10 Reasons Israel Gives to Believe the God of the Bible

1. It would be hard to propagate a conspiracy involving thousands of people living hundreds of years apart. The Bible is not the witness of a single person but a whole nation of people. Also, the Old Testament is composed of books written by different authors at different times. (Isaiah 43:8-13)

2. What nation or religion creates its own laws, and then in the same book prophesies it won’t follow its own laws? (Deuteronomy 31:29)

3. What nation/religion predicts its own victimhood, displacement, and devastation? (Deuteronomy 28:15, 37,64,65; Leviticus 26:32-33) A skeptical atheist might try to say, “They wrote it after it happened”. However, what about the intense persecution that the Jews have suffered even in the last 100 years?

4. What religion prophesies that their own Messiah would be “cut off” (Daniel 9:26)

5. That Israel by and large rejects Jesus as their Messiah, shows that any prophecies written in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) that appear to be fulfilled in Jesus, had to have been written before Jesus’ time and were not part of a multi-generational fabricated conspiracy. Israel is currently a hostile witness, the strongest kind of witness.

6. What religion, first created exclusively for a single nation, could end up having more followers amongst outside ethnicities? And this prophesied before they were even evangelized? (Isaiah 11:10; 42:4, 65:1; Matthew 12:16-21; 24:14)

7. The hatred for Israel by surrounding nations (Psalm 83:4, Ezekiel 35:5, 36:6)

8. Obsession over Jerusalem by surrounding peoples. This is prophesied in a future event (Zechariah 12:3), but is also occurring presently.

9. Israel, despite having been dispersed for thousands of years, will have held to a national identity and be back in their homeland. This seems to be something that happens before they are reconciled to their God. (Ezekiel 37:1-14, Zechariah 12)

10.  Israel, at some future point will have sorrow over how they treated their Messiah (“they will look on me who they pierced” – Zechariah 12:10).