Rarely does a day pass in which the state of Israel is not mentioned early on in the news media’s reporting of current events, which is quite remarkable, given the unimpressive land-mass and “junior-size” population of a country the size of the State of New Jersey and home to only ten million people.

And rarely does a day pass without any report, even the regularly understated ones, of an incident of violence against Jewish people as an expression of anti-Semitism somewhere in the world.

One can’t help but have the distinct feeling that the future holds some kind of major eruption involving that little country and that small group of people—less than seven million Jews in Israel and a total of only slightly over fifteen million Jews worldwide.

And that feeling is entirely consistent with the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel and the Jewish people, including a remarkably dramatic depiction of the ultimate outcome of movements appearing center-stage right now, as reported in today’s news.

It is important to note that the Old Testament prophets never “hedged” on their statement of what God is going to do with, and for, Israel. Bible-believing people still embrace the statement—trite, but true—“God said it; I believe it; that settles it!”

And one of the prophets even answered to a name which, every time it was spoken, was a reminder of the certainty of his prophecies: Zechariah, meaning in Hebrew, “God remembers.”

So let’s look into what Zechariah declares as the future of Israel and the Jewish people in this fourth installment of the series, “God Remembers!,” an episode we call “The Glory Returns!”

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In Psalm 32 King David offers a personal testimony—from his own experience—of the sweet assurance of sins forgiven when he writes:

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. (Psalm 32:1-2 in the English Standard Version)

Though even so great a leader as Israel’s King David could speak confidently of this assurance, the fact is that the concept is foreign to Jewish people today, as evidenced by the uncertainty with which they conclude their personal and corporate observance each year of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

And yet, the prophet Zechariah declared the message of a time when this joyful assurance of forgiveness will be extended to all of Israel, but sadly after a time of great adversity and persecution.

The source of that forgiveness is the same for Jews and Gentiles alike, found only in the atoning death of Jesus.

With that in mind, let’s open our Bibles to Zechariah chapter 13 for the third in the series, “God Remembers: Studies in Zechariah twelve through fourteen,” an episode entitled, “There Is a Fountain.”

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While there are those who say that God is finished with His dealings with national Israel, with the Jewish people as a whole—which essentially means that “The Chosen People” have become “The Un-Chosen People—both the Old and New Testament Scriptures indicate a future scenario quite to the contrary.

It is certainly true that Jacob’s descendants have rarely walked in obedience and service to God (but then, whose descendants HAVE?), that doesn’t mean that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who chose the Jewish people to have a special relationship with Him and to be used by Him in special ways has moved from “Plan A” to “Plan B”!

In this episode of “Ancient Words, Modern Message,” we look again at the Old Testament Prophet Zechariah’s message concerning the future of Israel, a future that is both frightening and reassuring.

So I invite you to open your Bible to Zechariah, chapter 12 for today’s study in our series,“God Remembers!”, one entitled, “Israel’s New Birth."

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