A great many people have been sur prised recently at the coming back into existence on May 1948, of a political entity calling itself Israel. Some folk long ago decided that all the promises of the Old Testament, con cerning the nation of Israel and its fu ture glory, were to be taken spiritually. As a matter of fact they have already found their ultimate fulfillment in the church of our day. Nothing could pos sibly be farther from the truth than this. One of the amazing demonstra tions of the truth of the Bible has been the literal fulfillment of prophecies concerning this ancient people. Espe cially does this fulfilled prophecy of Ezekiel 22 indicate the reconstitution of this State gathered back to its land in preparation for the last and most fearful time of persecution that this people have ever known.
I would like to call your attention to a remarkable pledge that God gave long ago concerning the eternal exis tence, not only of the people but of Israel, as such. There are two things by which God pledges Himself, and these two things are, at the moment, occupying the forefront of the tension in the world, at least one of them is. In Jeremiah 31:35 we read words like these: “Thus said the Lord, which giv- eth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divid- eth the sea when the waves therefore roar, I the Lord of hosts is His name.: If those ordinances depart before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus saith the Lord: if heaven above can be measured, and (continued on next page) 7
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