Today we are going to look to history and find some truths about our lives that we can learn through the rebirth of the Israel’s Estate. Are you ready for this journey?
If you compare the size of Ireland with Israel we can fit 3 Israel in Ireland and 410 Israel in Brazil.
Let’s look some facts: Jesus is a Jew. The Jewish people are the chosen people. God choose them.
We need to remember we (Christians and Jews) believe in the same God (the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and in the same book. The Bible.
The only difference is – we know that Jesus is the Messiah and some of them don’t know, yet.
But we are totally connected. In the ending times Jesus will return and he will reign over the earth and the capital of his kingdom it going to be in Jerusalem. (Rm 14:10-12; Rev.20:4; Acts 1:11; Isaiah 60; Rev 21)
“The children of those who crush you will come and bow down to you. All those who hate you will kneel down at your feet. Jerusalem, they will call you The City of the Lord. They will name you Zion, the City of the Holy One of Israel.”
Isaiah 60:14 NIRV
What the history of the Israel as a nation can teach us?
They are Jews and I am a Christian, so what?
Just 73 years ago, the Jewish people found themselves standing in the ashes of the Holocaust. Over six million Jews had been murdered, nearly two million of them children, just for the crime of being a Jew. It was the worst devastation that the Jewish people had suffered in the nearly two millennium of exile, nearly two thousand years of persecution, expulsion, humiliation, and assimilation.
Like Ezekiel the prophet said “Can these dry bones live again?
And behold a miracle! God breathed life into those dry bones and they came together, bone to bone, sinew to sinew. They took on flesh and spirit, and the nation lived again! As God said through the prophet, “ . . . these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off’ . . . ‘My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.’” (Ezekiel 37:11-12).
Several years after the Holocaust, the modern nation of Israel was born. On November 29, 1947, in nothing less than a miracle, the United Nations voted to support the creation of the modern State of Israel. Opposition arose almost immediately, but on May 14, 1948, eight hours before the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, the Jewish state of Israel was reborn.
The sudden re-emergence of the nation of Israel echoed the words from Isaiah 66:8, “ . . . Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.” Overnight the nation of Israel came to life once again!
Against all odds, the Jews returned to their homeland. No other people in history have returned to their land after being exiled, but the Jewish people did it twice.
The land itself, which had been barren for thousands of years, began to give forth its fruit once again. Hebrew, a language all but forgotten to most of the nation was resurrected and spoken by in the streets once again.
Today, Israel is a light unto the nations (Isaiah 42:6) as the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel is on the cutting edge of technology and medical breakthroughs, gifting the world with ideas and ways that make life better, safer, and healthier.
As we give gratitude to God for the miracle of modern day Israel we recognize that God is involved in the works of the world; that the God of Israel neither nor slumbers nor sleeps (Psalm 121:4), that anything is possible with God (Genesis 18:14), and that nothing — be it armies, terrorists, or anti-Semitism — will stand in the way of His plan and purposes (Psalm 33:11).“But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever. What he wants to do will last for all time.”
There’s No Stopping to God’s Plans
When God calls us to do something, don’t look at what you lack. Don’t be scared off by what you “can’t” do.
Think about it. God chose David, a young shepherd boy who was too small to even wear King Saul’s armor, to slaughter the giant Goliath
For example:
In 1948, when the United Nations voted to reinstate the state of Israel, made up at the time mostly of refugees and Holocaust survivors, was attacked by five organized Arab armies.
Yet, Israel was victorious. Israel, the modern-day David, slew the modern-day Goliaths. Israel accomplished what no one expected. Everyone predicted a slaughter. In fact, they were already digging the graves of the new Israelis. But God’s will prevailed, Israel prevailed, and Israel will continue to prevail because of God’s will.
I want to encourage us all today, and particularly this year when we celebrate 70 years of the Jewish State, not to be intimidated by a task that seems too large.
When God calls us to do something, don’t look at what you lack. Don’t be scared off by what you “can’t” do. Through God, we can do anything and be anything. God chooses the willing, not necessarily the able.
He has chosen and promoted many imperfect people in past – and He can choose us, too.
Ex 4:10 and 11 “Moses spoke to the Lord. He said, “Lord, I’ve never been a good speaker. And I haven’t gotten any better since you spoke to me. I don’t speak very well at all.” The Lord said to him, “Who makes a man able to talk? Who makes him unable to hear or speak? Who makes him able to see? Who makes him blind? It is I, the Lord.”
Exodus 4:10-11 NIRV
God is not a liar, what he promised he will fulfil.
In the year 70 after Jesus. For 2,000 years, the nation of Israel was exiled from the land of Israel. During that time, it was as if the land itself was in mourning. It was dry, desolated, the country was almost deserted.
But history was about to advance to the next stage mentioned in the verses from Amos: “ . . . I will bring my people Israel back from exile. They will rebuild the ruined cities . . .” God promised to return the people of Israel to their land. And indeed, He has.
Reading the rest of the verses from Amos, one can hardly believe that the prophet is talking about the same land that people use to see before the Jews starting going back after 1900. He describes cities with vineyards, plentiful wine, abundant vegetation and fruit. Yet, this is a perfect description of Israel today. Miraculously, the “silent mournful expanse” has been transformed into an abundant garden!
“Also I shall bring back the exiles of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the deserted and ruined cities and inhabit them: They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit. “I will also plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted from their land Which I have given them,” Says the LORD your God.”
AMOS 9:14-15 AMP
When we read about their history its very clear how blessed the people of Israel are after they returned to their promised land. But we need to remember even though they believed in Gods blessings they did their job. They work very hard to preparer the land to find a way to irrigated it. It shows us that God is always ready to bless us but we need to obey his commandments. Never being lazy and always following his directions.
God is faithful; his word, the Bible it’s real; God chooses the willing, not necessarily the able. What he promised he will fulfil.
Our God is powerful and True. We must trust in Him. We as a church are Spiritual Israel. If God has been faithful to his chosen people he will be faithful to their spiritual sons and daughters who believe in Jesus Christ also.
Bibliography:
Bernardes, C. B. (2018). ISRAEL- the birth, rebirth and proclamation of the state of Israel. . Poland: Glory instead Ashes.
Eckstein, R. (2018). Celebrete Israel’s 70th birthday with our Keys to I.S.R.A.E.L. Retrieved from International Fellowship of christians and jews: www.ifcj.org