What surprised me, what I noticed about these scriptures was the "WHO", the subject of these verses?
Answer:
Verse 20 The Lord of Hosts
Verse 21 The Lord of Hosts
Verse 22 - The Lord of Hosts
Verse 23 The Lord of Hosts
If all the verses quoted above is speaking about The Lord of Hosts then WHO is the JEW whose skirt men will take a hold of? Who is the one men say they will walk with and who is the one men say God is with Him?
Answer: The Lord of Hosts !
Amazingly, we are told in verse 23 that The Lord of Hosts IS A JEW !
For thousands of years men have assumed verse 23 was talking about any Jewish man, but that is not the case here! For the focus is on one Being who is spoken of in these verses NOT a whole nation of Jewish men.
In verse 23 we have a Prophesy that the Lord Himself would come as a man but not just any man
a JEWISH Man !
It is speaking of Jesus BECAUSE he was a Jew.
Those ten men from every nation make up a legal congregation, and I have no doubts at all that it symbolizes the ten lost tribes.
Being that the ten lost tribes went into the nations and became gentiles, that they would also come back and then grab the garment saying,'' Teach us, teach us.''
The point being that the nation of Jews become as priests, each one of them.
I think.
Each gentile that is out there needs a Jew, but there is hardly enough Jews to go around, and that's what I see, that each Jew will take on a congregation himself.
After the Passover, the levites stood in the place for the firstborn in order to redeem the firstborn just as a Passover lamb redeemed the first born.
But in the book of Numbers where the count was made, there was not enough priests for every first born son, and so if you didn't have the name of your own personal priest, you had to pay the temple tax.
And that seems like a very sad thing indeed, that you are standing amongst the firstborn sons when they would all be redeemed, and so we see the count of the first born sons and the count of the priests, and you would be left standing there after all the priests had been taken.
But that was then, and while they were showing the first born and a plan of redemption by showing the first born then, in the New Testament it has been symbolized that the first born show gentiles, so that every gentile would need the name of a priest to stand in his stead to redeem him as a firstborn.
And while it is true that Jesus stands in our stead as a redeemer of the firstborn son, It still does not take the need away for every firstborn son to be mated with a Jew, or Priest.
That's what I think, that every gentile has Jesus standing as a priest who redeemed them as a firstborn is redeemed, it doesn't take away the idea that each gentile should have a Jew standing with him.
I put this to the test myself, and I found a Jew who didn't even believe in Jesus, and I talked him into an agreement that we had become one, that a Jew and a gentile make a whole.
He would agree with me that it changed both our lives, I know that it made all the difference in the world to me, in as much as to say that before that point, I never had the Holy spirit, and after that point, I did.
It was the first time I felt whole since I have been alive, and what is the outcome to the whole world?
Will they also go out and find a Jew and beg him to become as one people?
That's what all the prophecies say, that the whole world with gather the wealth of the world to bring and sit at the feet of Judah.
That ten men will grasp the sleeve of a Jew{every Jew}.
That the congregation{being ten virgins} of believers in Jesus will awake, and 5 of them will not have prepared, and what is it that they are told to go and buy?
It is oil, but what is the oil, and how may a person reach into his pocket, pull out cash and gain anything spiritually?
How can a gentile progress in the eyes of God buy paying literal money?
We are shown how in many places.
Isaiah 66
Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem," says the LORD, "just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD. 21"I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites," says the LORD.
Gentiles giving their own time and money to carry the Jews{each one} back to their place, and by spending their money and having a heart to love the people of God, some of them will become Levites.
The offer is not to those who simply believe in Jesus, but the offer is to those who spend their money, and who have a heart to fulfill the promises about God's people.
And if the prophets are correct in showing that the world must carry all the children back to their land, and if the prophets are showing the wealth of the world being put at the feet of Judah, then it is also showing ten men grasping the sleeve of every Jew.
