Schneider Aviel

Is the State of Israel Supernatural or Coincidence?

Schneider Aviel

The fact that Israel is celebrating its 75th birthday this year is regarded by many people in the land as a miracle.

| Topics: Bible, Land of Israel, Promised Land
David Ben-Gurion
Photo: (KLUGER ZOLTAN/GPO)

Is Israel’s existence really something supernatural? It is clear that miracles are a part of the biblical past, but in the political present they are either not recognized, or are ignored.

Some of the classic miracles in the Bible include the parting of the Red Sea, Balaam’s talking ass, the manna that fell from heaven, the sun standing still in the heavens, Jesus walking on the water and many other paranormal phenomena. It is often taken for granted that we understand these to be miracles, but it still depends on whether or not we believe the Bible. And even then, people often confuse miracles with magic tricks. Most people today simply use science as a crutch to dismiss miracles entirely.

So how can we understand the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 and its current existence? As a trick, as a political coincidence, or as something supernatural? First of all, it depends on how we approach the Bible, for without the Bible, miracles don’t make any sense. In Scripture, prophets describe how the Jewish people will one day return from every corner of the earth to the Promised Land. Nearly 2,000 years after the destruction of the Second Temple, an independent and sovereign State of Israel arises for the third time in its biblical homeland. It is true that from a Jewish viewpoint this is easier to understand than it is for many Christians.

For the Jewish people, a circle has closed in its 3,500 years of history. But even the continued existence of the Jewish people is already like a miracle, as American author Mark Twain (1835-1910) described in Harpers magazine, shortly before the founding of the State of Israel:

“The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone … The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was … All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”

One hundred years earlier, Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712-1786) asked his general Hans Joachim von Ziethen whether he could provide proof for the existence of God, to which Ziethen replied, “The Jews, your majesty.”

If, in fact, the Jewish nation proves God’s existence, then conversely the supernatural nature of Israel’s existence is also proven. In the Bible, the nation of Israel plays a leading role alongside God. So, too, today in the eyes of many Israel has assumed a disproportionately important role in global politics. Many take offense at this, but it’s not the first time. The Jewish people make up just 0.1 percent of the world population, and yet from this tiny chosen nation arose the world’s two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. And, lest we forget, it was from the Jewish nation that was born the Redeemer.

The millennia of the history of Israel are like a cosmic miracle, unparalleled and filled with mystery! Anyone who tries to explain them without God will find himself in crisis, as the fulfilled promises cannot be explained away as coincidences. Or did the nation of Israel simply have more luck than all other nations? Each person needs to decide for themselves whether to regard the existence of Israel as something supernatural, or mere coincidence. On this topic, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, once said, “Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.”

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3 responses to “Is the State of Israel Supernatural or Coincidence?”

  1. Jake Wilson says:
    January 20, 2023 at 9:01 pm

    “I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people at the end of days: there will be a time of distress unparalleled between the time they became a nation and that moment.” (Dan 10:14; 12:1)

    “It would be for a time, times, and a half, and that it will be when the power of the holy people is no longer being shattered that all these things will end.” (Dan 12:7)

    A time equals 360 years:

    A time, times, and a half = 360 years + 720 years + 180 years = 1,260 years

    But since the context provides two angels and two raised hands, we need to double the time period:

    1,260 years + 1,260 years = 2,520 years

    – 536 + 2,520 years (of 360 days) = 1948

  2. John Taylor says:
    January 21, 2023 at 12:54 am

    Aviel,
    What are the evidences or claims which back up your statement that Islam came from Israel? I thought Jews and Christians refused to recognize Mohammed’s claims.
    John E Taylor

    • Israel Today says:
      January 21, 2023 at 9:20 am

      Hi John, only that Islam is based on a deceptive forgery of the Hebrew Tannac. Islam exchanges Isaac as the son of promise with Ishmael. Even Jesus appears, not as the son of God but as a prophet. There are many examples like this in the Koran.

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