In this week's episode of Our Hope Podcast, Dr. Michael Brown shares how we know the rebirth of Israel is a true fulfillment of prophecy.

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Our Hope a production

of Chosen People Ministries.

We cannot deny that

prophecy is being fulfilled

before our eyes in the

nation of Israel.

While some would say

that Israel "got lucky"

or that the land was given

to the Jewish people

as a consolation

after the Holocaust,

we believe

that Israel's rebirth

was not man-ordained

by God-ordained.

It was not a coincidence,

but divinely deliberate.

This has always been

God's plan for Israel,

that though

they were scattered,

He would gather them

back again to the land

He promised to their

forefathers – Abraham,

Isaac and Jacob.

Unfortunately, Israel

has been forced to fight

to keep her land,

and many have died

defending this nation

over the years.

We remember these

brave men and women

during Yom HaZikaron –

Israel’s Memorial Day.

The day after this is Yom

Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s

Independence Day

and this year, Israel

will celebrate

its 73rd birthday

as a reborn nation.

While Israel is an

independent nation state,

she still faces challenges

to being in the land.

Many do not recognize

Israel's right to exist,

and there is still ongoing

unrest and conflict

in the Middle East.

As believers, we want to know

what God's perfect plan is.

At our "Pray For the

Peace of Jerusalem

Conference" in 2014,

well-known apologist, Dr.

Michael Brown, spoke about

God's plan for Israel.

We hope it will help

answer

some difficult questions,

and that you will be

encouraged by God's sovereignty

and faithfulness.

Take a listen.

Let's start in

Jeremiah chapter 30.

And what we want to focus on

today is Israel's

relationship to the land.

Notice that when Jewish people

are scattered around the world,

you still have antisemitism.

Jews still get blamed

for all kinds of things.

When the protocols

of the Elders of Zion

was released

over 100 years ago,

basically a forgery,

a document put on the lips

of Jewish leaders,

as if there is this

Jewish conspiracy

to take over the world.

Apparently distributed

by Russian secret

police originally.

But bottomline is a document

making the Jews responsible

for problems

worldwide are claiming

they're trying to take over

the entire world

that comes out at a time

when the Jewish people

are not living in

large numbers in the land,

and Palestine is mainly Arab.

In other words, Jews

have been blamed for things

through the centuries,

wherever we've been.

During the Middle Ages,

when the Black Plague

wiped out as much as a third

of the European population,

who got blamed for

the Black Plague? Jews.

Now Jews died also,

but in some cases

not in numbers as high,

and that would have

just been because of

of sanitary principles

that Jews live by

or dietary principles

because of the law,

but they still died

nonetheless.

They got blamed for it

and they were accused

of poisoning the wells

and taking animal hearts

and other parts of

you know, living creatures

and the communion elements

and mixing them together

to concoct a poison

to poison the wells of Europe

and crazy stuff like that.

So through the centuries,

Jews still get blamed.

There's still that

spirit of antisemitism

in the world, that

irrational spirit

that blames Jews

for everything.

But the real controversy erupts

when the Jewish people

are back in the land.

That's when it seems

everything goes crazy.

Do you ever play that game

when when you're a kid you're

trying to figure out

where something is?

You're getting hot,

you're hotter,

you're red hot, cold,

so you're getting

closer closer.

You're hot, you're

well, it's the same thing

with when the Jewish people

are back in the land now

it's

when things are getting hot

and now when Jerusalem is back

in Jewish hands now red hot.

In other words,

there are prophecies

that cannot be fulfilled

without a Jewish

control Jerusalem,

there are prophecies

that cannot be fulfilled

without the Jewish people

being back in the land.

And it seems that

this is the place

for all out battle.

And you have to ask yourself

why is it around the world

that with all the disputes

about borders

and all the disputes about

sovereignty of this country

or that country, or this group

wanting to rebel.

Why is it that the only place

that the whole

world cares about

is the land of Israel

and the city of Jerusalem?

And why is it that it's

the only capital

city of a nation

anywhere in the world

that is not

universally recognized

by other nations?

You know,

if America said our new capital

is going

to be Hoboken, New Jersey,

and we're moving the

the White House there

and everything.

Well, then all the embassies

would move to Hoboken.

But when Israel said

we're changing our capital

from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

with the rarest of exception,

all the embassies

of those that recognize Israel

are still in Tel Aviv.

Why is this?

