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The Land Cannot Be Given Away
by Charles J. Voss
What was the prophet Jonah's religion and nationality? Was he Jewish? Moslem? “Christian”? All of the religions of the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel were pagan. Jonah was not of a religion at all. He was a Hebrew like Abraham and followed the Abrahamic Hebrew faith.*
* See Genesis 14:13 and our article “The Abrahamic Hebrew Faith.”
When Jonah tried to run away from our CREATOR, a storm developed and almost swamped the boat that he was in causing the sailors to inquire who he was. Notice his answer:
Jonah 1:9 (NKJV throughout unless noted). He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship ETERNAL, the SOVEREIGN of heaven, who made the sea and the land.
The English word “Hebrew” comes from the Hebrew word #H5680 in Strong's Concordance: `Ibriy (ib-ree´) from H5677; an Eberite (i.e. Hebrew) or descendant of Eber. H5677 states that it equals H5680 which states it is “a region across; on the opposite side especially of the Jordan.”
Jacob,* whose name was changed to Israel, had thirteen sons who became the heads of tribes which later grew into the Commonwealth of the Nations of Israel. The Jews are but one of these tribal nations.
* Jacob was the Grandson of Abraham the Hebrew. Read our article “The Children of Abraham, Their Promises and the Prophecies of Their Future.”
Jacob's (Israel's) children were/are Hebrew like Jacob but are called the Tribes of Israel. The Jews,* who are only one-thirteenth of the Tribes of Israel, chose to name their country “Israel.” They really have no claim to the name “Israel” because their country in Scripture is called Judah or Judea.
* See our article What Is the Difference Between the Jews & Israel.
Being a Hebrew is truly “to be in a region across” and “on the other side.” We do not affiliate with any religion that uses any books, practices, or other traditions in place of/or along with the Hebrew Scriptures (Tanakh, Old Testament). We believe that there is only one SOVEREIGN in the universe and that He only provided one set of Scriptures. Since I am a Hebrew and not Jewish, I now say:
Isaiah 48:1-2 (NIV). Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the Name of ETERNAL and invoke the SOVEREIGN of Israel -- but not in truth or righteousness -- you who call yourselves citizens of the (set-apart) city and rely on the SOVEREIGN of Israel -- ETERNAL SOVEREIGN is His name:
The ETERNAL SOVEREIGN gave the Promised Land, the land of Canaan in its entirety including Gaza (see Joshua 13:1-6) to all of the thirteen tribes of Israelites - not just the Jews, and the land is not theirs to give away or try to trade for peace.
ETERNAL is Concerned
ETERNAL was concerned after Joshua had gotten old that His “House of Jacob” had not taken possession of ALL their land. ETERNAL was so concerned that He stepped in to ensure that the Israelites took full possession of all the land He gave them. Read the next verse in context in Joshua 18:1-10;
Joshua 18:3. Then Joshua said to the children of Israel: "How long will you neglect to go and possess the land which the ETERNAL SOVEREIGN of your fathers has given you?
The apportionment of the land, all of the Promised Land, is described in Ezekiel 47:13-23. There was not and still is not any provision for any other people to share the land. ETERNAL constantly warned the Israelites that “other” people would entice them with their strange religions and lack of obedience to ETERNAL’s Commandments.
ETERNAL had commanded Joshua to destroy all of the enemies of Israel that were in the Promised Land. Yet, there were a few countries that Joshua only conquered and did not fully destroy. One of those countries was Philistia which includes Gaza.
The original Philistines inhabited the southwest coast of [what is now called] Palestine and were constantly at war with neighboring nations until Israel subdued them in the 10th century BCE. As archenemies of Israel, they are portrayed unfavorably in the Bible. The books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings contain numerous examples of their barbarism in the war with Israel. The prophet Ezekiel spoke of the “malice of heart” and “never ending enmity” of this warlike nation (Ezekiel 25:15). Zechariah called the Philistines a “mongrel people” (Zechariah 9:6). They lived in the ancient land of Philistia which was renamed Palestine by the Romans who applied the name to all of the Promised Land.*
* ABC's of the Bible by Readers Digest p186, p151.
