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               where do the people of ancient Israel fit into YEHOVAH’s wonderful master
               plan?


               2. Is it YEHOVAH’s will that all of Israel come to understand the truth about
               His master plan? I Timothy 2:4; II Peter 3:9. Will all Israel therefore  be
               given an opportunity to receive spiritual salvation? Romans 11:26.


               3.  Is a  resurrection to physical life prophesied to occur  after the  Millenni-
               um? Revelation 20:5 (first part), 11-13.


               COMMENT: All those Israelites who have ever lived and died since Adam
               and who were without the knowledge of YEHOVAH God’s plan of salvation
               will be resurrected and given a chance to understand! This resurrection to
               physical life  occurs after the  Millennium (Revelation 20:5). Those resur-
               rected at this time will live for 100 years (Isaiah 65:20).


               These physical  Israelites  will  have their first  genuine chance to receive a
               large measure of YEHOVAH’s holy spirit, grow in YEHOVAH’s holy, right-
               eous  character  and  be  born  into  the  universe-ruling  family  of  YEHOVAH
               God! They  will  be  taught  YEHOVAH’s  way  of life  and  be  judged  by the
               Word of YEHOVAH God (Revelation 20:12) -- just as those in YEHOVAH
               God’s Ecclesia are being Judged today (I Peter 4:17).

               4.  Will ancient  Israel come up in the Great  White Throne Judgment
               of Revelation 20? Ezekiel 37:1-11. Notice especially verse 11. What will
               Israel say  when  YEHOVAH  God restores them to physical, mortal
               life? Verse  11,  last  part. How will  YEHOVAH  God  answer? Verse
               12. What will YEHOVAH God give them? Verse 14. Will ancient Israel then
               know the true God? Verse 13.


               COMMENT: There is no injustice with YEHOVAH God. He will deny no one
               of Israel an opportunity for spiritual salvation. Everyone descended from Is-
               rael is to have his full chance, including all those ancient Israelites who died
               without ever having an opportunity to know YEHOVAH’s plan. They will be
               resurrected and given their chance -- and without a devil to tempt them!


               The illustration of the "valley of dry bones" in Ezekiel 37 shows the whole
               House of  Israel  --  those  spiritually  blinded  who  lived  and  died  without a
               chance  --  resurrected back to mortal life as before.  It shows their  under-
               standing being opened -- the knowledge of YEHOVAH’s way of life coming
               to them for the first time as a result of receiving a large measure of the holy
               spirit of YEHOVAH God.




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