cleverly disguises each campaign with a compelling lie wrapped in a plan designed to rid the world of a perceived ill blamed on the Jews. From the very first atempt to destroy the Jews—Pharaoh’s murder of all the male Hebrew babies—to Herod’s order to kill all male babies under 2 years old two thousand years ago, the serpent’s scheme was to defeat God’s plan to bring forth the Messiah of Israel. He failed—miserably!
Yet, the campaign of hatred marches on because the great redemption story is not over. Because the Jewish People and Israel play a major role in Last Days prophecy, Satan is still hard at work opposing God’s plan.
Te impetus he is using to rally hatred against the Jew today is a powerful anti-Israel (and pro- Palestinian) deception, wrapped in false humanitarian claims and causes. Understand: Deception is a hallmark of the Last Days (Mathew 24:11). For the minuscule size of the country, the lack of natural resources, or strategic seaport, one has to question why Israel is always at the center of world controversy—her existence continually hanging in the balance. We see Israel at the epicenter of a boiling cauldron of increasingly violent factions rising up within the vast Arab lands surrounding her. Te world has been told, and has almost mindlessly accepted, claims that all unrest in the Middle East is Israel’s fault—that if the Jews would give the Land “back to the Palestinians” there would be peace in the world and terrorism would end. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Tis is seting the stage to draw all nations into a final cataclysmic showdown in the Middle East—the
nations may think it is against Israel, but they will find out it is against her God!
“On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves” (Zechariah 12:3).
SIGN 3: THE REGATHERING OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE PHYSICALLY BACK TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH
Israel should not exist. She should have disappeared hundreds, or even thousands, of years ago with the rest of the “ites” of the Bible: the Amalekites, the Hitites, the Canaanites, etc. Tese and all the other great biblical nations, including the mighty Philistines, have vanished, yet Israel remains— against all odds. For two millennia the Land has been overrun by foreign aggressors, and her People scatered to the far reaches of the earth, where she has been threatened with annihilation, persecution, and expulsions.
Without a homeland until 1948, Israel should have assimilated and ceased to be a recognizable people group. Tat they did not disappear completely into the cultures in which they setled throughout the world stands as evidence for God’s existence and faithfulness. Te Lost Tribes of Israel are a fascinating mystery to the world, but they are not really lost. Te Lord knows where they are. He promised to regather them in the Last Days and He is doing that in our time!
“Te days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the LORD
lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but it will be said, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors” (Jeremiah 16:14-15).
“In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scatered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth” (Isaiah 11:11-12).
Tese are the Children of Abraham, scatered to Africa, Asia, India, Europe . . . the remote corners of the earth. God is gathering them today, back to Israel—miraculously restored to receive her returning Children: Ethiopian, Chinese, Sephardim, Asian, Russian, and on and on!
Trough Jewish Voice you are witness to this miracle and touch the lives of many of the Remnant of Israel that God is regathering—the Beta Avraham, Beta Israel, Gefat, and Yibir Jews of Somaliland; Lemba Tribe of Zimbabwe; and the Bnei Menashe—the Sons of Manasseh, discovered in far northeastern India!
Tis aliyah, or return of the Jews to their biblical homeland, is yet another important sign that the Messiah’s return is approaching.
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