Restoring the tribes of Israel - Isaiah 49:3-7

Isaiah 49:3-7 NIV

He said to me, “You are my servant,

Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.”

 But I said, “I have labored in vain;

I have spent my strength for nothing at all.

Yet what is due me is in the Lord ’s hand,

and my reward is with my God.”

 And now the Lord says—

he who formed me in the womb to be his servant

to bring Jacob back to him

and gather Israel to himself,

for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord

and my God has been my strength —

 he says:

“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant

to restore the tribes of Jacob

and bring back those of Israel I have kept.

I will also make you a light for the Gentiles,

that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”

 This is what the Lord says—

the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel —

to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation,

to the servant of rulers:

“Kings will see you and stand up,

princes will see and bow down,

because of the Lord, who is faithful,

the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

God is not done with Israel. Once again Israel will hold out the light of God and that light will shine to the ends of the earth.  We are told this in many places in the Bible, in both testaments. 

A remnant of the tribes will be saved.  In Revelation we are given a specific reference to their restoral, naming the tribes. The nation then gives witness to the nations of the glory of God.  A great multitude will be saved. 

Revelation 7:4

Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.