Bringing the Children of Israel Back to Their Lands of Origin

(FOT Day 5)

Fred R. Coulter—October 11, 2025

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We look back at the history of the Church and see what has happened. I remember the booklet: 1975 In Prophecy.

And my, my, we thought we'd all be in the Kingdom of God by that time. Here we are 50 years later, but the Word of God is true, and the timing of God is according to His schedule, not what we think! He gives us certain keys and understanding things when it comes to particular things at the end of the age and the coming of Jesus Christ.

As we pointed out yesterday, the thing that's important for us to do is this: Develop the character that God wants us to have so we can be kings and priests and reign with Him!

And now we see the world the way it is. And it proves one great thing that many people are not willing to admit, which is this. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked!

All of that has to change. All of that has to go. But it cannot go until the Kingdom of God comes and the resurrection of the saints had taken place and we assume control of the world beginning in Jerusalem.

Luke 12—let's look at it this way; whatever God says is a promise will take place! That the very covenant that we saw at the beginning that God made with Abraham is going to be fulfilled in a magnificent and almost mind boggling way, beyond the greatest imagination that we have as human beings!

This is what we need to do every day. Day in and day out, Sabbath in and Sabbath out, Passover and Holy Days every year.

Luke 12:31: "But seek the Kingdom of God…". Matt. 6 says first!

That's the first and foremost reason why we're here and why God has called us!

"…and all these things shall be added to you" (v 31).

That's all the physical things we need to live, now; but all of the spiritual things that will be when the Kingdom of God is here!

Verse 32: "Do not be afraid. little flock…"

We're not the great of the world. As a matter of fact, we're the low-born, we're the off-scouring of the world! The least that the world leaders would ever think would rule the world.

Well, we're not going to rule the world as we are. We're going to rule the world as spirit beings and the sons and daughters of God!

Verse 32: "Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father delights in giving you the Kingdom."

I want you to stop and think on that verse for a while. What does that mean? The Kingdom of God, which is going to have

• Christ as the Head
• the Father above everything else
• all of the patriarchs
• Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• Abel
• Enoch
• Noah

all the way down the line!

Then all of the saints, all of those who have been called to the New Covenant of Eternal Life, through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the Plan of God!

We know that in Rev. 20 we're told that we will be kings and priests and we will reign a thousand years with Christ; then after that on into all eternity! Now that is mind boggling to contemplate.

Revelation 5:7: "And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him Who sits on the Throne."

The one sitting on the Throne is God the Father, and the Lamb Who had been slain (v 6)!

Verse 8: "And when He took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having harps and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints."

Now keep in mind "…of the saints," because it is not in v 9 that it's referring to the four living creatures and the 24 elders, but to the saints!

Verse 9: "And they sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy are You to take the book, and to open its seals because You were slain, and did redeem us to God by Your own blood… [that has to be the saints] …out of every tribe and language and people and nation, and did make us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth" (v 9-10).

Now that's quite a thing! The whole world's going to be changed! Now, men have been trying to bring in a golden age, and that's what Trump is trying to do today. Now, he may achieve some good economic things, and it may look like it's really a golden age as far as men are concerned, but that's not the one that God is talking about! Because after all the wars and everything that happens in the book of Revelation, we come here to Zechariah/

This is very interesting for us to understand, and it's amazing how many prophecies concerning:

• the Millennium
• the reign of God
• the Kingdom of God on the earth
• the restoration of Israel
• and so forth

that there are in the Old Testament!

Sidebar: One of the reasons that the Jews rejected Jesus Christ is that they read everything in the Old Testament concerning what the Millennium is going to be like and the setting up of the Kingdom of God. And they said, 'If Jesus was the Messiah, why didn't He do this?

They didn't want to read what He said. They didn't want to believe what He taught. They had no faith in God the Father. So, they rejected it and have suffered ever since!

So here's what's going to happen when Christ returns. This blends in coming out of Trumpets and blends in to the beginning of everything.

Zechariah 14:1: "Behold, the Day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in your midst, 'For I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem…'" (vs 1-2). That's coming!

• look at it now
• look at how many nations are involved
• that's the center of everything right now

"'…and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women raped. And half of the city shall go into exile, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city'" (v 2).

Now then, God intervenes;v 3: "And the LORD shall go out and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle."

Then it blends right into the return of Christ to the Mount of Olives, and that's going to be a fantastic thing that'll take place, because we will be with Christ as the army's following Him (Rev. 19 and 20).

