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The Messiah’s Secret – Isaiah 53

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The Messiah’s Secret – Isaiah 53                                                                                   
“David foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus, God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.” Acts 2: 31, 32.                                                                                            
Isaiah 53: 1-12. Luke 24: 13-47
Since the book of Isaiah was written, the ‘Suffering Servant’ in chapter 53 has led many to interpret its meaning to there being two Messiahs. Evidence was found in Qumran Scrolls.

 Qumran Scrolls 
Between 1947 – 1956 972 scrolls were found in caves in Qumran by the Dead Sea. They have since been radiocarbon dated it estimated that they were written between 385BC and  82 AD.  Several of the fragments of parchment reveal that the Essene, a religious sect of Judaism wrote of their belief in two Messiahs. One from the tribe of Aaron and the other of Judah, priest and king. This view is disputed among leading Theologians today.

“Many scholars believe that the Essenes were connected with the rise of the Pharisees in the centuries before the birth of Jesus.” John Drane ‘Introducing the Old Testament.”

The Essenes view at that time was not held by the majority of Jewish teachers at Jerusalem, they held the traditional belief of the Messiah who would be a descendant of King David. 

Formulation of the Jewish Talmud.
In the second century AD,  during the formulation of the Jewish Talmud Jewish rabbis studied the messianic prophesies in the Hebrew Scriptures, especially Isaiah 53 and they concluded that there were two Messiahs. Arnold Fruchtenbaum “Jesus was a Jew” page 24.

The First Messiah.
Isaiah had depicted a man as the ‘suffering servant,’ the rabbis named him ‘the son of the  Joseph,’ he would undergo a great deal of suffering that would end in death. This servant would suffer and die for the sins of others. The passage goes on to indicate that this servant would be resurrected.

The Second Messiah.
The rabbis believed that the second Messiah would raise the first Messiah back to life, he would come as a conquering king who would destroy the enemies of Israel and set up the messianic kingdom of peace and prosperity.  Arnold Fruchtenbaum “Jesus was a Jew” page 24.

Arnold Fruchtenbaum  writes: “An ancient eleventh century Jewish writing by (Rabbi Shlomoh Yizchaki, better known as Rishi.  Rabbi Rishi put forward his theory of two Messiah’s from Isaiah 53.” He uses the suffering servant as an allegory, the first Messiah son of Joseph, and the second Messiah king David’s descendant both representing the people of Israel in their suffering in a Gentile world.

Arnold Fruchtenbaum’s own view.
Arnold Fruchtenbaum suggests: “But to make the passage in Isaiah speak of a collective body of Israel seems to force the interpretation. The passage taken by itself seems to have only one individual in mind.” In his book he refers us to the passage and points out where the words clearly speak of an individual and where they speak collectively. Isaiah includes himself with the collective body of Israel.

Summary of Isaiah 53: 1-12.
 I. The Jewish people confess they do not recognize the Servant in his person and calling.

2. The people noted that there was nothing special about him. His childhood was no different from any other child. His personality and his outward appearance did not make him stand out from others.

3 The prophet would suggest that he was not charismatic, he did not attract people to him, but instead he was despised and rejected by men in general. He was sorrowful and grieved for the loss of people’s hearts towards God. 

4. The people confess that at the time of his suffering, they considered his suffering to be the punishment of God for his own sins. 
Now, however, they acknowledge that the Servant’s suffering was on behalf of others. The Servant was afflicted, taking the punishment would be laid upon him.

 5. The people will understand the Servants suffering more deeply, through his suffering he will heal their sicknesses and diseases, “By his stripes we are healed.”                                                                                                                                                
6. Only God could bring about reconciliation through a substitute being made for sins.The people confess that they had gone astray; they each had gone their own way.                         
7. The prophet appears to be speaking as he describes the suffering that leads to the Servants death. The Servant submits to all the hostility against him.

8.The sentence of death was from a judicial court of law, although he was innocent of all the charges made against him, he did not deserve death. The Servant was executed as a criminal.

9. The Servant was buried not as a criminal, but his burial was in a rich man’s tomb.

10. It is hard for us to understand how God allowed his precious Son to die for the sins of mankind. His death brings about forgiveness and reconciliation with God. He prolongs the Servants days as God would raise him from the dead.


