Israel as a Nation: How God’s Fulfilled Promise Gives Us Hope for the Coming End Times

Posted on Dec 15, 2022 Topic : Men's Christian Living, Prophecy, Women's Christian Living
Posted by : Amir Tsarfati and Barry Stagner

Among God’s most amazing miracles of all time is His preservation of the nation of Israel. Not long after Jesus’ crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension to heaven, the Roman Empire sent armies to destroy Jerusalem and the temple, and the Jewish people were scattered abroad to the nations. For many centuries, the land was ruled by hostile foreign powers.

But beginning in the late nineteenth century, God worked in numerous ways through people and events to restore Israel as a nation. Jewish people began to return to the land, with their numbers increasing up through World War II, especially as Jews fled Europe during the Holocaust.

Then on May 14, 1948, the modern State of Israel was born. On a live radio broadcast, the first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, read aloud the words of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Those who were familiar with Bible prophecy recognized the significance of what was happening. Time and again, the prophets had predicted that there would come a day when the Jewish people returned to the Holy Land, and at last, it was now happening. As God promised in Ezekiel 36:8-10:

You, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come. For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

Here we see God speaking fertility into this dead land in preparation for the masses of Jewish people who would return. And today, the land is bountiful and filled with life. God has brought back His people by air, on ships, and by land. This is not man’s doing, but God’s. Against all odds, the nation of Israel has returned to its homeland and prospered.

The fact Israel is a country today—after 2,000 years of the Jewish people having been scattered worldwide—confirms God is faithful to His promises. And just as He has been faithful to Israel, He will be faithful to us. He will fulfill His promise in John 14:1-3 to rapture us and take us to be with Him in heaven. It is because God is faithful that we can have hope, and that we can be certain about the wonderful future that awaits us.