James A., Ph.D.
Although the title is “Who Owns the Land?” of Israel, the answer to that question really begins with “Who Owns the Earth?”. In his documentary “Occupied”, claiming to prove that Israel is being illegally occupied by “Jews” having stolen the land of Israel from the “Palestinians”, this question is overlooked by Stew Peters as well as his comrades, Jackson Hinkle (who openly supports Hamas and is an admitted Marxist), Jake Shields, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Infowars just to name a few. It has become common and acceptable now to accuse a people who have a 4,000 year connection to the land of Israel of stealing the land from a people who never existed (so-called Palestinians), who never had a state, a constitution, a president, king, and where non-Jewish people living in the land were never referred to as “Palestinians” until the term was used by PLO founder Yassir Arafat (who was Egyptian, not “Palestinian”) in 1964, almost 20 years AFTER Israel had officially declared their independence (again) in 1948.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1
“For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills”. Psalm 50:10
“Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine” Exodus 19:5 (and I will get to the “if…keep my covenant” part later for the excuse frequently used that the Jews forfeited all the promises to Abraham).
Now that we’ve established who the landlord is, who did the Landlord give the land to? What does the Bible say?
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. Genesis 12:7
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Genesis 17:8 (an “everlasting possession” doesn’t sound like forfeiture to me, but I digress)
The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. Genesis 24:7
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Genesis 26:4
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham Genesis 28:4
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed Genesis 28:13
Get the picture yet? God is the landlord, He gave the land to Abraham AND HIS SEED AFTER HIM, and gave it to them as an EVERLASTING POSSESSION.
How did the land get it’s name?
The land God gave Abraham later became known as Israel. Israel is the name that God gave Jacob, the grandson of Abraham and son of Isaac, Abraham’s son, after a struggle with the angel of the Lord in Genesis.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Genesis 32:28
According to Stew Peters, Israel was merely the name of Jacob and never referred to a piece of land, and all his followers say ‘amen’. The term “Israel” was only meant to be a referent to a child of Abraham but never an identification of a land known as Israel. This ignorance is par for the course among those who only cite a handful of proof texts (a practice of all cults) while ignoring the larger body of Scripture.


Does the Bible ever refer to Israel as a piece of land?
The land God gave Abraham and inherited by his children was referred to as Israel shortly after God changed Jacob’s name.
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done. Genesis 34:7
“Wrought folly IN ISRAEL” is not a reference to having wrought folly in a person, but having wrought folly IN A LAND.
Furthermore, all throughout the Old Testament (as well as the New which we will get to later), the LAND is referred to as Israel, and the territories of the land divided up specifically by tribe (the names of the children of Jacob. Genesis 49:28). The territories of Israel are defined clearly in Judges 7-14 (which far exceed today’s current boundaries. Talk about “stolen land”. It’s ISRAEL that is the victim of theft, not the other way around), and the landlord who gave them this land with that name was known as “The God of Israel” (Joshua 24).
There are numerous references to Israel as a corporate body and more than just a name for Jacob (“House of Israel”, “Children of Israel”, “Congregation of Israel” “Kingdom of Israel” [1 Samuel 15:28], etc…) but I will list just a few that specifically refer to the land itself as Israel to silence the critics who never seem to read the Bible they claim to believe.
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: 1 Samuel 13:9
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife. 2 Kings 5:2
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel. 2 Kings 5:4
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. 2 Kings 6:23
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: 1 Chronicles 13:2
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. 1 Chronicles 22:2
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 2 Chronicles 2:17
In Ezekiel alone there are over 50 references to “the land of Israel”.
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life. Matthew 2:20
How did Stew Peters manage to read through the Bible and miss over 2,000 references to the land, coasts, kingdom, lot, territories of Israel from Genesis to Matthew? Then again, that shouldn’t come as a surprise to someone who can’t figure out the shape of the earth, either.
