K-139 Endtime Overview — Art Katz

Prayer for Clear Gospel Proclamation

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful, and pray for us, too, that God may open the door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in shame. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders. Make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with thought, so that you may know how to answer every one. Paul said, I have that commission.

Preparing the Church for the Last Days

I think we need that commission. We need that commission, that we might speak the gospel of God with clarity. Hallelujah. My prayer is that our brother, who is so very capable of speaking a clear word of the Lord, would have great liberty.

In Jesus' name, our prayer. Good evening, saints. This is not a microphone. I'm just really recording. Well, I want to take note of Harry's statement and prayer and make my own. Lord, let it be that utterance should be granted, that we might hear, precious God, your heart, the voice of your speaking, the urgency of it, the now word, the appointed word, my God, for which everything till now has been preparation.

Come and galvanize, my God, your people. Set them in order and in motion for the things that are at hand, for which we are called. May we hear you tonight in a way, my God, that brings together the faith and the perspective that has waited for this moment.

We thank you for the preciousness of every moment that has preceded this. And this one also, all that shall follow to the eternal praise of your glory. Come, my God, let the earth hear your voice. We thank you and praise you for the occasion that you have ordained and given.

Come, fill it full of all your heavenly and divine intention and will. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, on this little table are my two books and a little booklet. Don't let anyone leave without taking note and availing yourself of remarkably anointed and appointed words.

Precious books. It's embarrassing. I don't know how to say it. I know them best and I know what a loss to have missed it. And so there they are. If you have it for yourself, take it for others. And the Lord is already putting these in other languages.

Spirit of Truth is now in a Finnish edition, a Russian edition, a French edition. When the Lord begins to do that, you know that he's circulating something that is of himself. This little booklet. Dynamite.

The anatomy of conversion, whatever that is. So few ever attain to it, though God would have all men everywhere to be converted. So I commend this to you also. And then our newsletter, a few copies. I don't have more.

But if you are touched with what you hear and feel the need to be in continuing contact of some form, there's a little slip of paper where you can legibly write or print your name and address in zip code.

And hopefully you'll receive it four times a year. Some people have to apply three and four times because of the ineptness of our machinery to get the addresses registered and labeled and sent out. We are a fumbling, bumbling, shoestring operation.

But entrusted with holy things. Well, I love to preach and I love to preach the word. But I don't often get that opportunity these days. It's more a nuts and bolts operation. I'm just required to lay out something of God's agenda and events that will take place that require the participation of a church in the world.

And I don't know who else is bearing this message, but I've not met him yet. And so in the absence of any other clear leading of God, I invariably speak of the last days dealing of Israel. The restoration of the nation through the nations.

Seeing that the church is largely ignorant of this remarkable and final concluding work of God. And there will not be a place that will be absolved or free from implication and responsibility. And I believe that the more remote the location, the more away from urban centers, the more likely to be the locus of God's intention.

A highway of holiness, a network of places of flight and escape in the last days for Jews who, as we speak, are totally unsuspecting of what shall come upon them suddenly and for which most of them shall not survive.

A Refuge for Israel in the Coming Tribulation

How do you talk about that as a sermon? So Jim and I sitting here in the second row are members of a community in northern Minnesota where I have been for 22 years, talk about remote and out of the way.

And I'm there for the reasons that I'm going to state to you tonight. To establish a place of refuge for Jews in flight in their last days extremity. Hard to think that such requirements should come in this nation.

But there will not be a nation exempt from the anti-Semitic fury that shall be poured out over all nations which is already now brewing and on the stove and frothing over and will erupt with unsuspecting violence that will make even the past Holocaust and the Nazi persecution of Jews a kind of Boy Scout preliminary.

Can you believe that? So I'm entrusted with an unbelievable message and calling God's people to think the unthinkable not only to think it but to prepare for it. I almost feel like praying again. And so where shall we leap in?

I think the thing that's most in my heart and spirit, I usually end with it but I'd like tonight to begin with Isaiah chapter 35. All of the great prophets are full of this last days saga. And the remarkable thing and astonishment is the veil that is over the understanding of the church with regard to it which is equal I believe in magnitude to the veil that is over Israel with regard to the gospel.

And maybe the remedy for the veil being removed for us is exactly the remedy for the veil being removed for them. When it shall turn to the Lord, when the heart shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be removed.

