish identity forever. From then on, Jacob’s descendants became known as Bnei Yisrael -- the Children of Israel; and the promised land became known as Eretz Yisrael – the Land of Israel. (Even today, as we merit to see G-d ingathering the Jewish exiles as He promised, the founders chose to call the new Jewish state Medinat Yisrael - the State of Israel.)

The significance of this key biblical account was not lost on Herodotus, and is the determining factor in the name he coined for the Land of Israel. The Greek word for wrestler is Palaistis, so Herodotus called the Land of Israel “Palaistine” – the Land of the Wrestler. In other words, Palaistine is nothing short of a Greek translation of the Hebrew name “Eretz Yisrael.”

The time is long overdue to set the record straight and jettison the false linkage of Palestine to the Philistine invaders. Not only is there no connection linguistic or otherwise, but the ancient Greek name Palaistine is an ancient acknowledgement and confirmation that the Land of Israel belonged to its Jewish inhabitants. And it negates the myth that the land contained an ancient, so-called “Palestinian” people. Like the Pelishtim/Philistine invaders of long ago, the so-called Palestinians are simply Arab invaders – who invaded the land not so long ago.

It is no small irony that every time the world uses the term “Palestine” they are unwittingly confirming that the Land of Israel, the Land of Wrestler, belongs to the Jews.

From the river to the sea Palestine is already free, and in the hands of its Jewish inheritors. And with G-d’s help may we soon merit to see the return of the rest of those portions of the land of Israel that are not yet in our hands.

Footnote: Stuart Arden, author of the above-cited book, credits much of what he wrote on this topic to an article, “When Palestine Meant Israel” by David Jacobson, that appeared in Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol 27 no.3 (May-June 2001).

Anonymous said...

A person recently typed on the Internet
"The History of the imaginary Palestinian state:

1. Before Israel there was a British Mandate, not a Palestinian state
2. Before the British Mandate, it was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire Was the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic State of the Mamluks from Egypt, the Arab-Kurdish Empire was the Ayyubid, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayyubid Empire was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem was the Umayyad and Fatimid empire, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, the Byzantine Empire was not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid Empire was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire it was a Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid Empire was the Empire of Alexander, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before Alexander's empire it was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire were the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was no kingdom of Israel in the kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel was not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an accumulation of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 20. In fact, in this plot of land kingdoms fell and fell .. But there was never a Palestinian state or a people...! 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

Anonymous said...

From the Jerusalem Post
jpost.com an article is
headlined
"Palestine, The Nation that Never Was and Never Will Be"
By BATYA MEDAD Published: SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Anonymous said...

RichardMatherblog.wordpress.com has an article headlined
"Gaza – land of the invaders"
Posted on December 2, 2015 by Richard Mather

Anonymous said...

A person in Early 2023
Typed on the Internet
"The myth of the ‘ indigenous Palestinians ‘
Worth reposting methinks with these additional facts .
Any indigenous people say prayers or chant songs linking them to their indigenous lands . Since time immemorial the Jewish people have such prayers and songs still recited today. When challenging the Palestinians what traditional prayers or songs they recite, guess what - there are none !
Also we always are told that the indigenous Palestinians had their lands stolen by the Zionists even though their leaders testified on oath to the 1937 Peel Committee that all land had been legally acquired. When challenging any Palestinian what category of land was stolen from them , and there were only 5 categories ( Mulk Miri Waqf Metruke Mewat) and when and where it was land registered, guess what - they can never answer !

Today’s ‘Palestinians ‘ are immigrants who came to the geographical area for the economic benefits brought about by Zionism from the late 19th century as we shall verify beyond reasonable doubt.

Let us be totally clear and reiterate, there has never been and never was, a race, a tribe, a people, nor a culture at any period in history known as the ‘Palestinians’ indigenous to the land they now claim. Only since 1964 enemies of the Jewish State of Israel have perpetrated this myth. During the previous centuries no travelers writing about their exploits ever identified the ‘Palestinians’. They are a myth that have morphed into fact promoted by bigots, intellectual incompetents and racists. Fake news has assisted in facilitating the anthropological miracle of the Palestinian who falsely lay claim to the Land of The Jewish People. Let’s explore this further by sheer common sense if historical verification as explained above is insufficient proof of the non-existent Palestinian.

What is the mother tongue of the indigenous ‘Palestinian’ we ask? Naturally without hesitation the answer is Arabic easily verified by numerous sources. It is an absolute and indisputable fact. The Palestinian Charters are in Arabic, the school curriculum is in Arabic and the daily papers are in Arabic. However, to a disciplined researcher such as myself therein lies a paradox which unfortunately exposes further unpalatable facts for both the ‘Palestinians’ and their supporters.

There is no sound for the letter ‘P’ for Palestinian in Arabic. Just take that in for a moment and mentally process what I have written. There is no sound for ‘P’ in Arabic. Palestinian is simply the English language adjective and bastardisation of the Latin word for the geographical area Hadrian named “Palaestina” in the second century AD. Naming the area Palaestina was his way of further humiliating the defeated Jews having previously annihilated their revolt and uprising against the Roman invasion. Renaming the area from Judea to Palaestina after the ancient foes of the Jewish people, the Philistines, was the ultimate humiliation. There are two dictionary definitions of the word Philistine one being uncultured, uncouth heathen the other being ’extinct people from the Greek islands’."

Anonymous said...

