Should We Move to Israel Now?
How Much Prophecy Was Really Fulfilled in 1948?
Zechariah 10:10 I’ll bring them back from the land of Egypt again, and gather them out of Assyria, and I’ll bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, until there is no more room for them all.
(The KJV translators understood the contextual “again” part.)
Jeremiah 23:7-8 That’s why the time will come,” declares Yehovah, “When people will no longer say ‘As Yehovah lives, who 'sprung' the Israelites from the land of Egypt.’” 8 Instead, they’ll say, ‘As surely as Yehovah lives, who brought about the 'exodus' of the descendants of the family of Israel from the North Country, and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ Then they’ll live in their own land.—Gabriel Bible
The vast majority of Christians believe that the Jews fulfilled many major prophecies in 1948 with the Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel. But this alleged fulfillment of the “dem dry bones” prophecy of Ezekiel 37 is only a tiny foretaste of what is about to happen—after yet another holocaust and yet another enslavement! (Isaiah Chapters 3 & 4; 10; 24; 33; Ezekiel Chapters 5; 8; 9; 11; 14; 15; 16. The coming holocaust and enslavement of all 12 tribes will dwarf what happened to the tribe of Judah under Hitler.
Can you honestly say that the present Jewish State really fulfills any of the prophecies about Israel living in peace and harmony, a nation filled with righteous people? (Isaiah 30:15-27; 52; 54; 60; 62; 65:17-25; 66:8-24; Jeremiah 33; Ezekiel 36; 37; Micah 4; Zephaniah 3; Zechariah 2; 8 and 13)
Most of us are at least vaguely aware that Paul spoke of a time when the dead Believers would live again, and when the living Believers would be turned into spirits. That is very desirable with all of us, even if it contradicts the “going off to Heaven” as soon as we die theory:
1 Corinthians 15:50-55 Friends, I tell you that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of the Heavens, nor can the perishable inherit perpetuity. 51 See, I’ll explain a mystery to you, we won’t all die, but we’ll all be transformed! 52 In the smallest possible fraction of a second [Gr. atomos], while the last [seventh] shofar is sounding, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed! 53 This perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality. 54 So when this perishable is clothed with the imperishable, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, THAT IS WHEN the written Word will be accomplished: “Death is devoured in victory. 55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?”
That is the destiny of the truly righteous. They will become the kings and priests who will rule Israel and soon after, all nations on earth. (Revelation 5:10)
But what is this talk about Believers going off to Israel all about? Is that better than “going off to Heaven”?
Many people, particularly the people loosely called Messianics believe that the Second Exodus of Israelites should be initiated now or in the near future by their own efforts. Their claim is that the Israelites who are descended from all 12 tribes (not just the Jews) will be a righteous Bible believing people who know their Elohim (God). Indeed some have actually moved to Israel already. The following Biblical quotations will demonstrate conclusively that the Israelites who return will be totally oblivious to the Elohim of the Bible! They will come directly out of the Great Tribulation and only begin to learn who Elohim is when they are about to depart to Israel! “THEN they’ll know that I am Yehovah (Jehovah) their Elohim (God), since I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land...” (Ezekiel 30:28). (The majority of these Scriptures are found below.) There will not be a “saved” person among them in a spiritual sense, no, but a few million will be saved from death! Not one of them will have the kadosh (holy) spirit residing in them. They will not have committed themselves to Yehovah until they actually get to the wilderness border of Israel (Ezekiel 20:30-35) where the survivors of the Great Tribulation will be sifted again (Ezekiel 20:37-38) before gaining entry into the Country. Right up until this time they will be worshiping false gods. Yehovah will literally have to remove her from her baals (Hosea 2:14) and allure her back to Himself: “She’ll respond THERE as in the days of her youth, like when she came out of the land of Egypt” (v.15). Prior to going there, these Israelites must literally be taken into foreign nations as slaves (Jeremiah 30:3,10). They must witness the near extermination of their compatriots (Isaiah 11:16). When Israel arrives in the land they will not come on boats or airplanes, they will be returned to the land of Israel with the fearful aid of the survivors of their enemies “on horses, and on chariots, and on litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries” (Isaiah 66:20) following enough war to have taken us back to the (mythical) stone age. No one from this group will arrive on a cloud (1st Thessalonians 4:14-17).
The crux of the matter is simply this: Are the physical descendants of Israel going to literally fulfill all of the chapters of prophecies that detail this happening, or should we assume that “the church” is to figuratively fulfill them all. Are these hundreds of verses of prophecy essentially toothless? Will you succumb to Replacement Theology?
