Introduction
A time is coming in the near future when Israel will be abandoned by all nations and attacked by the armies of those nations. Before this happens the Jews will be living in security and will have a peace agreement with the Gentile and Islamic nations. Israel will be prosperous economically; tourism will be at the zenith of its popularity.
All of the Israelis in Jerusalem and in Israel will be living in a land recovered from war, many Jewish people in the Gentile nations will have made Aliyah and living in a supposed safety. Israel will be a land of un-walled villages, a peaceful and unsuspecting people, all of them living without walls and without gates and bars (Ezekiel 38:1-12).
The conditions mentioned do not describe Israel at present. It is a land at war! The people are not living in safety and security. As For the majority of the Jewish people, apart from those in Israel who have been born again through repentance and faith in the Messiah our Lord Jesus, both the unsaved secular and the religious orthodox Jews are still strangers and aliens to their own covenants of promise, rejecting the Messiah, the only one who can save them from their sins and from the hands of all who hate them! See (Matthew 1:21) (Luke 1:68-75).
The attack will be sudden and without any warning and Israel will be facing annihilation. Saudi Arabia and some of the sea traders from western nations that are not warriors but seafarers will be observers only and not join the invasion force (Ezekiel 38:13).
God will intervene with the Second Coming of His Son the Messiah our Lord Jesus to save Israel and destroy the armies of the nations gathered against the city of Jerusalem and the surrounding country side. These armies will all be destroyed on the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 38:14-23; 39:1-8, 17-21). After this the Messianic Age will commence including the building of the Millennial Temple (Ezekiel 39:9-16:22-29; Chapters 40-48).
In this chapter of Jeremiah the prophet foresees that time at the end of this present age when the people Israel will be threatened with such destruction that it will cause the whole nation to cry out in anguish because they will not have the power to stop the impending catastrophe and dire situation confronting them as a nation.
Their sense of peace and security they have due to their reliance upon their own prowess and business expertise and success in commerce with other nations will vanish, and they will have no other choice but to turn back to God and to the Messiah our Lord Jesus.
God will use this terrifying confronting situation Jeremiah describes to strip the leaders and the people of Israel of all self-confidence and pride, and only then, in their extremity, will they turn again to look only to the God of their forefathers of faith Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and to embrace the Messiah when He comes in great power and splendour to stand once again on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 12:10-13:1; 14:1-5). We are not specifically told what this dire threat will be. However, it will be something that Israel cannot handle that will cause sheer terror for the inhabitants of Jerusalem and throughout the land but God will intervene. Let’s now look at this chapter…
Jeremiah Chapter 30: Exposition
(Vs.1) “This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:”
Every true prophet of God in the Old Testament spoke only what God told them to say. They had no licence to prophesy anything else. If it was from the LORD then it would come to pass just as the prophet predicted. It is another thing to study Bible prophecy, as we have the completed canon of scripture, and at times it will need to be interpreted in light of the scriptural and historical context in which it is given, and reviewed in light of its scriptural co-texts. On some points of interoperation commentators differ and this is why we need to be open to the Holy Spirit when studying Bible Prophecy in context and in light of contexts.
However, it is something else when someone says “the LORD told me” when giving a personal prophecy over someone’s life, because if it does not come true exactly as it has been given, then it is a false prophecy, and the one giving it will be held accountable to God (Deuteronomy 18:21-22).
We read where the word came to Jeremiah. When we read of the Word of the LORD coming to a prophet in the Old Testament in certain instances it was a direct meeting with the eternal Word Himself before His incarnation.
For example the Messiah was one of the three ‘men’ that came to Abraham and spoke to Him when the other two angels, also in human form, went down to survey Sodom and Gomorrah. Jacob wrestled with the pre-incarnate Messiah and afterwards Jacob confessed that He had seen God face to face and yet remained alive. When the Word of the LORD Himself (the pre-incarnate Messiah) came to visit little Samuel we read where the LORD stood at the end of Samuel’s bed as at other times when He called his name, and called him again and then told him what to say.
