[Mrs. Don-o]

Just a question --- from one who supports Isael on secular grounds, but has a sincere puzzlement about the Biblical testimony:

Is a secular-democratic state where less than 50% of the population consists of religious-Torah-faithful Jews, the actual state that God promises to defend?

[Perseverando]

Who was the poet who wrote?

“How odd of God
to choose the Jews.”

[Gargantua]

"...Is a secular-democratic state where less than 50% of the population consists of religious-Torah-faithful Jews, the actual state that God promises to defend?"

Yes, it is. The Jews have no choice in their belief-structure. God has made the Jews blind to Jesus' Truth (that He is the Messiah, and one true Son of God), and will allow Israel to believe only when it suits His Divine Plan to do so.

For God alone is in control of all good works, and the Author of all good things.

You might have as easily asked, "How did they know over 2,000 years ago that, in the Year of Our Lord 1012, the tiny Nation-State of Israel would not only still be around——surrounded on all sides by her enemies, no less——but that Israel would "...hang like a millstone (heavy burden) around the neck of the world..."

"tis far more 'twixt Heaven and Earth, Horatio..."

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