Modern Land of Israel. Notice the GAZA STRIP, WEST BANK and GOLAN HEIGHTS.

This is the GAZA STRIP. It is the ancient land of the Philistines.

The WEST BANK includes some of the ancient land of Israel including Jerusalem, some of Judah and much of Samaria.

November 2 1917
British where given a mandate from the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917  for
 “the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people.”

July 1922
Palestine was divided into two districts.  Jews were to live on the west.

1946
A Palestine Arab state, Jordan, was formed on the east.

1947
UN portioned the west side into two states: One Jewish, the other Arab.
With this the Arabs declared Holy War and demanded the murder of all Jews.

War of 1948
On May 14, 1948, the day Israel declared its independence, the armies of . . .

·        Lebanon,

·        Syria,

·        Jordan,

·        Egypt and

·        Iraq

. . . invaded the tiny new country with the declared intent of destroying it.

  

 Boundaries After the War of 1948 and the Peace Agreement in 1949

 

 

1967 Attack on Israel

 The Six Day War Invasion By:

·        Lebanon,

·        Syria,

·        Iraq,

·        Jordan

·        Saudi Arabia

 

                                                                   

Israel’s Territory After the Six Day War

 

 

 

 

1973 Attack by Syria and Egypt

 

Syria’s Attack

Egypt's Attack

 

 

 1973 Cease Fire Lines

 

   

 

 

 

 

1982 Border with Lebanon and Israel

• 1978 – Under American pressure Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon and where replaced by UN forces.

• The PLO continued its hold of southern Lebanon.
• Civilians and UN peacekeepers were killed as the fighting continued.
• June 3, 1982 – PLO attempted to assassinate Israel’s Ambassador to Great Britain.
• June 4-5, 1982 -Israel bombed PLO bases in Beirut.  PLO responded by bombing Galilee.
• June 6, 1982 – Israel invades Lebanon and drives all the way to Beirut.
• 2000 - Israel withdraws its troops from the security zone in southern Lebanon.
• 2000 - Hezbollah then began to demand an area at the junction of the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel.  Hezbollah renewed attacks on Israel.
• March 2002 – Hezbollah scales security fence on border to attack and kill Israeli motorists.
• 2002 – Hezbollah is assisted by al Qaeda and Bin Laden when al Qaeda began to show up in Lebanon after their loss of control of Afghanistan.

 

The Setting Aside of Israel

• Rejection of Messiah by Nations Leaders Matthew 12
• The Seven Kingdom Parables Matthew 13
• The Keys of the Kingdom now will go to the church Matthew 16:17-20

 

Israel will Return

• Romans 11:11
• Romans 11:25-32

 

Israel’s Dispersion Prophesied by Jesus

• Luke 13:1-9
• Luke 21:21 – Flee,   Luke 21:28 – lift up your heads
• Luke 23:26-31

 

What is Holding Back the End?

• 2 Thes. 2:7

 

Israel’s Return

• Ezekiel 37

 

Israel’s Battle with Gog and Magog

• Ezekiel  38, 39
• Read an article that describes the recently successful work of turning nuclear weapons material into fuel HERE This is discussed in Ezekiel 39:9,10

These are the nations that side with a leader named Gog who comes from Magog (the area of Russia)

• Persia, which is modern day Iran.
• Cush is Ethiopia.
• Put refers to this nation as Libya. In Ezekiel's day it was a larger Libya of today. It incorporates the countries of Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
• Gomer is Turkey. Gomer was the oldest son of Japheth. He originated in the region of modern Turkey and eventually spread out to many countries.
• Togarmah was a place to the North of Israel which now consists of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. [The former Soviet republics]

These are the nations that challenge Gog's motives for attacking Israel (Ez. 28:13):

 

 

Battles and Victory over the Gaza Strip and Lebanon

• Joel 3:1-21