11. God accepts the offering of his Servants sacrifice of his life laid down. The Servant will justify many through faith in him.


12.The Servant greatly blessed by God having brought to fruition the redeeming plan of God for all creation. Through his love for God his Father and for us his children, he was mocked, ridiculed and despised.

Matthew in his Gospel identifies Jesus’ healing ministry  with Isaiah’s ‘Suffering Servant’ “This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.” 
Christians believe that Jesus fulfilled these scriptures in Isaiah 53 in his suffering and death becoming our substitute for our sins against God, followed by his resurrection.  Through faith in Jesus we are redeemed, set free from sin and raised with him in newness of life that is eternal.  We enter into a relationship with Jesus in receiving the Holy Spirit. 

A more recent Jewish view.
Even today Rishi’s view of the Suffering Servant being the people of Israel is held by the rabbi of the Menorah Synagogue in Manchester England, but he also stated that the Messiah was the land of Israel.
Shoah Seminar – May 5th 2000 held at the Menorah Synagogue, Manchester. ( Notes taken at the seminar)
Twelve years ago I was invited to attend the Shoah Seminar at Menorah Synagogue in Manchester England. This day was in preparation for the first Holocaust Memorial Day in our area that took place on 27th January 2001.
The Rabbi of Menorah Synagogue when he spoke on the Holocaust, Holocaust meaning ‘burnt sacrifice.’ He referred to the Jews that had been taken by the Nazis to the concentration camps fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy in chapter 53 ‘the suffering servant’. The people of the Holocaust were the burnt offerings for the atonement for their nation’s sin against God. Also the rabbi stated that God established the new covenant when the state of Israel came into being after the Second World War, and that the land of Israel, was their Messiah.

Whilst I respect Rabbi’s interpretation of his own Jewish scriptures, and I feel great sorrow for their suffering in the camps during the second world war, as a Christian through the churches study of the Hebrew Scriptures, I see the fulfilment of Isaiah’s prophecy of the ‘Suffering Servant’ in Jesus, his suffering and subsequent death. Jesus being the sin bearer for the people of Israel and all humanity.

King David prophesied that the Messiah’s body would not be burnt by fire. Jesus’ body was not consumed by fire, nor was he corrupted by sin.  
“David foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus, God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.” Acts 2: 31, 32. Psalm 16: 10. 49: 9.  
In Jesus’ bodily resurrection he did a complete work of redemption. Not only redeeming the believing Jewish people, but all those who have faith in him. The Messiah, the descendant of King David establishing his kingdom in the hearts of people. (Jesus will return and conquer the Antichrist)  

Philip called Jesus son of Joseph
At the early stage of Jesus’ ministry he had spoken nothing concerning his suffering and death. John the disciple records the conversation between Philip and Nathanael. Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” John 1: 45. 
                                                                          
The all knowing Lord our God put in place through this conversation between the disciples, the true interpretation of Isaiah 53, in that any later reference to the son of Joseph, would point to being fulfilled in Jesus. The fulfilment of the one Messiah in Jesus’ suffering and death and resurrection were God himself raised Jesus from the dead.
Yet to be fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus being the governor of Israel. Matthew 2: 6. Micah 5: 2.                                                                   
The Early Church.
The majority of the Jews in the gospels were looking for the coming of the descendant of King David. Luke 1: 31-33.
They were expecting the Messiah the Son of David the deliverer of Israel.  In our reading on the road to Emmaus, Cleopas and the other disciple in conversation with the stranger said, “But we had hoped that he was the one who would redeem Israel.” They believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the descendant of King David. 
When they arrived at the village they invited the stranger to stay with them and he did so.  When they sat down for the evening meal, he broke and blessed the bread and gave it to them. At that moment these two disciples recognized Jesus, the stranger was Jesus and then in a moment he was gone, no longer sat at the table with them. 
Take hold of the promise in Revelation 2: 20 “Behold I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.” It speaks of having fellowship with Jesus, like the disciples invited Jesus to stay with them at the village. Jesus would have you invite him into your life, as he knocks gently on the door of your heart.                                                                                                                                 
Under Law.
We also understand that the people at the time of Jesus had been taught that when the Messiah comes he would remain forever. John 12: 34. 
It had been part of God’s plan to keep the chief priests and rulers from understanding the scriptures that related to the one Messiah’s suffering, death and resurrection, also including his disciples.
When these two disciples returned to Jerusalem to the house where the disciples and followers were staying soon afterwards Jesus appeared in the room where they were gathered. The resurrected Jesus, whom God had raised from the dead, revealed himself to them and breathed on to them the Holy Spirit and also he had opened up their minds to understand the scriptures concerning his suffering and resurrection. Luke 24:21, 44-47.
The bringing in of the messianic kingdom would have followed soon after Jesus’ ascension. Acts 3: 17-end. 

