Second Samuel 13:18 (in context)
Isaiah 47:1-4
Jeremiah 2:25 (in context)
By logical default, it almost goes without saying that whatever the possibilities are other than what we humans are sensibly aware of and perceive in actual reality, even concoctions and hallucinations of imaginary extraterrestials and dishonest lying of false testimonies concerning such (which other-world beings the Bible might instead replace with revelations and records pertaining to interactive angels, demons, etc.) - ALL of necessity require a Creator or Group of Divine Beings as to whatever awesome fine-tuned environmental phenomena obviously had a beginning and thus, of course, did not always exist.
The burden of proof against the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit which the Bible declares as the answer lies with those laughably-despicable who, simply on the basis of their rebellious defiance and thus asinine and inane pseudo-intellectual stupidity, dismiss what is plainly stated in Sacred Scripture. Until such proof is given by those dogmatic-don't-know-the-answer deviates, their doubts and discreditations are and should rightfully be dismissed and ignored as dangerously antisocial rantings of bonafide fools.
If a person is not sure whether what in the Bible is true and valid - or instead is all a big lie - it is safer to assume the veracity of what is and has been given, rather than presuming what is not and then arrogantly and belligerently slandering what actually is as one big mythical fabrication or fairy tale . . . with no authority nor grounds to presumptuously do so . . . in view of the fortunate consequences of if, by chance, what is contained in Holy Writ turns out to be and always has been, true and valid.
In the history of the world, and particularly the history of God's elect Hebrews (whom The HOLY BIBLE would term: "true Jews"), names given to land have been given first by God Himself in His Scripture, then secondly by those conquerors the LORD empowered to rule the land after destroying designated wicked inhabitants previously infesting the named and renamed territory.
Originally, of course, Adam ruled over Eve, then the pre-Abrahamic patriarchs ruled their tribes from which formerly-one-language-only peoples of the planet dispersed all over the globe after the Tower of Babel incident - some becoming quite primitive in wandering away from their Creator and His laws, resorting to cannibalistic barbarisms.
Lettering and language was stabilized and standardized by the finger of God writing the (Hebrew-lettered?) Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, and the pure-gold "shekel of the sanctuary" set the monetary standard for the world from the start.
Israel's theocratic and political history has been a history of prophets, judges, and kings.
After patriarchs Abraham and Isaac, Jacob (whom God later named "Israel") were integrated into the secular government of a good Egyptian pharaoh who appointed Jacob's blood-line son Joseph Vice President of all Egypt (i.e. "Governor," at that time).
After him, Moses, Joshua, various judges, then finally David and Solomon reigned. Following Solomon were a series of mostly-evil jewish kings, finally resulting in Israel and Judah being conquered and taken into captivity by such somewhat God-fearing rulers such as Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Darius, and Ahasuerus.
Following the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Roman named Pompey conquered that American-Indians-reminiscent Canaanite/Philistine land (beforehand promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their Jewish descendants by the LORD!) which some people today miscall: "Palestine."
Interestingly enough, the personal history of patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Joshua did not at all reveal a vicious and surprise-attack genocidal aggression similar to what the Japanese exhibited against Americans at the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii at the onset of World War II, nor what Adolf Hitler imposed by invading Poland and Czechoslovakia relating to the European conflict around that time. Even George W Bush, his Congress, and his international advisors gave Baathist dictator Saddam Hussein plenty of time to quit threatening Israel's security, world commerce using euros not dollars, the safety of surrounding Arab-nation neighbors, and global oil supply.
Consider the following examples:
Genesis 13:8 Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:11 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan valley, and Lot journeyed east; thus they separated from each other.
13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
13:15 for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your descendants forever.
13:16 I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.
13:17 Get up, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
13:18 So Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.
Numbers 20:13 These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel contended with the LORD, and He showed Himself holy among them.
20:14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the adversity that has happened to us:
20:15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers;
20:16 and when we cried to the LORD, He heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us forward out of Egypt; and here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
20:17 Now let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, neither will we drink water from a well; we will go along the King's Highway, we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed through your territory."
20:18 But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
20:19 And the people of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more."
20:20 But he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with many men, and with a strong force.
20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
Numbers 21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
21:22 "Let me pass through your land; we will not turn aside into field or vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well; we will go by the King's Highway, until we have passed through your territory."
21:23 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his men together, and went out against Israel to the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
21:24 And Israel slew him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites; for Jazer was the boundary of the Ammonites.
Second Samuel 5:19 And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand."
First Chronicles 14:10 And David inquired of God, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up, and I will give them into your hand."
Such passages in NO way are like the murderous aggression shown by Japanese kamakaze nor the German Nazis in the 1940s!
And the modern history of actions by the State of Israel formed in 1948 also clearly reveals a definite pattern not of hostile aggression, but rather (in all fairness) of pure-survivalist self-defense, with a buffer of land repossession as a Divinely-granted bonus.
