I would like us today to turn to the book of Acts in chapter 3. And I want to read today the last verses of this chapter beginning from verse 19. And this is a beautiful chapter because this chapter deals with the early Hebrew believers in Yeshua, the Messiah, who came to faith in Yeshua, the Messiah, and who began now to spread the message of the Gospel to their own brethren in Israel. You and I today are benefiting from what had been written for us in the Scripture already from about 2,000 years ago. So I am reading from chapter 3 and verse 19 to the end of the chapter. And look what Peter, after his proclamation, after he proclaimed the message concerning the person of Yeshua, after he healed this man, the impotent man in the beginning of this chapter, he presented a very strong message to his own brethren, the Israelis, the Jewish, the Hebrews there in the temple area.

And look what he's telling them in verse 19. "He says, Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Yeshua HaMashiach, which before was preached unto you, whom the heaven must receive until the time of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me. Him shall ye hear, in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

And it shall come to pass, that every soul which shall not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenants, which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kinders of the earth be blessed. Unto you first, God having raised up his son Yeshua, Jesus, sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquity. And I'm going to stop here with the end of chapter 3.

This is verse 26. And that is the conclusion of the message that Peter spoke now to these people who came from the temple. After there was the healing of these impotent men. There was that miraculous healing. And then they all gathered around Peter and around this man in the porch of Solomon in verse 11. And when Peter saw everyone gathering there, amazed at the healing of this man, And he began to preach to them. And he said to them in verse 12, if you remember, "Why do you marvel?" he said to them. "And why you look at us earnestly as if by our own power or holiness we have made this man to walk?" And then he directed them to Yeshua the Messiah.

And if you remember, he was speaking about the resurrected person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah in verse 13. He says, "The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, had glorified his son Yeshua whom ye have delivered up. And you denied him." And in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. And you know, brothers and sisters, he was really presenting before the nation there, around this temple area, around this man that was healed. He was really showing to them the guilt and the responsibility of the rejection of Yeshua the Messiah. But you know what, brothers and sisters, let me tell you that.

That really, when we look at the context of scripture and the whole word of God, we really all have to say that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah died on a cross because of my sins and because of yours. Every one of us have to admit that we were the guilty because of our sins Yeshua was placed upon a tree, upon a cross. And so when he presented this before them, you notice Peter is so precious. They were his brethren. They were his people. They were his nation that he loved so much. So what does he do now from verse 19 to the end of the chapter?

Now he's showing to them that through Yeshua, the Messiah, through repentance and confession, there is forgiveness of sins. This is beautiful. When we present the message of God's word to anyone in this world, we don't only say to a person you are guilty and you are wrong and you are bad, but we also have to show the truth that there is ability to receive forgiveness of sins. You see, we would not be here unless there is a possibility to receive forgiveness of sins. We would have no hope if there is no possibility to receive forgiveness of sins. And so Peter now, after speaking to them of the responsibility of the nation, he now speaks to them of the way of forgiveness.

In verse 19a, he mentioned actually three things. The first thing is there is a need of repentance. Secondly, there is a need of conversion. And thirdly, the result will be that the sins of the people will be blotted out. Three things in the first part of verse 19. There is a need of repentance. Repentance. Look, he is telling to them in verse 19. Repent ye therefore. Now the word repentance is very important. The Greek word repent is metanoeo. Metanoeo. Now mind you, I am not a Greek scholar. I am a Hebrew speaker, not a Greek scholar. But the Greek really saying here metanoeo, which means a change of mind.

You see, a person who is repentant is a person who will say I am going to change my mind about myself, about my action, about God and what he says in his word. Repentance is very important. If there is no repentance, something is definitely wrong. And that is why Peter noticed in that message that he preached to these individuals in the area of the Temple Mount, around the Temple, he was telling them it is important to repent. It is important to have a change of mind. Now what do you think is going to happen if we don't have a change of mind? If we recognize that we have sinned before God and we have gone astray and we don't have a change of mind, that means that we are satisfied with the way we are and we are going to continue in our own way.

