Phase 3 -Page 1: The Jews repent in Egypt meeting the conditions of the Mosaic Covenant as outlined in Deut 30:1-10 and Lev 26:41-45. God now reaches down to save them as a people and a nation and prepares them for a second exodus out of Egypt to take their land back and defeat their enemies (phase 4)

Repentance in Egypt

  During the process of the mass return in the 'Day of calamity' (see chart above), we studied in phase 1 the Jews being dumped into Egypt coming from other nations; phase 2 - Israel and Jerusalem taken over by their worst enemies but God speaking through Ezekiel tells the mountains of Israel to get read to bear fruit (Ezekiel 36:8-11) for the mass return from all nations is about to take place.

Ezekiel 36:8-23
8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

    Ezekiel 37 (see Phase 2 page 3) said that God was going to bring all the Jews out of their graves (nations where they have been scattered for over 2500 years). Though their enemies have taken over the land of Israel and many Jews are dying in Egypt, God says he is going to turn them into an exceeding great army though it seems the nation and people have been slain (dead without hope). Ezekiel asked can these bones live again? God answers and said they must have breath - that is - they must turn back to Jehovah God in obedience to the Mosaic Covenant. Phase 3 (current phase - see chart above) now tells the details of how God deals with this situation the Jews find themselves in their 'Day of Calamity' and how He brings them to repentance while they are in Egypt and brings then into what Ezek 20:37 call s 'bond of the Covenant' that they may live and not die as a people and as a nation. This will be such a monumental task that God will literally raise the nation from the dead in the eyes of the whole world to sanctify His Holy Name. God will demonstrate to a world that says Israel's God is dead, that He lives and is faithful to every promise He made to His people Israel.

Ezekiel 20:33-38
33 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.
37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

33 As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:

  'As I live' God begins by saying that He is a living God whereas the nations of the world say that He is dead. The nations are worshiping the god of Antichrist - a new and strange god ( Daniel 11).  After all, in time frame 1 Antichrist and his empire have already come to power with Satanic signs and wonders attributing his power and success to a new god (which is Satan himself but the world is deceived). Antichrist will be one of the tools God will use in the last days to accomplish His purpose for the Church, the Jews and the Gentiles.

 

  Ezekiel 20:33 says that now the living God who has been watching, waiting and listening, is now going to move by His mighty hand and will stretch out His arm and pour out His fury to bring the Jews to a place so that He will rule over them.

34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

  We read in Phase 1 - Deuteronomy 28:68, that after the Jews have been scattered among all nations (this has lasted over 2500 years - see phase chart above) that these same nations will ship the Jews back to Egypt where they will try to sell themselves as bondmen and bondwomen and no one will buy them. Ezekiel 20:33,34 is confirming phase 1 that God is using His fury and bringing them out from among the people and out of the nations where they have been presently scattered. Notice, that God is causing circumstances to forcibly evict them out of these countries in fury. Antichrist and the nations may think they are doing it on their own but they are sadly mistaken. The Jews had been scattered because of sin and disobedience for over 2500 years and their prophesized 'time of iniquity' not having a nation and a capitol they could call their own ended in 1967 A.D. (Ezekiel 4, Intro, phase 2)'.  But they are still scattered and now God is pouring out His fury so the Jews repent so He can cause His blessings to come upon their land, their cattle, their goods, and them as a people and a nation and defeat their enemies.  BUT GOD CANNOT DO THIS UNLESS THEY TURN TO HIM FOR THAT IS THE REASON THEY WERE SCATTERED ALL THESE YEARS IN THE FIRST PLACE - DISOBEDIENCE.  God says in 20:33 - I WILL RULE OVER YOU!

35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.

  In verse 34, God says He will bring them out of the nations where they have been scattered and bring them into the wilderness of the people. This will be a place where they will congregate in the wilderness of Egypt. This is where God will plead with them in the same manner that God pleaded with their fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt in the time of Moses. The wilderness then is in the land of Egypt confirming what Moses said in Deuteronomy 28:68 (see phase 1).

Deuteronomy 28:68
68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

  Many will come by ship and congregate in the wilderness of Egypt because no man will buy them as bondmen or bondwomen. Since they are coming by ship this would have to be near the Red Sea and Moses confirms this in Deut 28:68 when He says 'by the way I have spoken unto thee' meaning, where they crossed over the Red Sea when they first came out of Egypt. The wilderness of the people most likely is near or the land of Goshen where they gathered when Moses lead the children of Israel out the first time. God says He will plead with them like He did with their fathers in the days of Moses. God pleaded with them to obey His word so that He could bring them into the land in a covenant relationship of blessings. In the days of Moses they wandered around for 40 years in sin and unbelief. That whole generation almost all died before they were ready to obey God (Hebrews 3:15).

Heb 3:15
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

  The genertion that was born in the wilderness in Moses day finally entered into the promised land under Joshua. The same choice will now exists in the 'Day of Calamity' for these Jews in Egypt that are there as a result of phase 1, phase 2 (see Egypt in phase chart above) to turn to God to obey His word and experience divine deliverance OR die in the wilderness like their fathers did in the days of Moses.

37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

  God says that He will cause each Jew in the wilderness to pass under the rod. The rod here is likened to a shepherd who would count his sheep as they came in or out of the fold. If one is lost he would seek it out. The fold will be those that repent and turn to God - the God of their fathers - Jehovah. They are the ones that will come into the 'bond of the covenant' (20:37). This Covenant  would be the Mosaic covenant which was conditional  in that it required obedience and not the Abrahamic covenant which was unconditional and stated the land of Israel belongs to the Jews because of Abraham's faithfulness. The Mosaic covenant required obedience for the Jews to live and remain in the land and be blessed without be driven out. The requirement of obedience is clearly a part of the Mosaic covenant so that God can do His part in this bond - Deut 29:12, 13.

Deut 29:12,13
12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:
13 That he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  God spoke through Moses in Deuteronomy, that after the blessings and the curse of been scattered among all the nations comes upon them, that their will be a time when they will recall all these events to mind and search their heart. Then, if they return unto the Lord and obey all his commandments with their heart and all their soul, they and their children, then God will turn their captivity from among the nations and bring them out and bring them into the bond of the covenant - that is the blessings. Read these words carefully
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Deuteronomy 30:1-10
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou
mayest live.
7 And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
9 And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

  Based on Deut 28:68 (phase 1), Ezek 20:33-38, Deut 30:1-10 (above scriptures), we see that at first many Jews will come by ship to Egypt from the nations that do not want them (phase 1. Israel will also be taken over during this time by the Jews worst enemies and many will flee to Egypt (Ezek 35, 36 see phase 2). When the Jews do repent and turn to God in Egypt then those that still remain scattered among the nations will return to Israel. They will see the miraculous hand of God deliver the Jews out of Egypt a second time with a mighty deliverance and demonstration of His power (phase 4). The reappearance of the Ark of the Covenant with God's power accompany it, will be a powerful signal to all Jews that it is time to come home. (see phase 3 - page 2, ).

38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  The rebels are those that do not repent toward God in Egypt- that is- do not seek to obey the laws and commandments that God had commanded them as a nation under Moses. They will be purged. They are those that either have been brought out of the nations where they had been scattered for over the last 2500 years and shipped to Egypt (phase 1), or those that fled the land of Israel to Egypt (phase 2). They die in Egypt because they do not repent. God says clearly they will not enter the land of Israel (20:38). God goes on to say that those remaining will KNOW that this is the Lord's doing and this will be abundantly clear why as we study the remaining scriptures of the the mass return.