Israel at the End - Day 6

 Behold the sovereign mercy of the LORD…Day 6

Matthew 23:37-39

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 

See, your house is left to you desolate. {Matthew 24:15}

For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”

There is a designated time set by the Lord for the redemption of nation of Israel…but it is not yet. {See Matthew 24:6-8} - And here at the beginning of birth pangs, our prayers must be cries of “mercy”  - for Salvation for the individual, Jew and Gentile.

The Lord will chasten his people because of their idolatry, their apostasy and their rejection of His Son Messiah {Matthew 27:24-25}:

Firstly at the sacking of Jerusalem in AD 70; again through the time of great trouble spoken of in Jeremiah ch. 30 & Matthew 24:15-22. But this chastisement will not be total: See Isaiah 54:6-10

And one day we will finally see the fulfillment of the words spoken by the prophets:

Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;  Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer come into you. Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:1-2 {See Revelation 19:11-21}

“Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the Lord’s hand Double for all her sins.”

Isaiah 40:2

Break forth, shout joyfully together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52:9

Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has taken away His judgments against you, He has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; You will fear disaster no more. In that day it will be said to Jerusalem:“Do not be afraid, O Zion; Do not let your hands fall limp. “The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

Zephaniah 3:14-17

This will all come to pass - at a time many of us will know as “the millennial reign of Christ”. Revelation 20:1-6 {see also Matthew 19:28}…When Messiah will once again enter Jerusalem; not this time , mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey {Zechariah 9:9}, but with justice to judge and wage war…with eyes like blazing fire, and many crowns in his head…and a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 

“He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 

The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 

Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”

He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 

On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: 

King of kings and Lord of lords.” 

Read Revelation 19:11-16

And it is at this point when we will hear Israel finally say: “Baruch Haba b’Shem Adonai” - “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!” {refer back to Matthew ch.23 vs.39}

But until that time, the Lord has not left Israel without a defense:

Isaiah 62:6-7

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; All day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; And give Him no rest until He establishes And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

This is why we pray…because Israel will continue to be broken…that their eyes my be open…to finally recognize their true Messiah.

“For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.” Read Romans ch. 11

Written 10/17/2023