“Israel”
is a word that is found in Scripture over 2500 times, and because of its critical importance to the churches of The Lord Jesus Christ in coming to a sound understanding of God’s Covenant Promises, it carries great significance.
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( Note: so does the word, “Baptism”, or “Mary”, but “Baptism” is not ‘the cause of Salvation’, in The BIBLE, OR ANYWHERE ELSE and “Mary” is NOT ‘the mother of ANY god’, ANYWHERE, etc.).
Was the Lord’s Promise of An Everlasting Inheritance Made to a middle eastern nation of geopolitical and genealogical stature, or was that Promise Made to an Israel that is An Elect, Diverse, and Spiritual people?
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( Note: the following ‘ideas’ ARE NOT IN THE BIBLE; they only may appear to be, by simply NOT INTERPRETING GOD’S ETERNAL WORDS, as HE WILL HAVE US to UNDERSTAND HIS MEANINGS ).
To be sure, there are those who believe
( Note: in their carnal reasoning, with a sin-cursed mind, APART FROM SCRIPTURE )
that The Land, Peace, Prosperity, Freedom, and Everlasting Kingdom Reign, was Promised to the literal progeny of Israel.
They believe that this can only be fulfilled by the literal seed of Jacob inheriting physical promised land. But is The Israel of God defined by genealogy, or does being A True Israelite, BIBLICALLY SPEAKING, encompass anyone Born of The Seed, which is Jesus Christ?
Is The Israel of God defined by having a blood relationship to Jacob, or is The Israel of God defined by having A Blood Relationship with Jesus Christ?
These are all pertinent questions that should not be lightly esteemed, nor brushed aside with tired old self-serving platitudes, clichés, or colloquialisms
( Note: (?) Unless ? we want our ‘understanding’, of what we think is Biblical,
TO COME FROM OUR FLESH ! (?).
Indeed we must ask ourselves (in Light of Scripture), is it even possible that such a Glorious and Eternal Promise could be Fulfilled in such an earthly Covenant and Kingdom?
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Is The Kingdom of the New Covenant Congregation a “Plan B,” or is The Grace of The New Covenant with Israel, ( MEANING ALL of GOD’S SAVED CHILDREN ) the Means by which God is Fulfilling the Old Covenant?
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There is only one way to arrive at The Truth of these questions, and that is by Trusting The Word of God itself.
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There are essential interpretative rules to understanding The BIBLE, including The END TIMES TEACHINGS of The BIBLE.
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The first is that The Bible is The Inerrant, SUPERNATURALLY PRESERVED, Divine Word of God, and thus Absolutely and Fully Authoritative.
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The second is that being The Divinely Inspired Word of God to man, it is its Own DIVINE Interpreter of what was Said. The Scriptures are the Ultimate and Final Authority that determines the Faithfulness of the Doctrines held by the Lord’s churches.
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Sound INTERPRETATION will come only by our first understanding this principle both effectually, and intellectually.
Relying on what our teachers and leaders think is right, or by blindly following popular authors, will never lead to consistent Doctrines that are in Total Harmony with Scripture. …
Only in Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth will we Discern what was being Prophesied in God’s Promises to “Israel”, and what He Has Declared was Fulfilled by Jesus Christ.
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Our Interpretive paradigm must start with the “Absolute” that the terms “Jews” and “Israel” must ultimately be Defined by The Word of God, and not by secular history or modern day ‘understanding’.
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With this in mind, this study will examine this important issue, in The Illuminating Light of The Divinely Inspired Scripture.
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We begin this exposition in The Book of Romans, Chapter Nine.
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In The Book of Romans, Chapter Nine,
the Apostle Paul
deals with this very question of
“The Promises made to Israel.”
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God here Answers the objection
against
The HISTORICAL and BIBLICAL
Truth that the Jews were judged.
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The question is, if The Promises were to “Israel”, why then has “Israel” rejected Jesus Christ and come under this Judgment? Adapted from:
Adapted from:
The Israel of God !
by Tony Warren
In Romans, Chapter Nine, we see that Paul is in great sorrow for his brethren, the Israelites, because he understood that their rejection of Jesus Christ has left them blinded and without a Deliverer.
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In the light of this development, and because of The Promises that God had Made concerning ‘Israel’, it would appear that those Promises have been abrogated.
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Paul is addressing the objection,
“if both the Jew and the Gentile have Salvation by Faith alone, and the majority of Jews have come under Judgement and are fallen, how then can God be seen as the Savior of Israel?”
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But in verse six he answers the question plainly and succinctly, demonstrating that God’s Promise to ‘Israel’ to Save them is a True and Trustworthy Promise.
