Israel in Flight — Art Katz

The Weight of the Last-Days Calling

This morning, I think we're going to have it because it is given. So I'm jealous for your sake My reputation has been so long On the dung heap that I don't even bother to consider it. But I want you to receive the full and ample blessing and I know that you're going to be extremely stretched this morning spiritually intellectually and in every way and And I'm very fond of speaking about life and death issues every man likes to heighten the value of his own message by commending to the people who are hearing them that it's not just a message life and death hangs in the balance and That in fact is true in a tangible very real way the issue of life and death of many Will be affected by you and your ability to hear and to receive this word this morning.

That will affect if it's understood and received all of your subsequent future and work. It's the kind of word that brings you of age in the very hearings. Because it has got to do with the ponderous last days work of God through the church.

That we can almost say that everything till now has been preparation so the fact that it has to do with Jews and with Israel should not prejudice you and You should not think that it's a subject that I'm that I'm fond of because I myself am Jewish Just a coincidence the fact is that it's what God has chosen and if we are his people and share his heart we will choose what he chooses and love what he loves and Something has got to be done with that little boy.

God bless him whether it's execution or at the stake or exile, I don't know, but The world is not big enough for the two of us. He'll understand that a later time. That's how important I think that what the Lord is about this morning.

That's We can't even Brooke that kind of Distraction. So Lord having said all these things Puts the premium on you to deliver and If I'm not exaggerating and I have not overstated the importance of this word and this perception of ourselves as the church In your last day's call.

Then I'm asking my God for that revelatory power that breaks into the consciousness of your people and gives an understanding by impartation and not by Cerebration not by the analytical work of our mind which may come later, but Lord I'm asking that Divine work that thing that is sent and finds entry in your people because this mystery is of you and it must be through you in order that it might be to you as glory forever and I know enough to know that you'll not allow any man to touch it.

That'll not be communicated or fulfilled either by human eloquence of an ability or religious Desire it's altogether a supernatural thing because as Paul says It's unto you as glory Forever there will not be another issue at the end of the age Given by you by which your glory will be obtained in this earth and will be will reverberate eternally.

So we just thank you Lord and ask your blessing now. The blessing of your spirit and your anointing for speaking and hearing. May we just sense my God the historic occasion the weight of it and Be open to receive it.

We thank you and give you the praise in Jesus name. Amen. Well, there's any number of texts that can be chosen from the prophets. In fact, the prophets are loaded with references to the last days dealings of God with the nation Israel, but this morning the Lord has just kind of stirred me in the book of Amos in the very last chapter One of the minor prophets not because his message is insignificant.

Amos and the Last-Days Restoration of Israel

But because it's not as voluminous. It's not as large as Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel but altogether related to everything that the major prophets understood about the issue of Israel in the last days.

And this is an extremely compact statement. Which means that we have to unpack it. It says so much in a few words and that is the genius of scripture itself and that's why if you've been groomed on gone with the wind or Tarzan of the apes or something like that and then you come to the Bible.

You're all together on another ground. Have you learned to realize? The genius of the Word of God the scripture and the way that God has to compact and to intensify meaning in just a few words and not the least of his purposes is that he's calling us to draw out his heart and that it's a holy and spiritual phenomenon to read and understand and probe and Extract the meaning of God's Word the theologians call it exegesis the Greek word meaning to draw out.

The Latin word education is from the root educare which also means to draw out so to draw out The Lord's meaning and to have it in ourselves is his intention and when you have it in that way It's transforming and God wants us transformed.

He wants the young people to come of age. To come into a maturity and a grasp and a high seriousness about the things of God. That it could not be expected naturally speaking with regards chronologically to their years and those of us who have been shallow silly and casual and just knockabouts and Filling space and getting by he wants us to come awake and come alive in God.

The Whole Church as the Instrument of God's Glory

There's an enormous ponderous responsibility that can only be performed by the church. The whole church in all of its corporate-ness that means every cell every member is going to be required to be participants.

You know this is more than religion and I praise God for that that he has called us to more than services and I cherish services and An opportunity in services to worship the Lord as we have this morning.

My spirit is just repressed and I know it's going to affect the transmission of the word already it is and of then the proclamation of the word itself coming into the house of God what a privilege and.