There are other cases in the Old Testament where we see this happening. In the case of Jeremiah we are not specifically told in which manner the word of the LORD came to him. True prophets walk in the counsel of God and live and move in His presence and He reveals His secret plan to His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). Let’s continue…
(Vs.2) “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words I have spoken to you.”
God’s spokesmen will always say everything God asks them to say because we are told that; “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). God has given us His book to instruct us so that we mind be reminded of what He requires of us in order to continue walking with Him.
Servants of the Word of God do not “cherry pick” and only preach on certain texts that they know will make people feel good and happy but avoid other texts that convict of the need for repentance, sin and hell and the need for holy and righteous living. This is why expository verse by verse preaching is a great advantage because it forces the expositor to deal with everything in the set text and leave nothing out.
The true prophets in the Old Testament were never popular with the people of God. While certain individuals were ministered to at various times through the ministry of a certain prophet, primarily, when it came to declaring the whole counsel of God, leaving nothing out, it was for the most part not popular. Primarily God would send a prophet when His people had spiritually backslidden and were not walking according to His instructions.
A True prophet would have a balance between announcing God’s judgements and His blessings. They gave men and women the law of God and the judgements attached before they gave them the grace of God with the blessings attached (Deuteronomy Chapter 28). This principle has been seen in the preachers of God’s Word that He has used down through the centuries such as John Wesley, William Booth, George Whitfield, and many others that God has used. Billy Graham was also such a man. Now let’s continue…
(Vs.3) The days are coming,’ declares the LORD , ‘when I will bring My people Israel and Judah back from captivity and restore them to the land I gave their forefathers to possess,’ says the LORD.”
In 1948 after almost 2,000 years of exile Israel was reborn as a nation in its own right. Jews started to return to their homeland from the Gentile nations. Today many Jews are making Aliyah and many more are coming home, and many more are still to come especially in light of rampant antisemitism arising once again in the Gentile nations. He is bringing them back, not initially to bring prosperity, although Israel at present has been prospering materially, but to spiritually purify His people which will come to its climax in the Time of Great Tribulation, the Time of Jacobs Trouble.
Israel is back in the Land as the Ezekiel prophesied, but they would still be in unbelief (Ezekiel 37:1-8). Then Ezekiel prophesied again and we see the spiritual restoration of the Jews in the land and many other Jews making Aliyah (Ezekiel 37:9-14). Finally we see the Messianic Millennial Kingdom established which will come about after the Messiah has returned, destroyed all of Israel’s enemies and inaugurated His reign on earth (Ezekiel 37:15:28). How this will come about is seen in Ezekiel chapters 38-39.
While the Jews are back in their land today for the most part are still aliens and strangers to their own covenants of promise; being estranged from the Messiah their Passover Lamb who has been sacrificed for their sins. Many Israelis are “sitting on the fence” where having a personal relationship with the LORD and with the Messiah is concerned, however, God is going to “electrify the fence” so that individual Jews will have to jump one way or the other.
Zechariah prophesies this time to come; “In the whole land,” declares the LORD, “two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it. This third I will bring into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God'” (Zechariah 13:8-9).
God’s end game for the people of Israel is to bring them to the foot of that Old Rugged Cross to encounter, their perfect one and only Passover Lamb. Through the Messiah’s atoning blood God will open that fountain to the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity (Zechariah 13:1). How then will our Triune God bring Israel as a nation to the Messiah to be saved? Jeremiah tells us…
(Vs.5-7) “These are the words the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah: “This is what the LORD says: ” ‘Cries of fear are heard- terror, not peace. Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labour, every face turned deathly pale? How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.”
At present Israel as a nation is able to defend themselves and their technology related to powerful weapons is virtually unmatched. They are also supported by the United States The catch cry of Israel’s political leaders and citizens catch cry is “Never Again!”; keeping in view the Holocaust, a tragedy spawned by Satan but allowed by God because of the curse of the Law, a curse broken at the cross by the pure untainted atoning blood of the Messiah. However, that atoning blood to be effective must be appropriated personally and individually through repentance and faith in the Messiah, whether Jew or Gentile, in order to have that curse over their life broken (Galatians 3:13) (Romans 3:28-31).
