(P)Jeremiah...
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Jeremiah tells of the excitement and joy of a homecoming. God had brought his people back to their beloved homeland.
At a recent clergy meeting, the Rabbi showed us a movie that makes our text especially graphic. The movie was a documentary presentation of the irrepressible, unstoppable determination with which European Jews returned to their Palestinian homeland after World War II. The sheer dogged persistence demonstrated by the Zionist Movement is a wonder to behold! Refugee ships were intercepted by supposedly sympathetic nations such as Great Britain. Refugees were incarcerated and transported back to Europe by the thousands. Still they kept coming. Once, twice, ... as many times as necessary -- until the Jewish Nation was reborn May 15, 1948, by action of The United Nations. I have new appreciation for Israel as a result of the movie. I also have a more vivid picture of what the prophet describes in our text. What joy these twentieth century Jews must have felt! What joy their counterparts who lived 2,600 years earlier must have felt!
-- Campbell
Jeremiah tells of the excitement and joy of a homecoming. God had brought his people back to their beloved homeland.
At a recent clergy meeting, the Rabbi showed us a movie that makes our text especially graphic. The movie was a documentary presentation of the irrepressible, unstoppable determination with which European Jews returned to their Palestinian homeland after World War II. The sheer dogged persistence demonstrated by the Zionist Movement is a wonder to behold! Refugee ships were intercepted by supposedly sympathetic nations such as Great Britain. Refugees were incarcerated and transported back to Europe by the thousands. Still they kept coming. Once, twice, ... as many times as necessary -- until the Jewish Nation was reborn May 15, 1948, by action of The United Nations. I have new appreciation for Israel as a result of the movie. I also have a more vivid picture of what the prophet describes in our text. What joy these twentieth century Jews must have felt! What joy their counterparts who lived 2,600 years earlier must have felt!
-- Campbell
