As I mentioned in the article about Canaanites there are probably four main groups of people and blood lines from the Old Testament that could refer to current Palestinian Arabs in the land of Israel or those that will be in the land of Israel leading up to the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ that each have last days prophetic implication. These are the Canaanites, the Ishmaelites or Hagarites, the Philistines and the Strangers. Some of these have present more positive prospects than others but I believe the God of the Bible the true God will know what aspects of these backgrounds are in any individual person including of what are now called Palestinian Arabs. I also believe that God will bless anybody Palestinian Arab or any other nationality if they genuinely trust in Jesus or any future age. One of the more favourable of these components is the stranger. Although this doesn't mean only people of Middle Eastern background in the land of Israel such as Palestinian Arabs it has an emphasis on them I believe. In Isaiah 56 God's word says that the sons of the strangers or the strangers that join themselves to the LORD which will mean in the tribulation for the men to be circumcised but also for people both male and female to trust in the Lord Jesus the Messiah the Son of God the Father or the Son of the LORD as one's personal Lord and Saviour that died on the cross for our sins and rose again to give us new life. This scripture also mentions that these sons of the strangers that join to the LORD then serve and love or are faithful to the God of the Bible that then in the tribulation after the Church God's heavenly people are removed from earth will involve not only for the Jews God's chosen earthly people that trust in Messiah Jesus but the people of the other nations particularly in the expression the strangers those non-Israelite people living in the land of Israel. These strangers that will be under God's blessing in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom will include the Palestinian Arabs but also people of other nations that trust in Jesus and that join themselves to the Jews and the LORD the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or Israel would have the priviledge of worshipping God in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom Temple. This temple is called God's holy mountain on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and worship the true God the God of the Bible with sacrifices on the altar in God's Temple as mentioned in Ezekiel 40 to 48, Isaiah 2 and Zechariah 14, 6 etc. where the Lord Jesus the Messiah will have His throne on Earth in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom as Son of God and King of the Earth and Saviour of the world along with the Shekinah glory of God the Father. The sons of the strangers that are blessed in the Messianic Kingdom will also be those who keep the sabbath and hold to God's covenant in the tribulation or Messianic Kingdom. For God's current main chosen people on Earth His chosen heavenly people the Church the main day of worship is Sunday or the first day of the week as mentioned as practiced by Christians in Acts 20 and I Corinthians 16. The Lord Jesus Christ also quoted this scripture about mine house shall be a house of prayer for all people in Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17 and Luke 19:46 in a way that I believe He was looking forward to people of all nations worshipping God in the Messianic Kingdom I believe these people of all nations as the strangers will certainly include those non Israelite people living in the land of Israel such as an element for the future of Palestinian Arab people and others that come to trust in the God of the Bible and in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour in the tribulation or Messianic Kingdom to worship God in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom in His Temple in Jerusalem then. The scripture reference from Isaiah 56 of God's promise to the strangers that certainly includes as one of the more positive prophetic references to non-Israelite people such as the Palestinian Arabs in the land of Israel that ally with the God of Israel and His annointed one Jesus of Nazareth in the tribulation or Messianic Kingdom that will be able to worship God in the Messianic Kingdom Temple in the Messianic Kingdom is as follows:
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. Isaiah 56:6-7
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