Already there are papers in Jerusalem published in Hebrew, schools are taught and many speak in the ancient language.
Many Jews are going back to Palestine.
Many more are there now than returned from Babylon.
They are going back as the Word of God foretold, in utter and absolute unbelief and bitter repudiation of the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was their foretold and foreordained Messiah.
They are going back with the vail upon their eyes and as blind as in the day when their fathers caused Him to be crucified by Roman hands.
They are going back to a time of anguish of which Jeremiah solemnly warns as “the day of Jacob’s trouble,” and our Lord describes as the tribulation, “the great one,” the like of which the world has never seen and will never see again.
They are going back to be set up by a league of ten nations and to enter into an alliance and covenant with its godless head as their political and false Messiah.
They will suffer until there shall come upon that generation all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, the son of Bacharias who was slain between the temple and the altar, and the blood of the Son of God which they invoked in judgment on themselves and their children in that fatal hour when Pilate convinced of the innocence of Jesus and wishing to let Him go had washed His hands in water, putting the responsibility of the crucifixion upon them as a people. Then it was they cried that terrible cry:
“His blood be on us, and on our children.”
But then as now, and always since the days of Elijah, there was and is an elect remnant in Israel.