The Prophesied Restorations of Israel and Judah After 7 Times: Summary and Comparison

United States: Because of their religious beliefs and their poverty, most of America’s early colonists were outcasts of Britain and other parts of Northern Europe.

Israel: Jews were outcasts in Europe before the 18th century’s Age of Enlightenment, due to religious, racial, and economic prejudices.

United States: The Reformation of the 16th century brought the colonists hope for religious freedom and social tolerance. Their hope faded after the new Protestant churches became nearly or equally as authoritarian as the ousted Catholic Church.

Israel: The era of nationalism and republican movements that came out of the Age of Enlightenment gave the Jews hope for new freedoms. However, the new governments became generally as racist as the old ones.

United States: Thereafter, their new hope became to emigrate to America, in order to obtain their freedom in a new homeland.

Israel: Thereafter, Zionism – the plan to emigrate to Palestine and establish a Jewish homeland there – became their new hope for freedom.

United States: When the French and Indian War ended in 1763, American colonists hoped for greater self-government and better economic conditions. Those hopes soon faded in the face of restrictive British laws and taxes in the years 1764 – 1775. These new laws and related conflicts led to the Revolutionary War, and thereafter to the independence of the United States.

Israel: After World War I, Zionists believed their hopes would come true. But restrictions were soon applied by the British Mandate in Palestine against Jewish emigration, self government, and land ownership. The rise of Nazism in Europe also threatened Zionism. These conflicts culminated in World War II, and in its aftermath to the independence of Israel.