This passage in Deuteronomy 30 talks about God's instructions to the Jews or nation of Israel when they find themselves in dispersion among the nations for previous disobedience to God and His law. There is probably particular application to the restoration of the Jews from among the nations in the current last days before the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) (the rapture and following second coming in glory to earth of the Lord Jesus Christ). God promises his chosen earthly people Israel or the Jews that if when they are among the nations they turn back to Him and His commandments in the Bible then God would intervene and help the Jews return from among the nations to their promised land of Israel. This is not in conflict with other passages like Ezekiel 37 that talk about the Jews turning back to the land of Israel in unbelief as we can continue to see both in Israel with many secular people and also a significant number of devout Jews and a small number of Messianic Jews that trust in Jesus as their LOrd and Messiah and have the indwelling Spirit of God. God also promises that He will bless the Jews when they come back especially the final time in the last days to the land of Israel above their fathers meaning more than in the times of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and perhaps other fathers such as Moses and David. This is looking forward to the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom of Messiah (Christ) Jesus after His second coming and establishment of God's kingdom on earth centred on Israel and Jerusalem. God says through Moses that He will circumcise the hearts of the Israelites meaning that God will pour out His holy Spirit on them as in Ezekiel 36:25-27 or Jeremiah 31:31-34 during the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom and this will help the Jews or Israelites to be more obedient to the LORD (God). God also says through Moses that he will put all the curses that could be put on Israel in disobedience on their enemies instead which will definitely ultimately also be in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom. Finally God say that He will bless the Jews or Israelites to have many children as well for their livestock and their agriculture and likely other aspects of their economy. This will also be in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom and be a result of many of the Jews turning to God the LORD as a result of His refining them in the prior tribulation. The scripture reference from Deuteronomy 30 of God the Father (the LORD) bringing the Jews back to their land in blessing after their turning to Him in the last days of the current Church age and in the soon coming tribulation and looking forward to the Messianic or Millennial KIngdom is as follows:
And it shall come to pass,when all these things are come unto thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD they God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. If any of thine be driven out unto outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuteth thee. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoice over they fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. Deuteronomy 30:1-10
God says here in Micah 2 that he will regather the believing remnant of Israel that survive the tribulation and trust in the Lord Jesus as their Messiah into the land of Israel in the Messianic Kingdom. God will put them in their fold where there is safety and that is their home in the land of Israel. They will make a great noise by the great number of them probably for joy that their troubles will then be forever past. Their king which will be Messiah Jesus will pass before them to show them favour and the LORD on the head of them which could be either another reference to the Lord Jesus or to God the Father in His Shekinah glory that will probably be present and visible in Israel in the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom. The scripture reference from Micah 2 of God restoring some of the children of Israel to their land with their Messiah in the Millennial Kingdom is as follows:
I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make a great noise by reason of the multitude of men. The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them. Micah 2:12-13
The LORD says in verse 7 that he will not only bring the Jewish people but save them from lands in different directions from Israel. This probably means the LORD will bring them to the land of Israel when they are under persecution or in danger in some of the lands of the Gentiles or nations perhaps such as they were immediately before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany leading up to the HOlocaust and World War II. God also says he will deliver the Jews from the east and from the west. Many Jews were driver to the east mostly Asia such as the Middle East or perhaps Pakistan and Afghanistan when the northern kingdom was conquored and brought into captivity by the Assyrians around 720 BC and by the Babylonians around 600 BC. However many Jews were driven to the west meaning Europe and to some extent Africa and later the Americas when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD and again in 135 AD and scattered the Jews to the ends of the earth but especially to the west. God will bring the Jews from each these directions and all countries to the land of Israel through the current time but especially in the tribulation and perhaps the beginning of the Messianic Kingdom to the land of Israel. Then when God brings the Jewish people to the land of Israel many of them will dwell or at least come regulary to Jerusalem and the then rebuilt temple in the Messianic Kingdom to worship the LORD there. The LORD will in return be their God in truth and righteousness which includes the idea that God will provide peace and security as well as encouragement to righteousness and follow him and his word or law in the Messianic Kingdom especially for His chosen earthly people the Jews who will then be the most blessed people or nation on earth after God refines them through their trials for him in the tribulation or 70th week of Daniel. The scripture reference from Zechariah 8 of the LORD saving the Jews from all directions of the world and bringing them back to Jerusalem and the land of Israel to be His blessed people in the Messianic Kingdom is as follows:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. Zechariah 8:7-8
