Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Miracle of the State of Israel by Amy J.

If anyone actually took the time to understand how the country of Israel, once again, became a nation after her people were exiled for about 2,000 years, they would not dare dispute who the land belongs to. If you truly understood their story, you would not dispute the fact that Israel is standing strong as a nation today is truly a divine act. Based on the odds that the Israelis were facing against during the wars/battles in 1948, 1967 and 1973, there is no way that the Israelis could have won these battles apart from the divine protection from God. If you believe the Bible/Torah, then you know that God does not break promises. As current events demonstrate, God still follows through with His word:

Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
-Genesis 12:1-3 (New King James Version)

During the times that the Israelis had to defend their land, many of the Israeli soldiers specifically cited what appeared to be unexplainable supernatural victories against their Arab enemies during certain battles. Others have legitimately stated they saw what can only be explained as angels from the Lord defeating their enemies. You might think this sounds crazy. But, whether you're a skeptic or not, you've got to see the documentary, Against all Odds, to see where I'm coming from.

On a side note, what is ironic is that Israel is one of the smaller countries in the world, yet there is no piece of land that is so highly disputed or inspires terrorism from a group of people, specifically the Arabs (The so-called Palestinians are Arabs; there are no such thing as a Palestinian people and I will cover that on a later post). According to the historical Biblical account, the Arabs descended from Ishmael. Ishmael's younger half-brother, Isaac, is where the Jewish/Israelis descended from; both were sons of Abraham. Now in this post, I am not going to go into the circumstances of the Biblical accounts of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac. The only reason I mentioned this is to point out that the conflict between the descendants of Ishmael and Isaac stemmed from this Biblical account and is well over 3,000 years old. And of course, these conflicts are documented in secular historical accounts, as well. The following link has the video clip of the entire interview between John Hagee and Bill McKay, the film producer of Against All Odds:

Pastor Hagee & Bill McKay: Against All Odds


Amy J.

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