waste land became productive. In 1903 it was urged upon the Society that they establish a national home land for the Jewish people. Where do you suppose the suggested location was? It was Uganda, South Africa. Obviously, this was turned down as unacceptable. By 1914, 90,000 Jews had gone to Palestine, and some 43 agricultural states had been well es tablished. These were led by Dr. Chaim Weisman, a brilliant chemist, who had helped Great Britain during World War I. It was in this same period of time that General Allenby captured Jerusalem from the Turks. Later England was given a mandate over Israel for its protection. On May 17, 1939, the British is sued their historic British White Paper which was designed to recon cile the irreconcilable. There were demands by the Arab population con cerning Palestine. As a result, a limited immigration quota was es tablished for Israel. By now, how ever, the Jews had purchased some 350,000 acres of land. Several hun dred thousand had returned to carry on the work. Then, May 11, 1948, the United Nations met on the question of the Jewish State. By a vote of 37 to 12, they accepted Israel’s right to the land. May 14, 1948 the Jewish Na tional Council and the General Zion ist Council met at Tel Aviv to pro claim the establishment of indepen dence of Israel. David Ben Gurion was elected Prime Minister and Dr. Chaim Weisman as President of the Provisional Council. On December 7, 1949, Jerusalem was internationalized. It is further interesting to realize that in the year 800 B.C. the prophet Joel prophesied concerning the partitioning. In 1956, there was the sudden 100-hour war with Egypt relative to the Suez Canal. Israel, Great Britain, and France were all involved. There are Jews in Israel from more than 100 different countries
with more than 70 different lan guages being spoken. A little more than a year ago, we heard Nassar of Egypt doing his best to bring defeat to the Israel state. He thought that since the Unit ed States was busy in Viet Nam, and that he could count on Russia’s help plus the fact that the Arab states had massive superiority, with something like 110 million to a handful of two- and-a-half million Jews, he could only win. The only thing he forgot was God. But then, a lot of people today forget the Lord. Even Chris tians have a tendency to be more interested in their own deeds and needs than their need of communion and fellowship with Him. Let me share with you several quotations which were intensely in teresting. The Egyptian Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armies of Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, declared, “The Egyp tian army has enough strength to wipe Israel off of the map!” The Minister of State and Secretary of the Islamic Congress vowed, “Soon will be proven the strength, and strength of will, of the Arabs. Egypt and the Arab nations will teach Is-
Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland (right), president ot Biola, shares with Dr. Ray A. Myers (left), chairman of the Biola Board of Directors, a special resolution on behalf of Dr. Royal Blue, Biola graduate and pastor of the North Valley Baptist Church of Redding. Mr. Blue recently received the honorary doctor ot divinity degree at the June commencement exercises. He was also featured speaker at Biola's annual Missionary Conference. 15
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