Restoration — Emanuel Esh

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Prayer for Life, Victory, and Spiritual Openness

Let's pray. Oh, our Father, yes, we, our hearts say Amen. The glorious words of those songs and the beauty. We know, Father, that there is a conflict, there is a war, and we are in it. But thank you, Father, that we are victors.

We are on the victory side. As long as we walk with Jesus, as long as we deny ourselves, we shall be on the victory side. Father, thank you for such encouraging words this morning already. I pray that you will open our hearts continually.

Let the hearts of each one here be open. And I pray that your words would come forth, Lord, in such a manner, in such a way, that you would minister life to each one here. Father, each one of us needs life this morning.

Each one of us needs bread. Each one of us needs that living water. Each one of us needs everlasting life through Jesus' name. And, Father, I thank you for that life in Christ. Thank you for giving us abundant life.

Thank you, Lord Jesus. I pray for your anointing upon your messenger this morning, your servant, Lord. Take over, take charge. Take your seat amongst us, Lord, and speak thou the words of life. We do love you, Father.

Give you all the glory and all the praise. In Jesus Christ's name, Amen. You may be seated. Christian greetings to all this morning. I've been richly blessed to be here already. God is good. He desires to give us life.

He desires to see us walk in the power of His Spirit in victory. It's very interesting how sometimes God brings a message to our heart. Sometimes there's a burden on us as ministers. There's a burden on our hearts and we desire to convey that burden to the congregation.

It's interesting how sometimes when you're studying, God takes a little different course and different direction. It's a joy to give oneself to study and preparation and just sense the Spirit of God ministering and sharing His grace and His truth and His word.

By His grace, I would like to share this morning a message that's on my heart. I wasn't sure what to call it, but I did give it a title called Restoration. The mercy of God. In subtitle, it could be lessons from history or His story.

God’s Mercy as the Source of Restoration

When I think of the mercy of God, I think of what that does. We know that God loves mankind. It is because of His love that He reaches out to mankind. Most of all, the greatest manifestation of God's love and mercy is through Jesus Christ that He would give His very best, His only begotten Son.

That whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. But because God loved, He did something. And mercy is simply undeserved pardon. And that is the result of love. Undeserved pardon is a result of the love.

Love of God and love of brothers and love of sisters. And when someone sins, then God, yes, He does chastise, but He also forgives. And when we are chastised by Him, then we repent, hopefully. And then there's restoration.

God's mercy coming down to us, forgiving us. Simply what mercy is, it's God forgiving us. While we deserve eternal damnation and hellfire because of our sin, God's mercy, He overlooks that and He forgives when we repent.

His mercy is so great, that overshadows His judgment. Or He laid upon His Son our sin. He doesn't excuse sin, but He laid upon His Son our sin. And through that, He reaches out in mercy to forgive us.

Restoration is a result of God's mercy to us. Not only does He forgive, but He also restores. Our God is a God of restoration. And God reaches out. His arm is not short. He is able to reach out. Even when someone is in deep despair, He is able to reach down and pull them up out of that miry pit.

And set their feet on a solid rock. And give them life. And not only life, but He can also restore. And most of all, He wants to restore mankind back to Himself. Through reconciliation and restoration and salvation in Jesus Christ.

So, this is the message on restoration. But I want to look at just a few things here before we get into the Word of God. I want to be sharing out of Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and Haggai and Zechariah and Ezra and Nehemiah and Esther.

And it's about the restoration of Israel from Babylon and some of those things. I am intrigued with history surrounding the Babylonian captivity and the restoration of that. So, some of you have heard me go through some of that before.

But I still love it. I still love God's Word. But God does stretch out His hand in great measures to extend His mercy like He did when He gave His Son, Jesus Christ. And many times God uses chastisement before restoration.

When God's people fall into sin, when God's people are proud and arrogant, then God allows chastisement. Sometimes He allows destruction such as hardships, heartaches, death, desolation or great difficulty.

Some people go through bankruptcy financially and spiritually. He allows these circumstances, difficult things to come into our lives. And then He uses those circumstances to humble us, to break us. But then He wants to restore us.

Then He wants to restore us. His goal is restoration. Someday He will restore us all the way back. Those who walk by faith, we shall be fully made whole and restored and spend everlasting life, everlasting eternity with Him.

That will be the complete restoration of mankind and of all things. His goal is restoration. I think of some of the pride of the nations of the day, Hitler, Germany, and God allowed destruction to come to humble them.

