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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

TIME has written vividly and poignantly of the anguish the Israelis feel as they have been forced to leave Gaza. It’s as if a deep foreboding intrudes that they will eventually be forced to leave the land they call Israel. If the God of Abraham has abandoned them in their claim to Gaza, how can they be sure He will not do the same later. in the larger scale? If He has granted the will of their enemies in Gaza, what genuine security do they have elsewhere? Is their confidence in God or in American military support? (The security of the latter is being challenged by the current history of the war in Iraq.)

 

Says TIME of the Gaza Israelis: “Their bleak eyes, full of anger and pain, tell the real story,...... the very purpose of their lives [is] stripped away....... The abandonment of their settlements represents a shameful, even sinful betrayal of the ideological foundations of the Jewish state....... [They] claim the higher power of divine right is on their side: the land God gave to the Jews....... The issues raised for the country are cosmic.”

 

Whether we humans live in mansions “secure” in American gated communities or in shacks on the Gaza sand, we are like father Abraham to whom God gave no real estate security in the land Israelis now claim, “no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him” (Acts 7:5). Adam sold out our claim to inheriting land on earth and only “by faith Abraham sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents,...... for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God”—the New Jerusalem in the earth made new (Rev. 21:1). Yes, if you live in mansions in gated communities, don’t trust the gatekeepers. And if you live in Israel, don’t trust your army; trust the New Covenant promise of an inheritance of life eternal “in Christ.”

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