And We delight in it and we enjoy it that it benefits us and blesses us, but he has a purpose for himself in it. Everything pertains to the ends of God and his ultimate and eternal purposes the issue of his glory forever.

That's our calling. So if we have jobs and careers don't don't get too occupied with that praise God that it it's his mercy that Clothes our kids and puts food on our table and a roof over our heads, but that's not the purpose for our being.

The issue of God's glory is our purpose and it cannot be obtained by single virtuoso. You're not enough art catches around to do it. It requires the entire church the gray heads the younger the older the kids everything has to do with the Atmosphere and the thing in which is the outworking of God's purpose.

You notice by the way that the world is coming apart at the seams. It's in the process of collapse and final disintegration. There's only one institution in the earth use the language Institution that bodes any hope it's the Church of Jesus Christ in the earth.

And we are called to it and we constitute it. Wow. What privilege huh? Well There's a people who are central to God's last-day purpose who don't know beans. They don't have the faintest notion of anything that I've already said.

Israel's Blindness and the Church's Responsibility

They don't even know their own prophets. My mother who has just visited us stumbled on Isaiah 53 and some references in a book that I've given her of the Testimony of rabbis who were converted. She said where's this Isaiah 53 is it in the New Testament?

This is not an unintelligent woman, but it's typically a Jewish woman who is a biblical illiterate and That that's the condition of my people now that was my condition before the grace of God came. So you really are the lightbearers to a people in darkness and it's going to be the issue of their life and death.

I'm going to describe to you a scenario out of these scriptures and repeat it in many in other places that pictures world Jewry coming to a condition of Final Extremity that will eclipse the whole across of the Hitler time and it's not going to be confined to Germany or to the European nations, it's going to be Experienced in every nation including this nation.

No nation will be exempt in witnessing the drama of the last days extremity of the Jewish people. God is going to allow these terrible things to come upon them. It is a very severe judgment. And I think I can say with some confidence that the majority of Jews now alive in the world will not survive it.

Only a remnant will. But it's interesting that when the smoke clears, it's only a remnant with which God is concerned and any matter. It's only the true remnant of the church that will stand in that last day.

Because we know there's going to be a great falling away in a great apostasy. So God is not interested in numbers. He shocked off the sinners and and the the indifferent the rejecters and when the final light breaks at the end of the age and the introduction to the millennial glory there are two remnants that stand for God a redeemed Israel and the true remnant people of God who were the instruments of Israel's redemption.

Amos 9 and the Sinful Kingdom

Let's look at that in this great text in chapter 9 of Amos beginning with verse 8 Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth. Except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob sayeth the Lord.

So we just a verse at a time and speak a little bit on each verse like for example The sinful kingdom, you know what I love about the Word of God. It doesn't mince words. It doesn't disguise things that doesn't put its best foot forward.

I mean when Jesus said to Jesus Peter get thee behind me Satan and The rebuke said that the Lord had for his own disciples let alone Pharisees. Or ye of little faith and why are you afraid and how long must I bear you and Peter's Painful betrayal before the cock crowed and you know, the Lord tells it like it is.

When he says sinful nation, he means sinful nation and That's the remarkable glory of it that God is going to redeem the remnants of a sinful nation. That is to say it's not because they have any qualification in themselves or any deserving that commends them to God's mercy.

Because mercy by its very definition is very nature is something that issues out of God toward an object. Totally undeserving or not or would not be merciful like for example the mercy that has come to us who believe.

What virtue did we have to commend God's mercy to us? Zero zilch nothing. It's just it's what he is in himself and the greatest demonstration of what he is Will be directed to a people totally undeserving of it the sinful nation and I don't know.

Are you guys reading the newspapers beside the sports section? Have you noticed what's happening in Israel? Talk about a deterioration in the world. Look at the deterioration of that nation. Just take one episode that a Jewish talked about a name of Baruch Goldstein.

Nice Jewish boy like me from New York and the nicest of the nice. Because he's a doctor my son. The doctor is the proudest thing which a Jewish mother can boast and on top of that He's an Orthodox Jew not an atheist of the kind that I was and having all of these virtues He went into a Muslim mosque in Hebron on one of their high Islamic holy days and Shot up the works and killed at a minimum of 39 people and wounded many others before he himself was found to death.