I think of Japan in World War II and their arrogance and their pride. And the nations that they were taking over at that time, they forced them to worship their gods in their temples. They thought they were God.

But their pride and arrogance, God doesn't stand for that. And He brought them down through great destruction. Hiroshima and so forth. I think of Hurricane Katrina, the pride of the U .S. And God giving some learnings and touching her with some destruction, trying to humble her.

Think of the Achenese, Indonesia in the tsunami. God allowed great destruction, many, many deaths, much loss of property, totally wiping out whole villages. Why? I believe God wants to restore. And God is restoring.

God has opened the door to restore those people back to Himself. He wants restoration. Are we going to be a part of it? Am I going to be a part of what God wants to do? Well, let's bring it a little bit closer home.

Restoration in Personal and Church Relationships

What about our relationships in our midst? Broken relationships, hard feelings, unforgiveness, grudges, attitudes. God wants to restore all those things. Maybe you're sitting here this morning and there's someone in your life that you have a hard time forgiving.

And you just can't forgive him. God wants to restore relationships. Maybe you're sitting here this morning and you have a hard time forgiving yourself for what you've done and how you've lived. But I want to say that God is in the business of restoration.

He longs for that restoration. Maybe your marriage is difficult. Maybe there's difficulty between parents and children, husbands, wives. Our church, or between churches, God wants restoration. Or He wouldn't pay so much attention to it.

Or He wouldn't give us numerous books in the heart of the Bible surrounding the restoration of His own people. These books are written, I believe, for our examples. And the picture I see is God wants to restore His people.

He wants you and I to be restored back to Himself. He does. I'm going to take you through a little history here. Sometimes it's difficult for us preachers to know what to share and what not to share. But I'd like to give you a picture of some of these things out in the Bible.

Maybe we can get some lessons from it. God wants us to learn some lessons from history. Wise are the people who will look at history and will learn from that. I'd like for you to turn to Deuteronomy for an opening scripture.

Deuteronomy’s Covenant Pattern of Blessing, Judgment, and Return

We basically are going to be looking at the destruction of Jerusalem and then the restoration of Jerusalem today. But let's begin in Deuteronomy chapter 28. And basically God's word simply says, If you obey and keep My word, I will bless you.

If you disobey and don't keep My word, I will curse you. Chapter 28 of Deuteronomy in verse 1,. And it shall come to pass, this is spoken to Moses, If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, To observe and to do all His commandments, which I command you this day, That the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth,.

And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Over to verse 15. But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, To observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes, which I command you this day,.

That all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee. And then there's, there had been a list of blessings there under the first and second verses,. And now there's a list of curses that are given there.

And I'd like you to turn to chapter 30 of Deuteronomy. God is giving the law of Moses, and Moses is giving the law to the people of Israel there again,. Before they enter the land of Canaan. Chapter 30 verse 1,.

And it shall come to pass, When all these things are come upon thee,. The blessings 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.

Simply what these words have said there, we haven't read all of them specifically,. But if they obey, God will bless them. But if they disobey, God will scatter them to all the nations around them. And He's saying that these are things that will happen if you disobey.

But if you have been scattered, He's saying,. Then He said, the Lord will still have mercy on them. And shall return to the Lord thy God, if thou wilt return,. And shall obey His voice according to all that I command thee this day,.

Thou and thy children, with all thine heart, with all thy soul. If you have been scattered, If you have found the destruction, If God has been destroying in your life,. The promise comes back again that God is still merciful.

He still loves you. And He's still reaching out in mercy for you. And He wants to save you. He wants to restore you back to where you were before. Then, 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 where the Lord thy God has scattered thee.

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. 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. 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, With all thy soul, That thou mayest live.

That's the mercy of God. And God is willing, No matter how far out His people go, No matter how far away from God they go, His great mercy. He says, I will yet restore you. If you would come, and seek me with all your heart, I will come, and will bring you back.

I will restore you. And I'll do more than that. I will circumcise your heart, And the heart of your seed, So that you will truly love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, With all thine soul, And that thou mayest live.

That is simply God's heart for mankind. Mankind has strayed a long way from God. Adam and Eve fell into sin, And mankind has fallen away from God. And in this very general sense, God has reached out His hand through Jesus Christ, And has drawn us back to Himself.

And now it's so clear, That whosoever believeth in Him, Shall have everlasting life. And God wants to restore us back. God wants to restore the relationships in our lives. Every one of us. Do you have a broken relationship in your life, That needs to be restored?

