Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. . . . Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. 1
“According to the prophecy, a spiritual return of some form must first take place among the Jewish people before the physical return to the land can begin. It will trigger that return. But to return, one must go back to that which one has left. So there would have to be a spiritual return to that which was departed from in the beginning.”
“The prophecy of Hosea,” I said. “It foretold that in the last days the Jewish people would have to return to David their king, the Messiah . . . thus a return to the Messiah they had once left. And it would have to be one that they left from in the first century when they left the land. And there’s only one who fits the requirement—Jesus . . . or Yeshua.”
“In two thousand years there has been no other.”
“What about the olive tree that I saw and the branches that were broken off and reattached?”
“In the Book of Romans the apostle Paul writes of the faith as an olive tree, an olive tree linked to the Jewish people but to which the Gentiles were now being grafted in. But he adds that the Jewish people, the natural branches, though separated from the tree, will, in the end, be grafted back in, reattached.”
“So then there would have to be some sort of spiritual return among the Jewish people, a return to the Messiah. There would have to be an initial spiritual return before the return to the land could begin. Did such a thing ever take place?”
“It did,” said the Oracle. “In the nineteenth century a spiritual revival took place among the Jewish people. And it was exactly that, a return to that from which they had departed two thousand years earlier.”
“A return to Jesus?”
“To their Messiah, Yeshua. And it was only after the spiritual return began that the physical return to the land was set in motion. The two returns were joined together, just as had been the two departures. Each return represented the reclaiming of a lost possession, the physical return to Israel’s physical possession, and the spiritual return to the nation’s spiritual possession.”
“Where did the spiritual return take place?”
“According to the prophecy, it would take place among the nations where the Lord had driven them. It would begin in Europe, in the British Empire. The same empire that would later play a central role in the Jewish people’s physical return would first play a central role in their spiritual return. And both returns would center on the same city.”
“London?”
“Yes, and it would center on one specific event.”
“A specific event?”
“In the first century, in the days of the Book of Acts, a gathering took place of Messianic Jewish believers, disciples, apostles, and leaders in Jerusalem. It was from that gathering that the door of faith would be opened to the nations. The gospel would go forth beyond the land of Israel to the nations. And the Gentiles would now come in. That gathering would change the course of world history.
“But as the first century neared its end and the days of the Book of Acts drew to a close, such gatherings of Jewish believers disappeared from the world. But in the days of return that which disappeared . . . ”
“Must reappear,” I said. “So was there another gathering?”
“Yes,” he replied. “It would be the first such gathering in two thousand years, the first such council of Messianic Jewish believers since the days of the disciples. They came from the nations, teachers, leaders, and emissaries, to the city of London. There they worshipped, prayed, shared, declared their identity, agreed on their purpose and mission, and arrived at a resolution. The gathering established the first known alliance of Messianic Jewish believers since the first disciples gathered in Jerusalem two thousand years earlier. One of the speakers at the event reminded the assembly of its ancient origins. He said this:
There was a meeting a long time ago, when Jews from every nation were gathered together, and the Lord poured out His Spirit upon them: that was the first Hebrew-Christian Alliance ... 2
“The council that convened in Jerusalem at the beginning of the age resulted in