2. And the ransomed of the LORD shall
return and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away
(Isaiah 51:11)
4. R. Moses b Nachman
Nachmanides
Palestine, 1267 AD
5. Nachmanides
I cannot even find 9 Jews to
pray with! Many are Israel’s
forsaken places, and great is
their desolation. The more
sacred the place, the greater
the desolation. Jerusalem, is the
most desolate place of all!
(Jerusalem Post, Sep 2017)
7. Mark Twain
A desolate land whose soil is rich
enough, but is given over wholly to
weeds...a silent mournful expanse...
a desolation...we never saw a human
being on the whole route... hardly a
tree or shrub anywhere. Even the
olive tree and the cactus, those fast
friends of a worthless soil, had
deserted the country.
(Innocents Abroad, 1865, p. 361)
8. Year Muslims Christians Jews
1850 300,000 27,000 13,000
1860 325,000 31,000 13,000
1877 386,350 40,588 13,900
Population of Palestine
16. If you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or
be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes
that I command you today, then all these curses shall
come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be
in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field…Cursed
shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you
be when you go out.
(Deut 28:15–19 ESV)
17. And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one
end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other
gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers
have known. And among these nations you shall find no rest,
and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot,
but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart…Your life
shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in
dread and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you
shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say,
‘If only it were morning!’
(Deut 28:64–67 ESV)
21. When all these things come upon you, the blessing and the
curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to
mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has
scattered you, and return to the LORD your God…then the
LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on
you,
(Deut 30:1–3 ESV)
22. The LORD your God will…have mercy on you, and he will
gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your
God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost
parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather
you, and from there he will take you. And the LORD your
God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed,
that you may possess it. And he will make you more
prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
(Deut 30:3–5 ESV)
25. Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north, and
gather them from the farthest corners of the earth, among
them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman..a great
company, they shall return here. With weeping they shall
come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back…for I
am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. “Hear the
word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the
coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather
him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’
(Jeremiah 31:8–10 ESV)
28. I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the
countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle
clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your
uncleannesses…And I will give you a new heart, and a new
spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone
from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put
my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes
and be careful to obey my rules.
(Ezek 36:24–27 ESV)
29. For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed
of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own
estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel
until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel
will be saved; just as it is written: “THE DELIVERER WILL
COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS
FROM JACOB.”
(Rom 11:25–26 NASV)
30. Through Israel’s trespass salvation has come to the
Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous…I magnify
my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow
Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if
their rejection means the reconciliation of the world,
what will their acceptance mean but life from the
dead?
(Rom 11:11–15 ESV)
31. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the
power of God for salvation to everyone who
believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
(Rom 1:16 ESV)