When the church will come to the apostolic absoluteness that is normative in God's intention for all the church and be free from its fun and games and froth and slight and light things, the veil will be removed.

And maybe even in the hearing of these solemn things, there'll be a heart turning toward the Lord. So in Isaiah 35, well I've opened to Jeremiah, let's just stay there just for a moment. And I invite you to go back at your leisure to Jeremiah 30 and 31.

Anybody have a clue as to what those chapters address? One phrase, the time of Jacob's trouble. That time in my opinion is future. The holocaust of the past does not fulfill it. And there are biblical reasons that can be given to show what are the descriptions of Israel's past devastations and what are the indications of that which is yet future.

You can put this in connection with Jesus' statement in Matthew 24 and Luke 21 when he was asked for the signs of the end of the age and of his coming. He speaks there about a time of trouble of such severity and magnitude that it will eclipse all former times.

So great and so extensive will it be that if it were not cut short, no flesh would survive. But for the elect's sake, he's speaking there about Jews, it will be cut short. That is yet future and I believe it is a time that we as the church will live through.

I'm sorry I don't subscribe to a pre-tribulation rapture because if we were absent, no Jew would survive that time. If any of Israel survive, it is for one reason only, the mercies that will be extended by those who have previously obtained mercy.

So there's a reason for our being in the earth and I don't want to get into that chapter. Look at it yourself about the trembling, the fear, the appearance of travail, a man with his hands on his loins in verse 6, all faces are turned into paleness.

Alas, for that day is great in verse 7, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Jacob means not only those Jews that reside in the land of Israel in the Middle East, but wherever Jacob is to be found and Jacob is proliferated throughout the earth and in all nations.

I don't know if I'll speak from Amos 9, but just as it comes to me, again take note of these texts that I'm citing. In Amos 9, the Lord speaks of, I will sift you through all nations. And I will sift you as corn is sifted in a sieve and not so much as one kernel shall fall to the ground.

It's a remarkable text. The Lord will direct them before our time ends. We'll go back to it with greater attention and detail, because I can't think of a single prophetic text that more telescopes and brings together the whole pattern of this last day's tribulation, sifting through the nations, restoration, and millennial glory.

All in one final chapter, chapter 9. You know, my problem is not scrounging to find scriptures to support my outlandish theme, but to select from the overwhelming abundance of scripture that supports it.

That the church has not been inundated and overwhelmed and convinced of something yet future that requires the church to be the church, as no other single requirement can, is itself an astonishing statement of the blindness that pervades the earth and of the enemy's ability to keep from the church's consideration the thing for which it itself is appointed.

Israel, the Powers of the Air, and the Coming Kingdom

The enemy does not want a single Jew to survive. It's a program of total annihilation, and I am under obligation to explain to you why. It's not any of the sociological reasons that are advanced for anti-Semitism.

Although there's a certain validity to all of them, it's something much deeper. It is a dark, demonic, powers-of-the-air stratagem to prevent the loss of its usurping governmental place over the nations.

Oh, here I go choking and spluttering and fumbling and getting frustrated already, because I know that you don't know what the principalities and powers-of-the-air are about. I know you've heard of individual deliverance and the church so-called taking cities for worship, but all of that, believe me, is kid stuff.

I'm all for individual deliverance, but one of the cruelest delusions is to think that that is the full statement of understanding relative to the principalities and powers-of-the-air. What I am putting forth tonight, dear saints, is a theocratic statement of Israel's centrality in the establishment of divine rule over creation, which will not take place until Israel is restored to God.

The present Zionist state is not that restoration, but a necessary preliminary scheduled for death, out of the resurrection of which will come the enduring prophetic and millennial people, state, and glory.

What do you mean theocratic, cats? What I mean is what is spoken in Isaiah chapter 2 and Micah 4 .1 and many other places, that the law of the Lord shall go forth out of Zion and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

Now you know what the church has historically done with these explicit literal statements of the divine intention of God for his rule through the nation Israel? It has spiritualized these references away.

Zion becomes a kind of metaphor, a symbolic word referring to the church and not Israel, or to some kind of lofty and exalted spiritual state and condition, which I also believe and occasionally preach, but not at the expense of nullifying God's first and literal intention in his word.

