“I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face: in their affliction they will seek Me early” (Hosea 5:15 KJV). It is apparent that Jehovah will not return until the Jews petition Him to do so. Quite an ultimatum by the Offended God! Certainly not childishness on God’s part, but it is only a further demonstration of Jehovah’s certainty of national repentance on Israel’s part (Isaiah 66:8). Just because the Jews are politically back in the modern nation of Israel (1948), it doesn’t mean they are back in a right spiritual relationship with Jehovah. Their historic rejection of the messiahship of Jesus must be recanted and repented of, as much as any Gentile’s rejection of Christ. God does not play favorites. What is hard for the Church to understand is the Church has not replaced Israel as His chosen nation.
Israel has merely been relegated to the status of blindness. “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in” (Romans 11:25). Not until the end of the Seventieth Week of Daniel (Daniel 9:26-27) will Messiah Jesus return to defeat the Antichrist, and the “fullness of the Gentiles” (Romans 11:25) will come to an end. In the meantime, the prayer of the Church is for Messiah Jesus to return quickly and Israel’s repentance will be facilitated. Remember, Jehovah Jesus promised He will not return “till they acknowledge their offence, and seek My face” (Hosea 5:15). Praying for Israel’s repentance is key to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Father, cause Your people Israel to repent of their offense of rejecting Jesus, so You can send Your Son back to restore all things. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen and amen.
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