The seven-branched lampstand (Israels Menorah) well-summarizes the purpose of Israel both now and in the Millennium. NOW BEGIN TO READ THROUGH EZEKIEL 142-129 B.C.E. To Abram (Abraham) God promised: I will make you a great nation and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (Gen 12.2,3), And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to make a name for Himself (2 Sam 7.23). He said creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. The principle of the generality of the elections ensures the active right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 18 years old, to vote and the right of every Israeli citizen, who is at least 21 years old, to be elected. 930 BC. 950 BC Solomon builds the magnificent temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem (same place Abraham intended to sacrifice Isaac). | 8 Six more popes ruled in Avignon, and they were heavily influenced by the French ruler. Span ~ 200 years %PDF-1.3 % Roman Emperor Hadrian destroys Jerusalem and builds Aelia Capitolina, a pagan city in its place. This simple fact points to the imminent return of Christ. Declaration of State of Israel. The very day after the UN declared Israel a country in 1948, five Arab countries attacked, and she has been struggling for her right to life ever since. How do your observations in this section compare to God's covenant promise to Abraham that "I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. The House of Judah was also rebellious and eventually suffered the same judgement. The Burning Bush Heres why. 1973 Yom Kippur War: on October 6, 1973, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack against Israel. Tiglath-pileser carried away the trans-Jordanic tribes and the inhabitants of Galilee ( 2 Kgs. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 0000001836 00000 n He said to me: It is done. 597BC 333 BC Alexander the Great defeats the Persian Empire and sets out to conquer the world. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords II, the West Bank was divided into three areas (A, B, and C) and within these areas the Palestinian and Israeli authorities have different levels of control. Jerusalem was first divided through the 1948-49 Arab invasion of Israel, but at no time was East Jerusalem under legal ownership by an Arab entity. In the light of Israeli anti-discrimination law and Israels right to self-determination as a Jewish State, the accusation of racist against Israel is unjustified. The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah.According to the biblical account, this kingdom was founded after the death of Saul, when the tribe of Judah elevated David to rule over it. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life. When does the glory depart? Israel and the First Carrying Away by Assyria - Amazing Bible Timeline The Catholic Church would later use the phrase to describe the movement of the papacy from Rome to Avignon. Zephaniah prophecies judgement, followed by restoration. Romans Pope Gregory XI became pope in 1370. BY BABYLON, 586 BC 3RD SIEGE OF JERUSALEM described in 2Ki 25:1-21 Record this date in your Bible margin The siege began in 588 B.C. As you look at the prophecy, list what is going to happen, to whom or what it will happen, and when it will happen. Ezekiel 45 and 48 provide amazing detail of a (probably new) temple the LORDSs sanctuary located just north of the city area (see map). 458 BC Ezra returns to Jerusalem with second wave of Jews to continue rebuilding the Second Temple. Over the past 100 years Israel has engineered a national water carrier system and desalination plants, and she drains water from large aquifers under the desert. The term means Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, so the destruction of Israel and the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the land of Israel is the declared objective of militant Islam, link. Kingdom of JudahAmaziah, becomes king in Judah (14), Amaziah murdered. (Lk 21.24). Being forced to leave Judah, they lived in Babylon. [Similar information is given in 2Chronicles 25-27]. History shows that God had a special task for Jacob and his descendants and He changed Jacobs name to Israel after he had struggled with an angel and prevailed (Gen 32.28). Israel is unique since it is the one nation on earth that God uses to make a name for Himself. According to historian Richard Hartmann, these communities were ethnologically a chaos of all the possible human combinations and so did not share a common Arab identity. 0000003648 00000 n Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. From around 586 BC until modern times, the land of Israel or Holy Land was ruled by Gentile powers: World Government: The four historical empires in bold type (Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman) are in fact the four great empires prophesied to rule over Israel before the Second Coming of Christ (Dan 2.31-45). Learn about the Babylonian Captivity of the Church in Avignon during the Middle Ages. The Bible says God is Spirit but clearly we are flesh and blood. (THE LORD IS NOT THERE), PROPHECY OF RESTORATION The King of Judah had refused to pay taxes to Babylon for three years. 12The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. Civilization & Science Hosea MapMaster assumed (based on copyright claims). 722 BCE %%EOF The king Coniah became like a shattered jar as Jeremiah had prophesied, and none of Coniah's descendants could reign any more on David's throne in Judah. Under Gods call, Abram (later called Abraham) migrated from the city of Ur sometime between 1900 and 1750 BC to Gods appointed land, Canaan (todays Israel). CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF JEWISH DECLINE, CAPTIVITY & RETURN - Jenny & Steve According to a recent Stanley Greenberg poll, only 34% of Palestinians accept two states for two peoples as the solution. The Israeli government resides in Jerusalem. Jerusalem and its temple were destroyed. According to international law, Israel is NOT occupying Palestinian land since the West Bank and Gaza Strip were not under any sovereignty prior to the Six Day War. Prior to the fall of the Parthian Empire (224 A.D.), we find many Semitic (descendants of Israel) tribes living within its borders and in the Scythian regions of South Russia. Did you see it? The is a solution, but prophecy indicates that it will not occur in this present age. By the end of the 1949 War of Independence the fledgling Israeli forces had defeated five invading Arab armies. First led by Mattathias of the priestly Hasmonean family and then by his son Judah the Maccabee, the Jews subsequently entered Jerusalem and purified the temple. . After the Southern Kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC the land of Judah and Jerusalem remained vacant (at rest) for 70 years until the Lord brought a remnant of His people back to the Promised Land: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place (Jer 29.10). 