Daily Thoughts: 1948

Monday, September 28, 2015

Reliable News is Hard to Find

{God said to Ezekiel} “I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.” – Ezekiel 37:22

Did you read the news today?
Was it a paper, or was a it a web-site, or did you watch it on your favorite cable channel?
Of course you believe everything they are telling you right; because we know they don't have an agenda or any intent of convincing you toward their interests.
How many of the news outlets you "trust" on a daily basis are telling you what will happen in the year 4715? I would suggest that they have a hard time telling you what will happen next month or in 2016.

Let me introduce you to Ezekiel. One of many authors of the scriptures we call the Bible. He walked the earth around 700-600 BC. He was a prophetic man, which means he heard from God directly on things that would come to be. His prophecies detailed future events relating to the children of Israel. He prophesied about their hardships, their scattering, and their gathering back to their land along the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. He then went on to prophesy of the wars that the Israelites would face, and their ability to overcome opposition from around the world.

Fast forward to 1948, when they were at war with Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. They overcame those countries attacks and established themselves as a sovereign government from that point to where we are today. 'm very serious - over 2700 years ago, this man of God, wrote on parchment with the ink from fruit trees at the time of a war that would take place on the soil of Israel, in which the Israelites would overcome impossible odds and reclaim the land given to their ancestors (Abraham, Moses and Joshua).

Is there a single person in our midst today that could tell you and I what will happen in 2700 years? No. I don't believe so. But, we have written proof that he prophesied this and it acutally came to pass, just as he said it would. Doesn't this at least peak your interest to know what else this man of God prophesied and cause you to at least be curious as to if his other prophesies will come to fruition in our very near future?

If you trust CNN, FoxNews, Yahoo, Huffington Post, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. etc. etc. when they are frequently wrong on modern day stories, why aren't you able to trust this man who has proven time and time again to be accurate in his prophetic writings? You may believe the Bible is a fictional story, but there are numerous demonstrations of these events over time that are without doubt or question factual. Perhaps you might want to reconsider the validity of the scriptures once again.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Have you read the News

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“I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.” – Ezekiel 37:22

How do you get your news? Is there still a newspaper in your driveway or mailbox each morning, or are you sitting in front of the TV and watching it, or are you scouring the Internet for the latest and greatest headlines, or like most it is a combination of these three? We have always been a society of information seeking junkies wanting to have the latest and greatest story before someone else. There is some perverse fulfillment that comes from being able to tell someone something that they haven’t seen or heard before. So we seek out the new story, the latest gossip and tabloid trash so we appear more informed than others.

I find it unusual that people will spend hours and hours reading the headlines and news stories of the day, yet find it hard to open their Bible for 15 minutes. It is rich in truth and righteousness, with violence, drama and even sex thrown in for good measure. God’s word helps us understand where we come from and why we are here. It is filled with data that has been verified time and time again through archeological finds, yet many will still say it is complete fantasy. Authentically written over the span of thousands of years from 50 different authors, compiled and reprinted over the last 1000 years with a distribution of well over 200,000 daily, there is no question that this single manuscript is the most influential collection of writings in the history of the world.

Why then aren’t we studying it and learning from it with more vigor? Consider the news of late in the Middle East and Africa, and then read Ezekiel 37 & 38. The prophetic alignment is so candid, it’s almost as if we were reading the New York Times. Now consider that it was written nearly 600 years before Jesus Christ was born, which was 6 or 7 years BC; which makes the book of Ezekiel approximately 2700 years old. Now if you were to look 2700 years into the future to the year 4712, tell me what will happen. In Ezekiel 37 we find Ezekiel speaking for God, prophesying about the recreation of the Israel nation. From all corners of the earth, God’s children are brought back to Israel and it is reformed as a nation in their own land. In 1948, after the holocaust had scattered them all over the earth, Jews migrated back to their home land and formed their own nation once again declaring independence from the United Kingdom. Throughout 1948 they were at war with Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; sound familiar to the news you are reading today? They overcame those countries attacks and established themselves as a sovereign government from that point to where we are today. Do you not see the corollary, the completion of the prophetic words from Ezekiel coming to fruition?

Realize that you are living in a time that has been outlined biblically. We don’t know the timing of the following prophecies in Ezekiel 38 or 39, but one has to think about the clarity providing in the prophetic word of Ezekiel 37 and realize that the other dominoes will soon be falling into place. This is not to alarm you, but to make you take note of what is going on around you. The bible is your tool for understanding God’s plan for the world, and we know how it ends. But, realize He also tells you what will happen leading up to that point. If you don’t have a Bible, it’s time to get one, the Good News is better than anything you’re seeing on TV, the Internet or in the newspaper.