“I will whistle for them and gather them in,
for I have redeemed them,
and they shall be as many as they were before.”
Zechariah 10:8
God revealed through the prophecies of Zechariah that the exiled Jews would one day be regathered from all corners of the world. The scattering would end. Jews would flock to Jerusalem and Israel again, no longer flung across the far countries of the world, but gathered together as one nation to once again worship their God. That’s the vision Zechariah proclaimed.
Their coming re-gathering preached by the prophet would be accomplished by a true revitalization of Israel as a nation. The world scene would be reconfigured. The old superpowers weaken and crumble (for Zechariah that meant Egypt and Assyria). Israel rises in strength internationally and in the worship of God supernaturally as the nation walks in God’s name, known again as the people of Yahweh first and foremost.
God redeems and restores. This has always been true of Him. He is doing so in honoring His name among His people. He is calling Jews and Gentiles to repentance now in Christ. He is redeeming the nations. And God is indeed also sovereignty regathering and building Israel as Jews immigrate to modern Israel even today. God is moving before our very eyes. Will we believe He is even now showing how over generations He revitalizes His people?
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