Millennium · Future - beginning of Millennium
Restoration of Israel
All Israel shall be saved
From the teaching of Apostle Mary Banks
During the Millennial reign of Christ, Israel will experience a comprehensive restoration as God brings His people back from captivity and establishes them in their promised land. The Lord will gather the children of Israel from among the nations where they have been scattered and bring them into their own land, making them one nation upon the mountains of Israel under one king. They will no longer be divided into two kingdoms but will be cleansed from all their transgressions and idolatry.
The restoration includes both spiritual and physical renewal. God will cleanse Israel from all their iniquities and cause them to dwell in cities while the waste places are rebuilt. The desolate land that once lay barren will be tilled and cultivated, transforming into something resembling the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities will become fortified and inhabited once again.
Israel will engage in productive agricultural work, building houses and inhabiting them, planting vineyards and eating their fruit, and making gardens. They will not labor in vain or face the troubles of previous generations, as they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord. The people will build the waste cities and inhabit them, drink wine from their own vineyards, and eat fruit from their own gardens.
A remnant of Israel will be saved and will no longer rely on those who previously oppressed them, but will stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. This remnant will return to the mighty God, and though Israel may be numerous as the sand of the sea, it is this faithful remnant that will experience the fullness of restoration. The surrounding nations will witness this transformation and recognize that the Lord has rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate.
The scriptures
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.