THE DAY OF VISITATION
The day of visitation was the day prophecied to Israel of their king and new covenant coming to them. It was their whole purpose as a people, to follow the true king who would come.
The most known verse about the day of visitation is in Luke 19:44 when Jesus looked over the city and grieved as he spoke of Jerusalem not realizing their hope had come. As Jesus quoted they didnt know the time of their visitation. They had missed Jesus their king.
The amazing thing about this statement however is that the prophecy is fulfilled and is truely realized by their missing the Christ. Lets look at some prophecies on this subject.
Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Hosea 9
1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 10:1 Israel is an empty vine
Hosea 11: 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Jeremiah and Hosea tell us Israel will be punished for her sin and for not accepting the Lord when he comes to pardon her. Israel was an empty vine but Jesus would come as the true vine to rescue Israel but Israel would not be listening. There will be no more figs on the fig tree. Jesus before he was killed was walking down a road and saw a fig tree and destroyed it and said never again will this tree bear fruit. Jesus was warning the disciples of Israels coming doom and the fulfillment of Jeremiah 8:13.
In Hosea 11:1 its says when Israel was a child I loved him and called my son out of Egypt.
Matthew 2:15 quotes this verse and places it on Jesus. He was now the true Israel who would fulfill Gods righteousness. He was the vine with the fruit. What Israel of the flesh couldnt do Jesus would take on himself. Hosea 11:12 says Judah yet rules with God and his saints while Israel was full of deceit. Jesus from the tribe of Judah was the fulfiller of this prophecy along with the body of Christ, his saints. The remnant that would believe in him are now the ones who are Gods Israel as Paul describes in Romans. We are Gods olive tree as prophecied in Hosea 14:6. From us are his fruits found who walk by faith all prophecies fulfilled in Hosea 14:8 and 9 by the church, Gods new covenant, the body of Israel who was and is Jesus.
The jews didn't realize the time of his visitation but now we must realize as Peter talks about in 1 Peter 2:12 that he will visit again. We must live righteous for him as that day approaches.
The most known verse about the day of visitation is in Luke 19:44 when Jesus looked over the city and grieved as he spoke of Jerusalem not realizing their hope had come. As Jesus quoted they didnt know the time of their visitation. They had missed Jesus their king.
The amazing thing about this statement however is that the prophecy is fulfilled and is truely realized by their missing the Christ. Lets look at some prophecies on this subject.
Jeremiah 8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Hosea 9
1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 10:1 Israel is an empty vine
Hosea 11: 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Jeremiah and Hosea tell us Israel will be punished for her sin and for not accepting the Lord when he comes to pardon her. Israel was an empty vine but Jesus would come as the true vine to rescue Israel but Israel would not be listening. There will be no more figs on the fig tree. Jesus before he was killed was walking down a road and saw a fig tree and destroyed it and said never again will this tree bear fruit. Jesus was warning the disciples of Israels coming doom and the fulfillment of Jeremiah 8:13.
In Hosea 11:1 its says when Israel was a child I loved him and called my son out of Egypt.
Matthew 2:15 quotes this verse and places it on Jesus. He was now the true Israel who would fulfill Gods righteousness. He was the vine with the fruit. What Israel of the flesh couldnt do Jesus would take on himself. Hosea 11:12 says Judah yet rules with God and his saints while Israel was full of deceit. Jesus from the tribe of Judah was the fulfiller of this prophecy along with the body of Christ, his saints. The remnant that would believe in him are now the ones who are Gods Israel as Paul describes in Romans. We are Gods olive tree as prophecied in Hosea 14:6. From us are his fruits found who walk by faith all prophecies fulfilled in Hosea 14:8 and 9 by the church, Gods new covenant, the body of Israel who was and is Jesus.
The jews didn't realize the time of his visitation but now we must realize as Peter talks about in 1 Peter 2:12 that he will visit again. We must live righteous for him as that day approaches.
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