Thus we see from the beginning of history, God made a promise to Abraham that involved LAND, that promise extended to his ancestors, it was an everlasting covenant and promise, and the land was called Israel. (See my article on “Not All Israel Are Of Israel?” for a detailed explanation of how this promise works it way through particular tribal lines that can not be fulfilled by the church, and is completely separate from the “spiritual promises” by faith inherited through Abraham by the church.)
“But didn’t Israel forfeit the land because of their rejection of the Messiah?”
Yes, and no. An everlasting promise is an everlasting promise and an everlasting possession is an everlasting possession, and any apparent conflicts with Israel’s possession of the land must be interpreted with that premise in mind, especially since the promise was made while Abraham was sleeping (Genesis 15:12). All throughout the Old Testament God allowed Israel to be temporarily displaced from their land and ruled by their enemies as punishment for disobeying His laws. However, they would always come back to the land of Israel. If one act of disobedience caused a forfeiture of the land to all of Abraham’s descendants, then there would never have been any Jews returning to Israel after, for example, the Babylonian exile, and we would never have had an Israel where the Messiah was born (Micah 5:2). Replacement advocates will claim “well, there was a ‘final rejection’ when the fake Jews rejected ‘their’ Messiah”. Not only is such a sentiment never mentioned in Scripture (a “final rejection”), but it always seemed strange to me how a fake people could lose something that was never theirs in the first place.
This reasoning makes it obvious that all of the times Israel disobeyed God and lost the land, it was lost to THAT group of people at THAT time (just as it was lost TO MOSES but not TO JOSHUA). At no time was Israel told that any particular act, including rejection of Jesus as Messiah, constituted a breach in some contract where Israel permanently lost rights to the land.
In fact, in spite of Israel’s constant disobedience, God still promised to bring the Jews back into the land of Israel IN SPITE OF “all that they have done”. There are hundreds of references to Israel’s FUTURE restoration in the land, and the references are clearly regarding the “last days”.
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. Jeremiah 31:37
This verse shows clearly that God keeps His promise to the Israeli patriarchs IN SPITE OF the things Israel as done to provoke Him. God even chastises those who thought they could get away with devouring Israel because they sinned against God:
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers. Jeremiah 50:7
So while it is true that God scattered the Jews for their disobedience, He also promised to regather the Jews, often in the same verse He mentions their scattering.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. Isaiah 54:7
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. Ezekiel 11:17 (See also, Jeremiah 23:3, 29:14, 31:8, 31:10, Ezekiel 20:34, 20:41, 36:24, 37:21).
At the time Ezekiel had written this, Israel was scattered throughout the world, and would become even more scattered at the “Diaspora” when Rome had driven them out of Israel and renamed the land “Palestine” as a way to mock the Jews. So the “original” so-called “Palestinians” were actually JEWS. Palestine is a Latin word, not an Arabic word, that means “Philistine”. The battle between David and Goliath was well known to the Romans and renaming the land after a Philistine (Goliath) was a way to mock the God of Israel, and show the Jew that their God is inferior to the gods of Rome. It is therefore completely disingenuous for the world to claim that some non existent Arab people who are Muslim, who frequently emphasize that the Koran can only be properly understood through the Arabic language, would choose a Latin name for their land, particularly the language of an empire they consider pagan. And even though much of the Jewish population had been driven out, just as in all of the previous temporary evictions throughout the OT, there was always a remnant population of Jews still left in the land, and thus Israel has NEVER been completely without a Jewish population who has continually occupied the land.
God even gave the ORDER in which He would gather Israel. Although there were Samaritan Jews who had never left Israel and many other Jewish families who had begun moving to Israel during the 1800s, there was a mass movement of Jews throughout the world moving back to Israel and in the order given in Isaiah 43.
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east [Syria, Iraq, Jordan 1930-1945], and gather thee from the west [Europe after WW2]; I will say to the north, Give up [Russia 1988]; and to the south, Keep not back [Ethiopia 1991, Operation Solomon]: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Isaiah 43:5-6
Contrary to the claims of Reconstructionists and Preterists, at no time from when Israel was scattered throughout the world were they ever reassembled and gathered by God into their own land. Therefore, all such references regarding the regathering of the Jews is yet future. It would also be absurd to apply these O.T. promises to the church. When did God ever scatter the church for their disobedience to the Messiah with a promise to regather them? To claim the rebirth of Israel in 1948 was not a fulfillment of prophecy doesn’t merely show an ignorance of the word of God, but seems to be based on a blatant disregard for it motivated by a hatred of anything Jewish.