As a mongrel people, the Philistines are a mixture of several other tribes and nations especially the Arabs and are known today as the “Palestinian people.” Thus, the only place the “Palestinian people” inhabited was in the Gaza Strip along the Mediterranean Sea west of the State of Israel [Judah]. In addition, they are still there today. Consequently, this “mongrel people” have been a thorn in Israel's side down through the centuries and especially to Judah in these latter days.
In the period of the Jewish Kingdom's political decline as a Jewish state when the Romans conquered it and subjugated it [over] 1,900 years ago, they called it Palestine (Philistia, i.e., the land of the Philistines) as an insult to the Jews they conquered. In fact, the Philistines occupied only the southern portion of the coastal region known as Gaza. Since then, and until the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948, the land has universally been known as Palestine.
*Gaza: Palestinians, 'Philistines,' and Jews, Gary Fitlkeberg.
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In the Six Day War, Israel captured Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem. However, they did not capture these territories from Yasser Arafat or the Palestinians . They captured them from Jordan's King Hussein. I cannot help but wonder why all these Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after Judah won the war. Scripture shows that the Philistines will still be around in the end time as we have seen above, that the Philistines are now the Palestinians. The phrase: the day of the “Lord's” anger, shows that the following verse is an end-time prophecy:
Zephaniah 2:3. Seek ETERNAL, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the “Lord's” anger. ...5 The word of ETERNAL is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you; so there shall be no inhabitant.”
The leaders of other nations (France, Germany, US, and Russia in particular) should not be concentrating on imposing some “road map” of some settlement in Israel of a rogue Palestinian state. This, by the way, is something none of them would contemplate to do within their own boundaries.
President Barack Hussein Obama has taken upon himself the position of being the “spokesman for the west” in this conflict between the Palestinians (Philistines) and Judah (the Jews). There is no rationale from Scripture, fairness, or common sense to expect Israel to accept a hostile mini-state within its own borders. It would be like transplanting a cancer into a healthy body.
Prophecies of Ezekiel
Chapters four through nine of Ezekiel give some very dire prophecies for Judah and Israel. All punishments are for breaking the Commandments and putting something or someone's words in place of the Scriptures. Regardless of what religion you are, it is vital to recognize who you obey. Do you obey the words of some man or men written in other books and follow their traditions, or do you obey the Commandments of the Hebrew Scriptures? Whoever or whatever you obey is your god!
Because of our flagrant breaking of the Commandments and participating in giving away the Covenant Land, the House of Jacob is now into the punishment phase of Jacob's Trouble which is described in the above mentioned chapters in Ezekiel.
Ezekiel 5:5. Thus says ETERNAL SOVEREIGN: “This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her. She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.”
…12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
The next verse is unknown or overlooked by a huge majority of the people. Ezekiel chapter five explains that the fire is in Jerusalem and that some of the Remnant will be tossed into that fire. Those who have read the following verse typically try to pretend that it does not mean what it states:
Ezekiel 5:4. Then take some of them [the Remnant] again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into ALL the House of Israel.
Basically, the verse states that it will be tit for tat. Whatever we, the House of Israel, allow or cause to happen to our brothers, the House of Judah, will happen to us. When it states that a fire will go out into all the House of Israel, it means that when we squeeze the country of Judah that results in a loss of their land, Scripture tells us that devastation will occur to ALL the nations of Israel (Jacob).*
* These nations include the British and her former Commonwealth nations, America and the democracies of Western Europe.
Since this end-time prophecy in Ezekiel is coming to pass as you read this, it clearly shows that we are now in the Time of Jacob's Trouble in these latter days. Notice that this prophecy is not against the nations or gentiles but is against the House of Jacob. First, let us notice a few examples against the most powerful nation of IsraeL

Perfect Storm Warning

Saturday, 16 June 2001. Some say storms of great magnitude result from some national sinful event. In that vein, these cases are very interesting.
The first disaster literally destroyed President George H. Bush's home in Maine. This storm known as “The Perfect Storm” happened while President Bush, Sr. was initiating the Madrid Peace process on October 31, 1991. This was one of the most powerful storms ever [to that date]. It generated waves over 100 feet high, the highest waves ever reported in the North Atlantic Ocean. As the storm moved west, it sent 30 foot waves smashing at President Bush's home in Maine. This storm actually struck while the President was opening the Madrid Peace Process which was dealing with the Covenant Land of Israel.