Here in our text Jeremiah tells us that a situation will confront Israel in the last days that will cause cries of fear to be heard and terror, not peace. It will be as severe as extremely painful labour pains when a woman about to give birth grips her stomach to somehow assuage the extreme pain she is feeling. We are told that what is going to face Israel will be so daunting, fearful and terrifying to say the least, that it will cause even the strongest men at every level of society whether politicians, generals, the IDF and the civilian population, to grip their stomachs in fear at what they are confronted with to the point where the colour of their faces will turn deathly pale.
We are told in the prophet Joel that the armies of the Antichrist will blanket the whole Land of Israel like locusts, and that these ‘locusts’ will strip everything bare just as the Babylonians did in 586 BC when they invaded the Land of Israel and uprooted the trees, the vegetation and everything living in Israel as they marched through the land to lay siege to Jerusalem (Joel 1:1-7). However it will not be the end for Israel as we will see when our Triune God steps in!
This time of Great Tribulation for Israel, for Christendom and for the whole world at large will have never been equalled either in the past, or to be equalled in the future, however even though it is the time of the Jacob’s Trouble (Israel) the faithful remnant will be delivered out of it when the Messiah returns (Daniel 12:1) (Matthew 24:21-22) (Matthew 24: 15-31) In that day all Israel will be saved because God’s gifts and call are irrevocable (Romans 11:25-29).
As for the armies of the nations that have attacked God’s covenant people He will deal with them to the point where they will fall in wholesale lots on the mountains of Israel under His divine fire storm out of heaven that will totally consume Israel’s adversaries. He will be jealous for His Land and take pity on His people, and the birds of the air will have roast soldiers for their dinner!
These armies will experience something akin to a nuclear detonation which will only affect them and not the Jews. We are also told that Judah will also fight at Jerusalem alongside their Commander in Chief the Messiah our Lord Jesus (Ezekiel 38:17-23; 39:1-6, 17-20) (Zechariah 12:12-15).
God will sweep this invading army into the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea and its stench will rise (Joel 2:20). It will be crushed in the winepress of His wrath when the Lion of the Tribe of Judah roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble but the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel (Joel 3:12-16). It is interesting to note that the nations that invade Israel in the last days that go down into the pit of hell are specifically mentioned by name and they are all Islamic nations today (Ezekiel 32:18-32). And then we read…
(Vs.8-9) “‘In that day,’ declares the LORD Almighty, ‘I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them. Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.”
Israel at present as a nation have a yoke around their necks being a works based righteousness based on trying to keep God’s law which no one can keep. There is nothing wrong with the law, but there is something wrong with us, namely we are by birth and by nature great sinners and rebels in God’s sight. Even our most charitable deeds we generate are tainted with sin, whether we are Jew or Gentile (Psalm 51:5) (Romans 3: 9-18). God never intended us to be justified in His sight by keeping the law but He gave us the law to expose our sin and inability to keep it (Romans 3:19-20). For example, who has ever kept all of the Ten Commandments? No one has except the Lord Jesus.
Through the Messiah our Lord Jesus righteousness has been revealed from God apart from the law and to which the law itself and the prophets testify. This righteousness from God or right standing with God comes through a saving and living faith in the Messiah where His perfect righteous nature is credited to our account in heaven (Philippians 3:7-11).
All of us, whether Jew or gentile, have sinned and fall short of God’s divine standard for living in a relationship with Him and for entering heaven. However we who believe in the Messiah are acquitted, all charges dropped, and by our faith we are justified freely by His unmerited, unearned favour through the redemption that came by Jesus the Messiah (Romans 3: 21-24).
