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March 2024In our previous article, I exposed more lies which were written in our textbooks about the “occupiers,” the Jews. I also shared what the Qur’an teaches about the clear deed which Allah gave to the children of Israel in which Mohammed erroneously called the land the “Holy Land” instead of the true name, the “Promised Land.” Now, let us investigate some facts from the biblical teaching about the Promised Land.
First, 1800 years before Christ came in the flesh, God made a promise to Abraham concerning the Promised Land. Let me ask the following question: Were there any people living in that land? If yes, who were they? We found the answer in Genesis 5:18-21: “On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: ‘To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.’”
Those were the original people of the Promised Land. Did you notice that the Palestinians were not listed among those people? Abram did not have any children when God gave him this promise. However, when he died, the promise of God was moved on to his son Isaac and then to Jacob and his twelve sons, who are the fathers of the tribes of Israel. As we continue to investigate the Genesis account, we discover that instead of Jacob and his sons taking over the Promised Land, they actually moved to the land of Egypt. Did God forget His promise to Abraham? The answer is no, because God did not give the Promised Land to the descendants of Israel until the sins of the original people of the land were completed. God is the true owner of all the earth. He did not intend for the children of Israel to possess the Promised Land until the right time. That is exactly what God told Abraham in Genesis 15:13-16: “And he said unto Abram, ‘Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.’”
It is because of the sins of the original people of the Promised Land that God punished them and gave their land to the children of Israel. That is the account of the book of Exodus. Don’t forget the original justifiable laws which God used against all the people of the earth. “The wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23). This is the law which God used to punish the people of the earth in the jihad of water, the Holy War of God, against all the people of Noah’s day. It is the same law which God used in the jihad of fire against five cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. It is also the same law which God used against his own children, the children of Israel, when they sinned against Him. The only difference we see here in Genesis with God’s judgment against the original people of the Promised Land is that He waited patiently for over 400 years. However, when their sin was full, that is when the command of God was given to the children of Israel for the annihilation of those wicked and sinful people.
Now, we come to the following question: What does the Bible teach about Israel? We wrote in our last article the short summery of the Qur’an’s teaching about the fulfillment of the promise of Allah to Moses concerning the Promised Land. There we saw, in just a few verses, many errors.
Let us now examine the true biblical and historical facts from the Holy Bible. We read in Numbers 13:1-2: “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.’”
When we read the story in Qur’an 5:20-26, Allah or Mohammed could not give us even one name of the spies, but in the book of Numbers we have the full account of the names of the tribes and even the names of the spies who represented each of the tribes. When we go to Numbers 13:17-19, 21: “Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, ‘Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; … So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath.’” We can look on a map of the land today and see the geography of that large piece of land.
In Qur’an 5:23, we were shocked that two of the spies said: “Enter on them (the original people of the land) the door.” What door? Obviously, neither Gabreel nor Mohammed were familiar with the true biblical account. There was no door around that body of land. We know from the book of Numbers, after Moses sent out the twelve spies, that they returned with the report which we read about in Numbers 13:25: “And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.” Then we read in Numbers 13:30-31: “Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, ‘Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.’ But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.’” There were only two spies who believed that they are able to take the Promised Land. However, as for the other ten spies, not only did they not believe, but they caused the rest of the children of Israel to disbelieve. We read about the result of this disbelief in Numbers 14:30: “Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” How long did Joshua and Caleb have to wait to enter into the Promised Land? The answer can be found in Numbers 14:34: “According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.”
So what happened during these forty years? The answer is very simple. All the men who were 20 years and older were going in circles outside the Promised Land until they all died, except for Joshua and Caleb. It was those two who led the new generation into the Promised Land. Because the older generation did not believe the promise of our Mighty God and in the power and might of God, they did not live to inherit the Promise Land. We encourage our readers to read the rest of this account in the infallible Word of God, the Holy Bible, in the book of Joshua. In the books following the book of Joshua, you can also read about the rest of the wars which were lead by the judges and the kings of Israel.
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