The following passages to the regathering of Israel are clearly all future events yet to be fulfilled, and have nothing to do with the church.
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days. Hosea 3:4-5
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Hebrews 4:8-9 [Side note: notice it is Jesus who said this IN THE O.T.!]
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Ezekiel 37:12
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion. Joel 3:20-21
“That I have not cleansed” is a clear reference to a future Israel.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. Amos 9:15
Not only does God gather the Jew back to the land of Israel, but He also GATHERS HER ENEMIES there during the tribulation (Revelation 16).
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Joel 3:1-2 (There’s how God feels about a “2 State Solution”)
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:9 (See N.T. cross reference in Revelation 16.)
Here’s something to ponder. For all the talk of the Church replacing Israel, there sure is an awful lot going on in Israel at the end of time, including Jesus returning to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:1-4).
So yes, while it is true, that God scattered Jews for disobedience, and then caused them to be ousted from Israel in AD 70-120 by Rome, He also promised to regather them. I have already written a lengthy article on the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and how the land promises are distinct from the spiritual promises that the church inherited from Abraham here in “Not All Israel Are Of Israel?”, so I won’t repeat those points here.
Blindness IN PART happened to Israel according to Romans 11:25-30, and it is this IN PART and UNTIL that is always ignored by the Replacement advocates, the “until” being “until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled”, all of which follows Paul’s question, “Hath God cast away His people? God forbid”. Romans 11:1. If the church replaced Israel, this would be a strange reading of Romans 11:1-2, “Hath God cast away the church? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away the church which he foreknew.” But these are the leaps in logic and twisting of Scripture that must be justified in order to interpret Romans 9-11 as being applicable to the church and not the future restoration of a remnant of literal Jews in Israel.
Paul says, “All Israel shall be saved” in Romans 11:25-28. Is that talking about the church? Is not the church PRESENTLY redeemed? If you are a Bible believing Christian, are you not NOW redeemed? Are you not NOW justified? Romans 5:9. Are you not NOW sanctified? 1 Corinthians 6:11, and does not the Scripture say you HAVE BEEN saved? Ephesians 2:1, 8-9. If the church has replaced Israel, THEN WHY IS THE CHURCH WAITING TO BE DELIVERED? Notice Paul says ALL Israel SHALL BE (future tense) saved. That is clearly not a reference to the church, but to an unredeemed (“blood that I have not cleansed” Joel 3:20-21) remnant of Jews who are redeemed during the Great Tribulation and are protected through the end of a 7 year Holocaust 2.0 to repopulate the Millennial Kingdom. [For the skeptic who challenges the 7 year period by allegorizing Daniel 9, see the math in Revelation 11:1-3 where the 2 witnesses minister for 3.5 years, and then the wrath of Satan in Revelation 12:11-12 and 13:4-8 for 3.5 years AFTER the 2 witnesses are killed in Revelation 11: 3.5 years + 3.5 years is still 7 years despite the Common Core math used by Stephen Anderson, Stew Peters and Alex Jones).
“But Didn’t the Rothschilds Create Israel?”
The assertion that the Rothschild family created the land of Israel and therefore the formation of “a nation born in a day” (Isaiah 66:8) in 1948 is not a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy is one of the most ridiculous claims ever made. What’s worse is the history revisionism done by the Left, the “New Conservative”, and the mainstream media as if “Palestine”, a Latin word, was a recent name chosen by ARABS for the land and this land was populated by these “Palestinian” people long before “Jews” ever “took the land” from them. There was never a Palestinian kingdom (it was called the Land of Canaan, not Palestine, when Israel conquered it under God’s direction), no Palestinian state, charter, township, or people group named “Palestinians” nor even a “Palestinian” currency (Some efforts have been made to prove otherwise by claiming that coins with the word “Palestine” prove there was a “Palestinian” presence prior to 1948. But the coin is written in Hebrew and reads “The Land Of Israel”). This term was not even in use to describe a non-Jewish group of people living in Israel prior to Yassir Arafat inventing it as term to describe “refugees” in 1964, “refugees” who were gathered by other Muslim countries to occupy Israel and then rewrite history as if they had been there all along.
