The Holy Spirit is in any believer in the Messiah. Inside we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. We have to be taken out of here for the terrible world leader to show up and rule and try to destroy the nation of Israel. And then the lawless one will be revealed by whom the world will be consumed with the breath of his mouth and he will destroy with the brightness of his coming. There will be, at the very end, a national salvation of the nation of Israel.
Jeremiah 31 says, “Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.” Not the Mosaic covenant, not the Torah Moshe. He said, “Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by hand and let them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant, which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days.”
He said, “I will put my law in their minds and I will write it on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
There will be a spiritual rebirth that is all about the forgiveness of sins, and that is, of course, once you accept the atoning death of the Messiah and accept him as your Lord and Savior. And you get the Holy Spirit in you, that is changing your mind and changing your heart.
Zechariah 12 says, “And I will pour…(I, God)…will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication.” And He said, “And then the people of Israel, they will look on Me…." This is the prophet Zechariah, Zechariah, speaking about the people of Israel. And he said, “They will look at me whom they pierced.” So the Lord said, “The One that was pierced, that was crucified, they will look at Him and, yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son and grieve for Him as one grieves for his only son.”
Interesting, because Hosea the prophet said, “I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face in their affliction. They will earnestly seek Me.” The more the nation of Israel is going to suffer, the more this religious outfit, the masks, all the traditions and the rabbinical teachings, everything that we are trusting now, that we put our trust in, everything that we kiss and we think that it’s going to help us and save us and protect us, all these things will be proven wrong.
“They will seek My face and in their affliction, in their terrible distress, then they will earnestly seek Me.” Romans 11, when Paul the Apostle wrote to the church in Rome, which consisted of Jews and Gentiles, he said, “I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”
Some, or many, do not know the Messiah, but it’s just temporary until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved.
When there was no nation of Israel for nearly 2000 years, it might be more understandable why some, in spite of the clear declarations of God’s word, may have concluded that they had been cast aside by the Lord. To hold that position today, however, is to deny the obvious.
Zechariah 12:3
And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
Look at our world today and how rapidly it has gathered against Israel in spite of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023. This is just as Zechariah prophesied, and will reach its ultimate fulfillment during the tribulation by clearly following the direction it has begun.
Today there is absolutely no justification for the belief that modern Israel is not Biblical Israel or that the church has replaced Israel. What the Bible said would happen to Israel in the latter days is happening right before our eyes.
Isaiah 54:5-8
“For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth. For the LORD has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a youthful wife when you were refused,” says your God. “For a mere moment I have forsaken you, but with great mercies I will gather you. With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer.
Deuteronomy 30 says that the Lord will scatter His people all over the earth and will one day bring them back into the land that their fathers possessed. There, He will prosper them and multiply them more than their ancestors. We have watched this happening and continue to happen just as the Lord said it would.
Israel is central to last days events. In order for them to happen, there has to be a nation of people in their national homeland, who were once scattered all over the earth, then regathered by God for His name sake and glory. (Ezekiel 36:21-22)
The merciful regathering of God’s chosen people, Israel, is in preparation for the 70th week of Daniel. That week is ended by the second coming of the Holy One of Israel, at which point all Israel will be saved when they look upon the One whom they pierced.
All this tells us that the entirety of God’s word is truth and remains steadfast in the heavens. God has not cast off His people and the King of the Jews is coming again!
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus!