Inheriting the Land

Isn't this a curious phrase to be in the Bible?  Is it speaking to the Jews of finally gaining the West Bank, or control of Gaza, and that entire region of the Middle East?  I think it means more.  Let's take a look.

7 Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him;

Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,

Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. 8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath;

Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing. 9 For evildoers will be cut off,

But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land. 10 Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;

And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there. 11 But the humble will inherit the land

And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

Psalms 37:7-11 (NASB95)

27 Depart from evil and do good,

So you will abide forever. 28 For the LORD loves justice

And does not forsake His godly ones;

They are preserved forever,

But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off. 29 The righteous will inherit the land

And dwell in it forever. 30 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,

And his tongue speaks justice. 31 The law of his God is in his heart;

His steps do not slip. 32 The wicked spies upon the righteous

And seeks to kill him. 33 The LORD will not leave him in his hand

Or let him be condemned when he is judged. 34 Wait for the LORD and keep His way,

And He will exalt you to inherit the land;

When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

Psalms 37:27-34 (NASB95)

* One thing I love about the Hebrew word for land (aretz), it can also signify ‘earth.’ And I think that is a valid meaning in Ps. 37, as in v. 34: ‘Wait for YHWH and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the earth.’ Amen! For that is how it is going to be during the Millenial reign of Messiah, and after the great judgment, the saints will dwell on the earth with YHWH, the Lord Jesus Himself, for all eternity!” (Zech 14:9; Rev. 21:1-2, 22:1-7)


9 And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one.

Zech 14:9 (NASB95)

1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:1-2 (NASB95)

1 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.

6 And he said to me, "These words are faithful and true"; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

7 "And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book."

Rev 22:1-7 (NASB95)

We can see from these passages that the LORD, Yahweh, Jesus Himself is returning to rule on earth for a thousand years, in accordance with the words of the prophets. After the thousand years are up, and the great judgment has taken place, then the New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven to the earth, and the tri-une LORD God will dwell on earth together with redeemed, perfected man forevermore.

Truly, the quickly approaching second advent of Messiah will be the dawning of a new age the world has never known or seen, in which the world will be rule by complete righteousness and holiness (Isaiah 9:7).

America conditioned to believe in UFOs & Aliens?

I've wanted to post a blog on this for a while, and may have mentioned something about it before, I can't remember. But has everyone noticed the prevalence of UFOs and extraterrestials on TV and the movies lately? Letting my son watch cartoons (which we monitor closely) I saw the other day a Car Toons short with Mater and Lightning McQueen, and it was about a baby UFO and of course Mater had some levitation devices under his wheel wells that enabled him to fly like the baby UFO. And they ended up coming to this "mother" UFO, and were beamed aboard.

Another cute animation movie we liked was Disney's Chicken Little. And wouldn't you know it, there was a baby alien, and humanity suffered the wrath of its parents until the baby martian was reunited with its parents, and the baby explained everything to its mom and dad.

Pastor Joe Schimmel does I think a good analysis of the Transformers movie, with the alien life (Transformers) coming to earth to "fight the lifesource," what is it called, the "Spark" or something? But the autobots help humanity fight to become better and to perfect the earth.

Avatar recently, evidently was very popular with the graphical effects. But it was heavy in nature worship, human interaction with extraterrestials, and Avatars (the Hindu term again~conditioning us to buy into new age), with humans "possessing" alien bodies, and we see a human become part of the all pervasive feminine "life-force."

Just yesterday I was flipping through some channels (as it was still snowing outside), and rested on the history channel. They had some "experts" with PhDs on there talking about how we are such a small part of an indistuinguishable galaxy, and they didn't come out and say it, but were hinting around that we're a small part of a much bigger cosmic "neighborhood" of other beings. And of course, this is all very scientific, just like Darwinian evolution. (And if you believe that, I've got some ocean-front property in Arizona to sell ya).

I'm not real big on TV shows, I try not to watch it too much, but I've heard there's this re-surgance of old UFO classic movies. Certainly a couple of years ago, the US & British govts. had this hoopla to release all UFO records that they held. It made a real big stir among the 'paranormal/Trekkie' community.I think its all very interesting to watch, and to see how American society is being conditioned for the day of "selection" as taught by New Ager Barbara Marx Hubbard, where all those who are "divisive, seperativists" (seeing ourselves as seperate from God), of the wrong "vibration" will be selected off the planet. New Agers spirit guides (we know to be demons) are working very hard to condition the world for the rapture.

If Satan was going to rule the world in the wake of the rapture, it would be very hard to explain such a great global phenomenon apart from the existence of God and the truth of His word, unless they had strategically laid a plan to deceive the nations.

And don't be fooled. Foxnews is part of it too. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, I've seen commericials for, I thought it was 1millionminds.com, though I tried looking it up, but it's purpose was to get "one million minds" in "global harmony." Oprah Winfrey and other new agers have spoken of reaching this 'critical mass' of people, all meditating (Hindu transcendtal meditation), and supposedly then, they will be able to usher in the New Age, the Age of Aquarius/Horus.

There's much to talk about here. A great revival of paganism/ancient Egyptian religions, Aleister Crowley's (who saw himself as Satan's "Chief of Staff") influence on music groups in the 60s up to the present day, with the likes of the Beatles (who made big inroads for acceptance of Hindu yoga in American culture), Charles Manson, the Beach Boys, and even death metal groups (Metallica) and others today. Crowley even makes an appearance on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.An excellent DVD set to get that discloses much of this information is They Sold Their Souls for Rock n Roll at http://www.goodfight.org/. Once you view the DVD, you will be flabbergasted. My wife and I literally had to pick our jaws off the ground numerous times watching this material. You will hear many artists openly confess being demon possessed. Elvis Pressley heard the voices of 'ascended masters' that played through him. Carlos Santanya has openly confessed in interviews of spirits that play through him. America, your pop-culutre scene is Satanically inspired!

19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.
1 John 5:19 (HCSB)