Timing of Jesus’ Second Coming: Difference between revisions

After the fall of Jerusalem, the Jews were expelled from their land and wandered in Europe and many other countries around the world. Among them, the Jews who believed in the prophecy of the restoration of Israel<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Jeremiah+30%3A3&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Jeremiah 30:3 |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.studylight.org/study-desk.html?q1=Jeremiah+50%3A4-5&q2=&ss=0&t1=eng_n84&t2=eng_kjv&t3=eng_nas&ns=0&sr=1&ot=bhs&nt=wh&hv1=1&b=verse&d=3 |title=Jeremiah 50:4–5 |quote= }}</ref>did not forget their home Jerusalem, waiting for the fulfillment of the prophecy.<ref>{{인용 |title=Jerusalem: The Biography |date=September 18, 2012 |author=Simon Sebag Montefiore}}</ref> At the end of the 19th century, the Jews scattered all over the world participated in [[Zionism]] to establish a state in the land of their ancestors. Some Jews, dreaming of establishing a state, even migrated to Palestine.<ref>{{인용 |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zionism |title= Zionism|website=Britannica  |publisher=|date= |year= |isbn= |quote=}}</ref><br>During this period, one of the biggest genocides occurred to the Jews in Europe. It was the Holocaust, the massacre of Jews by Nazi Germany, which began in 1933 and ended in 1945. For twelve years, six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, were killed in fifteen European countries, including Poland, Russia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Greece. They died of forced labor, starvation, and diseases, or they were shot, hanged on the gallows, and massacred in the gas chambers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust |title=Holocaust |website=Britannica|publisher=  |date= |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref><br>When Germany was defeated in [https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II World War II] (1939–1945), the genocide of Jews stopped. The Jews returned to Palestine, the land of their ancestors, believing that a state must exist in order for them to live, and declared the independence of Israel on May 14, 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/truman-israel/|title=Declaration of Israel's Independence, 1948 |website=PBS.org |publisher=  |date= |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/declaration-of-establishment-state-of-israel|title=The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|website= Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |publisher=  |date=May 14, 1948 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref>