Vol. 8/7 God speaks again to Solomon.

I Kings 9:4-9 God says:  If thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep MY statutes and my judgments:  Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

But if ye shall at all turn from following ME, ye or your children, and will not keep MY commandments and MY statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for MY name, will I cast out of MY sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:

And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

Many times after this the children of Israel forsook that which God said to them and God turned them over into the hands of their enemies, into bondages, once for 70 years to the Babylonians.

Certainly we have seen what happened to the Jews in WWII.  Is this part of the penalty pronounced by God in I Kings 9?  

The Jews have often been a by-word to the nations.

The worst thing, of course, in the denouncement of Jesus as their Messiah.

We have unspeakable things come upon the Jewish people.  And today they persist in the Nation of Israel the denouncement of Jesus.

How can this be called by anyone, "The Holy Land."

In fact it is unholy.

The New Jerusalem which God showed the apostle John is that wherein dwells righteousness.

Revelation 21:1-5   And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

And HE that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.

We can stop worshipping (and fearing) the current nation of Israel.

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I Kings 9:28    And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

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