Shalom in the Messiah, I wish I had been alive on May 14, 1948! I cannot imagine what it was like for Bible-believing Christians to see the Jewish people reestablished as a nation in the land of Israel. I would imagine that believers who heard the announcement on the radio or read about it in the newspapers probably thought about some very specific passages in the Old Testament, which promised that the Land of Israel would be the possession of the Jewish people. For example, The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “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. I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered. Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.” (Genesis 13:14-17) On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants MAY 2017 | THE CHOSEN PEOPLE | 2 I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates….” (Genesis 15:18) “I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:8) Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: “If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the LORD, “Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” (Jeremiah 31:35-36) “I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken and done it,” declares the LORD. (Ezekiel 37:14) And there are so many others—dozens of prophecies promising the Jewish people that the Land of Israel would be their inheritance… granted to them by God alone! The odds against these promises coming true were profound. Think about it for a moment. The Jewish people were attacked and dispersed from the land of Israel over and over again by hostile pagan nations like Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. These nations tried to destroy the Jewish people in many different ways. Yet, the Jewish people always had a presence in the land of Israel, but truthfully that presence was small. For centuries after the destruction of the Second Temple, Jewish people have prayed for the restoration of Zion in their Sabbath prayers. The longing to return to the land always burned within the hearts of the Jewish people. Attempts to destroy the Jewish people did not cease with the demise of these hostile ancient nations, but continued throughout FROM THE PRESIDENT Dr. Mitch Glaser President, Chosen People Ministries GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES The modern state of Israel is simply the resurrection of the nation God created through Abraham © Ken Pilon | Dreamstime.com
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