April 22nd, 2022

Welcome to the next edition of the End Times Berean Watchman Report, and Part 5 of the series on prophecies that have modernly been fulfilled in Israel.

The Israeli government has destroyed hundreds of settlement homes and forcibly removed thousands of Jews from resettled towns in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. Questions of legality aside, however, families in the settlements were evicted using force and their homes were demolished by the military. Many of the residents resisted the government mandated evictions because they felt the evictions were illegal and were against God’s will. On the whole, I agree with the settlers—based on these prophecies, I think God would too.

No other people in history have maintained their identity, customs, beliefs, and language after being conquered and completely removed from their homeland for more than a few centuries. In every case, within a few generations, the conquered or exiled people have lost who they are. Even if they retain some aspects of their heritage and culture, such as the gypsies found all over Europe, they can no longer trace their origins back to their beginning. The Jews are unique in that regard and have been miraculously sustained for more than 2,000 years in exile. 

The prophets Zechariah and Micah also prophesied that Israel would be a powerful nation. Although Israel is one of the smallest nations on the earth, it is also one of the most militarily and technologically advanced nations on the earth. Though they represent just 0.2 percent of the world’s population, they have been awarded more than twenty percent of the world’s Nobel Prizes. Some people might argue that this one is easy to declare into the future, but fulfilling those prophecies with such a tiny nation—that’s a miracle!

The spoken Hebrew language was gradually replaced with the common languages of the day such as Aramaic, Persian, Greek, and Latin. This began around the eighth century BC for the ten northern tribes when they were conquered and scattered throughout the Assyrian empire. The same thing happened to Judah in the sixth century BC when Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonian empire. Each subsequent empire that conquered the land of Israel also generally brought a new language. The Jewish people were forced to maintain at least two languages, one religious and one secular. 

By the nineteenth century Hebrew was thought to be a dead language; however, it was revived by some of the Jews who returned to Israel (circa 1880s). They developed teaching tools and opened schools to teach Hebrew. By the time the nation of Israel was declared in 1948, Hebrew was widely spoken and was made the official language of the Jewish state. This is another modern fulfillment of a prophecy about the last days.

It’s been nearly two thousand years since the shekel was in use, but with the formation of the Jewish state it has been reinstated as the common monetary unit in Israel. Israel initially began printing money in the denomination of the Israeli Pound, but in 1980 they transitioned to shekels, and thus fulfilled the vision of Ezekiel. Writing about the preparation for the restoration of Israel in the last days, he made mention of the shekel and the proper measurement of money. Its placement in chapter 45, along with the description of a millennial temple, tells us that shekels would again be used in the last days in Israel, as indeed they now are. 

The world continues to turn, so that’s good, but global inflation and the international medias coverage of the situations in Israel continues to be bad…

But despite the fact that Israel continues to follow a policy of appeasement for terrorism, by giving in to Muslim demands to deny open access for Jews and Christians to the Temple Mount or the reinstatement of Jewish worship there, there still is a chance that suddenly they will come to their senses and realize that appeasement never works. Israel must just assert their sovereignty over the site and force the world to deal with it. Maybe then we really would see the rebuilding of the temple, which is beginning to be more openly recognized as something that could be done without destroying the Dome of the Rock or al-Aqsa mosque.

And the current drama isn’t over yet. It looks as though there are some concerted efforts to see this blow up into another intifada, that would likely be joined by Hamas and/or Hezbollah.

But here is a tantalizing tidbit. The window for another attempt to reinstate passover sacrifices has passed… or has it? Read this passage from Numbers 9, and notice that God appointed a second opportunity to celebrate the Passover for those who were unable to do so during the normal time.

Now that just seems amazing to me. Knowing that God doesn’t make commandments or exceptions lightly, and furthermore that many of them have not only a practical reason but also a prophetic analogy to teach, it begs a question. Could the passover sacrifice be made exactly one month later this year on the Temple Mount and still officially count? And do you know what one month later will be this year? May 14th, the 74th anniversary of the declaration of the State of Israel (Sat, 14 May 2022, after sunset = 14th of Iyyar, the second month, 5782). I admit that this sounds like a long-shot, but hope ever springs eternal. :) And if not this year… we’ll wait for next year, or maybe a red heifer will be found and sacrificed. From what I understand, though, the first sacrifice to be reinstated will either be a lamb on the Passover or the red heifer.

It’s going to be another week it seems to get the physical books available for pre-order on Amazon, but I received my first physical proof copies of the book this past week, and will make a few final tweaks and fixes, and hopefully have the FINAL FINAL version available for order.

But if you want the Kindle digital version, it is already available for pre-order.

The list of prophecies fulfilled by Israel will continue next week with Part 6, and hopefully I’ll have the hardcopy book pre-order link up and running.

Until then, May God bless and keep you all through these crazy days.

Blessings,

Christian