• Remember, please, the word which You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you who have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to have My name dwell.’ 

Neḥemyah (Nehemiah) 1:8-9 NASB

A FUTURE EXODUS

• • • WHEN IT IS NO LONGER SAID

• • • • Therefore, the day will come, says יהוה (the Lord), when it is no longer said, “as יהוה (the Lord) lives who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.” Rather, it will be said, “as יהוה (the Lord) lives, that brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands where He had scattered them.  And I will again bring them to their land which I had given to their fathers.” 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 16:14-15 KJVm

 WHO WILL BE GATHERED?

• • • THOSE THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF ELOHIM

• • • • And it will be, when all these things come upon you the blessing and the curse which I have set before you that you will consider in your heart, among all the nations where יהוה your Elohim has banished you, and you will return to יהוה your Elohim, with all your heart and with all your soul, and you will listen to His voice according to all that I am commanding you this day you and your children, then, יהוה your Elohim, will bring back your exiles, and He will have mercy upon you. He will once again gather you from all the nations, where יהוה your Elohim, had dispersed you.

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 30:1-3

• • • THE HOUSE OF JUDAH & THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL

• • • • In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:18 KJV

• • • THE GENTILES THAT ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH ISRAEL

• • • • “And you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. “And it shall be that you divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who sojourn in your midst and who bear children among you. And they shall be to you as native-born among the children of Yisra’ĕl – with you they have an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. “And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger sojourns, there you give him his inheritance,” declares the Master יהוה.

Ezekiel 47:21-23 ISR

• • • NONE WILL BE LEFT BEHIND

• • • • And they shall know that I am יהוה (the Lord) their Elohim (God), who sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them back to their own land, and left none of them behind.

Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 39:28 ISR

WHERE IS ISRAEL BEING GATHERED FROM? 

• • • ALL COUNTRIES WHERE SCATTERED

• • • • And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 23:3 KJV

• • • FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH

• • • • And it shall be in that day that יהוה sets His hand again a second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left, from Ashshur and from Mitsrayim, from Pathros and from Kush, from Ěylam and from Shin‛ar, from Ḥamath and from the islands of the sea. And He shall raise a banner for the nations, and gather the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, and assemble the dispersed of Yehuḏah from the four corners of the earth.

Yeshayah (Isaiah) 11:11-12 ISR

• • • FROM THE LAND OF THE ENEMY

• • • • Thus said יהוה, “Hold back your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work,” declares יהוה, “and they shall return from the land of the enemy.

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:16 ISR

WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THE GATHERING? 

• TO SAVE THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL

• • • • For thus says יהוה; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish, praise and say, “יהוה, save your people, the remnant of Israel.”  

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:7 KJVm

WHY ARE THE REMNANT BEING SAVED?

• THE NATIONS ARE ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED

• • • • For I am with you, saith יהוה, to save you. Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you. But I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished. 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 30:11 KJVm

• • • INSTRUCTIONS TO FLEE FROM THE WORLD SYSTEM

• • • • Flee from the midst of Babylon, and everyone save his life!  Do not  be cut off in her iniquity, for this is יהוה time of vengeance. He is going to render unto her that which she deserves.

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 51:6 KJV

SIMILAR TO THE FIRST EXODUS

The following six categories address the similarities between this future Greater Second Exodus and the past Exodus from Egypt.

SIMILARITY #1

MEN WILL CROSS WATERS IN DRY SANDALS

• • • THE EUPHRATES 

• • • • • And יהוה shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river (Euphrates), and shall smite it in the seven streams, and men will cross in dry-sandals.

Yeshayah (Isaiah) 11:15

• • • THE NILE

• • • • • And trouble shall pass through the sea, and He shall strike the waves of the sea and dry all the depths of the (Nile) river. And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the rod of Egypt shall turn away.

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 10:11

SIMILARITY #2

ISRAIL WILL PASS THROUGH A WILDERNESS

• • • • • • • •1 Let the wilderness and the dry place be glad for them, and let the desert rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It blossoms much and rejoices, even with joy and singing. The esteem of Leḇanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Karmel and Sharon. They shall see the esteem of יהוה, the excellency of our Elohim. 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the weak knees. 4 Say to those with anxious heart, “Be strong, do not fear! See, your Elohim comes with vengeance, with the recompense of Elohim. He is coming to save you.” 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be opened. 6 Then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing, because waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water – in the home for jackals, where each lay, grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And there shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called “The Way of Set-apartness.” The unclean does not pass over it, but it is for those who walk the way, and no fools wander on it. 9 No lion is there, nor any ravenous beast go up on it, it is not found there. But the redeemed shall walk there.