Verse 4: "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives…"

Remember: When Jesus ascended into heaven to return to the Throne of God, not to come back until His second coming, what did the angels say? Well, they were standing on the Mount of Olives and the angel said to them:

Why do you stand here looking up into the heavens? This same Jesus will come as he will left.

They were standing on the Mount of Olives. So, Christ is going to come, as we know, every eye, every eye shall see Him!

• this will not be some secret rapture
• this will not be something that the world will know nothing about

But this will be something that the world will begin to know everything about!

"…upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall split in two… [ by the very presence and power of Christ putting His feet on the Mount of Olives] … from the east and to the west, and make a very great valley…. [everything's going to change there] … And half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south" (v 4). That's quite a thing!

Verse 6: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark. And it will be one day, which shall be known to the LORD, neither day nor night; but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them shall go toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea…." (vs 6-8).

Now notice v 9, because it said that 'He came and all the saints with Him' That's an amazing thing!

Verse 9: "And the LORD shall be King over all the earth; in that day there shall be one LORD, and His name shall be one."

It shows what's going to happen IF people resist it. We saw, and we'll look at it again, that God is going to have to fight against nations afar off so they will submit to the Kingdom and Government of God!

Then it's going to be the whole earth; v 16: And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles."

Well, we're going to keep all of the Holy Days of God: the Sabbath, the Passover, all of the Holy Days of God is what it's going to be; it's all going to be by God and all of the saints, because:

• we're going to be kings and priests
• we're going to be teachers
• we're going to rule over cities
• we're going to rule over districts
• we're going to do things to help the earth to be what it should be
• we're going to help mankind to know God

Universal salvation will be granted to all who repent and are baptized!

Notice that God's going to enforce it, the Feast of Tabernacles.

Verse 17: "And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth… [this is a worldwide event] …to Jerusalem to worship the King…"

Well, how are all families going to get there? Well, they're not all going to come, because it's impossible to hold all the people of the world there in the area of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives. So, it's going to be that the nations will send their 'official delegation' representing the people of that nation, which WE will be the head of whatever nation we're over. WE will bring that delegation to Jerusalem and they will worship and keep the Feast of Tabernacles there while everybody on the earth will be keeping it wherever they are. That's the only way it can be because all families can't be there.

Now, there's going to be a punishment if they won't do it, because God is going to enforce His way! It's not going to be like every man choose what he wants to do and everything's going to be hunky-dory! No more!

Verse 17: "And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt that has no rain, does not come up to present themselves, this shall be the plague with which the LORD shall strike the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be Egypt's punishment, and the punishment of all the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles" (vs 17-19).

So, right at first, there's going to be some rebellion. We'll see a little later how is God going to handle sin!

Verse 20: "In that day there shall be on the bells of the horses, 'HOLINESS TO THE LORD.' And the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar."

Everything is going to be quite a wonderful and fantastic thing, indeed!

Micah 4—we will see that this fits in exactly with what we read there in Zech. 14.

Micah 4:1: "But it shall be in the last days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it."

Everything will come in and out of Jerusalem. That will be the capital of the world, the home of Christ and all the patriarchs and how many ever of the other saints that will be there necessary to run things in Jerusalem. Then all the nations of the world will be out there and they will be taught God's ways. We'll find out that for some of them, it's going to take some persuading by God, just like we read in Zech. 14. Here's what it will be:

Verse 2: "And many nations shall come and say, 'Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths'—for the Law…"

Question for all of you lawless Protestants: How do you like the lawlessness in the land today? You don't like it, and probably most of you would vote for a government that would bring in law and order. Then:

• Why can it possibly be that all of these Protestant ministers say 'the Law had been done away'?
• Are they not responsible for all the lawlessness going on here?

• the Laws of God are good
• the Laws of God are right
• the Laws of God are just
• the Laws of God are based on love

The result of keeping them is a flowing of grace because of peace! Most people never understand that, but that's the way it works!

"…for the Law shall go forth out of Zion, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among many people, and will rebuke strong nations afar off…" (vs 2-3).

Oh, China and Gog and Magog is going to have a lot to learn. Remember, I didn't bring anything on it this year in the Feast of Tabernacles, but at the beginning of the first seven year cycle, ,Gog and Magog is going to come up and try and conquer the Holy Land because there are no defenses around it.

Because back there in China, they still have all the weapons, all the planes, and everything that is there. So, they're going to come and they're going to be absolutely wiped out. And that will probably be in the seventh year of the rule of Christ and the saints.