It has never been heard in modern Jewish history that a Jew should be violent. We have been the objects of violence. It has been visited upon us, but it's something what shall I say? Contrary to our nature as the people where we're we're usually, you know quiet unobtrusive.

Although I have to say there were Jewish boxers out of the Depression years, you know when men had to make a living somehow Benny Leonard and Slapsy Maxie Rosenblum and guys like that. And he was Slapsy Maxie.

But as a rule Jews are not famous for violence until the state of Israel. In fact, it's violence that preserves the state. It's the nation's ability to be violent and to threaten violence that has kept it from the onslaught of its enemies.

Necessity has forced violence upon us as a way of life. But you remember what God said curse it is that man who is trust in the honor of his own flesh. And blessed that is that man whose hope is the Lord Israel is not blessed.

It does not know the Lord does not trust in the Lord. It hopes in itself in its own strength and is a Painful daily revelation. Of something that Jews have needed to see for millennia. That we have no special thing going for us.

We may have thought that we had some distinctives and. But and we wanted to prove it by having our own nation and show the world what a Jewish nation is like. You you goyim you Gentiles, of course, you're gonna be corrupt.

Of course, you're going to employ violence. Of course, you're going to have scandals. But if we Jews ever had a nation we'd show you what it's like. It would be moral ethical everything that we have been unable to demonstrate in 45 years and especially now and it will get worse and the finest of us is now killing People in innocent blood in some self-appointed mission to blot out the Arabs and to ensure Israel's safety.

And you know what the heck of it is. People are going to his tomb as almost a worship. He's become a national religious hero and even his mother and his wife tout him as some kind of Great hero of the nation who shot that number of people in cold blood put on his ear The sound protectors and just blasted away at people who are in a posture of prayer.

I'm not a defender of Islam. But I think that that is a symbolic episode and we Jews will pay for it. It's good. It's a sinful nation. It's a sinful kingdom. But it one day will be listen to this. The residents and the locusts of the kingdom of God in the earth.

Israel as a Future Apostolic Nation

It's not unlike God taking the murder of Paul whose name was then Saul and making him the chief apostle of the church. God just is God like that. He takes the worst and he makes of it the best and he's going to do the same thing with this entire nation.

This nation will be the Paul of the millennial age they will have an apostolate to the nation and Right now what we're suffering from in pornography filth and corruption and defilement will be no more when Jews who are bearing the light of God in the way of God and Will be the mouthpieces of God will bring to the nation's their priestly Ministry that was their calling from the first believe us Elvis.

Not only must you believe it, but if you're going to be the church that will be used to obtain this. You've got to believe it with joy. You've got to identify with this drama and understand the mystery of it.

Paul calls it a mystery and That somehow this glorifies God. He would not have had as much glory as much honor as much credit if he had taken the people who who showed themselves to have Attributes and distinctions of a spiritual kind that he could employ.

He's much more glorified when he takes beggars off the dung keep and he makes them to sit with see the issue is God's glory forever and it's going to take the least likely candidate a Sinful nation and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth.

How do you like that phrase? I don't know if we'll get beyond this this one verse. But you've got to get beyond it. That is to say How are you equipped to understand a God who will destroy? We had a little breakfast conversation about the severity of God and How the church is lacking in the understanding of a God who can be severe that's crippling for the church if you don't know God as Judge as Paul knew him as judge.

You're going to live a slipshod life. You're going to live a lackluster black life because what's lacking in you that is God's intention is his fear and the greatest thing that God has given to inculcate the knowledge of his fear has been the testimony of his judgments to Israel.

Some people I can tell you right out now are going to lose their faith. They're going to become apostates because they're going to become offended when they see God destroy this sinful nation. They are not prepared for that in modern times.

It sounds inimical Opposed to what we understand God's nature to be but who's in error here? It's we who are projected upon him capital H a soft sappy Sentimental view that is not God at all and we call it Jesus.

That's called deception. The way in which God guards us and keeps us from deception is Showing us the fulfillment of his word even when he chooses to be a judge who will destroy. But the precious thing about God is that he not only kills but he makes alive.

He slays but he resurrects and are you ready for this? There's going to be a resurrection of an entire nation. Will somebody please choke and splutter and fall out of their seat and cry out in opposition that this can't be this is too much.

