Population of Israel
Will Reach Seven Million in 2006!
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Update Number 191B
December 28, 2005
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The current population of Israel totals 6, 986, 300, which breaks down into the following categories:
Jewish – 5, 309, 588
Arab – 1, 397, 260
Non Arab Christians and residents with no official religious status – 279, 452
The total population should exceed 7 million in February of 2006.
Please read Archive Prophecy Update Number 191B
Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
[9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
One third of 5, 309, 588 is 1,769, 863 or 1.77 million Jews.
The current population statistics were taken from the following article in the Jerusalem Post.
JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE BEGINS
Population on Eve of 2006 Stands at 6,986,300
By JPost Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 28, 2005
The population is expected to reach the seven million mark in the coming months.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics the population
of the State of Israel, on the eve of 2006, stands at 6,986,300 people.
Seventy-six percent of the population is Jewish, 20% are Arab, and 4% are non-Arab Christians and residents with no official religious status according to the Ministry of Interior.
The population growth rate for 2005 stood at 1.7%, which equals 116,800 people, the lowest it has been since 1990.
The growth rate in 2004 was 1.8%.
During 2005, 143,700 infants were born, while 20,500 new olim arrived, a number similar to that of 2004.
Eighteen percent of the olim were from Russia, 17% from Ethiopia, 12% from France, 10% from Ukraine, and 8% from the US.
JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE ENDS
Please read Archive Prophecy Update Number 191B
By the time I wrote my third book, “Birth Pangs from the Bottomless Pit,” in the early eighties, I had decided it was likely the attack against Israel would not occur in the twentieth century, and the most likely time would be 2003 to 2012. After the twenty first century began, the events in the Middle East caused me to realize things were happening slower than I had guesstimated in the eighties and, in 2002, I began to chop off 2003 to 2006, and issue what I knew was a better estimate, which was the period 2007 to 2012.
I took the existing population in 2002, added the existing annual population increase, and estimated the population of the Jews would be such that one-third of it would be 1.7 million by the time 2007 arrived, and 1.9 when 2012 rolled in.
I will confess that I am certainly no expert in population prediction, and it may well be more than 1.9 million before 2012, but that is what I guesstimated in 2002. It may be found in our Birth Pang Archives as Number 43, which I am including below.
BEGIN 2002 BIRTH PANG ARCHIVE EXTRACT
BIRTH PANG UPDATE NUMBER 43
The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!
Part 8
April 5, 2002
Revelation 12:5,6,17 – And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. [6] And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. [17] And the dragon was wroth with
the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
The man child seed of the woman is Jesus Christ.
God promised in Genesis 3:15 that this seed would one day crush the power of Satan, but in so doing would suffer for
the price he paid while walking and dying on this earth. Even though the wom an is herself
a Jewish remnant, there will also be a Jewish remnant within the remnant, a living remnant of believers who testify to the unbelieving Israelis that Jesus is the Messiah, and keep the commandments delivered to them by Jesus Christ. They are a sealed believing remnant of 144,000 Jews living among the one-third of Israel that flees to the Negev. This one-third will number between 1.7 and 1.9 million.
Revelation 7:4 – And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Through the testimony of the 144,000, and the preaching of the two witnesses who lead them, it will cause all Israel to be saved when Jesus returns, and a spiritual nation shall be born in a day.
Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Revelation 11:2,3 – But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
[3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
END 2002 BIRTH PANG ARCHIVE EXTRACT