Israel remains a family.

No mind can contemplate the ancient history of the children of Israel without feeling a strong desire to trace their history and to know something of their present state and prospects. The Jews were scattered, as the ancient prophets declared they would be, among all nations, from one end of the earth to another.

Mark Twain wrote the following,
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel) — not for 30 miles in either direction --- One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.

For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee . . . Nazareth is forlorn . . . Jericho lies a smoldering ruin . . . Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation . . . untenanted by any living creature . . . .

A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds . . a silent, mournful expanse . . . a desolation . . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route . . . . Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country . . . . Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes . . . desolate and unlovely.”

When Titus, destroyed Jerusalem and plowed up its foundations, the lands in Judea were ordered sold, and only a few souls remained amid its desolations. Multitudes moved to Egypt, the Islands of the Adriatic; Persia (Iran) and Babylon (Iraq); others took refuge in Italy and the western areas of the Roman empire. And no matter what nation or state they had ventured into, they continued to exhibit the same deep, earnest love of their ancient homeland.

All that remains today of other great civilizations are a small number of ancient documents, fallen crumbling stones and broken images. Their greatness and their glory swallowed up and covered by time. Where kings once feasted, common people now eat. But the Jews have preserved their ancient identity and live in the present, a people and nation of the past.

Before the remains of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Jews may be seen mourning and praying over the loss of their temple, their glory, and the ruins of ancient Zion. The world recognizes the father of the Jews in Abraham. Theirs is more a family history than a nation’s history. In whatever light we may view them, we cannot fail to be deeply moved by the feeling of intense interest on their behalf.

Their journeying across national borders, battling their oppressors, suffering considerable losses, and few victories, they remained a family, never forgetting their heritage. The first part of their struggle ended, and Amos’s prophecy began to bear fruit on the 14th of May, 1948.

Amos 9:14-15, the LORD said, “I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... 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.”
The LORD has brought the Jews through two thousand years of suffering and disgrace. “A reproach and a by-ward” among the nations, yet “a bush burning with fire, yet not consumed.” Here we have a beautiful fulfillment of prophecy, giving us incontestable evidence of the truth of the Bible.

Isaiah 11:10-16, It shall come to pass, said the Lord, “I shall set (my) hand again the second time to recover the remnant of my people, which shall be left ... and shall gather together the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”

No mind can contemplate the ancient history of the children of Israel without feeling a strong desire to trace their history and to know something of their present state and prospects. The Jews were scattered, as the ancient prophets declared they would be, among all nations, from one end of the earth to another.

Mark Twain wrote the following,
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel) — not for 30 miles in either direction --- One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.

For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee . . . Nazareth is forlorn . . . Jericho lies a smoldering ruin . . . Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation . . . untenanted by any living creature . . . .

A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds . . a silent, mournful expanse . . . a desolation . . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route . . . . Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country . . . . Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes . . . desolate and unlovely.”

When Titus, destroyed Jerusalem and plowed up its foundations, the lands in Judea were ordered sold, and only a few souls remained amid its desolations. Multitudes moved to Egypt, the Islands of the Adriatic; Persia (Iran) and Babylon (Iraq); others took refuge in Italy and the western areas of the Roman empire. And no matter what nation or state they had ventured into, they continued to exhibit the same deep, earnest love of their ancient homeland.

All that remains today of other great civilizations are a small number of ancient documents, fallen crumbling stones and broken images. Their greatness and their glory swallowed up and covered by time. Where kings once feasted, common people now eat. But the Jews have preserved their ancient identity and live in the present, a people and nation of the past.

Before the remains of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Jews may be seen mourning and praying over the loss of their temple, their glory, and the ruins of ancient Zion. The world recognizes the father of the Jews in Abraham. Theirs is more a family history than a nation’s history. In whatever light we may view them, we cannot fail to be deeply moved by the feeling of intense interest on their behalf.

Their journeying across national borders, battling their oppressors, suffering considerable losses, and few victories, they remained a family, never forgetting their heritage. The first part of their struggle ended, and Amos’s prophecy began to bear fruit on the 14th of May, 1948.

Amos 9:14-15, the LORD said, “I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... 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.”
The LORD has brought the Jews through two thousand years of suffering and disgrace. “A reproach and a by-ward” among the nations, yet “a bush burning with fire, yet not consumed.” Here we have a beautiful fulfillment of prophecy, giving us incontestable evidence of the truth of the Bible.

Isaiah 11:10-16, It shall come to pass, said the Lord, “I shall set (my) hand again the second time to recover the remnant of my people, which shall be left ... and shall gather together the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”

God will protect the Jews. I agree. However, we must remember that a NEW JERUSALEM will descend from heaven when the Lion of Juda returns. Under the New Covenant, Faith, a New Israel exists. All who profess Jesus as Lord and Savior have become heirs to the Promis through adoption, and, as Paul said: One is not a Jew who is one outwardly, but who is one INWARDLY.

