Our father in heavens.
Yeshuah (Jesus), the son of Yehoah (the Eternal), taught us in Matthew 6 how to pray to his Father, our Creator and prayer given as guidance begins with these words:
" Our father in heavens… "
But if we have a Heavenly Father, could it be that we also have a mother or future mother who is married with our Heavenly Father whose Hebrew name is Yehoah?
The answer to that question may surprise you, but our heavenly Father is indeed married and his wife is expected to be the mother of all the children of Elohim! This is what we are going to discover in many biblical writings.
But beware, contrary to the teachings of the most prominent of the churches which proclaim themselves to be Christian, namely the Catholic Church, this mother is not at all "the holy church"! Indeed, there is no biblical reference giving the Church the title of mother of the children of Elohim.
Here is the wife of Yehoah Elohim!
On the other hand, the biblical writings reveal in several places who has been chosen by Elohim to be His wife and conseauently the mother of His children! And this bride is nobody else than Jerusalem!
Let’s read this first in Isaiah 54, verses 5 and 6:
“5 For your Maker is your husband,
Yehoah of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called the Elohim of the whole earth.
6 For Yehoah has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your Elohim.»
And Isaiah 52 in verse 1 confirms that the above passage is indeed addressed to Jerusalem.
Then in Ezekiel 16, verses 3 to 14, Yehoah tells us how Jerusalem was chosen by Him to become His bride:
“‘Thus says Yehoah Elohim to Jerusalem: “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were oathed on the day you were born.
6 “And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7 I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
8 “When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says Yehoah Elohim.
9 “Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. 14 Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Yehoah Elohim.»
In fact, Ezekiel is showing us that our Creator Yeohah Elohim set his sights on Jerusalem to make her his bride a very long time ago, even before the existence of the ancient kingdom of Israel.
The biblical Jerusalem is an initially purely earthly creation since she is the daughter of an Amorite father and a Hittite mother, therefore, she is of Canaanite origin! One would have expected an origin linked to the Hebrew but yet, initially, this is not the case. As we discover from the Bible, it will only be much later that Yehoah Elohim will make Jerusalem the jewel first of all of the Children of Israel and secondly of the Jewish people only!
Remember that Jerusalem was in the past the Salem of Abram's time and was the seat of the kingdom of Melchizedek, the priest of Elohim. Melchizedek was a person without genealogy, to whom Abram paid the tithe of all his goods and this event took place a long time before the birth of the children of Israel.
Let’s first read about this in Genesis 14, verses 18 to 20:
“18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of Elohim Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:
“Blessed be Abram of Elohim Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be Elohim Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
And he gave him a tithe of all.»
And then Hebrews 7, verses 1 to 3:
“1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High Elohim, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of Elohim, remains a priest continually.»
We must obviously take this Jerusalem as the symbol for the mother of all those to whom it is offered to become children of Yehoah, our Father, as long as each of us are investing efforts to keep the words of Yehoah by putting them into practice. Therefore, this is the Jerusalem chosen by Elohim to become at his side the heavenly Jerusalem if she emerges victorious from the trials that are before her! And this will unfortunately not be immediately the case as we will see.
An adulterous wife and a prostitute mistress.
Unfortunately, the prophet Ezekiel then reveals that this bride chosen by Yehoah will become an adulterous wife who prostituted herself with all those who passed by her place. And all her prostitutions were most abject!
And indeed, she prostituted herself first with the Egyptians, then with the second power to dominate the Middle East, Assyria. To follow, it was with the Chaldeans of Babylon, the third power to dominate the Middle East, that Jerusalem fornicated.
The prostitutions of Jerusalem, Yehoah’s wife, are a masterpiece of a prostitute mistress!
This is what we can read in the book of Ezekiel:
First in Ezekiel 16, verses 15 and 26 to 32:
“15 “But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.. … 26 You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
27 “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29 Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
30 “How degenerate is your heart!” says Yehoah Elohim, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
31 “You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment. 32 You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.»
Next, let's read Ezekiel 23:11-17:
“11 “Now although her sister Oholibah (Jerusalem as indicated in verse 4) saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.
12 “She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians,
Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
16 As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 “Then the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, and alienated herself from them.»
Several other prophets also allude to the prostitutions of this unworthy mother.
First, Isaiah 1:1 and 21
" 1The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.... 21How the faithful city has become a harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now murderers.»
Jeremiah 13:27 to follow:
“I have seen your adulteries
And your lustful neighings,
The lewdness of your harlotry,
Your abominations on the hills in the fields.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
Will you still not be made clean?»
Finally, Hosea 2:4
““I will not have mercy on her children,
For they are the children of harlotry.»
Following what has been written above, it must be understood that the prostitutions of Jerusalem continued with the Persian empire, with Javan (Alexander the Great and his successors) and finally with Rome which existed at the time when John wrote the book of the Revelation. By the way, a legitimate question arises about the identity of Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots described in the book of Revelation of John: Could it be Jerusalem?
Let us read Revelation 17:3-5 and 9-11:
“3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.…
9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. 10 There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to [f]perdition.»
If indeed the identity of the Great Whore is Jerusalem, this would explain the great astonishment of John!
Revelation 17:6-7:
“6 And I saw this woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And, on seeing her, I was seized with great astonishment.
7 And the angel said to me, Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.»
As the Book of Revelation suggests, we must sadly expect that Jerusalem will also prostitute herself with the seventh and last head of the Beast. The appearance of this seventh head will mark the resurrection of the Beast operated by the false prophet.
As a result of all these acts of adultery, Yehoah repudiates His wife, sends her a certificate of divorce and therefore Jerusalem will be exposed to the power of Satan, without anymore protection coming from the Lord!
This is implied by Isaiah 49:14 and 21:
“14 But Zion said, “Yehoah has forsaken me, And my Elohim has forgotten me.”- … Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these, where were they?’ ”
And also Isaiah 50:1: “Thus says Yehoah: “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.»
Jerusalem is therefore abandoned by Elohim and will have the painful experience of being exposed to the power of Satan, the prince of this world and consequently of all these nations with which Jerusalem prostituted herself. These nations are in fact hating this harlot.
Many punishments will follow with a terrible succession of destructions, misfortunes, catastrophes and deportations into slavery.
We can read this in Isaiah, chapters 3 to 5 as well as in Jeremiah 4 to 6 and in Ezekiel 16: 35 to 42 and 23: 46 to 49.
By the way, let us note that all these punishments that Jerusalem will endure are the fruits of her own choice to reject her husband and protector.
Yehoah has indeed always left the free choice to anyone to decide about the way to follow and He even warned of what awaits people in each case as we can read in Deuteronomy 28:
“1Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of Yehoah your Elohim, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that Yehoah your Elohim will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of Yehoah your Elohim…
15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you (it's up to you to read the rest)…”
And so Jerusalem will suffer the evil that was prophesied in due time in the Bible and after many recalls made by a host of prophets who were sent to her by her Holy Husband Elohim!
If the Great Harlot of the end times is indeed Jerusalem, her last punishment will be most severe as revealed to us in the book of Revelation, chapter 17, verses 16 to 18:
“16 And the ten horns which you [g]saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For Elohim has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of Elohim are fulfilled. 18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” »
But it is also necessary to know that, if Yehoah Elohim chastises His wife so severely after having divorced her, it is out of love and in the hope that these punishments will change her scandalous behaviour and bring her back to the right path, that of happiness. .
This is what we can read in the following passages:
1. Deuteronomy 8, verse 5
“You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yehoah your Elohim chastens you»
2. Proverb 3, verse 12:
“For whom Yehoah loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.»
3. Hebrews 12: verses 6 and 10:
“For whom Yehoah loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”. …. For they ( fathers) indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. »
And indeed the divorced Jerusalem repents admirably, asking for and receiving forgiveness as promised by Yehoah.
This is indeed what will happen several times until the end of this world! Jerusalem repented many times, notably through her prophets during her existence, but felt back many times also into her acts of prostitution, as can be read throughout the Bible.
On this subject, we can read the moving prayer of Daniel, in chapter 9: verses 1 to 19:
“1In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of Yehoah through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
3 Then I set my face toward Yehoah Elohim to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to Yehoah my Elohim, and made confession, and said, “O Yehoah, great and awesome Elohim, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Yehoah, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
8 “O Yehoah, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9 To Yehoah our Elohim belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. 10 We have not obeyed the voice of Yehoah our Elohim, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of Elohim have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
13 “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before Yehoah our Elohim, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. 14 Therefore Yehoah has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for Yehoah our Elohim is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. 15 And now, O Yehoah our Elohim, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly!
