The signing on August 31, 1947 of the reports—there were two, a “majority” and a “minority”—of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine marks a stage in the working out of the Divine Purpose. However much the people of this country are agitated by the new austerity and the problem of the dollar, however foreboding may be the sense of underlying hostility between the United States “way of life” and the Soviet “ideology,” and however perplexing the attempt to reconstitute Europe, the pivot of all the future is Palestine. To-day it is truer than ever that the bounds of the people are set according to the number of the children of Israel.2 “The Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. . . He kept him as the apple of His eye.” That chapter goes on to foretell God’s grievous punishments of His people for their rebellion against Him which have surely come to pass; it also looks ahead to the time when God will render vengeance to His adversaries and will be merciful to His land and to His people. The majority verdict of the United Nations Committee indicates a new illumination of the signs of the times; the decision of the United Nations General Assembly is awaited with keen interest.
As details of the Recommendations were available only on September 1. there is not time or space now to analyse the new position which arises if the proposals are implemented by the General Assembly. The most spectacular recommendation is No. 1: “The mandate is to terminate at the earliest possible date.” The British Mandate for Palestine was confirmed in 1922, and the key to the Mandate was the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917. Those thirty years have seen the development of the miraculous fulfilment of the Hope which is pregnant with the sure prospects of true peace for the world.
We go on to the next step. “The independence of Palestine is to be achieved at the earliest possible date.” Following upon that, Great Britain, in carrying on the administration of Palestine during the transition stage, is to admit into the proposed Jewish State 150,000 Jewish immigrants at a uniform monthly rate, 30,000 of them, on humanitarian grounds. The fact that the General Assembly is requested also to undertake by international action the alleviation of the plight of 250,000 Jewish refugees in European assembly centres indicates the tragic contribution of the war to the furtherance of the fulfilment of prophecy.
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Author: Edgar E. Taylor
Keywords: United Nations, Jewish question, Jewish state, Jewish statehood, Balfour, Balfour declaration, Gathering of Israel, Ingathering of Jews, Restoration of the Israeli state, Restoration of the Jewish state, restoration of Israel, Zionism, Zionist, Israel's regathering, Jewish regathering, History of the Jews, Jewish history, History of Israel, land partition, israeli partition, borders of Israel, Israeli border, Israeli borders, Israel border, Israel borders, boundary, boundaries, Israel's boundary, Israel's boundaries, boundary of Israel, parted my land, Palestine, Palestinians
Bible reference(s): Deu 32:8, Joe 3:2, Jeremiah 32:44
Source: “...And Parted My Land,” The Testimony, Vol. 17, No. 201, September 1947, pp. 308-9.
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