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Restoration of Nation of Israel to Land of Israel

In Leviticus 26:14-46, through Moses, God declared to the Nation of Israel, that in spite of their future sins, He would remember His covenant with their Fathers: “¹⁴ But if you will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; ¹⁵ And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, [but] that you break my covenant: ¹⁶ I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you. ¹⁸ And if you will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. ¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: ²⁰ And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. ²¹ And if you walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. ²² I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate. ²³ And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; ²⁴ Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. ²⁵ And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of [my] covenant: and when you are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ²⁶ [And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if you will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; ²⁸ Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat. ³⁰ And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. ³¹ And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. ³² And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ³³ And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. ³⁴ Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you [be] in your enemies' land; [even] then shall the land rest, and enjoy her Sabbaths. ³⁵ As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it. ³⁶ And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues. ³⁷ And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. ³⁹ And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. ⁴⁰ If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; ⁴¹ And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: ⁴² THEN will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; AND I will remember the land. ⁴³ The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her Sabbaths, while she lies desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴ And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I [am] the LORD their God. ⁴⁵ BUT I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I [am] the LORD. ⁴⁶ These [are] the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.”

In Deuteronomy 4:23-31, Moses declares the future of the Nation of Israel in the latter days: “²³ Take heed unto yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], which the LORD your God hath forbidden you. ²⁴ For the LORD your God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God. ²⁵ When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt [yourselves], and make a graven image, [or] the likeness of any [thing], and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger: ²⁶ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong [your] days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. ²⁷ And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. ²⁸ And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ²⁹ But if from thence you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find [him], if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, [even] in the latter days, if you turn to the LORD your God, and shall be obedient unto his voice; ³¹ (For the LORD your God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore unto them.”

In Deuteronomy 30:1-10, God again declares through Moses what He is going to do AFTER He has scattered the Israelites to the nations, wherein HE will circumcise their hearts so that they may receive their Messiah: “¹ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD your God hath driven you, ² And shall return unto the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; ³ That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, whither the LORD your God hath scattered you. ⁴ If [any] of yours be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and from thence will he fetch you: ⁵ And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. ⁶ AND the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. ⁷ AND the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you. ⁸ And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. ⁹ And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: ¹⁰ If you shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, [and] if you turn unto the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.”

In Isaiah 2:1-22, God declares in the last days, Jerusalem shall be exalted and all nations shall flow unto it, that man will be humbled and that He will be exalted and shake the earth: “¹The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  ²And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.  ³And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.  ⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.  ⁵O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.  ⁶Therefore you hast forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.  ⁷Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:  ⁸Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:  ⁹And the mean man bows down, and the great man humbles himself: therefore forgive them not.  ¹⁰Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.  ¹¹The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.  ¹²For the day of the LORD of hosts [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up; and he shall be brought low:  ¹³And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,  ¹⁴And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up,  ¹⁵And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,  ¹⁶And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.  ¹⁷And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.  ¹⁸And the idols he shall utterly abolish.  ¹⁹And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake terribly the earth.  ²⁰In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;  ²¹To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake terribly the earth.  ²²Cease you from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”

In Isaiah 4:1-6, God declares the Messiah will be glorified and after He has washed Jerusalem, His glory will dwell in the land:  "¹And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach. ²In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. ³And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: ⁴When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. ⁵And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense. ⁶And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain."

In Isaiah 11:1-16 & 12:1-6, God declares that after the coming of the Messiah, who the Gentiles will seek, He will cause the Nation of Israel to return to their land a 2^nd time from the four corners of the earth and that they will behold Him, He Who Saves: “¹ And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: ² And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; ³ And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: ⁴ But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. ⁵ And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. ⁶ The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. ⁷ And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. ⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. ⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. ¹⁰ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. ¹¹ 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. ¹³ The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. ¹⁴ But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. ¹⁵ And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dry shod. ¹⁶ And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. ^12:1And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.  ²Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. ³Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation. ⁴And in that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. ⁵Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. ⁶Cry out and shout, you inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of you."

In Isaiah 26:1-21, God declares He will appoint salvation in Judah and resurrect the Jewish people from the earth as He comes to judge the earth: "¹In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; we have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. ²Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which kept the truth may enter in. ³You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You: because he trusted in You. ⁴Trust you in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: ⁵For he brings down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust. ⁶The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. ⁷The way of the just is uprightness: You, most upright, do weigh the path of the just. ⁸Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for You; the desire of our soul is to Your name, and to the remembrance of You. ⁹With my soul have I desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I seek You early: for when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. ¹⁰Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. ¹¹LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yes, the fire of your enemies shall devour them. ¹²LORD, You will ordain peace for us: for You also have wrought all our works in us. ¹³O LORD our God, other lords beside You have had dominion over us: but by You only will we make mention of Your name. ¹⁴They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have You visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. ¹⁵You have increased the nation, O LORD, You have increased the nation: You are glorified: You have removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. ¹⁶LORD, in trouble have they visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them. ¹⁷Like as a woman with child that draws near the time of her delivery is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O LORD. ¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ¹⁹Your dead men shall live; together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. ²⁰Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be past. ²¹For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."

In Isaiah 27:1-13, God declares that He will deliver Israel from her enemies, that Israel will blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit and that Israel will extend from the Euphrates River to the Brook of Egypt, wherein Syrians and Egyptians will worship the Lord in Jerusalem:  "¹In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. ²In that day sing you unto her, A vineyard of red wine. ³I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. ⁴Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. ⁵Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. ⁶He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. ⁷Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? ⁸In measure, when it shoots forth, you wilt debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind. ⁹By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. ¹⁰Yet the defended city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. ¹¹When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor. ¹²And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river [Euphrates] unto the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. ¹³And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem."

In Isaiah 43:1-13, God declares that He is Israel's Savior, that He will bring them back to the Land of Israel and that He alone is The Savior, that He is God:  "¹But now thus says the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine. ²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you. ³For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you. ⁴Since you were precious in my sight, you hast been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life. ⁵Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west; ⁶I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; ⁷Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yes, I have made him. ⁸Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. ⁹Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. ¹⁰youare my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. ¹¹I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior. ¹²I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you're my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God. ¹³Yes, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?"

