Israel's Revival is Coming

Jack Farber

Canada

In my commentary on Parasha (the Torah portion) Vayishlach (and he sent), December 17th 2005, I stated the following:

"…anyone who has read the Bible in its entirety, the Tanach as well as the Brit Chadasha (NT), knows that despite all her striving, both with man and G-d, Yisrael (Israel) prevails. How does she finally prevail? Zachariah tells us:"

Zecharya (Zechariah) 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications. They will look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

According to Zecharya revival will come to the Jewish people; despite all the persecution, hardships and blindness they have suffered, they will prevail. Zecharya, in this passage, is of course talking about a future revival, one that will occur upon the revelation of Yeshua HaMashiach, at His second coming. However, revival within Yisrael has already begun. It began thousands years ago when Yeshua first walked the earth. It is estimated that at that time, in excess of one million Jewish people believed in Yeshua, followed His teachings, and accepted Him as the Mashiach having been sent by HaShem. As further proof that the revival has already begun is the event that took place two thousand years ago on Shavuot (Pentecost), when three thousand Jewish people came to salvation in just one day.

Ma’asei Hashlichim (Acts) {2:41} Then they that gladly received his word underwent tivilah (immersion): and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

There were Jewish men to whom Kefa (Peter) was speaking and since then the salvation of Jewish people has continued throughout the centuries, unto this very day. Tens of thousands of Jewish people throughout the world today have accepted and believe in Yeshua as the Mashiach of Yisrael. Is this some unusual phenomenon, some fluke? Are Jewish people being tricked into believing by unscrupulous Messianic Jewish missionaries, or is this a sovereign move of HaShem ordained thousands of years ago.

I believe the prophet Moshe (Moses) was given the vision of the revival that began two thousand years ago and which is still occurring now. He also, I believe, saw what will yet occur among the Jewish people in the future. All this was shown to him thousands of years ago, as he explains in the following passage:

Devarim (Deuteronomy) {11:13} And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently unto My mitzvoth (commandments) which I command you this day, to love HaShem your G-d, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, {11:14} That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.

There are two rainy seasons in Israel one begins around Succoth (Tabernacles), the former rain, and ends just before the planting season; the other begins after Pesach (Passover), the latter rain, and ends just prior to the spring harvest. The first rain moistens and softens the soil preparing it to receive the seeds, and the second rain waters the crops in preparation for the ripening of the harvest. Without one rain you could not have the other, therefore both rains are associated with the harvest.

What is true for physical crops is also true for spiritual crops. The rain is the out-pouring of the Ruach HaKodesh and the harvest are the souls of man. When HaShem chose Avraham (Abraham) to be the father of His very special and separate nation, Avraham had no righteousness of his own to merit HaShem choosing him, he was chosen by grace. However, with the choosing of Avraham, HaShem also rained down on him the Ruach (Spirit) of G-d enabling him to simply trust and believe G-d by faith. This was a tremendous and perhaps the first such out-pouring of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) recorded in Scripture. Avraham was not only the father of the nation of Yisrael, he is also the father of every believer in Yeshua who was chosen by grace and given the power to believe by faith.

Galitim (Galatians) {3:7} Know therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Avraham.

You do not have to be born Jewish in order to be a child of Avraham; you simply have to be reborn by the Ruach HaKodesh through faith. Therefore there is no need for any formal conversion.

Near five thousand years of sowing and reaping has taken place. HaShem has been pouring down His latter rain from above watering the souls of man for what has been the early harvest, but there is also the former rain, which will yet bring the fall harvest. This I believe is the harvest Zecharya was talking about in his prophecy.

Centuries ago, HaShem sovereignly placed a veil over the eyes of the Jewish people, resulting in the majority of our people not being able to receive Yeshua by faith. HaShem has withheld His rain from them. Zecharya is telling us that a time is coming when HaShem will send an out-pouring of His Ruach HaKodesh upon the house of David and upon Yerushalyim, a Ruach of grace, meaning that He will finally give them the ability to see and receive by faith, and a Ruach of supplication, meaning that they will ask for forgiveness for all the thousands of years of rejection of their Mashiach. What a revival that will be!

Ya’acov (James) {5:7} Be patient therefore, mishpacha (family), unto the coming of the Mashiach Adoneinu. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, having patience, until he receives the former and latter rain.

http://www.cmy.on.ca/newletters/january.2006.htm
Congregation Melech Yisrael, Toronto, Canada
Vol. 11 No. 5 January 2006 / Tevet-Shevat 5766
By Rabbi Jack (Ya'acov) Farber

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