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go, is eternal. At the same time His call to the nations was to stop their hatred and persecution of
Israel and to help them to be redeemed.

"Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my
standard to the people; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters
shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be your foster fathers, and their
queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their face toward the
earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord; for those
who wait for me shall not be ashamed." (Isaiah 49:14)

G–d called them to love Him through His people, Israel, and His word to the nations in the
end-time was this call: "Thus says the Lord of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come
people, and the inhabitants of many cities; And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, say-
ing, Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts. I will go
also. And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and
to pray before the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten
men from the nations of every language, shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, We will go
with you; for we have heard that God is with you." (Zechariah 8:20-23)

He warned the nations not to try to take Jerusalem away from Israel. Thousand of years
ago, He saw what the enemies of G–d and Israel would try to do to take the capital of Israel away
from His people. He warned them of His judgement which will be terrible:

"The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel, says the Lord, who stretches out
the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man inside him.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the people around, and it shall also
be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. And on that day I will make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all the peoples; all who burden themselves with it shall be griev-
ously hurt. And all the peoples of the earth shall be gathered together against it. On that
day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness; and I
will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the nations with
blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem are my strength through the Lord of hosts their God. On that day I will make the gov-
ernors of Judah like a hearth of fire among trees, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and
they shall devour all the peoples around, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem
shall be inhabited again in her own place, in Jerusalem. And the Lord shall save the tents
of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem do not magnify themselves against Judah. On that day shall the Lord defend the in-
habitants of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them shall be as David on that day;
and the house of David shall be like a divine being, like the angel of the Lord before
them. And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that
come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabi-
tants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look towards me,
regarding those whom the nations have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourns for an only son, and shall be in bitterness over him, as one who is in bitterness for
his firstborn." (Zechariah 12:1-10)

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