Israel’s Miraculous Rebirth Proves the Bible

Israel’s Miraculous Rebirth Proves the Bible

One of the best proofs that the Bible is true is the fact that the Bible prophesies the history of the Jews before it happens. This Jewish history is surely the most improbable history of any nation and yet the Bible prophesied it flawlessly thousands of years in advance.

Some of this Jewish history is history you know. You know Jews are found scattered throughout the world;1 you know Jews have suffered great persecutions,2 and you know there is now a young Jewish nation called Israel,3 but did you know that the Bible prophesies all this history. God Himself foretold this very improbable history before it happened. Folks, the fact that God’s own words are in the Bible foretelling Israel’s improbable history and the fact that this improbable history happened is compelling evidence that the Bible is supernaturally inspired by God Himself. In other words the Bible is absolutely true, and you can confirm its truth for yourself because you know some of Israel’s recent history but you probably haven’t considered how very improbable this history is.

Consider; the Jews are an ancient people like the Phoenicians or the Philistines, but the Phoenicians and Philistines, like almost all ancient peoples, have lost their ethnic identity while the Jews have not. The Jews kept their ethnic identity despite being utterly defeated and dispersed by the Romans;. Jews were dispersed world wide; their language was no longer spoken, but incredibly, they kept their ethnic identity. Even more incredibly they reclaimed their original homeland and relearned their original language two thousand years after being dispersed. Impossible! but God said it would happen and it happened just as God said.

As improbable as was the re-establishment of Israel, the survival of Israel was even more improbable because the day Israel was reborn4 it was attacked by five modern, well equipped Arab armies which outnumbered Israel’s tiny army forty to one. Israel’s tiny improvised army was so poorly equipped it had no tanks and its air force was two Piper Cubs. Many Israeli solders were untrained, spoke only foreign languages and some didn’t even have rifles.

Until Israel was declared a state it was a British protectorate, protected by the British Army, but the British would leave as soon as Israel was declared an independent state and those five modern, well equipped Arab armies would attack. They would attack the ill-equipped, improvised, ragtag Jewish Army which they outnumbered forty to one. The horrible outcome of that attack was so obvious the British pleaded with Jewish Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion not to declare Israel a Jewish state. They told Ben-Gurion “If you declare a Jewish state, there won’t be one Jew left alive in all of Palestine in forty-eight hours.”

Most news items about this situation did not report this utter hopelessness of the Jewish position. We Americans knew the Jews were outnumbered and the news spoke of bloodbath but we did not know the Jews faced imminent total massacre. Even so Bible-believing Christians everywhere knew the restoration of Israel as a nation was the great Bible prophesy to be fulfilled in our time so the compelling question was could God make it happen despite the hopeless odds?

Of course God did make it happen and I think God deliberately created those hopeless odds in order to show that the restoration of Israel was His supernatural act.5 Every step in the restoration of Israel as a nation was very improbable, but when that ragtag, ill-equipped Israeli Army beat five combined modern well-equipped Arab armies it was nothing short of a miracle.6 By the way that ragtag army not only won the war, it doubled the size of Israel.

God said in His Word, in the Bible, that He would restore Israel and He did. Therefore we conclude God’s Word, the Bible, is inspired by God and is absolutely true. God’s plan of salvation is also in the Bible so it is also inspired by God and it is also absolutely true.


1 Leviticus 26: 33

2 Deuteronomy 28:64-67

3 Leviticus 26: 44,45; The covenant referenced is God’s Promise of land: The Promised Land. See Genesis 17: 7-8. Ezekiel 36: 24

4 Isaiah 66:8

5 Ezekiel 36:11,23; 37: 12-13

6 Despite heavy Arab representation in the United Nations, the United Nations still voted nationhood for Israel.

Even though there were five Arab nations poised to attack Israel if Israel should become a state, these Arab nations were not opposed to the United Nation’s declaring Israel a state. The Iraqi U.N. Ambassador even demanded statehood for Israel on the grounds that the United States U.N. Ambassador had set a deadline for the statehood decision which deadline had passed. The Iraqi Ambassador argued that the United States U.N. Ambassador had said that if a decision about Israeli statehood had not been reached by six o’clock on the day of debate, then Israel should be declared a state.

