| Madrid October 30, 1991 George Bush Sr. opens conference in Madrid, Spain to start the Middle East “peace” process which will be on the basis of “land for peace.” Topic: Israel must give land for peace. | October 30, 1991 “The Perfect Storm” -Powerful storm in the north Atlantic traveling from East to West for 1,000 miles smashes into New England with ocean waves the largest ever recorded in that region. President Bush's home in Kennebunkport, Maine was heavily damaged. |
| Bush moves talks to Washington August 23, 1992 Madrid peace conference moved to Washington, D.C. where talks resumed. | August 23, 1992 Hurricane Andrew, the worst natural disaster ever to hit America prior to that time, hit south Florida. 180,000 homeless in Florida and 25,000 in Louisiana. Damage as high as $30 billion. |
| Clinton and Assad January 16, 1994 President Clinton met with President Hafez el-Assad of Syria in Geneva. Topic: An agreement that Israel would give up the Golan Heights to Syria. | January 17, 1994 The 6.9 Northridge Earthquake rocked southern California. With 61 dead and damages at $21 billion, It was the second most destructive natural disaster to hit the U.S, after Hurricane Andrew. |
| Clinton meets with Arafat March 1, 1997 Yasser Arafat met with President Clinton in Washington to discuss settlements being built “illegally” by Israel. Clinton rebukes Israel for building the settlements. Arafat went on a speaking tour of the U.S. The United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly voted to condemn Israel. | March 1, 1997 Powerful tornadoes devastated huge sections of the U.S. Arkadelphia, Arkansas was destroyed by tornadoes. |
| Washington Jan 21, 1998 Clinton humiliates Netanyahu with a cold reception at the White House, Secretary of State Albright refuses to have lunch with him. | Jan 21, 1998 On the same day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks into the mass media, revealing Clinton’s sex life to the whole world and he is eventually impeached for lying about it. |
| Albright-Clinton-Arafat September 27, 1998 Sec of State Albright met with Arafat in New York in preparation for a meeting with President Clinton. On September 28, 1998 Clinton meets with Arafat and Netanyahu declaring that Israel has to give up 13% of the “West Bank.” | September 27, 1998 Hurricane George slammed into the Gulf Coast striking Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle causing $1 billion in damage. The storm stalled and then moved inland. Just as Arafat was leaving the hurricane dissipated. |
| Wye River Plantation, Maryland October 15-23, 1998 Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the Wye Plantation, Maryland for a five day meeting on giving away 13% percent of the “West Bank.” Under pressure from Clinton, Israel agreed. | October 17, 1998 Rains and tornadoes hit east Texas. Twenty five percent of Texas was ravaged, leaving over $1 billion in damage. The day the talks ended the storms subsided. On October 21, Clinton declares this section of Texas a major disaster area. |
| Clinton-Arafat in Washington –November 30, 1998 42-nation meeting in Washington to raise money for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capital. All the nations agreed to give Arafat $3 billion in aid. Clinton promised $400 million, and the European nations $1.7 billion. | November 30, 1998 On the same day, the Dow Jones average drops 216 points, and on December 1, the European Market had its third worst day in history. Hundreds of billions of market capitalization were wiped out in the U.S. and Europe. |
| Clinton in “Palestinian” area December 12, 1998 Clinton lands in the Palestinian-controlled section of Israel to discuss “land for peace.” | December 12, 1998 The House of Representatives votes four articles of impeachment against him. |
| Clinton-Arafat March 23, 1999 Arafat met with President Clinton in Washington, D.C. to discuss a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. | March 23, 1999 Stock market fell two hundred nineteen points. May 3, 1999 |
| Arafat scheduled to declare May 3, 1999 Yasser Arafat is scheduled to declare a The declaration is postponed to December 1999 at the request of President Clinton whose letter to Arafat encourages him in his "aspirations for his own land." | May 3, 1999 The most powerful tornado storm system ever to hit the United States sweeps across Oklahoma and Kansas. The winds are clocked at 316 mph the fastest wind speed ever recorded. One of the tornadoes was over one mile wide. 43 people died. |
| Clinton-Arafat in Washington September 22, 1999 | September 22, 1999 The day before and after the meeting the market falls more than 200 points each day. This was the first time in history the market lost more than 200 points for two days in a week. The market lost 524 points the week. |
| Under US pressure October 11, 1999 Jewish settlers are forcibly removed from 15 “West Bank” Israeli settlements and evicted from their covenant land. | October 15, 1999 Hurricane Irene slams into North Carolina. AND on the 15th the Dow-Jones averages lose 5.7 percent in the worst week in ten years. On October 15 the Dow lost 266 points. |
