"'Surely, the days are coming,' says the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah'" (Jer. 31:31).

"And I will pour out on the house of David and over those dwelling in Jerusalem a spirit of favor and supplication so that they look to Me, whom they have pierced through. And they will mourn over him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as a firstborn" (Zech. 12:10).

"Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols, I will cleanse you. Also, I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you will be My people, and I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:25-28).

We have similar promises of revival from the mouth of Jesus Himself. Speaking to the Jews of Jerusalem, He said: "For I tell you, you shall not see Me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.'" (Matt. 23:39).

In Hebrew, blessed is he who comes (Baruch haba) is a greeting. Yeshua is saying I am not coming back until you welcome me—much like David, when he said he would not return to Jerusalem until his brothers from Judah came and retrieved him (2 Sam. 19:11-18).

Paul is even clearer when he says that after the "fullness of the Gentiles ... all Israel will be saved" (Rom. 11:25-26).

Interestingly, he begins verse 25 with these words, "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery." In other words, understanding God's plan for Israel in the end times took revelation—it was a mystery.

Just as Israel was blinded to the truth of Yeshua, the church was blinded to Israel's call and future restoration.

But thank God in these days that more and more believers are honoring the natural brothers of the Messiah—even as more and more Jews are putting their faith in the Messiah.   

Ron Cantor is the director of Messiah's Mandate International in Israel, a Messianic ministry dedicated to taking the message of Jesus from Israel to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). He is an author and serves on the pastoral team of Tiferet Yeshua, a Hebrew-speaking congregation in Tel Aviv.

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