God’s Promises to Israel Upon Jesus’ Return
The marriage of Bridegroom and the Bride, the final deliverance of Israel, God’s Day of Vengeance, his glorious coming in the clouds, and the messiah’s millennial reign are not just New Testament concepts. They are deeply connected to God’s promises to the Jewish people, and the spiritual, physical, and political restoration of Israel as a kingdom. In fact the spiritual and policial restoration of Israel is deeply connected with God’s kingdom being established on earth. Because in order for Christ to establish his millennial kingdom, Israel needs to be saved. Once this occurs they Israel will become head of the nations, and Israel’s inhabitants will become God’s earthly priesthood.
Scripture stays that the Lord Jesus will come a SECOND time as the Lion of the tribe of Judah (because he initially came a first time to die as the Lamb of God). He will come to reclaim the Jews who have survived the Great Tribulation. He will come and gather them from all the surrounding nations were many will have to flee because of the great persecution.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
Isaiah 11:11-12
Durign the time of Jacob’s Trouble many Jews will flee from Israel to the wilderness of the gentile nations that are located in the Middle East, and through all the earth were they have gone. There the Lord will hide and protect a surviving remnant. In the wilderness of the nations, he will prepare a table for them in the midst of their enemies in order to nurish them and sustain them for 1260 days.
“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.”
Revelation 12:6
At that time a remnant of his people will experience the mercy and love of Jesus, through his own body, the church. Many believers will die by the sword for simply helping the Jews, just as it happened during the holocaust. But before that happens the church will have to grow to the stature of Christ. It takes mature love to be able to die for someone else. It is only through a church that is dead in Christ and resurrected in him that the Jew will be able to see Christ alive in his body. And it is only through an expression of that sacrificial love that the church can make known the wisdom of God to the principalities and the powers of the air. It is only though the resurrected power of Christ manifested through the church that all principalities can be defeated. Specially the great principality of unbelief over the Jewish heart.
Only then the thick veil over the eye of Jew will be torn. It will take the church to come to the fullness of Christ as she gives herself for them, so they experience the revelation of Christ as their Messiah. Then and only then Israel will be saved. It is only when the gentiles reach their fullness in number and maturity that all Israel can be saved (Romans 11:25). Then and only then, Israel can mourn for the one whom they have pierced. Then and only then, Israel will be ready to cry: “Hosanna!! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Come Lord. You are our Yeshua! Open up the heavens and descend. Come to deliver us from the hands of our oppressors.”
It will be through the mature love of the church that Israel will experience conversion. Because God’s intent was that, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord (Ephesians 3:10).
Subsequently as Israel cries out: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”, Christ will return as Yeshua Ben David. He will descend as a warrior king and will fight for them destroying all those who stood against Israel with the sword that comes out of his mouth.
“In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.”
Zachariah 12:8-9
On that day he will descend the same way he ascended to heaven. And when his feet touch the mount of olives the mount will split in two.
“Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.”
Zachariah 14:4
On that day Christ will come victorious riding on a white horse, and every eye will see him. He will resurrect the dead in Christ, and those who remain alive and have trusted in him will meet him on the air. He will come to wage war against the enemies of his people. He will come to avenge Israel, and all the blood of the saints that died at the hand of the Antichrist’s armies.
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.”
Revelation 19:11-16
As the great Joshuah, he will reach out his hand to reclaim all the exiles of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush,from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean; and he will bring them back to the Land he gave to their ancestors. (Isaiah 111:11)
In that day, he will marry them, together with all the ones that have been grafted into his family by putting their trust in the Messiah. They will partake from the wedding supper of the Lamb. They will call the Lord “my husband’; and they will no longer call him “my master. And he will remove the names of the Baals from their lips; no longer will their names be invoked (Hosea 2: 16-17).
Jesus will tabernacle among Israel forever. He will establish his millennial reign and will rule all the nations from his throne in Jerusalem. Israel will become the head of the nations. The Lord will be their God, Christ will be their David,m. He will be their spiritual and political leader, and Israel will be his holy priesthood. They will never again depart from him.
“And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.”
Ezekiel 37:21-28