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In Matt. 23:37, Yeshua (Jesus) laments about how He would have gathered to Himself and they refused to gather under His wing:
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling. Behold, your house is being left to you desolate! For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!’”
Yeshua is quoting Psalm 118, which starts off with pleas for mercy. This psalm is not about the person of David or Solomon but is in the words of the Messiah Himself and gives us an insight into the war that proceeds His final and ultimate victory over haSatan.
Yeshua fights for us and He even took our chastisement upon Himself for us. When He wins the battle, He will enter through the gate of righteousness, through God’s gate. We become righteous when we accept the chastisement Yeshua accepted for us that we deserved.
When God comes into our life, He may blind us for a time, just as He did to the Apostle Paul but when our hearts become contrite and broken, the scales will come off and we will be able to see what the LORD wants us to see: His word.
When will Jerusalem say, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD…”? Right before its destruction, when pride in all the tools of the world is destroyed.
Matthew 24 is one of the main chapters in which we read about Yeshua’s warning about what will happen in the last days.
It starts with Yeshua and His disciples leaving the temple and Yeshua gave them a prophesy about the temple itself. Yeshua repeatedly warns the disciples that people would come along in the future claiming to be Yeshua and try to deceive them, to turn them away from God. If you are a righteous person, you will enter through the righteous gate.
Matt. 24:10 warns us that those who will are deceived in those last days will be offended by the lies they were told. The offenders will fall away and betray each other. When we are offended, we have options: We can either get bitter and offended or we can turn the other cheek and move on.
When Yeshua frees you, you should not put anything in front of Him: a person, a pastor, a church or any organization. We have to get past that point with Yeshua’s favor.
Yeshua says, “… the one who endures to the end, he will be saved” from deception, betrayal and offense if we are willing to turn the other cheek.
If you don’t trust Yeshua, you don’t trust anyone. The trust we have in Yeshua was given to us by God. No man or church can do that.
Yeshua says in Matt. 24:31:
“And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”
The one trumpet refers to a call to the leadership according to Numbers 10. When that trumpet blows, those who enter into that gate of righteousness will hear it but those who are not righteous will not hear it. We have the beginning of what the Torah calls the great ingathering.
Isa. 27:12 says that the righteous will be gathered one by one. We can’t enter in this gate being carried on the backs of our parents. We have to enter individually.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.” (Matt. 7:21)
What is the will of God? Doing what is right, which we learn from the Torah.
God will test us throughout our lives as we seek to enter the righteous gate. When God told Noah to build the ark, Noah built the ark because He believed God and trusted God. God responded to Noah’s trust and faith. Noah didn’t have to gather the animals. God brought the animals to the ark.
Noah’s obedience was a response to his trust in God.
There will be a great gathering into the clouds, according to Paul. When we gather in the air, we will get instructions from Yeshua as what to teach the people who have survived a great war and have capitulated to Him with a broken and contrite heart. We will help those survivors to become clean before God.
Yeshua said that those who come after Him will do greater works than He did. We will teach them what is holy, right and good, not to condemn them. The end will be greater than the beginning.
Speaker: Richard. Summary: Tammy.