The Birth of Israel

[koberstein]

We can learn about rebirth from Israel's history. They went into Egypt with seventy
individuals, Exodus 1 tells us: "Now these are the names of Bnei-Yisrael who came
into Egypt with Jacob, each man with his family.....The souls that came out of the
line numbered 70 in all, while Joseph was already in Egypt" (vv. 1,5). Consider that
Israel went in as a group of only 70 souls but came out numbering in the millions!

The word for Egypt in Hebrew is Mitzraim, "a place of confinement or restriction."
Mitzraim comes from the root word tzur, which means "rock." In Jewish thought,
Egypt is considered the womb of civilization. The people in Israel was in exile for
about four hundred years. Four hundred is a multiple of forty. And forty weeks is
a full term pregnancy. So, they were in Egypt symbolically as a full term
pregnancy----not weeks but years. Egypt was the womb. The ten plagues brought
on the Egyptians were labor pains, the shaking and quaking. When the Israelites
left Egypt, they went in great haste. (This is one of the reasons we eat matzah,
unleavened bread---they left so quickly that their bread did not have time to rise.)
They were instructed to eat Passover with their loins girded and their staffs in hand.

Pregnancy can seem to be taking forever for expectant parents, and then boom!
The baby comes---often with little warning, in the middle of the night or while we
are fully engaged in something else. We can use the human birth process as an
analogy for the birth of Israel. The parting of the Red Sea was like the woman's
water breaking. Israel going through the Red Sea was like the baby going through
the birth canal. The water closing in on the Egyptian army after Israel had passed
is symbolic of God washing away their past. The old was passing away, and the new
was coming. The water closed, and they could not go back to Egypt. He was birthing
them from an enslaved people into a redeemed free nation.

As Israel could not physically return to Egypt, neither can we physically return to our
mothers' wombs. The people of Israel was born naturally with some divine intervention.
To grow as a nation---the people of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob---twelve tribes had to have
a physical birth. But they were not born supernaturally as a free nation until they escaped
Egypt. And so they had two births. They were naturally birthed through Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and they went to Egypt. God used their time in Egypt to birth them as a redeemed
nation and caused a supernatural multiplication---incredibly, from seventy to millions.
This is what we read in Exodus 1:6-7:
"Then Joseph died, as did all his brothers and all that generation. Yet Bnei-Yisrael were fruitful,
increased abundantly, multiplied and grew extremely numerous---so the land was filled with
them"

 

[civic]

Do you think Israel back in their land since 1948 plays any role in Gods prophetic calendar from the O.T. ?

Thanks

 

[Begotten]

Do you think Israel back in their land since 1948 plays any role in Gods prophetic calendar from the O.T. ?

Thanks

That's what I believe,

The Miracle of the Jewish People’s Return to Israel

Dr. David Jeremiah writes about the return of the Jewish people to Israel, a miraculous act of God that was specifically prophesied and happened exactly as it was foretold.

www.ifcj.org

I believe it's true That the generation that saw Israel restored as a nation in 1948 will not pass away Until the return of Jesus.

It looks like it's already been mentioned on this forum.

https://berean-apologetics.community.forum/threads/john-was-not-a-baptist.1192/post-65032

 

[koberstein]

Do you think Israel back in their land since 1948 plays any role in Gods prophetic calendar from the O.T. ?

Thanks

That's a very good question and I really don't have an answer for it.
Maybe this will help

In Hebrew the number 14 is the number of redemption and salvation. God redeemed Israel from
Egypt on the fourteenth day of the first month (Ex. 12:6,18). Every year the Passover is celebrated on the
fourteenth day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar. In the book of Esther, God saved the Jewish people
from the genocidal hand of Haman on the fourteenth day of the last month on the Hebrew calendar. Thus the
Jewish year begins and ends with God redeeming His people on the fourteenth. The name David in Hebrew
has the numeric value of fourteen. Fourteen is associated with royalty because in the Bible, gold is associated
with Kingship. The Hebrew word for "gold" zahav (זהב) adds up to 14.

In Hebrew the number fourteen is written with the letters yud and dalet, which spells yad (יָד) meaning "hand."
Fourteen is the number of the hand. God redeemed Israel from Egypt with a "mighty hand [yad hazakah]
and an outstretched arm [zero ne-tu-yah]" (Deut. 26:8). It was God's hand (14) that redeemed Israel out of
Egypt on the fourteenth day of Nisan and the Jewish people from the hand of Haman on the fourteenth day
of Adar. Fourteen is also the number of bones in the human hand. The modern State of Israel was also birthed
on the fourteenth---May 14, 1948

There is also an interesting connection between the number fourteen and the incarnation in the Bible. John 1:14
says, "And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us" Isaiah 7:14 says, "Behold, the virgin will conceive.
When she is giving birth to a son, she will call his name Immanuel [God with us]."
In all fairness, there were no chapters and verses in the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, but this seems to
be more than just coincidence. God knows the end from the beginning. Jesus is the royal Son of David (14), the
revealed hand (14) of God who became incarnate to bring about a greater passover (on the fourteenth day).
Redemptions, royalty, and incarnation---all connected to the number fourteen---all find their fullness and
fulfillment in Jesus, the Son of God.

Shalom

 

[civic]

That's a very good question and I really don't have an answer for it.
Maybe this will help

In Hebrew the number 14 is the number of redemption and salvation. God redeemed Israel from
Egypt on the fourteenth day of the first month (Ex. 12:6,18). Every year the Passover is celebrated on the
fourteenth day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar. In the book of Esther, God saved the Jewish people
from the genocidal hand of Haman on the fourteenth day of the last month on the Hebrew calendar. Thus the
Jewish year begins and ends with God redeeming His people on the fourteenth. The name David in Hebrew
has the numeric value of fourteen. Fourteen is associated with royalty because in the Bible, gold is associated
with Kingship. The Hebrew word for "gold" zahav (זהב) adds up to 14.

In Hebrew the number fourteen is written with the letters yud and dalet, which spells yad (יָד) meaning "hand."
Fourteen is the number of the hand. God redeemed Israel from Egypt with a "mighty hand [yad hazakah]
and an outstretched arm [zero ne-tu-yah]" (Deut. 26:8). It was God's hand (14) that redeemed Israel out of
Egypt on the fourteenth day of Nisan and the Jewish people from the hand of Haman on the fourteenth day
of Adar. Fourteen is also the number of bones in the human hand. The modern State of Israel was also birthed
on the fourteenth---May 14, 1948

There is also an interesting connection between the number fourteen and the incarnation in the Bible. John 1:14
says, "And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us" Isaiah 7:14 says, "Behold, the virgin will conceive.
When she is giving birth to a son, she will call his name Immanuel [God with us]."
In all fairness, there were no chapters and verses in the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts, but this seems to
be more than just coincidence. God knows the end from the beginning. Jesus is the royal Son of David (14), the
revealed hand (14) of God who became incarnate to bring about a greater passover (on the fourteenth day).
Redemptions, royalty, and incarnation---all connected to the number fourteen---all find their fullness and
fulfillment in Jesus, the Son of God.

Shalom

Thanks for the lesson