Israel – Past, Present, Future “The Bush Burned with Fire, And…Was Not Consumed” Exodus 3:2
Israel – Past, Present, Future “The bush burned with fire, and…was not consumed” Exodus 3:2 Alan O’Reilly ii CONTENTS 1. Introduction.............................................................................................. 1 2. Israel - the Beginning………………………………………………………... 3 3. Israel – the Signs……………………………………………………………... 4 4. Israel – the Apostasy and Dispersion...………………………………….. 6 5. Israel – the ‘Re-interpretations’…………………..……………………….. 9 6. Israel – the Restoration………………………………………………….…... 14 7. Israel – “Troublous Times”………………………………………...………. 18 8. Israel – the Future in Prophecy………………...………………………….. 22 9. Postscript……………………………………………………………………… 41 10. References………………………………..…………………………………... 42 11. Appendix 1 - Myths and Facts about Israel……………………………… 44 12. Appendix 2 – ‘Khazars,’ ‘Conspiracy,’ Holocaust - 2010 Notes.......... 47 1 Introduction Author’s Note: This work was first compiled in 2002. Some new material has been added in Appendix 2. Israel is a small nation. She occupies a mere 33,000 square miles, approximately one third the size of Great Britain. The nation of Israel contains less than six million inhabitants. Yet she is almost never out of the mainstream news. A word search on ‘Israel’ on the BBC site alone (in September 2002) yields over 9,000 ‘hits’, whereas a search for ‘Iraq’, arguably one of the most important nations in the Middle East for Britain, yields less than 7,000. Searches for Israel’s other nearest neighbours yield approximately 3,000 for ‘Egypt’, 6,000 for ‘Iran’, 2,000 for ‘Jordan’, 2,000 for ‘Kuwait’, 2,000 for Libya, 3,000 for ‘Saudi Arabia’, 2,000 for ‘Syria’ and 5,000 for Turkey. It is noteworthy that with the exception of Jordan and Libya, all these nations are more heavily populated than Israel, some of them several-fold. Yet given that the additional word ‘Palestinians’ yields almost 8,000 ‘hits’, Israel and her Palestinian problem individually far outstrip any of her neighbours with respect to western (or at least British) interest.
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