The reason that Iraqi Ambassador and other Arabs favored Israeli statehood was that the Arab forces arrayed against Israel were so utterly overwhelming. The five Arab nations were so powerful they outnumbered Israel forty to one in solders, and they had modern, well equipped tanks and aircraft while Israel had none. Therefore the Arabs with this super overwhelming modern, well equipped army assumed they would so easily crush the improvised ragtag Jewish Army that they were eager for Israel to be declared a state. They figured that as soon as the United Nations declared Israel a state that declaration would remove the British protectorate over Palestine. Without that British protection, the Jews would be left virtually defenseless. Five modern Arab armies would then attack these virtually defenseless Jews, would wipe them out and the nation of Israel would die on the day of its birth.

To show how utterly hopeless this situation was for the Jews, let me draw a picture of their situation. The year was 1948, just three years after the end of World War II. Remember World War II was the war of the anti-Jewish Holocaust where six million Jews were murdered and many more were made unwelcome refugees in Europe.

Many of these poor European refugees fled to Palestine where there were already some Jewish communities because of a movement called Zionism.

Zionism was a movement of Jews back to their original homeland and Palestine as a British protectorate provided a place where poor homeless Zionist Jews could flee. Of course these Jewish refugees were very poor. They spoke different languages; they were not yet a real nation. They were still in the process of organizing a society so they were in no condition to fight a war against any kind of army, much less against five modern armies attacking them from all sides. They had a very informal improvised army. They had no tanks; no military aircraft; they didn’t even have enough rifles to supply the few solders they could field. Many of these solders were untrained and did not even speak a common language.

Even if these Jews had had a modern well trained, well equipped army, they were outnumbered forty to one. For every Jewish solder there were forty Arab solders: five well equipped, well trained Arab armies which were poised on the borders of Israel eager to attack as soon as Israel was declared a state

The Jews not only had very few solders, they had very few weapons, and the British protectorate would not let Jews ship weapons into Palestine. Nor would Britain allow Jews to manufacture weapons. These British prohibitions would end when Israel was declared a state, but the moment Israel was declared a state, five large, well equipped Arab armies would attack.

To defy this British prohibition one Jewish genius bought weapons-making machinery from American junk yards and scrap metal dealers. This genius assembled the machinery he had bought on a farm to insure it would work. There he disassembled it, labeling every part, and shipped these 75,000 disassembled parts to Israel. Since the British could not recognize these disassembled parts as a weapons factory, they let them into their protected land which would soon become Israel, but the Jews still could not reassemble these parts and produce weapons until the British left.

Of course the Jews also needed money to buy arms. After one fund raiser had totally failed to raise funds in the United States, Golda Meyer, a future Israeli prime minister, volunteered to try. She arrived in New York with ten dollars. However, she learned that there would be a convention of prominent Jews (many of them rich) in Chicago. She flew to Chicago and talked her way onto the speaking schedule.

She spoke, and her speech was so effective she got promises for over a million dollars that very day. Furthermore the Jews got Golda Meyer more speaking engagements so that by the end of the month she had fifty million dollars.

Israel’s problem was that even though they could now buy weapons, they could not import them to soon-to-be Israel as long as the British were present. Of course the British left as soon as Israel was declared a state, and as soon as Israel was declared as state, five Arab nations attacked. Egypt attacked from the south. Jordan and Iraq attacked from the east and Syria and Lebanon from the north.

The few Israeli solders fought bravely, bombing the Arabs with their air force of two captured piper cubs by dropping hand grenades. When they ran out of grenades, they dropped crates of beer bottles with shrieking whistles on them.

Amazingly, no, miraculously, the Arab armies seemed paralyzed, so the ragtag Israeli Army, some of it under siege in Jerusalem, fighting on starvation rations, held the Arab armies for a month until the Arabs agreed to a truce.

It was during this truce that Israel imported all the weapons it had bought. Starting June 15, 1948: 29 canons, 10 tanks, 4 antiaircraft guns, 45,000 mortar shells, 110 tons of TNT, and 200,000 detonators. From Mexico, 36 canons, 500 machine guns, 17,000 shells and 7 million rounds of ammunition. From the U.S. 2 ships with war surplus jeeps, trucks and half tracks, machinery for manufacturing bazooka rocket launchers. From Italy 30 surplus German tanks and on and on. The Israeli air force got real fighter planes and bombers,

Israeli President, David Bengurian knew that with these weapons Israel could now win, but he also knew that he would be vilified if he refused to push for a continuation of the truce, but he thought the Arab nations would insist on renewing the fighting. He was right.

The Israeli Army now won victory after victory so that in just ten days they had won so much the U.N. called another truce, but by this time the nation of Israel was miraculously secure.

It was a real miracle when Israel won the war against all five Arab armies, and secular historians could not bring themselves to deal with it, so they made excuses for the Arabs. They made excuses like the Egyptian Army had not been tested in war or their commander was too much of a playboy or the Arab solders were suffering from mental stress.