And the record of Israel since 1948 shows that the Lord indeed yet blesses them, enabling them (not will-of-allah/come-what-may, internally-bickering, antisemitically-antagonistic, superstitiously/ignorantly-idolizing-allah-and-Mohammed, turbanized arabs) to cause the desert to bloom, invent and utilize medical marvels, become pioneers in computer software and hardware (as, for example, relating to Intel and Microsoft), and much more.
Ever since Ishmael, the trouble-causing foreign son of Abraham, caused Sarah (Abraham's wife) and the Lord to oust father-of-arabs Ishmael from the royal-lineage Jewish family, arabs (particularly antisemitically-hateful koranic-moronic ones) have been a thieving bloodshed-perpetrating thorn in Israel's side:
Genesis 16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar;
2 and Sarai said to Abram, "Hey now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children [blame God for it?]; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram responded to the voice of Sarai.
3 So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
5 And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
7 The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
8 And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
9 The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit to her."
10 The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude."
11 And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Hey, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ishmael; because the LORD has given heed to your affliction.
12 He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."
13 So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing"; for she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing Him?"
15 And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Genesis 21:9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.
10 So she said to Abraham, "Throw out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."
11 And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants be named.
13 And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she placed the child under one of the bushes.
16 Then she went, and sat down over against him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Let me not look upon the death of the child." And as she sat over against him, the child lifted up his voice and cried.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not; for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18 Get up, lift up the lad, and hold him fast with your hand; for I will make him a great nation."
19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.
20 And God was with the lad, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.
21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they derided us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.
It was the Roman Hadrian who antisemitically presumed that the Holy Land belonged to Philistines (out of which presumption came the Anglo-Saxonized word: "Palestine").
"Church father" Eusebius perpetuated that name to his "christian" constituents.
Ottoman Turks ruled "palestine" up to the time of the British Balfour Declaration of 1917 concerning which the conquering British (not the abstract entity called the League of Nations) designed part of "palestine" (as they antisemitically miscalled it) to be a homeland for Jews (with intention of nearby antisemitic arabs peacefully coexisting with Jews, but which coexistence antisemitic arabs rejected).
Because Russia had a part in conquering Hitler's Germany, and Britain had a part in conquering Hitler's Germany, and other Allies had a part in such, the abstract entity called "The United Nations" was lamentably and wrongly designated as land owners and apportioners who divided up "palestine" into separate countries containing Israelis and Arabs. [This webauthor considered the designation wrong in view of Truman's error stating that 'Japan has surrendered to the United Nations' thus invalidly establishing a "United Nations" as the conquering power in World War II].
George W. Bush fortunately reaffirmed the global-authority superiority of the United States of America over and instead of the "United Nations" [the now-frequently-anti-America/anti-Israel U.N. being a mere advisory council of NATO-like "coalition" forces].
Israel rightly reclaimed book-of-Genesis-boundary Divinely-apportioned territories during the 1967 War, but since that time has - under some pressure from their main ally [the United States] - been coerced into a arab-antisemitism-exacerbated wrong-headed policy of appeasement involving setting up what essential are "palestinian" ghetto areas within Israel territory for the presumptuously-flawed sake of the [pseudo-]"peace" process.
Why some political and governmental leaders in America have done that against Israel is because of their own demonic antisemitism . . . and others because they do want Jesus-and-Paul-persecuting jews to get the upper hand over Christians and political-control New-Testament Christianity.
The push to encourage Israel to not appease . . . not compromise with land giveaways . . . but instead get more punitive against their terrorist antisemitic arab enemies is only part of the answer to Israel's security, well-being, and survival. The justice of discretionary-retribution capital punishment is understandable and legitimate, but sledgehammer fly-swatter retaliation like noxiously/unbreathably fumigating the entire room with nerve gas is never completely-appropriate response. Even targeting trouble-causers with sharpshooting snipers and Patriot anti-missile missile rockets has its limitations.
The bottom line is that "Palestine" never has nor presently does exist.
Like the misappropriated word "gay" for homosexuality, "reproductive health" for committing abortion murder, "art" for pornography, "women's equality" for divisive and arrogant-insubordination feminist sexism, "origin science" for the heretical anti-Genesis myth of evolution, so the concocted word "palestine" is also devil-talk satanspeak which obviously is not the correct nor proper way to designate ownership of land by various countries or nations of and in the Middle East.
The fabricated word "Palestine" is an abstraction not applying to those residing within an independent sovereign country or nation with a globally-recognized charter and standing army/navy/air-force military, but rather a word representing those (mostly arabs, among others, many of whom currently infest Israeli land) who are united in their hatred against Israel and desire to do Jews living in settlements harm, to oust them from their God-apportioned territory, "drive them into the sea" or bomb them into oblivion.
Simply because an ignorantly-or-deliberately antisemitic governing body miscalls a Middle-Eastern territory "Palestine" does not make that a legitimate term to use for that territory.
Case in point are the British and others of various nations who have and yet do miscall the territory of Israel (Biblically defined by the geographical boundaries described in the Old-Testament book of Ezekiel chapter 47): "Palestine."