| Camp David, Maryland July 12, 2000 Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yassar Arafat meet at Camp David, Maryland to discuss dividing Jerusalem and giving away large portions of Israeli land. | July - August, 2000 Seven million acres of timber burn in the Western U.S. Montana and Wyoming are declared disaster areas. More than twenty five thousand from all over the world fought the fires. |
| Tenet to Israel June 6, 2001 CIA director George Tenet traveled to Israel to discuss stopping building of Settlements. This was the first involvement of the George W. Bush administration. | June 8, 2001 Hurricane Allison. Three feet of rain fell on Houston, Texas. Twenty Five thousand homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged. Cost $3-4 billion dollars. |
| Bush demands compliance August 9, 2001 President Bush demanded that Israel abide by the Madrid Peace Process, the Mitchell Plan, and United Nations Resolutions 242 and 338. The resolutions called for Israel to go back to the borders prior to the Six-Day War of 1967. | September 11, 2001 Terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York, attacked the Pentagon and brought a plane down in Pennsylvania. |
| Bush approves “Palestine” November 10, 2001 In his major UN address on the war on terrorism, Bush speaks of “Palestine.” This was the first time a US President had every publicly acknowledged the idea of a Palestinian “Palestine.” The next day, November 11, 2001, Secretary Powell said that Bush's use of “Palestine” in his speech on Saturday was “deliberate and reflected administration policy.” | November 13, 2001 American Airlines Flight 587 exploded and broke apart over Queens in New York City, a short distance from the UN, where Israel’s covenant land and future had been discussed all weekend by the UN General Assembly. |
| Secretary of State Colin Powell January 31, 2003 Powell said Bush will become more deeply involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than he was in his first two years in the White House. On the same day Bush and Britain’s Tony Blair met at the White House over the pending Iraq war. They agreed to give Iraq six more weeks to comply. | February 1, 2004 (1 day later) Ironically, this was the same amount of time Bush had just agreed to give Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to form his coalition government and for his formal response to the Quartet Road Map. Two days later the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up over Palestine, Texas. |
| Bush supports Gaza withdrawal August 2005 The Bush administration brings pressure upon Prime Minister Sharon of Israel to remove, by force, Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip and to give their land to the Palestinians in order to establish peace. | August 29, 2005 As the last Jews are forcibly removed from their homes in Gaza, Hurricane Katrina crashes into the Gulf coast of the United States. Over $26 billion dollars in estimated destruction. This was the worst catastrophe in the history of the nation. Initial estimates of 80 dead in one county alone. Not long afterward, Sharon goes into a coma and remains in such, even to this day. |
| Condoleeza Rice in Israel October 2007 "Frankly, it's time for the establishment of a Palestinian state." And she continued, "That's really a message that I think only I can deliver," explaining her mission to prepare for the conference to be held in Annapolis. | October 2007 Then the "Severe weather" assaulted several states from Florida to Oklahoma with floods and tornadoes. Within two days after Rice left the Middle East, fires began in California forcing the evacuation of almost one million people and leaving more than 1,400 homes demolished and damages over a billion dollars. |
| Bush in Israel January 2008 President Bush visits Israel for the first time as President to discuss shared sovereignty over (dividing) Jerusalem. | January 2008 Bush arrives back home to a crisis in mortgage loan foreclosures, recession worries, and the DJIA drops 784 points on the year. A French investor loses $7 Billion dollars, rocking the financial world, and congress can’t get an economic stimulus package passed fast enough. |
| Obama campaigns in Israel July 23, 2008 | July 23, 2008 Hurricane Dolly makes landfall at peak intensity July 23, 08 in South Padre Island, Texas |
| Bush: I'll Bring Peace to Israel Dec 20, 2004 | December 21, 2004 A rocket attack kills 20 people at a U.S. military base near Mosul, Iraq. |
| US support for Israel ends at UN April 19, 2010 Fox News reports that the U.S. will no longer automatically support Israel in the United Nations. | April 20, 2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes. |
| America’s decay advances. Media controlled. Elections compromised. 50 million babies butchered. Parents can’t be called Mom and Dad. Planned Parenthood working to teach kids to experiment with the pleasures of sex. Gays working for preferred access to everything. Controls over pornography disappear. All vestiges of Christianity and God being rejected. | |
Judgment On America After Opposing God's Program In Israel
Whose Land Is It?
