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As you can see, the name is actually an insult to the Jewish people, denying the name Israel, which it once had, and
going back to the Philistines, their earlier opponents.
Before the rebirth of the Nation of Israel in 1948, the name Palestine was virtually synonymous with "The Holy
Land." Most writers from the time printed books were first introduced until this generation used the term in a nonpolitical
sense for the entire region of the Bible lands. Palestine was a well defined area at the end of World War II.
The modern nation of Jordan was carved out of the larger portion of Palestine, and the remainder was the area now
known once again as the nation of Israel.
Today the name "Palestine" has a different meaning with highly political connotations. This will be described later
in the section on "Modern Israel."
Conditional Nature of The Promise for the Land
Covenants can be conditional or unconditional. As it turns out only one of the covenants applicable to Israel is
conditional---the right of the Jews to live in the promised land.
This partly conditional covenant has several elements: (1) dispersion of the Jews was to be a consequence of
disobedience. (2) Future repentance will be accomplished by God. (3) God will regather his scattered people and
restore them to the land. (4) The people of Israel will be brought to the Lord as a nation. (5) The enemies and
oppressors of Israel will be punished. (6) Future national prosperity and preeminence is guaranteed. (See also
Deuteronomy. 28, 29.) Because of this covenant, the right of the Jews to live in the land is conditional upon their
behavior.
"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the LORD
your God which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by
keeping his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD
your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away,
and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you this day, that
you shall perish; you shall not live long in the land which you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I
call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and
curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his
voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days, that you may dwell in the land which
the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
The Disobedience and Restoration of Israel
Disobedience and Discipline
2 Kings, Chapter 17, documents God's reasons for His temporarily removing the ten Northern tribes from the Land.
The Lord indicates that the approaching 70 year Babylonian captivity would allow the Land to enjoy its seventhyear
Sabbath rests which had been ignored by the Jews since their entry into the land under the leadership of Joshua.
Moses had given Israel this warning about what would happen if they forsook the Lord:
I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,
and your cities will lie in ruins. Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and
you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. All the time that it lies
desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it. (Leviticus 26:33-35)
Second Chronicles records the result of their disobedience:
He carried into exile to Babylon the remnant, who escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him
and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power. The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its
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