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The Final Countdown. 10 th Sign The Jewish People. 1 st Prophecy Return to the Land. Open your Bibles to: Isaiah 43:1-6. 2 nd Prophecy Become a Nation Again. Isaiah 11:11-12 “In that day the Lord will bring back a remnant of His people for the second time….
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The Final Countdown
Isaiah 11:11-12 “In that day the Lord will bring back a remnant of His people for the second time…
returning them to the land of Israel from Assyria, Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, Hamath, and all the distant coastlands…
He will raise a flag among the nations for Israel to rally around. He will gather the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth.”
Isaiah 66:8 “Who has ever seen or heard of anything as strange as this?…
Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment?...
But by the time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will come forth.”
Ezekiel 37:21-22 “And give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations…
I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered…
I will unify them into one nation in the land. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations.”
Ezekiel 45:12,13,16 “The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel. This is the tax you must give to the prince…
All the people of Israel must join the prince in bringing their offerings.”
Isaiah 35:1-2 “Even the wilderness will rejoice in those days. The desert will blossom with flowers…
Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers and singing and joy!...
The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon, as lovely as Mount Carmel’s pastures and the plain of Sharon…
There the LORD will display His glory, the splendor of our God.”
Israel a Barren Wasteland In 1845 Alfon Lamartine said in his book, Recollections from the East, “Outside the walls of Jerusalem we saw no living being, heard no living voice…
Israel a Barren Wasteland We encountered that desolation and that deadly silence which we would have expected to find at the ruined gates of Pompey…
Israel a Barren Wasteland A total eternal dread spell envelopes the city, the highways and the villages.”
Israel a Barren Wasteland When Mark Twain visited Israel in the 1860’s, he reported that Israel was a barren wasteland with no trees. He went on to state…
Israel a Barren Wasteland “The further we went the hotter the sun got and the more rocky and bare. Repulsive and dreary the landscape became.”
Israel a Barren Wasteland In describing the territory around the Sea of Galilee, he called it a, “blistering, naked, treeless land.”
Israel a Barren Wasteland He spoke of the villages as, “ugly, cramped, squalid, uncomfortable and filthy.” He added that they are, “a solitude to make one dreary, unpeopled deserts, rusty mounds of barrenness.”
Israel a Barren Wasteland And then he looked towards the barren Judean hills and wrote “Close to us was a stream and on its banks a great heard of curious looking Syrian sheep and the sheep were gratefully eating gravel…
Israel a Barren Wasteland I do not state this as a petrified fact – I only suppose they were eating gravel because there did not appear to be anything else for them to eat.”
Israel a Barren Wasteland Then in 1905, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Abraham Kuyper observed, “The Jews have come in vain. Only God can check the blight of the inrushing desert.”