We have done violence to the word of God, because we were too anti-Semitic even to desire that Israel should find such a place of prominence millennially, or lack the faith to believe that a nation that has been so long apostate, alienated from God and away from his purposes, and the enemies of the gospel for our sake, could find such a celebrated place in God's purposes.

But you need to understand what the schema is, what the broad outlines are, for which we would really need at least a three-day seminar, but I'm giving it to you in one night if you'll do your homework.

The issue of Israel's restoration is not some kind of compassion on the part of the Lord to give that people a break, after all they've suffered so long, they deserve a land of their own that they can call home, and from which they will not again be expelled.

That is not it at all. The issue of Israel is the issue of their king sitting on their throne, and the holy hill of Zion on the throne of David, and out of which the governmental rule of God will issue to all nations.

You don't have to be a great exegete of scripture, that means to draw out its meaning, to determine whether Isaiah 2 is intended to be poetic or literal, when it says that when the law of the Lord goes forth out of Zion, nations study war no more, beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks, indicates that something of so formidable a kind issues forth out of Israel's restored center, that it affects the conduct of nations.

The church does not expect this. It doesn't even know what the kingdom of God is. It has a kind of a soppy, vague sense of some kind of spiritual condition, that the kingdom of God is within us, and there's a sense in which all those things are true.

I'm not denigrating that, but we miss the truest sense, the hard political fact of God's actual rule over his creation. Over and against those powers of the air, that have jerked and manipulated nations time immemorial, and want to continue doing so, and know better than the church, that their time will be up, and they will be evicted from their heavenly place over the earth, when Israel is restored and the church comes to its fullness, is the end of their false, usurping rule.

And as I think you can know from the political history of your own state, that a man once in power wants always to retain it. How much more the powers of the air. And so in the wisdom of these powers, to avert the tragedy of their loss of rule and influence, their answer would be annihilate that nation, whose restoration brings the king, as their ruler in their city, on the holy hill of Zion and on the throne of David, out of which rule to all nations issues.

No restored Israel, no coming king. No coming king, no kingdom. Got the picture? Now you would say, world Jewry and present Israel, is at a far remove, from the condition and quality required to be, the locus of God's theocratic rule over his creation.

And that's exactly right. Paul says in Romans 11 that the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. But we're hardly presently fitted to fulfill them. Something has got to happen to us, in our present condition, to fit us for the millennial destiny and glory, which is ours.

Tribulation as Israel's Preparation and the Church's Test

And that something, is what we call in Yiddish, suras, trouble, affliction, of a devastating kind. And that's what we need to brace ourselves to anticipate, because we're going to see it enacted globally and nationally, and there'll not be a place that will be exempt from it, because not only will God sift Jacob through the nations, he will sift the nations through Jacob, and the church in the nations.

So that when their king comes, the first operation of his judgment, is over the issue, that separates the sheep from the goats, of what did you do, with the least of these, my brethren. And many of us will ask, when did we see you naked?

When did we see you thirsty? When did we see you hungry? When did we see you in prison? I want to say in all authority tonight, Steven Spielberg, and the heads of the Time Warner Corporation, and every other prestigious, powerful, financial institution of culture and entertainment, in which Jews are well established and prominent, will find themselves naked, hungry, thirsty, and in prison.

They will be uprooted from the places of their present security and affluence, and altogether cast out and into the nations, in a program of sifting, by which the great majority will not survive. Can you see why I don't have the luxury of sermons?

In chapter 31 of Jeremiah, after all of this is being described, at the same time say to the Lord God, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. So how do we know we're discussing some devastation of the past or future?

Because the result and the end of this devastation is this knowledge. Israel comes to the knowledge of its God. It must, or how else shall it bless all the families of the earth? I've got a feeling that there are some people here that are not exactly enjoying the prospect of Israel's future glory.

And that's true. And not only is Israel sifted, your heart is sifted and your heart is revealed for the sullenness of it and the lack of magnanimity and graciousness to welcome the erring brother back.

Afraid that you're going to lose what little place of vested interest you have when I can assure you that God's glory is great for both a restored Israel and a glorified church. The fact of the matter is there'll be no glorified church at all except through the requirement made upon us in the process of Israel's restoration.

Because look at our present condition now. It would have gone unseen and concealed had the Lord not raised up for us that one litmus test that has always revealed the deepest secret heart of the church, Israel and the Jew.

