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Page 1: Now the LORD had said to Abram: Get out of your country, From your family and from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you

Israel

the center

of God’s redemptive

plan for the world

Israel

the center

of God’s redemptive

plan for the world

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Now the LORD had said to Abram: Get out of your country, From your family and from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation;will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.

Genesis 12:1-2

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And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 12:3

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And he said unto him, I am the

LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:8

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In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates

Genesis 15:18

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God’s Covenant Land

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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 17:7

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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Genesis 17:8

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And God said unto Abraham, Thou

shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Genesis 17:9

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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 17:19

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He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

Psalm 105: 7-11

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They must not sell or exchange any of it. This is the best of the

land and must not pass into other hands, because it is holy

to the LORD.

Ezekiel 48: 14

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And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

Acts 7:2-3

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And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Acts 7:5

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And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Revelation 19:10

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Jesus Christ said:

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

Revelation 22:7

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And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Revelation 22:19

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For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of His eye.

Zechariah 2:8

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Theological Error

3rd-century theologians taught that the Bible’s prophetic scriptures were allegorical and not literal

They taught that the Church was the new Israel

This doctrinal error influenced King Constantine, Augustine, Martin Luther, John Wesley, John Calvin and many others theologians over the centuries

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Replacement Theology

This error has led to 18 centuries of Jewish persecution, anti-Semitism, and the death of millions of Jews under the name of Christianity

Today 100 million American church attendees have no understanding of Bible prophecy and the biblical significance of the nation of Israel

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This Error Lead to

Crusades of the 11th and 12th

centuries

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Crusades of the 11th and 12th centuries

Spanish Inquisition of the 15th century

This Error Lead to

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Crusades of the 11th and 12th centuries

Spanish Inquisition of the 15th century

Holocaust of the 20th century

This Error Lead to

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These Church organizations are calling on Israel to leave Judea, Samaria, the Golan and Jerusalem, which would put her into indefensible borders.Vatican

Today

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Today

These Church organizations are calling on Israel to leave Judea, Samaria, the Golan and Jerusalem, which would put her into indefensible borders.

Vatican World Council of

Churches

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These Church organizations are calling on Israel to leave Judea, Samaria, the Golan and Jerusalem, which would put her into indefensible borders:

VaticanWorld Council of

ChurchesNational Council of

Churches

Today

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American Presidents

The Middle East Leaders

Israeli Prime Ministers

Have Suffered the Consequences of Attempting

to Conquer or Divide Israel

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Middle East Leaders

Gamal Nasser, Egypt – Heart attack – 55

Anwar Sadat, Egypt – Assassinated – 63

King Hussein, Jordan – Lymph cancer – 64

Hafez Assad, Syria – Heart attack – 69

Yassir Arafat, Palestinian – AIDS – 75

Rafic Hariri, Lebanon – Assassinated – 61

Saddam Hussein, Iraq - Hung - 63

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Iran - ?

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Israeli Prime Ministers

Menachem Begin Menachem Begin Lived his final 12 years in seclusion Lived his final 12 years in seclusion

Yitzhak Shamir – Government failsYitzhak Shamir – Government fails

Yitzhak Rabin – Assassinated Yitzhak Rabin – Assassinated

Shimon Peres – Lost ElectionShimon Peres – Lost Election

Benjamin Netanyahu – Government failsBenjamin Netanyahu – Government fails

Ehud Barak – Government failsEhud Barak – Government fails

Ariel Sharon – Massive strokeAriel Sharon – Massive stroke

Ehud Olmert – Government collapsed Ehud Olmert – Government collapsed

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American Presidents

Richard Nixon – Watergate

Gerald Ford – Election

Jimmy Carter – Gas Prices, Interest Rates, Iran Hostage

Ronald Reagan – Iran Contra

George HW Bush – Perot

Bill Clinton – Scandals

George W. Bush- War on Terror

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Jerusalem ‘God’s time clock’

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And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Zechariah 12:3

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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Zechariah 12:9

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And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Zechariah 12:10

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Final Day Signs

Israel became a nation May 14, 1948

1948, 1967, 1973 wars, Palestinian intifadas,

wars with Hamas and Hezbollah

Arab League

Nations have sided with Israel’s enemies

Major church organizations have sided with Israel’s enemies

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The Psalm 83 War

Gog and Magog - Ezekiel 38-39

Armageddon‘The Battle for Jerusalem’

Zechariah 12-14