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In March of 1997, President Clinton invited Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to the White House to discuss “Arafat’s problems” with Jerusalem. While Arafat was en route, a powerful tornado storm ripped through seven states with the worst damage occurring in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Clinton's home state of Arkansas bore the brunt of the storm with 13 counties declared a disaster area. This storm brought record flooding to the Ohio River. Clinton met with Arafat and the headline of a New York Times front page article on March 4, 1997 read, “President Clinton Rebukes Israel.” The headline of the adjacent article read, “In Storms Wake: Grief and Shock.” The report of Clinton's home state being devastated by tornadoes was on the front page of the New York Times right next to the article of Clinton verbally attacking Israel.
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President George W. Bush had sent CIA director George Tenet to Israel to try to broker a cease fire between the Israelis and the Palestinians and to implement the Mitchell Report. This was the Bush administration's first real involvement in the Middle East crisis. Tenet wanted Israel to stop building in the settlement areas.


From June 8 to June 9, 2001, one of the greatest rainfalls in the history of the United States happened in eastern Texas. In a 24 hour period, over 28 inches of rain fell in the Houston area. In fact, between June 5 and 11, three feet of rain fell on the area. The rain was the product of Tropical Storm Allison that formed within one day in the Gulf of Mexico, which is unusual, and headed into Texas east of Houston breaking up as a storm system. The storm remnants drifted to the north of Houston circling around the city before sliding back south to the Gulf of Mexico and re-forming as a tropical storm. Then it began to unleash incredible torrents of rain.
The destruction in Houston was catastrophic. An estimated 20,000 homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged along with possibly 50,000 automobiles and trucks. The storm closed the city for three days resulting in 28 counties in Texas and 14 parishes in Louisiana being declared as disaster areas. This incredible storm did tremendous damage which was close to $2 billion.
This was the third time since the Madrid Peace Process began that a sitting president's state had been the location of a powerful, damaging storm that occurred at the exact time the president was involved with pressuring Israel over her Covenant Land.
The home states of all three of these presidents were affected by severe weather patterns simultaneously to their diplomatic dealings of putting pressure on the Covenant Land agreements for the nation of Israel [Judah].
The enormous damage to President Bush's home in Maine by “The Perfect Storm” was eerie coming just as he was initiating the Madrid Peace Process which affected Israel's land. All three of these storms were ferocious and record breaking. Both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had to declare disaster areas in their own states at the very time they were dealing with Covenant Land giveaway in Israel.
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Last Week Gaza, This Week Katrina
Based on an article by Stan Goodenough, dated September 1st, 2005, “Katrina-Fist of ‘God’?”
By the time of this writing, the president [Bush] and his new secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, have made it abundantly clear that the achievement of peace between Israel and the Arabs, at the tremendous cost to Israel of the de facto surrender of its security as it relinquishes control over its heartland, is a goal the United States will pursue.
Meanwhile, in direct accordance with the wishes of the White House, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has taken his nation in both hands and begun to rip it apart. As he moves ahead with what he calls a “disengagement” plan - but which is really Israel [Judah] finally succumbing to world pressure to dispossess thousands of Jews of their homes and allow their sworn enemies to enjoy an enormous victory over them - I find it hard to believe the Israeli leader can be fully aware of what he is doing. As the horror wreckage by the massive storm has grown, with the enormity of the disaster impacting people across the United States and around the world, Katrina truly lived up to the projected worst case scenarios.
The New York Times -- Obama Speech Signals a U.S. Shift on Middle East
By MARK LANDLER and HELENE COOPER Published: April 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama’s news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement. When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle East dispute was a “vital national security interest of the United States,” he was highlighting a change that has resulted from a lengthy debate among his top officials over how best to balance support for Israel against other American interests.
This shift, described by administration officials who did not want to be quoted by name when discussing internal discussions, is driving the White House’s urgency to help broker a Middle East peace deal. It increases the likelihood that Mr. Obama, frustrated by the inability of the Israelis and the Palestinians to come to terms, will offer his own proposed parameters for an eventual Palestinian state.
Mr. Obama said conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up “costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure” — drawing an explicit link between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The Deadly April 20 Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Once again a National Calamity has followed a presidential action against the covenant land of the Middle East. The deadly Apr. 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire has tested industry and governmental response capability. Transocean Ltd.’s semisubmersible rig was drilling a well for BP PLC in 4,992 ft of water when the explosion occurred, leaving 11 workers missing and presumed dead.
