What does the Bible say about israel becoming a state?
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The Bible foretells God’s faithful preservation and restoration of Israel, but it does not plainly identify any modern political state as the final or complete fulfillment of these promises. The prophets promise a return from exile, renewed blessing, and gathering from the nations in passages such as Deuteronomy 30:3, Isaiah 11:12 and 43:5-6, Amos 9:14-15, and Ezekiel 37:12. Isaiah 66:8 vividly speaks of a nation’s sudden birth, while Ezekiel 39 looks toward God’s decisive deliverance and sanctifying glory. Christians should rejoice in God’s covenant faithfulness, pray for the Jewish people, and remember that all God’s promises find their center and fulfillment in Christ and his redeemed people.
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- Luke 21:32
Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.
- Amos 9:14-15
[14] I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, And eat the fruit of them. [15] I will plant them on their land, And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.
- Isaiah 66:8
Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
- Isaiah 11:12
He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Isaiah 43:5-6
[5] Don't be afraid; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west; [6] I will tell the north, Give up; and to the south, Don't keep back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
- Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
- Ezekiel 39:1-29
[1] You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: [2] and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel; [3] and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand. [4] You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured. [5] You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. [6] I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. [7] My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel. [8] Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken. [9] Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years; [10] so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh. [11] It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog. [12] Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land. [13] Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh. [14] They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. [15] Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog. [16] Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land. [17] You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. [18] You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. [19] You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. [20] You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh. [21] I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. [22] So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward. [23] The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword. [24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them. [25] Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name. [26] They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; [27] when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations. [28] They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there; [29] neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
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