"…and they shall…." (v 3).

Think about this! Look at how much steel, iron , copper and precious metals are used in making war machines, space rockets, space stations.

"…beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore" (v 3).

No more toys for kids, as we saw before, with making implements of war. They will have animals and those will be their toys and their pets.

Verse 4: "But they shall sit each one under his own vine and under his own fig tree; and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken."

Now look at v 5. Now there's a little controversy over it because some people may confuse that with something else.

Verse 5: "For all people will walk, each one in the name of his god…"

• Are we not going to be as Christ is? Yes!
• Is He not God spiritually? Yes!
• Are we not the sons and daughters of God spiritually? Yes!
• Then we belong to what? The God Family!
• Who's going to be doing the ruling over the nations? All of us!

"…and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever" (v 5).

Wherever we are ruling, the people are going to follow what we are going to be teaching, and we will be teaching what is the way of God! We will all be worshiping God, but those under our authority will walk in our authority, which will come from God! So, I think that's the way that it's going to work.

Now let's look at something else in Isa. 66, which is quite a chapter. When we look at it, it has a lot to do with the Millennium and has a lot to do with the things that we need to understand. This is quite an interesting chapter and what it has. And we'll go through most of it. so we can see that this chapter, almost all of it applies to the Millennium.

Isaiah 66:1: "Thus says the LORD, 'The heaven is My Throne, and the earth is My footstool."

Remember, there's going to be, not a temple. but a tabernacle on the earth.

"'…Where then is the house that you build for Me? And where is the place of My rest? For all these things My hand has made, and these things came to be,' says the LORD. 'But to this one I will look, to him who is of a poor and contrite spirit and who trembles at My Word" (vs 1-2)—conversion!

Not coming to a temple where people confuse the temple from Ezek. 40[transcriber's correction] to the end of the book of Ezekiel[transcriber's correction]. That's not the temple that's going to be in the Millennium. Because he says 'he's not going to dwell in a temple made by hands.'

Notice that He talks here about sacrifices and things that they would do at the temple.

Verse 3: "He who kills an ox is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers a grain offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations."

You reject God, even if you have sacrifices to God. It's an abomination, because it's not going to God! It's your own work. So this is what the Jews are going to learn with the coming temple.

Verse 4: "I also will choose their delusions, and I will bring their fears upon them, because when I called no one answered; when I spoke, they did not hear…. [referring to Jesus' first coming and the temple there] …But they did evil before My eyes and chose that in which I did not delight."

Then He says this, and this applies to the Church beginning in Jerusalem, and then all the way down through time.

Verse 5: "Hear the Word of the LORD, you who tremble at His Word, 'Your brethren who hated you, who cast you out for My name's sake, said, "Let the LORD be glorified."….'"

That's talking about all the death at the end-time and the martyrdom of the saints and being beheaded with the guillotine.

"…But He will appear to your joy, and they will be ashamed." (v 5).

Verse 7: "Before she travailed… [speaking symbolically of Jerusalem because Jerusalem above is the mother of us all] …she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a man-Child"—directly of Christ and also of all of those who were Christ's.

Verse 8: "Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things like these? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?...."—there you have:

• v 7, the birth of Christ
• v 8, you have the resurrection of the saints

"…Or will a nation be born at once?.... [Yes, indeed!] …For as soon as Zion travailed, she also gave birth to her children. Will I bring to the birth, and not cause to be born?' says the LORD. 'Shall I cause them to be born, and shut the womb?' says your God" (vs 8-9). No!

Verse 10: "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her; that you may suck and be satisfied with her breasts of consolations; that you may milk out and be delighted with the fullness of her glory" (vs 10-11).

That's quite a thing. See, that comes from God. Now let's see what else it does in here. This whole chapter has many verses devoted to the Millennium.

Verse 22: "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make…"

That's what He's going to do in bringing the Millennium! He's going to renew everything!

"…shall remain before Me… [that is until the time that New Jerusalem comes] …says the LORD. shall remain before Me,' says the LORD, 'so will your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one month to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me,' says the LORD" (vs 22-23).

Now that's quite a thing! So, here in Isaiah, remember that every once in a while he has verses that go along on a certain topic, and then jumps ahead to something else in the future, or jumps behind to something else in the past.

So, IF we can keep that in mind and select out all of the verses that have in there the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God and the rule of Jesus Christ and the saints, THEN we will be able to see what is going to happen here.

