John Tweedie - Israel: A Nation Reborn

January 20, 2026 | 27:29

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Israel: A Nation Reborn | January 20, 2026

History records,
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And the world cannot deny it
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That millions of jews died.
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Were executed during the second world war.
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We have the photographs.
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We have the newsreels to prove that had happened.
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Yet, remarkably,
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Within three years of the end of world war two,
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Israel was a nation again.
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After nearly 2000 years of exile
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Among the gentile nations.
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How do we explain this incredible
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Miracle of modern times?
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That's next.
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This episode of the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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The story of israel begins with the calling
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Of a man named abraham.
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We've already seen that.
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But let's visit again the promises that god made
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To this man, as found in genesis 12, verses 1 to 3.
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Now the lord had said to abraham,
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Get out of your country from your family
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And from your father's house, to a land that i will show you.
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I will make you a great nation.
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I will bless you
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And make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you.
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And i will curse him who curses you.
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And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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This is the theme of this latest season
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Of a prophetic connection.
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God's promises to abraham involved
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Land, people, nation, and then.
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But this nation will be a blessing to all nations.
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So that's the
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Theme of this latest series of a prophetic connection.
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And we're showing
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How israel has been a blessing to all the nations.
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But the journey of israel has involved much suffering.
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In fact, the jewish people would say
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To be chosen brings with it its own challenges.
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Suffering down through the centuries.
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Two major dispersions.
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And yet running through the old testament
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On the lips of the hebrew prophets.
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The promises of god which must have seemed
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Empty at times in their dispersion.
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Never more so than during the european holocaust,
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When jews were being put to death all day long, day
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After day.
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But still, they were god's chosen people.
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Still, he had promised to their father
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Abraham, that they would be a blessing to all nations.
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So they clung to the promises that were found on the lips
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Of their prophets.
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And consider this promise that's found on the lips of ezekiel,
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Who in fact was one of the exiles
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Exiled out of the land of israel by the babylonians.
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Found in ezekiel chapter 37.
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This was a prophet in exile.
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But god had placed ezekiel among the jewish
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Exiles in babylon so that he could speak to them there.
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They would know from the words of jeremiah,
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Another prophet,
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That their sojourn in babylon would last only seven years,
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And then god would bring them back.
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But they clung to promises like jeremiah's promise
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And this promise in ezekiel.
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Now we read in ezekiel 37 and verse one,
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The hand of the lord came upon me and brought me
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Out in the spirit of the lord,
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And set me down in the midst of the valley.
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And it was full of bones.
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And as this situation is described in ezekiel 37,
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We could draw a parallel with the holocaust,
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With the piles of corpses,
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With the skeletons of those that had been put to death.
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But in the midst of all of that, and even during the holocaust,
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The jewish people could claim this promise
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In ezekiel found in verse 11.
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Then he said to me, speaking to ezekiel, god
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Speaking to him,
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Son of man, these bones are the whole house of israel.
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They indeed say, our bones are dry,
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Our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off.
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They could have said that at any time during their dispersion
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And exile out of the land,
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But they certainly could have said it during the holocaust,
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Where there seemingly was no hope as they were
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Being exterminated.
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Therefore prophesy and say to them,
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Thus says the lord god, behold all my people,
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I will open your graves,
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And cause you to come up from your graves
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And bring you into the land of israel.
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Then you shall know that i am the lord.
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When i have opened your graves,
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O my people, and brought you up from your graves.
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I will put my spirit in you, and you shall live,
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And i will place you in your own land.
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Then you shall know that i, the lord, have spoken
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It and performed it, says the lord.
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An incredible promise, but one among hundreds of promises,
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That even
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Though the jewish people will be exiled out of the land,
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The almighty god, the god of israel,
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Would bring them back again.
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And today, there in the land of israel.
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And they are prospering as never before.
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Which tells us the promises of the bible,
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The words of the prophets are true.
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At the end of the mediterranean sea
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Lies a tiny strip of land known as israel,
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A place often referred to as the homeland of the jews.
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It is also known as the promised land,
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The place where,
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According to the biblical account in genesis chapter 12,
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God led abraham from his home in awe of the child's.
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God told abraham that his descendants
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Would become a great nation in the land, that he showed him,
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That they would bless other nations,
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And that the land would be theirs
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For perpetual generations.
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Of course, history records times when the jews were forcibly
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Removed from the land and into prolonged periods of exile.
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But this did not change god's promises or his intentions
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Concerning the land.
