How many of you remembered that May 3rd was the Israeli Independence Day? That's according to the Jewish calendar - Iyar 5, 1948. Iyar 5 fell on the Gregorian date of May 14, 1948 when the United Nations voted to support the declaration of Israel as an independent nation where Jewish people could again live on their own. Many folks see Israel's independence as a modern miracle. If you know the Scriptures, this miracle should come as no surprise. God did just as He promised! (Genesis 12:1-3...13:14-17) Isaiah 66:8 "Who has ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children." This verse also speaks of a coming day when the remnant of Israel will all be saved in one day & spared from the anti-Christ by the coming of the King of Kings & Lord of Lords!Did you also know that the above flag of Israel is a talit (prayer shawl) with the star of David sewn on to it? The assistant to David Ben Gurion was given only a few hours in Geneva back in 1948 to come up with a national flag. He walked all over Geneva, praying and looking at flags of other countries. During the last hour, he was struck with the thought that a talit looked much like a flag. He added the star of David with a marker, I believe. It became the accepted flag.
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How does Iyar 5 or May 14 translate to May 3rd being Israel's Independence Day?
That's interesting about how Israel got its flag.
The house that sits directly behind ours has a star of David on the wall in a room (their office) that we clearly see into from our windows. We have known that they are born-again Christians (who attend a good, fundamental church in our area), and I have wondered about the star of David on the wall. This weekend we learned that he is Jewish by his mother's bloodline, and (in addition to his weekly church attendance), he also goes to the synagogue regularly to appease his mother. He mentioned that he had attended their seder, but was shocked to hear that I had also attended a seder this year at Passover. He said, "But, there all so dead!" I told him, "Not the one I went to!"
The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar & the Gregorian calendar, that we use, is a solar calendar. In the Jewish calendar, 5 months have 29 days, 5 have 30 days & 2 months vary from year to year. Seven years out of every 19 years are leap years in which an additional month is added. As a result, the two calendars do not match. Any given Jewish day will vary from year to year as to when it falls in comparison to a certain day on our calendar. Iyar 5 was on May 14th in 1948, but was on May 3rd in 2006. Does that help?
Yes, thanks!
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