God's Favorite Sign!

God�s Favorite Sign!


Q: What is the most frequently repeated prophecy in the Old Testament?
A: The re-gathering of the Jews to Israel ! Here is just one of many such verses�

I will bring my exiled people of Israel back from distant lands, and they will rebuild their ruined cities and live in them again�I will firmly plant them there in the land I have given them," says the LORD your God. " Then they will never be uprooted again." - Amos 9:14,15

To the best of my understanding, there are 2 main �re-gatherings� of the scattered Jewish nation spoken of in the prophecies of the Old Testament. The first one occurs when the modern nation of Israel is first created. This �return of the exiles� began in 1948 and has continued over the past 60 years! The 2nd and final re-gathering will occur when Yeshua reigns as King in Jerusalem�

In that day the Lord will bring back a remnant of his people for the second time, returning them to the land of Israel from Assyria, Lower Egypt� Ethiopia� Babylonia� and all the distant coastlands� He will gather the scattered people of Judah from the ends of the earth. Is.11:11,12
The first re-gathering spiked in the 1950s with the arrival of 765,000 Jews from North Africa and the Middle East, driven out by the Arab backlash that followed Israel's creation. Next came tens of thousands from the European communist bloc, and then another million following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Starting in the early 1980s, Israel secretly airlifted 80,000 members of Ethiopia's ancient Jewish community, nearly 15,000 of them in just two days in 1991.
A prominent demographer has said�"There is no place in the world where the number of immigrants is five times the number of the people who were there. It is unprecedented��

But just within the past 6 months I have found 2 headlines that declare that this 1st re-gathering is now complete! For the first time since 1948, Israel is nearing zero growth from immigration!

TEL AVIV (JTA)�3-31-08 -- Founded with the express purpose of "ingathering of the exiles" -- but with no more large groups of Jews to save -- Israel is facing the end of the era of mass aliyah. http://www.kumah.org/2008/03/i-dont-think-aliyah-is-on-agenda-of.html

In Israel, era of mass immigration ends� 9-06-08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_dwindling_immigration

Why is this so exciting? For 2 main reasons� First, since the prophecies about the 1st return to a Jewish homeland have proven to be correct, we can have confidence that the prophecies of a 2nd return to a Jewish King will come true also! Secondly, if the 1st re-gathering is indeed over, then it indicates to me that the stage is now set for the next exciting act to follow! So, as always�
Look up, saints, for �your redemption draweth nigh!