The spill, fed by an estimated 5,000 b/d of crude oil leaking from the BP Macondo well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252, resulted in an oil slick that is spreading. The slick forced shutdown of two production platforms and evacuation of one of them, halting production of 6.2 MMcfd of natural gas (OGJ Online, May 1, 2010).
The action that is needed to cause our SOVEREIGN to be attentive to our plight is that the several nations of Israel must turn to the one true SOVEREIGN, embrace His laws, and worship Him and Him alone. We the people must learn His Way and obey it. We are to have no gods before Him or along with Him as He alone is our SOVEREIGN Savior.*
* To see who our Savior is read: Psalms 106:21; Isaiah 41:13-14; 43:1-3,11-12,25-26; 45:15,21; 47:4; 49:26; 54:5; 60:16; 63:8; Jeremiah 14:7-8; Hosea 13:4. Then to see how many Mighty Ones there are read: Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4-6; 2 Samuel 7:22; Psalms 73:25; 78:41; Isaiah 29:23; 43:10-15; 44:6; 45:21-22; 54:5; Habakkuk 1:12; Exodus 20:1-6; Zechariah 14:9.
I am sorry where my understandings on this issue may hurt and anger people. I do, however, believe unshakably in this truth - in the SOVEREIGN’s Words. Therefore, I cannot keep quiet about this. He calls Himself ETERNAL SOVEREIGN of the patriarchs of Israel, the SOVEREIGN of Abraham, the SOVEREIGN of Isaac, and the SOVEREIGN of Jacob.
The SOVEREIGN of Israel (remember there are 13 tribes) has set a precedent for dealing with Israel. He did this because He had chosen Israel to be separate, different, and unique in its calling. It was the nation through whom the SOVEREIGN would work out His plan of salvation for all mankind and He created the nations of Israel for His Glory (Isaiah 43:7) based on His promises to Abraham. Anyone inflicting harm on the nations of Israel and Judah work against this plan and threaten to trample on that Glory. Down through history, ETERNAL has allowed such threats using them to strengthen and/or chastise Israel but always intervening for the sake of His great Name to save Israel out of them and always dealing eventually very harshly with those who have dared to imperil His plan.
Again quoting Stan:
We have the earliest example in Egypt, when Israel was a young nation, a family really - slaves all, with no land of their own. ETERNAL was about to set them apart in order to reveal Himself and His glory to the gentile nations and so to begin to implement His Plan. Pharaoh resisted SOVEREIGN’s command to let His people go. He got in the way of The Plan - threatening to prevent it - by first hardening his own heart. The SOVEREIGN struck him and his people with plagues. He did not simply erase Pharaoh. Rather, He chose to inflict increasingly painful punishment on the Egyptian people, and time and again relented, giving the monarch another opportunity to get out of the way.
Reading the account, we see that when the Almighty sent plagues, He struck a whole nation, not just the leader whose actions were to blame. Thus all the Egyptians - barring those who put their trust in Israel's SOVEREIGN - got hit. Likewise, later, when the SOVEREIGN plagued Israel in response to David's sin of pride and disobedience, He struck the ordinary people because of what their leader had done-- killing 70,000 of David's subjects. The buck stopped with the leader.
The Latter Days
Many prophecies speak of the House of Israel and the House of Judah both returning together from captivity in the north countries. Look at the way-mark in history that the CREATOR set.
From the time the children of Israel left Egypt until the death of Solomon and the splitting of the kingdom into two separate houses and beyond until the northern kingdom (House of Israel) was taken captive by Assyria around 721 BCE, Ezekiel chapters 4 through 9 could have been fulfilled. Thus starting around 721 BCE when Israel was taken into captivity, both Houses did not exist together and so Ezekiel chapters 4 through 9 could not have been fulfilled.
The way-marker in history that signaled the time when both Houses could be captured and released together was in 1948 CE. Only since 1948 when the House of Judah occupied their homeland and both Houses existed together could these prophecies occur. Remember Ezekiel was told:
Ezekiel 5:4. Then take some of them [the Remnant] again and throw them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there, a fire will go out into all the House of Israel.
