Existence of Israel is fulfillment of Biblical prophesies

[Rev. Rye]

If you want evidence that the Bible is true all you have to do is look at a map of the Middle East. There you will see a country called Israel, which has come back into existence after an absence of more than 1800 years.

And it wasn't just poofed into existence by a supreme deity, but by actions of governments and people.

If you study the Bible you will find that God warned the Jews that if they sinned they would be scattered among the nations. This happened after they rejected Jesus as being the Messiah God had promised.

And I presume rebellion against the Romans had nothing to do with it? And that the term "Masada" is fundamentally meaningless?

But even while they were wanderers without a home of their own God still protected them from being destroyed or assimilated into the nations where they lived and enabled them to preserve their language and culture.

And I suppose the refusal of many Jews to assimilate into the western nations had nothing to do with their own actions, and that somehow, while he refused to let them be destroyed, he couldn't stop people from getting pretty damn close to doing so.

If you want to learn more details about the history of the Jews I recommend that you read God, Jews, and History by Max I. Dimont

Or, for a much less biased source, Raymond Scheindlin's "A Short History of the Jewish People"