16 “O Yehoah, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us. 17 Now therefore, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for Yehoah’s sake [a]cause Your face to shine on [b]Your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 O my Elohim, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. 19 O Yehoah, hear! O Yehoah, forgive! O Yehoah, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my Elohim, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”»
Another equally remarkable prayer is that of Ezra, in chapter 9, verses 5 to 15:
“5 At the evening sacrifice I arose from my fasting; and having torn my garment and my robe, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to Yehoah my Elohim. 6 And I said: “O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. 7 Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to humiliation,[b] as it is this day. 8 And now for a little while grace has been shown from Yehoah our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our Elohim may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage. 9 For we were slaves. Yet our Elohim did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our Elohim, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem. 10 And now, O our Elohim, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments, 11 which You commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land, with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from one end to another with their impurity. 12 Now therefore, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons; and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’ 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our Elohim have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this, 14 should we again break Your commandments, and join in marriage with the people committing these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You had [c]consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor? 15 O Yehoah Elohim of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. Here we are before You, in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”
Now we should also admire in Psalm 44 the most admirable attitude of the Jewish people who, during these more than two thousand years, behaved in an exemplary manner vis-à-vis their Elohim by keeping His commandments under any circumstances. The Jewish people had this behavior, even while they were so often bullied, mocked, often cruelly persecuted, the culminating persecution occurring with this abominable Shoah period when the Nazi power led them like sheep to the slaughter!
Let us read carefully how the writer is speaking about this in Psalm 44:
“15 My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,
16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
19 But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our Elohim,
Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
21 Would not Elohim search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.»
Each time Yehoah, as He had promised several times, will notably allow the Jewish people to return to His Holy Land, even if they return as slaves. But at least they can live in the most beautiful country and have access to the rebuilt Temple.
Jerusalem will therefore repent one last time after her last act of adultery and she will tearfully ask forgiveness from her Husband and beg him to take her back as His wife and this is what Yehoah will gladly accept to do.
This is what we can read in Isaiah 54: verses 4 to 8:
“4 “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 For your Maker is your husband,
Yehoah of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called Elohim of the whole earth.
6 For Yehoah has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your Elohim.
7 “For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
But with great mercies I will gather you.
8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says Yehoah, your Redeemer.."
Read also Isaiah 62 again, verses 1-5:
“1For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace,
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
2 The Gentiles shall see your righteousness,
And all kings your glory.
You shall be called by a new name,
Which the mouth of Yehoah will name.
3 You shall also be a crown of glory
In the hand of Yehoah,
And a royal diadem
In the hand of your Elohim.
4 You shall no longer be termed Forsaken,
Nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate;
But you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah;
For Yehoah delights in you,
And your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin,
So shall your sons marry you;
And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
So shall your Elohim rejoice over you.»
Jerusalem, symbol of the often broken first covenant and of slavery, will finally become the celestial and free spouse of our Father Yehoah Elohim as the apostle Paul confirms to us in Galatians 4, verses 21 to 30:
“21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written:
“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”
Jerusalem will bear an innumerable multitude of children.
As it was mentioned earlier, this heavenly Jerusalem gives and will give birth to Yehoah Elohim a large number of children.
The very Firstborn of the children of Yehoah is obviously Yeshua, our Lord and Saviour.
This birth is described in Revelation 12, verses 1-6:
“1Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. 5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to Elohim and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.»
This birth of Yeshua will be followed by many others as we can read in the following places:
1. Romans 8:29 “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. »
2. Colossians 1:15-20 “15 He is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or [e]principalities or [f]powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.»
The births of the children of Jerusalem which will follow that of our Messiah will begin with the resurrections of those who died in Yeshua at his coming and the following births will take place after the 1000 year reign of the Messiah with his saints as announced to us in Revelation 20, verses 1-6:
“1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for [a]a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.»
As a reminder, Yeshua had explained to the Pharisee Nicodemus that access to the Kingdom of Elohim implies being born again as we can read in John 3:
“1There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from Elohim; for no one can do these signs that You do unless Elohim is with him.”
3 Yeshuah answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of Elohim.”
4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
5 Yeshuah answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of Elohim. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ »
This is how Jerusalem, alias Zion, will be the mother of all the children of Elohim, as Psalm 87 clearly indicates:
“1His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 Yehoah loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of Elohim! Selah
4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’ ”
5 And of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her;
And the Most High Himself shall establish her.”
6 Yehoah will record,
When He registers the peoples:
“This one was born there.” Selah
7 Both the singers and the players on instruments say,
“All my springs are in you.”»
And Jerusalem will have to prepare a lot of space to accommodate all her children as predicted in Isaiah 54: 1-3:
““1Sing, O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says Yehoah.
2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.»
But, pay attention, don’t confuse Jerusalem with the New Jerusalem!
If Jerusalem is the spouse of our heavenly Father, Yehoah Elohim, it should not be confused with the New Jerusalem which descends from heaven and whose detailed description is made in Revelation 21. This New Jerusalem is indeed a creation of Elohim and will be the magnificent bride of our Lord Yeshua whose nuptials are announced a little earlier in Revelation 19.
In fact, Elohim will perhaps do as He did at the time of the creation of Adam:
He took a part of Adam’s body to create Eve. Here, He will perhaps take a part of the Church which is the body of Christ to make his future bride.
Patience and as you can understand, there are still great things ahead of us if we are winners!