To put this into further perspective, if the prophecy referred to the current full number of world Jews, and if you were an Israeli today with a home with 4 individuals living there, in the Dispensationalist conception you might have 120 people crammed living in your house! (30 times more people x4). Or there would need to be a huge amount of New York City style high-rises. That number doesn’t include all of the animals, the lions and snakes and so forth,

Was the return to Zion fulfilled in 539 B.C.? The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 50:4 asserts, “We are by no means to regard it as an idealized picture of the return of the Jews under Zerubbabel, any more than we can suppose the glowing promises in the second part of Isaiah to have their sole fulfilment in that disappointing event.

In Ezekiel’s vision, very close to the middle of the land between the 7 northern and 5 southern tribes, about 30 kilometers north of Jerusalem, is a large complex of sacred buildings called “the Sacred Grant” (Ferrar Fenton), called “the Oblation”

The modernist approach to Abraham and the covenants is to assume that the Jewish people alone inherited them, and whatever prophecies do not fit the Jews are then spiritualized and given to the church.

Eighteenth century expositor, John Gill, in his “Exposition of the Bible” tells us, “For if ye be Christ’s…then are ye Abraham’s seed; not his natural but his spiritual seed, the seed that should come,

We read a prophecy of latter-day Israel in Isaiah 58:12, “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, ‘The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.’” Israel was to be the builder…

These new scientific studies confirm the reason why so many of the Bible prophecies concerning God’s people Israel have seen their fulfillment in Western European peoples during the present church age.

Things were a lot different in Western lands a century ago. Dr. Ernest Wright championed a religious idea known as “Biblical Theology,” which challenged those who doubted the Bible’s trustworthiness.