God's Expected End for Israel, the Gentiles & the Nations

Name: God's Expected End for Israel, the Gentiles & the Nations — Richard Hughes Ministries
Start: 2022-01-10T09:30:00-0600
End: 2022-02-28T10:30:00-0600

Monday, January 10, 2022 9:30 AM 09:30
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The expression. “an expected end” comes from Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Later in the chapter, the Lord declares of Shemaiah that he will punish this man and his seed because he prophesied unto Israel and God had not sent him. He caused Israel to trust in a lie; therefore, he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people (Jeremiah 29:32).

Shemaiah’s arrogance had gone so far as to send letters to Jerusalem, claiming that the Lord had made Shemaiah priest in the stead of Jehoida, then serving God in Jerusalem. He called for Jeremiah to be reproved for making himself a prophet to Israel and telling the captivity to build houses and dwell in them, to plant gardens and eat the fruit thereof (Jeremiah 29:24-27).

The captivity would be long, as God had told Jeremiah: seventy years long. After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, saith the Lord, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place [Jerusalem] (Jeremiah 29:10). God did as he promised. Cyrus the Great, king of Persia (559-530), decrees in the first year of his reign that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt and that such Jews as desired to do so may return to Jerusalem.

Merriam-Webster defines expect as to think that something will probably or certainly happen. God knows the good he will do; he expects that man will allow himself to receive it. Recall the Lord’s words as he looks over Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stones tham which are sent unto thee, how oft would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not (Matthew 23:37)!

God’s expected end for the Nations is for them to flow through the thousand year reign of Christ on earth, known as the Millennial Reign, into the Everlasting Kingdom on a New Earth. The Millennial Reign comes before the White Throne judgment (Revelation 20:4); the Everlasting Kingdom begins after the White Throne judgment, after God makes all things new (Revelation 21:1-5).

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