The Future Restoration Of Israel - Part 6 - Scriptures In Isaiah Series

THE FUTURE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL - PART 6 - SCRIPTURES IN ISAIAH

We begin Part 6 and continue in the book of Isaiah looking at more scriptures dealing with the future restoration of Israel. I hope you can catch the great joy this will be to the Jews when the Lord calls His earthly people home when He returns at the Second Coming, to the land God gave Abraham forever (the extent of which they have never occupied, but they will after the Second Coming) – {{Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:”}} And that was confirmed again – {{Exodus 23:31 “I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.”}}

And once again it was spoken by Joshua – {{Joshua 1:2-4 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. Josh 1:3 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses. Josh 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, will be your territory.”}}

Let us continue with Isaiah.

{{Isaiah 51:1-3 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug: Isa 51:2 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain. When he was one I called him, then I blessed him and multiplied him.” Isa 51:3 Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste places and her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and sound of a melody.”}}

An amazing passage. Those seeking righteousness are asked to look to their origins from which they were dug. That quarry was Abraham and Sarah and it is so clear in this passage it can only refer to the physical offspring from Abraham and Sarah, the Jews. It is an abuse of the passage to try to say this means the Church or Christians of the new covenant. Everything in these verses is Israel and that can’t be spiritualised away. It is a dishonour to do so, and an insult to intelligence that makes the passage try to do that.

Verse 3 is Israel in its restoration with all the glorious blessing, but verses 1 and 2 provide the pathway to that. Those who are saved in the Tribulation have pursued the path of righteousness through the response to the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, but the remainder of verse 1 and verse 2 would indicate that the Jews must be aware of their heritage, that their nation is/was based on the faith of Abraham. It was to Abraham the promises were given, these ones which still await fulfilment. I am sure when the Lord again takes up His people there will be great awareness of Israel’s earthly blessings that come in their Kingdom. The Lord will comfort His people; they have been through great trial and persecution, but when at rest in Messiah’s Kingdom they will know comfort from all distress. That reference to, “when he was one” in verse 2 means when Abraham was but one man, and now many descendants; also when he was alone, one faithful man in all that generation (like Noah).

The big question that sometimes occupies my mind is this one, “There must be millions of people who are Jews – (true ethnic descendency from Abraham) in the sense they have descended through Abraham, or, if you like, from Jacob, but they do not know their ancestry, for it has been lost over the last 2700 years beginning with the dispersion from Samaria, the so-called matter of the 10 tribes. Will the Lord take these descendants of Abraham into account also in the future dealings with the Jews?” I think it might be the case.

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{{Isaiah 51:10-11 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a pathway for the redeemed to cross over? Isa 51:11 so, the ransomed of the LORD will return and come with joyful shouting to Zion and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”}}