The successive teachers of Israel, in spite of the horrendous treatment accorded them, accomplished the greatest feat in the evolution of religion ever to be effected on Urantia [Earth]: the gradual but continuous transformation of the barbaric concept of the savage and jealous demon Yahweh to the later exalted and supernal concept of the supreme Yahweh, creator of all things and the loving and merciful Father of all mankind.
     [It was this loving and merciful Father that Jesus came to reveal.]
[UB 93:2:1,2] [UB 93:6:3,4]

     The Hebrews had long been nurtured on traditions of miracles and legends of wonders. They envisaged a deliverer who would come in miraculous power to cast down Israel’s enemies and establish the Jews as world rulers, free from want and oppression. The Messiah would deliver the Jewish people from Roman domination by even greater miracles of power and marvels of racial triumphs than were ascribed to Moses. He would sit on David’s throne and from this place of miraculous power promulgate the laws of all the world. They had long been taught the Messiah would work those wonders which would make life pleasant and easy for all the chosen people. When “the earth will yield its fruits ten thousandfold, and on one vine there will be a thousand branches, and each branch will produce a thousand clusters, and each cluster will produce a thousand grapes, and each grape will produce a gallon of wine.”
     [Jesus knew these hopes would never be realized. He also foresaw that when finally the multitudes were convinced he would not fulfill their expectations of the long-awaited Messiah, they would promptly reject him.]
[UB 136:6:6,7] [UB 136:9:2]

     The attitude of the Jews toward the outside world made it impossible for them to accept the Master’s teachings about the spiritual brotherhood of man. They could not accept the teachings of one who unhesitatingly clashed with dogmas they regarded as having been ordained by Father Abraham himself. Moses had given them their law and they would not compromise. Those who sought the destruction of Jesus had become so narrowed by tradition they were blinded by prejudice and hardened by fear. To the Hebrews of those days Jewish theology was irrevocably settled, forever fixed. The teachings and practices of Jesus regarding tolerance and kindness ran counter to the long-standing attitude of the Jews toward other peoples whom they considered heathen. Jesus ignored numerous of their sacred traditions; he dared to flout their long-honored regulations of social conduct.
     Said Jesus: The rulers seek to kill me because they resent my teaching about the good news of the kingdom, a gospel that sets men free from the burdensome traditions of a formal religion of ceremonies which these teachers are determined to uphold at any cost.
[UB 121:7:1-3] [UB 155:1:4] [UB 162:2:2]

     Jesus knew no civilization can long survive the loss of the best in its religion. The Jews had become spiritually stagnant and dying because they had crystallized truth into a creed. The religious leaders held the Jews in a terrible bondage of ritualism and legalism, a bondage far more real than that of the Roman political rule. The Pharisees had 613 rules of living which invaded every facet of daily living. By the times of Jesus the Jews had arrived at a settled concept of their origin, history, and destiny. They had built up a rigid wall of separation between themselves and the gentile world; the Jews looked upon all gentile ways with utter contempt. They indulged a form of self-righteousness based upon the false pride of descent.
     In January A.D. 27 Jesus and the twelve apostles began their public ministry. Almost immediately the religious leaders at Jerusalem began to be alarmed and antagonistic toward Jesus and his teachings. They were increasingly blinded by fear and prejudice. Well before his trial they began to plan and plot for his destruction: he must be arrested, convicted, and executed as a religious offender, a violator of the cardinal teachings of the Jewish sacred law.
[UB 142:1:2] [UB 147:6:2] [UB 149:3:1,2,3]

     Jesus realized that the rejection of the spiritual concept of the Messiah, the determination to cling persistently and blindly to the material mission of the expected deliverer, would presently bring the Jews in direct conflict with the powerful Roman armies, and that such a contest could only result in the final and complete overthrow of the Jewish nation. [UB 176:1:2]
Comment. What role did the patriotic organization of the Zealots play in bringing about the final and complete overthrow of the Jewish nation?

     In his last temple discourse on Tuesday, April 4, 30 A.D. Jesus extended his final proffer of mercy to the Jews. He warned them that if they finally rejected the Father’s mercy they faced a terrible day of reckoning. Israel would be left to its own counsels and would speedily come to an inglorious end. For hundreds of years the Jews had stoned, killed, and persecuted the prophets, wise men, and teachers sent to them for the purpose of enlarging their concept of God. Now Jesus warned they must account for all that shedding of righteous blood. [UB 175:1]

The Fateful Sanhedrin Meeting.
     At eight o’clock on this Tuesday evening the fateful meeting of the Sanhedrin was called to order. On many previous occasions had this supreme court of the Jewish nation informally decreed the death of Jesus. Many times had this august ruling body determined to put a stop to his work, but never before had they resolved to place him under arrest and to bring about his death at any and all costs. It was just before midnight on this Tuesday, April 4, A.D. 30, that the Sanhedrin, as then constituted, officially and unanimously voted to impose the death sentence upon both Jesus and Lazarus. This was the answer to the Master’s last appeal to the rulers of the Jews which he had made in the temple only a few hours before, and it represented their reaction of bitter resentment toward Jesus’ last and vigorous indictment of these same chief priests and impenitent Sadducees and Pharisees.
     The passing of the death sentence (even before his trial) upon the Son of God was the Sanhedrin’s reply to the last offer of heavenly mercy ever to be extended to the Jewish nation, as such. [UB 175:3:1,2]

     After Jesus had been arrested, subjected to a kangaroo-type trial, and condemned to death by crucifixion, it was time for the actual crucifixion.

     Jesus was crucified about half past nine Friday morning, April 7, 30 A.D. [UB 187:3:1]

     The Jews had filled their cup of iniquity; now justice would swiftly descend upon Jerusalem.
     When the Jews rejected Jesus' spiritual bestowal and refused to receive the light of heaven as it so mercifully shone upon them, they thereby sealed their doom as an independent people with a special spiritual mission on earth. [UB 175:3:2] [UB 176:1:1,2]
     The massive Temple would accommodate over two hundred thousand worshipers at one time. However, as Jesus predicted, in A.D. 70 the Roman armies utterly destroyed the temple; not one stone was left upon another. They leveled the walls of Jerusalem and cast a trench around about it, laying siege to it on every side. The city was totally destroyed. The Judean Jews were dispersed. The nation of Israel ceased to exist.
[UB 125:0:5] [UB 172:3:10] [UB 176:4:2]

     The Jews, as a nation, as a sociopolitical group, paid in full the terrible price of rejecting the Prince of Peace. Long since they lost their position in the world as the standard-bearers of eternal truth and the custodians of the divine law. [UB 175:2:1]

     During the siege of Jerusalem, just forty years after the crucifixion of Jesus, all of Golgotha was covered by thousands upon thousands of crosses upon which, from day to day, there perished the flower of the Jewish race. [The same ignoble death visited upon Jesus] A terrible harvest, indeed, of the seed-sowing of this day [the day of Jesus' crucifixion]. [UB 187:1:5]

     There are several passages in the Old Testament that seemingly give credence to the Jews' claim that the land called Israel belongs to them in perpetuity.

Following are passages from the Book of Genesis:
12:7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land . . .
13:14-17 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
15:5,6 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
17:8 And I will give unto thee [Abram], and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; . . .
24:7 The Lord God of heaven . . . spake unto me [Abraham], saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land . . .
48:4 And [God] said unto me [Jacob], Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

     There are several events in the history of the Jews that may indicate that the Israelis are in error when they claim that the land called Israel was given to them by God as an eternal possession.

Abraham's Covenant with God.
     The covenant between Abraham and the Most High was made during the 94-year bestowal of Melchizedek, the Sage of Salem, who began his bestowal in 1973 B.C. It was he who acted as intermediary between Abraham and the Most High.
     Said Melchizedek to Abraham: “Look now up to the heavens and number the stars if you are able; so numerous shall your seed be.” Abraham believed Melchizedek, “and it was counted to him for righteousness.” And then Melchizedek told Abraham the story of the future occupation of Canaan by his offspring after their sojourn in Egypt.
     This covenant of Melchizedek with Abraham represents the great Urantian agreement between divinity and humanity whereby God agrees to do everything; man only agrees to believe God’s promises and follow his instructions. [UB 93:6:3,4]

     Present-day Jews may or may not know that during the Babylonian captivity the Jewish religious leaders completely rewrote their known history.
     The Jewish religious leaders had a single idea in their minds, and that was the rehabilitation of the Jewish nation, the glorification of Hebrew traditions, and the exaltation of their racial history. They did not claim to be writing by inspiration. The claim for infallibility of these fictitious writings was made by later-day men. [UB 97:7:1-3] [UB 97:9]
     So we see that the Old Testament as we know it today is almost entirely a work of fiction. Therefore, it is a highly unreliable document.

