Israel at 67 – Contributing to a Better World [Jeremiah 30]

On Thursday, April 23, 2015, the Jewish state celebrated its 67th birthday – corresponding to the 5th of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar. What makes this unique in the annals of history is that Jews in the 20th century reestablished Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel after 2082 years of the land having been occupied and the Jewish people having been oppressed, exiled, persecuted – including, most notably, the Spanish Inquisition, pogroms, and the Holocaust. The last Jewish sovereign entity was the Hashmonean dynasty, which lasted 47 years, from 110BCE to 63BCE. The Romans colonized and ruled the land followed by a host of others.

Much like the Hashmoneans that fought the Seleucid Greeks for independence, modern Israel was born in a climate of war. The nascent Jewish state, which declared its independence on May 14, 1948, was forced to defend itself the very next day against a multi-pronged attack from the well supplied Arab armies of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, in addition to Palestinian-Arab irregulars. The Jews triumphed despite a U.S. imposed arms embargo which forced Israel to acquire arms clandestinely...

The reestablishment of the Nation of Israel has been an event of great prophetic significance to the world. The Hebrew prophets predicted that in the last days before the "end of the world as we know it" and the return of the Jewish Messiah, the Nation of Israel would be reestablished in turbulent times. When asked about what the world would be like at the time of His return, Jesus said that the generation that saw the rebirth of Israel (1948), would not pass away until all the prophesies are fulfilled...

Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying , 2 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying , Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. 3 For, lo, the days come , saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 4 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child ? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail , and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Amos 9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

Isaiah 66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed , she brought forth her children.

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