Jesus used the term with Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews who consulted our Lord one evening long ago. “Marvel not that I said unto thee, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.” John 3:3 and 7.
And our Lord (Scripturally) learned that Expression from … Isaiah the Prophet, his writings!
God, speaking of Israel’s future Salvation, declared in Isaiah 66:9 … “Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.”
God as attending Physician in the birthing room!
But He is more than that, God as Creator of life … prior to the birthing room. As the very Lord of the birthing room!
He (the Lord) will some day (after the Tribulation has sufficiently humbled her (Israel) and brought her to the point of conviction) “will bring her to birth!” A second birth for that little nation!
Then God promises to “cause her to bring forth!” Looks to me like Israel is now having children of her own! A host of “new births” as the Millennium begins, as Jesus returns to earth! Riding John’s “white horse” of victory, described in Revelation chapter 19.
And this birth will be successful, guaranteed! “Shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.” (Throughout the whole Old Testament God is the Shutter and the Opener of the womb!)
Rachel’s words from Genesis 30:1 prefigure Israel’s new attitude here: “And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.”
“GIVE ME CHILDREN, OR ELSE I DIE.” And God is now giving Israel children, lots of them.
To quote Isaiah 66:8 … “a nation will be born (again) in a day!” The King James Version, word for word: “Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once?”
Wow!
This Move of God, this true upcoming “Revival” may exceed the dimensions (the numbers) of any such Stirring in all the history of the Bible!
More than Pentecost!
More than Jonah’s converts in Nineveh!
Jesus, the True Evangelist!
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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