God Hides a Thing. We Must Find it. No. 3--Israel Will be Redeemed!

 A “given” with regard to Jehovah God’s plan for the earth:  At a point yet future there must be a sufficiently large number of Jews (perhaps a majority) in Jerusalem who have embraced Yeshua Hamashiah (Jesus, the Messiah) who will cry out:  “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Matthew 23:39).  This cry will precipitate the most stupendous event in all human history:  the 2^nd Coming of Yeshua Hamashiah.

In a previous installment I’ve spoken of Satan’s attempt to thwart this process by physically eliminating Jews from the time of Yeshua Hamashiah’s first coming, which was to judge sin and disarm principalities (see Colossians 2:15), to the present.  This phase of Satan’s stratagem has failed, Jews are in the Land of Israel and continue to return from every corner of the earth.

With Jews now back in the land and continuing to fill it, they must be in a position to cry out “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”.  The other half of Satan’s plan to thwart the return of Yeshua Hamashiah, is to set enmity between Jew and Gentile (Christians), to keep Jews from a personal relationship with Yeshua Hamashiah.

Until about twenty years ago Satan admirably succeeded in this process, setting Jews and Christians at odds almost from the time of Messiah’s first coming to the present.  This was ironic because Jehovah God ordained Christians should be the primary instrument bringing Jews to a knowledge of Yeshua Hamashiah.  First, Christians would bring Jews to Yeshua Hamashiah by provoking them to jealousy (Romans 10:19)—i.e., by the anointing (Holy Spirit power) upon Christians and Jehovah’s love flowing from them.  Secondly, by preaching,“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?  And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?  And how shall they hear without a preacher?  And how shall they preach unless they are sent?  As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace.  Who bring glad tidings of good things!’” (Romans 10:14,15).

Today, in every place where there are large concentrations of Jews they are embracing Yeshua Hamashiah in rapidly increasing numbers, at the same time maintaining their Jewishness.  Jonathan Bernis in his book, A Rabbi Looks at the Last Days, says, “Since 1967 (the “Six-Day War”), there are more Jews who believe in Jesus than at any time since the first century” (p. 82).  He further speaks of a little known fact that accompanying “The Jesus Movement” and the “Charismatic Renewal”, both evidences of revival in the church, principally following the Six-Day War, “thousands of Jewish youth who were searching for greater meaning and purpose in their lives began to embrace Jesus and were saved” (p. 136).  This principally led to the “Messianic Movement” out of which has grown about 350 Messianic Jewish Congregations world-wide. Since 1993, Rabbi Bernis himself has led numerous crusades in Russia with Jews embracing Yeshua Hamashiah by the tens of thousands, this also is a little known fact.

Satan’s second stratagem is breaking down, both Messianic Jews and Christians are stepping up evangelistic efforts with a goal of reaching every Jewish community on the globe.  All this infuriates Satan and his efforts against the Jew will intensify, but to no avail.  One day the Jewish Community in Israel will say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”  And then. . . He Comes!