God's instructions regarding Israel:
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever…. Genesis 13:14-15
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 12:3
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Psalm 122:6
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. Psalm 137:5
His boundaries for the Land.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: Genesis 15:18
The river(King James Bible) of Egypt", or the "Wadi of Egypt"(the Roman Catholic Bible) is the Wadi El Arish, not the Nile.
That river, or wadi, shown as a "blue line" on all the ancient mapping, and is still discernable as an ancient waterway to the Sea, is 35 miles South of what the U.N. calls "the Gaza Strip", and what the Israelis, sovereign in their Land, call Gush Katif.
The "Bush Roadmap", proposed, with his name on it, thus contravenes the Word of the God which President Bush states he worships, the God of Israel, the Father of Jesus.
We urge prayer for President Bush, for wisdom, and protection, and guidance, as he confronts the Word of God, and the same for the Prime Minister of Israel.
Our God reigns.
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