I can't believe this. This has got to be metaphor. This is some spiritualizing. You surely do not mean literal resurrection from the dead. Why? Why should you stagger over that is it so great a thing for God to raise the dead.

Aren't we exactly here as believers because he has. And aren't we encouraged to believe that because he has raised Jesus he will raise us also the greatest event that concludes the age is the resurrection of an entire Nation out of the death of God's last days judgment upon them.

The Dry Bones and the Prophetic Son of Man

Now, here's the catch. How is that performed? Not by God in some mystical way Speaking to that nation but by employing a son of man who is a prophet and commanding him to prophesy to the dry bones of that nation who are destitute and without hope and cut off and See themselves as being very dry.

And unless there's a prophet who can speak to those bones they remain dry. Are you guys following me tell me tell me when I reach the end of your what do they call it your Capacity your Yeah. Supposed to be like 20 30 minutes something like that.

I'm asking a miracle this morning. Right if I'm right in what I'm suggesting now, you're ready for me to pull the string. Do you know who the son of man is whom God will command to speak to those dry bones.

In a historic moment of time calculated that is a future and toward which we are sending. Who is that prophetic son of man who has the authority? The creative power the union and Identification with God himself that he can speak for him as him so as to raise an entire nation by the word Come forth.

Who is he. Is he anywhere in the audience this man? Who doesn't even know that he has this calling and would be shocked to learn it because he's just an average Joe. You know, he's just a nice guy. Who's a believer and keeps his nose clean and I'm no prophet.

Everybody who's in the audience this morning is that son of man put that in your spiritual pipe and smoke it. Everybody. It's either going to come out of a corporate son of man a Church that has come to its full prophetic constituency and stature.

The word that was used about me this morning in introduction. Because only that word Corporately spoken as one voice in Perfect and total agreement as the Church of older of one heart and one mind and one soul and Paul says say the same thing.

Speak the same things. Not because you're a tomatons of or punched off the assembly line. You're a distinct individual. But in the individual dealing of God with your life and in the process of the formation of your own growth and maturity.

You're in agreement with God and so it's everyone else with you in the moment that has come that you can speak the Word of God as one voice that raises the dead. Now if you got anything up here. And any kind of sense, you know what your next question has got to be.

You tell me what the next question is if this is the destiny of the church to be the prophetic voice of God to a dead nation who will be Eternally indebted to the church made up essentially of Gentiles.

That that church whom they have disdained and have been contemptuous of all their history long. Was their saving grace and they'll just bow at your feet and hug you and embrace you eternally. That you were the instrument of their deliverance and salvation.

You Gentiles you guys who who barely have made it through high school and and have nothing that Jews would ever look upon with. In any way to be impressed were the instrument of God's use for their eternal deliverance.

I'll stake my my life on what I'm saying this morning guys. I'll stake everything that what I'm speaking to you is the eternal truth of God and I'm one of the few men who know it. And it proclaim it freely.

And even those who are sympathetic to Israel are opposed to my view. Because they do not want to consider the necessary death that precedes the resurrection. I'm the only one who's got the gut and understands the way of God because of his own dealings with my own life and even with then Israel that I Recognize and know that I know that death must proceed resurrection.

Whether it's individual or a community or a ministry or a marriage or a nation. Anything that pertains to God's glory can only issue out of resurrection. But there must be a first death and Israel is tending toward that death.

But are you tending toward the prophetic place to save them from the death? That's the question. That's why we're here in Williams Bay. What do you think I need speaking engagement? And that's why I just came back from Russia and the Ukraine and Warsaw and Romania and little dinky nothing places and Why?

Because till we all come. Till we all come. I wish the Lord had said till Most of us or some of us come or just a few out who can speak for God Prophetically no till we all come into the fullness and stature of Jesus Christ unto the perfect man.

If this does not come to Williams Bay, I despair for my entire nation if every cell and every member of the body constitutes the corporateness and the fullness of Christ. Then any segment of the body whether it's Warsaw Poland or Dinkyville, Romania or someplace in the Ukraine or Williams Bay?

Cannot be exempted. We're in this together and It's this very recognition of our call to be the agent of Israel's deliverance. That is God's unifying theme principle and revelation any other basis for unity is political false ecumenical and hoax and the only reason why men are Working to obtain it through denominational and religious structures rather than the organism Which is the body is because they have not this revelation and don't want to have it.