And so, Peter emphasizing the importance of repentance. Brothers and sisters, throughout the book of Acts, you will find the word repentance is mentioned again and again. In chapter 2 and verse 38, Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized. If you remember, in the earlier preaching that he preached. Here in chapter 3 and verse 19, again he is using the word repent. The importance of repentance. You know, it is not enough to say, you know, I realize but I don't want to change my mind about it. No, the Lord demand repentance. In chapter 5, later on, we will read about it and specifically in verse 31, it says, Him has God exalted, speaking about Yeshua.

He exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a savior for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. If there is no repentance, there could not be forgiveness of sins. And that's why Peter emphasizes the importance of repentance here. And it is again mentioned in the book of Acts in chapter 17. It mentioned once again, chapter 17 and verse 30. In chapter 30, the time of this ignorant God winked it. But now he commands us every man everywhere to repent. Every man everywhere to repent. No one can say I am exempt from repenting. Repentance is essential in the presentation of the gospel and in the acceptance of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah in order to receive forgiveness of sins.

So Peter telling to his own brethren, brethren, you need to repent. And when I use the word his own brethren here, it is his own Jewish brethren who were not yet believers. Peter was a believer. The disciples were believers. But those individuals were not yet believers. And he says, listen, you need to repent from your sins. So a repentant person is a person that will change his mind. He or she will change their mind about God, about themselves and about their actions in order to receive forgiveness of sins. But notice not only that. Not only does one have to change his mind. Secondly, he is saying to them, be converted.

You notice, not only repent you therefore, but be converted. What does it mean to be converted? What does it mean to be converted? The Greek word for converted is epistrapeo. Epistrapeo. Epistrapeo. Epistrapeo. Now I am again, I want to say, this is what the Greek lexicon dictionary mentioning. And to be converted now, it's not like you need to become somebody else. But no, the thought here, and be converted is not only a change of mind, repentance, but also a change of direction. A person who is converted, he changed his direction. Not only did he change his thinking, but he also changed his direction. Oh, he's going to stumble, he's going to fall, a time he's going to turn back, and he's going to stumble.

But a person that is a converted person, he's changing his direction. You see, what happened to you and I when we became believers, our direction changed. We all of a sudden wanted to be with the things of God. We wanted to read the Bible. We wanted to pray to the Father in the name of Yeshua, the Messiah, in the power of the Holy Spirit of God. There was a change of direction, dear brothers and sisters. Again, I want to say, it doesn't make that person perfect when it's come to his practical walk. A time we fail. A time we stumble because we still have this old sinful nature.

But the direction is changed. The course is changing. It's like a pilot that set up his airplane to a direction in one direction. In one direction. There are bumps along the way. There are winds. There are clouds. But there is a direction that one chooses to go. And you know what? You can see it in the life of a person who came to know Yeshua, the Messiah. You can really see it. He or she used to walk this way and now they are walking in this way. And sometimes they are friends telling them, what happened to you? Why are you different? We used to do this all the time.

We used to go there all the time. But they would say, listen, I have not only repented of my sins, but I also was converted. Now I want us to understand here. Many times I remember years ago when people told me, oh, Gideon, you got converted. You used to be Jewish. Now you became a Christian. It is interesting because people have to understand those people who Peter told them to be converted are all Jewish. They are Jewish. Their conversion does not change them to become non-Jewish. The conversion is that now they change not only their mind, they change the direction and they are following the Messiah, Yeshua.

They are Jewish. They are Jewish. But they are Jewish believers in Yeshua, the Messiah. They are what we call in Hebrew, Meshichim. Christian means Messiah follower. They are following Yeshua, the Messiah, with other Jewish people and other non-Jewish people who are making up the body of Messiah, the body of Christ. And so, those two things are important. You know, if there is somebody that is unsaved, he or she must really take this to heart. I tell you why, brothers and sisters and friends, is because we never fool God. Remember that. We fool each other, yes. We fool our people around us, many times. But we never fool God.