Actually, by reading the secular historical accounts very carefully, we can surmise some of the reasons why the Arabs lost the war. For example, an Arab propagandist, a Doctor Kaleegee tried to incite Arab fighters against the Jews by falsely claiming Jewish solders were committing atrocities. That false claim backfired because instead of inciting Arab fighters against the Jews, it caused the Arabs to flee. There were multiple occurrences of things like Arabs fleeing in response to their own propaganda that caused them to lose the war. For instance when an unseasonable rain occurred during the normally dry season, a rumor spread among the Arab solders that this unseasonable rain was caused by nuclear fallout. (Hydrogen bombs were being tested by super powers, so nuclear fallout was in world news.) The Arabs escalated this fallout rumor to reports that the Jews had nuclear weapons and many Arab solders fled in terror. Another serious Arab problem was the fact that Arabs stole many of their own army’s military supplies. Supplies would be sent to the battle front but they would be stolen en route and would never arrive at the battle front.

On the Jewish side there was massive heroism. Jews destroyed or captured Arab tanks by climbing onto moving tanks and throwing bottles of flaming gasoline (Molotov cocktails) into their hatch.

Of course the real explanation for the Jewish victory was due to God’s divine intervention. The Jewish victory was truly a miracle of God.

a few more articles:

Israel, nation of miracles
by Hal Lindsey

Gaza's place in Bible's prophecies

Why God won't allow Israel to perish

Is Temple Mount God's time bomb?

Is Temple Mount God's time bomb?
New book sees Jerusalem real estate as roadmap to future events

Was the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem more than a place of worship?

Was it, indeed, a roadmap to future events – a kind of prophetic landmark whose significance is only now revealed through the development of satellite imagery?

That is the contention of an explosive new book, "Temple at the Center of Time: Newton's Bible Codex Deciphered and the Year 2012," by David Flynn, a book that has risen dramatically to No. 1 among unexplained mysteries, No. 1 in world history and 73 overall on Amazon.com.

The book asserts it has "deciphered Isaac Newton’s greatest paradox: None other than 'the unified field theory' of Bible prophecy."

Sir Isaac Newton was not only a great thinker in physics, the book explains, but had extensive knowledge of the Scriptures with a special interest in prophecy. Newton believed there was a hidden code, a type of time-encrypted language. He believed the key to deciphering this code was the Temple of Solomon. He wrote extensively on the length measurements of the Temple and suggested it intersected time and dimension, serving as a prophetic and supernatural structure.

According to Flynn, although Newton never cracked this code, he was on the right track and was limited only by the lack of sophisticated satellite technology.

"The description of Jerusalem as a terrestrial center point, situated in the center of the world, is found in Philo's Legatio and Gaium," Flynn notes. "The world is like a human eyeball. The white of the eye is the ocean surrounding the world, the iris is this continent, the pupil is Jerusalem, and the image in the pupil is the Holy Temple."

To make his case, Flynn starts by illustrating what the reader soon learns is the first of numerous extraordinary time-distance anomalies.

The prisca sapentia framework of Newton suggests that the distance between the temple of Jerusalem and the capital city of any nation historically effecting the chronicles of Jerusalem would be supernaturally connected. This relationship would be significant with respect to units of time, expressing meaning in line with God's divine plan as recorded in the word of his prophets.

Newton and Flynn point out how Ezekiel recorded the dimensions of the future temple in chapter 40 of his book, starting with the lengths of the temple gates, chambers, courts, walls and its exterior. After this, calibrations of weights and measure for the temple functions were given in detail. Finally, the distance of land outward from the temple was measured.

And he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was] a man, whose appearance [was] like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. (Ezekiel 40:3)

The measure of distance away from Jerusalem in this text implies a spiritual significance, says Flynn. A relationship between Jerusalem and the nations existed from the foundation of the temple, but was not completely perceived – and could not be fully known until the conventions of modern science.

For instance, if a measurement is made from the point of the temple of Jerusalem's foundation stone to the palace of Balthazar – the political center of Babylon and the exact location where the writing on the wall occurred – the distance should relate to the period in which Babylon most influenced Jerusalem.

Such a relationship exists and is the important distance of 539.86 statute miles.

What makes this measurement unusual is that Babylon, which played such a significant role in Hebrew antiquity, was measured and numbered in its relationship to Jewish history in Daniel chapter five during the famous handwriting on the wall. When the prophet interpreted the manifestation, he proclaimed in verses 25-28:

And this is the writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting; PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

That very night King Belshazzar was slain, and Darius the Mede became king.

Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians on the 16th day of Tishri of the Jewish calendar, which correlates to Oct. 12, 539 B.C. Curiously, the number 539 is also the distance in statute miles between the temple of Jerusalem's foundation stone to the palace of Balthazar, as confirmed by modern satellite measurement.

Does this give insight to the handwriting on the wall or the dating and measuring of Babylon's affairs in the history of Israel? Does this imply that Babylon's influence over Israel was supernaturally predated and measured, or foreknown? Or was this just a fascinating coincidence? As the first of such discoveries made by Flynn, he wondered the same thing.

So Flynn studied epic moments having to do with the sovereignty of Israel and the nations that played key roles in Hebrew and Jewish history. Over and over he found fascinating date-measurement anomalies connecting pivotal moments in time to the temple in Jerusalem. He went through annals, considering when acts by world leaders had influenced the development of the Jewish state. He continued to find more.

A case in point was the relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte
and the Jews.

Napoleon had previously encountered the prophecies of the Old Testament in the Jewish community of Malta, which he liberated under French law in 1798. For hundreds of years, the Knights Hospitalier of Saint John of Jerusalem had oppressed the Jews by enslaving them and preventing open worship. One of Napoleon's first acts after banishing the Knights was to allow the Jews to build a synagogue, and the community
of Jews on Malta welcomed Napoleon as a conqueror equal to Cyrus the Great. They believed their liberation by him was the fulfillment of the "king of the North" prophecy in Daniel 11.

This was followed on the first day of Passover, April 20, 1799, when Napoleon issued his proclamation of a Jewish state of Palestine. On May 22, 1799, the Paris newspaper, Moniteur Universel, announced: "Bonaparte has published a proclamation in which he invites all the Jews of Asia and Africa to gather under his flag in order to re-establish the ancient Jerusalem. He has already given arms to a great number, and their battalions threaten Aleppo."

Although the proclamation did not come to fruition, it increased a drive for Jews worldwide to pursue a sovereign state in Israel. Napoleon's ideas were also embraced by many who viewed them as a fulfillment of ancient prophecy, even some belonging to the Church of England.

This is important because Paris was named after the Paris, a Celtic people who settled on this central island in the 3rd century B.C. The city later spread outward from this point along the banks of the Seine River. This island is considered the birthplace of Paris and was the site of the city's earliest settlements. It was home to the French Kings from A.D. 400 to A.D. 1300. The royal palace and parliament were located on the western side of the island. Extending a measuring line from this historical center of Paris to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem shows the distance in nautical miles, 1,799.

The intriguing connection to Flynn's book is clear: Napoleon made a proclamation of historical importance to the Jewish nation in the year 1799, and perhaps not coincidently the distance from Paris to the Temple Mount in nautical miles corresponds perfectly at 1,799.

As findings like these stack up and the mathematical improbability of Flynn's disclosure increases, one of the most extraordinary parts of the book is unveiled when we learn how the year 1948 is marked by time-distance relations to the Temple location and several other mind-boggling dates and places, both past and future, which we will not divulge here. However, a peek into this section of the book finds discussion of how Britain was the nation that was "friendly to the Jews" and enabled them to return to Israel over 200 after Newton's death. The British defeated the Ottoman Turks and became administrators of the land of ancient Israel in 1917. Through mandate after World War I
and World War II until 1948, London was the heart of the governing intellect over the region.

London's original location at its founding is an important point in establishing the exact value of time and distance between it and Jerusalem's Temple.

The Romans established Londinium in about A.D. 47. It was a civilian settlement built where the Thames became narrow enough for a bridge to be built across it but was still deep enough to admit large ocean vessels. In the 16th century, William Camden believed that the "London Stone" was a Roman milestone from which all distances were measured in the province. In the 17th century, Christopher Wren was able to observe the foundations of the London Stone underneath Cannon Street during the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. With this information, it is possible to extend a measuring line from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the exact center of ancient London, and by fixing a point on the site of the temple mount, a measuring line extended over Jerusalem to the center of London produces 1,948.40 nautical miles.

Therefore, incredibly, recorded in the earth between the Temple Mount of Jerusalem and the historic center of London is what Flynn sees as the fulfillment of Newton's own prediction: Israel became a nation again May 14th, 1948, corresponding perfectly to a distance between the temple and London of 1948 nautical miles.

