Israel Bible Tour, A Historic Geographic Bible Study Journal of Israel
By Brandy Lee
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This Israel tour book is rich in historic, geographic and bible facts to be used as an essential guide while touring the holy land of Israel or as a study guide. Take this Israel tour guide book with you while in Israel as a virtual bible study guide of the promised land. Use it as a study guide book from afar to help build a deeper understanding of the land of Israel.
Brandy Lee
Brandy Lee is a corporate executive, non-profit founder, International administrator and author.
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Israel Bible Tour, A Historic Geographic Bible Study Journal of Israel - Brandy Lee
Israel Facts
Total Area: 8,019 square miles
Comparable size: New Jersey, Pasadena or Haiti
Language: Hebrew, Arabic, English
Religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity
Economy: Agriculture, Manufacturing, Services
Currency: New Israeli Sheqel (NIS)
International Dialing Code: +972
Time: GMT/UTC+2
History - Modern
Israel (Hebrew: ,לאֵ רָ שְׂ ִיYiśraˀel; Arabic: ,ليئِ ارَ سْ ِإʾIsrāʾīl), officially
the State of Israel is a parliamentary republic in the Western Asia part of the Middle East. It is the only country in the world that was re-built while fighting 5 countries. It is the only people who have resurrected the ancient Hebrew language. It is the only country of it’s size who has absorbed over 2,000,000 refugees.
When the Jews first came back into the land there was no trees due to the Ottoman rule period in which a tree tax was imposed on impoverished farmers. In order to avoid the heavy tax, trees were removed from the land creating malaria infested swamp land. One of the primary reasons the Jews were granted their land back was that know one else wanted it. Every one of the more then 240 million trees that fill Israel now have been planted by hand.
Located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, it borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West
Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its small area.
Israel is the world’s only Jewish-majority state, and is defined as a Jewish and democratic state
by Israeli constitutional law.
Jerusalem is the country’s capital, Tel Aviv is the main financial center and the primary industrial center is Haifa.
In November 1947, the United Nations voted in favor of the partition of Palestine, proposing the creation of a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a UN-administered Jerusalem. Partition was accepted by the Zionist leadership but rejected by Arab leaders, and a civil war began. Israel declared independence on May 14th 1948 and neighboring Arab states invaded the next day. Since then, Israel has fought a series of wars with neighboring Arab states.
Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel was legally constituted within the Green Line borders, as defined in the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Israel later annexed East Jerusalem, and applied Israeli law, jurisdiction and administration to the Golan Heights in 1981. The annexation of East Jerusalem has not been recognized by the international community, which also regards the Golan Heights as remaining under Israeli occupation. Israel has effectively annexed the largely suburban Israeli-populated Seam Zone which is today largely separated from the West Bank by the separation barrier. Citizens of the State of Israel also live in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The modern State of Israel was declared in 1948, and traces its historical and religious roots to the Biblical Land of Israel, also known as Zion, a concept central to Judaism since ancient times. Political Zionism took shape in the late 19th century Europe under Theodor Herzl, and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which formalized British policy preferring the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people. Following World War I, the League of Nations granted Great Britain the Mandate for Palestine, which included responsibility for securing the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people
.
Israel is a developed country and a representative democracy with a parliamentary system and universal suffrage. The Prime Minister serves as head of government and the Knesset serves as Israel’s legislative body.
As of 2013, Israel ranks 19th among 187 nations on the UN’s Human Development Index, which places it in the category of Very Highly Developed
, the highest among Middle Eastern countries, and it has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. The major industrial sectors include high-technology products, metal products, electronic and biomedical equipment, agricultural products, processed foods, chemicals, and transport equipment. The Israeli diamond industry is one of the world’s centers for diamond cutting and polishing.
A miraculous new industrial sector now includes natural gas. Thirty-five trillion cubic feet of gas worth some USD $500 billion has been found in Israel’s economic waters,
with the Leviathan field being by far the largest. Theoretically, these natural gas reserves have the potential to transform Israel’s economy. Indeed, experts say that this gas alone can shave 25 percent off Israel’s annual national budget for the next 25 years.
Promised Land Borders
God gave the boundaries of Israel to Abraham in 2000 BC;
On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying:
To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates - the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis 15:18-21
God also gave unconditional promises to Abraham that included land, descendants and a new name; Israel. Genesis 12:2-3,7, Genesis 13:15, Genesis 17:8, Genesis 35:10
History: Abrahamic Covenant
There was a flood according to the Bible’s chronology in approximately 2348 BC, that left Noah and his three sons and their wives. The descendants of Japheth, went out and settled the Europe and the Isles. Ham’s sons were first to prominence building Babel and Nineveh. Another son of Ham was Canaan whose numerous descendants settled first the coast from places still known today, Sidon in Lebanon all the way to Gaza and across to the Dead Sea where Sodom and Gomorrah were.
Shem’s sons settled first to the far east of the Middle East from Mesha to Sephar a mount of the East
, which is known to be over the Eastern side of the Euphrates. Though already dispersing, all seemed to have been unified at their center, until they tried to build a tower in the city at Babel which is in modern day Iraq.
Then their language was confused. After the confusion of language, the various families separated. Approximately 1921 BC (Ussher) or 1928 BC (Beecher) a descendant of Shem, a man named Abram, was called to leave Ur of the Chaldees, which was at that time already becoming a center of idolatry.
The call to Abram, later renamed Abraham, and God’s promise is a key passage of the Bible.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, unto a land that I will show you: And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed
(Genesis 12:1-3).
In Genesis chapter 14 we learn that a center of worship of the God of the Bible was at Salem which was later named Jerusalem.
When Abram crosses from Haran over the Euphrates he is described as entering his and his children’s future inheritance.
Abram, his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot travel South to a place called Shechem. It was described as being located in the land of Canaan. It is still called Shechem (also Nablus).
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto your seed will I give this land:
and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him (Genesis 12:7).
The extent of the land promised is further clarified as to be all the land he could see. At the time this promise was given he was near Hebron.
Abram, who was now old and had no son asks how he is to inherit a promise that includes him having a son. God said he would have a son, though old. Abram believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. He was told by God;
Then He said to Abram:
Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Ammorites is not yet complete," (Genesis 15:13-16).
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your 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
(Genesis 15:18-21).
This is the first mention of the border boundaries for the Land of Israel. Subsequent border definitions follow that outline a more limited border within this first boundary. Notice the covenant is for Abraham’s seed
or offspring. Abraham