Judea and Samaria, located west of the Jordan River, with Jerusalem approximately in the center, are historical parts of the Land of Israel.
The term "West Bank" was a name created by Jordan after the War of Independence in 1948 when Arab armies overran Judea and Samaria. Despite the fact that virtually the entire world rejected Jordan's annexation, and even after Israel drove the occupiers back across the river in the 1967 Six Day War, the phrase "West Bank" has stuck among those intrinsically antisemitic, and is used to the near total exclusion of any other.
The mountains of Judea are first named in the Book of Joshua, in the account of the conquering of Canaan by the Israelites during the creation of the Land of Israel. From that time to the present, more than 3,000 years, the name Judea has been consistently used to describe the territory from Jerusalem south along the Judean mountain ridge line, extending east from the mountains down to the Dead Sea.
The hill country north and west of Jerusalem has been known as Samaria since the days of King Jeroboam, first king of the breakaway ten northern tribes of Israel after the death of King Solomon.
Judea and Samaria have been known by these names for unbroken centuries, and were registered as such on official documents and maps, by international institutions and in authoritative reference books right up to about 1950. When the correct names became a problem for anti-Israeli arabs and others trying to make their fallacious claim on the land, the propagandist term: "West Bank" or "occupied territories" was imposed (and continues to be imposed) instead of the historically accurate names Judea and Samaria.
Some examples of reference works using the names Judea and Samaria:
• A map published by the US State Department designating the Middle East's "Military Situation" on July 18, 1948 calls the "Arab held" area north of Jerusalem "Samaria"
• In A Survey of Middle-Eastern territory prepared by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in December 1945 and January 1946 the authors used the titles "Judea" and "Samaria" as a matter of course when referring to what later became the "West Bank"
• In United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 adopted November 29, 1947, the world body referred to Judea and Samaria by those historical names
• Every edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, up to the latest (1994) writes extensively concerning the areas
erroneously miscalled "the West Bank," and instead calls them by their historically accurate names: Samaria and Judea. The fact that the "West Bank" is not mentioned once in the 1954 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica indicates just how recently this title entered antisemitically-demonic usage, plus how quickly and deeply it has taken root.
Unfortunately, there are some historical facts that have been downplayed and concealed from the world for so long it is worthwhile devoting some time and effort to expose the truth.
Zionists and their supporters have used reliable and rather-provable history to remind all (including the national network media, on the History Channel, and those who label territories on maps) that Jews are indigenous people of Judea and Samaria, that this was the region given to them thousands of years ago by Almighty God (see http://israeland.tripod.com) entitling them to the land. They rightly assert that the name "palestine" was imposed by anti-Zionists to the region after arabs claimed ownership of the land of Philistines.
Bonafide and enlightened Jews zealously assert that certain territories close to or part of Lebanon, Syria, Galilee,
Samaria, Judea, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt did not steal it, but have merely come back to the land which was rightfully theirs.
These ancient titles are purposely taken up by the Zionists to justify their claim on the Israel - on Scriptural grounds, the basis of which America's founding fathers began the United States and schooled their children with.
History reveals that certain territories of the Middle East were once a united kingdom under the rule of kings David and Solomon which later split into two separate kingdoms who were often at war with each other. Judea, which was also known as the Kingdom of Judah, was a monarchy which included the tribes of Judah and Benjamin alone over which the House of David enjoyed a continued primacy until the fall of Jerusalem.
After its fall, the southern kingdom of Judea continued being ruled by the kings of Judah while northern Samaria
went under the rule of the Israeli kings.
The name "West Bank" was imposed concerning the region after the war of independence in 1948 by Jordan when Arab armies overran these areas. This is the area which is spread on the west of the Jordan River and east of Jerusalem, covering a land space of about 5,900 square kilometers. Its most populated areas include Jericho, Bethlehem, Hebron and Nablus.
Although the thought of a person simultaneously being a real Christian and also a nazi or communist (by living under either of those antisemitic or atheist political regimes) might seem implausible, there indeed are Arab Christians, Jewish Christians, Israeli Christians, Iranian Christians, German Christians, Russian and Chinese Christians, American Christians, etc.
However, the term "palestinian Christian" is both an oxymoron and an impossibility, as is the term "muslim Christian."
Such buzzword phrases are internally contradictory.
To elaborate, anti-Zionists (i.e. so-called "palestinians") - wherever their geographical location - are those antisemitic who (by the very definition of "palestinian") either occupy land belonging to and owned by Israel according to the territorial boundaries described in Ezekiel chapter 47 - or desire others of similar-immentality antisemitism to occupy such land . . . and they want to destroy Israel, drive them into the sea, annihilate them, usurp and take over their God-apportioned Middle-East land, then continue to call it their real-special but totally-errant name: "palestine."
Individual jews within Israel (ranging from peasants to upper-level politicians) must declare Jesus Christ as their singular and national Atonement, Redeemer, Messiah, and Savior to enable the Lord's Holy Spirit to cause them to relate correctly to friends and foes alike.