A brief comment on Biblical implications. Peter Sammons.
Image: Unsplash. The Beach area in happier times.
NO COMMENT
I do not want to comment extensively on the Bondi Beach murders. Millions of words will be expended to present varying viewpoints.
Two quick points I do wish to make, however. In my 2013 book “Rebel Church” (freely downloadable as PDF here: https://christian-publications-int.com/images/PDF/RebelChurch.pdf ) I stated that church-attenders who fail to understand Israel in God’s end time purpose will be increasingly perplexed in the years ahead – see chapter 6 especially. Too many ‘churches’ will today express horror, shock and ‘solidarity’ with all ‘sides’, and say they yearn for peace (at any price?). But neither Israel nor ‘Palestine’ are going to go away. There will be no ‘peace’.
RETURN TO THE LAND
The Bible prophesies the return of Jewish people to Israel in numerous passages, particularly Old Testament prophets like Isaiah (e.g., Isaiah 11:11-12), Jeremiah (e.g., Jeremiah 16:15; 29:14), and Ezekiel (e.g., Ezekiel 37:21). These describe a future ingathering from all nations, a ‘second time’ after the Babylonian exile, as God restores Jewish people to their ancestral land. Deuteronomy 30:3-5 also speaks of God gathering them from exile, while Romans 11 in the New Testament opens-up the eventual restoration of Israel as a whole, linking it to the Messiah and to His return.
We are seeing this today. Ironically ‘the World’ is bringing this prophetic fulfilment to pass, as the world makes life increasingly impossible for Jewish folk, everywhere. Why cannot they ‘see’ that God is real, and His covenant promises WILL be fulfilled?
Expect more Jewish people to make Aliyah to Eretz Israel.
FOURTEEN ONE THOUSANDTHS – A JUSTICE PASTIME
In my 2022 book “Last Days and End Times” I point out that Eretz Israel today is 14 one thousandths of one percent of the world’s land mass. Yet it is on this tiny sliver of planet Earth that ‘the World’ expends the bulk of its political, social and supposedly moral ‘investment’. Despite Gaza, there are many horrific humanitarian injustices across this planet that receive no Media airtime. The world has just one justice pastime – and that is ‘Palestine’. (Use the articles search facility here at Christian Comment to see varying viewpoints on ‘Palestine’).
So, more Jewish folk will be compelled to seek sanctuary in Israel. The world manages to make worse this ‘problem’ of its own making.
“Last Days and End Times” is also freely downloadable in PDF format, here: https://christian-publications-int.com/Last_Days_and_End%20Times.html . See chapter 4 as regards Israel.
SOMNOLENT
The world is blind and frankly asleep. Asleep to history. Asleep to implications. Asleep to God’s purposes. Don’t expect the World to change course. The world is hell-bent on one course of action, on one ‘solution’, a ‘final solution’ to the world’s self-inflicted wound. Expect more Bondi Beach type incidents. Expect more political pressure on Israel. Expect more wringing of hands in the institutional ‘churches’. Expect to see increasing signs that Jesus is on His way.
When you see these things happen, lift up your heads – your time of redemption draws near (Luke 21: 28). Pray for Israel. And pray for Jewish people, everywhere.
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