Jewish people believed that their masses of people gave them the right to inherit the land of Israel. 

Ezekiel 33:23-24

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“Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’” Ezekiel 33:23-24

Before the Jewish people were gathered to the State of Israel in 1948, the land of Israel was desolate and in ruins, as far as Jewish occupation or rule. From about 70A.D. to 1948 [1878 years], the Jewish people were scattered and dispersed around the world and the land of Israel sat in ruins without the Jewish people to rule and occupy as their nation. In 70A.D., the Roman general Titus destroyed Jerusalem and totally demolished the temple, just 37 years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our Lord prophesized about this in Matthew 24:1-2. At that time, the Jewish people fled from Jerusalem and over the span of 1878 years were dispersed around the globe.

When the Jewish people were regathered to Israel in 1948, they were those who occupied the ruins that were desolate of Jewish rule for 1878 years. They brought with them their old customs of the Jewish culture. They continued to esteem Abraham as being greater than their Messiah, Jesus Christ. They continued to turn from the will of God for them to accept Jesus as their Christ and Lord as they live only by the Old Testament and have discarded the New Testament [the Gospel of Jesus Christ].

The picture to the left is the land of Israel of the Old Testament given to the Jewish people as described in Ezekiel 48. The picture in the middle is the land of Israel between about 70AD and 1948 when it was desolate of Jewish occupation/rule. The picture to the right is the land of Israel as it is today after the Jewish people were regathered there in 1948.

In 1948, the Jewish people felt that by the multitude of their numbers they would be able to successfully occupy Israel and be able to keep it as their possession. They were thinking strength in numbers not strength in the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ. There are about 16 million Israelis in the land of Israel. The heritage of the Jewish culture has always been to believe that they were the children of Abraham, part of the promised seed that would be many like the number of stars in the sky (Genesis 15:1-5). Also, Abraham entered Canaan by himself, as the only one able to keep alive the Jewish lineage, and Canaan is known as the promised land (Genesis 12:1-5). In their attitude and spirit, they were echoing these words, ‘”Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.“

However, Jesus Christ has something to say about the Jewish people believing that Abraham is their father but not believing in Him. In fact, Jesus Christ said their father was Satan, John 8:44-45. The promise that God made to Abraham, about his seed being like the number of stars in the sky, referred to Abraham believing God and that was counted as righteousness in the eyes of God. Abraham’s seed includes the multitude of people who believe God and receive righteousness through Jesus Christ. The Jewish people of today are not Abraham’s seed because they reject Jesus Christ. Romans chapter 4 explains all of this.

The State of Israel is far from being the promised land that we inherit as the adopted children of Abraham through Jesus Christ. The eternal New Jerusalem, in the new heaven and earth, is the promised land we inherit by believing God and receiving righteousness through our Lord Jesus. The State of Irael is the place where the fury of God’s judgment comes against the Jewish people, whose father is Satan. “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19-20

Below are excerpts from John 8:37-47 where Jesus says to the Jewish people that their father is Satan not Abraham,

Jesus said, “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.” They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.” Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 

Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” John 8:37-44

Today, the world government and its global culture believe that they inherit this planet because they are many and those who oppose them are few. In fact, they ritualistically use the phrase “there’s one” when pointing to someone who is not part of their culture. They say it with a menacing tone of voice, on the border of being threatening, to single out those that are not part of their society. They live by the entity that gives them what to feel about “0ne”, what to think about “one”, and what to say and do to “one”. They are emboldened by the power of their masses as they boast, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4 This entity enables the image of the beast to live and speak through the global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11