All right. Now let's come to Isa. 4, because remember it said, 'Where is the temple that you will build for me?' Well, let's see what it will be like when Jerusalem is established as the central place on earth for all worship to be directed, even though they're living in the nations. There will be no temple. God is not going to be put into a small little temple. Now when the temple was made, and when the Ark of the Covenant was made to be in the Holy of Holies, God put a presence of His power there. He didn't dwell there!

But the fact that a presence of His power was there was likened to God dwelling there spiritually speaking, but not in actual person in that Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies.

Isaiah 4:1—talks about in the beginning of the Millennium: "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, 'We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing; only let us be called by your name. Take away our shame.'"

Why is that going to be? Well, at the beginning of the Millennium, the whole population ratio between men and women is all going to be out of shape because how many men will have died in the wars and the plagues and everything going on!

So, at this time, God is going to use this method to replenish the physical people on the earth. Now, that won't last, but probably one generation, maybe a generation and a half.

Verse 2: "In that day shall the Branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth excellent and comely for those who are the survivors of Israel." In other words, rehabilitation from all the wars!

Verse 3: "And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called Holy…"—because we will be spirit beings!

What does it say in Rev. 20 about the first resurrection? Blessed and Holy are those who have part in the first resurrection, for they shall be priests of God and of Christ and reign with Him a thousand years! All right. here's a reference to that.

"…shall be called Holy, even everyone who is written unto life in Jerusalem; when the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning" (vs 3-4).

That's His coming back to the earth in power and in glory to do so as we saw in Zech. 14.

Verse 5: "And the LORD will create over every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day…"

Now think about this in relationship to what it was when the children of Israel came out of Egypt. They had the cloud by day and the fire by night. It's going to be the same thing here.

"…and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory shall be a canopy" (v 5).

Now that's going to be something. God is not going to dwell in a building made by hands. This is something!

Verse 6: "And there shall be…"

Remember one verse will be plenty good enough to make it something that will happen. For every Word of God is true and every pronouncement of God will come to pass.

Verse 6: "And there shall be a tabernacle…"—not a temple; a tabernacle!

Isn't it interesting that the Feast, which pictures the Millennium is called the Feast of Tabernacles! Amazing!

"…a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for refuge, and for shelter from storm and rain" (v 6).

So that showed that it's going to be there all seasons all the time. That's quite a thing, the whole thing is going to be!

Now, let's come to Gen. 28, because it's not going to be in all area in the Middle East that we'll be going back to. Let's see the promise that was given to Jacob because, is not Israel in different geographical areas of the world today? Yes, indeed!

We have America, we have Britain, we have Australia. We have all of that, don't we? Yes! Remember that the promises given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob also contain promises that were right there with them in their lives when they were here in the flesh.

But it also contains promises for their descendants called 'seed' that will affect the whole world as we saw with the blessings given to Joseph and Ephriam and Manasseh.

Jacob went; he was on his way going to Haran so he could have a wife.

Genesis 28:11: "And he [Jacob] came upon a certain place, and stayed there all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and placed it at his head…. [he didn't use it as a pillow; when he laid down his head was toward it] …And he lay down in that place to And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven! And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!" (vs 11-12).

Well, doesn't this tell us something really important? That there's a whole lot going on, on the earth, spiritually with the angels of God and the Plan of God and Satan and the demons and all of that and all of the human activity together. It's a whole lot more than what we have ever anticipated. So, Jacob is watching this.

Verse 13: "And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, 'I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed." That's over in the area of the Middle East!

Verse 14: "And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south…."

So, here's the promise that it's going way out to everything. So, when the Millennium begins, those of the tribes of Israel will be returned to where they were when the rule of man has ended and the Millennium has begun. We're not all going to be taken and brought back to the area of the Middle East. A lot will be, but not all, because they can't all get there. There would be too many people for the land.

Here's a promise! He said, "…to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed" (v 14).

Doesn't that sound exactly like what the promise was given to Abraham? We will see that's exactly what God promised Abraham. All the families of the earth shall be blessed! The thing that's important for us to realize is this:

• everything that we have today
• everything we know of the Word of God
• everything we know of the Plan of God

was already destined before the ages of time and the creation of man!

The Word of God in many places of the Bible starts in one place and strings forward in the future, clear to the coming Kingdom of God. That's the only thing it can be that 'all the families of the earth will be blessed through Abraham, then Isaac, and then Jacob!