As the reader moves through Temple at the Center of Time, these time-length correlations accumulate quickly, including numerous ancient dates such as 1441 B.C. when the Exodus from Egypt occurred. It turns out is 1,441,000 feet from the Jerusalem Temple to the Great Pyramid in Giza. Flynn finds dozens of other key dates in the past through similar satellite mapping measurements including some related to the United States, Russia and Rome.

Before it is even officially released, Flynn's book is causing a sensation in some circles where it is being compared to "The Bible Code."

supernatural hatred of the Jews

why is Israel singled out and never allowed to defend itself?

"The so-called "enlightened and responsible nations" have developed a formula for exclusive use against Israel. This formula determines under what circumstances and in what manner Israel is allowed to defend itself against terrorist attacks. First, the provocation must be many times more serious than would be necessary for other nations. Simple acts of war, such as hostage-taking or continuous missile attacks against civilian population centers, are not sufficient provocation to permit defensive measures.

Since 2005, more than 6,000 rockets have rained down on Israeli cities from Gaza. In a display of remarkable restraint, only after three years and thousands of unprovoked attacks did Israel finally feel sufficiently justified to launch a defensive response."

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why does the fighting in Israel seem to go on forever?

"What is it about Israel that makes it the world's pariah state? How can it be that no insult to the Arabs is too slight to justify wholesale murder, whereas no atrocity, no matter how outrageous, justifies an Israeli defensive response? It matters not how reasonable and legitimate the defensive action would be for any other nation. But leaders from around the world have streamed into the U.N. to defend the "Palestinian democracy" – as if such an entity exists.

It makes absolutely no sense in the natural. Only the Bible can explain the mystery behind the supernatural hatred of the Jews. Bible prophecy predicted that Israel would be miraculously reborn in "the last days." The Bible also predicted that a supernatural hatred against Jews would grow worldwide. This will be soon followed by Armageddon and the return of Jesus the Messiah.

All of this is being fulfilled to the letter before our eyes. So don't be surprised or afraid. Christ's return to deliver those who have believed in Him is coming very soon."

"BIBLE PROPHECY -- "I will make JERUSALEM a cup of trembling unto all the people round about ... And in that day will I make JERUSALEM a burdensome stone for all people ..." [Zechariah 12:2-3; "In that day" refers to End of the Age; Emphasis added]

No small capital of such a small nation as Israel should ever capture and hold the attention of all the major, and many of the minor, nations of the world the way Jerusalem has done since Israel has come back to her land in 1948. The only reason Jerusalem has so captured the attention of so many national leaders, and is the focus of so many news headlines weekly, is that God's prophecy concerning Jerusalem in the End of the Age is being fulfilled, right in your Daily News, right in front of your eyes!"

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About 150 years ago, the King of Sweden was having personal doubts about the Bible's divine nature. He called for Count Von Zinzendorf, who was the bishop of the Moravian Church, to provide evidence that the Bible is inspired by God. When the Count arrived, the King told him he had set aside 10 hours to be enlightened on this matter. Zinzendorf said that much time would not be necessary because all he needed to do was to say two words. The King, skeptical, asked, “What words might those be?” Count Von Zinzendorf replied, "The Jews."

One of the greatest miracles of God is the preservation of the children of Israel. No other group of people has ever been completely annihilated as a nation and then later reborn. The rebirth of Israel in 1948 is the key indication that we are in the end times.

"Therefore behold the days are coming, says the Lord, that they shall no longer say 'As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt', but 'As the Lord lives who brought up and lead the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I have driven them' (Jer. 16:14-15).

The regathering of Israel is a remarkable task alone, but what makes one have to admit that the hand of God was involved is how the Jews managed to overcome unbelievable persecution. Each of the following nations and tribes has failed in its attempt to destroy the Jews:

Amalekites
Arameans
Assyrians
Babylonians
Canaanites
Edomites
Egyptians
Germany
Hittites
Midianites
Moabites
Persians
Philistines
Romans
Spain
The whole Muslim world

Of course, God is not finished preserving the Jewish people. During the tribulation, Satan will inspire several genocidal attacks against Israel. Anyone reading this article near the end of the tribulation will be able to add a few more names to this list of defeated foes.

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Israel, A Nation of Miracles

The new born state of Israel was 50 years old in 1998. What a 50 years! To start with—the rebirth of the state of Israel in 1948 was a miracle of history (Ezek.37:1-11; Luke 21:29,30). Never before has a nation been destroyed, its people dispersed to the ends of the earth, and then, nearly two thousand years later, re-gathered to their homeland and re-established as a nation.

