Due to the length I had two split the blog into three parts.
Moving
toward the Restoration of the Nation of Israel:
1850s Moses Montefiore building Jewish institutions in
Jerusalem
1871-1882 - The first Jewish agricultural settlements
in Palestine.
1881 - Pogroms in Russia.
1881-1884 - Russian pogroms kill tens of thousands of
Jews, causing hundreds
of thousands of Jews to flee.
Thousands of Jews were killed and massacred during the
pogroms.
1881-1924 - 2,500,000 Jews flee persecution in Eastern
Europe, and come to
the USA and Canada. About a million settle in Western
Europe,
and some 70.000 migrate to Palestine.
1881-1882 - "Hovevei Zion" (Lovers of Zion)
organization established in
Russia to encourage Jewish emigration to the Promised
Land.
1881 - Eliezer Ben Yehuda, "The Father of Modern
Hebrew", moves to Palestine
and promotes the Hebrew language.
Eliezer Ben Yehuda
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"Hibbat Zion", a Jewish
Zionist movement established.
1882 - The First Aliya (the Hebrew word for
"Ascending"); 12,000 Russian
Jewish refugees move to Palestine.
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Leon Pinsker publishes "Autoemancipation", calling for the
establishment of a Jewish Nation.
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The first International Anti-Jewish
Congress meets in Dresden.
1885 - Nathan Birnbaum coins the term,
"Zionism" in a periodical.
1890 - The Hebrew Language Committee is founded by
Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
1891 - Over 10,000 Jews expelled from Moscow.
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110,000 Jews flee Russia due to persecution.
- The
"Blackstone Memorial": a petition presented to President
Benjamin Harrison by preacher William E. Blackstone
and signed by 413
prominent Americans, including the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court,
called for American support for giving "Palestine
back to the Jews".
1892 - 137,000 Jews flee Russia due to persecution.
1894-1895 - In Paris, Jewish army captain, Alfred
Dreyfus is convicted of
treason in a rigged trial, touching off a wave of
French anti-Semitism. The
trial is covered by a Jewish Austrian journalist,
Theodor Herzl, who is
moved by it to seek a Zionist solution to
anti-Semitism.
1896 - February 14, Austrian journalist Theodor Herzl
publishes "The Jewish
State", a book proposing a Jewish homeland in
Palestine as a solution to
European anti-Semitism.
Theodor Herzl
1897 - August 29, The First Zionist Congress opens in
Basel, Switzerland,
during which Theodor Herzl writes, "Today I
founded the Jewish State."
- The World Zionist Organization is founded and Theodor Herzl is
elected it's president.
1898 - The Second Zionist Congress, during which the
colors of the Jewish
prayer shawl, blue stripes on white, are proposed for
the Zionist flag.
1899 - The Third Zionist congress, adopts a complete
constitution.
1900 - The Fourth Zionist Congress.
1901 - The Fifth Zionist Congress.
- The
Jewish National Fund is established to buy land in Palestine.
1903 - The Sixth Zionist Congress.
- The
spurious "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" is first
published in Russia to justify anti-Semitic actions.
1903-1906 - More anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia.
1904-1914 - The Second Aliya; made up of Jews escaping
pogroms in Russia and
Poland.
1904 - The death of Theodor Herzl.
- The
book "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" produced by
Russian Secret Police to imply a Jewish conspiracy to
rule the world.
But the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion are still in use, not only
in the Arab world, but also here in the West, and even among Christians?
They of course insists that they are not anti-Semites,
but defends the protocols.
1905 - The Seventh Zionist Congress.
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More than 400 Jews are massacred in
4 days in Odessa, Russia.
Henry Ford publishes his anti-Jewish beliefs in a
series of
newspaper articles entitled, "The International
Jew".
1907 - The Eighth Zionist Congress.
1908 - The Zionist Organization opens an office in
Jaffa.
1909 - Tel Aviv is founded, the first modern Jewish
city.
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The first Hebrew High School is
formed in Jerusalem.
- The
Ninth Zionist Congress.
- The
first Kibbutz, Degania, is founded on the shores of Lake
Kinnerret (The Sea of Galilee). http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Jewish+Education/Compelling+Content/Eye+on+Israel/Places+in+Israel/Degania.htm
The first Kibbutz, Degania
1911 - The Tenth Zionist Congress.
1913 - The Eleventh Zionist Congress.
1914 - World War I starts on the 9th of Av.
Video
- World War I Summary
1915 - The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacy
organization, was reorganized and
espoused anti-Semitism.
