Post by Lee on Oct 11, 2014 16:15:41 GMT
Ch.36 is a comforting message of rebirth and rebuilding of the land in peopled fruitfulness and prosperity. Several times we are told that this time it is for ever—no more to suffer any sorrow or oppression. V. 22 begins an important message that makes it clear natural Israel is the subject, and that these things cannot be 'spiritualized' away— "I do not this for your sakes, but for Mine holy Name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen whither ye went."
This is clearly the same people who were scattered: national Israel. Spiritual Israel cannot be so addressed. Then note the order of events— "I will take you from among the heathen, and bring you into your own land. THEN will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness" (vs. 24-25).
This does not contradict the purging out of the rebels before Israel is taken into the land c h · 2 0 . Many will be regathered, as today, in blindness and by apparent natural means. And purging out the rebels will still leave Israel as a nation with much cleansing to do, in national mourning, and submission to their rejected Messiah Zcl2:1(M4;13:^9.
1978 Berean p 383
This is clearly the same people who were scattered: national Israel. Spiritual Israel cannot be so addressed. Then note the order of events— "I will take you from among the heathen, and bring you into your own land. THEN will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness" (vs. 24-25).
This does not contradict the purging out of the rebels before Israel is taken into the land c h · 2 0 . Many will be regathered, as today, in blindness and by apparent natural means. And purging out the rebels will still leave Israel as a nation with much cleansing to do, in national mourning, and submission to their rejected Messiah Zcl2:1(M4;13:^9.
1978 Berean p 383