The book of Revelation was written in the very late 90’s AD—decades after the Temple was destroyed and a great holocaust had taken place. The various genres of interpretation of the book are explained here. But frankly speaking, only the “Futurist” viewpoint—that everything from chapter 4 on is yet to take place, could help save you from prenmature or even eternal death. So where John says in:
Revelation 11:2-3 But don’t measure the courtyard outside of the Temple. Leave it out, because it has been given to the heathens, and they’ll trample the kadish city [Jerusalem] underfoot for forty-two months. 3 Then I’ll commission My Two Witnesses. They’ll prophesy for 1,260 days, wearing sackcloth.
You simply don’t want to be there when that happens! Even the Two Witnesses don’t survive this time (verse 7). Jerusalem will be the focal point of the Great Tribulation!
When Yeshua’s (Jesus’) desciples asked Him about the end of the age, He didn’t say go occupy Judea—He said to flee Judea!
Matthew 24:3, 15-22 When you see the sign of the detestible desolation mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the kadish Place [the coming third Temple]—the reader must understand— 16 then those of you who are in Judea should escape to the mountain/s! 17 No one on the roof should come down to get anything out of their houses, 18 and no one in the fields should return to get their clothing. 19 But I pity pregnant and nursing mothers in those days. 20 Pray that your flight won’t be during foul weather or on the Sabbath. 21 There will be Great Tribulation then, such as has never occurred from the beginning of the world until now, and will by no means ever happen again. 22 If it weren’t for those days being terminated, no one would survive. But for the sake of the select those days will be terminated.
According to the prophecies, few Israelites will survive the wars, famines and disease epidemics (Ezekiel 6:11) predicted until Yeshua personally intervenes and turns the survivors living in Jerusalem into super warriors—a warrior bride (Zechariah 12:8-10). Only after all of this will this bride begin to understand and mourn her part in Yeshua’s death (v.10-13). After this battle these Israelites will rebuild the cities that have been destroyed (Isaiah 61:4) and greatly repopulate (Jeremiah 31:27) the Middle East and beyond. They will have been spiritual widows (Isaiah 54:4), but now there will be many literal widows (Isaiah 4:1). Once educated themselves tho, they will come under an everlasting covenant (Isaiah 61:8), and they will become priests (Isaiah 61:6; Ezekiel 47:11) in Israel. (Spirit born priests will also be there (Isaiah 30:21). The identity of the “lost” tribes will be known to everyone (Isaiah 61:9). Israel will be like a bride adorned for her husband (Isaiah 61:10). The bride, Israel, will be married to the now Kadosh Land (Isaiah 62:4-5). While Israel is still actively involved in spiritual prostitution, that is still “treacherous”, “unfaithful” and “apostate”, she will get a wedding invitation from Elohim (Jeremiah 3:14)! Yehovah will heal (Jeremiah 30:17) the wounds that He had just inflicted on Israel (Jeremiah 30:14).
These Israelites will not be expecting any of this, they want no part of it! (Isaiah 65:1). They are a rebellious (v.2) heathen (v.3) people who ultimately push Elohim too far (v.6). He will end up exterminating most of Israel (v.8), but save some of the better people (as in Jeremiah 24) of the lost tribes and of the Jews for seed stock (v.9). In fact, why not read the whole chapter! Caution: Don’t listen to anyone who inserts an imaginary millennium between Isaiah 65 verses 16 and 17. Save the millennium for Revelation 20.
Most Christians heavily spiritualize these entire chapters away with a candy coating that in effect tells them that these chapters are about them coming out of a bad spiritual situation and ending up in a good spiritual situation. Make no mistake—the people who make the final cut, and end up living in Israel will be “good people”, they aren’t being condemned here for dishonoring their parents, murder, stealing, bearing false testimony against their neighbors, coveting or even physical adultery—all things a good conscience can prevent. Most of these people are even religious. They celebrate all kinds of counterfeit religious days—THEIR days, not His! (Hosea 2:11) The reason for the captivity of Israel is that it will take something this horrific to awaken the physical descendants of all twelve tribes of Israel out of spiritual prostitution and return them to their Hebrew roots! The person who dies with the most toys does not win.
Much of this information and the Scriptures referenced here are found in Who Is The Messiah’s Bride? The Scriptures given here were simply repackaged to directly call into question the mistake that some of my friends made when they tried to force Ezekiel 37’s two sticks together (16-28). Is David King yet (v.24)? Has “an everlasting covenant” been offered yet (v.26)? Has Yehovah’s Kadosh Place (New Jerusalem) arrived yet? (v.27) Does the government of Israel want you there (Isaiah 22:21-22)? Has Judah thrown out the welcome mat for Ephraim (Isaiah 11:12-13)?
There are entire chapters detailing the Second Exodus; about the Day of Vengeance and “the Year of His Redemption” that Isaiah yearned for (63:4). These chapters will be quite easily understood by the people who actually live thru these events. All they will have to do then is simply read them! Hindsight is so clear. I invite you to read them yourself and see what it literally says without any sugar coating:
No amount of commentary could be planer that the unvarnished prophecies themselves. Here is an entire chapter that describes the spiritual condition of the Messiah’s bride (the bride of Christ) immediately prior to when she enters the land of Israel:
Hosea 2, All Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ 2 Contend with your mother! Contend, because she isn’t My wife, nor am I her husband. She should remove the prostitute’s makeup from her face, and stop soliciting adultery with the cleavage of her breasts, 3 or I’ll strip her naked, and make her as bare as the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. 4 Indeed, on her children I’ll have no mercy, because they are children of unfaithfulness, 5 Their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully, because she said, “I’ll go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ 6 So look, I’ll hedge up your way with thorns, and I’ll build a wall against her, so that she can’t find her way. 7 She’ll chase her lovers, but she won’t catch them, and she’ll look for them but not find them. Then she’ll say, ‘I’ll go and return to my first man, because it was better for me then than now.’ 8 She didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, that they used for Baal! 9 So I’ll take back My grain in its time, and My new wine in its season, and pluck away My wool and My linen that should have covered her nakedness. 10 Now I’ll uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hand. 11 I’ll put an end to HER celebrations, HER Pilgrimage Feasts [Chag], HER new moons, HER Sabbaths, and all HER appointed Festivals [Moedim]. 12 I’ll lay waste her vines and her fig trees, that she claimed, “These are the wages that my lovers have given me”, and I’ll make them a forest, and the wild animals will eat them. 13 I’ll come and punish her for the times when she burned incense to the Baals, when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and chased her lovers, and forgot Me”, declares Yehovah. 14 But I’m going to allure her back. I’ll bring her into the wilderness [Ezekiel 20:35], and speak tenderly to her there. 15 I’ll give her back her vineyards beginning there, and the valley of Achor [trouble] as a doorway of hope. She’ll respond there, as in the days of her youth, like when she came out of the land of Egypt. 16 Yehovah says: When that day comes, you’ll call Me Husband [Ishi] and you’ll never again call Me ‘Lord’ [Baali]. 17 I’ll remove the names of the Baals from your mouths, and you will never mention them again. 18 At that time I’ll make a covenant with all the wild animals of the plains, and the birds of the sky, and the animals that move around on the ground. I’ll abolish bows and swords, and warfare from the earth, so that everyone can rest peacefully. 19 I’ll be betrothed [engaged] to you for a very long time [3]. Yes, you’ll be betrothed to Me in righteousness and in justice, in unfailing love and compassion. 20 I’ll be faithful to you, and you’ll finally know Yehovah intimately. 21 On that day, I’ll respond”, declares Yehovah, “I’ll respond to the heavens, and they’ll respond to the earth, 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and they’ll respond to what happened in Jezreel [‘Armageddon’]. 23 I’ll sow her to Me in the earth, and I’ll have mercy on her who hadn’t obtained mercy, and I’ll tell those who were not My people: ‘You are My people,’ and they’ll say: ‘My Elohim’!
[3] Instead of “a very long time” virtually every translation says “forever”, but a betrothal never lasts forever. Either 1) a marriage follows or 2) a divorce takes place (their ‘engagement periods’ were legally binding, only broken by a legal divorce) or 3) one of the individuals dies. The marriage of the Lamb, following “a very long time” of ‘engagement’ (millennia), is soon to take place. But who is the Bride?