1917 - The Ottoman Empire collapses, British rule in
Palestine begins and
General Allenby enters Jerusalem.
- November
2, Britain issues the Balfour Declaration, endorsing a
Jewish state in Palestine.
1918 - General Allenby defeats the Turks at Meggido,
ending 400 years of
Turkish rule in Palestine.
-
Adolph Hitler, while in a sanitarium recovering from a mustard gas
poisoning, hears voices telling him that the Jews are
the source of all
1919 The Paris Peace Conference
1919 The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement
Emir Faisal I and Chaim
Weizmann left, also wearing Arab outfit as a sign of friendship
when they meet in 1918 in Palestine.
1919 - All Jewish religious communities in Russia are
dissolved, their
property is confiscated, most of their synagogues are
closed, and the study
of Hebrew is banned.
1919-1923 - The Third Aliya; 20,000 Jewish immigrants
from Russia and
Poland.
1920 - Adolph Hitler begins using the terms,
"extirpation", "annihilation",
and "extermination" concerning the Jews.
1920 - Arab Anti-Jewish massacre and rapes in the
Jewish Quarter of
Jerusalem.
1920 - At the San Remo Conference in Italy, the
Allied Powers award
Britain administration of the Mandate of Palestine on
the condition that the
Balfour Declaration of 1917 be implemented.
The
significance of the San Remo conference
See video:
The British Mandate of Palestine
1921 - The Twelfth Zionist Congress.
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Arabs murder and pillage Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and other towns
The anti-Zionist feelings among the Arabs was fueled
by the great mufeti of Jerusalem Amin al Husayni, who later became Hitler's Supervisory
in Bosnia, where his soldiers slaughtered Jews.
Video:
meeting between Hitler and Great mufti of Jerusalem
- Jewish
immigration to Palestine suspended by the British.
-
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Adolph Hitler becomes president of the National Socialist
(Nazi) Party in Germany.
1921 - Britain divides Palestine, creating the nation
of TransJordan in the
area east of the Jordan River (77% of Palestine, an Arab state)
1922 - June 30, A joint resolution of the United
States Congress endorses
the concept of the Jewish national home.
1922 - July 24, The League of Nations confirms the
Britain Mandate of
Palestine, citing the Balfour Declaration of 1917 in
it's preamble and
includes the responsibility to help "secure the
establishment of the Jewish
national home" in it's articles.
See also
1922 - American colleges and medical
schools limit the number of Jews
admitted.
1923 - The Thirteenth Zionist Congress.
1923 - Britain separates the Golan Heights from it's
Mandate and gives it
to the French Mandate of Syria.
1924-1930 - The Fourth Aliya; 80,000 Polish Jews
immigrate to Palestine.
1925 - The Fourteenth Zionist Congress. Hebrew
University opens in
Jerusalem.
1927 - The Fifteenth Zionist Congress.
1929 - The Sixteenth Zionist Congress.
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After 1929, Henry Ford provides the finances to carry the early
Nazi Party through it's initial difficult years.
1929 - August 23, Arab attack on the Jewish community
in Hebron.
1931 - The Seventeenth Zionist Congress.
1932 - First issue published of "The Palestine
Post" newspaper (later called
"The Jerusalem Post").
- The
King David Hotel is opened in Jerusalem.
1933/34 - The German parliament gives full powers to
Adolph Hitler.
1933-1945 - The Holocaust.
1933-1939 - The Fifth Aliya; mainly from Germany.
1933 - The Eighteenth Zionist Congress.
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Dachau concentration camp is opened for the confinement of
"undesirables" - mostly Jews.
1935 - The Nineteenth Zionist Congress.
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Adolph Hitler reclassifies the Jews as "untermensch"
(sub-human), depriving them of citizenship.
- The
Nuremberg Laws exclude Jews from public life, German
citizenship, and certain occupations.
1936 - Germans vote in favor of Adolph Hitler by
98.8%.
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April 15, The "Arab Revolt" begins
1937 - The Twentieth Zionist Congress.
- The
Peel Commission recommends partition of Palestine into Jewish
and Arab states.
1938 - Aliya B; illegal immigration of Jews from
Europe begins.
-
Nov. 9th: Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass". 7,000
Jewish shops looted, 267 synagogues burned down.
1939 The
whitepaper
1939 - May 17, Britain issues the "White
Paper", restricting Zionist
activity in Palestine, limiting future Jewish
immigration to 75,000, and
reneging on it's promise of supporting a Jewish State
1939 -Twenty-first Zionist Congress.