The 2023 Internet comment
Continues
"You will note that there was no ‘Palestinian’ uprising or ‘Palestinian’ claims to Jerusalem against the Romans, only a Jewish fight for their indigenous lands. Thus, it is from the term Philistines that the name Palestine derives and both Philistines and Palestinians have the commonality of being invaders, the former from the Greek Islands, the latter from surrounding Arab countries. The very definition of their name has nothing whatsoever to do with ethnicity but is simply a descriptive application linked to the geography. Furthermore, and unsurprisingly the origination of the name Philistine derives from the Hebrew ”Peleshet” meaning invaders or penetrators.

Is it not therefore an absurd irony that today’s Palestinian Arabs call themselves after extinct Greek, seafaring invaders or uncultured, uncouth heathens? Why would any people, tribe or race accept, indeed be proud of such negative descriptions? The former immediately debunks their very existence and the latter is not the kind of description to take pride in.

Even more imbecilic, why call themselves a name they cannot pronounce in their mother tongue? An English word derived from Hebrew, describing Greeks, then translated into Latin without any Arabic derivation and with such offensive definitions to their, albeit false history and culture.

No, no, shout the offended Palestinians, we are called Filastinians, that is the Arabic word for us. Oh really, this disciplined researcher retorts in astonishment. But ‘Filastine’ is simply the Arab pronunciation of Philistine and therefore apart from one letter to conform with Arabic vocalization the Filastinians are still naming themselves after extinct Greek sailors or uncouth, uncultured heathens – and in Queen’s English. You really couldn’t make it up, it’s Monty Pythonesque – that was a British comedy mocking absurd situations which were themselves exaggerated."

Anonymous said...

The comment lastly says
"Further investigation is surely necessary as it is patently imbecilic that supposedly, indigenous peoples should be satisfied with such negative and offensive definitions debunking all claims of indigenous ethnicity. So we research into the Filastinian historical archives in the expectation of discovering a people or persons who identified as indigenous Filastinian leaders or a war, battle or conflict fought by indigenous Filastinians against any domestic or foreign invaders throughput the centuries of warfare in their apparent homeland in an attempt to recapture their cherished Jerusalem.

Maybe we will find archaeological evidence of a Filastinian currency, town or city; maybe an historical construct originated and built by indigenous Filastinians and the name of the Filastinian architect. If the Filastinians are indigenous then history and evidence must surely reveal the name of any one, just one historical Filastinian King, Queen, Prince, Princess, President, Imam, Leader, Warrior, Apothecary, Writer, Poet, Scribe, Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, Tailor, Butcher, Baker or Candlestick maker.

Alas, there is no such evidence to be found of any race, culture, or people. Other noted travelers to the area , listed here such as Edward Webbe, 1553 – 1590 , Adrian Reland 1676 – 1718 , Count Constantine Francois Volney 1757 – 1820 , William Thackeray, 1811 – 1863 , Gustav Flaubert , 1821 – 1880 , James Finn 1806 – 1872 , Mark Twain , 1835 – 1910 , and B.W. Johnson, 1833 – 1894 , never recorded , discovered nor wrote of the indigenous Palestinians or Filastinians. These itinerant scribes did not write about them nor the villages they supposedly inhabited because they never existed.

And there is a reason for their nonexistence and it is simply because they are a recent construct invented by those political organizations and Arab countries who sought to eliminate the Jewish State of Israel and deconstruct the geographical area after 1948. And what is equally astounding is that the fiction has morphed into fact. The anthropological miracle we know today as Palestinians have revised history so that a non-existent people have existed apparently since time immemorial."

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post jpost.com has an article headlined: “Occupied" Territories?: Hebrew Origins of Palestinian Arab Towns in Judea-Samaria"
By LEE BENDER Published: JANUARY 17, 2017

Anonymous said...

Also from The
Jerusalem Post, jpost.com an
Article is headlined
"The rightful heirs of Palestine"
By SARAH HONIG Published: MAY 14, 2010

Anonymous said...

jesusnotebook.wordpress.com
has an article on
October 15, 2010
headlined
"HADRIAN’S CURSE –– THE INVENTION OF PALESTINE"
by Tsafrir Ronen

Anonymous said...

freerepublic.com has a Pro-Israel
Satire article headlined
“10 Reasons To Love Palestine”
by Goffaq Yussef which is Arabic for Go F–k Yourself
Posted on 7/8/2005

Anonymous said...

Mr. Whitehead, Some Pro-Israel people have pointed out that "Palestine" has No History, Only a Criminal Record
What is your response ?

Anonymous said...

Two Good Articles are
From algemeiner.com an article headlined
"An Inconvenient Truth: The Jewish People Never Left the Land of Israel" on October 24, 2022
by Jacob Sivak
& from The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com an article headlined
"We Never Left: The Jews' Continuous Presence in the Land of Israel" by Lee Bender on
December 12, 2016

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post , jpost.com has an article headlined
"Just say no to ‘Palestine’ "
By MICHAEL FREUND on JULY 14, 2023

Anonymous said...

blogs.timesofisrael.com has an article by Bob Ryan headlined
"Palestine, the Nation that Never Existed" on
NOV 26, 2022,

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"The Palestinian Authority admits there’s no ‘Israeli occupation’ -"
By STEPHEN M. FLATOW on OCTOBER 1, 2023

Anonymous said...

askdrbrown.org has a good article headlined
"A Question for Those Who Chant ‘Palestine Must Be Free’"
on
October 24, 2023 by Michael L. Brown

Anonymous said...

hudson.org has an article headlined
"The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine" by
Douglas J. Feith on
December 13, 2021

Anonymous said...

jns.org has an article headlined
"The word ‘Palestine’ is genocide"
by
BENJAMIN KERSTEIN
January 22, 2024