Ezekiel 20:31-44 When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass thru the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols today? And will I be inquired of by you, family of Israel? As I live, says the Sovereign Yehovah, I won’t be inquired of by you, 32 and what comes into your mind won’t be at all, in that you say, “We will be as the nations, as the clans of the countries, serving wood and stone. 33 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Yehovah, I will rule you with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I will be your King. 34 I’ll bring you out of the nations and gather you out of the countries where you were scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. 35 I’ll bring you into the wilderness of the people, and I’ll judge you there face to face, 36 just like when I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, that’s how I’ll judge you, says the Sovereign Yehovah. 37 I’ll make you pass under the rod [examine you], and I’ll bind you to the terms of the [New] Covenant, 38 and I’ll purge out the rebels from among you, and those who disobey Me. I’ll bring them out of the land where they were living, but they won’t enter the land of Israel. Then you’ll know that I am Yehovah. 39 “As for you, family of Israel”, ‘The Sovereign Yehovah says, “Go, serve your idols, now and in the future, if you won’t obey Me, but at least don’t profane My kadosh name any more with your gifts and your idols. 40 ‘In My kadosh mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel’, says the Sovereign Yehovah, “There the entire family of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. I will accept them there, and I will require your offerings there, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your kadosh things. 41 Like a pleasant aroma I’ll accept you, when I gather you out of the nations, and bring you out of the countries where you’ve been scattered, and I’ll prove Myself kadosh thru you in the sight of the nations. 42 You’ll know that I am Yehovah, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country that I swore to give to your ancestors. 43 There you’ll remember your ways, and everything you did, and how you polluted yourselves, and you’ll loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil you’ve committed. 44 You’ll know that I am Yehovah, when I’ve dealt with you for My name’s sake, not based on your evil ways, or your corrupt behavior, family of Israel, says the Sovereign Yehovah.’
Isaiah 4:1 Seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing, just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach. 2 On that day, Yehovah’s branch will be beautiful and splendid, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and splendor of the survivors of Israel. Then anyone who is left in Zion, and anyone who remains in Jerusalem, will be called kadosh, everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem, 3 Then anyone left alive in Zion, anyone who is left behind in Jerusalem will be called kadosh, everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem, 4 when Yehovah has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and rinsed the blood stains from Jerusalem, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. 5 Yehovah will create ABOVE the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and ABOVE her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, because ABOVE all the splendor will be a place of shelter. 6 There will be a sukkah [tabernacle] for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and a chuppah [wedding shelter] [1] from storms and rain.
Isaiah 54:1-10 Sing, barren, you who didn’t bear, break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child, because the desolate will have more children than the children of the married woman”, declares Yehovah. 2 Enlarge the place for your tent, allow them to stretch out the curtains of your habitations, don’t hold back, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. 3 You’ll spread aboard toward the right and toward the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities. 4 Don’t be afraid, because you won’t be ashamed or humiliated and you won’t be disgraced, because you’ll forget the shame of your youth. You won’t remember the stigmatism of widowhood. 5 Your Makers are your HUSBANDS [yes, both are plural search wordmakers], Yehovah the ‘Warrior’ King is His name, and the Kadosh One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the Elohim of the entire earth. 6 Yehovah has called you like a deserted wife tormented by grief, like a wife rejected early in life”, says your Elohim. 7 For a brief moment I let you alone, but with infinite compassion I’ll bring you back. 8 In a spurt of anger I hid My face from you momentarily, but with eternal love I’ll have compassion on you”, says Yehovah your Redeemer. 9 This is like the floodwater of Noah to Me, because as I’ve sworn that the floodwater of Noah will no longer go over the earth, so have I sworn that I won’t be angry with you, or reprimand you. 10 The mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but My loving kindness won’t depart from you, nor will My covenant of peace be removed”, declares Yehovah who has mercy on you.
Isaiah 61:1-11 The spirit of the Sovereign Yehovah is on me, because Yehovah has anointed me to preach the Good News to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the grief stricken, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound, 2 to proclaim the favorable year of Yehovah, and the time of vengeance of our Elohim [Yeshua stopped quoting here.], and to comfort everyone who mourns [due to the end time holocaust], 3 To provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them hats instead of ashes on their heads, the oil of joy instead of mourning, clothing of praise instead of a spirit of weakness, so that they can be called terebinth trees of righteousness, a cluster planted by Yehovah, so that they can display His splendor. 4 They’ll rebuild places desolate since antiquity, they’ll rebuild the ancestral places and places now wasted and deserted, and they’ll restore cities parched from heat, and places deserted for many generations. 5 Foreigners will stand and tend your flocks, and foreigners will till your ground and dress your vines. 6 And you’ll be called the priests of Yehovah, people will call you the ministers of our Elohim. You’ll savor the wealth of the nations, and you yourselves will enter into their splendor. 7 Your shame will be replaced with a double inheritance, and instead of humiliation you’ll shout for joy over your territory. So in your land you’ll own twice as much as the other nations. You’ll have everlasting joy. 8 Because I, Yehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with wickedness, and I’ll certainly give you your compensation, and I’ll make an everlasting covenant [i.e. The New Covenant] with you. 9 Your descendants will be revealed [1] among the nations, and their descendants among the people. Everyone who sees them will acknowledge that they are the descendants who Yehovah has blessed” [Today, Israel is considered scum by the nations]. 10 I’ll greatly celebrate in Yehovah, my life will be joyful in my Elohim, because He has clothed me with the clothing of deliverance, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, like a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11 Like the earth pushing up sprouts, and like a garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Sovereign Yehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring up in front of all nations.
