Prophecies have been fulfilled for many centuries. Today, for example, we are watching the unfolding of biblical prophecy in a way that believers, only 70 years ago, did not have the privilege to see.
In Ezekiel 36, we find Ezekiel speaking “to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys” that it will put forth fruit, man and beast would be multiplied on it, and the waste cities will be rebuilt when His people Israel returns to the land”.
Since the time of Ezekiel, the land was conquered and reconquered many times. It never became a homeland for any other people, nor would the land produce for any other people group.
On his landmark visit to Israel 150 years ago, American literary giant Mark Twain witnessed what he did not then know was the start of the prophetic return of the Jewish people to the land. Unimpressed, he described the Holy Land as “unpicturesque” and “unsightly”, even “desolate”. “The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent.”
Today, in only 70 short years since her rebirth, Israel is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world-leader in agricultural technologies. Prophecy fulfilled.
After 27 years, it seems a prophecy is coming to pass and this time in Ethiopia. In June of 1991, I had a lively discussion about the fall of Derg and the coming to power of Woyane, as we sued to call them then, with a seasoned mentor. I was a fresh graduate working under this mentor. My mentor, Ato Tamirat (not his real name) was from Harar, to be precise a ‘Dire Dawa’ Lij.
Ato Tamirat was unhappy about the way the country was being managed by the Woyane rebel group, that assumed political power two weeks prior. During those early days, the young fighters, without a military uniform, were all over Addis. It was on May 28, 1991, during cease-fire talks, that Woyane tanks entered Addis Ababa virtually unopposed. They suddenly appeared in Addis scene.
In 17 years’ time, the country was going through two transfers of power and both not legally. I was wondering what all this mean and posed the question to Ato Tamirat. Well, Ato Tamirat, said, let me tell you a prophecy I had heard from my father in law. According to the prophecy, he said, the woyane’s, will disappear suddenly in the same manner they surfaced in the city. They suddenly appeared on May 28, 1991. And one day, he continued, when we woke up, woyane would simply be gone. Did I even entertain the prophecy as remotely true? No but I have always wondered what if it were true.
Looking back at what has happened in the past few months, there is no denial of the fact that Woyane’s long standing influence in Ethiopian politics simply has vanished.
With the ascent of OPDO’s chairman to the Premiership, Woyane suddenly disappeared.
Is this a prophecy fulfilled? As for me, aha, I think so, and there virtually is zero chance for Woyane to assert itself again.
Should we be full of hope now that Woyane has vanished? No, not even a bit. It is even scary as so much confusion is in the horizon.
Zekarias Ezra
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