Israel

The Bible declares that God determined to keep His chosen people separated to Himself (Exodus:33:16For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
See All...; Leviticus:20:26And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
See All...; etc.) because He would bring them back into their land in the last days (Jeremiah:30:10Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
See All...; 31:8-12; Ezekiel:36:24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
See All..., 35-38; etc.) prior to Messiah’s second coming. That prophecy and promise, so long awaited, was fulfilled in the rebirth of Israel in her Promised Land in 1948, nearly 1900 years after the final diaspora at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Roman armies of Titus. This restoration of a nation after 25 centuries is utterly astonishing, a phenomenon without parallel in the history of any other peoples and inexplicable by any natural means, much less by chance”

Dave Hunt, A Cup of Trembling, Harvest House, 1995, p. 102.