What does the Bible say about the Salvation of Israel?

When it comes to studying the End Times, the Word of God should be the first place to look for information, not the last. So grab your Bible because today we’re going to find out what the Bible says about a very specific end times revival: the national salvation of Israel.

This end times revival will be initiated when the Jewish people cry out, “Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai.” (Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.)

You might recognize this phrase from the triumphal entry of Jesus the Messiah on Palm Sunday. (Or in Hebrew, He is called Yeshua Ha’Mashiach.) We find the account in the Gospel book of Matthew…

The crowds going before Him and those following kept shouting, saying, “Hoshia-na to Ben-David (the Son of David)! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hoshia-na in the highest!” Matthew 21:9 (TLV)

In Messiah’s first coming, the Jewish people did not recognize the time of their visitation. They recognized the humanity of Yeshua, but not His divinity. They expected Him to be their geopolitical savior, but He came for a much greater purpose—eternal salvation. But there is still hope for the Jewish people to be reconciled to the Messiah! Students of end times prophecy know they return to Yeshua in the last days.

The book of Hosea tells us…

Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days. Hosea 3:5 (NASB)

In Romans 11, the Apostle Paul shares about this mystery…

For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved… Romans 11:25-26a

Paul wants to make sure that gentile Christians never make the mistake of thinking that God is done with Israel. However, keep in mind that, although the nation will be saved in the end, we should still be sharing the Gospel with Jewish individuals here and now.

The book of Hebrews tells us more about this end times revival of the Jewish people…

For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Hebrews 8:10 (NASB)

Adonai will inaugurate a new covenant with the houses of Israel and Judah. The Jewish people will see Yeshua as their Messiah, who came in the first century to save His people from their sins. And they will long for His return!

Fulfilling Prophecy

But in His first coming, Yeshua told the inhabitants of Jerusalem that He would not return until they welcome Him and acknowledge that He comes in the name (and therefore the authority) of Adonai.

I say to you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say,
“Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” Luke 13:35 (NASB)

There’s the same phrase we heard in the triumphal entry:
“Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai.”

This will fulfill the end times prophecy that we find in Psalm 118…

I will give thanks to You, for You have answered me,
And You have become my salvation.
A stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
This came about from the LORD;
It is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day which the LORD has made;
Let’s rejoice and be glad in it.
Please, O LORD, do save us;
Please, O LORD, do send prosperity!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD;
We have blessed you from the house of the LORD. Psalm 118:21-26

A day is coming when the Jewish people will find eternal salvation in Yeshua Ha’Mashiach. From Scripture, we see that this will happen in the last days and it will usher in the second coming of the Messiah!

And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:9-10 (NASB)

With repentant hearts, the Jewish people will return to Yeshua, and He will turn their mourning into gladness and their weeping into dancing.

May we say together with the Apostle Paul that our heart’s desire and prayer is for Israel’s salvation.