Historical events in Israel related to prophecy

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D P Dobson - Saturday 30th May 2009 at 12:36:01

I am looking for the dates of The Abrahamic Promise and the exodus togetrher with the date of entryinto the promised land

fred harper - Tuesday 2nd March 2010 at 09:25:44

Hi, to convey to people words that were writen over two thousand years ago with land rights promised by `an entity`?, in this day and age it is ridiculous. People of the Arab race who have lived on that land for hundreds of years are been ethnicly cleansed!! NOT IN MY NAME.

Clive McLaren - Thursday 24th June 2010 at 09:39:39

In response to Fred Harper's comment; Fred, if you don't accept Biblical history and prophesy as a valid argument for the State of Israel, perhaps you need to look at recent history. From 1922 onwards The League of nations ratified the Balfour Declaration, giving the Diaspora of Jews the right to a homeland. (This region was called Palestine since the 1st century by the Roman occupiers, as an insult to the Jewish nation.) The United Nations re confirmed those rights as agreed by over 50 Nations.

Israel‘s promised territory was then carved up by politicians wanting to reward Arab allies during the 2nd world war, and also wanted to ensure friendly oil producing states. Israel as a State ended up with only 12.5% of the LEGALLY AGREED land area. And even that area was much smaller than Trans-Jordan. Israel gave in time and time again to international pressure to appease the Muslim demands for 'Palestinian Rights' Most Palestinians in 1948 (about 700,000 went to Trans- Jordan, and Lebanon believing the Arab aggression on the new State of Israel, would wipe out the Jews so they could not only have their farms and villages back, but also the Jewish ones as well!

As we know Israel won against phenomenal odds, which they did again in '67 and '73. The West bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are part of Israel. Arabs living in Israel have a better standard of living and more freedoms than most Arabs living in the Arab nations.

There was NEVER a sovereign state or nation called Palestine. This whole perennial argument is about the destruction of the Jewish nation and people.

To say that Palestinians are being 'ethnically cleansed' from Israel is a gross exaggeration and an obscene distortion of the truth.

Ethnic cleansing relates to Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Turkish Armenia, Rwanda and Burundi. To compare what is happening in Israel with those horrific evils is an insult to those Millions of people who have suffered and still suffer from Ethnic cleansing and genocide around the world.

Please do some in-depth research in Ancient History and Modern History. Please don't believe the massive propaganda machine of the Muslim world and the anti-Semitic media coverage about Israel.

The Gaza enclave should not exist, if the Arab world aided by Russia and others, didn't keep it as an open sore as a propaganda tool in their fanatical desire to destroy Israel. Palestinian people would be living in harmony with Jews in Israel (as hundreds of thousands of Arabs already do). $Billions in aid and money are poured into Gaza every year. If the Sudanese, Somalians, Haitians etc, received such massive support, they would be thriving viable communities.

By the way I am not Jewish, I am British, and I am ashamed of my country's deceit and betrayal of the Balfour Declaration and the honourable efforts he and others like Churchill made to give the world's Jewry their homeland back.

Do you remember the 'Falklands War back in the '80's? We declared war on Argentina because they dared to occupy a tiny group of islands that we British had occupied in the 18th and 19th centuries! The Arab powers DO NOT WANT peace with Israel! If Israel gave into every Palestinian demand, the Arab powers would still find a pretext for their continued vision of real ethnic cleansing, till every Jew in Israel was either dead or emigrated!

Forgive my long response to your comment, but so many people criticise and judge Israel, without checking the facts and historical context. It is sad that so many reject Biblical history and prophesy as religious mumbo jumbo. Serious research of the Bible itself, would convince many sceptics, if only they studied with an open mind.

I look forward to your comments Fred!

Thomas Lister - Saturday 3rd July 2010 at 09:08:03

Back in 1848 Dr John Thomas wrote (in his book Elpis Israel)that in fulfillment of bible prophecy, the Jews would return back to their land in unbelief of the Messiahship of Jesus, to get rich in cattle and goods, and that they would be aided in doing so by the British power. These things have come to pass exactly as he predicted through the Balfour delcaration, 1917, and British Mandate. The state of Israel was reborn in 1948, and since then has been a thorn in the side of the nations.

Dr John Thomas also stated that the future movements of Russia would be notable signs of the times, and that when she made her grand move to build up her Image empire (Dan.2), the thief like advent of the King of the Jews would be on the eve of becoming a fact. Ezk. 38 shows how Russia confederate with Iran, Libya and Ethiopia and European powers would come against Israel in a massive blitzkrieg of the Armageddon crisis (Rev.16) This confederacy would in its turn be broken by a stronger power, namely the Jews' Messiah, Jesus Christ, returned to the earth, who will smash his enemies, dash them to pieces as a potter's vessel (Pslm 2), and rule over all nations with a rod or iron in righteousness and Truth for a thousand years (Rev.20). The gospel message was to call out a people from the nations to embrace this hope of the Millenial reign of Christ, and separate from a godless world through baptism Mk.16.16 He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved etc.
The prophet Daniel speaks of a time of trouble such as never was coming upon the nations (Dan.12.2), so that now is the time to act and get wise to the developing world crisis and what to do about it as an individual thinking person who is concerned about the future of this planet and what man is doing to it, since the Bible also says "God will destroy those that destroy (pollute) the earth." (Rev.11.18). Man is certainly doing this, and is unfit to have the stewardship of the earth, and it will certainly be taken from his evil grasp, and given to those who are worthy, namely the prophets and apostles, and all who have reponded inteliigently to the gospel call, and kept their garments unspotted by a blaspheming, depraved godless generation , fit only for destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah. The Lord in fact warns that in the days of his coming, the earth would be like the days of Noah and of Lot, eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage, planting and sowing and building, but without God,heathen, godless, until the Flood came and swept them all away, the earth full of violence and corruption, just as it is now, and God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone, so he will destroy this age with the fire and brimstone of war and conflagraiton of nations rising against nation, with Israel at the centre of the storm, but God will preserve a remnant of Judah (read Zech.14), and gather the rest of the Jews back to their land, on condition that they submit to their Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.

anyncVary - Friday 23rd July 2010 at 10:21:00

I apologise that, I can help nothing. But it is assured, that you will find the correct decision.