For Better and For Worse: The Faithfulness of God through the Exile and Return of the Shekhinah

This article addresses the faithfulness of God (toward Israel) and thereby confronts us with our understanding of him. The extent to which we have learned to understand God’s self-revelation through Scripture enables or hinders us to understand God’s faithfulness toward his people, and consequently toward the whole of his creation. This includes “us,” believers in Yeshua from the nations. I write this article from the perspective of a goy-in-Messiah, a Christian, and a minister within the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. Focusing in this article on the exile and return of the