Yeshayah (Isaiah) 35:1-9 ISR

SIMILARITY #3 

A HIGHWAY AS IT WAS WHEN ISRAEL LEFT EGYPT

• • • • And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Yeshayah (Isaiah) 11:16 KJV

SIMILARITY #4 

LIVING IN TENTS ONCE AGAIN

• • • • “But I am יהוה (the Lord) your Eloheka (God) since the land of Egypt, and again I will make you live in tents as in the days of the appointed feast. 

Hoshĕa (Hosea) 12:9 KJVm

SIMILARITY #5 

RETURNING TO THE PROMISED LAND

• • • • I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And you shall know that I am יהוה, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers. 

Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 20:41-42 KJVm

• • • • Therefore say, thus says יהוה (the Lord) Elohim (God); I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 11:17 KJVm

• • • THE LAND PROMISED AS AN INHERITANCE

• • • • In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 3:18 KJV

• • • NO ROOM WILL BE FOUND

• • • • I will bring them back from the land of Egypt And gather them from Assyria; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon Until no room can be found for them.

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 10:10 NASB

It is not enough to just be in the Promised Land at the appointed time.  Notice that Israel is going be tested and rebellious individuals will be purged.

SIMILARITY #6 

TESTS AND PURGES

• • • • • “And I shall bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. “And I shall bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and shall enter into judgment with you face to face there. “As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitsrayim, so I shall enter into judgment with you,” declares the Master יהוה.“  And I shall make you pass under the rod, and shall bring you into the bond of the covenant, and purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. From the land where they sojourn I bring them out, but they shall not come into the land of Yisra’ĕl. And you shall know that I am יהוה.

Yehezqĕl (Ezekiel) 20: 34-38 ISR

Many people will begin at the start of this gathering.  However, most that do begin are going to be purged and…

• • • ONLY A REMNANT WILL RETURN

• • • • For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. 

Yeshayah (Isaiah) 10:22 NASB

Notice that after arriving into the Land of Israel, two thirds of the people will be purged. 

• • • • And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says יהוה, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but a third will be left therein.  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, יהוה is my Elohim. 

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 13: 8-9 KJVm

This suggest that not the entire country of Israel will be a safe haven. So, if the entire land of Israel is not a safe haven, then… 

WHERE IS THE PLACE OF REFUGE?

• • • A PLACE BEST DESCRIBED AS A PEN

• • • • • “I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.  I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people. 

Miḵah (Micah)  2:12 NIV

According to the prophet Joel, the Remnant will be delivered in:

 THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM

• • • • • • And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of יהוה shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as יהוה has said, and in the remnant whom יהוה shall call. 

Yo’ĕl (Joel)  2:32 KJVm

• • • יהוה WILL DEFEND THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM

• • • • • • In that day יהוה will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He that is feeble among them in that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as Elohim’s angel of יהוה before them. 

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 12:8 KJVm

WATCHMEN WILL CALL OUT

• • • LET US GO UP TO ZION

• • • • For there will be a day, that the watchmen on the mountains of Ephraim will call out, Arise and let us go up to Zion unto יהוה (the Lord) Elohenu (your God). For this says יהוה (the Lord); Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: proclaim, give praise and say, יהוה (the Lord), save your people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company will return here. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:6-9 KJVm

• • THIS IS THE WAY

• • • • People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.  Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.  Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Yeshayah (Isaiah) 30:19-21 NIV

• • • REFINE AS SILVER

• • • • And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, יהוה is my Elohay. 

Zeḵaryah (Zechariah) 13:9 KJVm

So, when does this gathering take place?  According to the prophet Daniel, seven years of allotted prophetic time remains to be fulfilled. This final seven years is often referred to as…

THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL

• • • • And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.  

Dani’ĕl (Daniel) 9:27 KJV

• • • A TIME TIMES & HALF TIME / 3 1/2 YEARS

• • • • “This is what he said, ‘The fourth beast is the fourth reign on earth, which is different from all other reigns, and it devours all the earth, tramples it down and crushes it.   And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns,  and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time. 

Dani’ĕl (Daniel) 7:23-27ISR

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