That's the backdrop of the nation of Israel. They had this Word of God. They had the promises of God. And they had the warnings of God. It was right here. And they had this Word with them. But they became proud and obstinate.

And God began to destroy them. God did destroy them. And scattered them across the face of the earth. But He reached out and restored them again. That's the picture that we will look at today. And so I pray that God would speak to our hearts today.

The Word, Prophets, and Prayer in Restoration

There are several things I would like for you to look at, To just remember as we go through this lesson, History lesson this morning. I want you to think about God's Word. Remember these three things.

The Word of God. What was the third one? The Word of God. The place of the Word of God in restoration. And the place of the prophets in restoration. And the place of prayer in that. These three things I want you to think about.

As we go through this lesson, I want you to look at those three things. Look at the Word. And how God used it. And look at the prophets. And look at the prayers. They are very important. Turn with me now to Jeremiah chapter 26.

I would probably think that most of you are familiar with Jeremiah somewhat. But as I studied through here I realized afresh again how many times, I know I've read Jeremiah numerous times, but I've gotten so little out of it.

Anyone else have that happen? This is a very interesting book. But Jeremiah does not go in consequential happenings. You may read in one chapter, and then two or three chapters later it might be 20 years earlier.

So if you don't know that you kind of get confused as to what is happening. But we want to walk through this this morning a little bit and get some pictures in our minds. Jeremiah, in chapter 26, he says, In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word from the Lord, saying, Notice that it was in the beginning of the king Jehoiakim.

This was about the year of 610 B .C. I would really like to make a timeline here this morning, if I could. And I'd like to do lots of writing on it, just to help you get a picture of it, but that may take some time, so I'm not sure exactly how it's going to come out.

This is 610, and this is Jehoiakim. I'll just put down a few letters. Jehoiakim became the king of Israel, about the year 610 B .C. He was not a good king. And during his reign, there, is when Jerusalem was taken.

Look now in chapter 25. Actually, I should read some of these words here. Let's look at some of these words of Jeremiah. Verse 2,. Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the court of the Lord's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord's house.

All the words that I command thee to speak unto them diminish not a word. They will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way. Then thou may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, If ye will not hearken to me to walk in my law, which I have set before you, to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened, then will I make this house like Shiloh.

And evidently Shiloh was a desolate place. And I think Shiloh will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

Then it came to pass, and Jeremiah made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

They did not like what Jeremiah was saying, and so when he had prophesied these things, and he had prophesied destruction upon Jerusalem and it's going to be destroyed and it's going to be leveled to the ground.

They didn't like what he said, so they took him. He said, Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying this house shall be like Shiloh and this city shall be desolate without inhabitation?

Then all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. And this is a picture that when someone walks away from God and someone lives willfully in sin, their life will become desolate like Shiloh, may I say.

The princes of Judah heard these things and they came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and sat down to enter the new gate of that Lord's house. Then spake the priests and the prophets and the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die for he has prophesied against this city as you have heard with our ears.

Then spake Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. Here are some of these other examples.

In verse 17, rose up a certain of the elders of the land and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, Micah, the mother of sight, prophesied on the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be ploughed like a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountains of the house as the high places of forests.

Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah put in at all to death? Did he not fear the Lord of the evil which he pronounced against him? And he says in verse 20, there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Uriah, the son.

So what they're doing, the elders, the old men of Jerusalem, are coming back in this assembly they had there concerning the prophecy of Jeremiah about the desolation of Jerusalem. And the elders were saying, we remember when Micah prophesied in the time of Hezekiah and he prophesied what was going to happen.

Did we then put him in prison? No, they're saying we did not. We didn't kill him. And also there was a man, Uriah, verse 20, but also prophesied against the city and the land. And did the king put him away at that time?

No, we didn't. The elders were pleading to don't mistreat Jeremiah. Verse 24, Nevertheless, the hand of Ahiachem, the son of Eshaphon, gave him to the hand of the people to put him to death. Chapter 27, let's look at that a little bit.

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, again, the first year of the king, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Thus saith the Lord to me, make thee bonds and yokes and put them upon thy neck.

And what's he going to do with them? Send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, which come to Jerusalem under Zedekiah, king of Judah, and command them to say to their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, thus shall you say to your masters.

And what he's saying is, Jeremiah made some yokes, he put them upon his neck, and he was supposed to go to these kings in neighboring countries around them and simply tell them that Nebuchadnezzar in verse 8 is going to come and is going to bring desolation and surrender or submit or fall out to Nebuchadnezzar is going to be destroyed.

