The possession of land by the Israelis
The Israelis have won and kept land in Palestine by violence. They have also maintained their claim in the face of scriptures indicating that the land is to be restored to all Israel, not to those who claim to be descended from Judah. They have misappropriated the [...]
the strength of God’s word
It was prophesied that the sceptre would stay with Judah until the Messiah came (Genesis 49:10), later that David would never want a “man” (or heir) to sit on the throne ruling over the children of Israel, whom God would plant in a new land (2 Samuel: 7:10,16). Jeremiah’s commission was [...]
the casting out
Samaria, the capital of Israel, was besieged and Israel (not Judah) was taken into captivity:
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah [king of Judah], which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged [...]
After the prophecy to David of the planting of the people of Israel in a new land (2 Samuel 7:10), his kingdom was divided into Israel (ten tribes) and Judah (two tribes). Israel was ruled by Ephraim and its capital was Samaria. The royal line of Judah ruled in the kingdom of Judah whose capital [...]
The scriptures tell us that after the taking away of the Kingdom from Israel, it was to be restored. This was the authority and commission given to Jeremiah:
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to [...]
There are those in Christendom who teach that the Israel of the Bible has been spiritualised. They say the Church is the new Israel. They may overlook this exchange between Jesus and his first disciples:
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this [...]
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? … yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill [...]
To my knowledge the word ‘Jews’ is first used in the Scriptures more than two centuries after the division of the kingdom when Ahaz was King of Judah and Pekah was King of Israel. It appears in this passage:
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to [...]
A foretaste of the division occurred when David was made King of Judah and a separate King of the rest of Israel was crowned following the slaying of King Saul. David later became king of all Israel.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
In Hebron he reigned [...]
Judah and Joseph were two of Israel’s twelve sons. Israel was previously named Jacob and shortly before his death he named Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Manasseh as his own. He subsequently made certain prophecies concerning Judah and also concerning Ephraim and Manasseh. Those prophecies and the covenant later made by God with King David all [...]