Two things are important to note first. First of all, it is irrelevant if any wealthy Rothschild purchased any of the land, or even claimed to have created Israel (as one popular YouTube video of a Rothschild claims). The litany of verses above showing how Israel obtained the land and how it was named occurred 4000 years before the Rothschilds were around. It is God, not the Rothschilds, who determined the occupants and destiny of Israel. Secondly, even IF the Rothschilds had anything to do with securing land for the Jews, so what? Even if the intentions of the Rothschilds were different from those of Israel’s Landlord, God has often used and allowed the ill intentions of pagan leaders to fulfill His will by using their evil against them (Genesis 50:20). He does so in the exodus of the Jews out of Egypt by using Pharaoh, Cyrus to deliver Israel in Isaiah 45, and most notably the ten kingdoms that arise in the tribulation who rise up to destroy the whore that rides the beast. Revelation 17:15-17.
The argument that Israel is illegally occupied because a banker secured some funding to secure the land is a rather silly argument. One of the most important figures in American history who nearly single handedly saved the American Revolution by funding the Revolutionary Armies was a Jew named Haym Salomon. Is America therefore an illegitimate nation because it received funding from a Jew? Furthermore, is America an illegitimate nation over the Trail of Tears? Or land that it took from Natives in Texas? California? This presents quite a conundrum if it does. If America should give back land it took by conquest, then there should be no problem with Jews having their land given back to them since it was taken from them by conquest. If land should not be given back because “to the winner goes the spoils”, then critics can’t complain about the occupation of Israel by Jews. Those same critics certainly do not make the same arguments against the occupation of over 50 countries by Muslims all taken through military conquest. If every nation were required to return land that was acquired through conquest, there would be no room for anyone at all anywhere on the planet. But it seems this argument applies ONLY to Israel and the Jews.
If the Rothschilds ran the world (Jews run the world, don’t you know!), and obtained Israel by some elaborate, illicit conspiracy, they did a lousy job. Although even if true, why is it a bad thing for a person with means to obtain their own property back from squatters? (This theory also ignores purchases made by King David, such as 1 Chronicles 21, etc)
Israel went through a number of revisions of various treaties (Sykes-Picot Accord, 1916 and the Balfour Declaration that ultimately ended up, after its numerous revisions, with Israel only getting a small amount of land no bigger than Rhode Island. What has now become Jordan, which was initially created for “refugees”, was itself part of Israel’s original borders (nobody seems to have a problem with Jordan being a “modern creation”. It seems a “modern creation” being evidence of the establishment of an illicit nation only applies when Jews are part of the deal). However, in spite of England’s apparent willingness to give concessions to the Jews, England and it’s spies (like Jack Philby who helped create Saudi Arabia, another “recent creation” nobody seems to have a problem with) did everything they could to block Jews from returning to Israel, even during WW2 when they attempted to flee Hitler and return to Israel.
However, all of the debate about who purchased what and whether any of these accords had legitimate legal standing are irrelevant. It was God Himself who gave the land to Israel as an everlasting possession.
But Aren’t All Those Jews Fake Jews?
First, see my recent article on the misuse of Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 on whether modern day Jews in Israel are “the synagogue of Satan” and therefore not “real Jews”.
Two theories about fake Jews are prominent today. One is that fake Jews infiltrated Israel during Jesus’ time and so even if “Jews” did occupy Israel during Jesus’ day, they weren’t real Jews and so the promises to “Israel” are irrelevant. Without going into detail debunking this ridiculous conspiratorial genetics argument, it is easily refuted by John 1:12-14, and Matthew 23. Jesus said He came unto HIS OWN, and HIS OWN received Him not. And in Matthew 23:37-39, Jesus weeps over a people who He reached out to who rejected Him. Why would Jesus be weeping over a people who weren’t Jewish, but fake? Furthermore, if those who rejected Him were “fake Jews” why is Jesus blaming them for not recognizing the time of THEIR visitation? It’s not their fault.