In Isaiah 49:1-26, God declares that Israel will be a light the Gentiles, that they will inherit the Land of Israel, wherein they will come from around the world, even China, that the Gentiles will bring them to Land of Israel and they shall know Him and then all flesh shall know that He is their Savior, their Messiah:  "¹Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. ²And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; ³And said unto me, you are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. ⁴Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. ⁵And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. ⁶And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth. ⁷Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despise, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you. ⁸Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; ⁹That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. ¹⁰They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. ¹¹And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. ¹²Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim [China]. ¹³Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. ¹⁴But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. ¹⁵Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget you. ¹⁶Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. ¹⁷your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you. ¹⁸Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride doeth. ¹⁹For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away. ²⁰The children which you shall have, after you hast lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.  ²¹Then shall you say in your heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? ²²Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. ²³And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. ²⁴Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? ²⁵But thus says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children. ²⁶And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob."

In Jeremiah 3:14-25, God declares that He is married to the Nation of Israel, that He will bring them to Zion and that He will reveal Himself in such a way that they will not miss the Ark of the Covenant:  “¹⁴ Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: ¹⁵  And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. ¹⁶  And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit [it]; neither shall [that] be done any more. ¹⁷ At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. ¹⁸  In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. ¹⁹  But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, you shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me. ²⁰  Surely [as] a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD. ²¹  A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God. ²²  Return, you backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you [art] the LORD our God. ²³  Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel. ²⁴  For shame hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. ²⁵  We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”

In Jeremiah 5:1, God declares that He will pardon the entire city of Jerusalem for just one righteous man and certainly much more the entire Nation of Israel for a remnant of believers:  “¹ Run youth and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there be [any] that executes judgment, that seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.”

In Jeremiah 16:14-21, God declares that the return (from the North and from all the lands) will be greater than the Exodus and that all nations will know Him: “¹⁴  Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; ¹⁵  But, The LORD lives, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, AND from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. ¹⁶  Behold, I will send for many fishers, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. ¹⁷  For my eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes. ¹⁸  And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things. ¹⁹  O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit. ²⁰  Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods? ²¹  Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name [is] The LORD.”

In Jeremiah 23:1-8, God declares that He will gather the Nation of Israel out of all the countries that He drove them into, that He will raise up the Messiah and in His day they will be saved, wherein again He states that they will remember the Return more than the Exodus: “¹ Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD. ² Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; you have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says the LORD. ³ And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. ⁴ And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, says the LORD, ⁵ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.  ⁶ In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. ⁷ Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; ⁸ But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, AND from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.”

In Jeremiah 29:10-14, God declares that after the return from Babylon, the Nation of Israel will seek Him again and that in the timing context of the others words outlined in this document, He will gather them from all the nation and places where He has driven them to the Land of Israel, so that they can find Him:  “¹⁰ For thus says the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. ¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. ¹² Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. ¹³ And you shall seek me, and find [me], when you shall search for me with all your heart. ¹⁴ And I will be found of you, says the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”

In Jeremiah 30:1-24 (after the return from Babylon prophesied in Jeremiah 29), God declares how the Nation of Israel will return to their land, after the Holocaust, wherein they will first be His people and then He will be their God: “¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ² Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have spoken unto you in a book. ³ For, lo, the days come, says the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. ⁴ And these [are] the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. ⁵ For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. ⁶ Ask you now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? ⁷ Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. ⁸ For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, [that] I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: ⁹ But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. ¹⁰ Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid. ¹¹ For I [am] with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished. ¹² For thus says the LORD, your bruise [is] incurable, [and] your wound [is] grievous. ¹³ [There is] none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you hast no healing medicines. ¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; [because] your sins were increased. ¹⁵ Why cries you for your affliction? your sorrow [is] incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: [because] your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you. ¹⁶ Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey. ¹⁷ For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeks after. ¹⁸ Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. ¹⁹ And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. ²⁰ Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. ²¹ And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who [is] this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? says the LORD. ²² And you shall be my people, AND I will be your God. ²³ Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. ²⁴ The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done [it], and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it.”

In Jeremiah 31:1-40, God declares in the latter days, He will be their God, they will dwell in Samaria, be brought out of Russia and the coasts of the earth (New York, Florida, California, Argentina, Ethiopia, etc.) to their own land and that women will serve in the military, that Hebrew will be spoken in the land and that they will receive the Messiah in their hearts and be forever forgiven, wherein the nation of Israel will never cease to exist, until the sun, moon and stars are no longer needed and the universe is completed measured: “¹ At the same time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. ² Thus says the LORD, The people [which were] left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. ³ The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. ⁴Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tablets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.  ⁵ you shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things. ⁶ For there shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. ⁷ For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel. ⁸ Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither. ⁹ They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn. ¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare [it] in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock. ¹¹ For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than he. ¹² Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. ¹³ Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. ¹⁴ And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD. ¹⁵ Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, [and] bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they [were] not. ¹⁶ Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. ¹⁷ And there is hope in your end, says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border. ¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; you hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you [art] the LORD my God. ¹⁹ Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. ²⁰ [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD. ²¹ Set you up waymarks, make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, [even] the way [which] you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your cities. ²² How long wilt you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass (protect) a man. ²³ Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, [and] mountain of holiness. ²⁴ And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they [that] go forth with flocks. ²⁵ For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. ²⁶ Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. ²⁷ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. ²⁸ And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD. ²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. ³⁰ But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. ³¹ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: ³² Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, says the LORD: ³³ But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall ALL know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. ³⁵ Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name: ³⁶ If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. ³⁷ Thus says the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD. ³⁸ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. ³⁹ And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. ⁴⁰ And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

In Jeremiah 32:37-44, God declares He will return the Nation of Israel, from all the countries that He drove them into, back into the Land of Israel and that they will dwell safely, that He would give them one heart to fear Him and that they shall not depart from Him from that point on forever: “³⁷Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: ³⁸  And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: ³⁹  And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: ⁴⁰  And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. ⁴¹  Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. ⁴²  For thus says the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. ⁴³  And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof you say, [It is] desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. ⁴⁴  Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal [them], and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, says the LORD.”

In Jeremiah 33:1-26, God declares that He will return the Nation of Israel back to their Land, THEN cleanse them from their iniquity by them receiving their Messiah and that they will never cease to be a nation before Him, until there is no longer any day or night: “¹ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, ² Thus says the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD [is] his name; ³ Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you knows not. ⁴ For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; ⁵ They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. ⁶ Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. ⁷ And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. ⁸ And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. ⁹ And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. ¹⁰ Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say [shall be] desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, ¹¹ The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD [is] good; for his mercy [endures] for ever: [and] of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, says the LORD. ¹² Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down. ¹³ In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that tells [them], says the LORD. ¹⁴ Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. ¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. ¹⁶ In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this [is the name] wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. ¹⁷ For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; ¹⁸ Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. ¹⁹ And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, ²⁰ Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; ²¹ [Then] may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. ²² As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. ²³ Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁴ Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. ²⁵ Thus says the LORD; If my covenant [be] not with day and night, [and if] I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; ²⁶ Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, [so] that I will not take [any] of his seed [to be] rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

In Jeremiah 46:25-28, God declares that after Egypt is given to Babylon, it shall again be inhabited and then the Nation of Israel will return, be at rest and not afraid, wherein at that time He will judge of all the nations that He drove them into:  “²⁵ The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: ²⁶  And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD. ²⁷  But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid.  ²⁸  Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD: for I [am] with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished.”

In Ezekiel 34:1-31, God further declares concerning the leaders of the Nation of Israel during the fulfillment of the Spring Feasts (Messiah’s first coming) and then the promise of the Nation of Israel’s return for the fulfillment of the Fall Feasts (Messiah’s second coming):  “¹ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe [be] to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? ³ you eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed: [but] you feed not the flock. ⁴ The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up [that which was] broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them. ⁵ And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. ⁶ My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yes, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek [after them]. ⁷ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; ⁸ [As] I live, says the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because [there was] no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; ⁹ Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; ¹⁰ Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. ¹¹ For thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. ¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. ¹³ And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. ¹⁴ I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. ¹⁵ I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord GOD. ¹⁶ I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. ¹⁷ And [as for] you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. ¹⁸ [Seemed it] a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet? ¹⁹ And [as for] my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. ²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. ²¹ Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad; ²² Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. ²³ And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. ²⁴ And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it]. ²⁵  And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. ²⁶ And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. ²⁷ And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. ²⁸ And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make [them] afraid. ²⁹ And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. ³⁰ Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God [am] with them, and [that] they, [even] the house of Israel, [are] my people, says the Lord GOD. ³¹ And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, [are] men, [and] I [am] your God, says the Lord GOD.”

In Ezekiel 36:1-15, God declares regarding the mountains of Israel, Judea & Samaria (the disputed West Bank): “¹ Also, you son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD: ² Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: ³ Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they have made [you] desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and [are] an infamy of the people: ⁴ Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that [are] round about; ⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. ⁶ Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the heathen: ⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear their shame. ⁸ But ye, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. ⁹ For, behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown: ¹⁰ And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, [even] all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built: ¹¹ And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I [am] the LORD. ¹² Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, [even] my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them [of men]. ¹³ Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, you [land] devours up men, and hast bereaved your nations; ¹⁴ Therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nations any more, says the Lord GOD. ¹⁵ Neither will I cause [men] to hear in you the shame of the heathen any more, neither shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.”

In Ezekiel 36:16-38, God declares concerning how He is going to honor His Name among the nations by bringing His people back to His Land and THEN causing them and the nations to know Him in fullness: “¹⁶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. ¹⁸ Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols [wherewith] they had polluted it: ¹⁹ And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. ²⁰ And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These [are] the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land. ²¹ But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. ²² Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; I do not [this] for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the heathen, whither you went. ²³ And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. ²⁴ For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. ²⁵ THEN will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. ²⁶ A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. ²⁷ AND I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do [them]. ²⁸ AND you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. ²⁹ I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. ³⁰ And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. ³¹ Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. ³² Not for your sakes do I [this], says the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. ³³ Thus says the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause [you] to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built. ³⁴ And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. ³⁵ And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited. ³⁶ THEN the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined [places, and] plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken [it], and I will do [it]. ³⁷ Thus says the Lord GOD; I will yet [for] this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do [it] for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. ³⁸ As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: AND they shall know that I [am] the LORD.”

In Ezekiel 37:1-28, God further declares concerning how the Nation of Israel is going to be brought back into the mountains of Israel (Judea, Samaria & Jerusalem), THEN made to come alive in His Spirit, wherein they receive their Messiah and THEN the heathen will know Him:  “¹ The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones, ² And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, [there were] very many in the open valley; and, lo, [they were] very dry. ³ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you knows. ⁴ Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD^{. 5} Thus says the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: ⁶ And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; AND you shall know that I [am] the LORD. ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. ⁸ And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but [there was] no breath in them. ⁹ Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. ¹¹ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. ¹² Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³ AND you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, ¹⁴ AND shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: THEN shall you know that I the LORD have spoken [it], and performed [it], says the LORD. ¹⁵ The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, ¹⁶ Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions: ¹⁷ And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand. ¹⁸ And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Wilt you not show us what you [meanest] by these? ¹⁹ Say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. ²⁰ And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹ And say unto them, Thus says 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 dwelling places, 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: yes, 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.”

In Ezekiel 39:21-29 (following the conflict between God and Gog in regards to the Nation of Israel in the Land of Israel), God declares that Israel will know Him: “²¹ And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. ²² So the house of Israel shall know that I [am] the LORD their God from that day and forward. ²³ AND the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. ²⁴ According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. ²⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, AND have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, AND will be jealous for my holy name; ²⁶ After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid. ²⁷ WHEN I have brought them again from the people, AND gathered them out of their enemies' lands, AND am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; ²⁸ THEN shall they know that I [am] the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. ²⁹ Neither will I hide my face any more from them: FOR I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.”