When Israel declared itself an independent state on May 14, 1948, still another miracle occurred. The armies of seven Arab nations marched on the newborn State, boasting that they would "push the Jews into the sea." Outnumbered 100 to 1, Israel not only repelled the invaders but acquired more of Palestine than was granted in the UN partition plan. Yigael Yadin, Israel’s commander of operations in that war, had a terse explanation of Israel’s victory. "It was a miracle!"

Five Examples of Miracles

A Syrian column of 200 armored vehicles—including 45 tanks—attacked Degania, the oldest kibbutz in Israel. What a psychological blow this defeat would be! Without artillery, Jewish forces were helpless to block the Syrian advance. Until then the only heavy weapons available in all Israel were four howitzers of the type used by the French army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Two of these ancient fieldpieces were promptly dismantled and rushed to Degania. The local commander, Lieutenant Colonel Moshe Dayan, had them reassembled at the very moment the first Syrian tanks rumbled through the kibbutz perimeter, and they scored a hit on the advance tank. Had the Syrians known that these two obsolete weapons represented half the arsenal of fieldguns in all Israel, they would have pressed the attack. Instead, the armored vehicles swung around in their tracks and clattered back up the mountain road.

At Safed, near the Sea of Galilee a small unit of Israeli defenders were holding off thousand Arabs. A sudden tropical storm broke loose. The Israelis in desperation took their remaining gasoline, poured it over 50 empty drums, set them afire and rolled them down the hill. The flaming barrels flying down the slopes, the rumble of hollow barrels striking rocks—together with the tropical storm—created such an illusion that the bewildered Arabs imagining some sort of secret weapon took to their heel and fled.

In December 1948, the Egyptians were harassing Israeli settlements in the Negev while advanced columns were moving north. Yadin used the Bible for strategy. It mentioned an ancient road forgotten for centuries, which ran almost directly to Mushrafa, the Egyptians’ central garrison. Heavy boulders were pushed aside with bulldozers. Soldiers in armored vehicles, jeeps and supply trucks sped under cover of darkness along the ancient road and surprised the Egyptians. Taking this garrison destroyed the Egyptian defense system and ended the war 14 days later.

To liberate the airport at Lydda the tactics of Gideon were employed. Seven thousand Arab troops were ready to attack. Sixteen Israelis dressed as Arabs infiltrated into the city of Lydda. Like Gideon’s band of 300 they made such a commotion during the night that the Arabs, totally confused, fired upon each other. Finally the majority fled back across the border.

The Syrian Army had regrouped east of the Galilee. A Jewish column of 24 homemade armored trucks and cars, on the way to relieve a besieged Kibbutz, took the wrong road and crossed the border into Lebanon. Before they discovered their mistake, they ran head-on into a column of supplies for the Syrian Army in Galilee—dozens of trucks of ammunition, a string of light artillery and 20 new armored cars. The Israelis fired point blank at the first truck—a tanker loaded with gasoline. It exploded and set on fire the following truckload of hand grenades. Rapid repeating explosions were heard for miles around. Terrified, the Syrians abandoned their cargo. The Israelis scarcely had enough men to drive the captured supply train back into Galilee. Finally they reached the beleaguered Kibbutz, only to learn that the Arab besiegers heard rumors that the Jewish army had invaded Lebanon, therefore, the Arabs fled Israel.

The victory of the 1948 War was a big miracle composed of a series of little miracles. Why? Over 2500 years ago the prophet Isaiah made a remarkable prophecy concerning Israel regathered back in her land. "They that war against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nought…for I will help thee." (41:12,13).

The Bible Helped Build Israel

The miracles continued. Trees, fruits and vegetables grow over what was once shifting sandy wastes or malaria swamps. New industries fringe historic cities. Highways and pipelines stretch across a energetic nation that had slept for centuries.

David Ben Gurion, Israel’s dynamic first Prime Minister, was an ardent student of the Bible as an accurate history of Israel and its land. He dispatched engineers, horticulturists, botanists, etc., with the Bible in one hand and research tools in the other.

Miracles happened!

Following Bible clues, copper and iron mines were established. One mining engineer, Abraham Dor observed that at the richest veins of copper —"we come upon the slag and furnaces of ancient Israel. We often get the feeling that someone has just left." Deuteronomy 8:7-9 was often framed on the walls of mining offices:

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.

Reclaiming the Wasteland

Barren land transformed to the fertility of ancient Israel is a miracle predicted in Scripture (Amos 9:14-15; Ezek. 36:34-35). It was long assumed that most of Palestine was wasteland, irreclaimable for agriculture. But archaeologists discovered the presence of more than 70 ancient settlement sites in one 65-mile stretch of the Jordan Valley alone, each with its own well for water. Lot, over 3,000 years ago, was not exaggerating when he "lifted up his eyes, and he saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, even as the garden of the Lord" (Gen.13:10).

