Prophecy Update #407 – Homeland

We are now in our eighth year of presenting a weekly Prophecy Update.  This is #407 in that series.

We talk a lot about prophecy because one quarter of the Bible is devoted to it.  One in every four verses is either a fulfilled prophecy, or a future one awaiting its fulfillment.

Eighty-percent of the Bible’s prophecies have already come true.  Those that have not come true are all concerned with what we commonly call the end times, or the last days.  They, too, must be fulfilled to the letter.

What do we mean by “Prophecy Update?”  It is our belief that we can identify trends in the world, and news, that would be expected in light of the unfulfilled prophecies.

One thing that is a very definite, and miraculous, fulfillment of many prophecies is the rebirth of the modern nation of Israel.

Another fulfillment of Bible prophecies is the return of Jews to their land from all parts of the world where they have been scattered for the past two thousand years.

A recent article posted on cbn.com was titled, Prophecy Fulfilled: North American Jews Return to Israel.

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Seeing Jewish people return to Israel is like watching Bible prophecy unfold before your eyes.  Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all speak of the Jewish return to the land.

Immigrants from North America landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport to make Israel their home.

Almost 30 families with 75 children make up this group of new immigrants.  They include Lisa and David Parshan and their two children.

This group arrived on an El Al flight chartered by Nefesh B’Nefesh.  The organization partners with the government to help North American and British Jews make aliyah and adjust to Israeli life.

“I just think that every Jew should be struggling with the issue of the Jewish homeland, and that’s not just a slogan but it’s rather an opportunity,” Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, cofounder of Nefesh B’Nefesh told CBN News.

Since its establishment in 2002, it has brought about 45,000 immigrants from the United States, Canada, and England.  Rabbi Fass explained why they come.

“We don’t want the immigration from America to be an aliyah of necessity, of running away from something, of distress, duress, persecution. You don’t want that,” he said. “The beauty of North American immigration is that people are choosing (to come).”

[Source Article]

Aliyah is the Hebrew word for “ascent,” and it’s used to describe dispersed Jews returning to Jerusalem.  Back in December of 2014 the aliyah numbers were the highest they’d been in a decade.

Aliyah from the Ukraine tripled in the first quarter of 2015.  Another article reported that French aliyah was surging this summer.

Most weeks I am careful to explain that what we are reporting might be setting the stage for prophecy to be fulfilled; or it certainly sounds like something that could result in the fulfillment of prophecy.

Jews returning to Israel – that IS prophecy being fulfilled, right before our very eyes.

We don’t expect, or need, to see anything happen, or to be fulfilled, before Jesus can resurrect and rapture the church.  It is presented in the Bible as imminent.

Are you ready for the rapture?  If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up.  Ready or not, Jesus is coming!