Personal Study And Teaching In Jeremiah – Part 11 – The Coming Day Of Israel's Glorious Restoration Under One Shepherd Series

PERSONAL STUDY AND TEACHING IN JEREMIAH – PART 11 – THE COMING DAY OF ISRAEL'S GLORIOUS RESTORATION UNDER ONE SHEPHERD

PART 11 - Jeremiah 3:14-18

CHAPTER 3

[A]. THE GLORIOUS DAY OF ISRAEL'S RESTORATION – YES IT WILL HAPPEN!

{{Jeremiah 3:14-18 ‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the LORD, ‘for I am a master to you, and I will take you one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.’ THEN I WILL GIVE YOU SHEPHERDS AFTER MY OWN HEART, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding, and it shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the LORD, “they shall say no more, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD,’ and it shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they miss it, nor shall it be made again. At that time THEY SHALL CALL JERUSALEM ‘THE THRONE OF THE LORD,’ and ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE GATHERED TO IT, TO JERUSALEM, FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD. Nor shall they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north TO THE LAND THAT I GAVE YOUR FATHERS AS AN INHERITANCE.”}} ?

Go read Genesis – here it is!! {{Genesis 15:18 “On that day the LORD made A COVENANT WITH ABRAM, saying, “To your DESCENDANTS I HAVE GIVEN THIS LAND FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT AS FAR AS THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES:”}}. Is anyone going to write this off as an allegory or replace God’s promise with one of your imagination? From the Nile to the Euphrates will be Israel's territory in the Millennium. In other words, from the River to the River, not some satanic distortion of “from the River to the Sea.”

Before we proceed with this, I want to make it clear that I hold to the literal truth of scriptures. When God promises something will happen, it will. When God sets out clearly what is going to happen with Israel and the Jews, it will. There is nothing more dishonest in the scriptures than to take the great promises of God and treat them like an allegory and wash them away in some sewer. What God said He will bring about. This applies to Israel absolutely.

Let me ask you people who hold to Covenant Theology and Replacement Theology (a legitimate term – I don’t like supersessionism), here is a prophecy given in Isaiah – {{Isaiah 52:13-13 “Behold, My servant will prosper. He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted. Just as many were astonished at you, My people, so His appearance was marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men.”}} Now apply your allegory to this and say, maybe it is speaking of the Church that undergoes suffering. Is that correct?

Here is another – {{Isaiah 53:10 “The LORD was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief. If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.”}} Apply your Replacement Theology and say this verse means the great persecution of the Church. Maybe it is the time of Titus crushing Jerusalem in AD 70? You pick and choose, eliminating Israel, following the Roman Catholic, allegory approach.

The verses we have here and many more in Jeremiah look forward to the great restoration of Israel that God will bring about when the Church is raptured away and the last week of Daniel’s 70 weeks will be enacted. Don’t pick and choose. The LORD says He will do it, THEN HE WILL DO PERFECTLY. I make no excuses for any of this.

These verses are looking to a glorious future. The theme of God’s forgiveness and restoration now looks down the years, way beyond the current matters that the prophet deals with, with the nation. The writings of the prophets are marvellous, but they do take wisdom and correct division to slot visions and messages (sometimes burdens) and verses into the correct chronological order. Prophet writings can jump all over the place, and in a matter of a few verses, can cover thousands of years. This is so clear, and an example in Joel chapter 2, very clearly demonstrates that point. “Rightly dividing the word of truth” also applies to the writings of the prophets.

Israel will be restored and the Jews converted. They will be the ones who will seek the Messiah who will suddenly come to His Temple, and will come to His own at the battle of Armageddon to deliver His people. Then He gathers all the Jewish saints, and they come from all over the world, and He gathers them gently, all His precious ones, and will settle them in the land. Our verses above clearly teach that!