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"NO PALESTINIAN HOMELAND"

The so called "Palestinian Arabs", now occupying the Gaza strip in The Holy Land, are the direct Arabic descendants of Ishmael, the illegitimate, bastard son (born out of wedlock) to Abraham and Hagar; i.e., the Egyptian bondmaid of Sarah--Abraham's (legal) wife.

Contrary to the revealed will of God, Sarah, fearing that their advanced age would prohibit her and Abraham from producing God's promised male heir of Gen 15:1-6, talked Abraham into having a child with Hagar, Gen 16:1-3. Abraham then hearkened unto Sarah rather than God at that time, "AND WENT IN UNTO HAGAR, AND SHE CONCEIVED A SON, AND THEY CALLED HIS NAME, ISHMAEL".

That God fully rejected that adulterous union, and "the surrogate motherhood" of Hagar (for) Sarah; and the illegitimate, bastard, male child Ishmael resulting from it, is plainly set forth in Gen 17:18,19.

Nevertheless Abraham, deeply caring for Ishmael, pled that God would "recognize" Ishmael as Abraham's "legitimate son and heir"; Gen 17:18. Although not accepting Ishmael as "the legitimate heir" of the Covenants and Promises that He had made with Abraham at Gen Ch 12 and Gen 17:1-8, God did grant Ishamael the following (purely temporal) blessings: "AND AS FOR ISHMAEL, I HAVE HEARD THEE. BEHOLD, I HAVE BLESSED HIM, AND WILL MAKE HIM FRUITFUL, AND WILL MULTIPLY HIM EXCEEDINGLY. TWELVE PRINCES SHALL HE BEGET, AND I WILL MAKE HIM A GREAT NATION". All of which were solely "temporal blessings".

But now notice: "(BUT) MY COVENANT WILL I ESTABLISH WITH ISAAC, WHICH SARAH BEAR UNTO THEE AT THIS SET TIME, IN THE NEXT YEAR", Gen 17:2O. And also, verse 19, "AND GOD SAID, SARAH (THY WIFE) SHALL BEAR THEE A (legitimate) SON INDEED, AND THOU SHALT CALL HIS NAME ISAAC. AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH HIM, FOR AN EVER- LASTING COVENANT, AND WITH (HIS SEED) AFTER HIM".

Note: There it is, for all to read and accept. God never recognized, nor did He ever accept, the adulterous, illegal, immoral, polygamous marriage arranged by Sarah between Abraham and her Egyptian handmaid Hagar! Nor did God accept Abraham's plea that God recognize his (illegitimate, bastard son) Ishmael, who was the Un-Godly result of that Un- Godly, adulterous union.

That being true, then God neither recognized nor accepted Ishmael as being the "legitimate heir" of The Covenants, which God had previously made with Abraham at Gen Ch 12 thru Gen Ch 17. Which of course would mean that neither Ishmael, nor any of Ishmael's (Arabic) decendants, could ever "legitimately claim" any of The Holy Land promised by God to Abraham, and to his "legitimate" seed line descendants, as set forth in Gen Chapters 12 thru 17. In other words, neither Ishmael, nor any of his subsequent (Arab) descendants, may ever rightly claim Abraham as their "legitimate father", or progenitor. Nor can they share in any of The Covenants and Promises that God had made with him, including that of The Holy Land of Palestine!

Strangely enough, God chose to make of Ishmael Twelve Tribes of Arabs; as He would later choose to give Jacob The Twelve Tribes of Israelites, Gen 25:18, with Gen 35:22-26. Those evenly divided tribes would then remain in full conflict with each other, until the end of time; e.g. Gal 4:19-31.