Isaiah 62:1-5 For Zion’s sake I won’t hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I won’t rest, until her righteousness goes out in brilliance, and her deliverance like a lamp that burns. 2 The nations will see your righteousness, and every king your splendor, and you’ll be called by a new name that Yehovah will specify. 3 You’ll also be a crown of splendor in Yehovah’s hand, and a royal diadem in Elohim’s hand. 4 You’ll no longer be called Forsaken, nor will your land be called Desolate any more, but you’ll be called ‘Hephzibah’ [Literally “My delight is in her”], and your land ‘Beulah’ [Literally, to marry], because Yehovah will delight in you, and your land will be married. 5 Just like when a young man marries a virgin, your sons will marry you [the land of Israel], and like a bridegroom celebrates over his bride, that is how your Elohim will celebrate over you.
Jeremiah 3: They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, he will return to her again? Won’t that land be greatly polluted? But you’ve played the prostitute with many lovers, yet return again to me, declares Yehovah. 2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness, and you’ve polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness. 3 So the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain, yet you have a prostitute’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed. 4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth? 5 will he retain his anger forever? He will keep it to the end? Look, you’ve spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way. 6 Yehovah told me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there. 7 I said after she had done all these things, ‘She’ll return to Me’, but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn’t fear, but she also went and played the prostitute. 9 Then thru the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks. 10 Even after all this, her treacherous sister Judah only pretends to have returned to Me, not with actual determination, declares Yehovah.” 11 Yehovah told me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say ‘Come back, unfaithful Israel’, declares Yehovah, ‘I won’t look on you in anger, because I’m the ‘Kadosh One’, declares Yehovah, I won’t stay angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge your sins, that you’ve transgressed against Yehovah your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you haven’t obeyed My voice, declares Yehovah. 14 Come back, you apostate people’, declares Yehovah because I’m to be married to you. I’ll take one of you from this city, and two from that family, and I’ll bring you to Zion. 15 I’ll give you shepherds who understand Me, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 Then, when you are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares Yehovah, they’ll no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of Yehovah, nor will it come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made any more. 17 At that time they’ll call Jerusalem the throne of Yehovah, and all of the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Yehovah, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil minds. 18 In those days the tribe of Judah will accompany the family of Israel, and you’ll come together out of the Land of the North, to the land that I gave as an inheritance to your ancestors. 19 I said I would bring the descendants together, and give you a pleasant land, the most desirable inheritance of any nation! And I said, you’ll call Me ‘My Father’, and won’t turn away from following Me. 20 Surely like when a treacherous wife leaves her ‘husband’, that’s how you’ve been unfaithful with Me, family of Israel”, declares Yehovah. 21 A voice is heard on the barren heights, the crying and the pleading of the Israelites, because they have perverted of their ways, they’ve forgotten Yehovah their Elohim. 22 Return, you apostate sons, and I’ll heal your apostasy.” “We’re coming to You, because You are Yehovah our Elohim!” 23 Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, truly in Yehovah our Elohim is the deliverance of Israel. 24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us, because we have sinned against Yehovah our Elohim, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to today, and we have not obeyed the voice of Yehovah our Elohim.
Jeremiah 23: 1-8 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture! declares Yehovah. 2 So this is what Yehovah says, the Elohim of Israel, against the shepherds who feed My people, “You’ve scattered My flock, and driven them away, and haven’t visited them, look, I’ll visit on you the evil of your doings”, declares Yehovah. 3 I’ll gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I’ve driven them, and bring them back to their folds, and they’ll be fruitful and multiply. 4 I’ll set up shepherds over them, who will feed them, and they’ll fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor will any be lacking, declares Yehovah. 5 The days are coming, declares Yehovah, when I’ll raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will be a King who rules wisely, and do what is fair and right thruout the land! 6 In his lifetime, Judah will be delivered, and Israel will live in safely. This is the name that He will be given, ‘Yehovah Our Righteousness!’ 7 That’s why the time will come,” declares Yehovah, “When people will no longer say ‘As Yehovah lives, who 'sprung' the Israelites from the land of Egypt.’” 8 Instead, they’ll say, ‘As surely as Yehovah lives, who brought about the 'exodus' of the descendants of the family of Israel from the North Country, and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ Then they’ll live in their own land.
