Isaiah 2:3:
and many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob (Israel), that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. God made a promised to Abraham that He will give the promised land to his descendent, to Israel.
Genesis 17:7-8:
And I will establish my covenant between me and you (Abraham) and YOUR OFFSPRING (ISRAEL) after you throughout their generations for an EVERLASTING COVENANT, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your dwelling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
And in Ezekiel 37:12–14 God made a promise to the people of Israel, to the Jews:
My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the Land of Israel.…
And these prophecies are fulfilled in the JEWISH PEOPLE when they rose from ashes and destruction of the holocaust and came back to the land of Israel.
In Ezekiel 36 God gives us the “ORDER OF HIS PLAN” for the Jewish people. God said that He will first gather all the Jews from all the countries back to their promised land, and then He, God, will sprinkle clean water upon them and cleanse them, and then He will give them a new heart and ONLY THEN God will give them a new spirit, and HE WILL CAUSE THEM TO WALK IN HIS WAYS AND HE WILL BE THEIR GOD.
Ezekiel 36:24-28:
(step 1) I will take you from the nations and GATHER you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. (step 2) I will SPRINKLE CLEAN WATER on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. (step 3) And I will give you a NEW HEART, (step 4) and a NEW SPIRIT I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, (step 5) and you shall be my people, and I WILL BE YOUR GOD.
Here we see and understand that before salvation will come to the Jews, they all must first return to the promised land, to Israel, and ONLY THEN the prophecy of Zechariah 12:10 will be fulfilment, where God pours His spirit upon them and they ALL WILL SEE HIM WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED!
Zechariah 12:10:
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED …
Here God says: “I will pour my spirit upon the inhabitant of Jerusalem”. We can understand from this scripture that God is planning to send His Spirit upon the people IN JERUSALEM.
It seems that God plans first to collect them into the land of Israel, and then to reveal Himself to them.
And in Isaiah 49 the scriptures tell us that THE NATIONS WILL BRING the Jewish people back to their homeland:
Isaiah 49:22:
Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the NATIONS, and raise my signal to the peoples; and THEY SHALL BRING your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Here we clearly see that the nations will be the ones to carry the Jewish people back to their homeland. Maybe this explains why we the Jews do not have this calling!
The scripture also warns the nations!
Isaiah 60:12:
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you (Israel) SHALL PERISH; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Ezekiel 28:25-26:
(step 1) Thus says the Lord God: When I GATHER the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, AND MANIFEST MY HOLINESS IN THEM IN THE SIGHT OF THE NATIONS, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob (Israel). And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, WHEN I EXECUTE JUDGMENTS UPON ALL THEIR NEIGHBORS who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.
Ezekiel 37:25-28:
They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and WILL SET MY SANCTUARY IN THEIR MIDST FOREVERMORE. My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.
Ezekiel 39:27-29:
when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, AND THROUGH THEM HAVE VINDICATED MY HOLINESS IN THE SIGHT OF MANY NATIONS. Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I WILL LEAVE NONE OF THEM REMAINING AMONG THE NATIONS ANYMORE. And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 11:17
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Amos 9:13-15:
New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills, and I will bring my people Israel back from exile. They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,’ says the Lord your God.
And our God is a God who keeps His promises!
Jeremiah 31:35-36:
Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day,and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar;
The Lord of hosts is his name:
If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the Lord, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.
Matthew 24:35:
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew 25:40:
And the King will answer them, Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
Abba Father we praise You, Lord Jesus we adore You,
Holy Spirit we honor You.
Father we thank You for giving us understanding of Your plan.
Thank You for giving us understanding of Your timing.
For Your Word is true!
your ways are perfect!
Abba, use us to fulfill Your plan, to bring Your kingdom down.
Thank You Lord for equipping us like You did David, like You did Gideon and so many others.
Thank You Father.
Abba Father by faith we now receive understanding.
By faith we declare we are equipped by the power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill Your plan!
In the name of Yeshua the Messiah!
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