Featured Is the Land of Israel Still a Special Place to God?

Replacement theology is false Dispensationalist teaching. It should be "Removal Theology'. When Christ abolished circumcision on the cross, that was the last generation of physical biblical Jews and Israel. For the Father's sake, any who accepts Christ as the Messiah will be grafted back into Israel AKA the Church.

 

But you'll stoop low enough to spin the scriptures inaccurately your way and away from the truth.

No, they are speaking of the same entity, and no, they don't have important differences, there's only your spinning the scriptures more inaccurately away from the truth.

Incredible, strain out the gnat and swallow the camel, spin the scriptures more inaccurately away from the truth. The fact is the two women of Revelation are the same two women of Galatians 4.

I've things to do other than going in circles with you at this time, maybe later. @Iconoclast has a good thread that addresses this very topic.

 

Can a prophet be murdered outside of Jerusalem?

 

God might have a soft spot for the land and people.
The Six Day War comes to mind.
The desert blooming comes to mind.
[shrug]

Ultimately, it seems like God's business more than mine.

 

Sure, Jesus was murdered in the valley JUST OUTSIDE of Jerusalem, wasn't He?

 

Revelation is referring to that very same 'generation':

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;,,,,,,, Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand. Rev 1: 1, 3

I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. Rev 3:11

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. Rev 12: 12

And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.,,,,,,,,,, And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.,,,,,,,, Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.,,,,,,,,,,,,,, He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus. Rev 22:7,10,12,20

Let's see how you spin the scriptures inaccurately to force these passages to mean 'thousands of years and still waiting'.

 

33 Nevertheless I must go on my way to-day and to-morrow and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. Lu 13

24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth. Rev 18

 

Yea, I handle it accurately, something you claim to do but don’t.

Well, l didn’t start the tangent and you’ve willingly participated up until now.

 

Then what do you make of John 4:21, where Jesus told the Samaritan woman "an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father"? Aside from the passage in Deuteronomy 11, what other passages do you believe supports the view that the land of Israel is special to God apart from the people of Israel? Why would any land be especially important to God? (I can see why Texas could be an exception, but I digress.) What is special about that land apart from the fact that it's where the Jews, and ultimately Jesus, came from?

Muslims make a pilgrimage to Mecca because they think it's holy. As Psalms 24:1 tells us, "The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein". Psalms 89:11-12 repeat this theme with "The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all its fullness, You have founded them. The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name". The land of Israel's only significance was that this was the land God promised to given them. While it's obviously important to Jews, it has only "historical" significance to Christians. The land can't be anything special to God, as we worship Him from wherever we are.

 

From the time of the garden of Eden the place was special the river Euphrates came out of the garden of Eden.
Genesis 2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Jerusalem is where God Chose to place his name. In Fact it is the throne of the world. The devil said he would rule the world from Jerusalem and he does.
Yes God cares deeply about Jerusalem it is his rightful seat of power , however he was murdered by the husbandmen so they could take his inheritance.
Luke 20:14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
So it Beggs the question what was the inheritance?
Romans 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Yes the inheritance promised to Abraham and his seed was the whole world!

Psalms 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Who is the meek?

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Yes Jesus is the meek, his inheritance is the world and the Jews killed him to take over the world!
Karl Marx, george soros, Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, all jewish.

Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

What quarrel of what covenant?

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

John 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

TWO PARTIES CLAIMING TO BE THE HEIR OF ABRAHAM YET ONE IS A LIAR AND A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING.

 

@Lodic's point with John 4:21 was spot on, accurate, and pertinent to the OP.

 

While Melchizedek was already the king of Salem (Jerusalem) and a priest of God, I don't see how this points to Israel being anything special to God today. The topic of Genesis 14:17-18 is fully explained in Hebrews 7. The place is not the main thing in focus, but the people are. What do you see in these passages that puts the focus on the land instead of Melchizedek himself?

[EDIT] I've mentioned John 4 twice, but you still haven't responded to what Jesus said - "the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father." Seems like a strong Biblical argument against your view.

 

21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.
22 Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. Jn 4