TWO GREAT JEWISH SPEECHES – Herzog (1975) and Herzl (1896)
June 27, 2007
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The Jerusalem Post Article, which follows Prophecy Update Number 23, discusses the speech given by Herzog before the United Nations in 1975.
In Archive Prophecy Update Number 23, I described the effects of Herzl’s great speech that was the forerunner of Israel’s return to her God-given land.
PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 23
March, 2001
When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “The Jewish Graveyard at Newport,” he concluded it with these lines:
“But ah! What once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.”
Longfellow penned these words in 1852, at a time when it seemed impossible that the dead nation of Israel could ever rise again. Little did Longfellow realize that among the lifeless Jews scattered around the world there was to be thrown the eternal spark of life.
It was the spark of rebirth kindled by the message of Theodor Herzl in 1896 – the message of “The Jewish State.” For more than 1800 years the chosen people of God, the dead nation of Israel, wandered as forsaken corpses in the great wilderness of the Gentile nations.
But the same God, who allowed this punishment of a rejecting nation to occur, has now caused a dead nation to be resurrected from its Gentile graveyard. Longfellow was wrong; God has lifted up a scattered corpse into a living nation – the risen nation of Israel. When the Great Tribulation Period begins on this planet, both unbelieving Jew and Gentile will personally feel the wrath of Almighty God.
Ezekiel 37:5-7 – Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: [6] And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. [7] So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
We closed Prophecy Update 22 with Ezekiel 37:5, where he writes: “Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:” This verse gives a preview of what God is going to do in the verses which follow. He is going to transform these dead bones into a living nation of flesh, blood, and finally breath. It is not to be d one instantly, but rather in a series of stages, as
one would perform in building a human body over a skeleton frame.
Verse 6 of Ezekiel 37 describes this building of a living human body (Israel) over her dead bones: “And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.” “I will lay sinews upon you” refers to those tissues (such as nerve tissue) immediately touching the bones.
“And will bring up flesh upon you” pictures all that exists between sinew and skin. “And cover you with skin” portrays the dermis, epidermis, and general structure we identify as skin.
“And put breath in you” is a description of the process by which physical (not spiritual) life continues. After God brings a skeleton together, then covers it with a body, He puts breath in it for physical life among the Gentile nations of the world: “And put breath in you.” This is not the spiritual rebirth of Israel.
This was her recognition of being a living physical nation by most of the Gentile nations. Her spiritual rebirth does not occur until “ye shall know that I am the LORD” comes to pass. This is the spiritual rebirth of the nation in that it follows her physical birth in time. It is the last link in a natural chain of nation rebuilding, which is characterized by the chronological sequence of bone, sinew, flesh, breath, physical life, and finally spiritual reconciliation with her God. This chronological sequence, prophesied some 2600 years ago, began in 1896, and is still continuing.
Verse 7 marks the beginning of the chronological sequence outlined in Verse 6: “So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.” “There was a noise.” This was the noise heard round the world in 1896-97 as Jews rallied behind the thundering message of “The Jewish State,” which was delivered by Theodor Herzl. This message from Switzerland was soon echoed around the world, and the birth of Zionism sprang forth as the dry bones began to cry out: We want a homeland – a homeland in Israel.
“And behold a shaking.” This was the shaking of the bones that brought them to life, and caused them to come together as a people under the British Protectorate of Palestine, which
was established by the League of Nations Mandate in 1920. Lord willing, in Prophecy Update 24 we will continue the building of a nation by the hand of God.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Herzog’s UN speech ‘changed the world’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 26, 2007
32 years after his words astonished the UN General Assembly, the speech delivered by former ambassador to the UN Chaim Herzog, who later became president of Israel, will be included as one of the 50 most important speeches in history, Yediot Aharonot reported Tuesday.
The speech will be reprinted in the new edition of the book Speeches that Changed the World, edited by a team of British historians and planned for publication in August.
On November 10th, 1975, the UN General Assembly approved resolution 3379, which mandated that Zionism was a form of racism. Following the decision, Herzog ascended the assembly’s podium and made the speech still considered one of the most important in Israeli diplomacy.
Herzog warned the other ambassadors that they would be accountable for the next holocaust, that might ensue following the decision, voted on the 37th yahrzeit of Kristallnacht.
“For us, the Jewish people, this resolution based on hatred, falsehood and arrogance, is devoid of any moral or legal value. For us, the Jewish people, this is no more than a piece of paper and we shall treat it as such,” Herzog announced, proceeding to tear the document
to shreds.
The team in charge of editing the book is headed by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, a descendant of Moses Montefiore.
” – this is one of the most important speeches in history regarding the fight against anti-Semitism,” he said.
Herzog’s speech appears side by side with speeches by Martin Luther King (“I have a dream”), Winston Churchill (“Blood, sweat and tears”), Nelson Mandela (“Free at last”) and former US presidents John F. Kennedy (“Don’t ask what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”) and Ronald Reagan (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”).
Also included is a speech by US President George W. Bush, made after the 9/11 attack (“A great people has been moved to defend a great nation”).
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