Verses 24-25
24, 25. In that day Here, doubtless, the Messianic “day.” The language here is but the prefiguration of great moral changes.
Shall Israel The Israel through whom, according to God’s covenant with Abraham, “all nations shall be blessed.”
The third with Egypt and with Assyria The three nations shall be at peace, and Israel shall be the instrument of spiritual revolutions in their midst. While Israel was untrue to Jehovah he was crushed between the great hostile world-powers; but repenting and returning, he is to become the means of bringing both Egypt and Assyria to the feet of Jehovah to become his people.
Much of implied reference is no doubt made here to the far and wide dispersion of the Jews, diffusing influences preparatory to the incoming gospel age; of which influences the first noted instalment was brought to view at the day of Pentecost.
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