IsraRan? (Part 1)

See the series here

 

Don’t worry. My title is merely a portmanteau to draw attention to what might be a generally unknown, yet-fulfilled hint in The Book of Genesis. First, some background. 

 

Got problems at home?! Start a war elsewhere!! That’s a familiar response of governments and militaries that likely dates back to ancient, post-global flood times, and it is certainly happening TODAY! I wonder whether that may have been a factor in the first ‘international’ war recorded in The Bible, when armies from the far east, led by Elam (the western part of current Iran) traveled an exceptionally long distance to raid tribes across the land of Canaan. In the heat of battle, they captured Lot, Abram’s nephew. In response, Abram led a group of 318 trained servants to ambush those armies. They recaptured both Lot and ALL of the booty they had looted! ¹

 

VOILA! I regard that as the first recorded interactions between a future Israel (in Abram’s loins), and a future Iran (which much later absorbed ancient Elam). Since then, their relations have been like a roller coaster, and today, they’re at their lowest point on that wild ride!! But possibly not for long!! Hang tight…

 

Ponder this:

  •  Israel and the U.S. are currently degrading Iran’s government, military and economy.

  •  Ukraine and NATO are currently degrading Russia’s government, military and economy.

  • Jesus, The LORD God, personally promises to annihilate BOTH Russia’s and Iran’s militaries (or whatever future nations might occupy those territories), bolstered by mercenaries from Libya, S. Sudan/Ethiopia and possibly Turkey, and then ‘seek to destroy’ their nations that will have sent soldiers to invade a future defenseless, possibly over-crowded Israel. The Ezekiel 38 invasion will be motivated by an apparent desperation for the basics of life, not political conquest! (verse. 13) ²

 

What if???… current events in Russia and Iran, might eventually be aggravated by the combined, predicted global impacts of:

    1. The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll (Revelation 6:12-17), likely at the end of this current, 3rd age of human history); and 

    2. The early apocalypse plagues -- the trumpets (and later the bowls) judgments?

 

That scenario could possibly develop if/IF those global events will erupt well before Russia and Iran will have fully recovered from their current, serious economic, military and societal degrading! 

 

But there’s much more—a possible 'IsraRan' – my portmanteau that hints of a possible expansion of Israel to incorporate the western part of Iran!! Say whatt???

 

The tail end of Genesis 15 records The Lord’s first covenant definition of a massive land grant to Abram (whose name was later changed to Abraham) and to his descendants. Well, Abraham became ‘the father of many nations’, so his descendants are limitless! Today, the overwhelming majority of that land grant is occupied by his descendants from Ishmael—his first son, while the allocation to his Jewish descendants through Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel) has barely been a sliver of that land grant. Moreover, across the millennia, Jews struggled to increase and expand their share, but were dispossessed of even that sliver because of their gross sinfulness that The Lord had, for millennia, warned them about and detested. Through Moses, He had promised to ‘vomit’ them out of that land if they persisted in sinful lifestyles. You know ‘the rest of that story’. Selah. ³

 

BUT… in making that land grant promise, I intuit The Lord’s eye was apparently on its eventual fulfillment during His promised Millennial Reign as Earth’s global king, in the 5th age of human history. ⁴ Genesis 15:18 signifies the borders of Israel during that age. As with many complex, Biblical prophecies, there is not one, but two major interpretations of the eastern border of that land. One view limits that border to an invisible line up to/stopping at the Euphrates River. That view would naturally incorporate the western river basin (drainage area). Another view expands the border to the cover the entire eastern river basin of the Euphrates River. As such, the latter view incorporates …tadaaa… significant parts or possibly all of western Iran! That view effectively increases the area of the first view by several times larger than the narrower interpretation, and vastly larger than current Israel. So this issue is very significant to analyze, not only in context of the prophetic text of Genesis 15:18, but also in context of other potentially pertinent prophetic passages. 

 

Which view might apply, and why?

See Part 2

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¹ See: Genesis 14.

² See: Ezekiel 38 and Zechariah 12:9. The latter verse most likely refers to the hand full of militaries that will launch the Ezekiel 38 coalition invasion of Israel, rather than to Armageddon, in which The Bible predicts ALL nations will engage. The Bible does not predict the destruction of ALL nations, but that Jesus will rule them, as with a rod of iron. Why a possibly overcrowded

Israel? See: Hasty Jewish Migrations (Series). 

Ponder this: With their total annihilation in the Ezekiel 38 invasion, might those nations possibly avoid participating in Armageddon? Possibly, if the sequence of those two events will be close!

³ Ask your AI to explain primogeniture and its various forms across ancient civilizations.

Then ponder this: Could that possibly be what The Lord might be practicing now, in allocating the majority of His land grant to Ishmael’s descendants, pending His Millennial Reign??

⁴ See: Human History Ages (Series) and The Millennial Reign (Series).