Israel

Thousands of years ago the Jewish prophets spoke and wrote about the Jewish people of the distant future, our day. Men such as Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel foretold the birth of the nation of Israel, the return of Jewish people from all over the earth to the land of Israel, and the blooming of the once desolate land into the beautiful garden it is today. We live in wonderful times in which the fulfillment of the Word of God may be seen all around us every day. Enjoy reading these extracts from God’s Word concerning these wondrous things.

“Now the Lord said to Abram, go forth from your country and from your relatives and from your father’s house to the land which I will show you; and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3 NASB

“And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting cvovenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:8 NKJV

“The people whom I formed for myself will declare my praise.” Isaiah 43:21

“The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness. Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel!’ ” Jeremiah 31:3,4 NASB

“Thus says the Lord who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, the Lord of hosts is his name:’If this fixed order departs from before me,’ declares the Lord, ‘then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever. ‘ ” Jeremiah 31:35,36 NASB

“O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.” Isaiah 44:21b NASB

“Comfort, comfort my people says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” Isaiah 40:1,2 NIV

“It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people who are left from Assyria and Egypt, from Pathros and Cush, from Elam and Shinar, from Hamath and the islands of the sea. He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” Isaiah 11:11-12 NKJV

“For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers, so you will be my people and I will be your God.” Ezekiel 36:24-28 NASB

” ‘At that time I will gather you; at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes,’ says the Lord.” Zephaniah 3:20 NIV

“Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.” Isaiah 66:8 NASB

“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; and give him no rest until he establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” Isaiah 62:6,7 NASB

“Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21:24 NASB

“Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture and they will be fruitful and multiply.” Jeremiah 23:3 NASB

“Foreignerswill build up your walls and their kings will minister to you; for in my wrath I struck you and in my favor I have had compassion on you.” Isaiah 60:10 NASB

“Fear not for I am with you. I will bring your descendants from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not keep them back!’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by my name whom I have created for my glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.” Isaiah 43:5-7 NKJV

“Then he said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says, O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it,’ declares the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:11-14 NIV

“So the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness; sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” Isaiah 51:11 NKJV

“Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his lovingkindness is everlasting. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary and gathered from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Psalms 107:1-3 NASB

“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land which I gave to their fathers. Behold I am sending for many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.” Jeremiah 16:14-16 RSV

“But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will soon come. For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown. I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.” Ezekiel 36:8-10 NASB