1939 - Nazi Germany adopts a master plan to liquidate
all Jews in Europe.
1939-1945 -
World War Two
World War II and the
Jewish brigade (Video)
1941 - The Germans first use gas chambers at
Auschwitz.
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Jews in German territories required to wear a yellow star for
identification.
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Auschwitz.
Adolf Hitler
1942 - In Berlin on January 20, the establishment of
the "Final Solution" to
exterminate the Jews of Europe.
See also The Wannsee Conference
- On
the 9th of Av, the first killings at the Treblinka
extermination camp in Poland.
1945 - December 2, initiation of the Arab League
Boycott on the Jewish
community in Palestine.
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January 27, Auschwitz Death Camp liberated.
1946 - The Twenty-second Zionist Congress.
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Thousands of Nazi war criminals flee into Arab countries,
primarily Egypt and Syria. Ties between the Nazis and
Arabs.
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July 22, The King David Hotel in Jerusalem bombed by the Irgun.
1947 - February 14, Britain turns responsibility for
Palestine over to the U.N.
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November 29, UN Resolution 181 calls for partition of the land
into a Jewish state and an Arab State, and the
internationalization of
Jerusalem.
Even though their portion comprised only a small
percentage of
the original Mandate, and most of that was desert, it
was accepted by the
Jews; but rejected by the Arabs.
-
15,000 Romanians and Bulgarians make
Aliya.
Video: the
long way home. The historical period from 1945 to 1948, when
the state of Israel was born. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QizluAFKcUk
The State of
Israel:
1948 - May 14, Britain leaves Palestine and the Jews
declare their
independence, which starts the next day. The
United States is the first
nation to recognize the new State of Israel - 13
minutes after their
Declaration of Independence.
- The War of Independence starts immediately after Israel's
Declaration of Independence. Israel is invaded
by five Arab nations, and in the next few years 850,000 Jews living in Arab
countries are forced to flee, the majority to to Israel.
1948-1951 – 1,000,000 Jews move to Israel, mostly from
Europe and Arab countries.
This is a picture from a refugee camp in Israel around
1950, showing Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
1949 - January 25, David Ben-Gurion elected Prime
Minister in Israel's first
national election.
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Israel's Knesset moves to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
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Israel declares Jerusalem it's capital.
1949-1950 - Operation Magic Carpet brings the entire
Jewish community of
Yemen to Israel, numbering about 49.000 people.
1950 - Israel's Knesset passes the "Law of
Return", giving citizenship to
any Jew in the world who moves to Israel.
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May, Operation Ali Baba begins, bringing 113,000 Jews to Israel
from Iraq.
Iraqi Jews arriving in Israel
1950-1952 - Operation Ezra and Nehemiah brings 130,000
Jews from Iraq to
Israel.
1951 - King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the
Temple Mount by Arab
extremists.
1955-1957 - 162,000 Jews come to Israel from Morocco,
Tunisia, and Egypt.
1956 - The Sinai War, lasting 100 hours.
Israeli forces in the Sinai in 1956
- The Jews
deported from Egypt.
1958 - On Israel's 10th anniversary it has 2,000,000
citizens.
1958-1960 - 27,500 Jews come to Israel from Romania.
1959 - October 10, creation of the terrorist
organization, Fatah.
1961-1964 - Another 215,000 Jews come to Israel from
Morocco and Tunisia.
1964 - June 2, the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO) founded by Gamal Abdel Nasser
of Egypt - 3
years before Israel gains the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in
the Six-Day War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
1965 - The Roman Catholic Church exonerates modern
Jews from guilt in the
murder of Jesus Christ.
1967 - The
Six-Day War (June 5-10). Israel gains control of East Jerusalem,
including the Old City, and the Golan Heights, the
Gaza Strip, the Sinai
Peninsula, along with Judea and Samaria (the
"West Bank"). Immediately
after the war, Israel offered to negotiate the return
of land for peace -
but the Arab governments refused to talk to them.
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Israel's Knesset formally annexes East Jerusalem, including the
Old City, into the State of Israel.
- In Hebron,
the tombs of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are opened to
non-Muslims for the first time in 700 years.
- In August, Arab leaders gather at the
Khartoum Conference and
adopt the policy of "The Three No's": No
peace with Israel, No negotiations
with Israel, and No recognition of Israel.
- November 22,
the UN Security Council adopts Resolution 242, which
includes calling for Arab countries to recognize
Israel.
1968-1976 - 100,000 Jews come to Israel from the
Soviet Union.
