Restoration

One short glance over the Old Testament makes it kristal clear to the unprejudiced reader that God has promised his people the most glorious restoration one can think of. The true people of Israel await all ingredients of an eternal victory: justice done, peace raining down, blessings flowing limitless and power given that will rule the whole earth - for ever and ever.

 

The Apostle Paul preaches:

'And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob' (Rom.11:25,26)

 

Jeremiah 31 is full of the final salvation of God's people:

'For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

¹² Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.'

 

But those readers that expect this page to relate the present state of Israel to God's promises for his people are politely asked to look for such a relation elsewhere. For we think that the present state of Israel cannot be further from the promised blessings of the Lord for his people - further than when there would never have been a state of Israel.

 

According to Bible Prophecy, the restoration of God's people won't happen along the lines of the rise of Zionist Israel. Prophecy foretold no 'holocaust' in Europe. It foretold a genocide in the holy land. Prophecy foretold no theft of the land from the original inhabitants as fulfillment of promises. Instead it foretold the recapture of the land by the original inhabitants from those who stole it. Prophecy foretold no going back to the land without any repentance for decades. Instead it foretold an unprecedented weeping and wailing in the land once God would end the suffering of his people. Prophecy  foretold no rescue of a godless and unbelieving nation from rockets, fired from the North. Instead it foretold a total flattening of an ungodly people once the abomination of desolation would take place. Prophecy foretold no building of a third temple while a genocide and murder of many leaders would take place. Instead it foretold a series of provocations by assaults on the holy sites on the Haram Al Sharif which would end in the deification of the lawless one from the empire.

 

If the Zionist state of Israel would be the fulfilment of God's promises, what are we to make of the next statements in Zechariah, concerning the situation of his people in the Endtime?

1.    'Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten

men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you. (Zech.8:23)

 

Instead of the attitude of respect for the Jewish people, that this text speaks of, the evil behavior of the zionist state of Israel and its people during the past decades have aroused nothing but contempt for the zionist cause and hatred towards its followers. The people that have gained the respect of the world's nations are those that have deeply suffered under the authoritarian apartheid rule of so called Jews. They are known as the Palestinians. The Palestinians are the true people of the Lord, much more closely related to the ancient tribes of Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nothing of the blessed promises that God gave to his people can go into fulfillment as long as the 2000 year epoch of God's grace still lasts and his church is still on earth. First, the rapture of the church has to take place. Then and then only will God start to act on behalf of his old people of Israel.

 

In fact there are two completely different 'Israels' in the Endtime:

1. The true Israel of God, that will inherit the land and in which God's promises will be fulfilled.