Restitution
Promised
“Repent you therefore, and be
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing will come from
the presence of the Lord; “And he will send Jesus Christ, which before was preached
to you: “Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. (Acts
3:19-21)
Covenant With Abraham — A Seed in
Heaven and Earth
And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham
out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for
because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son: That in
blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of
the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed will possess the
gate of his enemies; And in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed;
because you have obeyed my voice. (Genesis 22:15-18)
Covenant Renewed With Isaac — Only
Heavenly Seed
And there was a famine in the land, beside
the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the
Philistines to Gerar. And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;
dwell in the land which I will tell you of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you,
and will bless you; for to you, and to your seed, I will give all these countries, and I
will perform the oath which I swear to Abraham your father; And I will make your seed to
multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries; and
in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed;(Genesis 26:1-4)
Covenant Renewed With Jacob — Only
Earthly Seed
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went
toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night,
because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his
pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up
on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending
and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of
Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon you lie, to you will I give
it, and to your seed; And your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread
abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in
your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 28:10-14)
Promised to Israel
Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out
of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I
will show you: And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your
name great; and you will be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless you, and curse
him that curses you: and in you will all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis
12:1-3)
And the LORD said, Will I hide from Abraham
that thing which I do; Seeing that Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?(Genesis 18:17,18)
But Israel will be saved in the LORD with an
everlasting salvation: you will not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. For says
the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has
established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD;
and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:17,18)
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD will
return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be upon their head: they
will obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning will flee away. (Isaiah 51:11)
For you will go out with joy, and be led
forth with peace: the mountains and the hills will break forth before you into singing,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thorn will come up
the fir tree, and instead of the brier will come up the myrtle tree: and it will be to the
LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off. (Isaiah 55:12,13)
For as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make, will remain before me, says the LORD, so will your seed and your name
remain. And it will come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath
to another, will all flesh come to worship before me, says the LORD. (Isaiah 66:22,23)
At that time they will call Jerusalem the
throne of the LORD; and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD,
to Jerusalem: neither will they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come
together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to
your fathers. (Jeremiah 3:17,18)
Therefore, behold, the days come, says the
LORD, that they will no more say, The LORD lives, which brought up the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD lives, which brought up and which led the seed of
the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven
them; and they will dwell in their own land. (Jeremiah 23:7,8)
For I will set mine eyes upon them for good,
and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down;
and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. And I will give them an heart to know me,
that I am the LORD: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will
return to me with their whole heart. (Jeremiah 24:6,7)
For the children of Israel will abide many
days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,
and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward will the children of Israel return,
and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and will fear the LORD and his goodness
in the latter days. (Hosea 3:4,5)
And the floors will be full of wheat, and
the fats will overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the
locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army
which I sent among you. And you will eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name
of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people will never be
ashamed. (Joel 2:24-26)
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones
are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is
lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say to them, says the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves,
and bring you into the land of Israel. And you will know that I am the LORD, when I have
opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And will put my
spirit in you, and you will live, and I will place you in your own land: then will you
know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD. (Ezekiel 37:11-14)
And David my servant will be king over them;
and they all will have one shepherd: they will also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them. And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my
servant, where your fathers have dwelt; and they will dwell there, even they, and their
children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David will be their
prince for ever. (Ezekiel 37:24,25)
Promised to Other Nations
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab
in the latter days, says the LORD. So far is the judgment of Moab. (Jeremiah 48:47)
But it will come to pass in the latter days,
that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, says the LORD. (Jeremiah 49:39)
When I will bring again their captivity, the
captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then
will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the midst of them: When your sisters,
Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters
will return to their former estate, then you and your daughters will return to your former
estate. (Ezekiel 16:53,55)
The men of Nineveh will rise in judgment
with this generation, and will condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of
Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. (Matthew 12:41)
Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida!
for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they
would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say to you, It will be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And you, Capernaum,
which are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which
have been done in you, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But
I say to you, That it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment,
than for you. (Matthew 11:21-24)
Therefore wait you upon me, says the LORD,
until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations,
that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce
anger: for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. For then will I
turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to
serve him with one consent. (Zephaniah 3:8,9)
For the earth will be filled with the
knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (Habakkuk 2:14)
And the LORD will be king over all the
earth: in that day will there be one LORD, and his name one. (Zechariah 14:9)
And the angel said to them, Fear not: for,
behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which will be to all people. A light to
lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel. (Luke 2:10,32)
So restitution is promised to: the
Israelites, Moabites, Elamites, Sodomites, Samaritans; the people of Tyre, Sidon, and
Nineveh; to “the kingdoms”, “all nations”, “all the earth”,
and “the ends of the earth”. We also have all others that could have been left
out included in: Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take
out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is
written, After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is
fallen down; and I will build again the ruins of it, and I will set it up: That the
residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is
called, says the Lord, who does all these things. (Acts 15:14-17)
See also:
For the Son of man is come to seek and to
save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10)
Every valley will be filled, and every
mountain and hill will be brought low; and the crooked will be made straight, and the
rough ways will be made smooth; And all flesh will see the salvation of God. (Luke 3:5,6)
That was the true Light, which lights every
man that comes into the world. The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold
the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world. (John 1:9,29)
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine
own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which has sent
me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again
at the last day. (John 6:38,39)
For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ will all be
made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21,22)
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you
will all nations be blessed. (Galatians 3:8)
Having made known to us the mystery of his
will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself: That in the
dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:(Ephesians 1:9,10)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight
of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the
truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (1 Timothy 2:3-6)
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and
not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2)
Nevertheless we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. (2 Peter 3:13)
We have given here a large number of texts
showing clearly that Restitution is promised. But these are only about one-tenth of such
texts which are found in the Bible.
REF: C:256; A:149-172; E:155, 156;
Z’97-229, paragraphs 1-5.
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