1969 - February, Yassir Arafat becomes Chairman of the
PLO.
1972 - Palestinian terrorists massacre all 11 Israeli
athletes at the Munich
1973 - The
Yom Kippur War.
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October 22, the UN Security Council adopts Resolution 338, which
reaffirms Resolution 242 and calls for negotiations
between Israel, Jordan
and Egypt.
Israeli tanks crossing the
Suez Canal, in The Yom Kippur War.
1975 - November 10, The UN General Assembly declares
"Zionism is Racism" in
1977 - May 17, Menachem Begin elected Prime Minister
in Israel.
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November 19, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visits Jerusalem.
1978 - September 17, Camp David accords signed.
1979 - March 26, Israel and Egypt sign peace treaty.
1980 - The Knesset passes the Basic Law,
"Jerusalem: Capital of Israel".
1981 - June 7, Israel destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear
reactor.
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October 6, Islamic Extremists assassinate Egyptian President Anwar
1982 - June 6, Start of the Lebanon war,
"Operation Peace for Galilee".
1984-1985 - Operation Moses airlifts 8,000 Ethiopian
Jews to Israel.
This operation was motivated by the large number of
Ethiopian Jews who were
actually walking across Sudan to reach Israel.
1987 - Start of the first Intifada.
1989-1999 - 870,000 Russian Jews immigrate to Israel
as the Soviet Union
1991 - Operation Solomon: massive airlift of 19,000
Jews from Ethiopia to
Israel, 14,325 of them arriving in one day (May 24th).
1993 - the Oslo Peace Accord.
1994 - October 26, Israel and Jordan sign peace
agreement.
1995 - November 4th, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is
assassinated by an
Israeli extremist who rejects any concessions to the
Palestinians.
1997 - June 10, U.S. Congress recognizes Jerusalem as
Israel's "United
1999-2002 - More than 10,000 Jews come to Israel from
Argentina.
2000 - September 29, start of the second Intifada.
2004-2006 - 10,000 Jews come to Israel from France as
anti-Semitism flares
up there.
2004 - October 13, The Sanhedrin, a Jewish religious
tribunal of 71 sages,
re-established in Tiberius for the first time in over
1,600 years, now
meeting monthly in Jerusalem.
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November 11, Yassir Arafat dies in a Paris hospital.
2006 - Israel now has the largest Jewish population
of any nation in the
world, finally surpassing the USA.
2007 - July 15-19, The first-ever international
gathering of Kohanim
(Priests) and Levites in Jerusalem - "the first
family reunion of the Jewish
priestly dynasty in nearly 2,000 years".
The Jews and
the land of Israel
Jewish connection to the land of Israel and Jerusalem.
The Jewish peoples relationship to Jerusalem
and the Land of Israel
Dr. Jacques Gautier, a law scholar who has spent more
than 20 years studying the international legal conditions for the creation of
Israel and the status of Jerusalem
An importent
Video about the Jewish right to the land of Israel
Christian
hostility and Christian support for Israel.
Christians are split into Christian Zionism and
replacement theology to day.
Especially evangelical Christians around the world
support Israel and the Jewish people.
But in earlier times, Christianity was dominated by the
replacement theology in the Catholic and the Orthodox church.
Jews was constantly expelled from European countries,
Why this harassment of Jews?
The reason for this harassment of Jews in Europe, is a
fruit of the Replacement Theology.
The Error of Replacement
Theology
Christian demonization of the Jewish people.
The term Blood Libel shows one of the fruits of the
replacement theology http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/blood_libel/
But let us
leave the past and look at the situation today.
Still there are dividing lines between Jews and
Christians. This also applies to the
many Christians who support Israel and the Jewish
people.
Although we share a common Bible there are religious
differences.
One of the hardest things for Jewish people to deal
with when it comes to Yeshua as Messiah,
is the idea that he could be God in human form. The
trinity just sounds like polytheistic idol-worship to Jewish ears. (watch the video: why jews dont belive in Jesus)
Monotheism was the defining difference between the faith of Abraham and all the pagan worshippers surrounding him in the Mesopotamian basin. Every Jewish person knows that their God is one.
Monotheism was the defining difference between the faith of Abraham and all the pagan worshippers surrounding him in the Mesopotamian basin. Every Jewish person knows that their God is one.
As Christians we also believe in one God, as revealed
in three persons.
