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THE MIRACLE OF ISRAEL GOD’S

UNBREAKABLE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM

HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE END TIMES

Triumphant living in the 21st century involves cultivating a growing sense of what God is doing in this world.

Israel is the center of the earth and the universe from God’s perspective. Even directions in the Bible speak of this orientation God has. And so, what happens to ISRAEL has been ordained by God, and we need to be careful to understand the past dealings of God with the Jews to realize in the future that He is still at work!

First, we must see that God has chosen the Jews as His People, and God has Chosen the Land of Canaan (not Palestine) as His Land and God has Chosen the Destiny of the Nation of Israel as His Destined Plan for His Destined People. The Jews, the Land of Israel, and the Nation of Israel are God’s Chosen People of Destiny.

Modern Israel only occupies about one-sixth of 1 percent of the land area, which the Arabs possess. The 788 million hostile Arabs around them dwarf Israel’s nearly 6 million people. The Arab Nations have the oil, the wealth, and the worldwide influence that such seemingly inexhaustible resources command. Israel’s postage-stamp piece of land is scarcely discernible on a world map, and it lacks all the essentials to make it the center of worldwide concern. Yet, In defiance of all reason, however, it is the focus of world attention, precisely as prophesied.

Next, within Israel consider that city, the entire world has heard of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a small city with neither commercial nor strategic locations. When the Old Testament prophets wrote of the future they did so with precision. Their astonishing accuracy singled out Jerusalem as the world’s focus. They didn’t say Damascus, Cairo, London, or Paris would become the center of action in the last days, but Jerusalem. Yet the eyes of the world are upon it as upon no other city. Jerusalem is indeed a “burdensome stone” (Zech 12:1-3) around the necks of all nations of the world, the most vexing and volatile problem the United Nations faces today. There is no ordinary explanation for this! What the Hebrew prophets declared thousands of years ago and what seemed utterly fantastic in their time is being fulfilled in our day. This is only part of the evidence, as we shall see, that the prophesied “last days” are upon us and that our generation will likely see the remainder of the Bible prophecy fulfilled.

This evening have you ever connected the happenings in the world, in our newspapers, history books, and on the evening news – with God’s Word the BIBLE?

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