Because it centers in a people whom they despise and do not want to see resurrected unto glory. Oh I'm giving you something to think about and chew on and in fact, if the principle of resurrection from the dead is not working today I would despair of the entire process.

Today now this morning in this message this word has got to be something that raises you up out of the grave of indifference of ignorance of Distraction of all the kinds of things that keep you from your own prophetic fulfillment.

And if this will not work by the word, it will not work Even right here. It'll shut down. So Can you believe for a God who will destroy Who is yet the God of love? Some of us are going to be offended by such a God Because we've never allowed his judgments into our life.

Well when they have come we have not rightly understood them and have attributed them to men or factors or the economy or some other thing or to a lousy marriage or this wife or that and not have one have not understood and Made the principle of God's judgment a first basis for explaining adversity crisis and death.

The Sifting of Israel Among the Nations

Except I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob sayeth Lord for lo I will command that I will sift the house of Israel among all nations. Just as corn is sifted in a sieve yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

Put a box right around that verse a neon box. Let's let the light blink on and off God's last days dealing with world. Jewry is a sifting through the nation. So does that include the USA? All the nations there will not be a nation exempt on the face of the earth.

Through which Jews will pass in their last days extremity in the process of God's sifting. See we have to even catch the language that's being used. What do we sift today? What have you sifted last? We're a modern technological civilization.

It's all done for us by Pillsbury and General Mills. It comes to us sifted, but I have enough recollection to remember my Jewish mother Sifting flour to get the lumps out if she was making something and it's like a fine Strainer that you just shake back and forth and the coarse lumps cannot come through but only the fine grains can.

God is going to do that with entire nations and he's going to do it through the nations and in the nation and Not one colonel will fall to the ground. He'll know every speck that comes through because he says the sinners of my people will not be sifted out.

They're going to perish in the process. They shall die by the sword in verse 10 who say this evil shall not overtake us nor confront us. I'm afraid that that describes the majority of Jewish people in the last.

Because my time is limited. I just am required to make one or two statements and pass on. They're going to be sifted through the nations. And God is going to bring them into contact with his people because it's only his people who will reach out to them and extend mercy in their time of Jacob's trouble and national affliction in the world.

The Church's Call to Protect Jewish Refugees

Basements their barns their properties to take in Jews. Because if they're not taken in and they're detected and apprehended it's Right here in River City, can you believe that? That that could happen in America as it happened in Nazi Germany.

And the fact that we have Michael Jordan and apple pie and the World Series does not absolve us from the demonic Outpouring of the last days that will bring a global hatred against that people by every government and every people that the only semblance of mankind that will have any compassion for this utterly degraded and Despicable nothing people Jesus calls them the least of these my brethren will be his church.

And as a matter of fact that will identify who the true church is. Because listen, why should you have any concern for Jews? Come on. Any one of you why. You have nothing in your experience except maybe distasteful things or negative things.

Why should you extend yourself for a people whom the world will then come to despise and Blame for everything for collapsed economies for war for the last days Collapse of the world they come in their comfort their security.

Jews have always been the scapegoat for the failures in nations. Why should you have an attitude other than what the world has and why should you have a concern and why should you have a Compassion and why should you be willing to extend yourself?

When it means that you're putting your neck on the line it's going to be a risk to identify with that people at that time a Risk of your own life, so it'll take a few miracles. One is your deep Identification with God in his love for that despised people.

Because no matter how much their conduct stinks his love is not measured by our goodness. It's something that just flows out of him in an unconditional way it cannot be offended against. And so the issue of the people the last days will rescue them.

Those who are so in union with that God that his love is their love his seeing is their seeing his compassion is their compassion. What what basic question am I prompting here I have yet to get the answer from you.

When I said that it's going to be a prophetic people. Whose word will be the issue of life or death for Israel now? I'm saying in the very same way is going to be a compassionate people. Who will extend themselves even at the risk of their own life and that of their own children?

To take in a despised people because if they don't take them in they'll perish in their wilderness and The wilderness does not mean a jungle. It just means any location outside of principal urban centers.

Where they can be sifted and brought and move from place to place without being recognized and detected. Which is the very reason we have been 20 years in Minnesota? That's why God takes a Brooklyn boy.