God will protect the Jews. I agree. However, we must remember that a NEW JERUSALEM will descend from heaven when the Lion of Juda returns. Under the New Covenant, Faith, a New Israel exists.

No mind can contemplate the ancient history of the children of Israel without feeling a strong desire to trace their history and to know something of their present state and prospects. The Jews were scattered, as the ancient prophets declared they would be, among all nations, from one end of the earth to another.

Mark Twain wrote the following,
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel) — not for 30 miles in either direction --- One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.

For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee . . . Nazareth is forlorn . . . Jericho lies a smoldering ruin . . . Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation . . . untenanted by any living creature . . . .

A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds . . a silent, mournful expanse . . . a desolation . . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route . . . . Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country . . . . Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes . . . desolate and unlovely.”

When Titus, destroyed Jerusalem and plowed up its foundations, the lands in Judea were ordered sold, and only a few souls remained amid its desolations. Multitudes moved to Egypt, the Islands of the Adriatic; Persia (Iran) and Babylon (Iraq); others took refuge in Italy and the western areas of the Roman empire. And no matter what nation or state they had ventured into, they continued to exhibit the same deep, earnest love of their ancient homeland.

All that remains today of other great civilizations are a small number of ancient documents, fallen crumbling stones and broken images. Their greatness and their glory swallowed up and covered by time. Where kings once feasted, common people now eat. But the Jews have preserved their ancient identity and live in the present, a people and nation of the past.

Before the remains of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Jews may be seen mourning and praying over the loss of their temple, their glory, and the ruins of ancient Zion. The world recognizes the father of the Jews in Abraham. Theirs is more a family history than a nation’s history. In whatever light we may view them, we cannot fail to be deeply moved by the feeling of intense interest on their behalf.

Their journeying across national borders, battling their oppressors, suffering considerable losses, and few victories, they remained a family, never forgetting their heritage. The first part of their struggle ended, and Amos’s prophecy began to bear fruit on the 14th of May, 1948.

Amos 9:14-15, the LORD said, “I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... 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.”
The LORD has brought the Jews through two thousand years of suffering and disgrace. “A reproach and a by-ward” among the nations, yet “a bush burning with fire, yet not consumed.” Here we have a beautiful fulfillment of prophecy, giving us incontestable evidence of the truth of the Bible.

Isaiah 11:10-16, It shall come to pass, said the Lord, “I shall set (my) hand again the second time to recover the remnant of my people, which shall be left ... and shall gather together the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”

No mind can contemplate the ancient history of the children of Israel without feeling a strong desire to trace their history and to know something of their present state and prospects. The Jews were scattered, as the ancient prophets declared they would be, among all nations, from one end of the earth to another.

Mark Twain wrote the following,
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel) — not for 30 miles in either direction --- One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.

For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee . . . Nazareth is forlorn . . . Jericho lies a smoldering ruin . . . Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation . . . untenanted by any living creature . . . .

A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds . . a silent, mournful expanse . . . a desolation . . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route . . . . Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country . . . . Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes . . . desolate and unlovely.”

When Titus, destroyed Jerusalem and plowed up its foundations, the lands in Judea were ordered sold, and only a few souls remained amid its desolations. Multitudes moved to Egypt, the Islands of the Adriatic; Persia (Iran) and Babylon (Iraq); others took refuge in Italy and the western areas of the Roman empire. And no matter what nation or state they had ventured into, they continued to exhibit the same deep, earnest love of their ancient homeland.

All that remains today of other great civilizations are a small number of ancient documents, fallen crumbling stones and broken images. Their greatness and their glory swallowed up and covered by time. Where kings once feasted, common people now eat. But the Jews have preserved their ancient identity and live in the present, a people and nation of the past.

Before the remains of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Jews may be seen mourning and praying over the loss of their temple, their glory, and the ruins of ancient Zion. The world recognizes the father of the Jews in Abraham. Theirs is more a family history than a nation’s history. In whatever light we may view them, we cannot fail to be deeply moved by the feeling of intense interest on their behalf.

Their journeying across national borders, battling their oppressors, suffering considerable losses, and few victories, they remained a family, never forgetting their heritage. The first part of their struggle ended, and Amos’s prophecy began to bear fruit on the 14th of May, 1948.

Amos 9:14-15, the LORD said, “I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... 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.”
The LORD has brought the Jews through two thousand years of suffering and disgrace. “A reproach and a by-ward” among the nations, yet “a bush burning with fire, yet not consumed.” Here we have a beautiful fulfillment of prophecy, giving us incontestable evidence of the truth of the Bible.

Isaiah 11:10-16, It shall come to pass, said the Lord, “I shall set (my) hand again the second time to recover the remnant of my people, which shall be left ... and shall gather together the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”

Rom 10v21: " But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people."

