Their vocation is now to gather God’s people not only from Israel but from all the corners of the earth and to bring them, like the wise men, to Jesus and teach them his ways. The time of Israel’s restoration has dawned, and the vise grip of death on God’s human creatures since the time of Adam and Eve has been loosened. The restoration of humanity to what God created it to be has begun with the formation, in Jesus’s followers, of the restored Israel that Isaiah envisioned. Eventually, through the