Israel Memorial Day
At 8:00 p.m., less than an hour after the sun sets here in Israel, the flag will be lowered to half staff and the siren will sound for an entire minute throughout the Holy Land.
"As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem." (Isaiah 66:13)
After the horrors of the Holocaust, God rebirthed the nation of Israel as a homeland for His Chosen People in a single day in fulfillment of prophecy; nevertheless, Israelis have had to defend this nation from those who wish to crush it.
"Who has ever heard of such things?
"Who has ever seen things like this?
"Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children." (Isaiah 66:8)
Within 24 hours of the miraculous rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, five of Israel’s Arab neighbors, Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, and Iraq, invaded the tiny new Jewish State.
The war lasted 15 months, and God was with the Jewish People.
Although only 6,373 Israelis were lost in the War of Independence, every year the list of those who have died defending Israel grows longer.
Israel's enemies are still determined to extinguish this state, which is the size of New Jersey, and innocent civilians are losing their lives.
Though Israel only wants peace, she has been forced to defend herself from the aggression of the surrounding Muslim nations that oppose the very Biblical idea of a Jewish state.
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