640. Galatians Israel led to the Messiah, Jesus, and prophecy indicates that the land and people of Israel will be used to glorify God in the sight of the nations at the end of the age and in the age to come. In fact, since prophecy is not precise, some see several major Middle East wars just before the close of this age and the Second Coming of Christ. Apart from a remnant of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi which returned to rebuild Jerusalem, the whole of national Israel (all twelve tribes) was now dispersed amongst the nations and Jerusalem was occupied by Gentile nations. If you can understand the different periods a little, youll get much more out of your experience. Evidence from the Tanach (the Hebrew Bible), the New Testament, historians like Josephus, and archaeology all testify to the existence of a huge, impressive Temple in Jerusalem. The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. Obadiah Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 0000001276 00000 n Kings of Judah - Wikipedia 0000128230 00000 n In Jesus' day we see the remnant in Jews like John the Baptist, Simeon, Anna and others who 'looked for the redemption of Jerusalem'. 326 Constantines mother, Helena, goes to the Holy Land and builds many churches and basilicas on holy sites. In other words dont just title chapter 1 Gods Glory. In other words, Israel returns (largely in unbelief) to the land and heritage covenanted to Abraham and his descendants. The history of the twelve tribes of Israel has been obscured by artificial gaps in their migratory history. What are the events associated with the three key dates in red? These wars will directly glorify the God of Israel as He openly defeats the attacking forces. First Fruits as a prophetic picture of Christ's Resurrection, The Sign of Jonah as a prophecy of Christ's Resurrection. Muslims conquered The Levant (which embraces all of Israel and much more, link) in the 7th century and the land of Israel remained in Muslim hands (apart from the brief Crusader period) until liberated from the Muslim Turks by the British in 1917. 0000046986 00000 n Like Paul, they wishto proclaim the Good News that God has fulfilled the promise He made to the Patriarchs: The Messiah has come (see Acts 13:14-39). Timeline of Israeli history - Wikipedia var timelineTypesChecked = []; There the pope was heavily influenced by the French king. At age 30 he would be eligible for the priesthood but before he reached that age he was taken into exile in the next invasion described below. Israels future borders are clearly defined in Ezek 47.13-20, and again the eastern boundary runs along the Jordan (v18). Sennacherib the ruthless commander of the Assyrian army, made aseige. Historians disagree about the exact date that the Babylonian Captivity began. Strictly speaking, todays Jews (Hebrew, Yehudim) are those who follow Judaism and who are descendants from the kingdom of Judah. Israel may be seeing these blessings today (enlarge map). The Babylonian Captivity (with map) - Bible History For many of their governments, which are rich enough to have economically solved the Palestinian refugee problem decades ago, it is useful to have Israel as a scapegoat to divert attention from the tyranny, failure and corruption of their own regimes. A popular view is that when we die we go to live in heaven. The scattering of Israel caused the nations to dishonour the God of Israel, and God is now gathering the remnant of Israel and Judah to restore His holy name (Isa 11.11,12 Ezek 36.20-24). So much for the history of Israel over the past 3,000 years. While the Babylonian Captivity is described in the Torah and the Christian Bible, it is also described by other sources. Are the politicians listening? Where is Ezekiel? He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. Ascendant empire ~ Babylon. First a few key points about the nation (people) of Israel: Israel may be three hundred miles long, thirty miles wide, but its three thousand years deep. SECOND SIEGE Regardless of the exact date, sources show that the Jews were forcibly moved to Babylon. b. 2014: New National Water Carrier completed, based on five desalination plants on the coast. 722 The ten tribes of Israel go into captivity. 0000005666 00000 n The reader is left in a maze, either groping for a mere ethereal and imaginary temple that was never supposed to have any substantial existence at all, or else being presented with an actual sanctuary set in an environment which clashes at every turn with the plans and specifications outlined by the prophet." [US Energy Information Administration, Wikimedia Commons], Israels past and future borders. Not only would some members of the ten tribes have made their way to Judah before, during, and after the Assyrian attack, but some would have been already living among the people of Judah and Benjamin. It also appears that some of the Hebrew festivals are reinstated, as in the Feast of Tabernacles (Zech 14.16). All Rights Here, God says: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone and bring them into their own land (Ezek 37.21). I would suggest recording these in the margin next to the respective Scripture. List the theme of each chapter as before. At last, the Gentile nations acknowledge and value the unique role of the Jew: Still others become priests and keep charge of the (new) Jewish temple in Jerusalem (Isa 66.21, Exod 44.15). xref Lets put aside religious biases, mystical interpretations, or even our secular worldview. Proverbs Put simply, todays church is often blind to her Jewish roots. 37 BC4 BC Herod, Roman vassal king, rules the Land of Israel. The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon (and later Iraq) attacked Israel with the goal to wipe Israel off the map. When during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery; today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long. Others associated them with God's people throughout all history, others with an end time Messianic Jewish remnant, and still others with the last generation of Christians (spiritual Israel), link. But what of the climate?