A big city boy and brings him up to the boondocks and nowheresville. Because it's there that God has intended a place of refuge in flight. You know what the great question is that that all of this racist if this is true art.

And we are presently nowhere near the condition that this kind of scenario requires. We don't have that kind of compassion even for each other let alone for Jews. We don't have prophetic authority. We can't speak a word that raises the dead where we we have trouble even mustering the faith to pray for someone's called and sniffle.

Suffering as Preparation for Prophetic Ministry

So the question is the great question How do we get from where we presently are? To the ultimate condition in which we need to be if this is going to be fulfilled and there's a one-word answer and I'll give an a for the day to anyone who can suggest it.

It begins with an s. Suffering church is the place of suffering before it's the place of glory. We're going to have to be a community that can bear the weight of the assault that will come to us physically and morally and spiritually by Jews that are completely deranged and uprooted and in a condition of panic and Their mouths will be full of blabber and they'll they'll be full of hatred against what has happened to them by Gentiles.

And what are you? And you have to take the onslaught and it has to be like water off the duck's back. You can't be offended and right now if I said one word boy, you'd. You'd raise up like who? That means there's got to be a deep Sanctifying work in the people of God and that means it needs to begin now.

It's not going to be obtained in that moment. This is the time of preparation and that's why I have the liberty to speak this word to put you on alert. The only one thing that is lacking it will probably come by the end of the message is an invitation.

To say yes to God. Well, whatever in his sight would be required to establish you as that people. And supposing what I'm saying doesn't take place. What have you lost? In allowing him that preparation with you and I want to tell you it's not compulsory.

You don't have to. You can sit you can be an average saint and get by. You'll be eternally embarrassed that that's what you do. But this is an opportunity for your eternal joy and not your eternal embarrassment.

By saying yes to the Lord and whatever it takes to prepare us as a people and to be prepared together. You watch things change when you say yes to the Lord for that in that day. Here's here's what's at stake folks in that day.

The Tabernacle of David and God's Theocratic Kingdom

Will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up its runes and I will build it as in the days of old. What all of this just to restore Davidic worship and Tambourine banging and and Israeli melodies and what.

It's very expensive if it's just that. Are you guys following me? The tabernacle of David has come to mean in the charismatic movement Davidic worship. Talk about faulty exegesis. God is not going to go through all of this elaborate life-and-death.

Agony of an entire nation being bled and his greatest numbers. Dying by the sword being hunted and pursued in a Nazi terror that will come to it in demonic onslaught. Just so that there could be the restoration of Davidic worship.

I mean we got that now. The tabernacle of David has not a cotton-picking thing to do with worship. The very fact that we think it does is a statement of our in anity and immaturity and triumphalist attitude of Elevating the church over Israel and not understanding God's literal intent for that nation.

The tablet tabernacle of David is the theocratic government of God his rule and reign over his creation. But why is it called the tabernacle of David. Because that's where his rule must center. I didn't make this up folks.

There's got to be someone descended from David to sit on the throne of David or there will be no no Davidic theocratic kingdom. I don't know how anxious you are for that government. I can't wait myself.

For a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. I'm sick to the teeth with Clinton's and and Human government's administrations and Jezebel influences and and monolithic government with programs that are going to not only end poverty poverty.

But change the moral condition of the nation. What a bunch of hokum and farce and defeat. No, there's a certain corollary between Clinton and Baruch Goldstein. They are the best of their kind and the best ain't good enough and God's showing us that We had any hope in man.

We're watching now a man so frustrated so tied and not so stupefied by the issues of power and not knowing how to employ it and just a contradiction in himself morally and ethically and intellectually.

He can't govern himself. How is he going to govern a nation and a nation that should be an influence in the world? There's only one answer there ever was only one answer. It's the theocratic rule of God.

Theo meaning what? God. Theology is the study of God. Theophilus is what's the lover of God for whom Luke wrote the book of Acts? Theo theology is God and. So what is a theocracy? It's the government of God perfect righteous holy and true.

Zion, Jerusalem, and the Nations

Now here's the catch it will not come except this nation is restored. It's got to be the tabernacle of David that has fallen down. God will restore it as he restores them. Because the law of the Lord will go forth out of Zion and the Word of the Lord out of Jerusalem to all nations.