major anniversaries awaiting Israel in 2017: August 31, 2017 marks the 120th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, in 1897. It’s hard to imagine today what a brave and inspired event it was, which turned overnight the yearnings of a nation into a solid, pragmatic political agenda. Then, November 2, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Again, who would have believed that the most prominent imperialist power, the successor of the Roman Empire, if you will, would give its enthusiastic support to a political, territorial response to the millennia of Jewish yearnings for Zion. Then, if that’s not enough, November 29, 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ decision to establish a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. An idea that was galvanized 120 years ago and received a strong boost 100 years ago became a wide confirmation by the nations of the world 70 years ago. But that’s not all. After all the above had been said and gone, Israel received a gift that could only be described as coming from God himself. On June 5th, 2017, Jews everywhere will celebrate the liberation of biblical Jerusalem, along with the last areas of the Land of Israel which had remained under foreign occupation: eastern Jerusalem, including the old city and the Temple Mount; Judea, birthplace of King David; Samaria, where the Kingdom of Israel ruled for several centuries; Gaza, where Jews have lived for millennia, and the Sinai — the wilderness where the nation received its founding document, the Torah; and the Golan Heights, where Jews have been making wine and growing winter wheat since King David chased away the Arameans. www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/whats-in-a-date-2017-marks-50-years-since-divine-gift-of-jerusalem-and-biblical-israel/2016/04/07/ Song of Solomon 3:9-10King James Version (KJV) 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. 10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. www.susanwaldrop.org praise@susanwaldrop.org prayer@susanwaldrop.org

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