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| 🇮🇱 Biblical Israel 🇮🇱 |
Imagine a book so influential that it has shaped the course of history, culture, and thought for millennia. This book is the Bible, read by more people worldwide than any other text since the dawn of writing. Its narratives are not mere stories; they are the bedrock of a nation's identity, informing traditions, holidays, and even the daily language of millions.
The settings of these ancient tales are not mythical lands but real places you can visit today. The culture and traditions born from these biblical stories have survived thousands of years, evolving yet holding true to their roots. This nation, inspired by prophecy and preserved through trials, is Israel.
Imagine a land, a nation, a people that is the basis of story, a book written thousands of years ago, that's been read by more people in the world than any other book since the days that human beings started writing books. This book has been in nearly every home in the world since the days people started owning books.
Imagine that the places and characters in this book's stories once existed and that the events in the book happened in places and locations that are real.
Imagine an actual culture and traditions that grew out of this book's stories which has existed since the book was written thousands of years ago.
Imagine a nation with holidays and songs that correspond to the stories in the book.
Imagine that people today are maintaining beliefs and practices based on the text of this book in the same places as written about in the book.
Imagine that the stories in this book have inspired countless other books, poems, songs, movies, artwork and even clothing and jewelry.
Imagine that the nation in this book draws hundreds of thousands of tourists and business travelers in modern times.
Imagine, as predicted thousands of years ago in the book, that this nation and it's people have blessed the world in so many ways from science and medicine, to entertainment, to flowers and farming methods and much much more! And just as the book predicted, people and other nations that have been a curse to this nation have been themselves cursed.
Imagine a nation which has been to war many times as written about in the book. Imagine this nation have been conquered and it's people expelled from it's land time & time again, but they stayed a nation and kept coming back to their land, as written about, and even foretold in the book.
Imagine a modern nation with the same enemies today as described in the book based on family disputes that are written about in the book thousands of years ago..
Imagine there is one modern nation with the official language today that is just as was written in the book. And, the people of this nation can still read and speak this ancient unique language.
Imagine their is one nation today whose flag and money, the schekle, and other official symbols are based on this book, story and the characters.
Imagine a nation with the same cities, villages, rivers, mountains and valleys as those that are described in the book thousands of years ago. There are even buildings, lakes, wells & pools and artifacts one can go see today that were written about in the book thousands of years ago.
Imagine a nation that is the modern fulfillment of prophecies written about in the book.
You don't have to "imagine it," because it exists -- it is true. Of course you know I am referring to the bible and that state of Israel. You don't have to "imagine it," you can visit it.
What is hard to imagine is that people say this nation, Israel, has no right to exist. It is hard to imagine that people whose first leader is Yassar Arafat would claim the title to the land of Israel.
Israel just celebrated it's Independence Day.
AM YISRAEL CHAI (18)
