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YESHUA SAYS IN LUKE 1 TO "JERUSALEM":

"I TELL YOU, YOU WILL NOT SEE ME AGAIN UNTIL YOU SAY, 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.'"

THIS VERSE IS FROM PSALM 118 AND IS RECITED AT THE FEAST OF PASSOVER AND AT THE FALL FEASTS:

"THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED
HAS BECOME THE CAPSTONE,
THE LORD HAS DONE THIS, AND
IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES.
THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE
LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
O LORD SAVE US,
O LORD GRANT US SUCCESS
BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD"

HERE, JERUSALEM COMES TO THE REALIZATION THAT THE ONE WHO WAS REJECTED IS THE CAPSTONE; THE VEIL IS LIFTED FROM THEIR EYES AND THEY SINCERELY WLL SAY 'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' WHEN THEY DO THIS, THEY WILL SEE YESHUA, JESUS, AGAIN!

EVEN THOUGH GOD HAS APPEARED TO DIVORCE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR LOVE OF OTHER GODS AND THEIR REJECTION OF YESHUA AT HIS FIRST COMING AND THE BETTER COVENANT, GOD SAYS THAT HE WILL MARRY THEM AGAIN. THE LORD SAYS THESE VERSES THROUGH HOSEA AND ISAIAH AFTER HE HAD PROCLAIMED THAT HE WAS DIVORCING ISRAEL. HIS HEART CHANGES AND HIS HEART TURNS FROM ANGER TO LOVE:

"THEREFORE I AM NOW GOING TO ALLURE HER; I WILL LEAD HER INTO THE DESERT AND SPEAK TENDERLY TO HER...THERE SHE WILL SING AS IN THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH...IN THAT DAY, DECLARES THE LORD, 'YOU WILL CALL ME MY HUSBAND.'" HOSEA 2:14

"'SING, O BARREN WOMAN' YOU WHO NEVER BORE A CHILD; BURST INTO SONG, SHOUT FOR JOY, YOU WHO WERE NEVER IN LABOR; BECAUSE MORE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE WOMAN THAN OF HER WHO HAS A HUSBAND, SAYS THE LORD....YOU WILL FORGET THE SHAME OF YOUR YOUTH AND REMEMBER NO MORE THE REPROACH OF YOUR WIDOWHOOD. FOR YOUR MAKER IS YOUR HUSBAND - THE LORD ALMIGHTY IS HIS NAME...THE LORD WILL CALL YOU BACK AS IF YOU WERE A WIFE DESERTED AND DISTRESSED IN SPIRIT-A WIFE WHO MARRIED YOUNG, ONLY TO BE REJECTED...FOR A BRIEF MOMENT I ABANDONED YOU, BUT WITH DEEP COMPASSION I WILL BRING YOU BACK. IN A SURGE OF ANGER, I HID MY FACE FROM YOU FOR A MOMENT, BUT WITH EVERLASTING KINDNESS I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON YOU."  ISAIAH 54

THE MAJORITY OF ISRAEL WILL ACCEPT THE NEW COVENANT, THE BETTER MARRIAGE CONTRACT IN THE FUTURE AND WILL BE THE GLORIOUS BRIDE AGAIN.


THE LORD SAYS IN HOSEA 5:14-15:

"FOR I WILL BE LIKE A LION TO EPHRAIM, LIKE A GREAT LION TO JUDAH. I WILL TEAR THEM TO PIECES AND GO AWAY; I WILL CARRY THEM OFF WITH NO ONE TO RESCUE THEM.  THEN I WILL GO BACK TO MY PLACE UNTIL THEY ADMIT THEIR GUILT. AND THEY WILL SEEK MY FACE; IN THEIR MISERY THEY WILL EARNESTLY SEEK ME."

JOSEPH IN THE BIBLE IS A PROTO-TYPE, A FORERUNNER OF YESHUA. HIS BROTHERS WERE JEALOUS OF HIS AUTHORITY OVER THEM, THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD KILLED HIM, AND DIDN'T REALIZE THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY ALIVE.  JOSEPH REVEALS HIMSELF TO THEM ONCE THEY ADMIT THEIR GUILT. JUST LIKE THE VERSES SAY IN HOSEA, THE PHYSICAL BROTHERS OF YESHUA WILL, DURING THE TRIBULATION, WILL EARNESTLY SEEK YESHUA'S FACE AND AND ADMIT THEIR GUILT.  AT THAT TIME, HE WILL LEAVE HIS PLACE IN HEAVEN.  IT IS INTERESTING THAT MANY IN JUDAISM SAY THAT THERE WILL BE A TYPE OF JOSEPH MESSIAH BEFORE THERE IS THE DAVID MESSIAH.

THE VEIL MUST BE LIFTED OFF THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE IN ISRAEL BEFORE JESUS CAN RETURN IN FULL POWER TO THE EARTH.  PAUL SAYS ABOUT THE ISRAELITES THAT:


"GOD GAVE THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES SO THAT THEY COULD NOT SEE AND EARS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT HEAR..." ROM 11:8

THE WORLD WILL ULTIMATELY BE SAVED BY ISRAEL'S REPENTANCE AND SEEKING OF YESHUA AS MESSIAH.  PETER SPEAKS TO THE "MEN OF ISRAEL" IN JERUSALEM. HE SAYS TO THESE JEWS:

"REPENT, THEN AND TURN TO GOD, SO THAT YOUR SINS MAY BE WIPED OUT, THAT TIMES OF REFRESHING MAY COME FROM THE LORD, AND THAT HE MAY SEND THE CHRIST." ACTS 3:19

THE APOSTLES KNEW THAT JESUS WOULD ULTIMATELY "RESTORE THE KINGDOM OF GOD TO ISRAEL." ACTS 1:6  JESUS ONLY ADMONISHES THEM ABOUT WANTING TO KNOW THE TIME OF WHEN GOD WILL RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL; NOT WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD INDEED HAPPEN.