By which test the church has failed miserably historically. Even the best of the church. There's something about the Jew in the way that God has constituted this people and the historic enmity, resentment and jealousy and suspicion between these two peoples that were it not for God they would have kept a wide sway from each other's influence.

But in the mystery of God we are irrevocably called into a destiny with them which if we seek to sidestep and to omit it will be down to our own detriment eternally. Israel is the church's finishing school.

It brings us and requires us to come to a place of sanctification of such depth and such authenticity that we would not otherwise have attained or even known that it would be required. Because when we shall meet them in the extremity of the time of Jacob's trouble what a sore test they will constitute for our supposed sanctity.

That if you have any trouble with me tonight spirit-filled Jewish believer what will you have with them who are deranged, uprooted with such brutal suddenness and in such a temper and fit of being stripped suddenly of all that they have accumulated and have built and not only in their substance but in their hope and in their ideology altogether in a rude sudden moment of uprooting they're not going to be in their finest condition.

And you who think you're being great sport to offer them a place in the attic and to warm up an English muffin and have not a bagel in the freezer how will you respond to their lack of gratitude? How you will respond is not just the issue of showing your lousy disposition but the missing of an historical moment that will not be given again.

What they see in you in the crisis of their extremity will make them or break them eternally. Will account for why they shall return as the redeemed of the Lord to Zion with mourning and sighing passing away and everlasting joy upon their heads or not returning at all.

Either you will confirm their worst stereotypes of Gentile Christendom for which they will perish and without hope or you will give them a glimpse of the face of very God himself in so incontrovertible a way that they cannot gainsay the evidence and the testimony of his reality through your Gentile face.

Because the extending of hospitality and saviorhood to them is not going to come at your convenience. We're talking about an anti-Christ time. We're not talking about the hour as it presently is in the best of all possible worlds.

We're talking about a Nazi anti-Jewish hatred of such vehemence that they would not be safe in any city in America. Or else why are they in flight? Except that they are pursued relentlessly unto death by all of the mechanism of society and state as was exactly the case in Nazi Germany a half century ago.

You say, but that can't happen here, brother. This is USA and apple pie and mother. Well, I want to say, dear saints, next to the Germany of the 20th century which Jews adulated for the depth of its culture and civilization, we are a bunch of Johnny-come-lately paper-thin culture.

We will collapse like the proverbial deck of cards because we have not a Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Mozart, Wagner. What are we? We're a bunch of guitar-strumming Nashville entertainers that will go... when the demonic fury comes.

Don't think that we will stand against it and no nation will. That's why Jesus said, this will eclipse all previous trouble. Why? Because it will be global and must be global for the intention is the annihilation of Jews worldwide.

So the enemy's most bitter stratagem is employed by God in the sifting and the finding of a remnant that shall return as the redeemed of the Lord to Zion though they did not leave it in that condition.

Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads indicates that this is the last of their historic experience in the earth and one that they shall carry millennially and eternally as everlasting joy. This episode with Israel in the nations ends history and brings the millennium.

It's the end of the age and the beginning of the ages to come. You know what the heck of it is? Where are the saints with a millennial anticipation? Looking for and hasting the appearing of the Lord. We are much too content with this age and love for it to continue.

So I have to battle against all kinds of things to communicate this most rudimentary understanding because there is a deep layered resistance to the Jew to an apocalyptic scenario that is violent and devastating and to the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness that requires the obliteration of this present earth and of the heavens except for any part in this earth that is already in the kingdom of God as I believe this place is and our own location in northern Minnesota and where so ever laboring for the kingdom has been established.

I don't know how the Lord will so curtail the fires that will devour the earth but he'll preserve that which is already in the realm of his eternal kingdom. Okay. So I will be the God of all the families of Israel and they shall be my people thus saith the Lord God the people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness even Israel when I went to cause him to rest.

Wilderness Refuge and the Highway of Holiness

And I want to talk to you about the grace in the wilderness because that's where I find myself almost invariably in these days in every nation and including this. The wilderness is the out of the way place.

It's the place where Jews would not be as easily identified and apprehended as would be the case in the major urban centers. They will be rooted up out of those places and God will provide and is presently establishing a network of places of refuge and flight maybe a day's journey by foot or whatever that means.