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In god's view, the land would always remain
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As the rightful inheritance of abraham's descendants,
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As established by covenants and in a line of succession
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That flowed through
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Abraham, isaac, jacob, and their descendants.
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God had said to abraham, get out of your country
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From your family
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And your father's house, to a land that i will show you.
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Then god said to abraham,
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I give to you and your descendants
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After you the land in which you are a stranger.
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All the land of canaan as an everlasting possession.
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And i will be their god.
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All of the land of canaan was to be israel's
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Eternal inheritance.
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But it was only by being in the land
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That the nation could completely fulfill god's will and become
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A blessing to the nations, as he had intended.
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While jews down
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Through the centuries were well aware of their divine calling,
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As defined by god's covenants with abraham and moses,
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There were bound to be days during their prolonged exiles
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When they must have doubted god and his intention
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To keep the promises he had given them, especially so
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During the almost two millennia that followed the destruction
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Of jerusalem and the temple and 70 a.d.
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As one century gave way to another.
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The dream of a return to zion began to fade,
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Prompting many jews
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To lose hope of ever returning to the land of their forefathers
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And to wonder if god had broken his promises to israel.
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Had the jewish longing
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To return to israel become an impossible dream?
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And were the children of israel forever destined to be
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Always at the mercy of other intolerant nations?
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For 2000 years, jews have prayed three times a day
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Return me, hashem to jerusalem,
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Returned me, return us, o god, to jerusalem.
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The new political movement wasn't
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Out of the blue, and as herzl, as the founder of that movement,
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Did, describe it
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As something of a response to the anti-semitism
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That he witnessed in france and throughout europe
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At the turn of the century.
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But it was an expression as a political movement.
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It was new, but it was an expression
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Of the ancient and the continual desire
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And prayer of the jewish people to return to its land.
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Although there was never a time in history when the land
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Was completely devoid of jews,
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The essence of a once proud nation
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With its capital in jerusalem had been lost.
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The land was no longer called israel but palestine,
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A name assigned by the roman emperor hadrian in 135 a.d.
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In his attempt to erase all memory of the jews,
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Their nationhood, and their connection to the land.
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What remained of the jewish presence was a series
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Of isolated jewish communities, inhabited by the descendants
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Of the small remnant left over from early dispersions.
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By the year
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1860, there are only 24,000 jews
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Living in palestine, compared to 440,000 arabs.
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However, things
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Began to change toward the end of the 19th century,
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When there seemed to be a new stirring in jewish hearts.
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One by one, jews began to migrate home to what
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Was commonly known as palestine, as if responding
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To some inner summons they could not ignore.
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By 1914, the jewish population had grown to over 90,000.
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This included many russian jews who had escaped the pogroms
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And persecution that preceded the bolshevik revolution.
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Yet another contributing factor to the resurgence of interest
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In a return to zion
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Can be traced directly to a zionist conference
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Convened in basel, switzerland, in 1897 under the leadership
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Of theodor herzl, a hungarian born jew from vienna.
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As a student of
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History and analyst of his anti-semitic, troubled times,
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Herzl concluded that jews would never fully
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Be at home among the nations of the earth.
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He concluded, the only viable solution to the problems
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That had plagued
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All jews for centuries was a sovereign jewish state,
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A place primarily for jews where jews could be who
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They were without fear of persecution.
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In 1902,
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Herzl wrote a book entitled old new land, in
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Which he articulated his vision and painted with words
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An almost prophetic picture of his ideal jewish nation.
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In the jewish state.
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He imagined the barren wasteland was blooming.
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Railways had been built
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And cities with beautiful harbors dotted the coastline.
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This ideal jewish state was a place where jewish people
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Were free to be themselves with a fear of persecution.
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It was a modern and cultured nation governed by jews,
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Where tolerance was practiced and freedom was enjoyed by all
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Citizens, regardless of their ethnicity.
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Hertzel didn't live long enough
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To see his dream become a reality,
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But his was the prophetic voice that announced its coming,
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Even though it would take another 50 years for the dream
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To be realized.
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By coming to the land and building it.
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We rebuild ourselves as jews with a sense of dignity,
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With a sense of self-respect.
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Those are all the things that herzl said.
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Those are all the things that the zionist pioneers felt
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That by working the land, by building the land, by rebuilding
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Jewish culture, including the hebrew language,
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They were helping to rebuild themselves
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In a way that was sovereign and independent.
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The jews who returned to
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The land of israel in the latter half of the 19th century
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Must have experienced culture shock.
