FACT CHECK · THEOLOGY: LAND AND COVENANT
Claim: The return can only come after the Messiah
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
The Talmud names a sign before him: Rabbi Abba, "no more explicit sign of the end" than Ezekiel 36:8, the land giving fruit to Israel "for they will soon be coming". The order is debated.
SOURCE
Sanhedrin 98a (Davidson, Sefaria); Ezekiel 36:8
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