Israel Is Going to Have Their Come To Jesus Moment

  Israel Is Going to Have Their Come To Jesus Moment

Acts 3:26 (KJV)
Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Here Peter announces to his fellow Jews that God the Father had raised from the dead his Son Jesus, that all might be turned away from their sins to the holy and true God. Many Jews at first received the faith with great joy, not be dissuaded by the priests, for the priests had not yet time to develop their opposition.

Contrast that to today. All of the nation of Israel has been successfully turned from the Lord, being armed with the false doctrine denying the Messiah has ever come. I would think it obvious to Jews today that they missed the coming of the Messiah, the one that the whole nation was anxiously looking forward to be revealed. Something is obviously wrong with their outlook. So it has been for 2,000 years now.

But it will not always be that way. Paul tells us in Romans 11 that:
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Paul tells us of a time when all of Israel will be saved. We need only know two things. The first is that God has promised that all of Israel would be saved. Has this happened? Not at all. That leads us logically to the second thing: Since God promised it, and it has not yet happened, it must be yet future. In the future, probably not far off, the nation of Israel will finally perceive their Messiah.

The book of Zechariah tells us of this great prophecy coming to pass, in chapter 12:
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

The nation of Israel (all Israel says Paul in above passage) will understand the one that they pierced, and they will mourn. The King is coming, not only for all of the Christians who have died waiting for His return, and those of us anxiously waiting today, but also for his nation, his chosen people, whom he has never forgotten. God is always faithful to his promises!