It's clear

there's something

spiritual going on,

so my big question

is a simple one.

Do the prophetic scriptures

speak of the Jewish

people coming back

to the physical land

of Israel

at the end of the age,

or is that something

that was only for the past?

So let's start in

Jeremiah chapter 30.

"This is the word

that came to Jeremiah

from the Lord.

'This is what the Lord,

the God of Israel says:

"Write in a book

all the words

I have spoken to you.

The days are coming,"

declares the Lord, "when

I will bring my people

Israel and Judah

back from captivity

and restore them to the land,

I gave their forefathers

to possess," says the Lord.' "

Now, indisputably,

this was speaking

first about the return

from Babylonian exile.

Why do we say that?

Well,

because that's what Jeremiah

is prophesying

through the book.

That's what

happens in his lifetime

that his people are taken

captive to Babylon.

And roughly 150 years

earlier than that,

the Northern Kingdom

of Israel was smashed

by the Assyrians.

And around 721 BC

the northern tribes

were exiled into Assyria

and even scattered from there.

There still some remnant

that remained in

northern Israel,

so the people of Israel

and the people of Judah

are in captivity,

and more are going to be

taken into captivity,

and Jeremiah

prophesying from the Lord, says

they will come back

to the land.

Obviously first and foremost,

it applied to what happened

in Jeremiah's day,

and the subsequent generations.

That's self-evident

that has to be.

The question is,

does it also apply

to the end of the age?

Does it also apply to our day?

The text continues.

"These are the words

of the Lord spoke

concerning Israel and Judah:

'This is what the Lord says,

cries of fear – heard,

terror, not peace.

Can

a man bear children?

Then why do I see every strong

man with his hands

on his stomach

like a woman in labor,

every face turned deathly pale?

How awful that day will be!

None will be like it.

It will be a time

of trouble for Jacob, but

he will be saved out of it.

In that day,' declares

the Lord Almighty.

'I will break the

yolk off their necks

and will tear off their bonds;

no longer will foreigners

enslave them.

Instead,

they will serve the Lord

their God and David their King,

whom I will raise

up for them.' "

We looked at this passage

briefly last night,

"So do not fear,

oh Jacob, My servant;

do not be dismayed

oh, Israel," declares the Lord,

"I will surely save you

out of a distant place,

your descendants

from the land of their exile.

Jacob will again

have peace and security,

and no one

will make him afraid.

I am with you and will save

you," declares the Lord.

"Though I completely destroy

all the nations, among

which I scatter you,

I will

not completely destroy you.

I will discipline you,

but only with justice.

I will not let you go

entirely unpunished."

And flip over to chapter 31.

And skip down to verse

10, Jeremiah 31:10.

"Hear the word of the

Lord, you nations

proclaim it in

distant coastlands:

'He who scattered

Israel will gather them

and will watch over his flock

like a Shepherd, for the Lord

will ransom Jacob

and redeem them from the hand

of those stronger than they.

They will come and shout

for joy in the heights of Zion.

They will rejoice

in the bounty of the Lord –

the grain, the new

wine in the oil,

the young of the flocks

and herds.

They will be like

a well-watered garden

and they will sorrow no more.

Then maidens will

dance and be glad, young men

and old as well.

I will turn their

mourning into gladness;

I will give them comfort

and joy instead.

I will satisfy the

priests with abundance,

and my people will be filled

with my bounty.' " And

there are many other

related verses.

So here's the question,

was that only for ancient

Israel and Judah,

or does it apply to today?

The regathering

of the Jewish people

that has happened

over the last century.

The Jewish population of

Israel today being more than

6 million people,

is that the hand of God,

or is

that just something

that happened?

Or was that the

outgrowth of European

colonization of the Middle East

and dividing these

different places into nations

like, places like Saudi

Arabia did not exist

as a nation before.

Some of the other nations

in the Middle

East did not exist

as distinct nations.

Is it just European

and American governments

just kind of

chopping things up?

And that's how we got Israel?

Did people just do this?

First, let me give you a really

simple spiritual answer

that that is impossible

according to the Bible.

And then I want to

give you more scripture

to support this.

And then I want to explain why

this is such a big issue today.

Israel in the land.

But first, let me give

you a very simple

scriptural principle.

And we see throughout the Bible

that when God promises

to do something if

He determines to do it,

no one can stop Him

from doing it.

Now, He might say

I will do this if you repent.