In Hosea 1:10-11, God declares that the children of Israel will believe in their Messiah:  “¹⁰Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered; and instead of it being said to them, You are not My people, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living God! (Romans 9:26) ¹¹Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head, and they shall go up out of the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel [for the spiritually reborn Israel, a divine offspring, the people whom the Lord has blessed.]” (Isaiah 11:12-13; Ezekiel 37:15-28)

In Hosea 2:16-23, God declares again that the children of Israel will believe in their Messiah:  “¹⁶And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, that you will call Me Ishi [my Husband], and you shall no more call Me Baali [my Baal].  ¹⁷For I will take away the names of Baalim [the Baals] out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned or seriously remembered by their name.  ¹⁸And in that day will I make a covenant for Israel with the living creatures of the open country and with the birds of the heavens and with the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow and the sword and [abolish battle equipment and] conflict out of the land and will make you lie down safely.  ¹⁹And I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.  ²⁰I will even betroth you to Me in stability and in faithfulness, and you shall know (recognize, be acquainted with, appreciate, give heed to, and cherish) the Lord.  ²¹And in that day I will respond, says the Lord; I will respond to the heavens [which ask for rain to pour on the earth], and they shall respond to the earth [which begs for the rain it needs],  ²²And the earth shall respond to the grain and the wine and the oil [which beseech it to bring them forth], and these shall respond to Jezreel [restored Israel, who prays for a supply of them].  ²³And I will sow her for Myself anew in the land, and I will have love, pity, and mercy for her who had not obtained love, pity, and mercy; and I will say to those who were not My people, You are My people, and they shall say, You are my God!” (1 Peter 2:9-10)

In Hosea 3:5, God declares again that the children of Israel will believer in their Messiah: “⁵Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, [inquiring of and requiring Him] and [from the line of] David, their King [of kings]; and they shall come in [anxious] fear to the Lord and to His goodness and His good things in the latter days.” (Jeremiah 30:9, Ezekiel 34:24)

In Hosea 5:15-6:3, God declares that the children of Israel will seek their Messiah in the third day (3^rd thousand years): “¹⁵I will return to My place [on high] until they acknowledge their offense and feel their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction and distress they will seek, inquire for, and require Me earnestly, saying,  ^6:1Come and let us return to the Lord, for He has torn so that He may heal us; He has stricken so that He may bind us up.  ²After two days He will revive us (quicken us, give us life); on the third day He will raise us up that we may live before Him. (Isaiah 26:19, Ezekiel 37:1-10)   ³Yes, let us know (recognize, be acquainted with, and understand) Him; let us be zealous to know the Lord [to appreciate, give heed to, and cherish Him]. His going forth is prepared and certain as the dawn, and He will come to us as the [heavy] rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.”

In Hosea 11:8-11, God declares that He will again have compassion on the children of Israel:  “⁸How can I give you up, O Ephraim! How can I surrender you and cast you off, O Israel! How can I make you as Admah or how can I treat you as Zeboiim [both destroyed with Sodom]! My heart recoils within Me; My compassions are kindled together. (Deuteronomy 29:23)   ⁹I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not bring back Ephraim to nothing or again destroy him. For I am God and not man, the Holy One in the midst of you, and I will not come in wrath or enter into the city.  ¹⁰They shall walk after the Lord, Who will roar like a lion; He Himself will roar and [His] sons shall come trembling and eagerly from the west.  ¹¹They shall come trembling but hurriedly like a bird out of Egypt and like a dove out of the land of Assyria, and I will cause them to dwell in their houses, says the Lord.”

In Hosea 14:4-8, God declares that He will turn His anger away from Israel and bring them to their Messiah:  “⁴I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for My anger is turned away from [Israel].  ⁵I will be like the dew and the night mist to Israel; he shall grow and blossom like the lily and cast forth his roots like [the sturdy evergreens of] Lebanon.  ⁶His suckers and shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree and his fragrance like [the cedars and aromatic shrubs of] Lebanon.  ⁷They that dwell under his shade shall return; they shall revive like the grain and blossom like the vine; the scent of it shall be like the wine of Lebanon.  ⁸Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered [him] and will regard and watch over him; I am like a green fir or cypress tree; with Me is the fruit found [which is to nourish you]. 

In Joel 2:12-3:2, God declares that in the latter days, He will pour out His Spirit upon His people in Israel and then judge the nations based upon how they divided His Land:   “¹²Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].  ¹³Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].  ¹⁴Who knows but what He will turn, revoke your sentence [of evil], and leave a blessing behind Him [giving you the means with which to serve Him], even a cereal or meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?  ¹⁵Blow the trumpet in Zion; set apart a fast [a day of restraint and humility]; call a solemn assembly.  ¹⁶Gather the people, sanctify the congregation; assemble the elderly people, gather the children and the nursing infants; let the bridegroom [who is legally exempt from attending] go forth from his chamber and the bride out of her closet. [None is exempt from the humiliation.]  ¹⁷Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Have pity and spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the [heathen] nations should rule over them or use a byword against them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?  ¹⁸Then was the Lord jealous for His land and had pity on His people.  ¹⁹Yes, the Lord answered and said to His people, Behold, I am sending you grain and juice [of the grape] and oil, and you shall be satisfied with them; and I will no more make you a reproach among the [heathen] nations.  ²⁰But I will remove far off from you the northern [destroyer's] army and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, with its front toward the eastern [Dead] Sea and with its rear toward the western [Mediterranean] Sea. And its stench shall come up [like that of a decaying mass of locusts, a symbol and forecast of the fate of the northern army in the final day of the Lord], and its foul odor shall come up, because He has done great things [the Lord will have destroyed the invaders]! Isaiah. 34:1-4, 8; Jeremiah. 25:31-35; Joel 2:11)   ²¹Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things! (Zechariah 12:8-10)   ²²Be not afraid, you wild beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness have sprung up and are green; the tree bears its fruit, and the fig tree and the vine yield their [full] strength.  ²³Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord, your God; for He gives you the former or early rain in just measure and in righteousness, and He causes to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.  ²⁴And the [threshing] floors shall be full of grain and the vats shall overflow with juice [of the grape] and oil.  ²⁵And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten--the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you.  ²⁶And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be put to shame.  ²⁷And you shall know, understand, and realize that I am in the midst of Israel and that I the Lord am your God and there is none else. My people shall never be put to shame.  ²⁸And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.  ²⁹Even upon the menservants and upon the maidservants in those days will I pour out My Spirit.  ³⁰And I will show signs and wonders in the heavens, and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.  ³¹The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. (Isaiah 13:6, 9-11; 24:21-23; Ezekiel. 32:7-10; Matthew 24:29, 30; Revelations 6:12-17)  ³²And whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered and saved, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the remnant [of survivors] shall be those whom the Lord calls. (Acts 2:17-21; Rom. 10:13)  ^3:1For behold, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,  ²I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for [their treatment of] My people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and [because] they have divided My land.”

In Joel 3:9-21, God declares that He will be the protection of His people, the children of Israel:  “⁹Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war! Stir up the mighty men! Let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.  ¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong [a warrior]! (Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3)  ¹¹Hasten and come, all you nations round about, and assemble yourselves; there You, O Lord, will bring down Your mighty ones (Your warriors).  ¹²Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.  ¹³Put in the sickle, for the [vintage] harvest is ripe; come, get down and tread the grapes, for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for the wickedness [of the peoples] is great. (Mark 4:29; Revelations 14:15, 18-20)   ¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!  For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. (Zechariah 14:1-9)  ¹⁵The sun and the moon are darkened and the stars withdraw their shining.  ¹⁶The Lord will thunder and roar from Zion and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord will be a refuge for His people and a stronghold to the children of Israel.  (Amos 9:11-15; Micah 4:1-3; 5:2; Zephaniah 3:13-20; Zechariah 6:12, 13; 12:8, 9)   ¹⁷So shall you know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers and foreigners [not born into the family of God] shall no more pass through it.  ¹⁸And in that day, the mountains shall drip with fresh juice [of the grape] and the hills shall flow with milk; and all the brooks and riverbeds of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and shall water the Valley of Shittim. (Ezekiel 47:1-12; Amos 9:13; Zechariah 14:8)  ¹⁹Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness for their violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.  ²⁰But Judah shall remain and be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.  ²¹And I will cleanse and hold as innocent their blood and avenge it, blood which I have not cleansed, held innocent, and avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

In Amos 9:8-15, God declares that He will not destroy Jacob (Jews) nor Israel, but rather bring them back to His Land, put them over all nations and plant them in His Land forever:  “⁸Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom [of Israel's ten tribes] and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the Lord.  ⁹For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations and cause it to move to and fro as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth and be lost [from My sight]. (Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy. 28:64; Hosea 9:17)  ¹⁰All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake or meet [and assail] us.  ¹¹In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David, the fallen hut or booth, and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old, ¹²That they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the nations that are called by My name, says the Lord Who does this. (Acts 15:15-17)  ¹³Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt [that is, everything heretofore barren and unfruitful shall overflow with spiritual blessing]. (Leviticus 26:5; Joel 3:18)  ¹⁴And I will bring back the exiles of My people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.  ¹⁵And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be torn up out of their land which I gave them, says the Lord your God.”

In Obadiah 1:17-21, God declares that the Jewish people will rule over the Land of Israel:  “¹⁷But on Mount Zion [in Jerusalem] there shall be deliverance [for those who escape], and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess its [own former] possessions. (Ezekiel 36; Joel 2:32)  ¹⁸The house of Jacob shall be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, but the house of Esau shall be stubble; they shall kindle and burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken it. (Ezekiel 25:12-14)  ¹⁹They of the South (the Negev) shall possess Mount Esau, and they of the lowland the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead [across the Jordan River]. (Amos 9:12; Zephaniah 2:7) ²⁰And the exiles of this host of the children of Israel who are among the Canaanites shall possess [Phoenicia] as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South (the Negev).  ²¹And deliverers shall go up on Mount Zion to rule and judge Mount Esau, and the kingdom and the kingship shall be the Lord's.” (Zechariah 12:8, 9; Malachi 1:2-5; Matthew 24:27-30; Luke 1:31-33; Acts 15:14-17)

In Micah 2:12-13, God declares that He will gather the remnant of Jacob & Israel and they will acknowledge their Messiah:  “¹²I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them [Israel] together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture. They [the fold and the pasture] shall swarm with men and hum with much noise.  ¹³The Breaker [the Messiah] will go up before them. They will break through, pass in through the gate and go out through it, and their King will pass on before them, the Lord at their head. (Exodus 23:20, 21; 33:14; Isaiah 63:8, 9; Hosea. 3:5; Amos 9:11)

In Micah 4:1-7, God declares that in the latter days, He will establish Jerusalem, gather the children of Israel that He has scattered and then reign over them in Mount Zion forever:  “¹But in the latter days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains; and it shall be exalted above the hills, and peoples shall flow to it.  ²And many nations shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways, and we may walk in His paths. For the law shall go forth out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.  ³And He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide for strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:2-4; Joel 3:10)  ⁴But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. (Zechariah 3:10)  ⁵For all the peoples [now] walk every man in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.  ⁶In that day, says the Lord, I will assemble the lame, and I will gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted.  ⁷And I will make the lame a remnant, and those who were cast off a strong nation; and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forever.

In Micah 5:2-4, God declares that the Messiah shall turn from His people until a time of travail is completed, then afterwards a remnant of His people shall receive Him and then all nations will know Him:  “²But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, you are little to be among the clans of Judah; [yet] out of you shall One come forth for Me Who is to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth have been from of old, from ancient days (eternity). (Genesis 49:10; Matthew 2:5-12; John 7:42)  ³Therefore shall He give them up until the time that she who travails has brought forth; then what is left of His brethren shall return to the children of Israel.  ⁴And He shall stand and feed His flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord His God; and they shall dwell [secure], for then shall He be great [even] to the ends of the earth.” (Psalms 72:8; Isaiah 40:11; Zechariah 9:10; Luke 1:32, 33)

