Drear friends and readers,
122 years ago a Jewish scholar by the name of Theodor Herzl published his vision of a new homeland for the Jewish people. Since that time, both WWI and WWII have come and gone, the Holocaust was discovered to be the ghastly nightmare of the centuries, Israel was once again proclaimed to be a nation of May 14, 1948 and Jews have been flooding back to Israel from many nations of the world ever since.
Many things have taken place during the intervening years; Israel has fought 16 wars for survival both large and small, Gave up the Gaza strip to the Palestinian people only to be viciously and continually attacked by the recipients of this magnanimous gift. Many people today do not remember or never knew that it was elements of this very same Palestinian people---a terror organization called "Black September" who in 1972, during the summer Olympic games in Munich Germany, took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and butchered them all plus one Germany Police Officer. Otherwise know as the Munich Massacre!
Surrounded by enemies, attacked time after time by proxy terrorist armies sponsored by Iran (ancient Persia), both Hezbollah on the north based in Lebanon and Hamas on the west based in Gaza, have been consistently building arms and armies to eventually push all Jews into the Mediterranean Sea and conquer tiny Israel. In the mean while, Israel is doing its very best to maintain the ONLY Democratic form of Government in the entire Middle East. Did you know that when members of Jew hating terrorist families become ill, Israeli hospitals treat them right alongside their own citizens? These things are not reported on the nightly news and in fact most large Christians denominations do not know it either. Sad but true.
Described in the Bible as "the apple of God's eye", Israel will survive and things are moving along rapidly. With the Trump Administration in the Washington seat of power, Israel once again has a strong, committed ally. Now that the U.S. Embassy has officially moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, other nations are slowly beginning to rethink their embassies as well. And the Jewish nation is loudly and firmly proclaiming Jerusalem as their ancient and current capital city.
On a religious note, a new SANHEDRIN (ruling class of religious Jews headed up by a High Priest during Jesus time on earth ) has been reconstituted and they have even determined the (once lost) ancient cycle for Jubilee years. Also the Temple Mount institute and other similar organizations are preparing a new generation of Aaronic priesthood to oversee services at the planned and certainly eventual new Temple on the ancient Temple Mount.
Politically another water shed moment just occurred that most people in the West are not aware of.
The Israeli Kinneset (body of lawmakers) just passed landmark legislation called the "NATION STATE BILL" which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describes as "a defining moment in the annals of Zionism and the history of the State of Israel". While somewhat symbolic in nature, this bill stipulates that "Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people and they have an exclusive right to national self determination".
It also casts in concrete, state symbols such as it's national flag and anthem and Jerusalem as the ETERNAL CAPITAL of Israel. Also, although the language of Arabic is awarded "special status" to be used in Israel, Hebrew is the language of the land now legally. Of great importance is something that has slipped through the net of worldwide press reporting; This new legislation sets as a priority, "the development of Jewish settlements nationwide". That means that the continual harping by the Palestinian and United Nations dogs of anti semitism are rapidly being defanged. I seriously doubt now that Israel will ever listen again to the demand that they dismantle Jewish communities in supposedly "OCCUPIED TERRITORY".
Of course there are many dissenting voices not the least of which are the Arab MK's (lawmakers) who represent about 20% of Israel's population. Claiming the death of Democracy because now Arab citizens are discriminated against. However in fairness (having been there myself and witnessing the truth) many Arab citizens love living under Israeli rule because they are respected and honored as citizens.
Israel as a nation is circling it's wagons. Thumbing it's collective nose at the United Nations program of pro Palestinian, anti Israeli propaganda.
ITS ABOUT TIME!
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Psalm 122:6-9
God bless,
Pastor Rance.
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