We dare not forget the men and women who gave their lives that we may enjoy freedom in America. In like manner, we dare not forget the Jewish race. No people in all of human history have been hated like the Jews. They have become the scourge of the world. They endured the pain and suffering of the Holocaust in which over six million perished, but God has never failed to bless them.
The world has watched the Jews accomplish amazing things in the area of technology. Their specialists have been exceptional in mathematics, science, chemistry, physics, optics, medicine, economics, biotechnology, and computer science. They were instrumental in giving us the atomic bomb. Their discoveries and designs are legion.
God blesses them though the great majority are living in rebellion against Him. Is there any hope for their salvation as a nation? Asked another way, is there any real biblical reason to believe that God has permanently cast aside the Jews? No. In fact, there is every reason to believe that He has an incredible plan for their future. The reason is simple: God never goes back on His word. Never. Those dry Jewish bones mentioned by Ezekiel will live again (Ezekiel 37:4–11).
A glaring fact is that the Jews are still with us. They have not been assimilated into other nations, as one would expect. Some of them still know the various tribes from which they come. Most other nations have lost their original ethnicity, having been absorbed into other people groups. Not the Jews. They have at times become a part of other nations, but they have kept their identity as Jews. There are German Jews, Polish Jews, Russian Jews, American Jews, but they are still Jews.
In a tape series on prophecy, Dr. S. Lewis Johnson mentioned a quote from David Baron. I just paraphrase it here. Baron spoke of a river in the ocean. He said that in the harshest droughts it never dries up and in the largest floods it never overflows. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is somewhere in the Arctic seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is no flow of water like it in the world. Its current moves faster than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume of water is more than a thousand times greater. Its waters are the color of indigo blue. There is a visible difference between the Gulf Stream and the common sea water. Often one-half of a vessel may be observed as floating in Gulf Stream water while the other half is in common sea water.
This phenomenon in the physical world has its counterpart in life. There is a lonely river in the midst of the ocean of humanity. The mightiest floods of human temptation have never caused it to overflow, and the hottest fires of human cruelty have never caused it to dry up. Its fountain is in the gray dawn of the world’s history of the promise to Abraham, and its mouth is somewhere in the shadows of eternity. It too refuses to mingle with the surrounding waves. The line that divides it from the common waters of humanity is also plainly visible to the eye. It is the Jewish race.
Dr. Johnson went on to recall Baron’s words with an amazing illustration: If one was traveling on a boat in the ocean and reached down into the Gulf Stream and picked up a handful of water and threw it into common sea water, it would immediately be absorbed into the sea, losing its identity. But what if it was not absorbed? What if it continued to stand out? This is what has happened to Israel. They have been a mere handful of people scattered on the great ocean of humanity. But instead of being absorbed into other people groups, as we should have expected, judging from a knowledge as to what has happened to other nations of people, the Jews, after being in such a condition for thousands of years, continue to exist as a separate people.
The vast majority of Jews do not live in Israel. They are scattered throughout the four corners of the earth. God will one day open their spiritually blind eyes. He will draw them to Himself as a shepherd calls his sheep, and they will come. “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified” (Isaiah 61:1–3). Stay safe and stay tuned.