We can't. Because he knows our hearts. He knows our condition. He knows our need. And he provided for our need. He sent Yeshua, the Messiah for us. But we must say, Lord, I am a sinner. I confess and I repent. I know I am not right with you, Lord. And then to say, I want to change my direction. That's the conversion. When a person becomes converted, when a person becomes a child of God, his direction is changing. With all the experiences of failing at times, his direction is changing. And here is the third thing that I mentioned here in verse 19. We said there is a need of repentance, a change of mind.

There is a need of conversion, a change of direction. And the result is thirdly, your sins will be blotted out. Look at this. Verse 19 again. That your sins may be blotted out. You know, blotted out. You will take something. You will write something on a piece of paper. And what God does. He erase. He blotting out. Everything that we have done. Because we have accepted the work of his son, Yeshua. And that's what happened. That your sins. You see, Peter is emphasizing the importance. And the result is that your sins may be blotted out. And that's what God does with a sinner that accepts the Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.

God said through the prophet Isaiah to Israel. He said to them, Come now. Isaiah 1 and verse 18. Come now and let us reason together. Says the Lord, Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. He's appealing to Israel, his own people now, the nation. And of course here, Peter appealing to the nation too, but they are yet in unbelief. And he says, listen, if you will repent, change your mind. If you will convert, change your direction. Look at the result. Your sins will be totally erased, blotted out. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.

Now, brothers and sisters, think about each and every one of us about our sins. That we have committed before we became believers. But even as we are believers, the many times that we commit sin. Sins in our thoughts. Sins in our actions. Sins that we are ashamed of. But they're all washed away because of our faith in Yeshua the Messiah. God does not justify them. God disciplined those whom he loved as a father because of sins. But nevertheless, he washed them away because of what Yeshua have done for us. And that's what he does here, Peter, in the presentation of the message of the gospel "He removed our transgressions as far as the east is from the west." "He removed our transgressions as far as the east is from the west." "He removed our transgressions as far as the east is from the west." "He removed them away." "Because of what we have in Yeshua the Messiah." "This is Psalm 103 and verse 12." "He removed our transgressions as far as the east is from the west." "As far as the east is from the west." "So far has he removed our transgressions from us." "He removed our transgressions as far as the east is from the west." "He has removed them away." "Because of what we have in Yeshua the Messiah." This is Psalm 103 and verse 12.

And we can go ahead and we can elaborate much more about this. But I am going to move on now to the next verses. In verses 19b to verse 21. There are four things that Peter Hill is saying to us as he is appealing for an Israeli, national and individual restoration. He is appealing now and you notice now Peter, remember that Peter is speaking to his own brethren. And he is appealing to them because he is assuming with the limited information that he has about the church age. Though the church was born now in Acts chapter 2. But remember it is the beginning of the church age.

He is still presenting the message to his own brethren, Jewish brethren. And in his mind he also has the national restoration. Israel to be national restored. And so what he does here, he is appealing for the Israeli individual and national restoration. So look what he is saying in verse 19b. After he mentioned that your sins may be blotted out, he says: So that the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Yeshua the Messiah, which before was preached unto you, whom the heavens must receive until the time of restoration of all things which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Notice what Peter does here, and I think it is beautiful. Imagine the anticipation of a national restoration. I have heard again and again by many, whether it is in the radio, television, internet, many who says: How is it possible that Israel will ever be restored? How is it possible that the Jewish people will ever be restored to the land, restored to God, restored to the Messiah? Look at the condition! But Peter, being a Hebrew, he understood that there is a time of restoration that was going to come to the nation of Israel. We today have to understand that, brothers and sisters, that even though we are in the church age, we cannot eliminate the truth concerning the future restoration of the nation of Israel.

It is engraved in the Bible. It is solid in the Word of God. You cannot read the Bible otherwise. So, look, Peter is saying to them, first of all, there are four things I mention here in verses 19-21. The first thing, he says that the time of refreshing shall come from the Lord. He is looking to the future. He says that after they will confess, they repent, they will be converted, their sins will be erased and blotted out. He says so that the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. See, he is looking for the period of time of refreshment for the nation of Israel from the Lord.

