Clear Title

Genesis 35:9-15

Jan and I have only owned three homes in our forty-four years of marriage, and each time we acquired one of these homes, we were instructed by the lender to buy “Title Insurance.”  Why does anyone need Title Insurance? Title insurance is protection against loss arising from problems connected to the title to your property.

Before you purchased your home, it may have gone through several ownership changes, and the land on which it stands went through many more. There may be a weak link at any point in that chain that could emerge to cause trouble. For example, someone along the way may have forged a signature in transferring title. Or there may be unpaid real estate taxes or other liens. Title insurance covers the insured party for any claims and legal fees that arise out of such problems. The last thing a person wants when selling or buying is a title that will not standup in a court of law.

In 1948 the state of Israel was reestablished and in November 1947 the United Nations decided on partition of Palestine (Palestine was never a Nation, it was an area where Jews and Arabs lived together) into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an UN-administered Jerusalem. Partition was accepted by Zionist leaders but rejected by Arab leaders leading to the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine. Israel declared independence on the 14^th of May 1948 and neighboring Arab states attacked the next day. Since then, Israel has fought a series of wars with neighboring Arab states, and in consequence, Israel controls territories beyond those delineated in the 1949 Armistice Agreements.  (Wikipedia, free encyclopedia) The writer added the highlighted area.

It sure sounds like Title Insurance would have helped this area of the world and so lets go back to the original owner of the land, our Creator, and observe whom he gave clear title to.  “And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.”  So he called his name Israel.  And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply.  A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.  The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”  Now that is what I call “Title Insurance” not from some governing body but from Creator God.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice