August 16, 2026
Modern Israel's Existence and Preservation Are Powerful Evidence of God's Existence and Covenant Faithfulness
One of the strongest historical evidences for God's existence and covenant faithfulness is the remarkable preservation of the Jewish people. Consider the Philistines, Moabites, Edomites, Amalekites, Amorites, Hittites, and Jebusites.
Every one of these ancient nations has disappeared as a distinct people. Yet Israel has endured.
Israel endured through the Assyrian conquest (722 BC), the Babylonian exile (586 BC), Persian restoration (539 BC), Greek oppression (332–167 BC), Roman destruction and dispersion (AD 70-135), the medieval expulsions (AD 1182-1497).
Israel also endured the Inquisition (AD 1478-1834), the pogroms of Eastern Europe (AD 1881-1921), and even the Holocaust (AD 1933-1945), when six million Jews were murdered, the Jewish people were never annihilated. Against all historical odds, they survived, and in 1948 they were reestablished as a nation in their ancient homeland.
Most conservative Bible scholars see this extraordinary preservation not as a historical accident, but as compelling evidence that God exists and has remained faithful to His covenant promises.
God Gave Israel the Law of Moses and Promised to Bless Them if They Obeyed It and Discipline Them if They Rejected It
Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:…” New King James Version
Deuteronomy 28:15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:…” New King James Version
Deuteronomy 28:25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.” New King James Version
Jeremiah 24:9 I will make them an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. They will be disgraced and mocked, taunted and cursed, wherever I scatter them. New Living Translation
Deuteronomy 30:1 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God drives you…” New King James Version
Deuteronomy 30:2 “…and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.” New King James Version
Hebrews 8:13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one [Law of Moses] obsolete [Greek: no longer valid, to supersede- replace]. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. English Standard Version
Revelation 12:1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. English Standard Version
Revelation 12:2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. English Standard Version
Revelation 12:3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. English Standard Version
Revelation 12:4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child (Jesus) he might devour it. English Standard Version
Revelation 12:5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up (Death, Burial, and Resurrection) to God and to his throne,… English Standard Version
Although the Mosaic Covenant Has Passed Away, Israel Continues to Be Hated and Persecuted as Satan Opposes God's Ongoing Covenant Promises to Abraham and David. Yet God Has Not Abandoned His Promises. One Day Christ Will Return, Save and Restore Israel, and Establish His Eternal Kingdom.
Jeremiah 31:35 God’s Message, from the God who lights up the day with sun and brightens the night with moon and stars, Who whips the ocean into a billowy froth, whose name is God-of-the-Angel-Armies:… Message Bible
Jeremiah 31:36 “If this ordered cosmos ever fell to pieces, fell into chaos before me”—God’s Decree— “Then and only then might Israel fall apart and disappear as a nation before me.” Message Bible