@Mermaid Alea- I heard about that actually from a missionary in Indonesia! He never had anything to back up what he said (not that I didn't believe him though) and thank you for posting those links!
And concerning most events happening back in Biblical times, the Jews were scattered until 1948 when Israel became a country right? That's one of the most significant events in these past centuries I can think of, or at least for the Jewish people.
That's sad to hear that they have to "lay low" out of fear. But (coincidentally enough) I read this morning about how persecution doesn't stop the spread of God's Kingdom. I learned how the Roman emperor Decius ordered the first wide-spread persecution of Christians, but his plan sort of backfired. The martyrs died so courageously that Christianity spread!
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