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“And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came…And the Canaanite was then in the land.” (Genesis 12:5 6B, KJV)
God commands Abraham to leave his country and go to a land that He would show him (Genesis 12:1). Abraham obeys and the course of the center of world history is set. Author Daniel Gordis writes in Israel, A Concise History of a Nation Reborn: “And though a tiny country in terms of both size and population, Israel and its story are constantly at the center of the world’s attention. It is essentially impossible to understand today’s world without understanding the Jewish state.” “And into the land they came,” the Bible informs us. But the Canaanite is already there. Conflict is inevitable, war unavoidable. The United States just deployed the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln to the middle east in defense of Israel. To the end there will be wars and rumors of wars. And into the land of Canaan they came.
Recent history records a truly miraculous rebirth of the nation of Israel (1948). Satan continues to attempt to delegitimize and destroy her. Daniel Gordis reminds us that “between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis murdered 90 percent of Poland’s 3.3 million Jews- the most substantial Jewish community on Earth. All told, they killed one-third of the world’s Jewish population.” The Nazis would have exterminated all Jews had they not been stopped.
Why such evil against the Jews, Abraham’s descendants? The answer seems clear enough: The purposes of God for this world are realized on earth through Israel, the land and people. Jesus Christ is the unparalleled example. Matthew 1:1 tells us that Jesus is the “son of David, the son of Abraham.” As the descendant of David, Jesus is destined to rule this world on David’s throne in Jerusalem. As the descendant of Abraham, He is destined to center His world-wide kingdom on the very land Abraham entered so long ago. God has already told this world that the day is coming when He will again “set My king on My holy hill of Zion,” (Psalm 2:6).