The Greatest Event in the History of Nations? Paul Herring March 2013 This template can be used as a starter file for presenting training materials in a group setting. Sections Right-click on a slide to add sections. Sections can help to organize your slides or facilitate collaboration between multiple authors. Notes Use the Notes section for delivery notes or to provide additional details for the audience. View these notes in Presentation View during your presentation. Keep in mind the font size (important for accessibility, visibility, videotaping, and online production) Coordinated colors Pay particular attention to the graphs, charts, and text boxes. Consider that attendees will print in black and white or grayscale. Run a test print to make sure your colors work when printed in pure black and white and grayscale. Graphics, tables, and graphs Keep it simple: If possible, use consistent, non-distracting styles and colors. Label all graphs and tables.

Referring to the Exodus, Paul Johnson writes: “For those who heard, and later read about it, the Exodus gradually replaced the Creation itself as the central, determining event in Jewish history. Something happened, at the frontiers of Egypt, that persuaded the eye-witnesses that God had intervened directly and decisively in their fate.” This convinced their generations that this was “ … the most remarkable event in the whole history of nations”  ‘A History of the Jews’ – p26 Give a brief overview of the presentation. Describe the major focus of the presentation and why it is important. Introduce each of the major topics. To provide a road map for the audience, you can repeat this Overview slide throughout the presentation, highlighting the particular topic you will discuss next.

“You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”  – Ex 19:4-6 This is another option for an Overview slides using transitions.

And yet, we also read in Jeremiah that an even great historical event is going to occur with respect to the Jewish people.    In Jeremiah 16: 14-15 we read:  “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers."

So the prophet Jeremiah also agreed that the Exodus was considered the great Jewish historical event, but he also shared from God that an even great miracle was going to occur!   I believe we are in the midst of that miracle; the miracle of the formation of the modern State of Israel and the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. If you are like me a Gentile God-fearer, I ask you what should our response be?  Should we support God’s work and his ‘last days’ plans? If so, how?

just one of the amazing miracles and fulfillment of prophecy that you see if you spend some time in israel is the blossoming of the desert as per ezekiel 36    Ezek 36:34-35 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.  So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’   Use a section header for each of the topics, so there is a clear transition to the audience.

What should our response be?