BIBLE PROPHECIES | THE RE-GATHERING & RESTORATION OF ISRAEL (1)

1. The re-gathering and restoration of Israel

a) During ancient times, many of the people of the land of Israel were exiled by the Assyrians and Babylonians. After the fall of the Babylonian Empire about 2500 years ago, many Jews returned to their homeland and began a process of rebuilding their fallen cities.

b) Bible prophecies are listed below.

2. Bible Prophecies

a) The people of Israel would return to "their own land." 

Ezekiel 34:13 New International Version (NIV) 

¹³ I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. 

3. Written: Between 593-571 BC 

a) Like Jeremiah, the prophet Ezekiel also lived during the time that the Babylonians ruled over the people of Judah, and he too was one of the Jews who were taken to Babylon as captives. In Ezekiel 34:13, he prophesied that God would gather the exiles from the various nations to which they had been scattered and that he would restore them to "their own land."