Recently one of my friends asked me if there was any reference in God's Word - the Holy Bible that spoke clearly that God would bring the Jews back to their land in the Holy Land on a permanent basis never to be removed again. Although I'm sure there are other references especially in the Old Testament prophets, one such reference I found was in the last couple verses of the prophecy of Amos. In this prophecy God states clearly that he will again bring back from their captivity His earthly people the Jews and that they will build their desolate cities and inhabit them. This has happened to some extent in the last 100 years or so staring around 1880 with the initiative of Theodore Herzl but according to some other scriptures, the Jews still have one major affliction left which is the great tribulation or the time of Jacob's trouble or the 70th week of Daniel. Although this will result in unprecedented persecution of the Jews it will not remove them from the promised land of Israel again although some of their adversaries like the militant Muslims would disagree. Jesus as the Jewish Messiah will come again and deliver the Jews from their adversaries of the world at the last moment from heaven according to scriptures like Zechariah 14. Then the Jews will live in unthreatened peace and prosperity in their own land with the protection of their God the LORD and Creator God and their Messiah Jesus of Nazareth when they will be the chief nation on earth and the means of God blessing all the people of the nations that trusted in Him and His Messiah Jesus and blessed His chosen earthly people Israel in the tribulation or trusted in Jesus in this present Church age. Then the Jews will be able settle down with their own property and be blessed with the abundance of the land of Israel for the 1000 year Messianic Kingdom and in some way also for eternity on the new earth or in the New Jerusalem if they trust in Jesus as their Messiah. Verse 15 says the Jews will not be removed from their land which will be true for the most part from this time through the tribulation and definitely through the 1000 year Messianic Kingdom when they will come into their full inheritance of their land according to Ezekiel 47 and perhaps also in part of the new earth for eternity. The scripture reference of God's clear unconditional promise to the Jews to bring them back to their own land in the last days which we are in the beginning of never to be removed again and for them to be blessed of the increase of the land of Israel in Amos 9 is as follows:
And (the LORD God says) I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. Amos 9:14-15
In verse 27 of Romans 11 there is a mention that God promises Israel that He will take away their sins. This is in the context of Romans 11 where God through the apostle Paul is looking to the restoration of Israel as a result of the tribulation and second coming of Messiah Jesus in preparation for the Millennial Kingdom or Messianic Kingdom. This verse is probably in particular a reference to God removing the sins of the Jews that come to Messiah Jesus in the last days as their Lord and Messiah that is mentioned in Jeremiah 31 and the New Covenant particularly as it applied to restored Israel. The day when all Israel shall be saved will be the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (Messiah) when all the Jews that survive the tribulation will trust in Him as their personal Lord and Messiah. The scripture reference from Romans 11 of God restoring Israel to Him in the last days through His Son and Messiah Jesus of Nazareth through forgiveness of their sins through His death on the cross and resurrection from the dead is as follows:
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my commandment unto them, when I shall take away their sins. Romans 11:26-27
Although God chastened his earthly people Israel for their idolatry, immorality, oppression and other sins he promised that ultimately he will restore Israel to Himself in their own land of Israel. He promised they will also be restored to him spiritually at that time at the end of the tribulation and beginning of the Messianic Kingdom as indicated in the passage later in this chapter about the New Covenant in verses 31 to 34. God says in the last days it won't be just the two tribes of Judah but all the families of Israel meaning all twelve tribes will be restored to Him. This will include all the Jews of the 10 lost or missing tribes that are mostly in Asia or Africa and some other places. In verse two God says the people that survived the sword meaning originally those that survived the Babylonian invasion but in an ultimate sense all the Jews that survive the times of the Gentiles including the still future tribulation, the 70th week of Daniel or the time of Jacob's trouble as mentioned in the preceding chapter Jeremiah 30 (verse 7) will have a rest in the wilderness first Babylon then the whole world. However although there have been periods of rest in different areas of the world for the Jews in the last 2500 years there have also been times of terrible persecution such as with the Roman Empire in 70 and 135 AD, in Russia, in Spain during the inquisition and in Nazi Germany in the 20th century. The LORD says that he has loved the Jewish people or people of Israel with an everlasting love and that with lovingkindness he will bring them back to their land and to Himself. This still applies after their primary rejection of Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah just as it applied after their disobedience to God before the Babylonianc captivity since this love is based on God's covenants with the Jewish people through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel), Moses and David and the covenants except the one with Moses are unconditional covenants are only based on God's faithfulness, goodness and grace as the New Testament is with the true Church and the final form of the New Covenant (Testament) will with Israel and all the nations. God promises to build up Israel again and make her like a virgin that will be joyful including enabling her to put behind all her idolatry and other sin that God likens to spiritual adultery or harlotry or fornication. God promises Israel or the Jews that they will settle down in peace for the long term to be able to raise their own food in their land in Samaria (northern Israel) as well as Judah. God also promises that all twelve tribes of Israel or the Jews in that day in the Messianic Kingdom or Millennial Kingdom will go from all Israel to Zion (Jerusalem) to go and come before God who in the person of the Messiah who will be the Divine Son of the Father Jesus of Nazareth as well as perhaps the Shekinah glory of God the Father in the Messianic Temple to worship God. God says through Jeremiah to say also among the nations and with Jacob Israel to urge God to restore Israel or the Jews especially for the final restoration where they will never again be removed from their land as in the Messianic Kingdom and that the current time as impending tribulation will help accomplish. God says he will bring His earthly people the Jews from the north country which could have been to a minor or partial extent from Babylon before but in a last days sense which this passage is mostly focused on will be from Russia or the former Soviet Union which continues to occur as we speak and will continue until the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom when most of the Jews will be back in the land of Israel. God also says he will gather the Jews from the coasts of the earth that would encompass the whole earth including all of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. God says he wouldn't leave any of the Jews behind since he includes women, children and the disabled with those among the Jews who will return in a great company back to the land of Israel from the nations. There will be great repentance and dedications to God among the Jews that return since they will sense that this is a momentous time and that they will be going back to experience all the Messianic blessings God has promised them and that then the end of their suffering at the hand of the Gentiles will be in sight. Ephraim here means the Jews of the 10 northern tribes it does not mean the Anglo-Saxon people or some other fanciful and unwarranted and non-Jewish application. God gives a message to the nations that the same God who scattered Israel by the Babylonians (and later by the Romans) will gather them back from among the nations a final time with loving care as a shephered gathers his flock. God states that he has redeeemed Jacob or the Jews from him that was stronger than he. In the initial sense this could refer back to God's delivering the Jews from Pharoah and the Egyptians but could also have some application of delivering them from the Babylonians and Persians but in a spiritual sense could include he delivering the remnant or believing Jews in the last days from Satan the devil through the first earthly ministry of their Messiah Jesus and in the last days sense from the Antichrist who will also persecute them in the tribulation. The LORD promises Israel or the Jews that they will come and sing in the height of Zion or Jerusalem which is most likely a reference to the Messianic Kingdom on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem where the LORD especially through His Messiah Jesus will be then. God also promises their will be peace and prosperity for the Jews or Israel in their own land with time and opportunity for them to grow and harvest crops and livestock and his assurance that they won't sorrow any more including any sorrow from foreign armies or oppressors. This will be true for eternity as well as in the Messianic Kingdom for the Jews that trust in their Messiah Jesus but I don't know whether the Jews in eternity that trust in Jesus will live in the New Jerusalem or the New Earth or both. The scripture reference of God's promise to regather the Jews from all the nations and bring them into their own land in peace and prosperity and his blessing not to be oppressed or attacked again starting in the last days but with the peace starting in the Messianic Kingdom in Jeremiah 31 is as follows:
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith 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. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and shall be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things. 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. For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. 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 travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. 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. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye 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. For the LORD that redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 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. Jeremiah 31:1-12
The LORD showed his favour to his servant the prophet Jeremiah as he does often to his devoted people while he was in a time of trial in this case in prison for speaking out to God's earthly then very wayward people the Jews for them to return to God. God or the LORD addresses himself as the maker or creator and urges Jeremiah and by extension to the people of Israel to call upon him in prayer and that he could do things to answer their prayers beyond their expectations or their imagination. These prayers for the Jews at that time would probably be especially for the restoration of hope and peace and security and authority in their land which to some extent was answered in the near future after the 70 year Babylonian captivity was over and people like Ezra and Nehemiah led godly Jews back to the land of Israel to restart Jewish society and worship there but the more complete fulfillment is yet future when the Messiah (Jesus) will rule the world from Jerusalem through His then fully blessed earthly people the Jews. The LORD reminded the people of Jerusalem and Judah especially of the desolation of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians of both the common people and the nobility or the kings that they were in a very defeated state when they lived by their own resources and not in trusting in being obedient to the LORD. The LORD also states it was for the wickedness of the people of Judah and Jerusalem that their city was made desolate by the Babylonians and that the Israelites of Jerusalem and Judah fighting against the Babylonians by their own power only resulted in more devastation and destruction for the Israelites or the Jews. The LORD states that this destruction against his earthly people the Jews around 600 BC was because of the LORD's anger and fury and his turning his face or his protection from the people of Jerusalem and Judah. This was because of their violence, idolatry, immorality and godlessness or not keeping the priniciples of the LORD in His law through Moses. The scripture reference of the state of destruction and despair of the people of Jerusalem and Judah that they had suffered from the Babylonians for the Jews' disobedience to God as a background to the LORD's message of hope and restoration of the people of Judah and Israel in the last days is as follows:
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, Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. For thus saith 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; They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. Jeremiah 33:1-5
The LORD promises the Jews that he bring health and a cure to the city of Jerusalem and Judah for its devastation and destruction when he restores it and brings it his blessing especially in the last days after Messiah Jesus comes again to set up God's Messianic Kingdom with Israel as the head nation after the tribulation or 70th week of Daniel. God also promises he will cure not just the city and nation of its destruction and devastation but also the people of Jerusalem and Judah and all of Israel especially in the last days when He comes to rule the world from Jerusalem through the Messiah. Then God will reveal to the Jews and to all the people of the nations through the Jews His abundance of peace and truth. Of course many people both Jewish and non-Jewish today also want world peace but many of them without truth especially that true peace involves peace with God as well. Sadly many of these people of which I urge the reader not to be a part of will fall for the shortterm imminent false peace of the Antichrist. The LORD also states quite clearly he will cause both the captivity of Judah and Israel to return or to be removed so they could come back from Babylon or Assyria or other lands both physically and mentally and spiritually back to God and the land of Israel. God also says he would then build the people of Judah and Israel both physically to rebuild their homes, their temple or other places as at the first or as when he brought them into the promised land from Egypt before. God did this to a partial fulfillment after the Babylonian captivity at least with the captivity of Judah but hardly at all with the 10 tribes of Israel but God will restore and rebuild all of both Judah and Israel in the last days when the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth comes from Heaven at the end of the tribulation to set up God's 1000 year Messianic Kingdom featuring special blessings to the Jews after they return to Him in their trial in the tribulation. God says he will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against him. This is partly a reference to their disobedience to Him before He judged them by the Assyrians and Babylonians or for their factions and coldness to Him before the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem and the second temple but also especially for their lack for the most part of acknowledging and trusting in their Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth which man of them will do by the end of the tribulation or have God's cleansing of them spiritually through His blood. God will for all these sins pardon all the Jews that turn to Him in the tribulation or those who trusted in Him in earlier times to enjoy the blessings of God's rule under His Messiah in the Messianic Kingdom from Jerusalem. The LORD says His restoring Israel nationally, socially, religiously and for many Jews individually spiritually to Himself will a name or source of joy, praise and honour before all the nations of the earth. This will be not just because of God's forgiveness and deliverance of the Jews who return to Him but also for all the goodness and prosperity the LORD will especially blessed the redeemed of Israel through returning to the LORD, His Messiah Jesus the Son of David and His Word the Holy Bible in the Messianic Kingdom. The scripture reference from Jeremiah 33 of God's cleansing, pardoning and blessing the nation and repentant and trusting chosen people of Israel in His Messianic Kingdom is as follows:
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity (lawlessness), whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour 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. Jeremiah 33:6-9
After the famous Messianic prophecy of the birthplace of the Messiah in Micah 5:2 as Bethlehem that was fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth there is another interesting prophecy. This prophecy is about the temporary setting aside by God of His chosen earthly people the Jews and His restoration of them in the last days. God giving them up would include His allowing the Romans to disperse them in the nations from the Roman operations in 70 AD and around 135 AD but would also include the many persecutions of the Jews over the last 2000 years including at the hands of the Vatican during the inquisition, the Russian pogroms, the Holocaust perpetrated by Hitler and Germany under the Nazis and some of the other nations including the United Kingdom under then Prime Minister Atlee of being reluctant to look after the survivors of the Holocaust in Europe or not more readily allowing the Jews to establish their own nation again in the Holy Land as well as the ongoing Muslim persecution of the Jews and the nation of Israel. However this scripture mentions the time when Israel travails and