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Continuing our discussion from part three, if you have been carefully following everything I have been sharing with you in this series, then you should know by now that God most certainly did NOT promise Turkey to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Joshua. In fact, if you have been paying really close attention, perhaps you have already realized that God defined the area of the land He promised to Abraham and his descendants in two very distinct ways. The first way He did this was by establishing certain physical and topographical landmarks. These markers include the following:

Dead Sea
Euphrates River
Jordan River
Mediterranean Sea
Mount Hermon
Negev Desert
Red Sea
River of Egypt [Brook of Egypt]

This should be very clear to you by now. BUT, there is a second way in which God told them which land they would conquer and possess; and that was by telling them exactly which peoples inhabited the land of Canaan. I have already shared with you some of the verses where these different cultures are mentioned, but let me share them with you again, along with some additional verses. All of these people were Canaanites, who were descended from Canaan, who was one of the sons of Ham, the son of Noah:

"And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad."


"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: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."


As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel, But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day."


"And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord."


So what we see then, is that the promise to Abraham included the physical land of Canaan itself, and the Canaanite tribes which dwelt within its borders. These were the two conditions which were set by God. If you conduct a Bible study of your own, you will quickly discover that all of the aforementioned people did in fact live within the confines of Canaan. As an example, the Jebusites were the former inhabitants of Jebus, which King David conquered and renamed Jerusalem. So it seems obvious that the phrase "the land of the Hittites" must be referring to the land which the Hittites controlled both in Canaan, as well as in parts of Syria, due to the fact that we see the phrase "unto the great river" in the previous set of verses. That is what was promised to Abraham and his descendants.

To reiterate, the land which is now occupied by Turkey was not included in God's promise, and there is no Biblical indication that the Israelites ever set foot there. Please remember that the Lord had told them "Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you." That is why the previous two maps are dead wrong. In my view, whoever created them is guilty of sloppy exegesis, or scriptural interpretation.

Before concluding this series, allow me to share with you an observation we can make. If we take a minute to compare all of the information which I have now shared with you in this series, with the current borders of the modern country of Israel, we make an interesting discovery. As I mentioned earlier, the southern border remains pretty much the same as it has been for millennia, and stretches diagonally from the Gulf of Aqaba, northwestward along the top of the Sinai Peninsula, until it reaches the Mediterranean Sea. As has also been the case for millennia, the Mediterranean Sea continues to be Israel's western border.

Furthermore, Lebanon and the slopes of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights continue to be the northernmost border of Israel, just as they were thousands of years ago. As we saw earlier, while King David and King Solomon did control some land as far as the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, that land was lost. Lastly, we have Israel's eastern border with the nation of Jordan, which is marked by the Jordan and the Yarmouk Rivers, the Dead Sea, the Wadi Araba and the Gulf of Aqaba, which is the upper right arm of the Red Sea. What you will notice is that the land east of the Jordan River which was once inhabited by members of the tribes of Manasseh, Gad and Reuben, now belongs to the nation of Jordan. I wonder if this is because this land was never a part of God's original promise to Abraham, even though He did allow the Israelites to conquer it under Moses and Joshua.

At any rate, we have now covered a lot of territory. While I have not included every single Bible verse which relates to this subject, or explained every single aspect in minute detail, I believe that I have presented you with sufficient Scriptural evidence to make a rather strong case that God never promised the Israelites much more land than what the Israelis possess today. God indeed kept His word, as He always does.

As such, my personal conviction regarding this matter is that if God truly wanted the ancient Israelites, or the modern Israelis, to possess more land than what they had thousands of years ago, or more land than what they possess today, then He would make it so. Yet He has not done so in all this time. The fact that they have for the most part remained within the borders which were first established by God millennia ago, is evidence to me that this is all that they were ever meant to have. Period.

In conclusion, the doctrine of a Greater Israel which extends to the Nile River in Egypt, to Turkey in the north, as well as to Iraq in the east, is a crafty invention of the Zionist Jews, which has been foolishly promoted by certain gullible, pro-Israel Christians who have not thoroughly examined the Bible. Such a doctrine has no solid basis in the Scriptures. It is a political ploy which is being foisted upon ignorant people who are mesmerized by the Jews and all things Jewish. And it is a very dangerous ploy at that which could cause the entire Middle East to explode, if it were to be pursued. The Israel-Hamas War is clear proof of that. To reiterate, the Greater Israel doctrine is an absolute lie, and a deception. Again, I have provided you with the evidence. Now you must decide for yourself what you want to believe.

With these thoughts, I will bring this article to a close. It is my hope that you have found it informative, enlightening, and I pray that it has been a blessing in your life as well. If you have an account with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or with any other social network, I would really appreciate if you'd take the time to click or tap on the corresponding link that is found on this page. Thanks so much, and may God bless you abundantly!

For additional information and further study, you may want to refer to the list of reading resources below which were either mentioned in this article, or which contain topics which are related to this article. All of these articles are likewise located on the Bill's Bible Basics web server. To read these articles, simply click or tap on any link you see below.

Job and the Land of Uz: A Biblical Mystery?
Satan: King of Tyrus, King of Empires!
The Fruits of Disobedience
The International Jew and the Protocols of Zion
Welcome to Greater Israel, USA!

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