Lesson
11
The
Jewish Return to Palestine
II. The Jewish Return
to Palestine
The Bible states over
and over again that the Jew will return to the desolate land and rebuild that
which was destroyed. It is important to look at several of these pictorially
described Scriptures.
"Fear not, for
I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the
west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south,
keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the
earth." Isaiah 43:5-6
"He that
scattered Israel will gather him. . ." (Jeremiah 31:10).
"And he shall
set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel,
and gather together the dispersed of ludah from the four corners of the
earth" (Isaiah 11:12).
"I will gather
you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you,
saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you
to be carried away captive" (Jeremiah 29:14).
The new nation of
Israel is a result of this coming back to Palestine. The Jew returning to his
homeland is one of the modern miracles of the 20th century, even though on a
smaller scale it had begun in the late 1800's. Israel became a nation on May
15, 1948, in the face of the most drastic attacks of the Arab armies surrounding
it. It is a nation to stay. "And I will bring again the captivity of my
people of Israel and. . .I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy
God" (Amos 9:14-15).
In 1882,
there were 24,000 Jews in Palestine. In 1914, there were 85,000. In 1948, at
the declaration as a nation, there were 650,000. Today there are over 3,000,000
Jews in the land of Palestine: The Jew has truly returned home.