The second theory made popular BY A JEW named Arthur Koestler was that the modern day Jew is a Caucasian that migrated from the Khazarian kingdom, which is an odd claim to make considering that the Khazarian kingdom, including it’s leadership were mostly Asiatic. It never dawned on those who make this claim to ask how the Jews got there in the first place, or to ask: if Jews were scattered as predicted by God, they’d have to end up SOMEWHERE, right? James writes to “the 12 twelves scattered abroad (James 1), so it’s obvious Jews were in a variety of locations. Of course, a special pleading fallacy is employed by those who ascribe to the Koestler theory which ignores the Sephardic and Hasidic Jews (among others) located in Spain, Poland, Russia, Ethiopia, etc before an after these supposed settlements in Khazar land.
But it appears that the advocates of this theory think a group of non existent white people just woke up one day and said, “Hey, let’s be Jewish and learn Hebrew, call ourselves Ashkenazis, and maybe the Muslims attacking everyone in this area who really hate Jews will respect our new identities. Then we’re going to convert the leadership, and take off to Germany and start a new race”
I intend on writing a follow up article to this one subject- as this section has already exceeded the length I intended for the subject of who owns the land of Israel- on the Khazarian myth even though many others have exhaustively debunked this absurd theory.
God gave the land to Israel, to the Jews, and made a promise that it was theirs, not the church’s, as an everlasting possession. In spite of all Israel had done, God promised He would yet save a remnant of Jews during the tribulation (Romans 10-11), but to save a remnant, there has to be a remnant to save, hence the regathering of Jews to the land of Israel throughout the world. Then, something completely lost to Stew Peters, Greg Reese and Alex Jones, after 144,000 JEWISH witnesses minister for 3.5 years under 2 JEWISH witnesses, Jesus returns IN ISRAEL (not America), IN JERUSALEM to establish His kingdom, which will in part be governed by His disciples RULING OVER THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL (Matthew 19:28). That’s quite a bit of subject matter involving a specific location from an omniscient God who apparently didn’t know that there’s no real Jews in Israel so He shouldn’t waste His time coming back there. The “real Jews” are in America, so we all need to get involved politically and save America, make it great again so that God will see the error of His ways and ignore Israel and focus His attention on the more important nation. And hopefully in the mean time, if the Catholics, Orthodox and Calvinists pray hard enough, they’ll get God to see that those “Jews” running Hollywood, all the world banks and the media are responsible for every bad decision all of humanity makes, and are even responsible for tornadoes and hurricanes!
Or perhaps they need a different god. They’re going to get one. Their blatant Jewish hatred plays right into the hands of the antichrist and New World Order. They are aiding Muslim terrorists (oh, but Israel created them, too, don’t you know!) who hate America, and doing so on behalf of bussed-in Gazan “refugees” (talk about a fake people!) defending a land that God Himself said would be judged (Amos 1:7, Zephaniah 2:4, Zechariah 9:5) and was “desert” (not occupied by some mythical “Palestinian” population) in the apostles’ time (Acts 8:26) and in doing so, their “America First” view (which I have no problem with when interpreted correctly) is actually inviting a curse upon America (as if we didn’t have enough problems with legalizing abortion and homosexuality). We are in a spiritual battle, and we need spiritual help, but the current “conservative” movement is doing the exact opposite and America is going to pay the price for it.
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Apparently, those who believe America should not be involved in foreign wars have no problem if other countries do it. Stew Peters cheers for Muslim country to kill Jews in Israel.

.For further reading, I highly recommend “Holy Ground” by William Grady if you want a thorough and exhaustive explanation about the history of Israel, both ancient and modern.





















