Plisken wrote:Israel hasn't even been around a century and there's a reference to it in the bible?
There are references to Israel all through the Bible. Moreover, there is plenty of archaeological evidence that Israel existed thousands of years ago. Take the Wailing Wall in today's modern Jerusalem, for instance. It is the one of the remnants of the Second Temple, which was built in the fifth century B.C. It was destroyed by the Roman legions of Titus in A.D. 70, when Jerusalem was sacked and burned in order to put down the Jewish rebellion.
The ruins of a famous landmark that commemorate these events, the Arch of Titus, still stands in Rome to this day.
Modern Israel has been in existence for less than a century, although Biblical prophecy clearly foretold that the Jews would be scattered among the nations- and would be in exile for centuries. This prophecy was fulfilled by the same series of events that were initiated by Titus.
The prophet Ezekiel said that in the latter days that Israel would be reborn as a nation- from a valley of dry bones (take a look at the photographic evidence of the Holocaust that shows the bone pits at Auschwitz and Dachau).
The UN did set up a charter that established the modern state of Israel. On May 16, 1948 the very day Israel declared independence, she was attacked by the five armies of Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Iraq, and Egypt. Even though with no official army of its own (and with NO help whatsoever from the US), the Hagannah militia managed to defeat the five armies, and thus secured the fledgling country's future.
Ezekiel also said that the in last days that a war of conquest would be launched against Israel and named Gog- the prince of Magog (Russia), Persia (Iran), Libya, Gomer (Turkey) and Ethiopia would be among the major participants in this attack. He went on to write that God Himself would intervene, and that He would personally destroy the invasion forces that had come to bring its forces to bear on Israel. Russia and Iran have never, ever had a formal alliance- until now.
In the Bible, God said through Ezekiel that he would put "hooks in the mouth of Gog", drawing it into battle almost against its will- and one can easily see how much trouble that Russia is now causing by building nuclear power plants in Iran- the former Persian Empire, and one of Israel's most bitter enemies, a country that has sworn on more than one occasion to "wipe Israel off of the map", and not to mention Russia providing advanced weapons of all types to Israel's hostile neighbors- nations that surround her. The names of many of these nations have not changed since biblical times.
IF all of this were not taking place before our very eyes, then it would be easy to dismiss Ezekiel's writing as ancient mystic rubbish, but the accuracy is startling.
This is not the Biblical battle of Armageddon- which the Bible indicated would take place in the Jezreel Valley in Israel, but is a precursory type of event that would reveal to the world that God is real, and that He is still running the show.
There is a great deal of historical evidence that directly correlates to Biblical prophecy- even down to that of the naysayers in the last days of the world as we know it.
I kneel down and thank God that you were not president, I guess then... But probably GWB & Co. had the same intention, they just were held back by some stupid left-winged traitors.