Comments.
[1] Note that Melchizedek did not say that the land of Canaan would belong to Abraham's descendants in perpetuity.
[2] Jesus foresaw that the conflict between the Jews and the Roman armies would result in the final and complete overthrow of the Jewish nation.
[3] Jesus forewarned the Jews that if they finally rejected the Father's mercy they faced a terrible day of reckoning. The Jews would now be required to account for all that shedding of righteous blood.
[4] The passing of the death sentence (even before his trial) upon the Son of God was the Sanhedrin’s reply to the last offer of heavenly mercy ever to be extended to the Jewish nation, as such.
[5] When the Jews rejected Jesus' spiritual bestowal and refused to receive the light of heaven as it so mercifully shone upon them, they thereby sealed their doom as an independent people with a special spiritual mission on earth. [UB 175:3:2] [UB 176:1:2]
[6] When the Jews brought about the crucifixion of Jesus, the Sovereign Ruler of our local universe, in 30 A.D., they broke the covenant that Abraham had made with God. [UB 175:3:2] [UB 176:1:2]
     From this time on the Jews were left to finish their brief and short lease of national life wholly in accordance with their purely human status among the nations of Urantia. Israel had repudiated the Son of the God who made a covenant with Abraham, and the plan to make the children of Abraham the light-bearers of truth to the world had been shattered. The divine covenant had been abrogated, and the end of the Hebrew nation drew on apace. [UB 175:3:2]
[7] In 70 A.D. both the city of Jerusalem and the Temple were totally destroyed. The contest between the Jews and the powerful Roman armies resulted in the final and complete overthrow of the Jewish nation. The Judean Jews were dispersed. The nation of Israel ceased to exist.

     In view of the foregoing information, it seems clear that the Israelis do not have a valid claim to the land called Israel.

A Warning to Jews From Deuteronomy.
Supposedly the Lord is speaking through Moses and the priests.
     “But it shall come to pass, if this people will not hearken to the voice of God, that the curses of transgression shall surely overtake them. The Lord shall cause you to be smitten by your enemies; you shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. And the Lord shall bring you and the king you have set up over you into the hands of a strange nation. You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations. Your sons and your daughters shall go into captivity. The strangers among you shall rise high in authority while you are brought very low.
     And these things shall be upon you and your seed forever because you would not hearken to the word of the Lord. Therefore shall you serve your enemies who shall come against you. You shall endure hunger and thirst and wear this alien yoke of iron. The Lord shall bring against you a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, a nation whose tongue you shall not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, a nation which will have little regard for you. And they shall besiege you in all your towns until the high fortified walls wherein you have trusted come down; and all the land shall fall into their hands. And it shall come to pass that you will be driven to eat the fruit of your own bodies, the flesh of your sons and daughters, during this time of siege, because of the straitness wherewith your enemies shall press you.”
[Deuteronomy 28:15,25,32,37,41,43,45,48,50,52,53,55,57] [UB 153:2:1]

A Warning to Jews From Jeremiah:
"If you will not hearken to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent you, then will I make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth."
     The people were of a mind to put Jeremiah to death. Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people: "The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words which you have heard. Now, therefore, amend your ways and reform your doings and obey the voice of the Lord your God that you may escape the evil which has been pronounced against you. As for me, behold I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right in your eyes. But know you for certain that, if you put me to death, you shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this people, for of a truth the Lord has sent me to speak all these words in your ears." [Jeremiah 26:5-16] [UB 153:2:2]

     Osama bin Laden, the Beast, Antichrist, and False Prophet in the Book of Revelation, has stated emphatically more than once that it is his intention to wipe Israel from the face of the earth. But in the process of totally destroying Israel, Osama will bring about the end of the world as we know it.

     Thus will be fulfilled the prophecy made by Jeremiah over two thousand years ago: This city will be a curse to all the nations of the earth.