How Do We Know That God Keeps His Promises?
What Is One of the Most Miraculous Promises God Has Kept?
Christians talk a lot about how God keeps His promises. The Bible is filled with promises for those who love and follow God. Those who know Him personally have many stories (testimonies) of how God has provided for them, has healed them or their loved ones, has opened doors for them (such as new jobs), and has led them in life. These stories are fantastic, and do show how God keeps His promises.
In addition, there are some promises that God made prophetically, hundreds of years before they actually happened, concerning the land of Israel.
Watch this video, and then we’ll explore how what you see here proves that God keeps His promises.
Ancient Prophecies Fulfilled
In Deuteronomy 28, God talks about how He will pour out blessings upon those who follow Him and will send curses to those who do not. This theme is repeated throughout the Old Testament. Since this book of the Bible was given to Moses to write, its first application was to the people of Israel. Among the curses listed was a scattering of the people and much persecution and suffering.
When the people of Israel and Judah turned to idolatry, they were carried off to other nations for many years. Only a remnant returned to the land of Israel to rebuild. Then again in 70 AD, when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, Jewish people were scattered, going throughout most of the nations of the earth.
In Deuteronomy 30:4, God said, Even if you are scattered to the farthest corners of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you together and bring you back… (Good News Translation). Jeremiah 31 also contains beautiful promises of how God would eventually bring back His people to the land He had given them.
There is no other group of people who have been scattered all over the earth and have been subjected to people in various nations trying to kill them off for years and years, but yet who maintained their identity through all of that….and then, after centuries, came back to settle in the land of their forefathers.
The Hebrew language was revived, which was also a miracle. It had become an unspoken language over those centuries. Many believe that this Scripture is a promise of the restoration of their language: Jeremiah 31:23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity… (NKV)
When they started to return, Israel was desolate, as you could see in the video. In Ezekiel 36:35 we see the promise from God of how the ruined land would be restored.
Everyone will talk about how this land, which was once a wilderness, has become like the Garden of Eden, and how the cities which were torn down, looted, and left in ruins, are now inhabited and fortified. (Good News Translation)
The beginning of the nation of Israel was miraculous as well. Isaiah 66:8 says, Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children. (NKV)
On May 14, 1948, the British withdrew from the land and David Ben-Gurion proclaimed that Israel was a nation. U.S. President Harry Truman immediately recognized the Jewish state, and Israel was born in a day.
God kept His Promises to the Jewish people. In spite of many attacks upon their land, they still stand. The New Testament teaches that some day they will recognize that Jesus it their true Messiah. He will return through the clouds, with millions of his followers to become the King of the earth, with Jerusalem as the capital city. Christians who believe that promise joyfully watch as God fulfills His promises to Israel, for we look forward to that glorious reign of Jesus upon the earth – a time when there truly will be peace and safety everywhere.
So if you are doubting that God keeps His promises, think about how He is doing what He said He would do for Israel. He will do what He says He will do for you as well. Trust Him!
