Jud 12:6 These fords undoubtedly witnessed the first recorded passage of the Jordan in the Old Testament. Relief shown pictorially. Consequently, it included the land of Canaan (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities I, 7, the Sea of Galilee or the Sea of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1) and the Dead Sea. By the end of the 1949 War of Independence the fledgling Israeli forces had defeated five invading Arab armies. Israels King David asked a similar question. Alas, there I'd sit on that up and down pink horse just watching my exit pass by. 13The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. (b) And he (God Almighty) gave him (Abraham) NO inheritance in it, NO, NOT SO MUCH TO SET HIS FOOT UPON; but he (God) promised that he would ,give it to him for a possession . The Kishon River was the river which drained the Plain of Esdraelon and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea just north of Mount Carmel. Mount Seir road: Israel make the 11-day trek from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea (1:2,19). The Jabbok River flowed into the Jordan River a little more than half way toward the Dead Sea. Warren, is a plateau comparatively level; here are two small peaks lying N. and S., about 400 yards from each other. The border shall turn direction from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea. This is the so-called millennial age on earth, when the whole world is at peace and nations are at peace with Israel. In two passages of Scripture this mountain is called Baal-hermon, Jud 3:3; 1Ch 5:23 possibly because Baal was there worshipped. For this reason, in 2014 the Chief Rabbinate of Israel urged the public to begin saying a special prayer daily to ask God to bless Israel with abundant rain (enlarge image). She has to preach the good news (the Gospel). Kind regards There were many Rivers, lakes, and mountain streams in Old Testament Israel. Dave: Yeah, it's interesting. Our bodies should have been changed and mortality swallowed by immortalityHmmmmWhy some of us are still dying? It appears that we currently nearing the end of approximately 6,000 years of human government and the start of 1,000 years of peace on the earth the Millennial Age when Christ rules the earth (Zech 14.9). Is anyone aware of a current resource available to Accordance which would present a map overlay of the biblical Promised Land borders, at their greatest extent, as compared to the borders of the current State of Israel? And it is interesting to see how the Old Testament boundaries in Num 34 align closely with Israels future borders in Ezek 47. The apostle John boldly tells us that all we observe was made through Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew). And of course, as we mentioned, the Arabs claim . Yes. Physical Map of the Holy Land. In the succeeding Millennial Age on earth, Israels borders will be firmly established by the God of Israel. All of Jerusalem was mandated to be part of the Jewish homeland under the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and so Israels sovereignty over all of Jerusalem is well-founded. Under the treaty, Israel's border with Egypt was set and Israel withdrew all its forces and settlers from the Sinai, a process which was completed in 1982. Map showing one interpretation of the borders of the Promised Land, based on God's promise to Abraham ( Genesis 15 ). Most of the world considers all Israeli settlements as a violation of international law. Where did the twelve tribes of Israel settle? The wolf and the leopard are still to be found on the mountain; and it is the last resort of the brown, or Syrian, bear. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. The Israeli government resides in Jerusalem. God wants the church to call His people, wherever they are, back to Himself. Here we read the final verses of the Bible, and the promise and warning of Jesus. The Antichrist has now been revealed and those of us who are eagerly awaiting. 1948 + 70 = 2018!!! And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,Numbers 32:29 - And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:Deuteronomy 3:27 - Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.Deuteronomy 12:10 - But [when] ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and [when] he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;Joshua 13:8 - With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;Zechariah 11:3 - [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.Joshua 1:11 - Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.Judges 10:8 - And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.Deuteronomy 27:2 - And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:Joshua 18:19 - And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast. JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long leaned into his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, leveraging it to act as . From the western base of a hill on which once stood the city of Dan, the northern border-city of Israel, there gushes forth a considerable fountain called the Leddan, which is the largest fountain in Syria and the principal source of the Jordan. It was the initial installment. Death is the last enemy and is not destroyed until the close of the Millennium. The LORD appeared to Abram and said, To your descendants I will give this land. So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him. The Jordan River has its source in three places near Mount Hermon. What about those who do not believe and are not thirsty for a relationship with their Creator? It is interesting to observe that the boundaries given to Moses as he was about to divide up Canaan for the twelve tribes (Numbers 34) correlate well with the Millennial boundaries given in Ezekiel 47. The Green Line is not therefore Israels legal border, link, and all of western Palestine, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean remains legally open to Jewish settlement under the original 1922 Mandate. By the way, its not appropriate to identify yourself as a reverend as the Bible says reverend is His name, not yours. Mount Tabor was famous for Deborah's victory (Judges 4:6).6. They leave Egypt in 1445 B.C. First, through Abrahams descendants came the offer to all men of reconciliation to God through Jesus Christ. A circle of temples surrounded Hermon, facing its summit, so that Hermon seems to have been the great sanctuary of Baal. Jos 2:7 comp. This is spearheaded by the World Council of Churches (WCC) which has called on member churches (Anglican, Methodist ) to support an international boycott of Israeli settlement produce and services, link. Instead, every voter votes for a single party. Without