Only after reading all of the fine print of Jeremiah 30 and 31 will a person notice that the New covenant isn’t given to today's Believers, its given to tomorrows Israelite and Jewish unbelievers so that they can repent! (Jeremiah 31:31-33)
Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yehovah: 2 “Thus speaks Yehovah, the Elohim of Israel, “Write all the words that I’ve spoken to you in a book. 3 The time is coming, declares Yehovah, when I’ll bring My people Israel and Judah back from captivity, declares Yehovah, and I’ll cause them to return to the land that I gave to their ancestors, and they’ll possess it. 4 These are the words that Yehovah spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 This is what Yehovah says, “We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. 6 Ask now, and see whether a man experiences the labor pains of childbirth, why do I see every man with his hands on his waist like a woman in labor, and all faces are turned into paleness? 7 That day will be terrible! There will never be another like it. It’s the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he’ll be saved [liberated] out of it. 8 At that time, declares Yehovah the ‘Warrior’ King, I’ll break the yoke from your neck, and snap your chains. Foreigners will no longer enslave you. 9 You’ll serve Yehovah your Elohim, and David your king, who I’ll raise for you. 10 So don’t be afraid, O Jacob, My servant, declares Yehovah, or be dismayed, Israel, because I’ll save you from a distance, and your descendants from the land of their captivity, and Jacob will return, and be quiet and at ease, and no one will frighten him. 11 I am with you to save you, declares Yehovah. I’ll completely destroy all the nations where I’ve scattered you, but I won’t completely destroy you. I’ll discipline you in just measure, but I can’t let you go unpunished. 12 This is what Yehovah says, “Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous. 13 There is no one to plead your cause, so that you can be bound up, you don’t have any healing medicines. 14 All your lovers have forgotten you, they aren’t looking for you because I’ve wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, due to your great wickedness, because your sins were increased. 15 Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable, because of the greatness of your wickedness, because your sins were increased, I’ve done these things to you. 16 So everyone who devours you will be devoured, and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity, and those who despoil you’ll be spoiled, and I will have everyone who preys on you to become prey. 17 Because I’ll restore you to health, and I’ll heal you of your wounds, declares Yehovah, because they’ve called you an outcast, “It’s Zion, who no man seeks after. 18 This is what Yehovah says, “I’m going to bring the captives back to Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwellings. The city will be rebuilt on its ruins, and the citadel will stand where it used to be! 19 Out of them will proceed thanksgiving and the jubilant sounds of those who make merry, and I’ll multiply them, and they won’t be few, I’ll also praise them, and they won’t be small. 20 Their children will be as before, and their assembly will be established before Me, and I’ll punish anyone who oppressed them. 21 Their leader will be of themselves, and their ruler will proceed from among them, and I’ll cause him to come near, and he’ll approach Me. Who has had boldness to approach Me? Declares Yehovah. 22 You’ll be My people, and I’ll be your Elohim. 23 Yehovah’s wrath will come like a tornado, it will swirl down on the heads of the wicked! 24 The fierce anger of Yehovah won’t return until He has executed, and until He has done what He has mind. At the end of the ‘age’ you’ll understand it.
