ISRAEL - BY DIVINE RIGHT

Biblically understood Zionism is simply the return, or the various returns, of the Jewish people to Zion, to the land of Israel; to the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants forever. These promises are sprinkled throughout the whole of Scripture, but we find the first one in Genesis 12:1-3; enlarged by Genesis 15:7: "God said unto Abraham, I am the LORD who brought you out of the land of Ur of the Chaldees to give this land to you to inherit it. And Abraham said, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?

Then God makes a covenant with Abraham through the sacrificial system, and in verse 13 He said to Abraham, "Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (that is Egypt) and shall serve them and they shall afflict you there four hundred. But in the fourth generation you shall come out for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." The Amorites being the then residents of the land that was to become the Promised Land. Genesis 15:18-21, "In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abraham saying unto thy seed have I given this land from the River of Egypt unto the great river, the River Euphrates." And then He indicates who is going to be moving out: the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. And that last one is of particular interest, because the Jebusites occupied the city of Jebus which later became Jerusalem itself. Now that, of course, is not the only scripture, but that is the one we will use now. So Zionism is the working out in flesh and blood right here on planet Earth of God's promise to Abraham. The promise depending more on the faithfulness of God than on the faithfulness of Abraham and his descendants.

Because of that covenant that God made with Abraham, the Jews came out of Egypt four hundred years later as promised by God. They went down into Egypt as seventy people. They came out, according to the Bible, six hundred thousand men plus women plus children; that was called the Exodus.

After the first Jewish captivity in Babylon about 600 B.C. the Persian leader Cyrus allowed the Jewish people to return to rebuild Jerusalem and reestablish their religion. So that would be the first application of Zionism. The first return of the Jewish people to the Promised Land some 530 years before the time of Christ. Then, of course, we had World War I and World War II and that terrible thing called the Holocaust, and then in 1948 A.D. we had the beginning of the return of the Jews out of all the nations of the earth to the modern State of Israel. So Zionism is the return of the Jewish people to the land promised to the patriarchs according to Scripture. That is Zionism properly understood.

Israel's rebirth Jer 29:14, Jer 12:14-15 Jer 16:14-15 Jer 31:8, Ezekiel 11:17

Zec 8:8 Isaiah 27:6 Joel 3:1-2 and many man more

Look how clear is the prophecy:

"Therefore say, "Thus says the Lord God: "I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.". (Ezekiel 11:17).

Fulfillment: Proof is not even necessary

Chances: 1 in millions

Why: Never a nation in history was disbursed cast throughout the entire globe and re-gathered.

Even Jerusalem will become the central city for Israel

"I will bring them back, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They

shall be My people and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.".

(Zechariah 8:8) the "BIRTH of ISRAEL" in your Bible. Thus says the Lord: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people to inherit -- behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. "Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will have compassion on them and bring them back everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land." (Jeremiah 12:14-15).

"Therefore behold, the days are coming says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, but The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them. For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers." (Jeremiah 16:14-15).

The great exodus from Egypt in the time of Moses is small compared to the re-gathering of the Jewish people from all over the world. The mighty God of Israel is still bringing them from all the lands and from the land of the north (former Soviet Union). This reference of the land of the north is also referred to by the prophet Jeremiah; "Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather

It is a mockery to God when man by his foolish pride dictate how God His maker should operate the world, and how to write His Bible, it is He who chooses the way He wants to be honored through. The following prophecies are so simple to understand, that they needed no interpretation for anyone who witnesses the recent historical events on Israel

HERE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE:

" I will bring them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child together: a great company shall return thither." (Jeremiah 31:8).

The great outpouring of Jews from Russia (far north of Israel) to the promised land is one of the most exciting events God made for His people. Russia has persecuted the Jews since the time of the Czars until the recent breakup of the Soviet Empire.

Is. 35:10 "And the redeemed of the LORD shall RETURN and come with singing unto ZION and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." Until now this has not been fulfilled because the joy of returning has never lasted. The people have been driven out.

Jeremiah 16:14 "Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be said, "the LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt'; but, 'the LORD lives that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither He had driven them', and I will bring them again into their land that I have to their fathers." Surely this word did already apply to the return from Babylon as originally intended, but the phrase "from all the lands" and the present dramatic return from the north fit even more precisely.

Amos 9:14-15 "'And I will RETURN My people Israel out of captivity, and they will rebuild the waste cities and inhabit them, and I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of their land which I have given them' says the LORD your GOD." This prophecy has never yet been fulfilled because until now the people have always been driven out.

In Acts 10 we read of the acceptance of non-Jews into the family of believers. The very first non-Jew was a particularly hard case to swallow, an officer of the pagan Roman occupation army, Cornelius, and his family. Yet, after intense discussion among the all Jewish followers of Jesus, this expansion was accepted graciously and with a spirit of amazement at God's generosity.

In the Hebrew Bible there are stories of conquered enemies being killed and stories of conquered enemies being fed and freed. Israelis have almost without exception followed the second alternative.

In the Synoptic Gospels the chief use of the word Jews is in reference to Jesus as "King of the Jews" - with only three exceptions.

"Fear not, O Jacob My servant, says the Lord, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure, yet I will not leave you wholly unpunished" (Jer. 46:28).

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