In Genesis chapter 18:1-3, we read that God revealed
Himself to Abraham in three persons.
and we believe that one of these persons is the
Messiah. And that the Messiah is God, we believe from Jeremiah chapter 23:5-6,
and from Isaiah 53, where the Messiah is the atoning
sacrifice for the sins of the world, and this he could not do as a sinful
human.
A Messianic
Jew tells how he understands Trinity
To me, the Bible is a message of salvation, a
salvation from my sins.
Therefore, I love this Jewish book.
And this salvation is brought to the world through the
Jewish people.
John chapter 4:22 - for
salvation is from the Jews.
And remember that the entire Bible that we Christians
read, is a Jewish book, written by Jews, this applies to both the Old and New
Testaments.New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
How should Christians relate to the Jewish people?
We find many
Gentiles in the Bible, before the Christian era started, who came to faith in
the God of Israel. The Syrian commander Naaman, was one that we can read about
in the Bible in the second book of Kings, chapter 5.
And we read
about Ruth the Moabitess in the Book of Ruth, who said to her Jewish mother-in-law:
Your people are my people, and your God is my God. This attitude is a true
Christian attitude toward the Jewish people.
In Genesis
chapter 12, we can read one of God's promises to Abraham, 'I will bless those
who bless you, but whoever curses you I will curse, and in thee shall all
families of the earth be blessed. "
This
blessing of Abraham, becomes a blessing upon the whole nation of Israel, in
Numbers chapter 24:9
Through the
Bible, the Western world, became partakers in the blessing of Abraham. Many
aspects of the Western civilization, such as tolerance and care for the weak
and the suffering, is a fruit of the Bible.
When the
Vikings ruled my country, there was no mercy for the weak. It was a hard and
brutal society. British Christians came to the country and introduced the Bible
for my people, and the message of the Bible gradually changed the people. In
the eighteenth century, public schools were introduced, and the Bible became
the main subject in the school. It led to Christian revivals that transformed
our country.
For
Christians it is irrational to hate the Jewish people. This kind of Christianity
does not come from the Bible.
The Apostle
Paul writes in Romans chapter 11, that we Gentiles have been grafted into the
olive tree Israel, and Paul clearly says that Israel is not forsaken by God,
as the replacement
theologians are preaching.
The Bible
clearly says, that the Jewish people are not rejected by God (Isaiah chapter
41:8-10)
And the
prophecies of the Bible says, that the Jewish people will be gathered from all
corners of the world, and again become a nation in the land of Israel.
(Zechariah chapter 8, Isaiah chapter 11:11-12, Ezekiel chapter 36, Amos chapter
9:7-15, Jeremiah chapter 31: 1-5)
The
fulfillment of these prophecies are happening before our eyes today.
Some years
ago I met an Israeli woman in Eilat, and we came to talk about the Bible. She
said she was reading the Bible, and her favorite story was the story of Joseph
in Genesis. It is also one of my favorite stories.
When I read
the story of Joseph, I always feel that this story contains a prophecy about
the Messiah. Joseph was mistreated by his brothers, and sold
for a few pieces of silver.
But he was exalted by the Gentiles in Egypt, because
he saved them from starvation
By Pharaoh he was named Safenat Paneah, The Savior of
the Peoples
Because of the drought, his brothers traveled to Egypt
to buy grain. When Joseph had learned that his brothers were in Egypt, he went
to meet them, but the brothers were not able to recognize him as his brother.
But the second time they came, he revealed to them who
he was.
The Jewish woman in Eilat told me that this particular
event in the story, when Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, always made
a strong impression on her,
because Joseph meets his brothers with an overwhelming
love. He had the power to punish, but they meet only a boundless love.
I feel the same way when I read this story in the
Bible.
I think that this is something that will one day come
to pass, when the Messiah reveals Himself to the Jewish people, and this will
happen in a time of tribulation. Jeremiah chapter 30:7 "Alas! That day is
so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he
Shall be rescued from it. "
But the Bible also says that God will judge the
nations when he delivers Israel.
Joel chapter 3:
“For then, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of
Judah and Jerusalem, 2I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of
Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgement with them there, on account of my
people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the
nations. They have divided my land” Psalm 110: He will execute judgement among the nations,
filling them
with corpses;
he will shatter heads over the wide earth etc.
This is something that should rest as a burden on us
Christians for the Gentile world.
The Jewish people have been waiting for the Messiah in
millennia
Maybe the time of his coming is approaching
Isaiah Chapter 35:4 says that he will come and save
his people, and I also believe that we can read about this day of tribulation
and salvation in the book of Zechariah chapter 12 and 14.
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