The Start Of A Messianic Hope For A Peaceful World

The three monotheistic Prophet Abraham religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great wonders of the beginning of the new world. The Prophets of the Hebrew Bible started the Wonderful idea of hope for a future world wide peace.

The Greek Gospels focused on one man who they thought was a personal Messiah and did not focus on the many verses of Hope for communities. The Arabic Qur’an did not use very much of the Messianic Age material from the Hebrew Bible or the Gospels.

The Messianic Age in Judaism (Yemot HaMashiach) is a future era on Planet Earth characterized by prosperity universal peace, the ingathering of the Jewish exiles to the Land of Israel, and the universal recognition of one God. It is a time of physical and spiritual love and kindness for all mankind, not just an afterlife, brought about by humans who are spiritual descendants of prophet king David.

Isaiah 43:5-6: “Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your seed from the east and gather you from the west. I shall say to the north, ‘Give up,’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold back, bring My sons from far and My daughters from the end of the earth.’ ”

Amos 9:14-15: “I shall return the captivity of My people Israel and they shall build the waste cities and settle… I shall plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked out of their land that I have given them, says God.”

Jeremiah 23:7-8: “Therefore behold, days shall come, says God, that they shall no longer say, ‘As God lives who has taken up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt;’ but ‘As God lives who has taken up and brought the seed of the House of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where He had banished them,’ and they shall dwell in their land.”

Ezekiel 39:25, 27-29: “…Now I shall bring back the captivity of Jacob and I shall have compassion on the whole House of Israel, and I shall be zealous for My holy Name… When I shall have returned them from the nations and gathered them from the lands of their enemies… They shall know that I am God, their God, in that I exiled them to the nations and gathered them unto their land, and I will not leave any one of them there. I will no more hide My face from them, as I will pour out My spirit upon the House of Israel…” The Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, exiled by Assyrians before the destruction of the first Jerusalem Temple (II-Kings, ch. 17), and dispersed beyond river Sambation and ‘Mountains of Darkness,’ will return.

This Divine promise of the return and restoration of Israel is unconditional. It will occur even if the people should not want to return: “I shall take you out from the nations and gather you from the lands in which you were scattered, with a mighty hand, an outstretched arm and with fury poured out… I shall pass you under the rod and bring you into the covenant… For on My holy mountain, on the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord God, there shall all of the whole House of Israel serve Me… when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you were scattered, and I shall be sanctified in you in the eyes of the nations. You shall know that I am God when I bring you to the earth of Israel, to the land about which I raised My hand to give it to your fathers.” (Ezekiel 20:33-37, 40-42)

“So say to the House of Israel, Thus said the Lord God: I am not doing (this) for your sake, House of Israel, but for My holy Name which you profaned among the nations wither you came. I shall sanctify My great Name that was profaned among the nations, that you profaned in their midst, and the nations shall know that I am God, says the Lord G‑d, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. I shall take you from the nations, and I shall gather you from all the lands, and I shall bring you to your land. I shall sprinkle pure waters upon you and you shall be purified from all your sins, and I will purify you from all your idols…” (Ezekiel 36:22-25)

The Messianic era will mark the end of evil and sin: Ezekiel 37:23: “They shall not defile themselves anymore with their land with their abominations and with all their transgressions…”

Zephaniah 3:13: “The remnant of Israel will not do any wrong, and they will not speak lies nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth.”

Malachi 3:19: “For behold the day comes burning like a furnace, and all the wanton sinners and everyone that does wickedness shall be stubble… that to them shall not be left root and branch.”

Isaiah 60:21: “Your people shall all be righteous, they shall inherit the land forever…”

Jeremiah 50:20: “In those days and in that time, says God, the iniquity of Israel shall be searched for but it will not be (found), and the sins of Judah but they shall not be found…”

The Messianic era will be a time of universal awareness, perception and knowledge of God: Isaiah 11:9: (cf. Habakuk 2:14): “…the earth shall be full of knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea.”

Jeremiah 31:32-33: “…I shall put My teaching in their inward parts and write it in their heart, and I shall be to them for God and they shall be to Me for a people. They shall no longer teach one another, and a man his brother, saying ‘Know God,’ for they shall all know Me from the least of them to the greatest of them…”

The Divine spirit will be upon the people, endowing them with the power of prophecy and vision: Joel 3:1-2: “…I shall pour out My spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your elders shall dream dreams, your young shall see visions. In those days I shall pour out My spirit also upon the servants and handmaids.”

Zephaniah 3:9: “For then I shall turn to the peoples a pure tongue that all shall call upon the Name of God to serve Him with one consent.”

Isaiah 2:2-3 and Michah 4:1-2: “…The mountain of God’s House shall be established at the top of the mountains and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it. Many peoples shall go and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of God, to the House of the God of Jacob, and let him [Mashiach] teach us of His ways and we shall go in His paths;’ for from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of God from Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 9:16: “…every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to bow before the King, God…”
Zechariah 14:9: “G‑d shall be King over the entire earth. In that day God shall be One and His Name One (YHVH).”

The awareness and knowledge of God will remove the narrow-minded dispositions that lead to strife and war. It will be an era of peace and harmony in the Holy Land and throughout the world: Isaiah 2:4 and Michah 4:3: “…they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift a sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more.” [Michah 4:4 continues: “Each person shall sit under his (or her) vine and under his (or her) fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid…”]

Hosea 2:20: “…I shall break from the earth the bow, the sword and warfare, and I shall make them lie down securely.” And Zechariah 9:10: “…the bow of war shall be cut off, and [the Mashiach] shall speak peace unto the nations…”

Isaiah 11:6-9: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie with the kid, and a calf with a lion’s cub and a fatling together, and a small child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like cattle. An infant shall play over the hole of an asp, and the weaned child shall put out his hand over the eyeball of an adder. They will not harm or destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea.”