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in shocking detail.

Jesus told us things that

are going to take place

at the end of days,

at the end of this age.

In fact, the disciples,

when they asked Jesus about,

"What will be the

sign of your coming

and of the end of the age?"

And he goes through

and he starts to tell them

all of these different

things to look for.

[Narrator] And what

Jesus foretold

was not what they

wanted to hear.

When Jesus was in Jerusalem,

Jesus did not talk to the people

about the empire growing,

the nation ruling the world.

In fact, one of the

most frightening things

that Jesus said to

the Jews was not only that

the destruction of the

temple would happen

but that the Israeli nation

would cease to exist.

It would be scattered

and destroyed.

(dramatic music)

[Narrator] Not only

did Jesus provide details

regarding the end of the world,

speaking of concepts

and global change taking place

in the far future,

but he also warned of events

that would happen much sooner

to the nation of Israel itself.

He foretold of the complete

destruction of Israel

and the dispersal

of the Jewish people

to the four corners

of the Earth,

a terrifying warning

that most believed

would surely never

come to pass.

But almost 40 years after

Jesus' crucifixion in 70 A.D.,

the prophesy was fulfilled

exactly as he said it would be.

The nation of Israel fell

by an invading Roman army

led by the future

emperor, Titus.

The Jewish temple in

Jerusalem, a massive structure

over 40 acres in size,

was completely destroyed

so that no two stones

laid upon another,

just as Jesus foretold

and more than one million Jews

were slaughtered during

the siege of the city.

The small surviving remnant

of the Jewish people

were dispersed to

the four corners of the Earth.

The nation of Israel was

so decimated by military force

that for all practical purpose,

the Jewish bloodline was

considered virtually dead.

(dramatic music)

But following

the structural rules

of the prophetic timeline,

there was much more

to this prophesy.

Decades before the destruction

of Israel came to pass,

it was also foretold that

long after Israel would fall

in the future through utter

destruction and displacement,

the people would

later be regathered

into the original land

and the nation would be reborn.

In fact, Jesus himself,

who often spoke in parables,

gave such an example

through the imagery

of a dead fig tree

coming back to life

at the beginning

of the end of days.

Well, there's a

prophesy that Jesus gave.

He says, "Learn the

parable of the fig tree."

And he talks about

how this fig tree,

when you see it

begin to blossom,

that will be the generation

that sees his return,

very, very

significant statement.

Most Bible scholars

believe that imagery

in the parable of the fig

tree is symbolic of Israel.

So Jesus himself is saying

when you see that fig tree

budding, coming back to life,

know that my return is near.

So understanding

that the fig tree

that Jesus was talking

about is in fact Israel

and they say when it comes back,

then it will be the last days,

it will be the days

of anti-Christ.

[Narrator] Prophesy foretells

that the end of days

would begin with the rebirth

of Israel but of course,

this event could never

happen if the nation

and people were not

decimated in the first place,

presenting more

compounding evidence

as to the complexity

of the ancient prophesies.

But if this sequence of events

wasn't miraculous enough

on its own, additional

prophetic details

regarding how the rebirth

would be fulfilled

is something that would

leave anyone speechless.

In Ezekiel 37, you have

the Valley of the Dry Bones,

this picture of all these

bones of the Jewish people

that have been

scattered and separated

coming back together

as a nation.

We also have the prophesy in

Isaiah that talks about how

Isaiah is startled to be told

that somehow will a nation

be born in a single day,

asking, "How does that happen?

How do nations just be

born in a single day?"

[Narrator] As if the prospect

that a decimated nation

with the remnants scattered to

the four corners of the Earth

could be reborn wasn't

hard enough to believe,

prophesies recorded

over 2,000 years ago

clearly foretold that

this rebirth would occur

in a single day.

A seemingly optimistic view

to say the least

but surely one that

could never come to pass,

as something of this nature

has never happened in

the history of the world.

There has been no country

in the history of the world

that has ever been

completely destroyed,

scattered among all the other

populations of the planet

and then reborn in

their original homeland

with their original language,

with their original

heritage intact.

(bomb exploding)

But after 1,800 years,

the impossible happened.

On May 14, 1948,

after the Holocaust

and the end of World War II,

the nation of Israel

was reborn and

the Jewish people once again

had a land to call home.

The action was ordered

by the United Nations

and was the first and only time

the U.N.

had created a new state

by way of a general

assembly vote.

[Man] We wanna see the time come

when we can do

the things in peace

that we have been

able to do in war.

If we can put this--

So what we find is

in 1948, May 14th,

Israel becomes a nation again.

This is unheard of.

Never has a nation

been out of its land

for about 1,800 years

and then comes back

as a people group,

it just doesn't happen.

They become assimilated

and they become a part

of the rest of the world.

(dramatic music)

[Narrator] But as miraculous

as this event was,

this is far from

the happy conclusion

one might expect

and is merely a milestone

within the prophetic timeline

that continues on

through the end of days,

foretold as a sign

for things to come.

I believe the greatest

sign of our time

is the rebirth

of the Jewish nation.

The last time that there

was such a thing as Israel,

Jesus Christ himself

was walking on the Earth

and there are many

prophesies that talk about

in the latter years

and in the latter days,

God would regather his people

from the four

corners of the world.

[Narrator] The prophesies warn

that when Israel is reborn,

all of the remaining events

within the scriptural timeline

will come to pass

during what is described

as the last generation.

There's a lot of

Bible prophesy teachers

that believe the generation

that saw the rebirth of Israel,

based on the illustration

of the fig tree,

they believe that those

that see the rebirth

of the nation of Israel in 1948,

then it's that

generation of people

who will see the second

coming of Christ.

What's interesting

about Psalm 102,

"When the Lord

shall build up Zion,

He shall return in His glory."

Well, Zion is a spiritual

name for Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is being

rebuilt right now

and the Lord says He's

going to appear in His glory

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