Genesis 12:1: "And the LORD said to Abram, 'Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house into a land that I will show you.'"

He never inherited it. He lived in it, he sojourned in it, but he never inherited it! But God promised it to him by inheritance. So when is that going to be fulfilled? When Christ returns!

Verse  2: "And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed" (vs 2-3).

Now, just like we read there in Gen. 28 and Jacob, that promise goes out to the whole earth with the Plan of God. This is what we need to understand and how it is, what it will be. This is quite a thing! All the blessing is going to come through Christ and through the priest, through Jesus Christ and us being the priest and the kings!

We'll come to Ezek. 36 and we will see what God is going to do in bringing back the children of Israel to their lands, not only to the Middle East, but to the West, to the North, to the East and to the South.

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Ezek. 36—some of these things will reflect what is going on today and into the near future. Then it will reflect what's going to happen when the children of Israel are brought back out of captivity and placed in their own lands again.

Ezekiel 36:5: "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations… [all the nations of the world] …and against all Idumea… [all of the descendants of Esau and Ishmael] …who have appointed My land to themselves… [that's what the fight of Gaza is all about today] …for a possession with all joy of heart, with utter contempt, that they might drive them out and plunder them.'"

Verse 6: "So, prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury because you have borne the shame of the nations.'"

In other words, there comes a time right at the beginning of the Millennium that God is going to lift the shame and lift the punishment from all the children of Israel wherever they are.

Verse 8: "But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they will soon return."

Now, we're getting closer to that, but we have to have all the events of the end-time and Revelation take place first, and then they come back. But notice for God, it's soon! Now for us, it's a long time!

Verse 9: "For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown…. [He talks jointly to the land and to the people] …And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities shall have people, and the wastes shall be rebuilt" (vs 9-10).

Now think about how much rebuilding is going to go on. I tell you what, when we really understand the things that are going to take place with all the wars and everything, it's going to upheave the whole world. There's going to be rebuilding for a long, long time.

Just think how long it's going to take to take all of those tanks, all of those trucks, all of the weapons, all of the metal and everything that has been used to make war implements and melt them down and turn them into useful things for people to use in their physical lives during the Millennium.

Going to be an amazing thing! You talk about full employment, man, that's going to be something!

Verse 11: "And I will multiply men and beasts upon you, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell after your old estates… [in the West, in the East, in the North and in the South] … and I will do better to you than at your beginnings…"

It's going to be the greatest thing that has ever happened to physical people on the face of the earth when the Millennium begins and it begins with all of the descendants of Israel being brought back to their lands. Then all the other nations that come up to Jerusalem to want God's ways, then God will deal with them.

"…And you shall know that I am the LORD" (v 11).

Now that's quite a thing that he says throughout all of the book of Ezekiel. "…you shall know that I am the LORD."

Now there are many ways you can know that there is God.

• by everything He's created
• by the very existence of all life

There's no such thing as evolution as these satanic intellectuals think that there is no God and everything evolved. Never happen!

Verse 12: "Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even My people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and shall no longer bereave them of their children."

Now then, God talks to them and here's a lesson for them. The first generation is going to learn an awful lot of lessons, because they will have suffered all the wars and devastation.

Verse 12: "Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even My people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and shall no longer bereave them of their children.' Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because they say to you, "You are a devourer of men, and you have been bereaved of your nations." Therefore, you shall devour men no more, nor shall you bereave your nations any more,' says the Lord GOD" (vs 12-14).

God is going to restore it and make it right. Bring them all back with every blessing that comes from God.

Verse 15: "'Nor will I allow you to hear the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you cause your nations to stumble any more,' says the Lord GOD. And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways and by their doings…'" (vs 15-17).

So, right at the first of the Millennium, they're all going to have to admit their sins and everything. Not only the sins against themselves, sins against their neighbors, but sins against the land, sins against other people, and so forth.

"…even as the uncleanness of a woman's impurity was their way before Me. Therefore, I poured My fury upon them because of the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols by which they defiled it" (vs 17-18).

What is the blood that is shed most in the land? Abortion; 80 million in America alone! Why is it that men and women turn to such evil? And that they would say, 'Oh, our hands are clean,' when you're all murderers! You pretend you're so good and so nice. That's what we see today. That's why we have so much trouble today, because of the blood that was shed in the land.

Verse 19: "And I scattered them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the countries. I judged them according to their ways and according to their doings."

