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The way home: Yeshua

No one finds the way back by himself. Yeshua opened the door by His death and resurrection, and He is gathering the scattered children of Elohim into one.

The son in the parable knew the road home. Most of the scattered house of Israel did not. After centuries among the nations, many no longer knew who they were, let alone the way back. So the Father sent His Son to be the way.

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6

Yeshua also called Himself the door of the sheepfold: "I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture." John 10:7-9

The door was opened at a price

We could not open that door ourselves. Yeshua opened it with His own life, on the cross. "But Elohim demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, the Messiah died for us" Romans 5:8. Paul passed on what was "of first importance": "that the Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. Because of His blood, we can come near "by a new and living way which He opened for us" Hebrews 10:19-20. Peter wrote to believers who had come from far away: "For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls" 1 Peter 2:25.

Gathering the scattered children

Yeshua said His work reached beyond the crowd in front of Him: "I have other sheep that are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd" John 10:16. Even the high priest, without knowing it, prophesied that Yeshua would die "not for the nation only, but also that He would gather together into one the children of Elohim who were scattered abroad" John 11:51-52. That is the mission of Sent to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.

Back to the beginning

Peter called his listeners to the same return: "Repent therefore and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out… until the times of restoration of all things, of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His holy prophets from of old" Acts 3:19-21. Restoration means bringing things back to what God established in the beginning. The Scriptures end where they began: the tree of life is there again, and there is no more curse Revelation 22:2-3; Genesis 2:9. The way home leads all the way back to the Father's house as He first made it. Everyone who comes home through Yeshua, from the lost tribes and from the nations, shares in that redemption and in the restoration of all things. We study this hope later, in The Restoration of All Things.

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