THE IN-GATHERING SEED It was until more than half a century ago that God, by His mercy and in keeping with His promises, brought the Israelites back to their own homeland. This happened in December 1917, towards the end of the First World War, when the British Army, under General Allenby, captured the City of Jerusalem from the Turks and liberated Palestine from the many centuries of Mohammedan oppression. The City of Jerusalem was captured without any shot being fired and without bloodshed. The secret was the presence of British airplanes flying over the City. It was the fear of these strange birds, which the Turks had never seen, that brought about the sudden surrender. So shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. – Isa.31:4,5 The entry of British General Allenby in the scene triggered the chain reaction of events which placed Israel in the mainstream of Bible Prophecy right before our eyes. The name Allenby has the euphonious union of two Arab words, Allah meaning God and Nebi meaning Prophet. So Allah-Nebi, a God Prophet. Is this a mere coincidence in Bible prophecy? And I will sanctify my great name... For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land... And the desolate land shall be tilted, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhibited. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. – Ezek.36:23,24, 34-36 And the Lord did just that! He went even further by gathering the Jews from the four corners of the earth and bringing them into their homeland. In doing so, He literally fulfilled the following prophecy: Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and daughters from the ends of the earth. – Isa.43:5,6 From the East, the Jews began to return, first from Iraq and around the old Babylonian captivity, then from India, China and other Eastern Lands where there had been Jewish settlements for centuries. Thus, for the East the Lord said, Avi, I will bring. The Western Jews were slow to return compared with those from the East, for gather in the Hebrew text is acabtsecha meaning collect. The condition of the Northern Jews was different for God commanded, Give up (Hebrew Taini – Give Me) and the Jews in Poland, Russia, France, Bulgaria, and other Northern lands began to return. Returning from the South on eagles wings (Isaiah 40:31) especially from Yemen, the Jews were told not to keep back (original translation: Altichlahi – Do not restrain or hold back) and by 1950 Yemen was empty of her Jews. So was Ethiopia, very recently. And so the Jews are returning home at the rate of 1,000 a day from all over the world. On their return to the homeland, the Jews began work on the land which had been lying desolate for the past eighteen and a half centuries. Immediately a great change began to take place. Through their hard intensive labour (but not without Gods help) the land was revived from its past years of desolation. Scientists said that in 1948 the jet streams overhead changed, and it began to rain in parts of Israel where it had not rained for centuries. You can read this wonderful fulfilled prophecy in Ezekiel Chapter 36.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 04:08:43 +0000