Ransom said:
If the dispensationalists are right that there is a radical distinction between Israel and the Church, then I don't understand why, in the dispensation of the church, we should think the secular state of Israel is, in fact, the Israel if the Old Covenant.
Aside from the fact that the Apostle Paul declared that God wasn't finished with Israel in Romans 9 many prophecies are found concerning the restoration of the Jews to their homeland
never to be driven out again.
Amos 9:14-15 (NKJV)
14
I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15
I will plant them in their land,
And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,?
Says the Lord your God.
Isaiah 11:11-12
11
It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again
the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the islands of the sea.
12
He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth. (not just from the East as when they returned from the Babylonian Captivity bur from the North, and All Countries.)
Jeremiah 16:14-15
God Will Restore Israel
14 ?Therefore behold, the days are coming,? says the Lord, ?that it shall no more be said, ?The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,? 15 but, ?The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and
from all the lands where He had driven them.? For
I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
Scofield with all his faults correctly predicted the return of the Jews and the restoration to their homeland in
1909 many years before the event took place in
1948.
Ezekiel 34:28 - "The whole passage (v.23-30) speaks of a restoration yet future, for the remnant which returned after the 70 years, and their posterity, were continually under Gentile yoke, until, in A.D. 70, they were finally driven from the land into a dispersion which still continues." (
Scofield Reference Bible) When those words were penned in 1909 he was mocked because Russia was a Christian Orthodox nation and
Israel had not existed as a nation for over 2,000 years. Check out his note on Ezekiel 38:2.
Israel today is a
miracle nation. The video below says it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwxy9yqhzM