When the surviving remnant of Jews in the nations see the Lord Jesus coming back in the clouds in great splendour and glory they will recognise Him whom they pierced with their sins and be saved! (Zechariah 12:10-21). They will be cleansed in that fountain of the Messiah’s blood opened up in Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity (Zechariah 13:1).
The power of the Messiah’s blood will break the yoke of rebellion from around their necks and will tear of the bonds of sin. No longer will they be enslaved to Satan or to the nations that have persecuted and attacked them. Foreigners will no longer rule over them ever again! In that day Israel will be the head of the surviving nations, not the tail.
The proclamation made by Moses will come to Israel after they have been spiritually restored. As Moses prophesied; “The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none. The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today” (Deuteronomy 28:12-13). While they have failed to come into the fullness of this blessing, after their spiritual restoration at the end of this present age, they will inherit this blessing God gave through Moses.
The vision Isaiah saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the last days was that the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains (nations); it will be raised up above the hills, and many nations will stream into it” (Isaiah 2:1-2).
In that day “they will serve God and David their king” whom God will raise up for them. Of course it is not speaking about King David being resurrected but speaking about Israel’s rightful King the Messiah our Lord Jesus in the lineage of King David. He will sit on David’s throne at Jerusalem where righteousness and justice are the foundation of God’s throne; and where loving devotion and faithfulness go before Him (Luke 1:32) (Psalm 89:14). This is Israel’s ultimate destiny! Every Jew still living in the Gentile nations will make Aliyah! And so though the prophet Jeremiah God continues to say…
(Vs.10-11) “‘So do not fear, O Jacob My servant; do not be dismayed, O Israel,’ declares the LORD.’I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid. I am with you and will save you,’ declares the LORD. ‘Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’”
When the LORD Almighty makes a declaration or a proclamation of His will for divine and everlasting affection for His covenant people dismay and fear are driven out. In this prophecy telescoping to the end of this present age God tells them that they will experience another exile but even in that distant place in the end they will be brought back to Israel.
Zechariah tells us that when Israel is invaded and Jerusalem conquered that half of the population of Jerusalem will be exiled, while the other half of the population will remain even though the city has been captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped (Zechariah 14: 1-2).
When this happens God will act decisively against those who have dared to ravage the apple of His eye. Even though He sent the nations to invade Israel because through unbelief they have been estranged from Him and the Messiah, He will go out and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. On that day the Messiah Himself accompanied by the armies of heaven will stand once again on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south making an escape route for the beleaguered surviving Jews in Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:3-5).
The Messiah will destroy all opposition to His Kingdom (Zechariah 14:12-15). As for the nations that survive His Second Coming they will have to obey Him whether they like it or not, and a refusal will bring His judgement down on their heads as He rules the nations with a rod of iron! (Zechariah 14:16-21) See also (Isaiah 9:6-7).
When the dust of battle has settled and the Messiah reigns in Jerusalem the Jews exiled to the Islamic nations will return home. See also (Isaiah 43:1-7). Israel as a nation will again have peace and security, and no one will make the Jewish people afraid ever again, because the Messiah, God the eternal Son, will have saved them as God the Eternal Father declared. He will be with them and save them!
Though He will completely destroy all the nations to which He has exiled His people, He will not completely destroy the Jewish exiles. In His discipline exercising His justice, He will not let them go entirely unpunished because their sin needs to be enunciated to them, not to condemn them, but to show them why they had been exiled and to remind them that sin and rebellion is a very serious matter. And so through Jeremiah the LORD shows them the nature and the consequences of their sin and the futility of leaning upon anyone or anything else for their safety and security and salvation other than on God Himself and the Messiah. Now let’s read further…
(Vs.12-15) “This is what the Lord says: ” ‘your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing. There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you. All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many. Why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no cure? Because of your great guilt and many sins I have done these things to you.”
Sin is a very serious matter to the LORD and it comes with terrible consequences which scripture clearly reveals in both Testaments. Humanly speaking it is incurable by anything man can produce. As Jeremiah writes in another place; “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately evil, who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).