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It has most certainly been Faithfully Kept.
Paul is testifying that he is
“a living Witness”
to its Faithfulness.
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In this chapter, we see illustrated how ‘Israel’ will be Determined by The Sovereign Good Will of God, not by the precepts of man, nor his inclinations towards vain genealogies.
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Romans 9:6;
“Not as though The Word of God
has taken none effect.
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:Because
they are not all Israel,
which are of Israel.”
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It’s not that God has forsaken His word ( Promise ) to ‘Israel’, it is that the nation didn’t understand that Promise. Paul ( under Divine Inspiration ), understands something that even many theologians in our day of New Testament ‘enlightenment’ do not really comprehend.
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They may give lip service to it, but in practice they effectively deny it.
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It is The Truth of GOD that
“they are not all Israel
which are of Israel.”
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In making this Distinction, God is unambiguously Making Known that the identifying characteristic of The True Israel of God, is not the flesh, but The Spirit.
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This is an important Revelation about The Promise.
Its fruition is found in The Sovereign Electing Work of God, not in any genealogical descent. We should not overlook the fact that if it were of descent, then this statement of God would be untrue.
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Paul ( under Inspiration of God ), is declaring that The Eternal Covenant of God, was not to ‘Israel’ after the flesh, but was to Spiritual Israel, which is ‘a nation’ made up of all those who are Born of The Seed, Christ Jesus.
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JESUS CHRIST
and
HIS CHILDREN IN HIM
is The True Israel of God.
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We answer POSITIVELY that God has An Everlasting Covenant with ‘Israel’.
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And yes, they are all His Chosen People, His Children, His Holy nation Set Apart for The Service of God.
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These are undeniable fundamental Truths of Scripture.
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But the fundamental question is, “are we defining ‘Israel’ as God Defines ‘Israel’ in this verse, or are we defining ‘Israel’ according to tradition and man made parameters?”
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Paul knows that Judgment has come upon the physical nation of Israel.
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For blindness in part has happened to them (Romans 11:25) wherein they are without God’s Light, and sit in spiritual darkness.
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So as a nation, they no longer ‘typify’ or represent God’s Covenanted Kingdom people. …
This congregational Representation of the Kingdom, ended with the Judgment at the cross.
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The Congregation of The Lord will now be Represented by The New Covenant Kingdom, the Lord’s New Testament churches, as expressed in passages found in books like Matthew.
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Matthew 21:42-23;
“Jesus Said to them,
Did you never read in The Scriptures,
The Stone which the builders rejected,
The Same is Become
The Head of The Corner:
this is The Lord’s Doing,
and it is Marvelous in our eyes?
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“Therefore, say I to you,
The Kingdom of God
Will be taken from you,
and Given to a nation
Bringing Forth the Fruits thereof.”
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The Judgement of THE NATURAL NATION STATE of ‘Israel’ was that The Light of The Kingdom was taken from that nation, and The Kingdom Representation would now be found in another nation, which we call the churches of The Lord Jesus Christ.
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The literal, or physical Holy Temple in ‘Israel’ would no longer be the representation of The Kingdom of Jesus Christ on Earth, the churches of Jesus Christ now Represents The Holy Temple.
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The churches of Jesus Christ now Represents The Holy Temple on Earth, with Jesus Christ being The Chief Foundation Stone of that Temple.
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The Head of The Corner, was not defeated when THE NATURAL NATION of Israel rejected Him. …
JESUS CHRIST WILL STILL BE AND STILL IS The Cornerstone of that Building, but not in the physical nation of Israel.
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When the veil of the Holy Temple (which separated the Holiest), was rent or torn in two from top to bottom, that symbolized the fall of Old Covenant Israel as representing the Children of God.
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The instant that Christ died (Matthew 27:51, Mark15:38, Luke 23:45), this Temple veil was torn in half from top to bottom.
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At that moment, the Old Covenant Israel Temple “type” was Fulfilled or Completed by the anti-type, which is Christ’s flesh.
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This signified that the children of Israel could only Enter the Holy Temple by this New ( meaning, unknown to them ) and Living Way, The Death of Christ.
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The Old Covenant Temple with its Earthly ways and means (which were but a shadow of this Reality) in the services of priests, merely prefigured The True Priest, Who was Christ. …
JESUS CHRIST is The True Way for God’s children to be Made Right with God, that they may Receive The Kingdom.
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The Old Covenant with NATURAL Israel is passed away in the sense that The Fulfillment in The New Covenant, Had Now Come.
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The efficacy, which The Old Covenant ceremonial laws prefigured, was in The Death of Christ.
