This article is a Side Note taken from an article on ‘The Genesis Epic’ titled Men of Renown – Part xxxix – The Sitting Women – Hagar and Ishmael –
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Side Note: Current events. Hamas versus Israel. The war of 2023. This war is not a land dispute. This earthly war began with Cain’s desire to rule over his brother as the heir after God had shown that it was Abel whom God favored. This war is about heirship. As the first war in the UNSEEN realm of God was about heirship, so Lucifer/Satan continued this war into the SEEN earthly realm of mankind. This war is about heirship NOT land.
The people who currently dwell in the region of Gaza are NOT of the Philistines who were the original settlers; however, the offspring of Ishmael have kept the characteristics described by the Holy Spirit of God: a wildness of spirit, the inability to control themselves, their powerlessness to reason because of their hatred against EVERY MAN. The inhabitants of the area of Gaza today are NOT of one particular nation, but they are professional refugees encouraged through inbreeding from tribal isolation caused by millenniums of a society of a self-enforced closed system. (As the inbreeding of English/German aristocrats caused physical health problems in lines of royalty, so also the inbreeding of isolated eastern tribes caused diminished levels of intelligence. Now that statement will cause heart palpitations in some readers, the truth usually has that result.) Knowledge of history is important. Palestine is only the name of a geographical location IT IS NOT A NATION and NEVER HAS EVER BEEN A NATION. The palestinians of our era are NOT of the territory called Palestine, but they were originally (before 1948) from an unorganized nomadic peoples born from the family of Ishmael and intermixed with the offspring of Esau, Lot’s two sons (from incest) the fathers of the Moabites and the Ammonites (enemies of Israel), and the six sons of Abraham from his third wife Keturah, and the intermixing forced on these peoples by ancient tyrannical conquerors. (As feral cat’s multiple with lightning speed so too, the enemies of Israel quickly multiplied with the same wild, untamable spirit as feral cats.) However, the problem of the eastern Arab/Muslim world versus Israel stems from one root. It is the basic Cain Syndrome, brother against brother. To see the solution to a problem return to the beginning.
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. (Genesis 4:3)
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: (Genesis 4:4)
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Genesis 4:5)
And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (Genesis 4:6)
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (Genesis 4:7)
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. (Genesis 4:8)
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? (Genesis 4:9)
Here is the basis of the Cain Syndrome, and it is the basis for the Arab/Muslim fanatical hatred against Israel. Genesis Chapter 4, verse 7, If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. Cain, being the first born, was considered to be the heir of the realm of Adam and Eve, the realm of thorns and thistles, the realm of the curse, but nevertheless, still a realm, a kingdom. However, because Cain refused to obey God, God refused to allow Cain to become the heir and to rule over his family and over his brother Abel. Heirship and worship were the two main points of contention between God and Cain. God rejected Cain’s form of worship and rejected Cain from the prominent position of leadership and Heirship. Cain became so enraged with God that he transferred his wrath to the brother who was accepted by God to be the heir. Here it is folks, the TRUE cause of the Arab/Muslim/ Israeli conflict. The western mind just cannot seem to comprehend such hatred as this perpetual generational hatred.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. (Hosea 9:7)
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their] iniquity [had] an end: (Ezekiel 35:5)
The western mind seeks assimilation, compromise, and words of a treaty, but this generational hatred has gone beyond recovery; consequently, the eastern mind will only accept total annihilation of Israel as a nation. By the way, there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim extremist in the eastern world because the moderate Muslim usually finances the extremist. And the moderate Muslim FEARS the extremist . . . and rightly so.
The following verses of Psalm 25 and Psalm 109 were written to describe both Israel and the prophetic Messiah. Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. (Psalm 25:19) They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. (Psalm 109:3)
This issue of hatred for Israel has been previously addressed in prior articles. It is not beating the same drum, but it is unveiling different drums. Do you know why there are many different of drums used in a symphony? Simply because the composer needed to hear more than mere rhythm, broader tones reveal emotion, and shorter, higher tones resemble the beat of language. As there are many reasons for the use of many drums, there are also many reasons to sound the elements of truth in many different words. When I first began to write this article the war between Israel and so-called ‘palestine’ began. Many peoples of this globe have sided with either Israel or with the palestinians. Propaganda, lack of the knowledge of history, the exchange of money, political grandstanding, and controlled emotionalism from those of influence has caused hatred to advance beyond common sense. I have heard some very stupid remarks from some very stupid people without ANY comprehension of history. Let us examine one such stupid false lie: “Israel never had any claim over Gaza, Israel never ruled over the territory of Gaza.” WRONG. Biblical history documents the following:
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) The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, (Genesis 15:19) And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, (Genesis 15:20) And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Genesis 15:21)
Notice, that the land of the Canaanites was given by God to Abraham in a covenant. And what is in the land of the Canaanites? GAZA. And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. (Genesis 10:19) Then under the reign of king Solomon it is historically documented that the nation of Israel extended from the Euphrates river all the way to the land of the Philistines (Gaza) to the border of Egypt and what is on the border of Egypt? Gaza. And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. (2nd Chronicles 9:26) And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. (1st Kings 4:21) Before the reign of the kings of Israel, it is historically documented that the tribe of Judah (1425 B.C.) TOOK the region of Gaza BEFORE the foundation of Muslimism (570–632 A. D.) Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. (Judges 1:18) And their possessions and habitations [were], Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof: (1st Chronicles 7:28) Secular history also documents the history of this region of Gaza. CLICK HERE for an outline of the secular history of Palestine as a nation.
This is only a small part of the documentation of the land of Israel, in fact, very few nations have the history of Israel, and fewer yet had their borders so well documented and recorded as the borders of Israel in the Bible. ♦ End of Side Note.