In Micah 7:11-20, God declares that the nations will understand His forgiveness, His mercy and loving-kindness, when He has compassion on the nation of Israel: “¹¹In the day that your walls are to be built [a day for building], in that day shall the boundary [of Israel] be far extended and the decree [against her] be far removed. (Isaiah 33:17; Amos 9:11)  ¹²In that day they will come to you from Assyria and from the cities of Matzor [Egypt] and from Egypt even to the river [Euphrates], from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.  ¹³Yet shall the earth be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.  ¹⁴Rule and feed Your people with Your rod and scepter, the flock of Your inheritance who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel [a garden land]; they shall feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.  ¹⁵As in the days of your coming forth from the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.  ¹⁶The nations shall see [God's deliverance] and be ashamed of all their might [which cannot be compared to His]. They shall lay their hands upon their mouths in consternation; their ears shall be deaf.  ¹⁷They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their strongholds and close places. They shall turn and come with fear and dread to the Lord our God and shall be afraid and stand in awe because of You [O Lord]. (Jeremiah 33:9)  ¹⁸Who is a God like You, Who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy and loving-kindness.  ¹⁹He will again have compassion on us; He will subdue and tread underfoot our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. (Psalms 103:12)  ²⁰You will show Your faithfulness and perform the sure promise to Jacob and loving-kindness and mercy to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.” (Luke 1:54, 55)

In Zephaniah 2:7, God declares that He will restore Judah to the Land of Israel that will be blessed by His presence: “⁷The seacoast shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall pasture their flocks upon it; in the houses of [deserted Philistine] Ashkelon (sister city of Portland, Oregon) shall they of Judah lie down in the evening.  For the Lord their [Judah's] God shall visit them [for their relief] and restore them from their captivity.” (Isaiah 14:29-31; Amos 1:6-8)

In Zephaniah 3:8-20, God declares that He will restore their language, that He will remove those within them that are against Him and that the Messiah, He Who Saves [Yeshua] will be in their midst revealing Himself to all nations:  “⁸Therefore [earnestly] wait for Me, says the Lord, [waiting] for the day when I rise up to the attack [as a witness, accuser, or judge, and a testimony]. For My decision and determination and right it is to gather the nations together, to assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them My indignation, even all [the heat of] My fierce anger; for [in that day] all the earth shall be consumed with the fire of My zeal and jealousy.  ⁹For then [changing their impure language] I will give to the people a clear and pure speech from pure lips, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one unanimous consent and one united shoulder [bearing the yoke of the Lord].  ¹⁰From beyond the rivers of Cush or Ethiopia those who pray to Me, the daughter of My dispersed people, will bring and present My offering.  ¹¹In that day you [the congregation of Israel] shall not be put to shame for all your deeds by which you have rebelled and transgressed against Me, for then I will take away out of your midst those who exult in your majesty and pride; and you shall no more be haughty [and carry yourselves arrogantly on or] because of My holy mountain.  ¹²For I will leave in the midst of you a people afflicted and poor, and they shall trust, seek refuge, and be confident in the name of the Lord.
¹³What is left of Israel shall not do iniquity or speak lies, neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed and lie down and none shall make them afraid.  ¹⁴Sing, O Daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice, be in high spirits and glory with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem [in that day]. ¹⁵[For then it will be that] the Lord has taken away the judgments against you; He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, even the Lord [Himself], is in the midst of you; [and after He has come to you] you shall not experience or fear evil any more.  ¹⁶In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear not, O Zion. Let not your hands sink down or be slow and listless.  ¹⁷The Lord your God is in the midst of you, a Mighty One, He Who saves [Yeshua]!  He will rejoice over you with joy; He will rest [in silent satisfaction] and in His love He will be silent and make no mention [of past sins, or even recall them]; He will exult over you with singing.  ¹⁸I will gather those belonging to you [those Israelites in captivity] who yearn and grieve for the solemn assembly [and the festivals], on whom [their exile and inability to attend services at Jerusalem have brought derision and] the reproach of it is a burden.  ¹⁹Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you; I will save the limping [ones] and gather the outcasts and will make them a praise and a name in every land of their shame. (Micah 4:6, 7)  ²⁰At that time I will bring you in; yes, at that time I will gather you, for I will make you a name and a praise among all the nations of the earth when I reverse your captivity before your eyes, says the Lord.”

In Zechariah 2:4-13, God declares that He will protect Jerusalem, reveal His glory in her and that many nations will be grafted into the Nation of Israel, with Judah (the Jews) being His portion in Jerusalem: “⁴And he said to the second angel, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited and dwell as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.  ⁵For I, says the Lord, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.  ⁶Ho! ho! [Hear and] flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, and from the four winds of the heavens, for to them have I scattered you, says the Lord.  ⁷Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon!  ⁸For thus said the Lord of hosts, after [His] glory had sent me [His messenger] to the nations who plundered you--for he who touches you touches the apple or pupil of His eye:  ⁹Behold, I will swing my hand over them and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you shall know (recognize and understand) that the Lord of hosts has sent me [His messenger].  ¹⁰Sing and rejoice, O Daughter of Zion; for behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the Lord.  ¹¹And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day and shall be My people. And I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know (recognize and understand) that the Lord of hosts has sent me [His messenger] to you. (Isaiah2:3; Micah. 4:2)  ¹²And the Lord shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land and shall again choose Jerusalem. ¹³Be still, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused and risen from His holy habitation.” (Habakkuk 2:20; Zephaniah 1:7)

In Zechariah 6:12-15, God declares that the Messiah will build the temple of the Lord and that the nations will come and help:  “¹²And say to him, Thus says the Lord of hosts: [You, Joshua] behold (look at, keep in sight, watch) the Man [the Messiah] whose name is the Branch, for He shall grow up in His place and He shall build the [true] temple of the Lord. (Isaiah 4:2; Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15; Zechariah 3:8) ¹³Yes, [you are building a temple of the Lord, but] it is He Who shall build the [true] temple of the Lord, and He shall bear the honor and glory [as of the only begotten of the Father] and shall sit and rule upon His throne. And He shall be a Priest upon His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between the two [offices--Priest and King]. (John 1:14; 17:5; Hebrews 2:9)  ¹⁴And the [other] crown shall be [credited] to Helem (Heldai), to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to the kindness and favor of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, and shall be in the temple of the Lord for a reminder and memorial. (Matthew 10:41)  ¹⁵And those who are far off shall come and help build the temple of the Lord, and you shall know (recognize and understand) that the Lord sent me [Zechariah] to you. And [your pare in this] shall come to pass if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”

