Some posters here seem to feel that owning the land meant being registered as a nation. I do not think that matters. If they were there and owned houses and groves etc then they owned the land before the Jewish population flooded in. God gave the land to no one today because He will give it to believers one day. Unless you have a solid bible case that He gave it to unbelievers?
He will give it back to the origional owners he gave it to. Because he made a promise to their fathers. and he keeps their promises.. It will be given to believers one day, But jewih or Israel believers, Not gentile believers, they will live in peace in their own land.
God allowed Israel to be scattered. Do they own the land when He boots them out? They will own it one day when they believe in Jesus, but that day is not now.
Yes actually they do..God allowed foreigners to live in their land
But you also need to look at prophecy. Before they are restored. they ARE in their land, They rebuild the temple. and the man of sin commits the abomination of desolation in that temple.. Then we have the time of Jacobs trouble. which brings Israel and the world to repentance (as many as will) and Christ returns..
Wiki says they were forced out
From WIKI - The area was ruled by Rome when Israel was forced out in 70AD. When constantine made Rome a christian nation, it became christian.
The area of Palestine was
conquered by the Muslims in 634. The dome of the rock was completed on the the site of the Old Fortress Antonia in 691. as the muslims ruled over jerusalem. Even though the land was run by Muslims, The majority of the population was Christian and was to remain so until the conquest of Saladin in 1187.
Palestine was ruled from Egypt by semi-autonomous rulers for almost a century, beginning with the Turkish freeman
Ahmad ibn Tulun, for whom both Jews and Christians prayed when he lay dying and ending with the
Ikhshidid rulers. Reverence for Jerusalem increased during this period, with many of the Egyptian rulers choosing to be buried there. However, the later period became characterized by
persecution of Christians as the threat from Byzantium grew. The
Fatimids, with a predominantly
Berber army, conquered the region in 970, a date that marks the beginning of a period of unceasing warfare between numerous enemies, which destroyed Palestine, and in particular,
devastating its Jewish population. Between
1071 and 1073, Palestine was captured by the Great Seljuq Empire,[77] only to be recaptured by the Fatimids in 1098.
The crusades Christians and Muslims clash
The Fatimids again lost the region to the
Crusaders (Christians) in
1099. The Crusaders set up
[79] the
Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291).
[80] Their control of Jerusalem and most of Palestine lasted almost a century until their
defeat by
Saladin's forces in 1187
n 1486, hostilities broke out between the Mamluks and the
Ottoman Empire in a battle for control over western Asia, and the Ottomans conquered Palestine in 1516.
[87] Between the mid-16th and 17th centuries, a close-knit alliance of three local dynasties, the
Ridwans of
Gaza, the
Turabays of
al-Lajjun and the
Farrukhs of
Nablus, governed Palestine on behalf of the
Porte (imperial Ottoman government).
The ottoman empire
n the 18th century, the
Zaydani clan under the leadership of
Zahir al-Umar ruled large parts of Palestine autonomously until the Ottomans were able to defeat them in their
Galilee strongholds in 1775–76
between 1830 and 1840 Several muslim nations (egypt and syria) clashed and fought for power.
The British Invasion
The British began their
Sinai and Palestine Campaign in 1915. The war reached
southern Palestine in 1917, progressing to Gaza and around
Jerusalem by the end of the year. The British
secured Jerusalem in December 1917. They moved into the Jordan valley
in 1918 and a campaign by the Entente into northern Palestine led to victory at
Megiddo in September.
The British were formally awarded
the mandate to govern the region in 1922. The non-Jewish Palestinians revolted in
1920,
1929, and
1936. In 1947, following World War II and
The Holocaust, the British Government announced its desire to terminate the Mandate, and the
United Nations General Assembly adopted in November 1947 a
Resolution 181(II) recommending partition into an Arab state, a Jewish state and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem.[107] The
Jewish leadership accepted the proposal, but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a civil war began immediately after the Resolution's adoption. The State of Israel was declared in May 1948.
One thing you can see until 1940. is the jews, the christians and the muslims all lived in the area. With the arabs and christians fighting to take control. or conquering each other.
In 1948. England (who ruled) wanted to give the jews and the muslims their own lands there. to seperate them into two nations.. The jews accepted the proposal THE MUSLIMS DID NOT.. and thus STARTED THE WARS
What Christians?
Israel had the distinction of being God's people. When they rejected Jesus God allowed them to be scattered all over. So historical rights do not apply for God's people. What applies is if they are obeying and believing. So as far as God goes, we can't say He brought them there yet as far as I can tell from Scripture.
My point was you cannot say the the jews were forcing people out and only them. From the time God gave the land to Israel people have been forcing each other out for centuries.. The land has been a battle zone and will continue to be a battle zone until Christ returns..