The Messiah’s Secret. 
It was a call to the nation, but the chief priest Caiaphas and many of the council rejected Jesus as the Messiah at and after Pentecost that was when the disciples proclaimed the prophesies concerning the suffering death and resurrection had been fulfilled by Jesus. 

After the dispersion of the Christian community at Jerusalem Philip went to the city of Samaria and proclaimed that Jesus was the Christ (Greek for Messiah) He was later directed by an angel to go towards the south on the desert road that went down from Jerusalem to Gaza. He responded and as he walked along the road a chariot came by. In the chariot was an Ethiopian man, who he recognised as being a minister of the Ethiopian Queens’s treasury. He had been to Jerusalem to worship there and was returning home.
Philip led by the Holy Spirit went alongside the chariot and as he did so he heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah, Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading. The man replied that he needed someone to guide him in the understanding of the scripture; he invited Philip to join him in his chariot. The passage that he was reading was this: “As a sheep is led to the slaughter or a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe this generation? For his life is taken up from the earth.” Isaiah 53: 7,8.
The man asked Philip,”About whom, pray, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Philip than began to tell him the good news about Jesus and in response to hearing about Jesus the man was baptised and he went on his way rejoicing. Philip was caught up by the Spirit and was found at Azotus and from there he went to Caesarea, preached the good news about Jesus along the way. Acts 8: 26-40

”The man asked Philip, “About whom, pray, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”                                                                                                                      
The Ethiopian man thought that the scriptures were referring to the one Messiah. After hearing from Philip that this scripture had been fulfilled in Jesus, he discovered it was true, Jesus.the suffering servant resurrected by God from the dead, the redeemer of Israel and of all those who believe in his name, he gave power to become the children of God.
(Link with earlier blog “A Kept Secret”)                                                                                                                             
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The Messiah’s Secret – What is the Messiah’s Secret

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What  is  the  Messiah’s  Secret? 

A word was given to me in 1996 “The disciples were setting up the Kingdom of God at the beginning of Acts.’  What made this word stand out, moments before I was gently rocked in my chair from side to side, the chair did not move, the word then came into my mind. Two weeks later I received another word, I awoke with the word, ” Jesus could only be received as the Messiah after his death, resurrection and ascension.” 
The two words came together, the disciples were setting up the Kingdom of God in anticipation of Jesus’ return soon after Pentecost.  

This word opened my understanding. 
What this word revealed I could not find in any of the books or concordances. The Holy Spirit opened up the Gospels, I wrote everything down under headings which formed the book. I had been taught like many others that the time for the Jews to receive Jesus as their Messiah was before his death on the cross and that Jesus was rejected by the nations leaders and handed over to the Romans and as a result he was crucified. Were you taught the same?

The Messiah’s Secret Revealed
The time for the Jewish nation to receive Jesus as their Messiah was at and after Pentecost This understanding has been hidden, lost for centuries and as a result the Jewish people have suffered.
In November 2009 I went to listen to Singer Helen Shapiro she sang and also told us her life story. Helen is of Jewish decent born in London in 1946. At the age of six she went to a state school. She told us of how she remembered a child coming up to her in the playground and saying, ‘You killed Jesus.’ She was devastated and never forgot those hurtful words. In the late 1980’s she discovered Jesus as her Saviour and the promised Messiah to the Jewish people.   