In Zechariah 8:2-8, God declares when He saves His people from the East & West, He will dwell in Jerusalem, be their Messiah and the nations will come to Him through the Jews:  “²Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath [against her enemies].  ³Thus says the Lord: I shall return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the [faithful] City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the Holy Mountain.  ⁴Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again dwell in Jerusalem and sit out in the streets, every man with his staff in his hand for very [advanced] age.  ⁵And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.  ⁶Thus says the Lord of hosts: Because it will be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days [in which it comes to pass], should it also be marvelous in My eyes? says the Lord of hosts. (Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:17, 27; Luke 18:27)  ⁷Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the east country and from the west [the country of the going down of the sun]. (Isaiah 43:5, 6)  ⁸And I will bring them [home] and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and faithfulness and in righteousness.  ⁹Thus says the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strong and hardened, you who in these days hear these words from the mouths of the prophets who on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid foretold that the temple should be rebuilt.  ¹⁰For before those days there was no hire for man nor any hire for beast, neither was there any peace or success to him who went out or came in because of the adversary and oppressor, for I set (let loose) all men, every one against his neighbor.  ¹¹But now [in this period since you began to build] I am not to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the Lord of hosts.  ¹²For there shall the seed produce peace and prosperity; the vine shall yield her fruit and the ground shall give its increase and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit and possess all these things.  ¹³And as you have been a curse and a byword among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing.  Fear not, but let your hands be strong and hardened. (Jeremiah 22:8, 9)  ¹⁴For thus says the Lord of hosts: As I thought to bring calamity upon you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says the Lord of hosts, and I did not relent or revoke your sentence,  ¹⁵So again have I purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Fear not!  ¹⁶These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor; render the truth and pronounce the judgment or verdict that makes for peace in [the courts at] your gates. (Ephesians 4:25)  ¹⁷And let none of you think or imagine or devise evil or injury in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord.  ¹⁸And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me [Zechariah], saying, ¹⁹Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah times of joy and gladness and cheerful, appointed seasons; therefore [in order that this may happen to you, as the condition of fulfilling the promise] love truth and peace.  ²⁰Thus says the Lord of hosts: It shall yet come to pass that there shall come [to Jerusalem] peoples and the inhabitants of many and great cities, ²¹And the inhabitants of one city shall go to them of another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray and entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek, inquire of, and require [to meet our own most essential need] the Lord of hosts. I will go also.  ²²Yes, many people and strong nations shall come to Jerusalem to seek, inquire of, and require [to fill their own urgent need] the Lord of hosts and to pray to the Lord for His favor.  ²³Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men out of all languages of the nations shall take hold of the robe of him who is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”

In Zechariah 10:3-12, God declares the He will bring them back to His Land, wherein He will cause them to remember Him so that they can be brought back and so that His glory will be with them: “³My anger is kindled against the shepherds [who are not true shepherds] and I will punish the goat leaders, for the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His beautiful and majestic horse in the battle. (Ezekiel 34:1-10)  ⁴Out of him [Judah] shall come forth the Cornerstone (Psalms 118:22-23; Isaiah 28:16; Matthew 21:42; Acts 4:11; Ephesians 2:19-22; I Peter 2:6-8.), out of him the tent peg, out of him the battle bow; every ruler shall proceed from him. (Jeremiah 30:21)  ⁵And they shall be like mighty men treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle, and they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and the [oppressor's] riders on horses shall be confounded and put to shame.  ⁶And I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph [Ephraim]. I will bring them back and cause them to dwell securely, for I have mercy, loving-kindness, and compassion for them. They shall be as though I had not cast them off, for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them. ⁷Then Ephraim [the ten tribes] shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall rejoice as through wine; yes, their children shall see it and rejoice; their hearts shall feel great delight and glory triumphantly in the Lord!  ⁸I will hiss for them [as the keeper does for his bees] and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall increase [again] as they have increased [before, in Egypt]. (Ezekiel 36:10, 11)  ⁹And though I sow them among the nations, yet they shall [earnestly] remember Me in far countries, and with their children they shall live and shall return [to God and the land He gave them].  ¹⁰I will bring them [all Israel] home again from the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria, and I will bring them into the land [on the east and on the west of the Jordan, into] Gilead and Lebanon, and room enough shall not be found for them. ¹¹And [the Lord] will pass through the sea of distress and affliction [at the head of His people, as He did at the Red Sea]; and He will smite down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the [river] Nile shall be dried up and put to shame; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down and the scepter or rod [of the taskmasters of Egypt] shall pass away.  ¹²And I will strengthen [Israel] in the Lord, and they shall walk up and down and glory in His name, says the Lord.”

