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ALIYAH to ZIONIST ISRAEL: Fulfillment of Bible Prophecy??? ALIYAH TO ZIONIST ISRAEL: Fulfillment of Bible Prophecy??? By Lloyd Dale March 2000 Picking up a recent email, we read: "From: Operation Tarshish March 2000 Newsletter" and under this heading was the Bible verse: I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. (Amos 9:14) And the following commentary: Greetings out of Zion, the City of the King! THE MIGHTY SECOND EXODUS This Second Exodus would cause the first flight from Egypt to pale into insignificance, claimed the prophet Jeremiah, because of the mighty acts he "saw" God performing with the Jews in this Exodus. (Jeremiah 16:14, 15) What could be mightier that (sic) the parting of the Red Sea, the Manna from heaven and the water from the Rock, you may ask? Already, even though this Second Exodus has not yet reached it's (sic) climax - in fact, it is only in it's (sic) beginning stages - God is already doing mighty miracles in bringing His peoples (sic) home..., By the end of last year approximately 835,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union had immigrated to Israel since its gates first opened in 1989/90...we can conclude that this Second Exodus from the "land of the north" has already reached similar proportions (to the first Exodus). This modern-day exodus will soon eclipse the first great flight of Hebrews from Egypt, and no more will people marvel at the first Exodus,... Many times each year we receive information from various Christian ministries hoping to raise funds for their particular project. Reading material like the above email from Operation Tarshish which we received recently helps us to see why and how millions of American Christians and others are being deceived and maneuvered into giving millions of dollars to attempt to accomplish something which they have been deceived into believing will enable them to "become a part of prophecy fulfillment by donating $300 to help one Jew escape the former Soviet Union, or $500 to help a small family" (e-mail page 4). Another group calling their operation “On Wings of Eagles,” a ministry of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews claims that “(t)he prophet Jeremiah foretold 2,500 years ago what we are witnessing today:” Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the 1 children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. (Jeremiah 16:14-15 AV) It is fine with us if people want to help those "Jews" immigrate to the modern "Zionist" state now called "Israel", however, it greatly disturbs me to see them deceived into giving their money under the totally false notion that they are helping to fulfill Bible prophecy. The proof that this migration of "Jews" to the "Zionist" state now called "Israel" has nothing to do with Bible prophecy is right in that email. When God (Yahweh) took the nation of Israel (not Jews) out of Egypt, who did He use to finance the trip? When Yahweh moved the Israelites out of Egypt, He caused the nation of Egypt themselves to finance the trip [Ex.12:35-36]. Based on that evidence, if Yahweh was really behind "this modern day exodus" from the former Soviet Union He would have required the Russians to finance the trip. It is a good thing that there were no gullible American Christians around in Moses’ time or someone would have attempted to deceive them into financing that trip as well. Are the "Jews" that are migrating from the former Soviet Union really descendants of Abraham in the first place? Many well documented books have been written that clearly state that they are not. The authors of these books include Jews, Baptist pastors and evangelists, Reformed, Church of Christ and others, including several encyclopedias. When Yahweh moved the Israelites (not Jews) out of Egypt, how many people, in the promised Canaan Land, were promoting and holding "special pre-Aliyah visits" (email page 3) to the Israelites (not Jews) new destination? When Yahweh moved the Israelites (not Jews) out of Egypt, how many, "post Zionist era, officials were working to improve the situation"? When Yahweh moved the Israelites (not Jews) out of Egypt, how many Jewish agencies such as the "Immigrant Absorption Ministry" and the "Knesset Absorption Committee" were celebrating a 38 percent increase in Aliyah" (email page 3)? When Yahweh moved the Israelites (not Jews) out of Egypt, how many Jewish agencies were "mourning the loss of Aliyah from the West"? If Yahweh is behind this modern day fiasco called "Aliyah" by the Zionist Jews, why are so many of those Jews choosing to stay in America and other western countries? When Yahweh moved the Israelites (not Jews) out of Egypt, how many Israelites (not Jews) remained behind in Egypt? Of course, no Israelites chose to stay in Egypt! When Yahweh moved the Israelites (not Jews) out of Egypt, how many Israelites (not Jews) had to be "sold on a promise of religious freedom and a better socio-economic level"? (email page 3) 2 The reader may have noticed by now that each time we used the word Israelites we added in small print (not Jews). We hope you are wondering why we did that. We added (not Jews) because there was no such thing as Jews at that time? Much later, certain Israelites became known as Jews because they were of the Tribe of Judah and/or settled with the tribe of Judah in the land of Judaea. NO ONE IN THE BIBLE IS EVER CALLED A JEW until about the time that the house of Judah went into the Babylon captivity. The name Jew was given to them by the Babylonians as a derogatory slang name! Take your Bible and check into it. You will not find the word Jew(s) until 2Kings 16:6. According to many scholars, the book of 2Kings was written by Ezra either during or after the Jewish (only a very small part of the children of Israel) captivity in Babylon. Only a representative number (about fifty thousand) of these Jews returned to Jerusalem and Judaea after the Babylonian captivity ended, the rest were content to stay in the Babylonian world. In complete agreement with what I have just written above, the first century AD Jewish historian, Josephus states: (Please note that Josephus scrupulously refrains from referring to any Israelites as "Jews" until the time of the Babylonian captivity. He does this because he knew that the people of the 10 northern tribes that were taken into the Assyrian dispersion between c. 745 and 721 BC were never called Jews.) So the Jews prepared for the work (of rebuilding Jerusalem and the temple): that is the name they are called by from the day that they came up from Babylon, which is taken from the tribe of Judah, which first came to these places (Judaea), and thence both they (the tribe of Judah) and the country (Judaea) gained that appellation. [Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, ch.V, sec.7; comments and emphasis added here and below) …and such was the end of the nation of the Hebrews, as it hath been delivered down to us,...for the people of the ten tribes (not Jews) were carried out of Samaria by the Assyrians in the days of king Hoshea;...Now as to Shalmanezer, he removed the Israelites (not Jews) out of their country (Samaria), and placed therein the nation of the Cutheans, who had formerly belonged to the inner parts of Persia and Media (not half Jew, half gentile mixed bloods as so many modern day preachers are wont to say), but were then called Samaritians, by taking the name of the country to which they were removed (Samaria). [Antiquities of the Jews, Book X, ch.9, sec.7] ...the Cutheans, whom Shalmanezar, king of Assyria, had brought out of Persia and Media, and had planted in Samaria, when he carried THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (not Jews) captive… [Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, ch.II, sec.1] (…for so many are the tribes of Israelites [not Jews];)...[brackets in original, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, ch.IV, sec.7] 3 …but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now (Josephus' day), and are an immense multitude , and not to be estimated by numbers. [Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, ch.V, sec.2] In the following paragraphs we will endeavor to give the reader a brief, but accurate, history of Israel; beginning with the Exodus from Egypt. After leaving Egypt [Ex.1-12] the Israelites (not Jews) wandered until they eventually came to Mt. Sinai [Ex.13-19:1]. At Mt. Sinai Yahweh added the Mosaic Marriage Covenant [Ex.19:2-8] to the Abrahamic Covenant [Gen.15, see also Gal.3:17]. The Marriage Law Covenant [Ex. 20 - Leviticus] was given by Yahweh and the people accepted their Marriage Covenant responsibilities [Ex.19:8, et al.]. Because of the first (post Egypt) generation Israelites' (not Jews) rebellion, they were required to wander in the wilderness for 40 years [Nu.14:33, Numbers and Deuteronomy] before Yahweh permitted their descendants to enter the promised land of Canaan.
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