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requiring just compensation. In addition, private property owners have begun to initiate
actions against the government in a kind of proceeding called inverse condemnation.
Generations Owned Properties Legally Purchased
There are the homes and properties that have belonged to families for generations and sometimes
the owners learn they are standing in the way of new redevelopment areas, and for other reasons.
In such cases they find their properties are in the process of being purchased by the city fathers,
or others; and they have no choice but to sell to the
buyer.
As stated, they have due process with the court
system, but rarely, if ever, the ruling is in the favor of
its owner to retain his property. Some owners have
been forcibly removed by the courts and law
enforcement agencies.
Tomorrow’s World
This will not be true in God’s world of tomorrow just as it was not true after Israel entered into
the land of promise and the land having been allotted to the individual tribes by Joshua
(Chapters
13 through 19),
and individual families of the House of Israel by God through Eleazar the priest.
Joshua 19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest (
acting for God
), and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of Israel of the
children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door
of the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
Soncino Commentary
, ‘Joshua 19:51’:
“This verse ends the account of the division of the country. It was a military division of the
country, a share in the soil being given as a reward to every soldier who had fought for the
Promised Land. . . . Each tribe was marched to its new possession, every family entered on its
humble estate, and Israel began its national existence.”
God’s Laws Concerning Inherited Lands
God’s laws forbade the permanent selling of the inheritance of the family to anyone else.
Further, though a man or woman married into another tribe the inheritance had to remain within
the original tribe:
Numbers 36:9 “Thus no inheritance shall change hands from one tribe to another, but
every tribe of the children of Israel shall keep its own inheritance.”