In Zechariah 12:1-14:21, God declares that He will wound anyone that comes against Jerusalem, destroy nations that come against Jerusalem and pour out His Spirit of Grace upon those who acknowledge that they pierced their Messiah with their sins, wherein He will then physically return, splitting the Mount of Olives in two parts and then rule over the entire earth as King of Kings:   “¹The burden or oracle (the thing to be lifted up) of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, Who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him: ²Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup or bowl of reeling to all the peoples round about, and in the siege against Jerusalem will there also be a siege against and upon Judah. ³And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all peoples; all who lift it or burden themselves with it shall be sorely wounded. And all the nations of the earth shall come and gather together against it. ⁴In that day, says the Lord, I will smite every horse [of the armies that contend against Jerusalem] with terror and panic and his rider with madness; and I will open My eyes and regard with favor the house of Judah and will smite every horse of the opposing nations with blindness. ⁵And the chiefs of Judah shall say in their hearts, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are our strength in the Lord of hosts, their God. ⁶In that day will I make the chiefs of Judah like a big, blazing pot among [sticks of] wood and like a flaming torch among sheaves [of grain], and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and they of Jerusalem shall yet again dwell and sit securely in their own place, in Jerusalem. ⁷And the Lord shall save and give victory to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be magnified and exalted above Judah. ⁸In that day will the Lord guard and defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he who is [spiritually] feeble and stumbles among them in that day [of persecution] shall become [strong and noble] like David; and the house of David [shall maintain its supremacy] like God, like the Angel of the Lord Who is before them. ⁹And it shall be in that day that I will make it My aim to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. ¹⁰And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace or unmerited favor and supplication. And they shall look [earnestly] upon Me Whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one who is in bitterness for his firstborn. (John 19:37; Revelations 1:7)  ¹¹In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of [the city of] Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo [over beloved King Josiah]. (II Chronicles 35:22-25)  ¹²And the land shall mourn, every family apart: the [kingly] family of the house of David apart and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan [David's son] apparel and their wives apart; ¹³The [priestly] family of the house of Levi apparel and their wives apart; the family of Shimei [grandson of Levi] apart and their wives apart; ¹⁴All the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves [each with an overwhelming individual sorrow over having blindly rejected their unrecognized Messiah]. ^13:1In that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem [to cleanse them from] sin and uncleanness. ²And in that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will remove from the land the [false] prophets and the unclean spirit. ³And if anyone again appears [falsely] as a prophet, then his father and his mother who bore him shall say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother who bore him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.  ⁴And in that day the [false] prophets shall each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, nor will he wear a hairy or rough garment to deceive, ⁵But he will [deny his identity and] say, I am no prophet. I am a tiller of the ground, for I have been made a bond servant from my youth. ⁶And one shall say to him, What are these wounds on your breast or between your hands? Then he will answer, Those with which I was wounded [when disciplined] in the house of my [loving] friends. ⁷Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is My associate, says the Lord of hosts; smite the shepherd and the sheep [of the flock] shall be scattered, and I will turn back My hand and stretch it out again upon the little ones [of the flock]. (Matthew 26:31, 32)  ⁸And in all the land, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, but one-third shall be left alive. (Hosea 2:23; Rom. 11:5)  ⁹And I will bring the third pare through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined and will test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will hear and answer them. I will say, It is My people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.  ^14:1Behold, A day of the Lord is coming when the spoil [taken from you] shall be divided [among the victors] in the midst of you.  ²For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.  ³Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.  ⁴And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from the east to the west by a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south. (Isaiah 64:1, 2)  ⁵And you shall flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal, and you shall flee as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and the Lord my [Zechariah's] God shall come, and all the holy ones [saints and angels] with Him. (Amos 1:1; Col. 3:4; I Thessalonians 4:14; Jude 14, 15)  ⁶And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall not be light; the glorious and bright ones [the heavenly bodies] shall be darkened.  ⁷But it shall be one continuous day, known to the Lord--not day and not night, but at evening time there shall be light.  ⁸And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern [Dead] Sea and half of them to the western [Mediterranean] Sea; in summer and in winter shall it be.  ⁹And the Lord shall be King over all the earth; in that day the Lord shall be one [in the recognition and worship of men] and His name one.  ¹⁰All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon, [the Rimmon that is] south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain lifted up on its site and dwell in its place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.  ¹¹And it shall be inhabited, for there shall be no more curse or ban of utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall dwell securely. (Revelations 22:3)  ¹²And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall corrode away in their sockets and their tongue shall decay away in their mouth. ¹³And in that day there shall be a great confusion, discomfiture, and panic among them from the Lord; and they shall seize each his neighbor's hand, and the hand of the one shall be raised against the hand of the other. ¹⁴And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together--gold and silver and apparel in great abundance.  ¹⁵And as that plague on men, so shall be the plague on the horse, on the mule, on the camel, on the donkey, and on all the livestock and beasts that may be in those camps.  ¹⁶And everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths.  ¹⁷And it shall be that whoso of the families of the earth shall not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.  ¹⁸And if the family of Egypt does not go up to Jerusalem and present themselves, upon them there shall be no rain, but there shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite the nations that go not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  ¹⁹This shall be the consequent punishment of the sin of Egypt and the consequent punishment of the sin of all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.  ²⁰In that day there shall be [written] upon the [little] bells on the horses, HOLY TO THE LORD, and the pots in the Lord's house shall be holy to the Lord like the bowls before the altar.  ²¹Yes, every pot in all the houses of Jerusalem and in Judah shall be dedicated and holy to the Lord of hosts, and all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil their sacrifices in them [and traders in such wares will no longer be seen at the temple]. And in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite [that is, any godless or unclean person, whether Jew or Gentile] in the house of the Lord of hosts. (Ephesians 2:19-22.)

In Malachi 3:1-6, God declares that He will personally purify His priests and make the offerings of the Jews in Jerusalem pleasing to Himself:  “¹Behold, I send My Messenger (Matthew 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76), and he shall prepare the way before Me. And the Lord [the Messiah], Whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; the Messenger (Isaiah 42:6) or Angel of the covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts. (Matthew 11:10; Luke 1:13-17, 76)  ²But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; (Revelations 6:12-17)  ³He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the priests, the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness.  ⁴Then will the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in ancient years.  ⁵Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and who turn aside the temporary resident from his right and fear not Me, says the Lord of hosts.  ⁶For I am the Lord, I do not change; that is why you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

In Romans 11:1-36, Paul declares, “¹ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. ² God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says of Elias? how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying, ³ Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dug down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴ But what said the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] Baal. ⁵ Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. ⁶And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. ⁷ What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded ⁸(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. ⁹ And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them: ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. ¹¹ I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but [rather] through their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. ¹² Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness? ¹³ For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office: ¹⁴ If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them. ¹⁵ For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead? ¹⁶ For if the firstfruit [be] holy, the lump [is] also [holy]: and if the root [be] holy, so [are] the branches. ¹⁷ And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partakes of the root and fatness of the olive tree; ¹⁸ Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you. ¹⁹ You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. ²⁰ Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded, but fear: ²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, [take heed] lest he also spare not you. ²² Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in [his] goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off. ²³ And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ For if you wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural [branches], be grafted into their own olive tree? ²⁵ For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in pare is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. ²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: ²⁷ For this [is] my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. ²⁸ As concerning the gospel, [they are] enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, [they are] beloved for the fathers' sakes. ²⁹ For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance. ³⁰ For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: ³¹ Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. ³² For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. ³³ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable [are] his judgments, and his ways past finding out! ³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counselor? ³⁵ Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? ³⁶ For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory for ever. Amen.”

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