“Thus says the LORD: “Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will pluck them [the Arabs] out of their [the Jews] land [Israel] and pluck out the house of Judah from among them [the surrounding Arab nations]. Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone [Jew and Arab] to his [respective] land. And it shall be, if they [the resettled Arabs] will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,” says the LORD.(Jeremiah 12:14-17, NKJV; emphasis added)
This plan represents the compassionate peaceful political and spiritual solutions to the regional problems of the return of the Jew into the Holy Land. Jeremiah suggests that his God would cause the corridors to open for the Arabs to leave the land destined to become the Jewish state and return to the lands of their ancestry. In addition, He would resettle the Jews out of the surrounding Arab nations, and bring them back into their homeland Israel. As each ethnic group migrated, they would vacate homes and jobs enabling economic opportunities for the returning peoples and in some cases, already existing communities to inhabit. These Jeremiah passages represent the ancient blueprints, divinely designed to insure the successful return of the Jewish people back to the land of their heritage.
This plan was put into sovereign place after World War I when the Arab countries gained their statehoods. Jeremiah 12:15 says, “I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone[Jew and Arab] to his [respective] land.” How’s that for a land for peace solution? The remapping of the atlases after World War I makes the political land for peace deals of our time pale in comparison.
The Middle East conflict that confounds the politicians today has not caught God off guard. The biblical peace plan took into consideration that there would be “evil neighbors”homesteading the holy land. He foreknew they would need be relocated to make way for the return of the Jewish people. Provisions were included in Jeremiah’s prophecy for their future as well. They would be “plucked out” and resettled in their former homelands. A fertile future awaited them, if they entreated their affections to Jehovah, Jeremiah’s God.
In an apparent fulfillment of the Jeremiah 12:14-17 prophecy, millions of Arabs have been “plucked out” from the territory formerly recognized as Palestine. For almost seventy years, these uprooted Arabs have been unable to relocate into an alternative homeland. These Arabs from Palestine have been reduced to a refugee status because their Arab relatives have mostly shut their national doors on them. These Palestinian Refugees are in the Gaza, West Bank, and in several of the neighboring Arab nations. These refugees serve as a buffer between Israel and the surrounding Arab states.
These Arab nations have cleverly managed to shift the burden of responsibility for the relocation of these refugees into the lap of the International community, the same community that legislated the re-establishment of the nation Israel as the Jewish State, implemented in 1948. UNRWA the (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), was established May 1, 1950, to find a solution to this refugee problem. (Ed note: This article was written June 5, 2016 and is still very timely today. A must read.) (Read More)