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They had left behind the rich pasture lands of europe,
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Only to discover
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That the promised land of their dreams had become,
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During their almost 2000 year absence,
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A wasteland virtually devoid of trees.
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In 1867,
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The american writer and humorist mark twain traveled
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Through the bible lands,
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A pilgrimage he chronicled in his book innocents abroad.
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Twain described what he saw and experienced jericho,
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The accursed, lies a smoldering ruin today.
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Even as joshua's miracle left it more than 3000 years ago,
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Bethlehem, the hallowed spot where the shepherds
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Watched their flocks by night and where the angels sang.
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Peace on earth, goodwill to man is un tenanted by any
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Living creature.
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Upon seeing jerusalem, twain wrote.
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The further we went, the more rocky and bear
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Repulsive and dreary the landscape became.
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There could not have been more fragments of stone.
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There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere.
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Even the olive in the cactus.
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Those past
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Friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country.
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Renowned jerusalem itself, the stately as name in history,
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Has lost all of its ancient grandeur and become
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A pauper village.
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In mark twain's view,
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The so-called promised land had little to offer.
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Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes over a broods,
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The spell of a curse
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That has withered its fields and fettered its energies.
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Palestine is desolate and unlovely.
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It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken lad.
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As with many others, both before and after him,
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Mark twain was disappointed by what he saw.
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His expectation was that a land chosen by god, a
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Promised land, should have been more like the garden of eden.
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Instead,
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He found a dreary, dusty land hardly fit for human habitation.
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Twain even wrote of his relief once he was back on board ship
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And heading for home in america.
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What he had failed
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To recognize, however, was that the land was in mourning.
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It was a land longing for the return of her rightful children.
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And god had promised through his hebrew prophets
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That that day would surely come.
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As a result of the jews coming back.
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There was just tremendous economic boom.
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And by the way,
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Many arabs moved into the land because there were jobs here.
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There weren't like
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There were
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A lot of jobs in the jordanian or the saudi desert or in egypt.
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So people came.
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Yasser arafat's family came from egypt
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To, quote unquote, palestine because they heard
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The jews were building the country.
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And so they moved in here.
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With the arrival of the jews in palestine.
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Restoration began and prosperity soon followed.
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This got the attention of arabs from surrounding nations,
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Many of whom began
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To migrate to the land in search of a better life.
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These arab migrants considered any form of employment income
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Better than none at all,
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Even if it was earned under jewish landowners.
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In 1939, in a memo addressed to the u.s.
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Secretary of state,
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President roosevelt observed the demographic changes
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Occurring in the region.
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Arab immigration
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Into palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded
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The total jewish immigration during this whole period.
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Arab migration and the population shifted
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Cause was the direct result of the innovation and hard
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Work of earlier jewish immigrants.
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Almost overnight,
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The jews had transformed the land
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That had been barren and dormant for nearly 2000 years.
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They had revived their ancient hebrew language
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And began to build foundations for what would later become
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A 20th century thriving economy.
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And they had accomplished all of this in the aftermath
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Of nearly two millennia of persecution.
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Never before has a people
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That was exiled 20 centuries ago.
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And then, driven from pillar to post
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And battered and beaten and bled and pogroms
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And ultimately holocaust did explicated
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In the gas ovens of auschwitz.
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More than a third of our people
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That were the
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Last remnants of our national strength.
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When our garments were so tattered
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With nothing else to tear.
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We picked ourselves up.
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And found the faith.
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And we came back to the land where jewish
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History began.
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When?
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Another of god's prophets, isaiah,
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Asked a rhetorical question
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Nearly 2800 years ago.
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And here's what he said.
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Isaiah 66 in verse eight,
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Who has heard such a thing?
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Who has seen such things?
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Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
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Or shall a nation be born at once?
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The prophet is asking,
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Can a nation be born in a moment of time?
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But most nations have evolved over time and circumstance
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Because of wars and treaties, divorces, all of the things
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That bring birth to nations.
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But the prophet's asking, can a nation be born at once?
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Israel answers that question
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Because israel was born in the mind of almighty god.
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And in a practical sense, she was reborn
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By a vote of the united nations that occurred
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In november of 1947,
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When the nations in the united nations actually
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Voted for the establishment of the reestablishment
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Of the nation of israel,
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A jewish homeland in their ethnic homeland.
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Now, remember, they have been dispersed for 1877
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Eight years at this point,
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Depending on when that vote took place.
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But certainly from 1870, when the romans destroyed
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Jerusalem, and with it the holy temple in jerusalem.
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And then the united nations voted in november of 1947.
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But the very next year, on may the 14th, 1948,
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David ben-gurion, the prime minister of modern israel,
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The reborn nation, declared that israel was a nation again
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In the sense a nation reborn from the ashes.
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Can a nation be born in a day?
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Israel answers the question
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Because god kept his promises
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To the people of israel.
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When david ben-gurion declared israel's independence,
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It was as if all that god had promised abraham, moses,
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And the other hebrew prophets
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Were on the verge of being fulfilled.
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This was particularly true for those scriptures
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Which spoke of the return and restoration of israel.
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The jews were back where they rightfully belonged.
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The land was being restored and the jews were building again
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On their ancient high places.
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This is exactly
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What the prophets had said would happen.
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And although 4000 years had passed since god
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First spoke to abraham, it seemed that israel
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Now had come full circle on her journey through time.
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But how did this tiny nation accomplished
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So much in such a short space of time?
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And who can explain how this progress occurred in a land
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Having few natural resources?
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And against a backdrop of persistent conflict
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With neighboring states?
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God, in his wisdom, brought us to the promised land,
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Travel its length and breadth.
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Almost empty of any
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Natural resources.
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When the good lord took us out of egypt,
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Had he told us to turn left?
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Is that right?
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We would have landed that in saudi arabia.
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Swimming in oil, as he told us.
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He led us to where we are now.
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Of swamps.
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Of deserts.
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He saw pioneers
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Reclaim.
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Restores.
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Planted. sowed.
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Turn them into meadows.
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And he above.
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Did say to us by the sweat of i brush out
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By thy blades.
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And thence.
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Lacking natural resources
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We had to cultivate
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Our intellectual resources.
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What you find, for example, nearly as well,
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Is almost everybody, even after they finish
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Formal schooling or after they finish college,
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Still go to study all kinds of things in different places
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Afternoon or when they take a year off, etc., because
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Studying, learning more, knowing more,
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Having more intellectual openness to things
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Is very central to israel's way of life.
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And i think it has long traditio
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It's also true that although israel,
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The nation state, had not existed for nearly 2000
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Years, the essence of the nation had always existed
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In jewish hearts down through the centuries.
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You know, we've been
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On a remarkable journey with the people of israel.
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But the journey began 30, 800
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Years ago with the calling of abraham,
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A man who believed in god
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In the midst of a society that had numerous gods.
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Somehow he understood that there was one almighty
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God of all creation.
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And on the basis of abraham's faith, god summoned him
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And made incredible promises to him
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That he would become a great nation, that the nation
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That would come from him would bless all nations,
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That god would give them a land
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That would be theirs for perpetual generations.
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Which in a sense means forever and ever.
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And abraham believed god, and from abraham came his son isaac,
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And then his grandson jacob, and from jacob 12 sons
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Who became the 12 tribes of israel.
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And as we followed them through this series
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And other series of the prophetic connection,
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We've seen that their journey has taken them through valleys,
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Over mountains, through the waters of the sea,
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Through fire and all manner of challenges.
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And of course, sadly, times of incredible suffering
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And the worst of those, the second world war
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And the european holocaust as historians refer to it today.
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But more recently than that, october the 7th, 2023,
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After years of, suffering under rocket fire
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From the gaza strip and from terrorist attacks
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Within un busses and other things.
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What an incredible journey of suffering.
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And yet the jewish people are back
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In the land that god promised abraham.
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It is a remarkable story,
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And it cannot be explained any other way
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Than in the promises of god through his prophets
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Being fulfilled down through the centuries.
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The amazing thing about this
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Holy book is that god has more promises to keep,
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And all prophetic roads, even as of today, lead to jerusalem.
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Jerusalem is the center of fulfilled
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And unfulfilled prophecies.
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And all the time on this long journey through time, the jewish
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People have been blessing the nations in numerous ways.
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The tragedy is that the nations have not acknowledged
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That israel is that sort of blessing.
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I read just today in my research
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That half the adult population of the world
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Has a very negative view of the people of israel.
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Where does it come from?
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It has to come through the constant media images
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That we see, and the animosity and the hatred against this
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One single jewish nation.
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But what these people are
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Missing is this god birthed, this nation.
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God has sustained this nation and god
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Has promises to keep to this nation.
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So all of the animosity, one day it will be washed away
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Because we will see the fulfillment of all
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Of the promises of god
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To this chosen special
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Nation called israel.
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John Tweedie - Israel: A Nation Reborn

January 20, 2026 | 27:29

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