I'll bless you if you repent.

If people don't repent

then He won't do it

or I'm going to judge you.

And if they turn

away from that,

He won't judge if He said

I'm going to bless you

and they turn away from doing

what's right, He won't.

Plus we understand

things are conditional.

But if God says, "I'm

going to do this."

It can't be stopped.

So for example, if God curses

no one can bless.

Remember what happens

with Balaam.

Balaam asks

If he should go and

and curse Israel when Balak,

the king of Moab invites him.

And then he asked the Lord.

And what is the Lord

say to him?

It's basically

a threefold answer.

Don't go, don't curse them

because they're blessed.

This is one sentence

but basically

a threefold answer.

Don't go, don't curse them

because they're blessed.

And when he does go in

and try to curse them

later on, he can't!

Here he is.

He's a, he's

a pagan, soothsayer.

And you know, hears

from different gods

and beings whatever.

And and he's trying to curse,

but God won't let him.

So if

God is determined to bless,

you can't curse.

And if God is determined

to curse, you can't bless.

In the same way,

when God smites, for example,

some of the diseases

and the curses in Deuteronomy

28 they are incurable. Why?

Because if God smites,

nobody could heal.

And if God heals,

no one could smite.

These are just basic

biblical principles.

When the Lord says

in revelation,

the third chapter

to the believers

in Philadelphia,

I've said before

if you open door

that no one can shut.

No one can shut it.

If God opens the door,

no one can shut it.

If He shuts the door,

no one can open it.

I mean, this is pretty basic.

I don't know that anyone

that believes in the scripture

would differ with anything

I'm saying here.

So here's the question.

If God scattered

Israel in his anger,

if God scattered

the Jewish people in His anger

in judgment over our sin,

then we cannot

regather ourselves.

Alright, otherwise

He scatters and we go,

"Oh yeah?"

And we just walk back.

He puts us in exile,

we think, "Oh yeah?"

And we just regather ourselves.

No if we had the power

to do that then it wouldn't be

divine judgment.

So, very simply,

if He scatters, and now

we have more

than 6 million Jews

living in a land surrounded

by hostile enemies,

the only way that happened

is God did it.

Now, you might say,

that's so simple.

It is so simple.

But it's so simple

because it's so basic

and it's so true.

Well, I've I've put

this question out

in public debates

with scholars.

I put this question

out with folks

I've dialogue with.

You know Palestinian Christians

on my radio show.

I've put it out on social media

to the millions of people

we reach on social media

and not a single person

has been able to give me

a legitimate answer to this.

If God scattered

the Jewish people in His anger,

then who regathered them?

Satan doesn't

have the power to, human beings

don't have the power to.

It must be God who has done it.

Now let me give you

a good principle

of interpretation.

That if God brings curses

that

the literality of the curses

must be just as real

as the literality

of the blessings.

And if God smites

that the literality

of the smiting must equal

the literality of the healing.

My doctoral dissertation

was on the Hebrew word

for healing, and the larger

concepts related to that

and then

other Semitic languages

that use similar terminology,

and so I looked at

this very intensely

for a couple years

and then wrote a book

some years later

called Israel's Divine Healer

and studied all the relevant

scriptures on this.

So it's something

I really gave attention to.

So what would it mean?

If God says, I will smite you

with boils from head

to toe because of your sin.

But if you repent,

I will totally heal you.

Then that must mean

if He literally smoye

that person

with boils from head

to toe because of their sin,

when that person

cried out for mercy

and turn in repentance

that He would literally

heal him of the boils, correct?

It would not be a

literal smiting,

but a spiritual healing.

There God smites

that person with boils, Lord,

I've sinned, forgive me,

have mercy on me.

Yes I will heal you

spiritually.

No, no, He did not just heal

that person spiritually

and leave them with boils

from head to toe.

And again, this is just a

theoretical illustration.

I'm giving you.

So the literality of

the healing would

have to be as real

and as literal as the smiting.

Otherwise, the words have

no meaning and the promises

are of no value.

You know God destroys

Jerusalem and scatters

the people because of sin,

and then he says and

I will rebuild Jerusalem

and regather the people.

But I only mean it spiritually.

The city is going to

still be in ruins.

The temple is going to

still be burned down.

You're still going to

be rotting in exile,

but I will spiritually

rebuild the city

and spiritually we got,

no, that's not what He said.

I'll smite you.