Israel is still "a disobedient and gainsaying people" in God's eyes, soon it will make a firm covenant with Antichrist, accept him as their Messiah, and start killing Christians during the Great Tribulation, with two thirds of them being executed at Christ's Second Coming, due to following Antichrist! Dan 9v27, 11v31, Zech 13v8, Matt 24v9,15-21, 2Thess 2v1-4, Rev 19v11-21.

A simple question:

What makes you think that those who call themselves "Jews" today, are truly Jewish in the sight of the Lord?

Good question: When Jacob was born, he was given a name by his earthly parents, Jacob. After he wrestled with the Lord, he was given another name, a heavenly name, Israel, as were Abraham, Sarah, Peter and others. The Jews who have not, and will not accept Jesus Christ, will go into the time of Jacob's trouble, these are not Israel, though they call themselves Israel. The Jews who receive Jesus, are israel, and will receive the promised blessings of God.

Good question: When Jacob was born, he was given a name by his earthly parents, Jacob. After he wrestled with the Lord, he was given another name, a heavenly name, Israel, as were Abraham, Sarah, Peter and others. The Jews who have not, and will not accept Jesus Christ, will go into the time of Jacob's trouble, these are not Israel, though they call themselves Israel. The Jews who receive Jesus, are israel, and will receive the promised blessings of God.

You did not answer the question.

Define "Jews" from your post:

"The Jews who have not, and will not accept Jesus Christ"
"The Jews who receive Jesus"

You did not answer the question.

Define "Jews" from your post:

"The Jews who have not, and will not accept Jesus Christ"
"The Jews who receive Jesus"

A simple question:

What makes you think that those who call themselves "Jews" today, are truly Jewish in the sight of the Lord?

A simple question:

What makes you think that those who call themselves "Jews" today, are truly Jewish in the sight of the Lord?

If God prophesied He would restore Israel and cause them, who are scattered to return Home, why wouldn't they be Jews?
Hosea 3:4-5
For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols. Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

The Last Days has been a 2,000 year period. So the Jews in Israel today meet every condition Hosea speaks about.

A few years ago a few of you will remember (maybe not) I went to Slovakia to help with the one Christian school in the country. The pastor of the local protestant evangelical church there became enamored with the testimony/devotional I gave and discussions I had with the local American missionary's son about visiting Israel.

So now...the pastor after deciding to take a 2 year sabbatical in Israel after our trip there....his son has returned to Israel requested by the Israeli government to help with humanitarian efforts there.

Strange connections indeed.

No mind can contemplate the ancient history of the children of Israel without feeling a strong desire to trace their history and to know something of their present state and prospects. The Jews were scattered, as the ancient prophets declared they would be, among all nations, from one end of the earth to another.

Mark Twain wrote the following,
“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent (valley of Jezreel) — not for 30 miles in either direction --- One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings.

For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee . . . Nazareth is forlorn . . . Jericho lies a smoldering ruin . . . Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation . . . untenanted by any living creature . . . .

A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds . . a silent, mournful expanse . . . a desolation . . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route . . . . Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country . . . . Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes . . . desolate and unlovely.”

When Titus, destroyed Jerusalem and plowed up its foundations, the lands in Judea were ordered sold, and only a few souls remained amid its desolations. Multitudes moved to Egypt, the Islands of the Adriatic; Persia (Iran) and Babylon (Iraq); others took refuge in Italy and the western areas of the Roman empire. And no matter what nation or state they had ventured into, they continued to exhibit the same deep, earnest love of their ancient homeland.

All that remains today of other great civilizations are a small number of ancient documents, fallen crumbling stones and broken images. Their greatness and their glory swallowed up and covered by time. Where kings once feasted, common people now eat. But the Jews have preserved their ancient identity and live in the present, a people and nation of the past.

Before the remains of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Jews may be seen mourning and praying over the loss of their temple, their glory, and the ruins of ancient Zion. The world recognizes the father of the Jews in Abraham. Theirs is more a family history than a nation’s history. In whatever light we may view them, we cannot fail to be deeply moved by the feeling of intense interest on their behalf.

Their journeying across national borders, battling their oppressors, suffering considerable losses, and few victories, they remained a family, never forgetting their heritage. The first part of their struggle ended, and Amos’s prophecy began to bear fruit on the 14th of May, 1948.

Amos 9:14-15, the LORD said, “I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ... 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.”
The LORD has brought the Jews through two thousand years of suffering and disgrace. “A reproach and a by-ward” among the nations, yet “a bush burning with fire, yet not consumed.” Here we have a beautiful fulfillment of prophecy, giving us incontestable evidence of the truth of the Bible.

Isaiah 11:10-16, It shall come to pass, said the Lord, “I shall set (my) hand again the second time to recover the remnant of my people, which shall be left ... and shall gather together the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”