History of Israel and Israel in Prophecy. Randall Niles looks at the ancient prophecies of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah in light of current events in the Jewish state of Israel.
On May 14, 1948,...
History of Israel and Israel in Prophecy. Randall Niles looks at the ancient prophecies of Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah in light of current events in the Jewish state of Israel.
On May 14, 1948, against tremendous odds, the Jewish people returned to their homeland as a formal country for the first time since 70 AD. Following the horrific holocaust in Europe, the United Nations, by the slimmest of margins, reestablished the State of Israel. In 1967, Israel reclaimed Jerusalem. These events also displaced those who have occupied the land as Palestine, which is the foundation of the dispute between todays Israelites and Palestinians.
As typical, were experiencing growing tension, controversy, and rhetoric in this part of the world again.
So, whats the historical foundation for what were seeing today?
About 4,000 years ago, God called a man named Abram out of the country where he was living and gave him these promises:
I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great; so you shall be a blessing: And I will bless those that bless you and the one who curses you I will curse: and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Genesis 12:2-3).
And the LORD said to Abram ... Now lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever (Genesis 13:14-15).
In other words, God promised to Abram (1) a great nation; (2) a great name; (3) being a blessing to all nations; and (4) a land which shall forever belong to his descendants.
Several hundred years after God made these promises to Abram (later named Abraham), the great nation had indeed appeared, numbering in the millions.
The Jewish people were about to enter the land of promise when God, through their leader, Moses, gave them some warnings as recorded in Deuteronomy chapters 28-33.
God warned them against disobedience and promised that he would use other nations to remove them from the land if they were unfaithful to him. He predicted that they would eventually be scattered across the whole earth as strangers in unfamiliar lands and that they would find no rest from their wanderings. However, God in his faithfulness declared through his prophets that the Jewish people would again return to their land.
So, whats the verdict of history? The children of Israel, even though they were warned, fell into idolatry and were removed from their homeland. In 606 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar took the people captive to Babylon and returned in 588-586 BC, at which time, after a long siege, he burned Jerusalem and the temple. However, as God promised, he allowed the Jews to return to their land in 536 BC after 70 years in exile.
In 70 AD, the Jewish people were again removed from their homeland after the Roman Emperor Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the new temple. Again, the Jewish people were strewn throughout the world. For nearly 1,900 years, the Jews remained scattered and persecuted in unfriendly lands. The contempt for these people culminated in the Nazi holocaust, when six million Jews were executed (approximately one-third of the Jewish population at the time).
Then, in 1948, the Nation of Israel was officially reinstated by the governments of the world. The Jews started returning in large numbers to their ancient homeland. Since then, the Jewish people have survived major conflicts, culminating in the reclaiming of Jerusalem after the Six-Day War in 1967. Over nearly two millennia without a homeland, the Nation of Israel never lost its national, cultural, or religious identity. It seems the Jewish people have returned to the land promised by God through Abraham.
Did the Jewish prophets such as Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah really predict that the Jewish people would again return to their land?
Remarkably, May 14, 2009 was the 61st birthday of the modern State of Israel. In light of growing tensions with Iran, the Palestinian State question, and Benjamin Netanyahus interesting relationship with President Obama , its time to examine the evidence of history for yourself. Where do you stand as we look ahead to the future?
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@merletweb •{ ..those who claim to be Jews but are not. They are the synagogue of Satan REV 2:9}.
•{Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie (i.e. Goyim Jews, false Jews..Not related to Jacob Our biological true father)-- I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you..}Rev 3:9.
@jksville There was NO Jewish Exile, hence Goyim Jews Have NO Righgst to OCCUPY OUR LAND
The Term " GOYIM JEWS " Means Jews NOT blood Related to Jacob( Israel) Since there is no such thing as homogeneous "Jewish DNA ",( European-with R1a1,Slavs R1b1, Armenians , Kurds -J2, Ethiopian- A2, Amaziq- E3B1, Georgian and Ossetian -G etc of different paternal Y-DNA haplogroups ), ..Hence the NAME GOYIM JEWS..JEWS FROM NATIONS
@afrolatino380 If those GOYIM Europeans Jews(Ashke-NAZI or SPANISH Sephardim) are "SEMITIC", and HEBREWS" true descendants of our biological blood grand father Eber עֵבֶר the Arab, then "ARAB" like me MUST be German, since I or(we Arabs)genetically DO NOT SHARE any DNA heritage with those GOYIM EUROPEAN JEWS. We are genetically proven NOT to be related, and we Arabs are the cousins of ourselves.
Good vid. Thanks. The first time I started to think maybe the Bible was from YHWH/God was when I read Moses' prophecies for the Jews, from several thousand years ago. He said they would follow after other gods, be scattered & persecuted all over the world, but never die out as a people. He said a remnant would always remain. The nations in Scriptures that persecuted Israel are all gone. The Jews keep on going and going and even have gotten Israel & Jerusalem back when it seemed impossible.
@LoricaLady The original Judean Israelites are todays Palestinian Arabs.
Even most if not nearly all of the early Zionist criminal leaders, including "David Ben Gurion" himself, believed and accepted the fact that, the "Palestinians Arabs" are the true descendants of the "original Judeans" whom inhabited the land. They believed that they later embraced Islam during the 7th century and became what you call us today the "Palestinian Arabs ".
What man does is nothing to do with the Lord. In the last days the Lord 'gave them over' to their sins. Look around the world and you will see this is true. Bloodshed that american dollars pay for is mans fault.
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•{Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie (i.e. Goyim Jews, false Jews..Not related to Jacob Our biological true father)-- I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you..}Rev 3:9.
The Term " GOYIM JEWS " Means Jews NOT blood Related to Jacob( Israel) Since there is no such thing as homogeneous "Jewish DNA ",( European-with R1a1,Slavs R1b1, Armenians , Kurds -J2, Ethiopian- A2, Amaziq- E3B1, Georgian and Ossetian -G etc of different paternal Y-DNA haplogroups ), ..Hence the NAME GOYIM JEWS..JEWS FROM NATIONS
Goyim Jews go back to Europe to where U belong
The Jews keep on going and going and even have gotten Israel & Jerusalem back when it seemed impossible.
The original Judean Israelites are todays Palestinian Arabs.
Even most if not nearly all of the early Zionist criminal leaders, including "David Ben Gurion" himself, believed and accepted the fact that, the "Palestinians Arabs" are the true descendants of the "original Judeans" whom inhabited the land. They believed that they later embraced Islam during the 7th century and became what you call us today the "Palestinian Arabs ".