I'll hear you, I'll scatter

you, I'll regather you.

What the Church has often

done with these passages

Yes,

the smiting was real,

but the healing is spiritual.

The scattering was real,

but the regathering

is spiritual.

And the general principle is

when God says I will

scatter you in my wrath

that's Israel.

And I will regather

you in my love

that's the Church.

I mean, that's how

the Bible is read

that the curses are for

the Jews and the promises

are for the Christians.

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Alright, let's go

a little deeper into this.

Jeremiah 30 this passage

that we've looked at.

Beginning in verse

5, "This is what the Lord says:

'Cries of fear are heard

– terror, not peace,"

and it goes on with this

time of horrific judgment

that's coming, and yet

God will deliver

Jacob out of it.

Some say this just

refers to end time,

final tribulation and calamity.

I don't believe it

can just refer to that

– the time of Jacob's trouble.

I'll explain why in a minute.

Some say, well, it's

a pattern for Jewish

suffering

through the centuries,

there have been many times

of Jacob's trouble,

including the Holocaust.

OK,

that has some validity to it.

And some say, no,

no it was just referring to

what happened in Jeremiah's day

and nothing like that

will ever happen again.

Time of trouble for Jacob, but

he'll be saved out of it.

But there's a problem

with that as well.

I get into it in some depth

in my Jeremiah commentary

and really looked at the text

as carefully as I could

in the Hebrew to understand

what was going on.

And from what I can tell

the first application again

has to be to Jeremiah's day.

He's prophesying

the destruction of the temple.

He's prophesying what

the Babylonians

were going to do.

He's prophesying

these horrible things

that are going to happen

and they happen.

To say that he wasn't

referring to that,

but he was referring

to something 2500 years

later makes

no sense whatsoever.

But you better believe

what the Prophet

was saying happened.

So first and foremost,

this is speaking

of the terrible suffering

that was going to

come to the people

and this is in Jeremiah's Day.

But for me

as I studied it carefully,

it doesn't end there.

It's also speaking of other

calamitous times,

perhaps right up to the end.

The final calamity,

the final attack,

and God's final deliverance.

My point is that Jewish

suffering has not stopped

that the scattering

of the Jewish people

has not stopped, and therefore

the promises of restoration

have not stopped.

As long as we are here

preserved by God

as a distinct people,

as long as the world

is out to destroy us,

as long as we have

been scattered, then

the promises of restoration

still remain.

Remember, fulfillment

means to fill to the full.

So, so you may have a glass

that literally is half full,

and maybe that's

the first pouring.

OK, let me get some

more of that drink,

and now you pour in the rest

and fill it

the rest of the way.

So as we saw last night,

the prophecies of

the return from exile

were partially fulfilled,

but not completely fulfill,

and we are now gradually

moving towards the complete

and final fulfillment

of those scriptures.

And how can we also see that?

Well, let's let's

turn to a passage

like Zechariah chapter 12.

Zechariah chapter 12.

And, you have to

ask the question,

has this come to pass yet?

Remember

Zachariah is prophesying after

the return from exile.

Alright, so the Jewish people

have returned from exile.

Jerusalem is being rebuilt

or has been rebuilt

and Zechariah gives

this prophecy.

"This is the word

of the Lord concerning Israel.

The Lord, who stretches

out the heavens,

who lays the foundation

of the earth

and who forms the spirit of man

within him, declares:

'I am going to make Jerusalem

a cup that sends

all the surrounding

peoples reeling.

Judah will be besieged

as well as Jerusalem.'

" OK, so hang on.

This has not happened yet.

What is prophesied

here has not happened yet.

I've read interpreters who try,

try to put some spiritual

interpretation on it

or try to apply it

to the destruction

of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

It doesn't work.

It absolutely doesn't work.

So it is speaking of

a time still to come

where there will be

a Judah and a Jerusalem.

And there will be

Jewish inhabitants

in a Jewish controlled

Judah and Jerusalem.

This still has to happen.

In other words,

for the prophetic scriptures

to be fulfilled,

there have to be Jewish

people living in the land.

There has to be a Jewish

controlled Jerusalem.

This has to be

an Israelite country,

otherwise these passages

can't be fulfilled.

"

'I'm going to make

Jerusalem a cup that sends

all the surrounding

peoples reeling.

Judah will be besieged

as well as Jerusalem.

On that day, when

all the nations of the Earth

have gathered against her,

I will make Jerusalem

an immovable rock

for all the nations.