Jeremiah 31:1 At that time, declares Yehovah, “I’ll be the Elohim of all the clans of Israel, and they’ll be My people. 2 This is what Yehovah says, “The people who survived the sword were blessed in the wilderness when I proceeded to give Israel rest. 3 Yehovah appeared to us long ago and said, “I’ve loved you with an everlasting love, so with loving kindness I have lead [or attracted] you out. 4 I’ll rebuild you, and you’ll be rebuilt, O virgin Israel, once again you’ll wear timbrels as you dance with others who are jubilant. 5 You’ll replant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria, those who plant them will enjoy the fruit. 6 There will be a day when the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim will cry, “Get up, and let’s go up to Zion to Yehovah our Elohim.’ 7 This is what Yehovah says, “Sing joyfully for Jacob, and shout among the major nations, shout praises and say, “Yehovah, save Your people, the survivors of Israel.’ 8 I’ll bring them from the North Country, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, pregnant women and those in labor together, a huge assembly will return here! 9 They’ll come with tears of joy, praying as I bring them back. I’ll lead them beside streams of water in a straight path so they won’t stumble, because I’m a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn. 10 Hear the Words of Yehovah, you nations, and announce it in the islands far away, “The One who scattered Israel will regather him, and protect him like a shepherd does his flock. 11 Yehovah has paid the ransom of Jacob, and reclaimed him from from those too strong for them. 12 They’ll come and shout for joy in the elevated place [or height] of Zion, they’ll be beaming over the goodness of Yehovah” over the grain, the new wine, the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd. Their life will be like a well watered garden, and they won’t ever be sorrowful again. 13 Then the virgins will celebrate in the dance, along with young men and the old. I’ll turn their mourning into rejoicing, and comfort them and exchange their sorrow with happiness. 14 I’ll satiate the life of the priests with fatness, and My people will be satisfied with My goodness, declares Yehovah. 15 This is what Yehovah said, “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. 16 This is what Yehovah said, “Refrain your voice from crying, and your eyes from tears, because your work will be rewarded”, declares Yehovah and they’ll return from the land of the enemy.’ 17 There is hope for your latter end’, declares Yehovah and your children will return to their own territory. 18 I’ve surely heard Ephraim moaning to himself, “You’ve chastised me, and I was chastised, like a calf unaccustomed to the yoke, turn me, and I’ll be turned, because you are Yehovah my Elohim. 19 After I strayed, I changed the way I thought and acted [repented], and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh. I was ashamed and humiliated because I carried the shame of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a darling child? Because as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him, so My mind yearns for him. I’ll surely have mercy on him, declares Yehovah. 21 Set up road signs, establish guideposts, set your thoughts toward the highway, the same direction that you left from, return, virgin of Israel, return to your cities. 22 How long will you go from here and there, you backsliding daughter? Yehovah has created a new thing in the earth, a woman will encompass a man.” 23 This is what Yehovah the ‘Warrior’ King, the Elohim of Israel, says: “Once again they will use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, after I return them from captivity, ‘Yehovah bless you, home of righteousness, kadosh mountain.’ 24 Judah and all its cities will live there together, the farmers, and the traveling shepherds. 25 Because I’ve satiated the weary life, and every sorrowful life have I replenished. 26 On this I awakened, and saw, and my sleep was sweet to me. 27 In days to come, declares Yehovah, “I’ll repopulate [sow] the family of Israel and the family of Judah with ‘descendants’, and with animals. 28 Then, just like I watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, declares Yehovah. 29 In those days they’ll no longer say, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” 30 But everyone will die for his own wickedness, every man who eats the sour grapes, will have his teeth set on edge. 31 The time is coming, declares Yehovah, when I’ll make a New marriage Covenant with the family of Israel, and with the family of Judah, 32 Unlike the marriage Covenant that I made with their ancestors during the time when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt, since they broke My Covenant, tho I was their Husband, declares Yehovah. 33 In this marriage Covenant that I’ll make with the family of Israel after those days, declares Yehovah, “I’ll put My Torah in the very seat of their thoughts and emotions, and I’ll write it into their minds. I’ll be their Elohim, and they’ll be My people. 34 People will no longer teach their neighbors or their relatives, by asking, “Do you know Yehovah (the “Lord”)”, because they’ll all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares Yehovah. “I’ll forgive their wickedness, and I’ll never again remember their sins.” 35 Yehovah says that He provides the sun to light the day and decreed the moon and stars to light the night, and He instantaneously calms [U] the raging waves of the sea—Yehovah the ‘Warrior’ King is His name, 36 If these enactments ever fail in My presence, declares Yehovah, then the Israelites will also cease from being a nation in My presence forever. 37 This is what Yehovah said, “If the heavens above can ever be measured, and the foundation of the earth beneath is ever found, then I’ll also reject all the Israelites because of what they’ve done, declares Yehovah. 38 Look, the time is coming, declares Yehovah, when the city will be rebuilt for Yehovah, from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. 39 The measuring line will be stretched straight out to the hill Gareb, and then it will turn toward Goah. 40 The whole valley that was covered with dead bodies and their ashes, and all of the fields over to the Kidron brook, and over to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be kadosh to Yehovah, it won’t ever be uprooted, or torn down again.
