April 10, 2007

In contradiction to Israeli policy, the Jewish population has increased in Judea and Samaria

According to figures released by the Israeli Interior Ministry there has been an increase in the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria over the last last year; however, the statistics did not indicate how many of the additional residents were children in the Jewish settlements and how many had moved there from other places.

Another factor that played into the population increase was the immigration from the English speaking West with more than three thousand immigrants from the US and Canada coming to Israel with many of these new immigrants having a religious connection to Judea and Samaria. The fastest growth rate was among the very religious Jews already living in Judea and Samaria with additional Jews from Jerusalem moving to the area because of biblical beliefs.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The increasing population in Judea and Samaria, with most of that increase among the very religious Jews, is a page out of Bible prophecy for the End Times.

The former PM of Israel, Ariel Sharon, once accused the religious Jews of having a Messianic complex, referring to their belief that God was preparing them for the coming Messiah by giving them the land that He had promised to give them before the Messiah would come. In conversations with religious residents of Judea and Samaria, one will determine that indeed they are living in the land that God has given them, even in these troublesome times. Among these residents of Judea and Samaria, there is a stubbornness about them that says they will never leave the land that God has given them.

This present scenario is a page out of Bible prophecy for the time just prior to the coming Messiah. Ezekiel 34:11-31 states eighteen times that the Lord will find the Jews scattered across the four corners of the Earth and bring them into the land of Judea and Samaria. Ezekiel 36 some thirty-five times refers to this promised land and said that it will prosper under the Jewish caretakership.

The population increase is evidence that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.