Next Year In Jerusalem

The New Year starts out full of hope and promise. Don't know why this is so, because it's just another day.

Next year in Jerusalem! How long, down the centuries, has that cry gone out. And what pathos and longing it stirs. We should be joining in with the thousands who make that cry! Next year in Jerusalem!

It's like the cry of a Christian, 'Come quickly, Lord Jesus'. As the Christian waits for the return of the Lord, so does the Jew wait for the restoration of all things. That's what the cry is for - next year in Jerusalem.

Two different perspectives, two equal longings, the same and yet different. Christians know that it is the Lord Jesus who restores all things, restores relationships, restores nations, builds nations, brings down nations, but in the heart of a believer, it is still - next year in Jerusalem.

The days of our lives on earth should be full of good works and the looking forward to good things. We don't have long to spend on earth, we have a 'better and enduring substance' - a life on earth and yet not on earth.

The angels of the Israel of God looked out for nation. The angels of the Church today, do the same. They watched over the Seven Churches of Revelation. Let Christians likewise, watch out for the will of God, and the word of God to be done on earth.

There is nothing wrong with that. Jesus would always have gathered the nation of Israel under 'His wing', but they often didn't want to know. The Gentiles have inherited something wonderful from faithful Abraham. They have the right and privilege to have been grafted into God's nation. What a wonderful happening! What a wonderful inheritance.

So Christians watch and wait, like Jews do. They wait for the Revelation of the Restorer of All Things, our blessed and beloved Jesus Christ.