Hosea 1:1 The Word of Yehovah came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 When Yehovah first spoke thru Hosea, Yehovah told him, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness, because the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yehovah. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived, and carried him a son. 4 Yehovah told him, “Call his name Jezreel, because in a little while I’ll avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and put an end to the family of Israel’s kingdom. 5 During that time I’ll break the bow [military] of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 6 She conceived again, and had a daughter. Then He told him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, because I’ll no longer have mercy on the family of Israel, I won’t in any way pardon them. 7 But I’ll have mercy on the tribe of Judah, and deliver them by Yehovah their Elohim. I won’t deliver them using bows and swords, or in battle with horses, or horsemen. 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and had a son. 9 He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi, because you aren’t My people, and I won’t be yours. 10 Yet the number of the descendants of Israel will be like the sand of the seashore that can’t be measured or numbered, and then, in the place where they were told, “You are not My people’, they’ll be called ‘sons of the living Elohim.’ 11 The descendants of Judah and the Israelites will be reunited, and they’ll appoint a leader for themselves, and go up from the land, because the Day of Jezreel will be profound. [Jezreel is essentially the valley of Armageddon.]
Hosea 2:1 Say to your brothers, “My people!” and to your sisters, “My loved one!” 2 Contend with your mother! Contend, because she isn’t My wife, nor am I her husband, and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts, 3 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. 4 Indeed, on her children I’ll have no mercy, because they are children of unfaithfulness, 5 Their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully, because she said, “I’ll go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ 6 So look, I’ll hedge up your way with thorns, and I’ll build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way. 7 She’ll follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them, and she’ll seek them, but won’t find them. Then she’ll say, “I’ll go and return to my first husband, because it was better for me then than now.” 8 She didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, that they used for Baal. 9 So I’ll take back My grain in its time, and My new wine in its season, and pluck away My wool and My flax that should have covered her nakedness. 10 Now I’ll uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hand. 11 I will bring an end to HER celebrations, HER Pilgrimage Feasts [Chag], HER new moons, HER Sabbaths, and all HER Festival Assemblies [Moedim]. 12 I’ll lay waste her vines and her fig trees, that she claimed, “These are my wages that my lovers have given me, and I’ll make them a forest’, and the wild animals will eat them. 13 I’ll come and punish her for the times when she burned incense to the Baals, when she adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and chased her lovers, and forgot Me”, declares Yehovah. 14 But I’m going to allure her back. I’ll bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her there. 15 I’ll give her back her vineyards beginning there, and the valley of Achor [trouble] as a doorway of hope. She’ll respond there, as in the days of her youth, like when she came out of the land of Egypt. 16 Yehovah says, “When that day comes, you’ll call Me Husband [Ishi] and you’ll never again call Me ‘Lord’ [Baali]. 17 I’ll remove the names of the Baals from your mouths, and you will never mention them again. 18 At that time I’ll make a covenant with all the wild animals of the plains, and the birds of the sky, and the animals that move about on the ground. I’ll abolish bows and swords, and warfare from the earth, so that everyone can rest peacefully. 19 I’ll make you My wife forever. Yes, we’ll be married in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 I’ll be faithful to you, and you’ll finally know Yehovah. 21 On that day, I’ll respond”, declares Yehovah, “I’ll respond to the heavens, and they’ll respond to the earth [needed rain], 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and they’ll respond to Jezreel. 23 I’ll sow her to Me in the earth, and I’ll have mercy on her who hadn’t obtained mercy, and I’ll tell those who were not My people: ‘You are My people,’ and they’ll say: ‘My Elohim’!
Hosea 3 Yehovah told me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, an adulteress, even as Yehovah loves the descendants of Israel, tho they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins. 2 So I bought her for Myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 3 I told her, “You will stay with me many days. You won’t play the prostitute, and you won’t be with any other man. I’ll also be so toward you. 4 The descendants of Israel will go many days without a king, and without a prince, and without an atoning offering, and without an obelisk[?], and without ephod or idols. 5 Afterward the descendants of Israel will return, and seek Yehovah their Elohim, and David their king, and come trembling to Yehovah and to His blessings at the end of the ‘age’.
Even in the quixotic account of the Bride, the groom leaves her just long enough for her to be striped and beaten, because she couldn’t bother to open the door in time when he came calling!
Song of Songs 5:2-8 The Shulamite 2 I was sleeping, but I was beginning to awaken. It’s the voice of my beloved who knocks, “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled, because my head is covered with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night. 3 She replied I’ve taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on again? I’ve washed my feet, must I soil them? 4 My beloved put his hand on the door opening. My heart was throbbing for him. 5 I got up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. 6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had left, and had gone away. My thoughts went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer. 7 The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The watchmen of the walls took my robe away from me. 8 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, then you must tell him that I’m faint with love.
If you move to Israel it will likely cost you your life! The following article from the “true church” is quite good, except for the true church part. I am well acquainted with these people and apply my Disclaimer to the site in general, but nevertheless, their article should help dissuade anyone from making a lethal move.