In the last days just prior to the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, the allies that Israel will be aligned with and look to for support will abandon them when the armies of the nations’ descend upon Israel like devouring locusts. Their allies will forget them and no one will be around to plead their cause as they see the enemies surrounding Jerusalem on all sides.
God will strike His people as an enemy would and punish them as one who was cruel because of their guilt and their many sins. Their cry that will ascend heavenward while they grip their stomachs in fear at the impending doom confronting them will be the result of their rebellion and God wants them to realise it.
This sorrow for their sin and rejection of the Messiah will be clearly revealed when God in His mercy pours out on them the Spirit of grace and intercession when they look upon Him, the one whom they pierced with their sin. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a first born son. In that day their weeping in Jerusalem will be great (Zechariah 12:10). God will never abandon Israel! In fact it does not pay to mess with God’s people Israel, the apple of His eye!! Let’s continue…
(Vs.16) “‘But all who devour you will be devoured; all your enemies will go into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered; all who make spoil of you I will despoil.”
The prophet Obadiah writes; ““For the day of the LORD draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head” (Obadiah 1:15). All of Israel’s enemies that have devoured them like wild animals will be devoured by the LORD’s judgment. He will exile them to other nations as they exiled His people Israel.
Those who are still alive after the Messiah’s second coming, who plundered Israel and especially Jerusalem, will themselves be plundered, and be deprived of what they have placed their value on in this world. God will ruin them in the same way they ruined His people. However, God will restore Israel!!
(Vs.17) But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD, ‘because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.’”
Here we see that once God has dealt with the nations that have afflicted Israel because He cares for His redeemed people, He will restore Israel spiritually and nationally. What He declares will come to pass, and He can do all things, and no purpose of His can be thwarted by men and devils (Job 42:1-2) (Isaiah 46:8-11). Because Israel will be called an outcast for whom no one cares, God will call them Zion!!
The name Zion appears 152 times in the Old Testament, often symbolizing Jerusalem and the presence of God. It is frequently mentioned in the Psalms, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. Zion represents not just a physical location, which it is, but also the spiritual heartbeat of Israel. It is the name of God’s people collectively among who He dwells.
The Millennial Temple will be built on the original site of Mount Zion and the nations will flow to it to worship the Messiah. While the Messiah reigns from Jerusalem His Spirit will live in the hearts of all of His redeemed saints co-reigning with Him over the nations. Jerusalem will be the capital city of the entire world in the Messianic Age following the close of this present age. The nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the Messiah in His Temple (Psalm 86:9) (Zechariah 14:9) (Isaiah 2: 2-3). The nations that refuse to go up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles will be judged by the Messiah’s Rod of Iron (Zechariah 14:16-21) See also (Isaiah 9:6-7).
(Vs.18) “This is what the LORD says: “‘I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings; the city will be rebuilt on her ruins, and the palace will stand in its proper place.”
In the Messiah’s reign when the regeneration of all things is taking place Israel will be completely restored, its buildings, it cities and its communities will thrive and God’s compassion will be resting upon His people Israel. What was ruined by the invasion in the previous age will be rebuilt, and the Messiah will have a palace which will stand in the place it is meant to stand, being the City of Jerusalem. Israel will be a delight to God, to the Messiah, and to the blessed Holy Spirit indwelling the redeemed Jews! As we continue to read…
(Vs.19-20) “From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honour, and they will not be disdained. Their children will be as in days of old, and their community will be established before me; I will punish all who oppress them.”
In the Messianic kingdom not only in Israel but out of the nations of the world, will songs of thanksgiving to God for His salvation resound where in every city will be heard the sound of rejoicing. Israel will expand its borders even beyond those given to Abraham Isaac and to Jacob. The Gentile nations will highly esteem the Jewish people (Zechariah 8:23). Children will play safely in the streets and in the parks and playgrounds in Israel (Zechariah 8:5).
