AVENGER OF THE AFFLICTED “Once again I looked and this time I saw four horns. So I asked the angelic messenger who spoke with me, “What are these?” He replied, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” Next the Lord showed me four blacksmiths. I asked, “What are these going to do?” He answered, “These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah’s enemies and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people.”” Zechariah 1:18-21 NETExcerpt from a Transcript by Dr. S. Lewis Johnson, Jr. who led the congregation of Believer's Chapel in Dallas, TX. The continuance Jewish national survival is just as astounding if not more so. In fact, men who have studied the history of the nation of Israel have continually been astounded by the fact that they are still with us today. For example, the German philosopher, Hegel, once said with reference to the Jews, “It is a dark troublesome enigma to me I am not able to understand it. It does not fit any of our categories; it is a riddle”.Nicholas Berdyaev, the Russian philosopher commented upon the Jewish national survival by saying, “I remember how the materialist interpretation of history when I attempted in my youth to verify it by applying it to the destinies of peoples, broke down in the case of the Jews where destiny seemed absolutely inexplicable from the materialist view point. And indeed according to the materialist and positivistic criterion this people aught long ago to have perished. Its survival is a mysterious and wonder phenomenon demonstrating that the life of this people is governed by special predetermination, transcending the process of adaptation expounded by the materialistic interpretation of history. The survival of the Jews, their resistance to destruction, their endurance under absolutely peculiar conditions and the faithful role-played by them in history. All these point to the particular and mysterious foundations of their destiny”.Now, the philosophers Berdyaev and Hegel are merely echoing in terms, which academicians would understand, the facts that the Bible has set for us many hundreds of years. For example, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the prophecy of Isaiah, the ninth and tenth verses, there is a definite reference to the national survival of the Nation Israel. Will you notice the fifty-fourth chapter of the book of Isaiah the ninth and tenth verses, the prophet writes:“For this is like the waters of Noah unto me, for as I have sworn the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth so have I sworn that I will not be angry with thee nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, smith the Lord who has mercy on thee.”In other words, the mountains may go and the hills may go but Israel shall not go. And Israel shall not go unless the mountains and hills go.In other words, the national survival of Israel is nothing more than the fulfillment of the prophecy of the word of God. Now, Hegel is astonished by this because he is astonished by the word of God, Berdyaev is astonished by this because he too is astonished essentially by the word of God which has prophesied Jewish national survival. Now, not only has the Bible stated that Jewish national survival is to be expected it has also gone on to say that Jewish national survival is one of the clues to world peace.Glorification | The Final Frontier Going Boldly Where The Last Man has Gone Before! Decrease time over target: PayPal or Venmo @clastronaut Cash App $clastronaut