Thus saith the Lord God, when I shall have gathered the
house
of Israel
Not at the return of them from captivity in Babylon; for the ten
tribes or house of Israel did not then return; though there might
some few of those tribes, as a pledge of what would be hereafter;
but in the latter day, upon the destruction of antichrist, when
all Israel shall be saved: and when they will be collected
from the people among whom they are scattered;
in the several nations of the world, in Asia, Africa, and Europe:
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the
Heathen;
being believed in by them; prayed unto and worshipped in a
spiritual manner by them; professed and owned to be their Saviour
and Redeemer in the face of the whole world, Christians and even
Heathens, whom before they rejected: then shall they dwell in
their land that I have given to my servant Jacob; the land of
Canaan, given by promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; which last
is only here mentioned, because it was his posterity that was to
possess it; not all Abraham's, only those in the line of Isaac;
nor all Isaac's, only those in the line of Jacob; but all his;
and this they will do when they are converted in the latter day,
and be no more a vagabond people, as they now are.