Thursday's Thoughts: Teaching The Truth About Israel

 

"The Lord will go forth like a warrior, He will stir up His zeal like a man of war;
He will shout out, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail mightily against His enemies."
(Isaiah 42:13)

 Texas and New York classrooms feature maps of the Middle East with no Israel.

Image courtesy/Daily Mail

"With the shocking rise of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment in the city and around
the country it is imperative that our public schools accurately and fully teach our students
about the history and origins of the state of Israel," Congressman Daniel Goldman (D-NY)
recently told the New York Post concerning maps displayed in schools like the one
shown above which do not show or mention the nation of Israel.

Below is an excerpt from the book, "Rebuilding Palestine According To Prophecy"
by George T.B. Davis.   This book was written and published in 1935, thirteen years
 before the newly established nation of Israel rose from the ashes of WWII
and the Holocaust to take her place among the nations of the world.

"The answer to this is very simple.  Long ago, it was prophesied in the Word of God 
 that *(the region of land known as ) Palestine should be rebuilt and restored
 in the latter days, and God is fulfilling these predictions to the very letter.

What God has promised He  always performs.   Is it not a privilege to be
living in a generation when we can see the prophecies of the Bible
being fulfilled before our eyes day by day?

The writings of the Old Testament abound in prophecies regarding the latter-day
return of the Jews and the transformation of (the region of land known as) Palestine.
  More than 2,000 years ago, Isaiah gave a graphic picture of exactly what is
taking place in (the region of land known as) Palestine today.

In chapter 61, verse 4, we read: "And they shall build the old wastes, they
 shall raise up the waste cities, the desolations of many generations."  

Image courtesy/Iberlibro (ES)

If you are fortunate enough to find a copy of this fascinating book, you will see that
God's plan to bring His people back to their nation was already firmly established 
thousands of years ago!  A remarkable transformation was taking place in the
land prior to WWII. Jewish people from all over the world were returning there.

When the war started, however,  Jewish immigration to the land
 God gave to them was abruptly cut off.

 Then, after the war was over, the Jewish people, many of them survivors
 of the Holocaust, were again denied the right to live in the land which God
 gave to them, mainly due to the pressure of world politics in the region, but
again, God remained faithful to His people, and in 1948, a re-established
Israel rose up to take her place among the nations of the world. It was the
 greatest fulfillment of biblical prophecy since the first advent of Messiah.

  Now, as it was then, no misinformation on a map, or anti-Israel rhetoric
 is going to stop God from fulfilling His plan and purposes for His people.
Those who have chosen to stand against Him by attacking Israel will one day
be very sorry. In fact, they will wish that they had never been born.

"Behold He that keeps Israel shall neither slumber or sleep." (Psalm 122:4)

Please pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and the Salvation of Israel.  Maranatha!

* Emphasis mine.  There has never been a nation of Palestine.