Unless the ancient books are
true.
Prophecy is one of those things in scripture that I
believe is a hallmark of authenticity. In both Old and New Testaments the
prophets said the Jews would be scattered to all the nations of the Earth.
They were scattered.
The prophets said that in the latter days, they would be
gathered from the nations to which they’d been scattered.
They were gathered.
In the account of Armageddon, Ezekiel said that the
warlord Gog would come upon Israel,
“the land that is brought back from the
sword, and is gathered out of many people” and “brought forth out of the nations.” And he said it would be in the “latter years” that this would happen.
(38:8) The apostles taught that the Jews would be scattered because they had
rejected their Messiah and killed him. Again, Ezekiel said Gog would come “as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be
in the latter days,” he tells us again. (38:16) The prophet also tells us
the reason the Jews were scattered in the first place: “the house of Israel
went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me,
therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their
enemies: so fell they all by the sword.” (39:23) And this is what happened
at the hands of the Romans. “According
to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto
them, and hid my face from them.” (24)
But the Lord had promised Judah
by the hand of his father Jacob that the scepter would not depart from his
descendants until the coming of Shiloh, the
Messiah. And the Jews were scattered at the time of Jesus, just as
prophecy dictated. And, as Jacob prophesied,
“unto him shall the gathering of his people be.” (Genesis 49:10)
In 1948 the nation of Israel
was reestablished as per prophecy (Isaiah 11) and will remain again until the
coming of Shiloh in the latter days. “After that they have borne their shame, and
all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt
safely in their land, and none made them afraid. When I have brought them
again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am
sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; then shall they know that I am
the Lord their God, which caused
them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more
there. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my
spirit upon the house of Israel,
saith the Lord God.”
In those days, the Lord stated, “I will make Jerusalem a cup of
trembling unto all the people round about…I [will] make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all
that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of
the earth be gathered together against it.” (Zechariah 12:2-3)
Not only is all the above finding fulfillment, the very nations
that Ezekiel lists by their ancient names are all modern-day Islamic nations,
nations that embrace a religion that has vowed to one day destroy Israel and the
Jews, and make Israel an Islamic state.
The Jews won an incredible victory in June 1967 against Egypt. Six days later, Arab
casualties were over 20,000. Israeli casualties were less than 1,000! In
hindsight analysts say it was the element of surprise that caused the Arab
defeat, but at the time, most said the Jews simply faced overwhelming odds—too
overwhelming for them to succeed. And yet they did. Miraculously. The same can
be said for the Israeli War of 1947. Israeli forces going in the wrong
direction just happened to run into an Arab supply line and cut it off at the
head. As one analyst put it, that war was “a big miracle composed of a series of little
miracles.” As the Lord said some 2,500 years ago of Israel’s enemies: “Thou shalt seek
them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that
war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
Fear not; I will help thee.” (Isaiah 41:12-13)
