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Is God still looking after Israel?
2700 years ago, the prophet Isaiah longed for the glory of God to appear, and cried out from his heart, "The grass will wither and the flowers will wither, but the word of our God will stand forever." ?

3,500 years ago, when the Israeli people were still wandering in the wilderness, Moses had crossed the boundaries of time and space and saw the history of the Jewish nation, which finally came back from the dead and cheered. At that time, the Israelites had not yet entered the promised land. Moses had foreseen that on the day when the Lord spoke to these people from the fire in Horeb, they did not see any images (Deuteronomy 4: 15). When they entered the land of Canaan, they would surely fall into idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:25). The great leader who led the Israeli people out of slavery and oppression in Egypt described the tragic fate of the Israelis for thousands of years in one breath.

I call heaven and earth to testify to you today that you will perish quickly in the land you crossed the Jordan to occupy! You will not be long in that land, but you will be completely destroyed. The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be few in number among the countries where he leads you. ""The Lord will defeat you in front of your enemies. If you confront them from one road, you will escape from seven roads. You will be thrown between countries all over the world. " You will be an object of horror, scorn and derision among all the nations where the Lord leads you. The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; there you will serve gods of wood and stone that you and your fathers did not know. In those countries, you won't feel at ease and have a foothold. But the Lord made your heart beat there, and your eyes were blind and your spirit was exhausted. Your life is at stake, and you will be afraid day and night, thinking that your life will be in danger. Because of the fear in your heart and what you see in your eyes, you will say in the morning that you wish it was night; I'll talk at night. I hope it's better in the morning. "Deuteronomy 4: 26-27; 28:25,37,64-67) ?

Since then, the history of 3500 years seems to be a film directed by Moses, which is presented to the world without error. After the death of Moses, the Israelites, led by Joshua, conquered all the ethnic groups in Canaan and entered the land flowing with milk and honey, which the Lord God swore to his ancestors. However, the good times did not last long. As Moses said, they soon fell into the sin of worshipping foreign ghosts and gods, and they got deeper and deeper. After a dark period of judges and a short and prosperous unified kingdom, it split into two parts. Ten tribes in the north formed the Israeli state with Samaria as the center, and two other tribes in the south established the Jewish state with Jerusalem as the center. The king of Israel completely ignored Moses' warning, led the people to commit crimes and killed the prophet of the Lord. Their thoughts are all evil, and they refuse to turn back. Finally, they were judged by God. In 722 BC, it was destroyed by Assyria and a large number of people were exiled. Judea, a southern country, is still stubborn and has suffered the same fate. In 586 BC, it was destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and the capital Jerusalem and the temple built by King Solomon were destroyed. Except those who were killed, most of them were taken to Babylon in three batches to be slaves, and the Israelites were completely destroyed. ?

Fifty years later, Babylon fell to Persia and Medes, and Israel became slaves of Persia. About 70 years later, King Ju Lushi of Persia and Ada Xue Xisi successively sent the remaining Israelis back to their homeland under the leadership of Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. But the rebuilt Judas is only a province of Persia, and it is no longer an independent country. From then on, the Israelites were called Jews. Since then, Israel has been ruled by Greece and Rome. The Lord Jesus was born and suffered during Roman rule. The tyranny of the Romans aroused the resistance of the Jews. Forty years after the death of Jesus, that is, in 70 AD, Roman troops invaded Jerusalem, and the city and temple were destroyed again. On the ruins of the Second Temple, only fragments of the Western Wall remained, which was later called "wailing wall" by Jews. In A.D. 132, Rome brutally suppressed the Jewish resistance again, and the Jewish dream of reviving the state of Israel was completely shattered (see Acts 1:6). The Roman emperor built the city of Arya Cabedo Linna on the ruins of Jerusalem, forbidding Jews from entering this area, and renamed the Israeli land (namely the land of Canaan) Palestine (the land of Philistines), in order to make the world forget that it was once the place where Jews lived for generations. Historians estimate that there were only 3 million Jews in Israel at that time. In more than 100 years, about 654.38+500,000 Jews were killed by the failure of three great uprisings. The remaining Jewish farmers still live in Galilee in the north, while the rest of the Jews were almost completely expelled from Israel by the Roman authorities and scattered to various countries. From then on, it ended the history that this nation lived in Canaan for more than 1300 years, and entered a historical period of 1800 years, as predicted by Moses and other prophets, "wandering among all ethnic groups in the world" and being displaced. In 638 AD, Omar successfully led the Islamists to occupy Jerusalem and became the world of Islam. In the following hundreds of years, a large number of Arabs moved to Palestine (the land of Israel, also known as Canaan), so they were called Palestinians. In 69 1 and 703, Muslims built two large mosques on the site of the Temple Mount (Mount Moria), namely the Holy Stone Dome Mosque and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. As predicted by the prophet and the Lord Jesus, the holy land is constantly trampled by outsiders. ?

After the Jews dispersed to other countries, they were rejected, laughed at and despised everywhere, and the most thrilling thing was the persecution and killing they suffered. It seems that from ancient times to now, the bloody disaster of swords and shadows has never left them, and the suffering and catastrophe they have experienced are incomparable to any other nation. In addition to the war disasters brought by Assyria, Babylon and the Roman Empire, the discrimination and endless persecution of Jews in the European Christian world is beyond words and shocking. During the Crusades in the Middle Ages, Jews were also killed indiscriminately because of religious prejudice. /kloc-in the three or four hundred years after the 0/4th century, 400,000 Jews in Spain and Portugal were tried by Christian heresy courts, and 30,000 of them were tied to the stake and burned alive because they refused to convert to Christianity. In A.D. 188 1 year, the Russian czar was assassinated and millions of Jews were killed. During World War I, the czar threatened Jews to leave the country, and those who disobeyed were killed with machine guns and grenades. During World War II, Hitler in Germany carried out an unprecedented massacre of Jews. According to more accurate statistics after the war, the German Nazis massacred more than 5.82 million Jews in the whole European continent, including 6.5438+0 million children. The property loss of Jews is about $654.38+0.2 billion. Jews have been slaves in Egypt for 430 years, and the population has increased from 70 to 2 million, an increase of more than 20,000 times. This shows that the natural growth rate of Israelis is very high, but the population has hardly increased since the conquest. Because too many people have died from natural and man-made disasters for generations. Today, 2500 years later, there are only10 million Jews in the world. As Moses predicted, "there are not many of you left." ?

However, the Bible clearly tells us that this is ordained by God. As early as 3,500 years ago, God warned the Israelites through Moses that if they violated the laws and regulations of the Lord and turned to evil, they would be cursed and perish. Then God gave them a very special punishment, that is, they were scattered among all ethnic groups and suffered great pain. But God didn't say he would destroy them. For although Israel is treacherous and evil, God remains faithful. Moses also said, "The Lord your God is a compassionate God. He will not leave you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant he swore with your fathers. (Deuteronomy 4:3 1)

Moses also said, "At that time, the LORD your God will have mercy on you and save your captive people, and the LORD your God will return and gather you from all the peoples where you were scattered. Your outcasts are far away, and the Lord your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, so that you may possess it. I will be kind to you and make you outnumber your ancestors. "(Deuteronomy 30:3-5)

Ezekiel, a prophet 2,500 years ago, predicted: "Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather the Israelites from all the countries where they have gone, gather them from all directions, and lead them back to their homeland. I will make them one nation in that land and on the mountains of Israel, and a king will rule over them. They are no longer two countries and will never split into two countries. " Now, although we see that the Israelis have returned to their own land, we don't see a king as their king.

O Israel, when will you hope in the Lord whom you have pierced, and when will you really revive this country?