Note: Here it is of the utmost importance to note the following facts:

(1). That God gave The Twelve Tribes of (then Egyptian) Ishmael the entire peninsula of Arabia, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE HOLY LAND OF PALESTINE, as follows:

Gen 25:12-18 "NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF ISHMAEL, ABRAHAMS SON, WHOM HAGAR (THE EGYPTIAN), SARAH'S HANDMAID, BARE UNTO ABRAHAM. AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF ISHMAEL, BY THEIR NAMES, ACCORDING TO THEIR GENERATIONS.

FIRSTBORN OF ISHMAEL, NEBAJOTH, AND KEDAR, AND ADBEEL, AND MIBSAM, AND MISHMA, AND DUMAH, AND MASSA; HADAR, AND TEMA, JETUR, NAPHISH, AND KEDEMAH.

THESE ARE THE SONS OF ISHMAEL, AND THESE ARE THEIR NAMES, BY THEIR TOWNS, AND BY THEIR CASTLES. TWELVE PRINCES, ACCORDING TO THEIR NATIONS. AND THESE ARE THE YEARS OF THE LIFE OF ISHMAEL; AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY AND SEVEN YEARS, AND HE GAVE UP THE SPIRIT AND DIED, AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE.

(AND THEY DWELT FROM HAVILAH, UNTO SHUR, THAT IS BEFORE EGYPT AS THOU GOEST TOWARD ASSYRIA), AND HE DIED IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN".

(2). So according to Gen 17:2O, God said that He would make of the foregoing twelve (Egyptian) descendants of (Egyptian) Ishmael, "A GREAT NATION", the great nation called Arabia, described above. It was then and there that they ceased to be Egyptians, and become Arabians--i.e., Arabs.

(3). Gen 17:18-21, together with Gal 4:29, in context, show beyond any cavil that the (homeland) of the Arabs was and is Arabia; and that they were never "entitled" to any portion of The Holy Land of Palestine, as (legitimate) heirs of Abraham.

(4). While it is a historical fact that the pagan nations named in Josh Ch 11 did occupy The Holy Land of Palestine prior to it's being given to Abraham and all of his (Jewish) descendants (by the Covenant of Promise of Gen Ch 12-17), it is also true that when the Jews crossed over into and possessed their Promised Land, God explicitly instructed them to (fully expel) all (non-Jewish) residents from every area of The Holy Land of Palestine.

It is this Biblical fact alone that identifies the present day Arabic "occupiers" of The Gaza Strip as being the (illegal, unscriptural) occupiers of Jewish Palestine. And not the Jews, to whom (all of it) scripturally belongs.

And therein lies the (scripturally unsolvable) dilemma of the present day Arab-Israeli conflict over Palestine.

(1). The Arabic descendants of Abraham's illegitmate, bastard son, Ishmael still continue (as ever) to claim Ishmael as the (legitimate) son of Abraham; and thus Ishmael and his subsequent (Arabic) descendants, as being (legitimate heirs) of Abraham's Promised Land of Palestine! Having rejected The Holy Bible, which plainly disputes this unscriptural claim, the Arabs have set forth their own Bible, called The Koran, which of course upholds their foregoing (fraudulent) claims.

So there it is. The (scripturally unresolvable) Palestine dilema -- TWO DEEDS TO THE SAME PROPERTY. The Bible gives The Holy Land solely to The Jews; i.e., Isaac and his Jewish descendants, while The Koran gives The Holy Land solely to The Arabs; i.e., to Ishmael (as Abraham's firstborn), and to his Arabic descendants!

Two existing deeds to the same property. One valid, the other invalid, with neither Jews nor Arabs "recognizing" the other's (recorded) deed.

Gal 4:19-31 clearly states that this "conflict of the 2 deeds" will (never) be resolved. As such, there will (never) be any (peaceable) resolving of The Palestinian question in this present world; i.e., until the (millennial) return of Christ Jesus, who will (then, and only then) restore ALL of The Holy Land of Palestine to saved, resurrected Jews -- Luke 1:3O-33; Heb 8:6-13; Jer 31:31; Matt 19:27-30.

Wellington

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