* "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:1
* "The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein."
Psalms 24:1
And it's quoted and repeated in the New Testament:
* "The earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
1st Corinthians 10:26
The Lord then claims ownership of the land of Israel:
* "So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion MY Holy Mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no aliens shall ever pass through her again."
Joel 3:17
* "For on MY Holy Mountain, on the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord God, there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me…"
Ezekiel 20:40
* "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of MY people, my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up my land."
Joel 3:1-2
* "Yet I have set my King on MY Holy Hill of Zion."
Psalms 2:6
* "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all MY Holy Mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."
Isaiah 11:9
To Whom Did God Give The Land of Israel?
* "On that day the Lord made a COVENANT with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates."
Genesis 15:18
* "And I will establish my COVENANT between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN as an EVERLASTING possession; and I will be their God."
Genesis 17:7-8
Then to Abraham’s son Isaac:
* "And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and thou shalt call his name ISAAC; and I will establish my covenant with him for an EVERLASTING COVENANT, and with his seed after him."
Genesis 17:19
* "But I will establish my covenant with ISAAC, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year."
Genesis 17:21
* "...for IN ISAAC SHALL YOUR SEED BE CALLED."
Genesis 21:12
And then to Isaac's son Jacob:
* "Remember his marvelous works which He has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of JACOB, his chosen ones!"
1st Chronicles 16:12-13
* "Then Jacob said to Joseph: 'God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land TO YOUR DESCENDANTS after you as an everlasting possession.'”
Genesis 48:3-4
He Repeats To Make It Clear:
* "O seed of Abraham His servant, You children of JACOB, his chosen ones! He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth. He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant which he made with ABRAHAM, and his oath to ISAAC, and confirmed it to JACOB for a statute, to ISRAEL for an everlasting covenant, saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance…'”
Psalms 105:6-11
Jacob's Name Changed To Israel:
* And He said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel...
Genesis 32:28
God Told Moses His Covenant Is With Israel:
* "Then the Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying: 'Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, across from Jericho; view the land of Canaan, which I give TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL as a possession…'”
Deuteronomy 32:48-49
The Borders of The Covenant Land:
* "On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates."
Genesis 15:18
What About Ishmael -The Father Of The Arabs?
* "And Abraham said to God, 'Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!'
Then God said: 'No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
BUT my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year. Then He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.'"
Genesis 17:18-22
Scripture Adds More About Ishmael:
* "You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction. He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him. and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.''
Genesis 16:11-12
It's amazing how a prophecy spoken more than 3,000 years ago is visibly accurate to this day!
Judgment Comes
The covenant itself is not conditional, it has been stated several times that it is an everlasting covenant. However Israel was forewarned that the results of disobediance and rebellion would be the loss of possession of the land for a period of time.
Possession Of The Land Required Obedience
* "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant …BECAUSE they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice…"
Jeremiah 9:11-13
* "All nations would say, `Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ Then men would say: `BECAUSE they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. And the Lord UPROOTED THEM FROM THEIR LAND in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’"
Deuteronomy 29:24-28
* "For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts. THEREFORE the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel …for the leaders of this people cause them to err ...for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness ….through the wrath of the Lord of hosts, the land is burned up and the people shall be as fuel for the fire, no man shall spare his brother."
Isaiah 9:13-19
* "For Jerusalem stumbled and Judah is fallen BECAUSE their tongue and their doing are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory. The look on their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves."
Isaiah 3:8-9
The First Captivity
After many years of rebellion, in spite of God's warnings, Israel still did not repent and finally the judgment came. It was to come as captivity in two stages. First the northern part of Israel would be taken by Assyria. Later, the southern part, called Judah, would be taken to Babylon where they would remain for 70 years.
First Captivity Prophesied
* "Inasmuch as these people refused the waters of Shiloh that flow softly, and rejoice in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son, now therefore behold, the Lord brings up over them the waters of the river, strong and mighty, the king of ASSYRIA and all his glory…he will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel. Be shattered O you peoples, and be broken in pieces…"
Isaiah 8:6-9
* "I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of BABYLON, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay them with the sword. Moreover I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all its produce, and all its precious things; all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, who will plunder them, seize them, and carry them to Babylon."