The employment as I was saying earlier today old canals that are extinct in present use waterways obscure kinds of things will be places through which urbane and modern Jews will pass in enormous bewilderment that somehow they're coming to destinations prepared for them in the out of the way wilderness places of the nations where we ourselves are in northern Minnesota.

So this is very little literal verse 2 chapter 31 thus saith the Lord not art cats the people which were left of the sword and they will be a remnant of the people found grace in the wilderness even Israel the elect not every Jew when I went to cause him to rest.

Now we can look at Isaiah 35 Ezekiel 20 if we have time to show how many references there are to a wilderness flight to a highway of holiness in the wilderness that is not to be poetically considered but realistically understood an actual line of flight in places now being prepared and so Isaiah 35 the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them.

The rest of the world will not but dumb and innate nature will be glad for them. The wilderness the solitary place and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing.

The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God the they are secular Jews in flight unbelieving skeptical having an aversion to anything that is supernatural which is so in keeping with the mentality of the modern Jew which is why they have to be thrust into places where they will see a demonstration of God in supernaturalness that will open them to a whole perception of a reality that is not theirs presently and must come to them if they are to be the redeemed of the Lord and to bless all the families of the earth.

We are the most secular anti-supernatural empirically minded people on the earth. We are the ultimate humanists. And the Lord had even to show me in a debate with an orthodox Jew with a Van Dyck beard and a yarmulke on his head that as we were thrashing it out in a high school in the hallway after the bell rang and we had come out of the class to which I had been invited to speak about Jews believing in Christ.

All of a sudden I squinted my eyes at this man and I said, excuse me I said, do you believe that the Red Sea was parted and that Israel went over as dry ground and a dead silence and a choke and a splutter and the clearing of his throat.

And finally finding his voice he said well he said, I think it was a confluence of the tides. An orthodox Jew in his practices fastidious in the details but in terms of belief utterly God rejecting in the sense of God as supernatural.

That's why so demonstrable. An exhibit must come of the power of God in the wilderness place. Now I don't know if you've ever been in a wilderness place. I think we need to be. And I think that the best saints fitted to receive them will have already passed through their own wilderness.

And I'm not talking about out under the starry skies right where you are. God knows how to produce wilderness conditions. What does that mean? A stripping of our assumptions even our religious and our spiritual ones which we hold too lightly however correct and not correct enough in the authenticity of our belief and what God will put us through in strippings and dealings in places not seen by others that cannot be described as anything other than wilderness.

Because wilderness strips man of his vain assumptions of his categories and brings him in a place of grit between his bad soul and that of God. That's where Israel must be brought and will be brought literally and spiritually.

And the wilderness will be glad for them and the solitary place will be glad for them. Nature itself more attuned to understanding the works of God and knowing that its own redemption is nigh. Trees will clap their hands and hills will skip as lambs when they see the process taking place even through them in the remote areas that will assure the theocratic rule of God and his benevolence over all creation.

Are you following me? I'm being as simple as clear and as unfancy as I know and I'm I'm a guy that despises melodrama. I have even run from this scenario and the Lord has had to rub my face into the truth of it by bringing me again and again and again inescapably to actual places being prepared in this earth and in the nations and in this nation that I can only just throw my hands up and say okay Lord however melodramatic this is flight and escape, subterfuge, at night and this and that, it's true because this is a Moravian area.

Community as the Church's Preparation

I'm saving this little anecdote because it touches the Moravian church that in France, Switzerland French speaking Switzerland I was invited by a band of saints whom I've known over the years and who have been interested in community because I believe that community is the necessary condition for the reception of Jews in this untoward condition.

Mere individuals however virtuoso in their spirituality cannot absorb and take the impact that will come in the onslaught of Jews in their condition. It will take the corporate strength of tested peoples who have gone through the mill prior to the Jews being thrust upon them in their own relationship with each other in the intensity and demand.

That community is mere Sunday saints will not be able to bear the load. The Lord called us to northern Minnesota with these words I came out of a car to see a property just out of curiosity living in New Jersey in a 17 room gothic masterpiece and I stepped over a chain to the entrance of this camp and the Lord said Dominion, the name which it now bears.