And that's the word that was in Jerusalem. When Nebuchadnezzar comes, those who live in Jerusalem, if you will go and surrender and go out there, they'll save your life. But if you stay, you will be killed.

That's what he says here. Then in verse 12, it changes this from verse 11 into verse 11, the same thing about this yoke and about that he should listen to these words and he should surrender to the king of Babylon.

But he wouldn't do it. Look at Jeremiah 45. Jeremiah gave some very strong words to Baruch. The word that Jeremiah, the prophet, spake to Baruch the son of Neriah when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoram like him, the son of Josiah, King of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch, thou didst say, Woe is me now, for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow.

I fainted in my sigh and I find no rest. Thus shalt thou say unto him, The Lord saith thus, Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not. For behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord, but thy life will I give unto thee, for I pray in all places where thou dost. God is simply saying, I'm going to break down that which I have built because of the sins of the people.

Jehoram like him, it was about in his fourth year that sometime there is when the Babylonians came, they took Jerusalem and it was in this time that Jeremiah prophesied the seventy years of desolation.

Look at Jeremiah chapter twenty-five one through fourteen. We could read that all but simply he is giving a prophecy of what's going to happen, warning them against the evil, telling them to repent and in verse eleven he says,.

And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass when seventy years are accomplished that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and will make it a perpetual desolation.

Jeremiah prophesied seventy years of desolation. This is about, I would say, somewhere in 607. That's about when Jerusalem was taken the first time. That's when they took away Daniel and his friends and took them to Babylon.

It was, that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign. Daniel and his friends were captured and taken to Babylon. Jehoiachin was, him was still allowed to be the king there in Jerusalem. They didn't really destroy Jerusalem but Jehoiachin was there under the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar but after three years Jehoiachin rebelled again against him and wouldn't pay his taxes anymore and therefore they came against Jerusalem the second time.

The army of the Babylonians came the second time against Jerusalem in somewhere around 599 and at that time is when Jehoiachin died and his son Jehoiachin was made king. He was about eighteen years old according to one of the references here and he reigned for three months and ten days and after three months and ten days he gave up.

Him and his mother and the wise men they went out and they went out to the Babylonians. They did not try to fight but they went out to them and the Babylonians came and took away the gold and the silver and they transported thousands of people into Babylon and he set up another king in Jerusalem.

This is about the time that Ezekiel would have been taken as one of the captives to Babylon also probably Mordecai which we read about in Esther. Jeconiah was now made king at around 599. In chapter 27 of Jeremiah is where we read about Jeconiah there and also let me see in chapter 27 through chapter 29 if you read that portion of scripture you will find that Jeremiah was prophesying and was fighting against the false prophets.

The false prophets said that they prophesied and there was many of them and they prophesied good and plenty and blessing and they prophesied and said that those that have been taken captive will come back again and all the vessels of gold and silver that were taken out of the temple of Jerusalem they will come back also and Jeremiah said it is not true those vessels are not going to come back those people are not coming back but he said there is going to be more people taken over there and Jeremiah told these false prophets he said well he said your prophets they are not going to come back but I encourage you you pray and ask God to keep more from going over there and Jeremiah had a major issue with those false prophets those false prophets they taught rebellion to the people.

The false prophets cause people to trust in a lie. Sometimes I like to preach a message on the false prophets. There is a lot in there about it that is in 5 million 9 5 million 9 is about when Jeconiah became king and he was an evil king and did lots of evil things in the midst of much of those things there was so many horrible things that these kings did one to another then 590 is when they came again 590 this is all BC if you remember that before Christ that is when they came against Jerusalem the second time the Babylonians came so the third time I mean I am going to run out of room on this board if I keep writing but the Babylonians came and there are some dates I found here that it would have been 590 BC on January the 30th on a Thursday is when Jerusalem was besieged again the 10th month the 10th day.

And if you look at the two calendars you have the Jewish calendar you have the our calendar day and so there is conflict. It is called the 10th month and 10th day which was the end of their season but it was the beginning of our January because the Jewish calendar year begins I think in March or April.

So there is differences there and I want to say that these dates that I am giving some of them they are the dates according to one person or one study. You might say there are other people who have studied might come up with somewhat different dates but they are clear enough for us to get a picture of what is happening.

That is the point we are not looking at exact dates. They came on that day and they besieged Jerusalem and at the same time Ezekiel who was now about 9 or 10 years already captive in Babylon had a vision from the Lord.

