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

Even before the Israelites entered and possessed the land of Israel, that land was a special place to God:

Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

That land was not special to God because of the Israelites; it was special to Him because He made a sovereign choice that the land would be a special place to Him.

Some believe that the unfaithfulness of Israel means that land is now no longer special to God. What do you believe?

 

I am not interested in discussing amillennialism, postmillennialism, preterism, etc. in this thread. There are plenty of other threads that advocate for those faulty views.

I would like this thread to be specifically about God and His relationship to the physical land of Israel.

 

If you deny that land was special to God completely aside from whether the Israelites were faithful to Him or not, you are not committed to saying what the Bible says.

 

Maybe try reading the Scripture that I provide in my first post.

 

No, what I want is a discussion of a specific subject, which is not the subject that you and many others may want to discuss. If you have something of value to say that pertains directly to the question, great. If not, feel free to start other threads that talk about what you want to talk about.

 

This is not the topic of this thread. The question is not whether there are people who are Jews, etc. The question is concerning whether the physical land of Israel is still special to God.

 

Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

Scripture reveals that Salem (Jerusalem) was a special place to God completely independently from anything having to do with any promises to anyone when it reveals to us that its king long before there were any Israelites was a priest of the most high God! Scripture does not reveal any such connection between God and any other city.

This revelation thus teaches us that Jerusalem was a place of the true worship of the one and only living and true God long before the Law was given to the Israelites.

Much later, as I have already cited in my opening post, God revealed just how special that land was to Him: "A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year" (Deut. 11:12).

Remarkably, God said these things about that land even though it was the case that at that time in history horrifically wicked Canaanites were in control of that land!

Scripture definitively teaches through these two passages that the land (that later became the land) of Israel and the city of Salem were special to God apart from anything having to do with the Israelites and whether they would be faithful to Him or not.

 

Ultimately, it has to do with God's sovereign choice of that land for His own glory. Beyond that overarching reality, I am studying Scripture to compile what it reveals about this subject.

Before later in the day yesterday, I had never seen the relevance of the revelation about Melchizedek to this subject. God's illumining that truth to me yesterday confirms to me that this is something that He wants me to study in-depth at this time and profit from greatly.