Free For all - Open Discussions and DebatesIs the Bible free from errors?Unconvinced wrote:There is more there, without me looking I recall for one that the Jews will return to isreal before the second coming. That`s alot of Jews, and there is more trying to leave than get in, not to mention the millions of Jews who have roots in other parts of the world. that would be hard to make happen. Too bad I`ll either be very old, or dead by that time. Most likely there will merely be a new theology as to the endtimes.
Although it is true that some Jews are leaving Israel there are Jews in Russia, Ethiopia, other nations where Jews are persecuted on waiting lists to get exit visas to Israel. A good example is Ethiopia where all but about 12,000 Jews have immigrated to Israel.
So lets get specific concerning the Jews return to Israel. Jeremiah 24 1:10
1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD! 2 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten due to rottenness. 3 Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness."
4 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5 "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. 6'For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. 7'And I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.
8'But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness-- indeed, thus says the LORD-- so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9'And I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I shall scatter them. 10'And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.' " NAS
Now you see why the fig tree is important in prophesy and why some Jews are leaving Israel and why some Jews who are satisfied to live outside of Israel. Only those Jews who seek God with all their hearts will return and not necessarily before the Lord returns since it may take His second coming to get repressive governments to let the Jews go. Russia is a good example of this type of government since Russia is one nation that allows persecution of Jews, yet will not readily or easily issue them exit visas.
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