Arnold G Fruchtenbaum also confirms that this teaching was widely taught and as a result the Jewish people have suffered.
Arnold G Fruchtenbaum’s Book “Jesus was a Jew” page 92 First Published 1981
“Israel’s objection to the Messiahship of Jesus is not so much an objection against Jesus himself as it is against the way his name has been used throughout Jewish history. For have not Christians persecuted and killed Jews for centuries? Has not the cross been a symbol of death to the Jews? Has not the church issued discriminatory laws against the Jews? Has not the name of Jesus been used to scorch Jewish homes and bodies? Has not in baptism been used in forced conversions to Christianity and as an excuse to separate Jewish children from their families? All of this is true and so is a lot more. It may be questioned whether those who perpetrated these atrocities were really Christians, but they certainly called themselves that.”                        

The Message of Salvation to all Nations 
On the evening of the day of Jesus’ resurrection, Jesus opened the minds of his disciples to understand the prophesies concerning his death and resurrection.
“Then Jesus said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ (Messiah) should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.” Luke 24: 44-47.

The disciples proclaimed for the first time at Pentecost that Jesus was the Messiah. The prophesies prove that it was in the plan of God that the Messiah had to suffer and die in order to be the final sacrifice for sins against God. God resurrected Jesus from the dead and in doing so fulfilled his plan of salvation for human beings and all creation.
(Linked with earlier blog “A Kept Secret.)

The Disciples were setting up the kingdom in anticipation of Jesus Return.
At the beginning of the Acts of the apostles Luke recorded that there were 120 people present in the upper room, this was the number required to form a town according to the rules of the Mishna, one tenth being the officers. Matthias took Judas’ place to make up the number to twelve, one tenth. (Peake’s Commentary on the Bible.) Before the Mishna came into being the oral law was in force that was passed on down the generations.
It’s no coincidence that the number gathered in the house were the exact number required to set up a community. The problem of being one short to make up the required number of officers was prophesied in the Psalm quoted by Peter. Acts 1: 20. Psalm 109: 8
Thousands of people became part of the community of believers after the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. 

Watching for Jesus’ Return.
Jesus hoped to return within the lifetime of the Apostles, but he also knew that it would be God the Father who would send him at his appointed time. Acts 1:7. Mark 13: 32.
“But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. Watch therefore you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning- lest he comes suddenly and finds you asleep. And what I say to you I say to you all: Watch.” Mark 13 : 32-37.

These verses speak for themselves in telling us that Jesus definitely was going to return, but at the Father’s appointed time. Jesus left his disciples in charge of his business of putting in place the things that he taught them for forty days before his ascension concerning the kingdom of God.

Below are some important texts that confirm Jesus would have returned soon after Pentecost.

“For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here that will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.” Mark 8: 38. 9: 1.                                                
                                                                                                                                               
 “The saying went abroad among the brethren that this disciple (John the Apostle) was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you.” John 21: 22, 23.

“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by his holy prophets from of old.” Acts 3: 17 21.

The times of refreshing, the eternal throne and kingdom of King David being established by the Messiah. 2 Samuel 7: 13, 16.

God had given a prophecy to the leading figure on the Jewish Council
High priest Caiaphas and the Pharisees brought the council together. They discussed the influence that Jesus had, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. If we let him go on thus, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.” Caiaphas said to them, “You know nothing at all; you do not understand that it is expedient that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.”
John the Apostle said, “He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day on they took council how they might destroy him.” John 11: 47-53                               

Confusion in the Teaching coming from the Chief Priests, Scribes, Lawyers, Rabbis, and Pharisees
God had spoken directly to high priest Caiaphas the main leader of the ruling council of the Jews and Caiaphas believed that the prophecy was pointing to Jesus; he was the one man who should die for the people. But he did not believe that the Messiah would come and die. The people had been taught from the law that when the Messiah comes he will remain for ever. John 12: 34 

Whilst Jesus was dying on the cross the chief priests and scribes mocked him saying, “He saved others but he can not save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Mark 15: 31, 32.

