By Elmer Josephson

It is within the range of possibility
that this whole Mideast matter will be forever settled even our own lifetime. The true Messiah of God will reign
and rule from Jerusalem. No wonder satanic atheistic forces of the world would like to forever destroy God’s greatest national witness on earth.

God deals with Israel as a nation, one entity. To illustrate: prior to Israel’s release from Egyptian bondage, God sent Moses to say to Pharaoh,
"Israel is my son; let My son go
that he may serve Me" (Exodus 3:13-15; 4:22-23).

The Almighty made Israel, as a nation, world-center stage for Redeeming Light twice before. Each time Israel is in her land, something good happens to bless the world. The first when Moses led them from Egypt, the Hebrew Scriptures were written. The second: after their return from the Babylonian captivity, Christ appeared among them. Many from the nations are converted to the God of Israel through Christ, and the New Testament Scriptures were written.

Now this third and final ingathering of Israel is the harbinger of all prophesies’ fulfillment and the coming of Messiah in power and great glory when "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" (Habukkuk 2:14). "Every man shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it" (Micah 4:4). Read Zechariah 12.