RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE: It is highly recommended that you first check out the webpage www.newisrael.com/liveprophecy/ to see what is taking place in the Holy Land in terms of prophecy before proceeding with the doctrine of Old and New Israel. All of the prophecies are live on the webpage and are en route at present. These prophecies stem out of the 19th century, when the Holy Land started coming alive. And, you should watch the video THE UNVEILING OF NEW ISRAEL, which is available on Facebook and Youtube. The video THE UNVEILING OF NEW ISRAEL is a bit long and quite frankly a bit boring, but if you can mull through it, you will be able to see what’s been taking place in the Holy Land in the past 200 years.
National Israel, promised to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3, was established between God and the children of Israel at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19-24). Old Israel, as a country, would be established after entry into the promised land (Joshua 21:43) just as God had promised. Saul, who was Israel’s first king, was eventually rejected by God, which the Jews should have known at his inauguration since being Saul was a Benjamite (I Sam 9:21). The kings of Israel were to come out of the tribe of Judah (Gen 49:10), not Benjamin. In addition, king David kept the commandments of God (I Kings 11:34), but his son Solomon did not (I Kings 11:11), which caused the kingdom to be rent in two (I Kings 11:31), and the rending in two was instigated by God (I Kings 12:15, 24). With the disobedience of the children of Israel and their kings, Israel (the northern kingdom) was destroyed in 722 BC when the Assyrian army conquered it (II Kings 17:18, 23), and the southern kingdom of Judah finally fell completely in 586 BC to Babylon (II Kings 25:9-12). Old Israel fell because they were under the old covenant and their entrance into the land (Deut 1:26-33, 41-45) and prosperity thereafter was completely contingent on national Israel’s obedience (Exodus 19:5; Deut 28), which included the demand of obedience by the kings on the throne (II Chron 7:18-22). Admittedly, the weight on Old Israel was heavy to say the least. All failed, and Old Israel was gone forever.
New Israel will be prosperous in all aspects (Ezek 36:11), and everything is contingent on the promises by God (Ezek 36:22), which is why in New Israel, even though faced with so much opposition, has been so prosperous in such a short amount of time. Apart from that, all Israel has yet to be saved, but even with most of national Israel being lost, God is still blessing the nation and especially their wars (Ezek 36:7, 22). New Israel, established on May 14th, 1948, is the second Israel (New Israel) as promised to the prophet Ezekiel (36-39). These promises began in the 19th century, and by 1967 with the launch of the Messianic Jewish movement, all of Ezekiel 36 has been en route. Ezekiel 36 is linked up to chapters 37-39. Not that New Israel only gets 4 chapters in the Old Testament, but this is the crux passage on New Israel in the Old Testament. Many Old Testament passages line up with Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 36 includes the immigration of the Jews, the wars in the Middle East crisis, the Messianic Jewish movement as well as the overall economic figures coming out of Israel. The history of modern Israel and charts from the vid THE UNVEILING OF NEW ISRAEL line up perfectly with Ezekiel 36. While Ezekiel 36 seems like it is a cut from a block of time, but if you line of the history in Ezekiel 36 with Ezekiel 37-39, it lines up perfectly. All the Jews on the planet will return to Israel (Ezekiel 39:28), and the Messianic Jewish movement, which is done by Ezekiel 39:25, 29, will take over all of Israel. Israel will be the winner of the Arab-Israeli conflict (The Middle East Crisis), and Israel will become a major, major super power in the world in the Latter Years. In fact, by the Zach 14 war, New Israel has gotten so powerful that the entire world gangs up on New Israel, but New Israel still wins the war. When you attempt to bring in the eschatological teachings that have had a strong presence in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, the direction of Israel’s biblical forecast just gets mangled. If you understand Ezekiel 36, you can see what’s imminent in prophecy and even prophecy in the distant future. Other passages from the Bible will support the conclusion that Modern Israel springs out of Ezekiel 36. Amos 9:14-15 & Luke 21:24 support Ezekiel 36:24 as it pertains to the Jews returning to Israel. Luke 21:24 clearly states that there will be life in Jerusalem at or near the end of the times of the Gentiles, which also indicates that the residents will be Jewish. For this to happen, the Jews have to return to Israel. In addition, Romans 11:25 says that national Israel will be lost until the fulness of the Gentiles has come in. The fertility rate of the Gentile world peaked out in the early to mid-1960s, after which the Messianic Jewish movement (salvation of the Jews) began in 1967. It doesn’t seem like a coincidence at all that two major turning points in world history could coincide like that. Furthermore, regarding the age of wars, Jesus said that while there are still wars, the end is not imminent. While the war in Ezekiel 38-39 takes place in the Latter Years, that war is not imminent because the situation in the early parts of Ezekiel 38 have yet to be fulfilled. Matter of fact all of Ezekiel 36-39 will take place in the Latter Years. New Israel in Ezekiel 36 lines up with other New Testament passages. Even with the formal nation of Israel being off the scene during Peter’s day, he knew that the physical restoration of Israel would one day take place (Acts 1:6-7). Israel’s formation as a nation on May 14th, 1948 is often viewed as a one-time event known as the restoration of Israel. The restoration of Israel is a process that began in the 19th century. Israel’s formation as a nation in 1948 is confirmation that Israel is on the way to restoration and that we are in the Latter Years. Further, there was an indication in the New Testament of the activity with the land of Israel and the Jews. One, Jerusalem would be controlled again by the Jews (Luke 21:24), and in that same passage it can be certainly implied that the Jews, the descendants of Jacob, would be the ones who would be controlling Jerusalem—basically, the opposite of the Gentiles would be in control of Jerusalem when the passage comes to fruition. In the Luke 21:24 passage, Jews and Gentiles are both assumed as players in the verse. Jews being in Jerusalem at the time of the verse coming to fruition also assumes that the Jews would be returning to their homeland—basically, Jews would first have to return to Israel in order to take over the city. Jesus did imply that Israel would be restored, but just mentioned that the timing would be in the hands of the Father (Acts 1:6-7). Also, apparently, the Lord did not want people to be preoccupied with New Israel before New Israel arrived onto the scene, and so, not much is said about Israel in the New Testament, but much has been said about New Israel in the Old Testament. For example, Psalm 83 being the Middle East crisis fits the situation in present Israel. Rome, an enemy of Israel in the first century, is not mentioned in the list of enemies in Psalm 83, which is a strong indication that Psalm 83 is speaking of the present Israel.
Isaac Yoder.
April 10, 2018
Edited
May 7, 2022