David Quotes
This Mormon prayer turned out to foresage one of the most fascinating set of events in world history. In 1841, an American Mormon leader and prophet journeyed all the way to Jerusalem to consecrate Palestine for the Jewish people. His prayer predicted the creation of the state of Israel with a Jewish government and its capital in Jerusalem. He stated that David, a descendent from the biblical Jewish King David will be its first ruler. Over 100 years later the state of Israel came into being and its first prime minister was Jewish David Ben-Gurion. This regathering of the Jews in Israel had been prophesized in the Bible, but this seems to be the first modern action taken to make it happen. This was more than 20 years before the first Jewish writing appeared advocating the Jewish return to Palestine--Moses Hess's 1862 work, Rome & Jerusalem; The Last National Question. It was over 50 years before Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, even published his first work on the subject.
This quotation documents the Jews making Jerusalem its capital. There are some in the Arab-Israeli dispute who claim that the Jews never inhabited Jerusalem, hence have no claim on it today. This quotation also establishes that there were other people in Jerusalem—the Jebusites—besides the Jews. This fact is denied by some claiming sole Jewish occupation of the city. In the Crusades, the Christians took Jerusalem and made it the capital of a Christian kingdom. There was a Christian King of Jerusalem. Then the Muslims took Jerusalem from the Christians. So all three major religions have a historical claim on Jerusalem—and all three established their claim by conquest.
Germany was the enemy but the allies were fighting with each other over the treaty negotiations. David Lloyd George was the Prime Minister of England who was negotiating for that country.