Isn't that something? That's coming! God has done it before, so let's not think that it won't happen again, but it's going to happen on a bigger and greater scale than ever before.

Verse 20: "And when they came unto the nations where they went, they even profaned My Holy name in that it was said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and they are gone out of His land.'"

Now, God has done that! Every time God brings the penalties, every time God brings all the correction, He looks at it and He has His own emotions and His own love and correction and everything that is there. Then He brings it to an end, because God is merciful and His mercy endures forever!

Verse 21: "But I had pity for My Holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they were exiled. Therefore, say to the house of Israel…" (vs 21-22). When the Millennium begins:

• this is what we're going to preach
• this is what they're going to learn

And as it says, they will repent.

• they will loath their ways
• they will loath themselves
• they will loath what they have done

because they will understand it from the perspective of God!

Verse 22: "'Therefore, say to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My Holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.'"'"

So, God is saying, 'I'm doing this because I am God.' And then we can add to it: because of the promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

Verse 23: "'And I will sanctify My great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. And the nations shall know… [by the very Exodus of the people coming out of there and being placed back where they were] …that I am the LORD,' says the Lord GOD, 'when I shall be sanctified in you before their very eyes. For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all countries, and will gather you into your own land'" (vs 23-24)—to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south!

Verse 25: "And I will sprinkle clean waters upon you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols." That's quite a saying!

Now notice what's going to happen because this goes all the way back to Gen. 3. Remember what happened when Adam and Eve sinned? They were judged! God's judgment was this: Not only the physical things that they would be up against, but He gave them human nature, which the Apostle Paul calls the law of sin and death; which when we choose the wrong things it becomes total sin.

So, God is going to change that. Notice what He says this is what is necessary, and this is what you might call conversion.:

Verse 26: "And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you:

• not a rebellious spirit
• not a stubborn spirit
• not a self-willed spirit

But a spirit of

• love
• truth
• joy

everything that comes when we receive all the goodness of God!

"…And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh" (v 26).

What a promise, isn't it? Because this is what God wants! Now they're willing! Remember, Satan is removed, and he won't be around anymore. We'll take a look at what happens when he's released out of his prison at the end of the thousand years. We'll see that later.

Now notice what he says, because this is what is important. The most important thing in our physical life is that:

• we come to the knowledge of God
• we repent of our sins
• we're baptized
• we receive the Holy Spirit
• our hearts are circumcised

That gives us a new heart and a new spirit!

Verse 27: "And I will put My Spirit within you…" That's what we all need!

That's why, brethren, at this time, for those of us who have the Spirit of God in us, it's so important that we learn the three basic things that we need in every day of our lives and every thought of what we do.

• we should believe God
• we should obey God
• we should love him with all our heart, mind, soul and being

That right there is the substance and reality of the fruit of the Holy Spirit and of our conversion!

So likewise here, he's going to do it for them. Think about what it's going to be like when almost all of the world is converted!. WOW! What a thing that's going to be!

Verse 27: "And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My ordinances and do them."

Hello, Protestants, again! God's going to bring in His Laws, His statutes, His judgments, and His Holy Spirit at the same time. So, this is proof in the New Testament that when you have the Holy Spirit of God, you're not throwing away the Laws and Commandments of God. You keep them in the Spirit, not in the letter! Here it is right here, prophesied in Ezek. 36!

Verse 28: "And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be My people, and I will be your God."

That's what it's going to be like all during the Millennium!

Verse 29: "I will also save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call for the grain, and will increase it, and will lay no famine upon you."

Now notice what's going to happen. God wants everything to be great and marvelous and peaceful based on:

• love, joy and hope
• all the things of receiving the Spirit of God
• living with God
• living under the rule of the children of God

That's quite a thing! All of this is right here in this one chapter. This is quite a profound chapter when you look at it.

Verse 30: "And I will multiply the fruits of the tree and the increase of the field, so that you shall never again receive the curse of famine among the nations. And you shall remember your own evil ways…" (vs 30-31).

I wonder how many films that God is saving up of all the destruction and death that human beings have caused, so that the generations down through the Millennium can see what happened! I mean, look, if we can have television and watch the things that happened in WWI and WWII on our television sets, don't you think that God will have something so that everyone can see what they do:

• without the Spirit of God
• what they do when Satan the devil was ruling this world?
• Yes!

Verse 31: "And you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations." True, deep repentance!

Verse 32: "'I do not do this for your sake,' says the Lord GOD, 'be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.'" That's going to be quite a thing for them to understand!

