Both King David and our Lord Jesus crossed over the brook Kidron, which marked their rejection by the Jewish people.
But Scripture records that, like David, one day the Savior will be received back by all the house of His people after the flesh. Paul reports that "all Israel shall be saved" when the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled.
When the Lord Jesus returns to Jerusalem, it will be to a people with hearts open to Him, but it will follow a period of great violence and destruction - for their rejection of Messiah has had and will have a grievous cost in lost lives.
There will be a wholesale turn of the Jews to their Savior - the likes of which we have never before seen.
A whole nation, in time of deep crisis, cries out for her Redeemer, and the New Covenant of Salvation sweeps through the hearts of the people of Israel.
Paul marvelled at the future demonstration of God's mighty power to save. When Israel, the "natural branch" is grafted back into the good olive tree, it will take to the Gospel as if specially meant to receive it!
This wholesale salvation of Israel will yet again demonstrate that salvation belongs to the Lord alone - and it is all of His grace, and none of man's will or man's works.
How wonderfully the Lord's Table reminds us of God's mercy toward us, most of us Gentiles. We might have been bound in unbelief, but He through His providence has drawn us to Christ, and sweetly forced us into His feast!
When we gather around the table, we demonstrate that God has stretched forth an arm mighty to deliver us. One day, all Israel will be gathered in by Christ. The Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation to every Believer!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