He is longing for that. He is longing for the restoration of his own nation, the nation of Israel. And so he is saying, look, if you will repent, if you will be converted, your sins will be blotted out, so there will be a time of refreshment that will come to us from the Lord. Secondly, in verse 20 now, you see, that is looking to the future. In verse 20, he now saying, the Lord will send again Yeshua, the Messiah. Look, and he shall send Yeshua, the Messiah, which before what preached unto you. And you notice by saying, which before, he is talking about the past, when the Lord was already here on earth.

And he was presenting himself to the nation of Israel. And he said, as we have been singing in our song in Matthew 11. Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He was already here on earth from the time that Peter was speaking. So he is saying to them, God will send Yeshua, the Messiah, again now, which before was preached unto you. You see, he wanted now that the Messiah will be sent again, because when he first came, the nation, as a nation, did not accept him. Yes, individuals, yes, many have received Yeshua, but the nation, as a nation, did not yet accept him.

So you learn here, brothers and sisters, that here, Yeshua, the Messiah, will be sent again by God the Father, as he was sent before at his first coming. He was sent by God, and now he was rejected, and therefore he needed to be sent again, not to die anymore on the tree. He finished with it. He died once. But to come again in order to establish a restored nation back in the land. That's what he has in mind here in verse 20. And then thirdly, in verse 21a, the first part of verse 21, is the third point. Where is Yeshua? Where is Jesus right now? Well, in verse 21a, he says, Yeshua is now received by heaven.

It says, whom the heaven must receive. So, if you notice, verse 19b, verse 20, and verse 21a, you have the three period of time, past, present, and future. Look, let me just repeat this again, so you can be clear. First of all, in verse 19b, so that in the future, the refreshment of the nation will come. That's taking us to the future. Then, verse 20, and he shall send Yeshua the Messiah, which before was preached unto you. That was past. He was already here. He was presented to the nation, and the nation rejected him. And thirdly, in verse 21, the first part, whom the heaven must receive, and that is present time.

And you know, as we have already read, in Acts chapter 1, when they looked steadfastly to heaven. You remember the disciples, and those as Yeshua was taken up to heaven. And the angels said to them, ye men of Galilee, why look ye up steadfastly into heaven? This same Yeshua, who was taken away from you into heaven, shall come in like manner back unto you. And so, you see, we have the past, we have the present, we have the future, in these verses that Peter presented to this Hebrew individual stay in Jerusalem. And so, that's the third point that we have in the appeal of Peter to the people of Israel at that time.

And fourthly, and I like that very much, the fourth part, in verse 21, the second half of verse 21, we have that, how long time will Yeshua stay in heaven? It is until, notice it says here, verse 21, until the time of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began. That word until is mentioned many times in the Bible. That word is a beautiful word if you want to highlight that. Because he is gone to heaven to remain there in heaven until, until when? Until the time of restoration of all things which the prophets have spoken again and again about the time of restoration.

And that word until is beautiful. Mentioned a few times in the Bible, in Psalm 110 and verse 1, the psalmist said, "Sit down on my right hand until I will make thine enemies thy footstool." God said, the Lord said unto my Lord, he is speaking to the Messiah, the Father speaking to the Son, and he is saying to him, "You sit on my right hand." Not for that long, not for a long time, it is until I will make your enemies your footstool. Those that rejected Yeshua, he is going to be the one that is going to have to be their judge. They are going to be his footstool and God is going to give him those that rejected the enemies of Yeshua, the Messiah.

In Luke chapter 21, we read of the fact that the times of the Gentiles will be until it will be ending in a certain time. The times of the Gentiles will end. We read it in Luke chapter 21. Could you turn there for a moment to Luke chapter 21? Look at this verse there. Luke chapter 21 and verse 24. Yeshua himself said, "They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and they shall be led captive, away captive into all nations." Speaking about the disciples. "And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." There is a period of time in the history of the Gentile world where the times of the rulership was taken away from Israel and given to the Gentiles.