Jeremiah 20:4-5
* "Therefore thus says the Lord: 'Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of BABYLON, and he shall take it. And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger; BECAUSE the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have provoked Me only to anger with the work of their hands,'' says the Lord. For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and my fury from the day that they built it, even to this day; so I will remove it from before My face because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem…'"
Jeremiah 32:28-32
* "And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, `Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.' "Yet you have not listened to Me,'' says the Lord, "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: `BECAUSE you have not heard My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the Lord, `and Nebuchadnezzar the king of BABYLON, my servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations...'"
Jeremiah 25:4-9
* "All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, BECAUSE you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees He gave you."
Moses -Deuteronomy 28:45
* "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, `Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?' Then they will answer, `BECAUSE they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.'"
2nd Chronicles 7:19-22
They Were Told How Long This Judgment Would Last
* "...And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon SEVENTY YEARS."
Jeremiah 25:11
* "For thus says the Lord: After SEVENTY YEARS are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place."
Jeremiah 29:10
The First Captivity In Two Stages
The first captivity took place in two stages, first the northern kingdom, then the southern kingdom later.
721 BC –Assyrian invasion.
The northern kingdom of Israel was taken into captivity.
586 BC –Babylonian invasion.
Solomon’s Temple was destroyed, 100,000 Jews killed, the southern kingdom of Judah was taken in captivity to Babylon.
The Temple was destroyed on the 9th day of the month Av.
Someday, far into the future, the second Temple would be destroyed on the same date, the 9th of Av.
The Second Captivity
* "And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER; and you shall serve other gods of wood and stone which neither you nor your fathers have known. And among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot, but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul; your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life."
Deuteronomy 28:64-66
* "Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,'' says the Lord. For surely I will command, and will sift the house of Israel AMONG ALL NATIONS, as grain is sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, `The calamity shall not overtake us nor confront us.'"
Amos 9:8-10
* "I will scatter them also AMONG THE GENTILES whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them."
Jeremiah 9:16
The Second Captivity
The second captivity took place in 70 A.D.
Titus and the Roman Tenth Legion destroyed Judah and Jerusalem and drove the survivors into exile throughout the entire world.
The second Temple, the one that was standing in the time of Jesus, was destroyed once again on the 9th day of the month Av.
This dispersion lasted until the rebirth of Israel on May 14, 1948.
The Second Restoration Prophesied
Note: not “if” but “when”
* "When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished TO THE MOST DISTANT LAND UNDER THE HEAVENS, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more propserous and numerous than your fathers."
Deuteronomy 30:1-5
The Miraculous Preservation Of Israel
Psalms 105:8-10
Leviticus 26:44-45
The Restoration
Imagine reading these a hundred years ago...
when Israel was still a barren wasteland, before the rebirth of the nation Israel which took place in May, 1948:
* "For behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I WILL BRING THEM BACK to the land which I gave to their fathers and they shall take possession of it."
Jeremiah 30:3
* "Thus says the Lord God: 'Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone. Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.'”
Ezekiel 11:16-17
* "And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me."
Jeremiah 33:7-8
* "Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and they shall be my people, and I will be their God,in truth and in righteousness."
Zecheriah 8:7-8
* "Behold I will gather them FROM ALL THE COUNTRIES to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and great indignation. I will bring them back TO THIS PLACE, and I will make them dwell in safety. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God."
Jeremiah 32:37-38
How do we know this is speaking of the restoration taking place now?
Because: in the first judgment, in the first captivity, Israel was taken captive into Babylon. In the second captivity, Israel was scattered throughout the entire world and many of the prophecies state that they will be brought back not from one place, but from the entire world.
This Second Restoration Will Be Permanent
* "It shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again THE SECOND TIME to recover the remnant of his people who are left… He will set up a banner for the nations and will assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. …And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off..."
Isaiah 11:11-13
and through the prophet Amos:
* "I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them. I will plant them in their land, and NO LONGER shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them,'' says the Lord your God."
Amos 9:14-15
and through the prophet Ezekiel:
* "Thus says the Lord God: Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. …Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, where your fathers dwelt. And they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children FOREVER."
Ezekiel 37:21-25
An ongoing process until all of Israel has been regathered:
* "For on my holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord God, there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve me...
I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised my hand in an oath to give to your fathers."
Ezekiel 20:40-42