Old men and women will sit and discuss spiritual realities of the salvation provided in the blood of the Messiah, their Passover Lamb sacrificed for their sins! They will stand in awe of the wonders of the Messianic Age and all that the Messiah will be accomplishing in Israel and the nations. Each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him, for the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken (Micah 4:4). Animals and humans will dwell together (Isaiah 11:6-9). The whole earth will be united under the reign of the Messiah (Ezekiel 34:25-28) (Isaiah 65:21-23) (Amos 9:14) (Zechariah 3:10).
We also know that there will be some who will unwillingly submit to the reign of the Messiah, and if any of those seek to oppress any Jew in any way God will punish them severely, so great is His loving jealousy for Israel! And then we read…
(Vs.21-22) “Their leader will be one of their own; their ruler will arise from among them. I will bring Him near and He will come close to Me, for who is He who will devote himself to be close to Me?’ declares the LORD. “‘So you will be My people, and I will be your God.’ “
Some think that this will be a ruler over Israel who will be Jewish, however, in light of other scriptures related to the reign of the Messiah King our Lord Jesus, this ruler that will arise among them that God will bring near to Him and be devoted to Him, would have to be the Messiah Himself who came from the Tribe of Judah and who after His Second Coming will be living among His brothers and sisters in the flesh with His residence at Jerusalem.
It is also it would seem a priestly office indicating one who represents His people as their advocate which we know is the Messiah our Lord Jesus and our Great High Priest. One who before His Second Coming sat at the right hand of His Father in heaven after His ascension in the previous age ever living to intercede for His redeemed saints both Jewish and Gentile Mew Covenant believers as one body in Him (Hebrews 7:25). At this point the focus of the Psalm is on the wrath of God from which there will be no reprieve. Let’s look at this…
(Vs.23-24) See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His heart. In days to come you will understand this.”
The prophecy ends with a reference to the wrath of God being poured out on the inhabitants of the earth in rebellion against God at the very end of this present age. The plagues that came upon the Egyptians as recorded in the Book of Genesis will come again as recorded in the Book of Revelation upon those who hate and reject the Lord Jesus and the salvation found only in Him, and in the power, the cleansing and the protection of His atoning blood! (Romans 5:9). It will also be the day of vengeance when it’s God’s payback for those who have persecuted and martyred His saints whose death is precious in His sight (Deuteronomy 32:35) (Romans 12:19) (Psalm 116:15).
Just as the waters of the flood swept away the wicked in the time of Noah, so the driving wind of God’s Spirit will sweep away the unrepentant wicked and they will not escape. One will be taken away in wrath and one will be left to inherit the Messianic Kingdom. See also (Matthew 24:37-42) (Proverbs 10:25) (Proverbs 21:7) (Psalm 28:3) (Psalm 58:9) (Psalm 73:19) (Psalm 90:5) (1 Samuel 12:25) (Zephaniah 1:2-3)
God’s righteous and just anger will not stop or cease in its intensity until He accomplishes everything He has planned from eternity according to His foreknowledge and set purposes for mankind.
After this time of God’s wrath has occurred and the Messiah is back on earth the redeemed remnant of the Jewish nation will come to understand the eternal and perfect plans that our Triune God has been performing in all the centuries of the previous age from the beginning of creation itself.
Epilogue:
Israel as yet is to pass through the Time of Trouble for Jacob and it will not be a pleasant experience for the Jewish people, but the surviving remnant and those in other nations still to make Aliyah through embracing the Messiah and the salvation that is only found in Him, will be saved out of this time of Great Tribulation to inherit the Messianic Kingdom! What an exceeding joy and delight it will be for the redeemed in Israel and the whole redeemed and raptured Body of Messiah.
As Jeremiah also prophesies concerning the Jewish people; “They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD, the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish. Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow” (Jeremiah 31:12-13).
And as the LORD proclaims through prophet Isaiah; “Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs” (Isaiah 61:7).
And again Isaiah prophesies; “So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee!” (Isaiah 35:10).
Indeed as it is written “that the time will come, an awful day and none will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob but he will be saved out of it” (Jeremiah 30:7). Selah.