Beginning with Nebuchadnezzar in a time when he took the Jewish people captive to Babylon. And from that time on, the Gentiles were the ones who were ruling this world. Israel was not the king that was taken away from the nation of Israel. But this is going to be only until the times of the Gentiles will end. And then the Messiah will come back and Israel will receive the promises that is given unto them. There is another time in the Bible where the word until is mentioned. It is mentioned in Romans chapter 11 and verse 25. And Paul is now saying there, "I do not want you, brethren, that you should be ignorant of the mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion.

But blindness in part happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in." That word until in Romans 11 and verse 25 has to do with the church age. It is blindness that happened to my people, to our brethren, the nation of Israel as a nation. But it is only until the full number of Gentiles are going to enter into the body of Messiah. And when the church has ended, God will begin his restoration with the nation of Israel. So this word until is very important. And so it is mentioned a few times here in the Bible. And I can take you to other passages to speak about until...

You remember when Yeshua said to the leaders of Israel, You shall not see me henceforth until you are going to say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Matthew 23 and verse 39. You are not going to see me until you are going to say, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. So this is beautiful here how he is appealing to them for an individual, But also for a national restoration of the nation of Israel. And so now next, in the next verses, we are drawing closer to the end of chapter 3 of Acts. In the next verses, verses 22, 23, 24 and 25, Peter emphasizes what the prophets spoken concerning the age of the Messiah.

You notice that it is not something that he takes out of his sleeves. It is not his own ideas. When he is preaching about Yeshua the Messiah, It is not his own imagination. It is the Hebrew prophets who spoke about it. It is the fathers of the nations who have been speaking about Israel's restoration and about the coming of the Messiah. And so he is mentioning here in verse 22 and 23, He is taking us back to the prophecy of Moses. It says there in verse 22, And Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God will raise up unto you of your own brethren like unto me.

Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that every soul which shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among his people. You know, Moses, Moshe, is one of the fathers of the nation of Israel. And you know, they, the leaders of Israel there, claimed Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses our leader, Moses our lawgiver, Moses our father. And he says, Look, brethren, Moses, Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses, whom you claim to be the lawgiver, who is the lawgiver. He spoke about the Messiah. He spoke about a unique person that will come and that will be the one that God will exalt.

And you are to listen to that prophet. Now, who was that prophet he was speaking about? He was directing them to Yeshua, the Messiah. He says, Look, Moses himself said that God is going to raise another prophet just like me. And he's going to be the one that you need to listen to. He's directing them to the person of Yeshua, the Messiah. And he said to them that Moses said that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among his people. You know, even today, when you talk to our own people, they will always talk about the Torah. This is the five books of Moses.

And in the Torah, which is the law, you have clearly the presentation of Moses about someone speaking about the Messiah that will come to be the one for the nation, that the nation is responsible to acknowledge him and to accept him and to listen to his words. Moses spoke about it. Moses spoke about it in Deuteronomy, which we have already read earlier in chapter 18. He mentioned clearly there the promise of the coming of that prophet. The Lord thy God, verse 15 of Deuteronomy 18. The Lord thy God will raise up unto you a prophet from the midst of you, the midst of your brethren, like unto me, unto him shall ye hearken.

He challenged them. He challenged them. Already then Moses challenged the people of Israel who came out of Egypt, who were anticipating to enter into the promised land even before they enter into the land. He says, listen, God is going to raise a prophet from us brethren, like myself. He says, you listen to him. You obey his word. You listen to his voice. And so he presented Moses in these verses here, verses 22 and 23, the prophecy of Moses. You didn't think that Moses was a prophet, but Moses actually was a man of God who was speaking God's word and presenting God to the nation, to our own nation.

I want you to go back with me for a moment to John chapter one. John chapter one. Just go back in your Bible. There we read of Yohanan Hamadbil, John the baptizer. In the verses there from verse 19, we read this. John 1 and verse 19. And this is the record of John. When the Jewish people sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him. And they asked him, who are you? See, they asked John the baptized, who are you? But he confessed. And he denied. Not, but he confessed. He says, I am not the Messiah. Verse 21. And they asked him, what then? Are you Eliyahu, Elijah? And he says, I am not.

