Common Sense Commentary: Many of my readers will remember Jimmy De Young.
When I met him, he was a disk jockey, radio guy at a Tallahassee station. I didn't know it at the time but he is Nancy Reynold's sister's husband. Nancy was one of my secretaries for several years. Well, Jimmy got saved and surrendered to the ministry. He told me later that God had called him to be a missionary ... preacher to Jerusalem.
We were his sending church and calls me his pastor. Jimmy quotes a conversation we had when he called and said he and family were on their way to Israel and a war had just broken out and wanted to know what I thought he should do. Best I can remember, I asked him if God had called him there and he said yes ... so I suggested he should go on, war or no war.
Well, many of you know that he has become the most well known "missionary" in the Holy Land and has appeared on every religious broadcasting network in the U.S. and is quite famous both in the U.S. and Israel. He had written many books and pamplets on prophecy and Israel. Very good and worth reading. Jimmy was a very young man back when and now looks like an Old Testament prophet or an Apostle. Neither of which he claims but he is now ministering in the U.S. much of the time and the entire family is holding the fort in Israel where they preach and witness for our Lord, Jesus Christ/Messiah. You might want to subscribe to his free newsletter or daily devotions. Here he is, faithfully carrying God Word to many fields white unto harvest. RB
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April 30, 2012
Thank you for reading my Prophetic Daily Devotionals!
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And the LORD
thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou
shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy
fathers.
The passage chosen for our
devotional reading today is what is referred to as the "Land Covenant". Maybe in
the margin of your Bible or possibly above the first verse of our reading you
find, as I do in my King James Scofield Reference Bible, the title of the
covenant to be the "Palestinian Covenant".
That is not the title of the
covenant, the word "Palestinian" is a man-made word that is a negative word
introduced to the Jewish and Christian world in the second century by a Roman
Emperor who named the land of Israel, "Palestine".
The Bible never calls the land
that God gave to the Jewish people, "Palestine". The land is called "Israel".
There has never been a land that God called "Palestine", the Lord calls the land
"Israel", Matthew 2:20-21. Please do not refer to the land
of Israel as "Palestine" but by it's true Biblical name, "Israel".
By the way, there was never an
Arab state of "Palestine" that must be returned to the Palestinian people. From
around 1500 AD until 1917 AD the Ottoman Empire, the empire of the nation of
Turkey, controlled what is today, the land of Israel. The Turks ruled this land
for over 400 years.
Then, until the United Nations
gave the Jews this land in 1948, as a nation called Israel, the land was under
the sovereignty of the British Empire. There has never been a state, an official
government, for the state of "Palestine".
The truth is our devotional
reading for today promises to give the "land" to the Jewish people. This "land
covenant" includes all of the land that God has promised to the Jewish people,
some ten times the amount of land that the Jews now control.
The total amount of land that the
Jews will receive according to this covenant will be given to the Jews during
the Kingdom period when the Messiah, Jesus Christ, is ruling and reigning from his Temple in
Jerusalem.
There will also be a time when the
Jews will be brought back into the land of their forefathers, verse 5. The Jews will love the Lord with all of
their heart, verse 6, at that time in history. This period of
time in the future will be when the Lord Jesus Christ has returned to the Earth
to set up His Kingdom.
Until the return of Jesus Christ, the
Messiah, to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, the conflict over the ownership of
the land will continue and intensify. Though God has promised the Land to the
Jewish people they will return to the land of their forefathers only to be
almost destroyed by their enemies. This persecution will be used by the Lord to
turn the Jews to their Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Remember, seven years at least
before Jesus comes back to give His Chosen people, the Jewish people, their
land, our Lord will shout and call all Christians up to join Him in the
heavenlies at the time of the Rapture, which could happen today.
PRAYER THOT:
Thank you Lord for keeping your promises to the Jews and to me as a
Christian, especially your promise to call us up to be with you forever
more.
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