At Times Like This
At times like this, some may lose confidence in God, because perhaps they are not familiar with the God of the Bible. A word of encouragement would go a long way. Some may see the Messiah as gentle Jesus. And He is compassionate and gracious. But, He is also a warrior, and in the midst of all the evil, we are seeing God’s promises to Israel will be fulfilled.
He has said it. He has begun it. He will complete it.
God’s eyes are on Israel today
Deuteronomy 30:3-5
“…then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.”
Ezekiel 36:8
“But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home.”
Ezekiel 36:23-24 (The nations shall know)
“And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.”
Ezekiel 37:14 (God will bring them back)
“And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”
God’s eyes on Israel in the Future
Jeremiah 30:7 (Time of Jacob’s Trouble)
“Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.”
Daniel 12:1 (Time of Trouble….such as never was)
“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.”
Isaiah 62:1 (For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent)
“For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.”
Zechariah 12:10-11
“I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look unto Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. In that day there will be great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.”
Zechariah 13:8-9
“In the whole land, declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Romans 11:25-27 (THAT is when ALL Israel will be saved)
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”