And look what they asked him the third question. Are you that prophet? And he said, no. What do you think they were thinking about when they say, are you that prophet? prophet? You see, the Jewish leaders understood that the promised prophet was going to come. And that's why they asked him, are you the Messiah? He says, not. Are you Elijah? He says, not. Are you that prophet? He says, no, I am not. In chapter six of the Gospel of John, we have the same thought of him, of speaking about Yeshua as that prophet. In chapter six and verse 14, then those men, when they had seen the miracles which Jesus did, and they said of a truth, this is that prophet that should come into the world.

Brothers and sisters, the Jewish people, the people of Israel understood very well that that the Messiah, that that prophet of Deuteronomy chapter 18 and verse 15 is the Messiah that was going to come. And when they saw the miracles that he made, they say, this is that prophet. But unfortunately, the vast majority of the nation have not accepted him because they were influenced also by the leadership, the religious leaders of that time. And so in verses 22 and 23 of our chapter, Peter presented to them Moses and what Moses said. Now notice what he says in verse 24. In verse 24, now he's going to another man by the name of Samuel.

And then he said in verse 24, yeah, and all the prophets from Samuel, Shmuel, we call him in Hebrew, and those that follow after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of these days. You see, even from the time of Shmuel, Samuel the prophet, from that time on, they were speaking about these days that Peter is speaking about, the days of the Messiah. They were all speaking about the coming of the Messiah, that he will come, that he will live on earth, that he will do good on every hand, that he will walk in the midst of the nation, and that ultimately the nation will not understand, will not accept him.

And that ultimately he will be rejected and be taken, and ultimately will be crucified, will be killed, and being judged. See, the prophets have spoken about it. It's not something that Peter took out of his sleeves. It is a foundation, it's found in the word of God, in the Hebrew writings. And so, he is emphasizing to them what the prophets have said in verse 22 and 23, Moses. In verse 24, from Samuel on, and notice now in verse 25, he is now telling in verse 26, those are two last verses of this chapter. He is saying to these Jewish people in the temple, he says, "You know what? You are the children of the prophets.

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, and in thy seed shall all the kingdoms of the earth shall be blessed." You notice now three men he mentioned here. Moses, verse 22 and 23. Samuel, verse 24. And even going back now to Father Abraham in verse 25. And you know very well how the story began, really, of the nation of Israel. In Genesis chapter 12, God told Abraham, He says, "Get thee out." He said, "Get thee out of your house, of your father's house, out of your land, and out of your people, and go unto a land which I will show thee off." And then he said to him, "I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and I will bless them that bless you, and I will curse him that curse you, and in you shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." He gave a promise to the fathers.

And that's why he's saying to these Jewish people in the temple, he says, "You know what? You are the children." You know, amazing. You know, it's very sad that the children of the prophets today do not benefit with what you and I are benefiting today. The children of the prophets, namely the nation of Israel, are still in spiritual blindness as a nation. And you and I, Jewish, some Jewish people and many non-Jewish people, benefiting from the promises that the prophets had given to the children of the prophets, to the nation of Israel. And so, he's telling them here in verse 25, "You are the children of the prophets." Notice he also mentioned, "You are the children of the covenant." That covenant is singular here.

And it is that one unconditional covenant that God had made with Abram. It was not a conditional covenant, it was an unconditional covenant. The conditional covenant is Mount Sinai. If you will do this, I will give you this. If you will obey, I will bless you. I will bless you. I will multiply you. I will make of you a great nation. And through your nation, all the people of the earth shall be blessed. Unconditional covenant that God made with Abraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. It's not a conditional covenant. The conditional covenant is Mount Sinai. If you will do this, I will give you this. If you will obey, I will bless you.

If you will disobey, I will bless you. If you will disobey, I will bless you. If you will disobey, I will judge you. That's the Mount Sinai, the law in Mount Sinai. But the Abrahamic covenant is the unconditional covenant. And that covenant is being re-mentioned again in Jeremiah 31:31. A new covenant I will make with them. Not according to the covenant which they broke. But a new covenant. I will put my spirit in their hearts. I will make of them a new nation, God said. In Jeremiah chapter 31. With the restored nation of Israel. And so, Peter in verses 22, 23, 24 and 25 emphasizes what the prophet spoke. And he mentioned three Hebrew men.

