The British Empire Fell Apart Due to Their Attitude Against Israel

• Now this has a solemn message for the nations. Not least for Britain, in fact in many ways first and foremost for Britain, because Britain played a special role in all of this. Turning to Joel chapter 3 verses 1 and 2. “For behold in those days and at that time,” – this is God who’s speaking – “when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem,” – so it’s the time of the restoration of the Jewish people – “I will also gather all nations,” – that’s all Gentiles – “and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;”
• – and Jehoshaphat as a name means the Lord judges – “and I will enter into judgment with them there” – that’s all nations – “on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land.” Before it was Israel’s land it was God’s land. God gave it to Israel.
• What’s the modern political word for dividing up the land? Partition. That’s right. So God is going to judge the nations that have partitioned His land. Top of the list is Britain. At the end of World War I the League of Nations gave Britain a mandate to administer the Holy Land, this land. And their specific mandate was to create a national home for the Jewish people.
• That was about 1919. In 1922 Winston Churchill, who was then Home Secretary, with one stroke of the British pen created an Arab nation which was called then Trans-Jordan, it’s now called Jordan, by which he assigned approximately seventy-five percent of the total area allotted to Israel. And in that land of Jordan no Jew is permitted to live.
• Whereas in the land assigned to Israel every Arab is perfectly free to live if he wants. So here is the Jewish people ending up with twenty-five percent approximately of what was supposed to be assigned to them. Then after World War II the United Nations voted to partition and they took approximately twelve percent, I mean a further twelve percent, and gave it to Israel.
• Instead of getting a hundred percent they ended up with twelve percent. Who was responsibility? Britain. Now after that, as you know, the United Nations voted to give Israel a State of their own. I was an eye witness. I was living there in that time. I was British. I’d been discharged from the British Forces.