I was listening to Tyler Axness interview with NDSU Professor Dr. Thomas Ambrosio when he said the attack of Hamas on Israel was in his words, “apocolyptic” Think about that? The end is near.
The past years I’ve become even more intrigued by the conflicts in the Middle East. Like most it’s mind numbing to figure out who hates whom.
Where allies lie and how it all connects. Honestly even after years
of listening, reading and learning with help from Jimmy DeYoung website
I still need to stop, look and listen.
But to the best of my understanding the biblical origination of this all lies here in one of the earliest Biblical stories which picks up in Genesis with the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and his brother Esau who as the first born was to have the blessing of the birth right inheritance but was taken by Jacob:
A study of a number of passages will reveal that Jacob, the second born, “selected seed,” would become the nation of the Jewish people, Israel. The elder son, Esau, would be the father of the Edomites, the Palestinian people of today.
Before the twin boys of Isaac and Rebecca were even born, “neither having done any good or evil,” that the Lord, through “sovereign selection,” selected the younger twin to be born Jacob, to be served by the elder brother, Esau.
That was contrary to tradition. The eldest son was to receive the “birthright” and the “blessing” given to him by his Father so that he would continue the heritage of his Father. God changed that and while the boys were still in their mother’s womb God determined that the “elder” would serve the “younger”.
This act of “hatred” had nothing to do with salvation, but “selection”, selecting the elder son to serve the younger son.
It’s heavy, it is. But it’s the origination of the conflict which continues as we speak. So when you hear of wars and battles of Israel vs the Palestinians and sect vs sect don’t be dismayed. It began 4,000 and continues this day and will….until..
Ezekiel 35
,
Malachi 1
and the little Old Testament book of
Obadiah
reveal that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started over 4,000 years ago and will only be resolved when Jesus Christ returns to Jerusalem,
Obadiah 15-18
.