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As in all tit for that situations; the more that we cause or allow to be done to Judah the more will happen to us and even worse.
Just as President Obama drawing an explicit link between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. While helping to create a Palestinian Arab state on Israel's [Judah's] land, the oil disaster was forming and ready to erupt into the Gulf, the worst ever natural disaster in the country's history strikes the United States.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Knesset, Congress, and President Obama were all warned not to evict one Jew from one part of Zion to which the Almighty had called them from the nations.
But all these leaders continued to harden their hearts and persisted in dividing Israel [Judah] into a Palestinian state to evict Jews from their homes, schools, synagogues, farms, businesses, etc. To quote one source, the oil disaster could pollute all earth's oceans at worst case scenario and at best case scenario just kill all life in the Gulf of Mexico.
Are any of the leaders in Israel and America getting the message? Israel (both Houses) is destined to be a set-apart nation and a set-apart people not given to gambling, prostitution, adultery, alcohol, nudity, and drugs which are polluting our countries. The Commonwealth of the Nations of Israel is not to look like a harlot to the nations. We are called to be a light and to show forth our SOVEREIGN's Salvation to the nations.
The land-for-peace process seeks to roll back Israel's [Judah's] return to her land. In addition, its goal is the creation of an enemy Muslim state that will work to destroy Israel [Judah] altogether. It seems clear to me that the SOVEREIGN is resorting to “a strong hand and an outstretched arm” to change the direction of the United States vis-à-vis Israel [Judah] and for our wicked ways.
Tragically, it seems we will only recognize our error and consider changing directions when things get really rough. When the disaster passes, the mind rationalizes and finds reasons to believe that this was anything but the consequences of our actions. In this way, the heart is hardened and with each additional hardening it becomes even tougher to make the right choices.
Frustration and Anger
It is more than obvious that Americans are frustrated and angry. Along with the many tears shed due to a feeling of total helplessness, the reality of the catastrophe in the Gulf and its surrounding region has prompted outrage. Yet, the spiritual side of the Deepwater Horizon Expolision is the furthest thing from the minds of those in the media and government let alone the American people. The spirit of America is eulogized with an aura of worship. We have literally talked ourselves into a virtual comfort zone on a personal and national level:
Jeremiah 17:9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?
A clear pattern has developed here. Was the Almighty warning these four presidents not to interfere with the Covenant Land of Israel? Is the hand of THE MIGHTY ONE signaling a “perfect storm warning?” Is all of this by coincidence or design? You be the judge.
Is our CREATOR interested in the events in the nations of the Commonwealth of Israel? Is He interested in the relationship of the United States and Judah? Is He interested with the happenings on planet earth? He has a plan for all of mankind and He wants you to Quest for the knowledge of Him and His Plan.
Keep in mind that Scripture clearly states that you are to love ETERNAL with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength and that the first step towards wisdom is: “the fear of the CREATOR.” This generation has not only lost its love for our CREATOR but has even lost its basic respect of right and wrong.
Read the Scriptures (Tanakh, Old Testament) for yourself. Be sure to read the passage in Ezekiel in its entirety. That way you will see for yourself where we are on the map of these end times. Do not depend on what any man or men say(s) they mean or any other book they may point you toward. If our SOVEREIGN can create a cosmos, then He can surely state what He means and mean what He states in a book of instructions to us on how to live.
Wake Up America! Wake Up Britain! Wake Up Judah! Wake Up Tribes of Israel! Both Houses of Israel MUST Wake Up! It is much later than you think! Even now, the ancient land of Judea is facing total disaster from their enemies and America from the Gulf. Please pass this on to a friend or acquaintance without any cutting because we must also warn our families, friends, and neighbors.
Begin now to obey our SOVEREIGN and His written word - not the word of some man no matter how much you esteem him/them. This is for both you and your family. In addition, no man dead or alive can save us. However, yielding to the Great Mighty One, the ETERNAL SOVEREIGN, is the only action that will save us (Isaiah 43:25-26; Psalms 51:4). We must study to know our SOVEREIGN and His Way; we must “Quest for the Ancient of Days.” Let us help you with your Quest. Write us or stop by our website at and see for yourself. We will leave the light on for you. Write for our magazine The Hope of Israel.
May our SOVEREIGN give you peace and understanding.