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Hebrews 10:19-20;
“Having, therefore, Brethren,
Boldness to Enter into The Holiest
by The Blood of Jesus,
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“By A New and Living Way,
which He Has Consecrated for us,
through The Veil,
that is to say,
His Flesh;”
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The Israel of God was not established by a Temple made with hands, or veils made of cloth, but The Israel of God was established by a Temple Fulfilled in The Body of Christ. …
JESUS CHRIST is The Holy Temple, His Flesh is The True Veil through which we can Approach the HOLY GODHEAD.
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It is only the Seed Christ, that Truly Made anyone The Israel of God.
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Being NATURALLY born the progeny of Jacob didn’t make anyone True Israel (Romans 9:6).
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If we Be In Christ, then we are In Israel, because Being In our Lord Jesus Christ is The Only Way to Make anyone A Holy Nation wherein they may Find Peace and Safety, and wherein God is Truly Glorified.
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THE PROPHET ISAIAH
PUT IT THIS WAY,
in
Isaiah 49:2-6;
“And He”
( GOD THE FATHER )
“Has Made My Mouth”
( JESUS’ MOUTH )
“like a Sharp Sword;
in The Shadow of His Hand
Has He”
( GOD THE FATHER )
“Hid Me”,
( JESUS CHRIST,
THE SON of GOD )
“and
Made Me A Polished Shaft;
in His Quiver”
( GOD THE FATHER’S )
“Has He Hid Me”;
( JESUS CHRIST,
THE SON of GOD )
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“And”
( GOD THE FATHER )
“Said to Me”,
( JESUS CHRIST )
“You Are My Servant, O Israel”,
( “Israel” meaning, “JESUS CHRIST” )
“in Whom, I Will Be Glorified”.
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“Then I”
( JESUS CHRIST )
“Said,
I Have Labored in vain,
I Have Spent My Strength
for naught,
and in vain:
yet Surely
My Judgment”
( JESUS CHRIST’S JUDGMENT,
in The Death of His Flesh )
“is With The LORD”,
( GOD THE FATHER )
“and
My Work”
( JESUS CHRIST’S ETERNAL
WORK of SALVATION,
THROUGH HIS PERFECT LIFE
GIVEN in HIS DEATH
and JESUS, then,
BURYING THOSE SINS AWAY
that were His Children’s sins
that Caused His Death,
When PLACED UPON HIM
and
JESUS’ RESURRECTION
FROM THE DEAD )
“is With My God”
( GOD THE FATHER,
WHOM JESUS’ CALLS, “MY GOD”,
IN COVENANT AGREEMENT ).
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“And now, Says The LORD”
( GOD THE FATHER )
“that Formed Me”
( JESUS CHRIST )
“from the womb
to be His Servant,
to Bring Jacob Again to Him”,
( JESUS IS TO BRING
‘THE ISRAEL of GOD’,
as GOD’S SAVED ELECT CHILDREN,
Back to GOD THE FATHER )
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“Though Israel”
( ‘THE ISRAEL of GOD’,
as ALL of GOD’S SAVED
ELECT CHILDREN,
FROM ETERNITY PAST )
“Be not Gathered”,
( By THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD )
“yet Will I”
( JESUS )
“Be Glorious
in The Eyes of The LORD”,
( When, THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
GATHERS and JESUS CHRIST SAVES
‘THE ISRAEL of GOD’,
as ALL of GOD’S
ELECT CHILDREN,
FROM ETERNITY PAST,
COMPLETELY and PERFECTLY )
“and
My God Will Be My Strength”
( Through,
THE ALMIGHTY, ENABLING POWER,
of HOLY SPIRIT of GOD ).
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“And He”
( GOD THE FATHER )
“Said,
It is a light thing
that You”
( JESUS CHRIST )
“Should Be My Servant
to Raise Up
The Tribes of Jacob,
and
to Restore
The Preserved of Israel:”
( When, THE HOLY SPIRIT of GOD
GATHERS and JESUS CHRIST SAVES
ALL THE ELECT CHILDREN,
as ‘THE ISRAEL of GOD’,
“PRESERVED”
FROM ETERNITY PAST ).
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“I”
( GOD THE FATHER )
“Will also Give You”
( JESUS CHRIST,
THE LIGHT of THE WORLD )
“for A Light to the Gentiles,
that You May Be My Salvation”
( THAT GOD THE FATHER
PROMISED FROM ETERNITY PAST )
“to The End of The Earth”
( TO ALL ‘THE ISRAEL of GOD’,
as ALL of GOD’S
ETERNALLY ELECT CHILDREN,
JEW and GENTILE ).
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JESUS IS THE SAVIOR.
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Aware of The Godhead 