THEY WILL REBUILD
God Keeps Covenant
Day 10
by Wendy D. Beckett
“I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God. (Amos 9:14-15 NIV)
Day 10 of God Keeps Covenant: THEY WILL REBUILD
The transformation of the land of Israel from mosquito-infested swamps and barren desert to productive farms, vineyards and orchards is amazing. The Lord has blessed Israelis’ hard work. One indication is the jet stream, which actually shifted so that some of the former desert land has regular rain again.
Millions of trees have been planted on the barren slopes – many by Christians. Each visit my husband and I make to Israel, we see Isaiah 51:3 becoming more of a reality. The Lord “will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord.”
For many years now, Israeli jets have departed nightly full of fruit and flowers for the tables of Europe – a direct fulfillment of Isaiah 27:6, “In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.” Even in the grocery stores of America we can now purchase Israeli fresh produce.
In the Negev desert, exceptional olive orchards and vineyards are developing using brackish water pumped from thousands of feet below ground.
“They…will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.” (Isaiah 61:4) The rebuilding has been intense throughout the years of Israel’s existence. Their ability to absorb and house new immigrants is astounding. Their rebuilt cities are clean and orderly.
Never before in history has a dead language been revived. Yet in Israel today, Hebrew is spoken everywhere, and immigrants are required to attend Hebrew classes upon arrival.
Never before has a nation, which was dispersed into many countries, remained intact as a distinct people. Ethnic groups have always been absorbed after a few generations. Yet the Lord has kept Israel as a nation even in her long exile.
The Lord has remembered His covenant and His everlasting love for His nation. The time to favor Zion has come.
Gracious Father, You have looked down on this people throughout the generations and yearned for this time when You could again pour out Your blessings upon them. Thank You for all that is being fulfilled and all that will yet happen in order to complete Your great plan of Redemption for Israel and all peoples.