When Caiaphas and the Pharisees heard that Jesus had been raised from the dead surely they should have realised that God had given them a word of prophecy concerning the Messiah, in order to bring the nation to acknowledge Jesus as their Christ. Also when they heard the well known prophesies of King David that the Apostles declared in association with Jesus’ death and resurrection and the prophecy of Joel being fulfilled in the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2: 17, 21.Sadly Sadducee Caiaphas did not believe in the resurrection from the dead. The Pharisees their hearts were hardened.   Read Acts 2: 22-27

The Good News Message was first to the Jews. The Jewish people as a nation of priests in the plan of God they were to take out the good news of the Messiah to the rest of the World. Exodus 19: 6 Acts 15: 16.
John the Apostle wrote that as a nation they failed to take out the good news about the Messiah.
“He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become the children of God; who were born, not of blood, nor the will of the flesh nor the will of man, but of God.” John 1: 10-13          

Paul Proved that Jesus was the promised Messiah Acts 13: 13-52
The early church came together at Antioch and whilst they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit spoke and called Saul and Barnabas to go on a mission. After they fasted and prayed they laid their hands on them they set off.
They sailed to Cyprus where John Mark joined them and assisted them. From Cyprus they sailed to Perga in Pamphlia, here John Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem. At Antioch in Pisida they went into the synagogue. Visiting Jews were often asked to speak at the service, to give news and words that would encourage the members of the synagogue. Saul or now called Paul (verse 9) responded to the rulers of the synagogue’s invitation. He stood up and beckoned them to listen. 
 “Men of Israel, and you that fear God, listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. And for about 40 years he bore with them in the wilderness. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance for about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.                                                                                                  

Then they asked for a king and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years. And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ Of this man’s posterity God has brought to Israel a Saviour. Before his coming John the Baptist had preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’ “  Acts 13: 16-25

Paul stated that Jews fulfilled the prophesies as a nation when they handed Jesus over to Pilate.
“Brethren, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you that fear God, to us has been given the message of this salvation. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognise him or understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning him. Though they could not charge him with nothing deserving death, yet they asked Pilate to have him killed. And when they fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. 
But God raised him from the dead; and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. And we bring you the good news that what God had promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm ’Thou art my Son today I have begotten thee.’ And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke in this way, ‘I will give you the blessings of David’ Therefore he also says in another Psalm, ‘Thou wilt not let thy Holy One see corruption.’” Acts 13: 26-35. 
Here Paul points to Jesus as being the promised Messiah, he makes it known that the rulers of the nation in their failure to understand the prophesies concerning the death and resurrection of the Messiah fulfilled the prophesies in Jesus. King David had prophesied that the body of the Messiah would not decay. Jesus was seen by first the disciples who touched his wounds, proving that he was not a spirit. Luke records that they saw he had flesh and bones, indicating no blood in his risen body. Luke 24: 39.

 Paul continued, “Let it be known to you therefore, brethren, that through this man’s forgiveness of sins proclaimed to you, and by him everyone is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the laws of Moses.” Verses 38. 39.

Jesus the final sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins, Jesus has redeemed us from all that separates us from God. No sinner too guilty to be saved from all that we have done that has grieved the Spirit of God.
 Many of the Jews wanted to hear more especially the ‘God fearing men’ the converts to Judaism.  Following this on the next Sabbath almost the whole of the city came to hear the word of God. The Jews were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what Paul had said. This caused Paul and Barnabas to speak out boldly saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you the Jews first, Since you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.” 44-46.

Prayer
Lord, thank you, that you have shown great mercy by bringing the Gentiles to know Jesus as our Saviour. Please forgive the occasions when the Jews, your people, have suffered as a result of our (the Gentiles) ignorance in not understanding the Hebrew prophesies.  The scriptures that reveal that the Messiah had to suffer and die, be resurrected and ascended into heaven before they and us could receive him as the Messiah. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Gossip the Gospel
 It is by telling the story again the events that took place surrounding Jesus’ ministry, his trial, his suffering and his death that awakens the soul of a person who is searching for the truth. The resurrection of Jesus is well documented by many witnesses. The coming of the Holy Spirit reveals to all who believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah.

The promise of eternal life in Jesus’ kingdom is a living hope, having tasted the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, the reality of Jesus’ kingdom is within the soul.                                                                               

There will be a change of attitude towards the Jews in the Millennium of Christ’s reign.
“Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favour of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'” Zechariah 8: 22, 23. (See blog ‘ The Third Temple.’)