Has God turned against Israel?

Is the believe held by many Christians around the world true that God has turned against Israel after the crucifixion and rejection of Christ by the Jews and the subsequent stoning of Steven? Is there any proof that Israel is still the chosen nation of God and that He is with them today as He was in the past. Does the land that Israel occupy still belong to them after being taken captive to the nations for nearly 2000 years?

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,

 "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river,

the river Euphrates,the land of the Kenites,

 the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites,

 the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites,

 the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites."

Gen 15:18-21  

Yes, God gave the land to Abraham and his seed, but then the Jews TURNED AGAINST Jesus and crucified Him. How can they then still claim the land is theirs after “God drove them from the land”? Our answer is in the following text:

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.

"But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home. (which happened in 1948 after WW2.)

For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

And I will multiply people on you (6 million Jews killed in WW2, but 2500 years earlier God already promised that He will restore the population. In 1948 Israel was repopulated by 800 thousand Jews. Today there is over 6 million Jews in Israel), the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Eze 36:6 - 11

It is a historical fact that since the declaration of independence of Israel in 1948 there has not been a decade in which Israel was not involved in a war or some sort of armed conflict. Immediately after the signing of the declaration in 1948 the Arab-Israeli War (which before the signing since 1947 was a guerrilla styled civil war between Israel and Arab nations) erupted into a full scale war. Arab nations had tanks, aircraft and all types of modern warfare (of 1948) to their disposal. The Israelis only had their rifles and a few artillery. The Arab nations who participated in the attack all together had a population of more than 50 million people against a mere 800 thousand Jews in Israel.

“I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
And give Him no rest until He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
- Isaiah 62:6,7 NKJV

That year a miracle took place, one that can only be matched by Biblical history. In July 1949 the tiny nation of Israel managed to drive back their invaders and humiliate them before the world. The victory of Israel in 1949 clearly showed that Israel had turned their faces back to God.

Even though this was a clear sign that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had not forsaken His people, and a history of how He has protected Israel  as witnessed through the Bible, was not a deterrent for the Arab nations as they continued to build their armies and continuously organised Arab guerrillas to infiltrate from Syria, Egypt, and Jordan into Israel to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. As a result the Israelis launched what was known as the reprisal operations between the 1950’s and 1960’s destroying strategic targets and killing thousands of Arab troops, humiliating them further in the eyes of the world.

In June 1967 a war known as the Six Day War was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbours Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The nations of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Algeria, as well as Russia contributed troops and arms to the Arab forces. Miraculously, following the war, the territory held by Israel expanded significantly ("The Purple Line") : The West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan, Golan Heights from Syria, Sinai, and Gaza from Egypt. As its name suggests, this war by so many Arab nations against Israel lasted only six days and saw the seed of Abraham rising to their inherited status. 

It is unimaginable that a country the size of Gauteng Province in South Africa can defeat so many nations which were further supported by Russia. How is this possible if God has turned against Israel? Is there something more to this than what we as Christians originally believed or taught to believe? One of these answers can be found in the following scripture which reads:

And I will establish my covenant between me and you

 And your offspring after you throughout their generations

 for an everlasting covenant

to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

Genesis 17:7

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

 Heb_13:8

 

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