Ezekiel 11:16
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“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.” Ezekiel 11:16
Before 1948, when the State of Israel was declared the official home of the Jewish people, they were scattered everywhere across the globe. From the eastern hemisphere to the western. We especially know of how they were scattered across Europe before WW2 and the horror they endured within the Holocaust. Even during that time, when they were not together as a Jewish nation, God was a little sanctuary to them. They were not left totally without some comfort; they were not totally wiped from the face of the earth.
The picture to the left is the land of Israel during the Old Testament. The picture in the middle is when the Jewish people no longer laid any exclusive claim to the land of Israel as a Jewish nation. That area had long been desolate of Jewish rule/occupation from about 70AD (During the Roman Empire) to 1948. The picture to the right is how the land of Israel is today after the Jewish people were “brought back from the sword” to regather as a Jewish nation in 1948.
God is a little sanctuary to every person scattered across the globe who serve Him through Jesus Christ. The will of God is not for Christians to have their own nation, but to live in every city of the nations through Him. “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” John 17:15-6
God’s will for the Jewish people is to be Christians. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”” Matthew 23:37 The will of God is to gather us into the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth through Jesus Christ. The will of God is not to gather us as a nation in this present heaven and earth.
“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11
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