The Restoration of all Things

Next weekend  (Saturday May 26th at sundown through Sunday May 27th at sundown) is the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot, also known as Pentecost. On this day in history, YHVH gave the Torah (YHVH's word of instruction) to Moses on Mt. Sinai and a Covenant was made between YHVH and His people. He had rescued them (and anyone else who wanted to join them) from Egypt 50 days earlier when they crossed the Red Sea. The Torah was the wedding vows that His people pledged to follow, instructions on how to live in relationship with the Living Elohim (God) and fellow man.  But that covenant was broken by His people when they turned away from Him (time and time again) and YHVH had to grant a bill of divorce to His people. (YVHV did not divorce His people as He would never break covenant with them. it wasa due to their unfaithfulness to Him.)

"Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had commmitted adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her trecherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also...Return to Me, O backsliding children", says the Lord, "For I am married to you. I will take you, one from the city and two from a family and I will bring you to Zion." (Jeremiah 3: 8,14)
At different times both Judah and Israel (the Southern and Northern Kingdom of Israel) were taken into captivity, Israel by Assyria and Judah by Babylon.

Yeshua (Jesus' name in Hebrew) the Living Word of God (the Living Torah) came to renew the Covenant between YVHV and His people (Judah, Israel and anyone else who wanted to join in) through His death, burial and resurrection from the dead. He lived out the Torah perfectly. 50 days later on Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended on His people and indwelt them in order to write His Word (Torah, Yeshua) on their hearts. This is the Renewed Covenant. It was the beginning of the restoration of all things.

"Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law (Torah) in their minds and write it on their hearts; and I will be their Elohim and they shall be my people." (Jeremiah 31:31-33)

After Pentecost (Pente means 50 in Greek) Peter and John were at the Temple for afternoon prayers when they came across the lame man and healed him in the name of Yeshua. Peter then went on and told all those who rushed to see this great thing:

"Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we made this man walk? The Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Elohim of our fathers, glorified His servant, Yeshua whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you and killed the prince of Life whom Elohim raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this  perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Yet now brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which Elohim foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, He has fulfilled. Repent, therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Yeshua Messiah,, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which Elohim has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." (Acts 3:12-21)

And

"Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them." For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers." (Jeremiah 16:14-17)

 See below how Elohim is bringing together the Restoration of all Things:

And there will be a wedding, when once again we are fully restored:

"Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory, for the marriage supper of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. And it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, write, 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, these are the true sayings of Elohim.'

(Revelation 19:7-9)

Shabbat Shalom and be blessed!