doubt there is an overall bias in the UN against Israel. This speaks of two births of man: a physical birth through woman and a spiritual birth through Gods Spirit. In John 3 Jesus said: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. We should also ask, What of the non-Jewish population those who currently war against the Jews? In the coming age this conflict is resolved by the LORD. Includes inset of: "A map of the fourty years sojourning of the children of Israel through the wilderness to the Land of Canaan" and notes. Large Map of the Roman Empire in the Early First Century - Click around on the Places. More , Image: Known oil and gas fields in the Levant Basin. In 1922, the League of Nations approved the British map of Mandate Palestine that reintroduced the idea of the Jordan River as a border. Israel reached the peak of her power some 500 years later under King Solomon. At least part of the tribe later moved to the extreme northeast and took the city of Laish, renaming it Dan. After this period Joshua leads the people into the Promised Land in 1405 B.C. NO: The Palestinian refugee problem was created by a sudden invasion of five Arab armies in response to the declaration of the State of Israel in May 1948. 12; Num. They form a timeline from Abraham to the Millennial age. Jesus clearly states that when the fig tree / Israel puts forth new shoots Israel was born again in one day in 1948, just as it is Written THAT generation would not pass until all things be fulfilled. Would they have been given the gift of immortality as a reward? The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. During Old Testament times Israel was referred to originally as the land of Canaan, which was the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This simple fact points to the imminent return of Christ. It has three summits, a quarter of a mile from each other; hence arises the plural "Hermons" (Psalm 42:6), not "Hermonites." The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place of My feet glorious (Isa 60.13). Israel effectively annexed East Jerusalem - claiming the whole of the city as its capital - and the Golan Heights. The Dead Sea contains some 45,000 million tons of salts rich in minerals which are exploited by Israels mining sector. Nu 34:12 The Jordan rises from several sources near Panium (Banias), and passes through the lakes of Merom (Huleh) and Gennesaret. It was also called the Waters of Aenon, and was the location which the Bible mentioned where John the Baptist baptized (John 3:23). The highest of the Antilibanus range, at its S. end. Are the politicians listening? All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth. The distance precludes the possibility of the literal dew of Hermon "descending upon the mountains of Zion." But with a rapidly growing population, Israels total annual renewable natural sources of fresh water are well below the UN definition of water poverty. The Biblical Border between Egypt and Israel 3. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war [Benjamin Netanyahu, 2006], We must constantly repeat that the root of the conflict is the very existence of the State of Israel [Benjamin Netanyahu, 2012], The nuclear deal with Iran does not block Irans path to the bomb, it paves Irans path to the bomb [Benjamin Netanyahu, August 2015]. Under the highest peak are the ruins of Kacr `Antar, which may have been an ancient sanctuary of Baal. Ancient Israels eastern border went down along the Jordan, ending at the Salt Sea (Num 34.12). This is the fundamental reason why religious Jews claim that the Land of Canaan (modern Israel) is their land, covenanted to them by God. It may safely be reckoned at 10,000 feet.Hermon in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE hur'-mon (chermon; Codex Vaticanus, Haermon): 1. You may reject the concept of a spiritual world co-existing with the physical world, but it is a fact; Jesus Christ proved beyond doubt that the spiritual world exists. But there is hope. The last feature which remains to be noticed in the scriptural account of the Jordan is its frequent mention as a boundary: "over Jordan," "this" and "the other side," or "beyond Jordan," were expressions as familiar to the Israelites as "across the water," "this" and "the other side of the Channel" are to English ears. God made this promise to Abraham and his descendants in Genesis 15:15-21. The Church Body is holding the Antichrist back until the Rapture. After World War One and the collapse of the empire, territory known as Palestine - the portion of which west of the River Jordan was also known as the land of Israel by Jews - was marked out and assigned to Britain to administer by the victorious allied powers (soon after endorsed by the League of Nations). The Millennial Age on earth provides a forum for the completion of Gods unconditional covenants with Israel the Abrahamic, Davidic, Palestinian and New Covenants. Today it is common to refer to Abrahams descendants, or anyone who practices Judaism as Jews. We believe that most if not all all of present-day Lebanon will be part of the land promised to Abraham. Not a single city ever crowned the banks of the Jordan. 2All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: 3You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. It is the river of the "great plain" of Israel --the "descender," if not "the river of God" in the book of Psalms, at least that of his chosen people throughout their history. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. They didnt die immediately, but they did die of old age, like all mortals. It was associated with their northern border almost as intimately as the sea was with the western. B7 Kingdom of David and Solomon. Filmed on location in Israel, Faith Lessons is a unique video series that brings God's Word to life with astounding relevance. Some 80% of todays Jews in Israel follow the Jewish scriptures in the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) in some way, ranging from fundamentalism to loose Jewish practice. It is only after a series of ten plagues are brought on Pharaoh and Egypt that they are finally released from slavery. All you have to do is read the genealogies and add the ages when each father had a son, starting with Adam and Seth. Other resolutions refer to the on-going Palestinian refugee problem, but many see this now as a political tool by Arab nations, link, link. Still, Israel is small compared with most countries around the world, most states in the U.S. and most other countries in . The New Testament comes very close to using the expression "promised land" when the book of Hebrews says, "land of promise." 7. 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