The first recorded example of Manifest Destiny is found in the first chapter of the Holy Bible. The initially verbal, then later recorded MD contract concerned the area of the earth that is today the focus of a war of both bombs and words. The divine contract involved (involves) the small strip of real estate today called Israel by most people on earth. The Muslims of the world call it Palestine. The One making the promise concerning a landmass that He would take from one group of people and give to another group of people is none other than the Biblical God–the Creator of all landmasses.
The recipients of the gift were to be the descendants of a man named Abram, whose name God changed to Abraham, meaning “father of a multitude.” In Genesis 18:19 we learn that God chose Abraham to be the progenitor of a people who, generations later, would be the recipients of the PROMISED LAND based on Divine (God declared) Destiny because he would “… keep the way of the Lord.” These people would be known to the world as Israelites–the descendants of Abraham’s grandson Jacob whose name God changed to Israel, which in Hebrew means “power with God.”
The identity of the area in question is found by tracing God’s Words to Abraham back to Genesis 15:7,18 where He tells the patriarch that He is the Lord who would deliver Abraham’s descendants from slavery and give them a portion of land that they did not know existed. In Acts 7:4,7 we find the writer, living in that place many generations later, saying that God moved Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees to the land where the writer dwelled at that time. He was saying that the people who had been rescued from slavery would one day live in that same place and would worship the Lord there.
In Genesis 12:5 the place where the Israelites then lived is identified as the land of Canaan. As the Scriptures reveal, the land God promised the descendants of Abraham would have to be taken from a people known as Canaanites who would be occupying the promised parcel of land. In Genesis 17:8 the Lord says to Abraham: “I will give to you and to your seed after you the land wherein you are a stranger–all of the land of Canaan for an EVERLASTING POSSESSION, and I will be their God.”
What most church people do not know is that the PROMISED LAND the Almighty would give to the descendants of Abraham is far more extensive than the tiny sliver of land bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In Genesis 15:18 we find the Lord promising to give to Abraham’s seed ALL OF THE LAND BETWEEN THE NILE RIVER AND THE EUPHRATES RIVER. The area known as Israel today comprises only a tiny part of the PROMISED LAND. Keep in mind that the PROMISED LAND is where God’s true saints will live with Him and His Son. That land is Biblically known as THE KINGDOM OF GOD which will be occupied by God’s Very Elect who will be resurrected upon the return of Jesus Christ at which time they will be given eternal life and be born again–changed from physical to spiritual bodily composition. Read Born Again. Key word–Born.
In Exodus 23:27-30 we find the Lord, having given the Israelites the Ten Commandments, is instructing them as to how to enter the PROMISED LAND called Canaan. He is explaining how He would remove the heathen Canaanites from before them and destroy those who would resist His actions. He would send hornets which, coupled with fear of Him, which would cause them to flee from before the invading Israelites. In Acts 13:19 we are told that God destroyed seven nations in order to place His people where He wanted them to be. It was not God’s plan for the Israelites to have to fight for the land. However, their lack of faith coupled with open rebellion caused that situation to change.
Everyone knows the story of how Israel refused to enter Canaan because of the giants in the land. As punishment, God made them wander throughout the Sinai Desert for forty years until the adults all died off. Then, with Joshua in the lead, the Lord caused the Jordan River to stop flowing, allowing all of Israel to cross it on dry ground and to enter the PROMISED LAND. But this time they had to fight in order to claim the land granted them by the Lord. If Israel had obeyed God 40 years earlier there would have been on need for bloodshed.
However, this would not be the only time Manifest Destiny required warfare on some level in order to make the Lord’s decree come into effect. The same was true for both the descendants of Ephraim (founders of Britain) and Manasseh (founders of America), both of which gained their land by way of Manifest Destiny. In each of the three cases, God removed or subjugated the Gentile heathen from the land in order for His people to possess it. Like it or not, that is God’s way. Which leads us to the near future for Britain, Israel and America.
Throughout the Bible there is a duality principle at work relative to God’s dealings with the nation of Israel and her modern day descendants. What He did anciently relative to the Israelites (His people) He will do to the people of Britain, Israel and America, and for the same reason–SIN–THE BREAKING OF HIS LAW, AN ACT BIBLICALLY KNOWN AS “INIQUITY.” Because of ancient Israel’s sins (Law-breaking) the Lord had them defeated militarily, enslaved and scattered throughout the world. Many of them and their children were sold as slaves by their captors. The promise of the Lord is that He will do the same to His end-times people–the church, and for the same reason–sin (the transgression of the Law–1 Jn. 3:4). America, Britain and Israel will be defeated, the living enslaved and scattered throughout the world. I have written about this several times so I will not belabor the point.
Only God’s Very Elect, Law-keeping saints will be saved from the coming Great Tribulation and Day of the Lord. He will take them to a place of safety, Biblically called “Her place” (Rev. 12:14), where they will be protected and provided for as the world around them explodes into World War III. The horrors, we are told, will be unlike anything the world has ever witnessed (Mat. 24:4-8/ Rev. 14:9,10; 15:1-16:21). That day is coming soon–I am thinking within four to eight years, or earlier. The apostasy (falling away from God) the Apostle Paul said would take place before He (Christ) returned (2 Thes. 2:3), which began within a generation of the church’s founding in 31 A.D., has gradually increased over the centuries and now, in the latter days of the world, is growing in size and strength as Satan works to lure to himself as many as possible for he knows that his time is short (Rev. 12:12).
If you have not obeyed Second Corinthians 6:14-7:1 do so immediately. Get with God; live in and by His Word; put all other things in their proper place–secondary at best. Only those who are totally sanctified (set aside) unto the Lord will be saved from the Great Tribulation and Day of the Lord by being taken to “her place.”
Satan’s Sunday Sabbath-keeping religious system is NOT WHERE GOD WANTS YOU TO BE, FOR HE IS NOT THERE. He “stands at the door” of that abomination and “knocks”–calls out to those inside her to come out so that He and they can commune together. God does not go where He is not wanted. The church refuses to believe and obey His Words, thereby showing that she DESPISES HIM AND HIS SON, as Jesus said in Luke 10:16. God’s command is to “Come out of her and be separated from her. Do not touch that unclean thing.: Then, and only then, will He be one’s God and one will be His child (2 Cor. 6:14-7:1). Remember Psalm 5:5.
Warning: Do not judge God. He knows what we do not know. He knows the end from the beginning. Live like Jesus Christ and have the same relationship with God that He had and leave the outcomes up to the Almighty. L.J.
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