New agricultural settlements—from Dan to Beersheba—have risen beside ancient sites reidentified by Biblical archaeologists. Concrete pumping stations were set over ancient springs or wells. A well from Abraham’s day, now supplies water for residents on the outskirts of Beersheba.

One of the basic necessities in that arid country is reforestation. Ever since Jews began returning, they have been planting forests, naming them in honor of such leaders and friends of Israel as Chaim Weizmann, Lord Balfour, George V and scores of others.

The Bible has helped them decide what kind of trees to plant and where to plant them. Debating whether a certain barren hillside would be a suitable location for Israel’s immense "Forest of Martyrs," Israelis found the answer in Joshua, which proved that a forest had existed there. "Knowing that trees grow more easily where trees have flourished before," explained Professor Zohary of Hebrew University, "we rely on the Good Book."

"The first tree Abraham put in the soil of Beersheba was a tamarisk," said Israel’s outstanding authority on reforestation, Dr. Joseph Weitz. "Following his lead, we put out two million in the same area. Abraham was right. The tamarisk is one of the few trees we have found that thrives in the south where yearly rainfall is less than six inches."

The writer personally knew the Boyko Family who pioneered in developing Biblical principles of agriculture that helped the Aravah and the Negev blossom as a rose. The Bible made Israel the agricultural giant it is today exporting its products worldwide. It took another miracle to make this possible. In Bible times there were two copious rainy seasons in Palestine—the "early and the latter rain." But for the past many centuries the "early rain" has been minimal while the "latter rain" and dew have disappeared completely. Since 1878, the "latter rain" is falling again. The precipitation of both has spiraled over the decades just as predicted in Joel 2:23,24.

The Miracle of Immigration

Jews from the four points of the compass heard the call to come home (Isa. 43:5,6). Israel’s Declaration of Independence stated that Israel "will be open to the immigration of Jews from all countries of their dispersion."

Even as war still raged and the little State faced possible destruction or bankruptcy, the newcomers poured in. During the first three years of statehood, the average reached 18,000 a month and in some months the figure exceeded 30,000. Between May 15, 1948, and June 30, 1953, the Jewish population of the country doubled. By the end of 1956, Israel’s population had nearly tripled, reaching 1,667,000. Imagine the economic shock of absorption!

Jews kept pouring into Israel over the decades. In 1984 - 1985 and again in 1991 harrowing airlifts brought Ethiopian Jews from utter despair to a Land of hope. Finally, the long-expected prophetic fulfillment of Jews from Russia began in 1991. By 1998 over 800,000 have returned from the former Soviet Republics (CIS) and they are still coming. Over a million are expected. Israel’s population increased from 650,000 in 1948 to nearly 6,000,000 in 1998. The miracle of absorption continues.

The Miracle of the ’67 War

The Arabs boasted that they would destroy Israel. However, in six days Israel overran the combined forces of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and took the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the West Bank (Samaria and Judea), and the Sinai—one of the greatest military feats in history. To many Orthodox Jews worldwide, especially in the United States, it was a wake-up call from God. Thousands poured into Israel and settled in Samaria and Judea to stake Israel’s eternal claim to the so-called West Bank—the heartland of Israel. They are certain the Messianic Age is near at hand. As Biblical Zionists, they oppose any give-away of land in the peace process.

A Hi-Tech Leader

Ezekiel 38:12, 13 predicts that Israel will become an economic envy of the nations. The immigration of Russian Jews is literally paying off. This year has witnessed an explosion in both hi-tech developments and the number of contracts Israeli hi-tech companies have signed with manufacturers worldwide. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "The failure of Soviet communism to capitalize on the outstanding R & D skills of the Russian Jews was a stroke of good fortune for Israel. We now have the highest per capita of scientists in the world. This has put Israel on the cutting edge of technology." The New York Stock Exchange lists more hi-tech companies from Israel than any other nation… Ezekiel also predicts the sanctification of God’s name when Israel’s enemies would threaten His people (38:16-23).

Bible Prophecy and The Television

Revelation 11:9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. (10) And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

The background of Revelation 11:9 is the death of two prophets just prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. They are God’s witnesses and hated by most people on earth as they are warning mankind of the judgment for rebellion against God. These witnesses are given special powers as proof they are true prophets from God. They are able to cause droughts, turn water into blood, and send plagues.

Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

These witnesses are specially protected by God and cannot be killed until a certain time. The Beast, commonly known as the Antichrist, is allowed to kill them in Jerusalem . For three and a half days, their bodies lay unburied on the street. The prophets’ deaths cause a world-wide celebration for these three and a half days. Because of the intense hatred against the two witnesses, people all over the world are going to be happy and send gifts to each other.

Revelation 11:9 clearly states that people all over the world will see the prophets’ dead bodies lying in the street in Jerusalem . There will be a world celebration all at the same time. This means that a way of world-wide communications has to be in place for the entire world to simultaneous witnesses this event.

In years past, scoffers of the Bible would cite Revelation 11:9 as proof the Bible was wrong. Their minds could not conceive how the entire world could simultaneously witness an event in Jerusalem . In their day, information took months to cross the Atlantic Ocean , so how could the entire world witness this event? To these scoffers, Revelation 11:9 was proof that the Bible was full of wild tales and exaggerations.

Television, Satellites and the Internet.

It was utterly impossible until after WW ll for the entire world to simultaneously watch an event. This was impossible until the invention of the television and world-wide communications. Modern technology has made the possible fulfillment of Revelation 11:9 very easy.

The idea of the television is much older than most people realize. The Scientific American Magazine first introduced the idea of a television in the 1880s. The first known use of the word was in 1900 at the Paris Word Fair. There was no one person credited with inventing the television rather it was several people who each put together a part of the puzzle. In 1927, Philo Farnsworth, an American, was the first inventor to transmit a television image, and in 1927 he received the first patent for a television. Farnsworth’s invention became the foundation for the modern television.

One of the earliest TV’s 1932 Jenkins Radio-TV, Model JD30

The BBC began the world’s first public, regular, high-definition television station in 1936. By WW ll, there were only 8,000 television sets sold. The progress in developing the television was very slow prior to WW ll.

After the war, the technology and sales of televisions exploded. By 1950, over 8 million homes had a television. In 1951, the first live coast to coast broadcast took place in America . This meant that now everyone in the US could simultaneously watch an event. In 1954, color television was introduced to the public. Today, over 1 billion televisions have been sold world-wide.

Through television all the people throughout the world can simultaneously watch an event; however, a mechanism was needed to allow for the entire world to simultaneously watch an event. The mechanism would be the satellite and the Internet.

In 1962, the communication satellite Telstar was launched. This was the first satellite to carry TV shows which allowed for the international relay of broadcasts. The beginning of direct satellite broadcasting was 1983. Computer technology advanced very quickly, so that starting in 1996 the television could be directly connected to the Internet. Today with the Internet and communication satellites a person can have instant visual communication with anyone in the world at any location.

To fulfill Bible prophecy, the television was needed for the entire world to simultaneously watch an event. But, other media was also needed to alert the entire world. Now, modern technology provides this media which includes the radio, Internet, telephone, television news sources, and newspapers.

The 2008 Olympics is a great example to show how the entire world can simultaneously watch an event. The opening ceremony was broadcast live from China , and an estimated two billion people from all over the world simultaneously watched. The Nelson rating company said the following:

“August 14, 2008, Beijing: Based on television audience data collected from 38 markets around the world, The Nielsen Company estimates that just over 2 billion people - almost one third of the world’s population - watched the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony.”

This is a perfect example of how all the world can watch the death of God’s two prophets in Jerusalem . The 2008 Olympics can be viewed as a trial run for the entire world’s simultaneously viewing an event.

Revelation 11 does not indicate if this confrontation between the prophets and the Beast is scheduled or spontaneous, but people world-wide are able to respond and watch the confrontation and events for three days. When this confrontation takes place, the world’s news sources will announce it. The Internet websites will be buzzing over it. There will be an enormous amount of emails and telephone calls discussing this event. Even in the remote places of the world, people with some distance to travel can watch. If over two billion people simultaneously watched the opening of the 2008 Olympics, easily 90 percent or more of the world’s population are now able to watch this coming confrontation between God’s prophets and the Beast.

Revelation 11:9,10 now can easily be fulfilled with modern technology. The only thing missing is the cast of characters which might appear in the very near future. The prophetic events in the Bible are literal. Modern science and technology are now enabling prophecies to occur that were impossible not many years past. It appears that the world now is racing to fulfill these events. Remember, this confrontation occurs just prior to the awesome Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I see this teaching complete and do not intend to add information or articles to show additional technological development in this area.

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"For I am God and there is no other.

I am God, and there is none like Me,

Declaring the end from the beginning,

and from ancient times

things that are not yet done..."

(Isaiah 46:9-10)

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