ISRAEL: A NATION OF MIRACLES
Dr Josimar Salum
June 20,2025
How can we explain the enduring existence, resilience, and extraordinary achievements of the Jewish people across millennia of persecution, exile, war, and dispersion?
Reason alone cannot account for it.
Despite their historical disobedience and rejection of the Messiah, the Scriptures testify this:
“Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.” Romans 11:28-32 NKJV
Their preservation, restoration, and global impact can only be rightly understood through the lens of the Grace of God. It is not merit, politics, or chance that sustain Israel — it is the sovereign hand of God.
The testimony below, of unknown authorship, echoes this truth: Israel remains a living miracle, not because of who they are, but because of who God is.
There is something about this people — the people of Israel — that feels like a living miracle.
A people the Pharaohs tried to erase 3,000 years ago… and failed.
A people the Babylonians sought to annihilate 2,500 years ago… and failed.
A people the Romans tried to wipe out 2,000 years ago… and failed.
A people the Nazis attempted to exterminate 80 years ago… and failed.
A people the Arab nations fought in five wars to destroy… and failed.
This is a small nation in number, yet marked by a singular strength — the blessing of God.
Wherever they lay their hands, they prosper: in finance, commerce, science, philosophy, literature.
They turned a desert into a flourishing land — not with oil or gas, but with liberty, democracy, intelligence, and unwavering resolve.
This is the people who gave the world Einstein, Newton, Spinoza, Freud… and countless others who profoundly shaped human thought.
There are truths that reason and logic alone cannot explain. There is only one word: miracle.
For over two and a half years, this people has fought on seven fronts.
Many predicted their exhaustion, even collapse.
Yet once again, they defy expectation — opening a new front against the Iranian threat, one that even unsettles Arab regimes.
This people, though few, possesses the courage of nobles, the wisdom of prophets, the endurance of the righteous, and the resolve of survivors.
How could it be otherwise? They are the descendants of Abraham, Solomon, David, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, Daniel… and more than a thousand prophets and messengers of their lineage.
They are the ones who brought monotheism and the knowledge of the one true God to the world — a people driven by a thirst for life, for work, for innovation, for continuity — a drive sustained for over 4,000 years.
I can find no better way to describe them than this: a nation of miracles.
If the Arab world had clear vision, it would choose to unite with this people — to learn from them, to work alongside them. Perhaps then, we too would share in their knowledge, their wisdom, and their dignity.
However, we must not ignore the spiritual dimension of their current reality.
On October 7, 2023, during what was publicly celebrated as an ancestral festival of freedom, a national event took place in Israel marked not by remembrance of God, but by acts of idolatry, immorality, and open rebellion. In the midst of the celebration, a massive statue of Buddha was erected, and people danced around it — a clear violation of the commandment of the Lord, who forbids the making and worship of any image or idol (Exodus 20:3–5).
This was more than a cultural expression — it was a moment of spiritual provocation, knowingly or not, against the very God who called Israel to be holy unto Himself. Throughout Scripture, the prophets repeatedly warned that turning to false gods invites judgment — not because God abandons His people, but because He is both gracious and just.
Tragically, Israel’s enemies struck on that very day. It stands as a sobering reminder that no covenant, no history of miracles, no divine calling removes the need for repentance and faithfulness. God remains faithful to His promises — but He also calls His people to return to Him with all their heart.
After all, we believers should pray for their conversion to Yeshua — the only name by which we must be saved.
This is exactly what the Apostle Paul expressed as the burden of his heart:
“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved.” — Romans 10:1
Despite Israel’s historic rejection of Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah, the Scriptures make it clear that God has not rejected His people. Their endurance is a testimony of His covenantal faithfulness — but salvation, for them as for all, is found only through faith in Yeshua the Messiah.
Yet even as we marvel at the miraculous preservation and influence of the Jewish people, we who believe in the Messiah must remember this: God’s ultimate purpose is not merely their survival, but their salvation.
We are called not only to honor God’s covenant with Israel, but to pray fervently for their eyes to be opened, that they may see Yeshua — the promised Messiah — and turn to Him in faith.
“And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: ‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.’” — Romans 11:26
Let every believer echo Paul’s cry: that the nation of miracles may yet experience the greatest miracle of all — redemption in the name of Yeshua, their King.
#ASONE
