Isaiah 11:12
12 And he shall set up [nasa'] an ensign [nec] for the
nations, [gowy] and shall assemble ['acaph] the outcasts [dachah] of
Israel, [Yisra'el] and gather together [qabats] the dispersed [naphats] of
Judah [Yahuwdah] from the four ['arba`] corners [kanaph] of the
earth. ['erets]KJV-Interlinear
12 And He will
lift up a standard for the nations, And will assemble the banished ones of
Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the
earth. NASB
An ensign, ‘nec,’ means a
signal, a flag, a symbol that all look to as a rallying point, a standard.
To set up, ‘nasa,’ means
to establish, to magnify, to advance, to bear up, to exalt.
Psa. 138:2, God has
magnified his word above His name.
Without doctrine we have
no means of a relationship with God. That is the mode of communication and of
our learning and of our gaining an understanding about anything and everything,
especially God.
When Christ returns at the
second advent, then He is the living manifestation of the written word, He is
the living word, and the word is truth which will be the focus and the standard
by which the world will be managed.
Today we have all sorts
of religions and philosophies and ideas that discombobulate the thinking of
people, making everything confusing, and even making the absurd the normal.
But when Christ takes the
reigns of government, then all of the nonsense will vanish, and the state of
normalcy will be supported by truth.
And people will rally to
that standard, both of truth, and of Christ Himself.
The outcasts of Israel, referring
to the northern kingdom which proactively broke away from Judah with ten of the
tribes and they were eventually destroyed.
The word for outcasts, ‘dachah,’ is in the masculine, which refers to
the masculine attribute of being proactive, but in their case they left God and
the nation of their own accord and were thus destroyed due to their own obstinacy.
The dispersed of Judah,
which also includes the tribe of Benjamin, is in the feminine form as they were
more passive in their rejection of God and thus were driven out as a nation.
Despite their mutual
destruction as nations, the Jews continued to exist and eventually have ended
up living all over the world as we know this to be true today.
And when Christ returns
at the second advent, then He will recover all living and believing Jewish peoples
from all over the world, for many will survive across the globe, rallying them
to Jerusalem, and to Himself.
This event is future, and
has not yet occurred in history. It will
occur after Christ returns. He will destroy
evil and then re-gather all believers to Himself and thereby begin His
millennial reign with a nation of believers only. No unbelievers will remain alive at the
second advent. The Millennial reign of
Christ will begin with believers only.
