Isa. 66:20

20 And they shall bring [bow'] all your brethren ['ach] for an offering [minchah] unto the LORD [Yahovah] out of all nations [gowy] upon horses [cuwc], and in chariots [rekeb], and in litters [tsab], and upon mules [pered], and upon swift beasts [karkarah], to my holy [qodesh] mountain [har] Jerusalem [Yaruwshalaim], saith ['amar] the LORD [Yahovah], as the children [ben] of Israel [Yisra'el] bring [bow'] an offering [minchah] in a clean [tahowr] vessel [kaliy] into the house [bayith] of the LORD [Yahovah]. KJV-Interlinear

20 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. NASB

Despite the chaos of the Tribulation, there will be a remnant of mature believers to be delivered at the end of the Tribulation when Christ returns. These mature believers will not be exclusively from Jerusalem, but they will exist in countries throughout the world.

Back in Isaiah s time, even from the time of Moses to the time of Christ, the Israelites practiced a system of sacrifices and offerings on a daily, weekly, or even annual basis. These offerings were to the God.

One of the offerings was called, minchah, or a gift offering. It is also called a grain offering, meat offering or meal offering. In this offering, Christ is represented as the gift of God to the World. Gods ultimate gift was salvation, and Christ was the mechanism of that gift.

Here, the believers who are delivered at the Second Advent, will become the gift themselves, to Christ. Instead of bringing grains as the content of their offering, they themselves will be the offering by virtue of their mature spiritual status.

The grain offering generally represents the work of the field. The fruits of ones labor, which further represents the necessities or results or requirements of life. Christ s work on the Cross is that ultimate work which everyone needs in order to have a life beyond this life.

Spiritual growth to maturity is the work of the believer by means of the grace of God.

Here, there will be no grain, no produce, no work of man which can be brought to Christ. Only the survivors themselves will exist and they will be the evidence and the testimony of God keeping His promises.

They survived not through their own ingenuity in the face of terrible trouble, not through some piece of luck, not because they simply had good survival abilities, but they survived solely because of their faith.

Faith is a result of spiritual growth. Faith relies on things not seen. Faith trusts in things not of this realm. Faith is not wishful thinking.

Daily spiritual study, results in daily understanding, results in daily application of Gods principles to ones life, results in wisdom, results eventually in faith. The more growth, the greater ones faith becomes.

David, Daniel, Moses and others are examples of extensive faith in God. Faith reaches out to the abilities and resources of God, when you own abilities become non-existent or useless.

Spiritual growth occurs when one is in fellowship. Fellowship is the state of spiritual cleanliness.

When the Israelites made their grain offerings, they had to make their offering in a clean vessel, which represents Christ in His state of perfection, and themselves, in their state of fellowship.

The delivered remnant of the tribulation, will be spiritually mature believers, and thus their lives, their souls, will become the clean vessels for their offering of themselves to Christ.

They will come from all over the world.

Thy will come on horses, carts, litters, camels, mules, etc. They will come by every conceivable means of transportation from across the planet, to Jerusalem. Of course, cars and motorized vehicles did not exist in Isaiah s day, but his references to the many means of transportation will certainly include the transportation modes of that future time.

Remember, the tribulation is still future. If the Second Advent were to occur seven years from now, people will use boats, cars, airplanes, trucks, bicycles, and so forth to get to Jerusalem. If the Second Advent is not to occur for another century, then there certainly well be different types of transportation in that future time.

At the beginning of the tribulation, everyone alive will be unbelievers. At the end of the Tribulation, there will have been many millions or even billons who will believe in Christ, and most of them will die during the Tribulation. There will be a remnant who will be delivered, and they will be mature believers in Christ. That means that they studied enough of the scriptures, and often enough, in order to advance in their spiritual lives to a point of maximum faith, and maximum trust.

They will not be just Jewish people, but they will be people from all over the world, from every gentile nation. Despite Satan s attempt to destroy the scriptures, Christians, and Jews, God will still make Bible doctrine available to anyone and everyone who is interested.

Rom. 12:1

1 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. NASB

Anyone who is positive toward God, Christ, Bible doctrine, and their spiritual life, is in effect by virtue of their daily study, fellowship, and growth, making themselves a sacrifice to God, which, because of their daily study, putting Bible doctrine as the content of their soul, is acceptable to God.

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