“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10-11 (ESV).
Was it prophesied that Israel will not be called Israel?
Hosea 1:9, “Call him Lo-Ammi, not mine. For you are not my people, and I am not your God.”
Was it prophesied that the Jews would not recognize Israel?
Deuteronomy 33:9, “He did not recognize his brothers.”
Was it prophesied that Israel would forget their identity?
Genesis 41:51, “Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”
Was it prophesied the Jews would return to their family in 1948?
Dt 33:7, “Hear, O Lord, the cry of Judah and bring him into his family”
Was it prophesied Israel would be in conflict with the Jews?
Zechariah 11:14, “Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the family bond between Judah and Israel.”
Genesis 25:23, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Was it prophesied Israel would discover oil underneath its sand in Saudi Arabia?
Dt 33:19, “They draw from the abundance of the seas and the buried treasures under the sand.”
Was 9-11 and the global war on terror prophesied?
Dt 33:17, “He will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth.”
Zechariah 9:13, “For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
What was prophesied of the Apartheid Wall of Separation and the tens of thousands of Palestinian homes destroyed to build it?
Isaiah 22:9-11, “In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, and you counted the houses of Jerusalem you had destroyed to build the wall. You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it or see him who planned it long ago.
Genesis 49:22-26, “Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely, yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb. The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was separated from his brothers.”
Who was prophesied to be the victor in this conflict?
Genesis 37:9, “Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” Isaiah 22:1-13 gives a prophetic account of the battle.
The story of Joseph is the story of a boy who was given a great promise, but out of jealousy, his brother sold him into slavery. But God was with him. When his brothers returned to him, he spoke a foreign language, and God had made him so great that his brothers didn’t recognize him. This is the story of a boy and a nation. Recalling the end of the story Judah said, “I will be your servant if you will release Benjamin.” Joseph could not contain himself and burst into tears, “I am your brother Joseph.” And they all held each other and wept together. As was the case for Joseph and his brothers. Is this unity between Arab and Jew in line with prophecy?
Hosea 1:11, “The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together; they will appoint one leader (the prince of Joseph) and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.”
Ezekiel 37:16-17, “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Belonging to Joseph (that is, to Ephraim) and all the Israelites associated with him.’ Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.”
Thus, what is the call of the believer, but to reveal the identity of Israel to the world.
Ezekiel 37:1-14, Prophesy to the bones and life will re-enter them.
Jeremiah 31:10, “Hear the word of the Lord, you nations; proclaim it in distant coastlands: ‘He who scattered Israel will gather them and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.”