You could turn to Ezekiel 24 verse 1 if you want to if you have pens and paper you might want to write some of these down and draw your own timeline in due time. But we are going to look at Ezekiel a little bit here if we can.

Ezekiel 24 verse 1 I told you we are getting some history here again. The ninth year in the tenth month in the tenth day of the month you see it is the tenth day of the month in the tenth month and it is the ninth year that Ezekiel says in the ninth year.

What is he referring to? He is referring to the ninth year as his ninth year of captivity. Ok. But it was the very same day that the armies of the Babylonians were encircling Jerusalem to lay siege to it.

The same day Ezekiel saw this vision son of man right be the name of the day. Even of this same day the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem the same day and he utters his prophecy there. And that was 590.

These dates are important because we are going to look at some things later on like the 70 years and what happens 70 years later and so forth also in Jeremiah 39 you can look at that Jeremiah put the date down too.

Let's see what does Jeremiah 39 say. Jeremiah 39 1 in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah in the tenth month came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem. And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth month the ninth day of the month the city was broken up about a year and some later is when they were there and there was such a famine in the land in Jerusalem.

The Babylonians had already destroyed many of the Jewish cities all around Babylon and Israel and it was just Jerusalem was left. And they were there for about a year and a half maybe until there was such a famine there.

The people in Jerusalem. There's stories in the Bible here of two women. They were both so hungry and so they agreed one day they got together. They were so hungry they looked at their baby and they decided we're going to cook your baby today.

So they they cooked the one lady's baby that day and they agreed together to cook the other lady's baby the next day. Well the second day this other lady hid her baby. She didn't want her baby cooked and they cried out to the king and that's the extreme famine and hunger that was in the land.

And finally Jerusalem was opened up during that time. During the time of the siege Ezekiel was laying on his side three hundred and ninety days. Also during that siege Egypt came to help Jerusalem but the Babylonians drove away and came back and besieged Jerusalem again.

Ezekiel's prophecy there many things. Also during this time is when Daniel was in the land of Babylon and was known as a wise man there. In Ezekiel 28 3 you can check that out. But on the 11th year of Zedekiah in 588 BC is when the city was broken up on a Wednesday August 24th 4th month 9th day 588 BC.

Some put it in 587 but it's close enough. Jerusalem was opened up and the Babylonians entered the city and took charge of the city there. And then a couple days later the 5th month and the 10th day they burned the temple and the city.

This was the total destruction of Jerusalem. This happened about 420 years 3 months and 8 days after Solomon laid the first stone on the temple. When they burned the temple down this glorious temple that was to be a testimony of the power and the grace and the glory of God amongst God's people was burned to the ground.

They took the stones apart to get the gold from in between them and they leveled the temple. That same month the walls were leveled to the ground and the remaining people taken captive. Why did God allow such destruction to his people because of their sin.

Why does God allow destruction to us. Why does God allow desolation to us. Why does God allow heartaches death difficulties in our lives. To humble us to break us. To break us from our pride. And that we would get serious about our sins.

And when we do the promises are there. I will restore you. I'll restore. That's the heart of God. Jerusalem was destroyed. This was about 468 years after David began to rule and 388 years after the division of Israel of the two kingdoms Judah and Israel.

And Judah stood 134 years after Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians. Many years before the testimony of God has fallen. God's people have fallen but God is willing to restore them. And he gave many promises that he would restore them.

This King Nebuchadnezzar he continued on. He besieged Tyrus there the place that Isaiah gave that Tyrus would be 70 years desolate. After 11 years Nebuchadnezzar overcame Tyrus and then he went home. He also went to Egypt and defeated them.

But about 570 is when Nebuchadnezzar went back home again. And that is where you would read in Daniel 4 verse 1 or chapter 4 about Daniel's vision of the great tree Nebuchadnezzar back in Babylon. If you read Daniel 4 Daniel has a vision of this or the king has a dream and the king wants to interpret it and Daniel interprets his dream for him.

And it's basically a picture of this great man and the head is gold the shoulders down and so forth. And then a stone is cut out of a mountain and destroys the king and that stone grew into a large kingdom a picture of Christ coming.

But that was around the year 570. Also about one year after Nebuchadnezzar came back is then also when he lost his mind. As I said 12 12 months after that vision was interpreted is when he was walking in his palace and his grounds and he was looking around at the glorious beauty that he had accomplished and built there in Babylon.