All who try to move

it

will injure themselves.'

" Notice that imagery

of trying to move it.

So notice again plainly

that this is not

yet come to pass.

All nations have

not come against

Jerusalem in this way.

" 'On that day I will strike

every horse with

panic and its rider

with madness,' declares

the Lord.

'I will keep a watchful eye

over the House of Judah, but

I will blind the horses

of the nations.

Then the leaders

of Judah will say

in their hearts,

"The

people of Jerusalem are strong

because the Lord Almighty

is their God." '

'On that day I will make the

leaders of Judah like a fire

pot in the woodpile,

like a flaming torch

among sheaves.

They will consume right

and left all the

surrounding peoples,

but Jerusalem will remain

intact in her place.

The Lord will save

the dwellings of

Judah first that

the owner of the house of David

and of Jerusalem's inhabitants,

may not be greater

than that of Judah.

On that day,

the Lord will shield

those who live in Jerusalem,

so that the feeblest among them

will be like David

and the house of David

will be like God,

like the angel of the Lord,

going before them.

On that day

I will set out to destroy

all the nations that

attack Jerusalem.

And I will pour out

on the house of David

and the inhabitants

of Jerusalem a spirit of grace

and supplication.

They will look on me,

the one they have pierced,

and they will mourn for him

as one mourns

for an only child,

and grieve

bitterly for him as one

grieves for a firstborn son.

On that day

the weeping in Jerusalem

will be as great.' "

And it goes on from there,

leading into 13:1, " 'On

that day

a fountain will be opened

to the house of David

and the inhabitants

of Jerusalem,

to cleanse them from sin

and impurity.' "

And the same with Chapter 14.

There must be a Jewish

controlled Jerusalem.

There must be a Jewish

land of Judah

for these prophecies

to come to pass.

And ultimately,

this is the climax of the ages.

This is the final battleground.

And and certainly

Satan understands

that it is a Jewish Jerusalem

that welcomes the Messiah back.

So, so we know in the judgment

passage in Matthew 23,

where Yeshua pronounces

7 woes against hypocritical

religious leaders

that He ends by saying in verse

37, " 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem,

you who kill the prophets

and stone those sent to you,

how often

I have longed to gather

your children together, as a

hen gathers her chicks

under her wings,

and you were not willing.

Behold, your house

is left to desolate for

I tell you...' " verse 39, "

'you will not see me again

until you say Baruch haba

b'Shem Adonai, blessed is

He who comes

in the name of the Lord.

And we understand

that those were the same words

that were used with

His triumphal entry

as He was coming into Jerusalem

just a couple weeks earlier.

And the crowds, hailing Him

as the Messianic King.

What was

what was going on then?

What were they saying?

Blessed is He who comes

in the name of the Lord.

We welcome you King Messiah.

He said,

you won't see me again.

It's a judgment passage, yes,

but what's the word?

You won't see me again

until you welcome me

back as the Messiah.

And what is Peter

preaching in Acts 3?

I referred to it last night.

Repent and turn to

God that your sins

may be blotted out

that times of refreshing

may come that

He may send the Messiah.

And this is a concept

that was found in

traditional Judaism as well.

That Jewish repentance

will bring back the Messiah.

And here we see it

in Zechariah, the 12 chapter.

This is the final battleground,

and Satan knows that

it is a Jewish Jerusalem

that will welcome

back the Messiah.

And when He returns,

that's the end for Satan.

So if you were the devil,

what would you try to do?

Well,

wipe out the Jewish people.

That's a good place to start.

That failing, keep them

out of the land.

And there's one other thing

to think about.

We are here to see

literal promises

fulfilled of the Jewish people,

literally restored

back to the land.

And when God acts in history,

when the Son of God

comes into the world,

what do people do?

They kill Him.

It's almost as if you can

get close enough to God,

the human beings,

the human race

with our rebellion

with our hatred of God,

what do we want to do?

We want we want to attack.

You know there's the

the joke that some atheists

who've written books

that are tremendously hostile

to God and religion.

You could sum them up

with saying there is no God

and I hate him.

I mean you

you understand that sentiment.

It's certainly there.

So the point is this

there is a hatred

for the things of God,

the purposes of God.

So when God acts in history

in a tangible way,

an undeniable way,

there is a fierce resistance

to it, and hence

this fierce resistance

to the Jewish people

restored back to the land

because it is God acting

clearly in history

and demonstrating His will

and demonstrating His power.

