0582. The Return

The Return

"Then she arose with her two daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab, how that the Lord had visited His people in giving them bread" (Rth_1:6).

Israel has lost much in the land of the Gentiles, but a remnant according to grace has been sustained and that remnant will surely return to the land.

When Israel returns, the Lord will have restored the early and the latter rains. The famine will have passed. The very mountains and the hills will melt with new wine. The plowman will overtake the reaper and the sower of seed will follow close upon the gatherer of the grain.

In those days God will rebuke the devourer, for Israel’s sake; He will not destroy the fruits of their ground.

Concerning the days of Israel’s return, Jehovah says: "Neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field * * for ye shall be a delightsome land."

Then will Israel sing:

"I’ve reached the land of corn and wine,

And all its riches freely mine,

Here shines undimmed one blissful day,

For all my night has passed away."

Naomi wanted the people to call her Mara, "bitter;" but she could not be so called, for the Lord dealt bountifully with her and restored her more than she had formerly possessed.

So Israel shall be a royal diadem in the hand of her God. In the day of her return to her land, God says to her:

"Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken,

Neither shall thy land be called Desolate:

But thou shalt be called Hephzibah,

(My delight is in her),

And thy land Beulah, (married)."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR