The State of Israel

August article by Nathan Sanders

To this day Israel remains a growing state despite being opposed by its surrounding nations. The nations around Israel like Palestine and further afield, Iraq, have questioned its right to exist and this has been the reason for war and conflict in the area for many years.

Recent reports from France, have described increasing acts of anti-semitism against the Jews settled there. After numerous attacks in the country, it has led to an influx in French Jews being encouraged by the Ministry of Immigration to return back to the land promised to them in the scriptures. They are to sail along the same route used by the Exodus in 1947. Also, since 1989 25,000 French Jews have immigrated to Israel.

In Jeremiah ch 30 v3 we read:

“For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it”

The population of Israel continues to thrive and according to the Jerusalem Post on the 7^th May, from the census at Israel’s 56^th Independence, the population is made up as follows:

Israel’s population stands at 6,780,000

81% (5,180,000) are Jewish, 19% Arab.

One person who had a great deal to do with the setting up of the state of Israel was a man called Theodor Herzl. Theodor, who died 100 years ago on the 3^rd July 1904, was a man who envisioned the modern Jewish state. Despite much opposition against the cause throughout the world, he fought for the establishment of the Jewish State until his death at the age of 44. It took another 44 years until this reality was realised in 1948. Although his actions helped bring about the state of Israel, we know that it was only by the guiding hand of our Heavenly Father. The anniversary of his death was remembered by a special memorial service at his grave on Mt. Herzl earlier on last month.

We look forward to the time when Israel will be ruled by its rightful King, the Son of God. Peace will be in Israel and the middle east, and the government, God’s law, will go forth from Zion as prophesied in Isaiah Ch2 v3:

“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem”