Good Sunday Morning!

1. Question – Why is a fledgling country with a total land space smaller than New Jersey mentioned in the nightly news more than any other nation except the United States? Why is this so?

2. Thought – To answer these questions, we must understand what happened on that day in 1948, what is happening today in Israel, and how these events affect the entire world. For answers, we must turn not to the evening news or the front page of the newspaper, but to the Bible. As Rabbi Binyamin Elon, a member of the Israeli Knesset, wrote:

I believe that if you do not know how to read the Bible, you cannot understand the daily newspaper. If you do not know the biblical story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, you cannot possibly understand the miracle of the modern state of Israel.

​The story of Israel begins at the very beginning of the Bible, in the book of Genesis. The very proportion of the coverage tells us something about the importance of Israel. Only two chapters are given to the whole story of creation. One chapter records the fall of man. Eight chapters cover the thousands of years from creation to the time of Abram. Then we find that fully thirty-eight chapters deal with the life stories of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – the progenitors of the Jewish race. Apparently God finds Abraham and his descendants to be of enormous importance. ​(What In The World Is Going On? by Dr. David Jeremiah)

Have a great week!