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the 9, predicted, major, Jewish migrations
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Of 9 significant Jewish migrations predicted in The Bible:
◊ 7 are historical,
◊ 5 have been/will be hasty.
◊ Of the 5, 3 are historical, and
◊ the remaining 2 are prophetical.
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Why so many, and in such haste?!
In Genesis 28:10-15 and 35:9-15, The Lord’s massive land promise made to Abraham, was twice confirmed to be realized through the descendants of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. However, due to their gross sinfulness over many centuries, ancient Israel and Judah never obeyed His command to conquer ALL the land stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates rivers. They never applied enough faith in His promise to ‘be with them’ if ~ IF they continually kept the generational covenant they freely made with Him. The failure of subsequent generations to honor the covenant made by their ancestors, set the stage for their iterative, yo-yo experiences with the sliver of the promised land that they did conquer, but could not hold on to due to their lack of faithfulness. In the covenant, The Lord said:
IF you faithfully do A, I will do B.
If you DON’T faithfully do A, I will do C,
not only to you, but
also to your descendants who do the same!!!
Today, the descendants of ancient Jews are back in a portion of the sliver of the promise land their ancestors had conquered. But true to human nature, they are largely performing likewise—holding tightly to The Lord’s promised land, yet dishonoring His requirements under past covenants. So why are today’s descendants not being yo-yoed in and out of the land?? Parallel strategic insights answer this question.
After The Lord had iteratively warned ancient Israel (the 10 northern tribes) to repent of their sins, and they didn’t, He dispatched the Assyrian army to invade their land. After over a decade of attacks, Assyria finally broke the resistance it faced. It killed and also captured many people to serve as slaves in Nineveh. These 10 tribes were subsequently scattered across the world, and became ‘the lost tribes of Israel’.
About a century later, The Lord dispatched the Babylonian army to invade ancient Judah (the 2 southern tribes) because they, too, refused to repent of sins that were much worse than those of Israel! Imagine that…no cross-generational lessons retained. After 3 invasion attempts, Babylon finally broke the resistance it encountered, killed and captured many people to serve as slaves, and destroyed the 1st Temple! Yet, The Lord’s sentence on captured Judeans was only 70 years of captivity! Decades earlier, He had predicted to the prophets, Isaiah and Jeremiah, that a king who would be born and named Cyrus, would set the Judean captives free, and allow them to return to Judea, if/as they so desired. That happened shortly after the Medo-Persian nation (today’s Iran) conquered Babylon. In this, The Lord’s strategic rationale was:
To allow time for Jewish life, customs and religious practices
to be thoroughly re-stored in Judah,
in preparation for His birth as a man,
thus fulfilling ALL related prophecies!
(Makes sense?)
I intuit The Lord may have a parallel strategic rationale for the restoration of the modern nation of Israel in Palestine on May 14, 1948. Descendants of ancient Israel and Judah are now combined, in the modern state of Israel, thus fulfilling His Ezekiel 37 prophecy. His likely rationale??
To allow time for Jewish life, customs and religious practices
to be thoroughly re-stored in Palestine,
in preparation for His return as Earth’s Millennial King,
thus fulfilling ALL related prophecies!!
(Makes sense??)
History records that migrations from Babylon were not hasty. They leisurely continued for more than a century. Compare that to the urgency of Jews who fled from across Europe and the world, after the holocaust! The first few years of those migrations were huge, intense and urgent—the fruits of lengthy periods of persecution. The Bible predictively indicates Jews will experience two more hasty, global migrations to Israel. Indications are they might be ‘sandwiched between’:
(a) the rise of the final anti-Christ man (called ‘the beast’ in Revelation), during the 4th age of history—the tribulation age, and
(b) the return of Jesus Christ as Earth’s global king, in the 5th age of history—the Millennial Reign age.
The Bible is more clear about the second, global migration than the first one. Isaiah 60 and 66 signal how Jews, worldwide, will suddenly become a favored people, the world over, likely for the entire duration of The Lord’s iron-rod governance of Earth, with all of His glorified, immortal saints from across the first 4 ages of history. Imagine that~~
The Bible only gives us several hints of the first global migration to Israel. This one will be so massive as to trigger an over-flowing of people into Gilead (in N. Jordan) and Lebanon, with no clues as to how extensive these spill-overs will be, or how they will be received. If Isaiah 26:20, Zechariah 10:10, and possibly Ezekiel 38 might serve as contextual windows for this migration, I intuit the following plausible scenario. Biblical history reveals, in addition to His 4 chosen ‘judgment henchmen’ (famines/hunger, wars, wild beast attacks and pestilences (Deuteronomy 32 and Ezekiel 28), The Lord has used:
◊ Intense persecution to prompt people movements, 1 and
◊ Wealth as bait for His enemies’ due judgments. 2
Within this broad, strategic framework, the most pertinent questions are:
1. What might trigger the indicated 8th Jewish migration—the 4th of 5 hasty migrations?
2. While The Bible indicates when, in Heaven’s prophetic timeline, it might occur, when, in our historical timeline, might it occur??
I intuit Isaiah 26:20, Zechariah 10:10, Zephaniah 3:9-13, and especially Ezekiel 38, might be our best ‘go to’ passages to study and keep in mind as we monitor increasing corroding corruptions and deepening delusions across our world.
For more, see:
The Coming Lame Blame (Poem), A People Un-walled (Series), First Ukraine, Next Israel’s Terrain?, Missed Insights in Ezekiel (Series), and Why Would Russia Invade Israel? (Q&A).
Stay tuned for Part 3
Unique Jewish Migration Parallelisms
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1 Examples include:
◊ The 2nd-3rd plagues across ancient Egypt, to prompt the Hebrew slaves strewn across Egypt searching for hay, to return to Goshen, where He would protect ALL the slaves from His last 7 plagues on Egypt;
◊ Orthodox Jewish and Roman persecution against 1st century Christians, to prompt the geographic spread of The Gospel; and
◊ anti-Christ persecution to ‘prove and refine’ 4th age Christians. (This group will include some 3rd believers who will have missed the rapture of bona fide 3rd-age believers, because they will have become lukewarm and apostate in the closing years of this current 3rd age, but who will return to faith in Christ in the face of persecution by the anti-Christ’s regime of terror on Jews and Christians.
2 An example is The Lord's use of massive wealth in Israel and Judah, to attract invading armies He would use to judge exceedingly sinful Jews.
