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Moses foretold the sign for GOD’s restoration
[Deut. 29:22-29] A stranger will declare Israel as

desolate wastelands. This prophecy was likely fulfilled by
Mark Twain after he visited Israel in 1867 AD.

Next, Moses foretold the sign that would signal the
beginning of GOD’s restoration of the lands of Israel
(Deut. 29:22-29). He foretold that a stranger from a
foreign land would visit Israel and declare the land as
being utterly desolate, a forsaken wilderness, with not a
blade of grass growing.

Mark Twain fulfilled this prophecy shortly after he
visited Israel in the Jubilee year of 1867. He documented
what he saw in his first book, “Innocents Abroad”. In
this book, he used words similar to those that Moses

attributed to the stranger. Twain wrote “The whole land
is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it
bear, nor does any grass grow there”! This book became
a popular best seller and was delivered to people all
across the world.

Prophecy scholars believe that Mark Twain’s visit and his
subsequent book marked the appointed time when GOD
answered the repentant prayers of suffering Jews who
had long been scattered across the world. For nearly
two thousand years, they had been as strangers living
far away from their inherited land. After Mark Twain’s
visit, proclaiming Israel as a desolate wasteland, Jews

began to return home. Also, just as GOD promised, HE
began restoring Israel to its full bloom (Isaiah 35:1-10).

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