Jeremiah 30:17 ”For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith YHVH; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.” (Zion is YHVH people, YHVH word. YHVH land. YHVH messiah.)
John 11:1-4 ”Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed Yeshua with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Rabbi, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Yeshua heard that, He said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of YHVH, that the Son of YHVH might be glorified thereby.”
This story is much more than a story of a man being raised from the dead but a story of you and I. As the children Israel and the seed of Abraham being restored and regathered back to the ancient of days. We are returning to the east (Jerusalem) and the ancient paths. Jeremiah 6:16” Thus saith YHVH, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.”
We can feel the coming of the Messiah and it seems at any time the tribulation that brings about the redemption of Israel and the end of the exile is so close at hand.
For our Good Shepherd said that He would regather the lost Sheep that have been scattered abroad during the tribulation. Ezekiel 34:13”As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that He is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.”
One of the main reasons that the Jewish people do not believe Yeshua is the messiah is that the scattered tribes of Israel have never been gathered back to join the tribe of Judah and Levi and Benjamin the southern kingdom of Israel. So I ask you where is the northern kingdom today? I can tell you one thing for sure, YHVH knows where they are and will regather them according to His promises.
John 11:11”These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.”
Isaiah 51:9”Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHVH; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?”
Isaiah 52:1”Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.”
Ezekiel 37:5”Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of YHVH. Thus saith the Master YHVH unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am YHVH.”
Lazarus (Israel) is being regathering at this very moment and you need to ask yourself if maybe you could be one of the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Ezekiel 37:12 “Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.”
Their hope is lost because they are not joined to their brother, but this is the hope of every Jew in Israel to have the lost tribes return.
Acts 26:6”And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of YHVH unto our fathers: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving Elohim day and night, hope to come. For which hopes sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that YHVH should raise the dead?”
Ezekiel 23 “So the house of Israel shall know that I am YHVH their Elohim from that day and forward. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them.
Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then shall they know that I am YHVH their Elohim, which cause them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Lazarus was raised for the glory of YHVH, but in Yochanan 12:28 it says His name will be glorified again. John 12:28” Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” The resurrection of Lazarus is the end of the exile of Israel.
We are that end time generation that will see the great exodus from all the nations. Jeremiah 16:14-5 and Jeremiah 23:5 We are that generation that will see the war between Jacob (Israel) and Esau.
Obediah 17”But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. 18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for YHVH hath spoken it.”
Part III to follow.