Israel is a small
country, only 8000 square miles, slightly smaller than the state of New
Jersey. It is located in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean
Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon. It's population is about 6 1/2 million
people. Why is this small country in the news every single day? Why is
this country so important? Why does what happens here affect the whole
world? The following is taken from Clarence Larkin's book,
"Dispensational Truth".
"For thousands of years, amid all
civilizations and countries, and under all conditions of government,
there has existed a distinct people, with laws, habits and customs
distinctively their own. The history of the Jewish race reads like a
story from the Arabian Nights, and is without a parallel in human
history.
No nation has ever had such manifest and
visible tokens of the "Divine Presence." For them the Red Sea was driven
back and the Jordan parted. They were miraculously fed in the
Wilderness, and divinely sheltered and guided by the Pillar of Cloud and
Fire. At the blowing of rams' horns the walls of a besieged city fell,
and the Sun and moon stayed in their courses that they might have time
to slay their enemies. The Angel of the Lord encamped about them, and
one angel slew 185,000 of the army of Assyria for their deliverance.
No nation has given to the world such a
number of great men. Such a man of faith as Abraham; such a great leader
and lawgiver as Moses; such statesmen as Joseph in Egypt and Daniel in
Babylon; such a king as David, and wise men as Solomon.
No nation has produced such seers as the
Hebrew prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel and no such man as
that man above all men, the
"MAN OF GALILEE."
The preservation of the Jewish people is
the
"MIRACLE OF HISTORY."
When Frederick the
Great asked the court preacher for an unanswerable proof, in one word,
of the inspiration of the Bible, he replied "The Jew, your Majesty."
How are we to account for the wonderful
preservation of the Jewish Race? We can only account for it on the
supposition that God had, and still has, some great work for them to do.