Verse 33: "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.'"

That's going to be great! The Millennium is going to be the greatest thing that has ever happened!

Verse 34: "And the wasteland shall be tilled, instead of being desolate before all who pass by. And they shall say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden. And the wasted, desolate and ruined cities now are fenced and inhabited'" (vs 34-35).

Now this takes place during the Millennium. Think what that's going to be like.

• no more great disasters
• no more great wars
• no more nations and people living in sin and all the things that we're seeing today

Verse 36: "And the nations that are left all around you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it."

See, whatever God says, He's going to do! So likewise with us. We need to come to God with that kind of attitude, motivated with His Holy Spirit:

• to love Him
• to serve Him
• to understand that everything comes from Him

We have nothing we didn't receive! When we understand that, then we have:

• a greater relationship with God
• a greater relationship with each other

and we're not all troubled and bogged down by differences in human opinions, which really don't amount to anything when you get down to it! How can any human opinion be worth anything compared to whatever the Word of God says? Can't be!

Verse 37: "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'I will yet be sought by the house of Israel to act for them. I will increase them with men like a flock. As a Holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed Feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am the LORD'" (vs 37-38).

Now that's quite a thing! Think about that! That's what God is going to do everywhere in the world! That's quite a chapter; really something!

Bringing all the children of Israel back to where they need to be. That's what God wants!

Isa. 61—let's see how we fit into this, because that's the way it's described here. Now think about that. Just imagine how frustrated the Jews have been all of these years because:

• they didn't believe God
• they didn't believe Jesus Christ

They looked at all of these things and said, 'IF Jesus were the Messiah, why didn't He do any of these?' All they had to do was read the Old Testament, then read the New Testament, and they would see that Christ is coming again. All of these things are for His second coming and for the building up of the whole world the way that God wants it.

Today the Jews are figuring that IF they build the temple, THEN the Messiah will come and they will rule the world. No! No! No! it isn't going to happen that way, because they're not coming to God His way! They're coming to a temple that they will build, which God says, 'Where's the temple that you're going to build for Me for all of these things My hand is made?'

And they are going to have the animal sacrifices, and it's going to get the world so upset that after 1290 days, all of the sacrifices will be cut off! When Christ returns, that third temple will be demolished! Then that great tabernacle of Isa. 4 will be there.

Isa. 61 is quite a chapter, very interesting, indeed! It talks about

• the first coming of Christ
• the second coming of Christ
• what we will be doing
• how God is going to really make everything great

Isaiah 61:1: "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me because the LORD has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor…"

In Luke 4 Jesus said that all of this was fulfilled in Him!

"…He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted…" (v 1).

Now, this is also during the Millennium. We're going to be a lot of broken hearted to heal up.

"…to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to preach the acceptable year of the LORD…" (vs 1-2).

It's His first coming (Luke 4). The Millennium, this fulfillment here. So, you see the duality of how some prophecies work.

"…and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, giving to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified" (vs 2-3).

It blends right into the Millennium, so this is quite a thing! This is how we can understand the Bible even more, when we realize that everything is going to come kind of in a puzzle and that God's going to put all the pieces together so we understand how it fits.

Verse 4 goes right into the Millennium, right into what we will be doing: "And they will build the old wastes, they will raise up the desolations of former times. And they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. And strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the stranger will be your plowmen and your vinedressers" (vs 4-5).

Now, v 6  goes right in to those of us who will be kings and priests in the Millennium, so we'll come back to that a little bit later, but let's go to Isa. 65; we need to see:

• How are they going to live during the Millennium? What are they going to do?
• How's it going to be?
• What's going to happen if someone sins and chooses to sin and chooses not to repent?
• What are they going to do with them?

Isaiah 65:17 tells us: "for behold, I create new heavens and a new earth…."

Which is what He is going to do in getting the earth the way it should be, and the heavens straightened out from all the things that take place there.

"…And the former things will not be remembered, nor come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will joy in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying" (vs 17-19).

That's the standard of life, physical life as it is. Now then he explains in:

Verse 20: "There will not be an infant who lives but a few days…" They're going to be born, successful birth, grow and develop, because that's what God wants!

"…nor an old man that has not filled his days…" (v 20).

So, they're not going to be all the things that cuts off life, whether at the beginning of life or whether toward the end of life.

"…for the child will die a hundred years old…" (v 20).

