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HaYesod & Verse # 5,708

More than three thousand years ago, Moses predicted that God will bring the Jewish people back to the land of Israel. He said, "The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers" (Deuteronomy 30:5).

Near the end of the nineteenth century, many Jews grew weary of waiting for the Final Redemption. They gave up on waiting for Messiah to come and return them from exile. They decided to do it themselves. It was a secular initiative called Zionism.

Zionism was the international, secular, political movement that called for a homeland for the Jewish people. Under the influence of men like Theodore Herzl, Jews slowly trickled back to the land of Israel.

After World War II, Jewish refugees fleeing from Europe flooded into the land. In 1948, the modern Jewish state of Israel was born.

Ironically, when the early Zionists gave up waiting for God to return them to Israel, God moved on their hearts to begin His fulfillment of prophecies about a return to the land.

In lesson ten of HaYesod, we learn that Deuteronomy 30:5, the verse that predicts the return of the Jewish people to the physical land of Israel, is verse number 5,708 in the Hebrew of the Torah:

The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. (Deuteronomy 30:5)

The year 1948, the year marking the birth of the modern State of Israel, is year 5708 on the traditional Jewish calendar. Is that a coincidence? Maybe it is, but we have to admit that we are living in the days of prophetic fulfillment.

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