End time teaching center our activity. Community refuge. These are the exact words. I thought. Refuge meant Christians in persecution in the last days and I put that last word on the shelf but I want to say in the last 7 -10 years the Lord has taken it off and made explicitly clear that the refuge is intended for Jews in flight and that only a community established in end time understanding can be the recipient and bear the impact and the weight of what these Jews will represent in their coming and in the suddenness of it.

This is everything from which we shrink as privatistic Christians who want to maintain their distance and don't mind coming out for Sunday service. It calls us in the word to be the church. For in my opinion community is not an alternative but the statement of and the synonym for church.

We must be that so the wilderness shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing they shall see the glory of the Lord as Israel itself and the excellency of our God. And then all of a sudden the text breaks and the Lord is addressing now someone other than Israel and saying to them strengthen ye the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees.

Say to them that are of a fearful heart be strong fear not behold your God will come with vengeance even God with a recompense he will come and save you. Listen dear saints not the least of the virtues of the calamity that is coming for Israel is the requirement for us to become finally exegetes of the word of God to take seriously the word of God and to ponder and to weigh it and to understand it.

So for example in a text like this to who is now being addressed say to them who is the them who are of the feeble knees and are blind and demoralized and are about to collapse because they are incapacitated.

Their comfortable Jewish lifestyle has not fitted them for the suddenness of wilderness trek and the loss of everything in which they have invested their lives. They are not only physically strung out they are morally strung out and they are ready to die of it.

And the holocaust of the Hitler past has shown that those who have perished in the concentration camps were not necessarily the physically weakest but those who were demoralized and without a vestige of hope Israel is going to be brought and must be brought to that condition.

Oh if you only knew what Jews are you would nod your head in agreement and say yes nothing less than that because we are we are the supremely self confident people of the earth. We are the ones who bring ourselves up by our own bootstraps.

We are, here's the word indomitable I-N-D-O-M-I-T-A-B-L-E. That means however adverse the circumstances we have learned to overcome and to succeed in them. What will it take to bring us down who have won more Pulitzer prizes and noble awards than any people out of their proportion to their number in the population.

To bring us to a place where we can have no longer any confidence in ourselves or any hope in our own rectitude or our own ability even to save ourselves in our ultimate plight. If you understood Israel's eternal destiny you would understand equally why God must go this far to bring a people all the way down that he might bring them all the way up as the nation that will be exalted and respected and honored by all nations.

In fact if nations will not honor the restored Israel and come up to their Jerusalem on their feast days in the Feast of Tabernacles God promises a curse he will withhold rain. The fact that he has to threaten.

This in Zechariah 14 shows the enormous depth of Gentile hostility toward the Jew and toward Israel that yet remains even after Israel's restoration. God wants to save you from taking that residue of ingrained prejudice and distaste against that people into eternity where it will forever embarrass you.

And in fact I want to advance a theory showing you your secret heart by the confrontation with the Jew to save you knocking on your door in the midnight hours. And that after you had extended yourself at peril to find that they expressed themselves in ingratitude where involuntarily something would rise up out of your deepest gut of anger and resentment unless God had gotten there first with his deepest sanctifying work.

In Ezekiel 20 it says I will meet you in the wilderness of the nations face to face. And I give that this interpretation that means if you only show these Jews a face of religious responsibility and obligation you have missed it is there anything more sour and more chilling than the face of mere religious obligation.

But to see the face of the Lord means unconditional love that cannot be offended against no matter what they say no matter what they do you have no expectation. You're not evaluating them. They don't have to pass any test.

They cannot pass any test. But you have for them the love that God has which is unconditional that makes no requirement. Because the spirit of requirement in you, that pharisaical thing has long before been crucified.

The spirit of requirement. Why they? What's in it for them? How come? Why should God spare them? Because he'll have mercy on whom he will have mercy, that's why. But they don't deserve it is what your deepest gut is saying which shows however much you subscribe overtly to the doctrines of grace deep down you are as pharisaical and measure things by merit and performance as any Jew ever did in the time of Jesus, your outward thing is your doctrinal statement but the inward resentment and the how come and they don't deserve it is where in fact you actually live and it's that that will be eternally revealed to your unremitting anguish of soul and embarrassment without remedy.

Praise the Lord. He's found a way, not only to restore Israel, but to deal with the church and bring it to its final sanctification, to fit it for its own millennial destiny in the same single stroke, and that's who it is who's being addressed in this verse.