Now let me say one last thing.

The theological ramifications

of the return of the Jewish

people to the land.

The theological ramifications

are massive.

Why do I say that?

Well,

replacement theology.

Or, as you understand,

supersessionism

the idea that the

Church superseded

Israel and God's promises.

That was prevalent

through much of Church history.

And although there are people

who hold the different

forms of it today

who are in no way antisemites,

who love the Jewish people,

the fact is historically

this opened the floodgates

of antisemitism.

Without this theology

we would not have

had the

antisemitism in the Church

that we've had through history.

So again,

there are people

who hold to various

forms of replacement

theology today,

and most of them

don't like to use that term.

They use other terms.

And they are not antisemites,

but it is replacement theology

that opened the doors

to antisemitism

through Church history.

And many will say, "Look,

look I don't hold to

replacement theology.

I hold to fulfillment theology.

I hold to this.

I hold to that."

I just asked a simple question.

Are there literal promises

that remain

for the physical nation

of Israel today?

If they say

no, they hold to

replacement theology.

Somebody else

got those promises.

OK, those promises were given

to physical national Israel,

and now we're told they

no longer apply to them.

Then they've been replaced.

It's really simple,

no matter

how you slice the cake.

Or excuse me, no matter

how you slice the bagel.

Last point.

It was easy to have a theology

that said God's finished

with the Jewish people

as a nation.

Individual Jews can be saved

but God is finished with

the Jewish people as a nation.

Why?

Well, they are scattered?

Obviously.

The temple has been destroyed.

It's over.

God made His statement.

He gave His final statement.

It's done with it's over.

With the destruction

of the temple,

it's like three strikes

you're out.

You rejected Moses,

you rejected the prophets.

Now you rejected

the Messiah it's over.

This fig tree will never

bear fruit again.

It's been cursed.

Jewish people scattered

the wrath of gods

come on them for good.

Individual Jews can be saved,

but no promises remain

for national Israel.

With the horrors

of the Holocaust and the shame

of so many church leaders

recognizing that

it was antisemitism that paved

the way, prepared

the way in Europe,

for the horrors

of the Holocaust.

And now with the restoration

of the Jewish people

back to the land,

it became very difficult to say

that

God is through with Israel.

Surviving the Holocaust,

the shame of the

fruit of replacement

theology in the Church

and now the

physical restoration.

How can you possibly say

that God is finished with them?

And so that teaching

really took a blow.

However, given time

many Christians revert

back to it. Why?

Because Israel has

been around so long

now it doesn't even

seem like a miracle.

I mean, this is the way

it's being pictured now

and Israel's faults

and blemishes are obvious,

so you can't just have

this sentimentalized

view of ah Israel.

And so, little by little

this wrong, false teaching

is raising its head again.

And yet every day

Israel existing

as a nation stands

as a witness against this.

And of course, at

the end of the age,

this is one

of the false teachings

that will

be completely demolished

and on a broader

scale, as I often say,

it will be a bad

day for antisemites

when the One coming

in the clouds of heaven

in flaming fire,

taking vengeance on those

who do not know God, that

One will be a glorified Jew.

That'll be a bad day

for antisemites.

So hopefully you see

the spiritual significance

and importance of

these things in the

ongoing relevance of the words

of the prophets.

“Hear the word of the Lord,

O nations, And declare

in the coastlands afar off,

And say, ‘He who scattered

Israel will gather him

And keep him as a shepherd

keeps his flock.’ ”

Jeremiah 31:10.

Throughout the Bible

and in present time,

we've seen

how the Jewish people

have faced challenges

to their survival,

and since 1948,

they have had to fight

to stay in the land

God gave to them.

In the Old Testament,

Israel fought giants and larger

armies, and today,

this nation is now surrounded

by neighbors who oppose her.

Yet in all of this,

we see

that God has been faithful

to preserve His people.

The State of Israel

is a fulfillment of God's

promise to Abraham.

Only He can regather

the children of Israel

back to the land He promised

to give to them.

As we reflect on God's

faithfulness to Israel,

we can be sure that He will

also be faithful to all

who believe in Him.

Thank you for listening

to Our Hope.

This episode was

Dr.

Mitch Glaser, Dr.

Michael Brown, Grace Swee, Abe

Vazquez, and Kieran Bautista.

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