brings forth. This is especially referring to the time Israel is born in a day at the end of the tribulation and as a whole trusts in Jesus or Y'Shua as her Messiah and Redeemer but probably refers in a secondary way to the recovery of the hope of Zionism and a Jewish homeland by Theodore Herzl and others who reestablished Zioinism or the idea of a Jewish state in the Holy land in the 1880s in Europe. This led to increased efforts and success of Jews immigrating or returning to the Holy land from that time and still continues although there are some Jews in administrative positions in Israel that see Zionism as a mistake and want to overturn Israel's law of return that offers open reception of any Jew anywhere in the world to immigrate to Israel to live. The return of the Jews to Israel started to accelerate during the time of the British mandate over Palestine or the land of Israel from 1917 to 1948 especially with the rise of the Nazi party in Germany in 1933. There were also desparate attempt by Jews during World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 to escape Hitler's Holocaust in Europe by returning to Israel where there was viewed as a hope of having a Jewish state or home that would welcome and protect the Jewish people unlike what was then happening in Europe. In 1947 and 1948 with the agreement with the United Nations of a Jewish state and the declaration of Israel as an independent Jewish state immigrations by Jews from Europe and then Asia and other parts of the world to Israel further increased and provided population and workers for the reestablished nation of Israel. This return will continue until the coming again of the Messiah Jesus of Nazareth this time in power and great glory to set up the Messianic Kingdom at the end of the tribulation or 70th week of Daniel during which tribulation unfortunately the Jewish people will endure their worst and final period of tribulation or persecution but from which God through His Messiah Jesus of Nazareth will deliver them. There will also be some return or immigration of the remaining Jews in other nations of the world including United States and Canada to Israel in the early part of the Messianic Kingdom although according to other scriptures some Jews will remain among the nations in the Messianic Kingdom to teach the Gentiles or people of the nations the word or law of the LORD or God. There have always been some Jews in the holy land even after the Romans dispersed many of them to the nations and the Jews did not just come to Palestine, the holy land or Israel in the 20th century but some were there all along from their former period going to their establishment there by Abraham, Moses and Joshua in Bible days. This is implied in the last part of this verse that a remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel that were already in the land of Israel. The scripture reference in Micah 5 of the return of the remnant of Israel or the Jews to the land of Israel or the Holy Land especially starting when the people or land of Israel travailled and brought forth starting in the 1880s and accelerated since the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state in 1948 is as follows:
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. Micah 5:3
In that day in verse 1 means on the day of the second coming of Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah at the beginning of the Messianic Kingdom of the Millennium. The root of Jesse refers to the Messiah being God incarnate who is before Jesse the father of King David or in other words a reference to the Messiah in the line of David for which Jesus of Nazareth was qualified. Messiah Jesus will stand as an ensign or flag or rallying point for the people that is God's chosen earthly people Israel or the Jews. The Gentiles or people of the other nations will also seek after Jesus the Messiah as not only the Messiah or Redeemer of Israel but also the Saviour of the world and God Incarnate in the time of his glorious Millennial time of rest or peace, prosperity and righteousness. In verse 11 the reference to the Messiah (Jesus) setting his hand the second time to recover his remnant that are left probably implies the first time of God restoring his remnant of Israel was after the Babylonian and Assyrian captivities when a significant number from Judah and some of the northern 10 tribes of Israel returned from the east to the land of Israel as recorded to some extent in the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah in God's word the holy Bible. God will at this time recover the Jews that are left in Middle Eastern countries like Assyria (northern Iraq), Egypt, Pathros, southern Egypt or Sudan, from Cush (Ethiopia) such as the Falasha Jews, from Elam (Iran) from Shinar(Iraq) and from Hamath (Lebanon and Syria) and from the islands (or coastlands) of the sea which would include the rest of the world such as Europe and North and South America. The Messiah Jesus then at the beginning of the Messianic or Millennial Kingdom after Jesus' second coming to judge the world and remove those who refuse to trust in him or repent of their sins at the battle of Armageddon shall give a flag or sign to the nations perhaps referring to the establishment of God's throne for his 1000 year rule on earth in the Messianic Kingdom Temple in Jerusalem and gather not just the outcasts or dispersed of Judah but also of the 10 lost tribes of Israel which could include the Pathans of Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Bnei Manasche of India and other members of the 10 tribes from India or central Asia or North Africa as well to bring them to resettle in the land of Israel. The scripture reference to this final regathering of the dispersed tribes of Israel both of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel at the beginning of the glorious rule of the LORD's Messiah Jesus of Nazareth from Isaiah 11 is as follows:
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. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand 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. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isaiah 11:10-12
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