Has the Geulah of Israel actually started? Or is it just a false hope like others in the past?
A. The Geulah at the time of the return to Zion This legitimate question was answered in a sign accompanying almost all the biblical prophecies concerning Geulah. One which didn’t exist in any other time and that explicitly indicates that the time of the blessing has come. This sign is the return of Jews to their land, accompanied by the reflourishment of the desert, and the creation of the State of Israel:
And then the LORD your God will turn you from captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you. Even if you are scattered to the most distant country in the world, the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back from there. The LORD your God will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed. You will take possession of it, and the LORD will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors were.(Deuteronomy 30, 3-5)
Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, They shout joyfully together; For they will see with their own eyes When the LORD restores Zion. Break forth, shout joyfully together, ruins of Jerusalem; For the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem. (Isaiah 52, 8-9)
(…) He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock. For the LORD has ransomed Jacob And redeemed them from those who are stronger than they are. (Jeremiah 31, 9-10)
B. God speaks to each of his children The reconstruction of the State of Israel and the return to Zion attest to the Age of Geulah and its physical stage (see: The two stages of the Geulah Israel), but does not attest to when the stage of spiritual redemption, the Geulah of Israel itself, nor how it evolves. One of the essential blessings of the Geulah of Israel is that the Lord will speak to each of his children. He will give them the opportunity to know him intimately, to hear His word and understand his plan. This revelation has begun to emerge and is in itself a testimony to the arrival of the Geulah:
Shan’t the Almighty Lord do a thing unless he has reveals his plan to his servants the prophets. The lion has roared who isn’t afraid? The Almighty LORD has spoken. Who can keep from prophesying? (Amos 3, 7-8)
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My spirit. (Joel 3, 1-2)
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying: ‘Know the LORD’; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD… (Jeremiah 31, 34 [33])
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