Israel in Bible Prophecy - NetBibleStudy.com

Lesson OneThe Land of IsraelThe world is a vast stage with the end-time actors preparing for the last scene in the greatdrama of world history. One can hear the commotion of stagehands behind the curtains as theyhustle around, setting the arena for the last climatic scene for the history of mankind. The play,“Man’s History,” is about over, there remains but one more scene to be preformed.Hurricanes have storm centers that men give names. There is a storm gathering upon theworld and its “storm-center” is Israel. The nations of the world, suspecting their own possibledestruction, are still being drawn, irresistible, into that storm.The hottest spot on the face of the earth is Israel. No other land is so persistently andpredominantly in World News. The spotlight of the world is focused again and again on theMiddle East, a piece of land only 150 miles long and 60 miles wide. The whole country could bethrown into lake Michigan.Israel is the only nation in the history of mankind, that is:1. foretold in Bible prophecy before it ever came into existence;2. the geographic center of the world;3. the religious center of the world;4. to be the capital of the world;5. the richest in the world in natural resources;6. where the last battle of all time will be fought;7. where Jesus Christ will personally return too;8. is to be the scene of Satan’s final, and total defeat;9. given by God to a single people for an everlasting possession.While it is true that many nations have possessed the land of Israel, however, they wereunlawful and unscriptural intrudes in the land. Listen to Genesis 13:14-17,“And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separatedfrom him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place wherethou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thyseed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: sothat if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seedalso be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of itand in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.”Genesis 17:7-8, “And I will establish my covenant between me andthee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlastingcovenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And Iwill give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land whereinthou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlastingpossession; and I will be their God.”