Now that's very interesting, isn't it? Let's talk about the first resurrection here for just a minute. All the dead are buried one way or the other. Then it says in 1-Thess. 4 that the dead shall rise first! And we who are alive will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, and we will be raised, taken up by the angels to where we know is the Sea of Glass!

Now then, those who are alive, what happens that they are flesh one instant and spirit the next? What has to happen? Because as physical beings, we're told in 1-Cor. 15 that in Adam we all die!

When it says at 'a hundred years old and they die,' what does that mean? That means if they're converted they're changed! That death that they die in Adam—because we still have that in our genes and chromosomes, etc.—will be an instantaneous death and an instantaneous transformation from flesh to spirit! Have to be!

"…but the sinner who is a hundred years old shall be accursed" (v 20).

So there's still going to be people who will be sinning! They're going to live 100 years. What's God going to have to do? We find this; we get a hint of it from Rev. 20, that at the end of the Millennium, those who are living in Gog and Magog, Satan will come and bring them down for a war. So that gives us some understanding! So, we have to have it.

I'll ring my cowbell [speculation] So, we know there has to be something like this: When people sin we need to help them to repentance and to rehabilitation! If it's something that takes a lot of rehabilitation, then would we not have rehabilitation centers?

• they can pray
• hey can study
• they can fast
• they can learn
• they can understand what they did was sin

They can be forgiven their sins and brought back into the society!

Now, that's probably how it's going to work. We don't know for sure. However, if there are those there in the rehabilitation center or the repentance center, whatever you want to call it, that will not repent, then what's going to happen to them? Well, they're going to be exiled, probably to Gog and Magog, because we know that at the end of the Millennium, it says that those in Gog and Magog 'are as the sands of the sea.' Isn't that what it says in Rev. 20.

That means that at the beginning of the Millennium, there has to be a place in Gog and Magog that God reserves:

• for those who were sinning
• who will not repent
• who will not come to the end of their lives

They're not going to be living in community with the righteous, but they will be exiled to Gog and Magog!

During the Millennium, when they die at a hundred, they'll be buried. And anyone who dies and is buried is accursed! Now, they will come up in the resurrection of those who have committed the unpardonable sin.

So, this is quite something here, where we take these verses and we fill it in with other verses so we can get a good, clear picture of what is happening and how things will work.

Verse 21: "And they will build houses and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build, and another live in them; they will not plant, and another eat; for like the days of a tree are so will be the days of My people..." (vs 21-22).

A hundred years; a wonderful thing! Just imagine! I just imagine this—let me ring the cowbell again—but we know this for sure: that the Feast of Pentecost pictures the first resurrection! Now, when they come to the end of their lives, a hundred years, and they've been faithful, they're going to be changed from flesh to spirit.

Do you think that that might be every year at Pentecost instantly they're going to be changed from flesh to spirit. I don't know; that's kind of a far out thing to wonder about, but I just bring it up from this point of view: something like that has to happen!

I'm not trying to create a new doctrine, but I'm trying to understand how it's going to work in a practical sense when these things occur.

Verse 23: "'They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth children for calamity. For they are the seed of the beloved of the LORD, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the food of the serpent. They will not hurt nor destroy in all My Holy mountain,' says the LORD" (vs 23-25).

That's quite a thing! That's the way the Millennium is going to be! So, we have an awesome future, brethren. Feast of Tabernacles every year as we picture it. That keeps our minds focused on the goal of what God wants us to do:

• why we are to grow in grace and knowledge
• why we are to learn the Word of God
• why we are to continue in every way to be:
• faithful
• believe in God
• trust in God

Our lives are completely in His hands, because He has such a great future for us! So, when Christ returns, we are going to save the world and rule with Christ to bring:

• peace
• happiness
• joy
• salvation

for a thousand years! So come back tomorrow for Day 6!

Scriptural References:

• Luke 12:31-32
• Revelation 5:7-10
• Zechariah 14:1-4, 6-9, 16-20
• Micah 4:1-5
• Isaiah 66:1-5, 7-11, 22-23
• Isaiah 4:1-6
• Genesis 28:11-14
• Genesis 12:1-3
• Ezekiel 36:5-6, 8-38
• Isaiah 61:1-5
• Isaiah 65:17-25

Scriptures referenced, not quoted:

• Matthew 6
• Revelation 20; 5:6; 19-20
• Genesis 3
• Luke 4
• Isaiah 61:6
• 1-Thessalonians 4
• 1-Corinthians 15

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Transcribed: 8/20/25

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