Moshe, Shmuel, Abraham. Moses, Samuel and Abraham. And now in conclusion. In verse 26. This is the last verse. He's saying to Israel. He's speaking about the national restoration of the nation of Israel. It is involved two things. It is involved individual repentance. And it's also involved a national repentance. You know, this is important. Sometimes people say. Oh, it will be great when God is going to restore the nation of Israel to himself. But they don't realize. That when God is going to restore the nation as a nation. It will not be without restoring individual. Everyone will have to repent. Everyone will have to believe. Everyone will have to be converted.

Change of mind and change of direction. That's what's going to happen. National restoration not going to come on the expense of individual repentance and conversion. And that's why when we talk to people and tell them the gospel. We have to make sure that they understand that they are not saved because their father was a believer. They are not saved because their mother went to church meetings. It is every individual has to come to the Messiah on his or her own. They cannot say my dad was a believer and therefore my sins are forgiven. No. God does not have grandchildren. He only have children. As many as receive him.

As many as receive him. John 1:12. To them he gave the right to be called sons of God. It is an individual. Every one of us need to ask ourselves the question. Have I accepted Yeshua the Messiah for myself? Never mind my husband. Never mind my wife. Never mind my father or my son or my daughter. Me. I need you Lord to be my Lord and my Savior. Look how he mentioned that in verse 26. And to you first. God having raised up his son Yeshua. Sending him to bless you. And now notice that. In turning away every one of you. From his iniquity. Every one. You see he combined here the national.

And the individual in the same verse. And to you speaking about the whole nation. God sent Yeshua. And he raised Yeshua from among the dead. And he sent him to you nation of Israel. In turning away. Notice. Every one of you. From his iniquity. So in a future. When Israel as a nation is going to be turning back. To God. And when God is going to bless the nation of Israel. In the messianic age. In the time of restoration. Let me. Tell you. Every Jewish man and woman. Will be. Converted. Every Jewish man and woman. Will be. Confessing their sins. Every Jewish man and woman.

Will repent. And say Lord. Yeshua. Yeshua. You are my Messiah. I am the one that needs you. To be my Mashiach. My Savior. My Lord. And every one of the individuals. The families. Will be restored. And then you have a national. Restoration. A national. Salvation. Salvation. You can read. In the prophet. Zechariah. From chapter 12. And verse 10. To the end of. Chapter 13. In those days. In the last days. They shall look upon. Him. Whom they have peered. And they shall mourn. Every one of them. Will mourn. An individual mourning. And repentance. Will happen to our people. In a future day. When they will. Individually. And then.

Collectively. Will accept. Yeshua. As their Messiah. As their King. As their Lord. And a Savior. And that's what Peter. Is mentioning here. In the last. Verse. And just to close. With this. He used the word. Raised up. His son. Jesus. Do you know. If Jesus. The Messiah. Was not raised. Not only. Brought up. To become a Messiah. But be raised. From among the dead. If Yeshua. Did not rise. From among the dead. We do not have. Any hope. At all. The resurrection. Is what's the problem. The issue here. The resurrection. Of the Messiah. He died. He was buried. And he rose. He was delivered. For our offenses.

But he was raised. For our justification. That's what. Chapter 3. And chapter 4. Of the book of Romans. Mention. To us. So the resurrection. Of the Messiah. Is essential. In order. For a people. To be redeemed. And to be saved. And so. Brothers and sisters. It is very appropriate. For us today. To talk about. These verses. The restoration. Depend. Upon. A repentance. And conversion. To turn our mind. And to turn our action. Toward. The Lord. Yeshua. The Messiah. May the Lord. Help us. And encourage us. And may the Lord. Hasten the day. When Israel. As a nation. Will be converted. Can you say amen. Amen. Amen.