A dividing issue among Americans today, especially Christian Americans, is the support of the modern state of Israel. Within the Christian community, many argue that it is their duty as Christians to help Israel become powerful and established, as the Old Testament says it will be. This belief and the “law of return” (the belief that it is the Jews right to come back to their previous state of Israel, the “promised land”; also referred to as the “right to return”) were created based off of each other, but both stem from the covenant God made first with Abraham. The Old Testament of the Bible contains many covenants made with Abraham and his descendents, promising various things; in Deuteronomy, it is written that “the LORD your God will bring
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John Kanter argues that the Old Testament outlines how the area of Israel belongs to the people of Abraham; Kanter cites Genesis 12:7: “The LORD appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land." This, part of the original Abrahamic covenant, makes it clear that the land will belong to Abraham’s people for Eternity. Although the Lord promises Abraham that the land of Israel will belong always to his descendants, the fulfillment of this covenant is also dependent on the people of Israel upholding their part of the covenant; the cause of the diaspora is that they (the Jews) we’re not fulfilling their covenant with the Lord. In Daniel 9:11, it is written “Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.” So it is evident that the original promise of Israel from the Lord no longer holds integrity: the covenant was broken. Labib Kobti writes on how the untimeliness of the return to Israel also invalidates the claim made of a pre-mandated, divine right to return to the land of Israel: Kobti speaks on how Jews who did not return when it first became possible to (after the
John Kanter argues that the Old Testament outlines how the area of Israel belongs to the people of Abraham; Kanter cites Genesis 12:7: “The LORD appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land." This, part of the original Abrahamic covenant, makes it clear that the land will belong to Abraham’s people for Eternity. Although the Lord promises Abraham that the land of Israel will belong always to his descendants, the fulfillment of this covenant is also dependent on the people of Israel upholding their part of the covenant; the cause of the diaspora is that they (the Jews) we’re not fulfilling their covenant with the Lord. In Daniel 9:11, it is written “Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.” So it is evident that the original promise of Israel from the Lord no longer holds integrity: the covenant was broken. Labib Kobti writes on how the untimeliness of the return to Israel also invalidates the claim made of a pre-mandated, divine right to return to the land of Israel: Kobti speaks on how Jews who did not return when it first became possible to (after the