We are Israel! The promises of God and the blessings are to us. The birthright belongs to us. National political State of Israel is not true Israel. Nor are the unbelieving people who claim to be through the flesh. I am Israel! You are Israel! And so are all who are born from above by the Spirit; those who are Descendants of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob, through faith in Jesus Christ.
The nation switched from the physical to the spiritual at the cross. First is the physical. Then after, the spiritual. The flesh profits nothing, the promised seed of Abraham is Christ. (Physically it ended there.) You must be born again! God does not practice racism, respect of persons, nor ethnic apartheid. He does not have two groups of His Chosen People: one of the flesh by natural birth, and one of the Spirit by faith and spiritual re-birth. We who belong to the LORD God through faith in Jesus Christ have been given the seed– which is Christ in us. This has nothing to do with our physical genetics of the flesh. Being Israel does not come by the flesh seed of man. Fleshly heritage, bloodlines and genetics are not what determines one’s standing before God. Israel is now the redeemed from all ethnic groups of the earth.
Those who are in Christ are Israel, and Israel is spiritual now in the New Covenant. Jesus promises to bring people from every tribe, tongue, people (ethnic group) and nation into His Kingdom. There is only one Kingdom of God. There is not two, one for physical Jews, one for Christians (or “Gentiles”). In Christ there is no Jew or Greek. There is only one people of God, not two. There is only one Gospel message, not two. There is only one salvation plan, not two.
Jesus Christ is the Holy Nation! (We are the Holy Nation, in Him.) He is the Chosen One. He is the supreme One. He is the Favored One. He is the Anointed One. He is the promised seed. He is Zion. He is the Holy Land. He is the Righteous One. He is the promised One. It is His blood that makes us holy. His blood and seed is in us spiritually, making us sons and daughters of God, and brethren of Christ Jesus. Now we are heirs to His Kingdom. There is only one chosen people who are the true beloved people of God. God is the God of Israel. We are Israel. We are His people. He is our God.
And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. Gal.6:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ. Gal.3:16
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. Gal.2:28-29
For we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh.. Phil.3:3
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they [are] not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Rom.9:6-8
And if ye [be] Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Gal.3:29
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. Gal.4:28
The encouragement and good promises to Israel in the OT are to those in Christ by faith, the remnant 1/3 who are put through the fire and refined. The warnings, judgments and curses to Israel in the OT are to the apostate Church, the 2/3 that shall be cut off and perish.
“Christian Zionism” is a big Church lie.
“I lay in Zion a cornerstone”– this Zion is the Church, remnant Israel and apostate Israel, both.
Jesus the plumb line-He separates the two. He measures and divides it up.
And we must preach the GOSPEL to all nations and ethnic groups, and tell them the Truth. God is no respecter of persons. No one is excused from the necessity to repent and believe by FAITH upon Jesus Christ. And He has commanded us to preach the Gospel to every creature.
This means the Black African Judah-Hebrews are wrong. And the Anglo-Saxon Israelites are wrong. And the ethnic Jewish supremacists are wrong. And anybody else who thinks they are all that and automatically holy and in the Kingdom because of their ethnic background.
Loretta,
A very well written article, I perceive the presence of the Holy Spirit of God on it. Thank you for allowing the Almighty to use you as a vessel of truth in this mendacious world.
God bless you,
D Mark
Great exhortation Loretta. This is the wonderful and good news that the Lord has for all willing to listen to the simplicity of born again spiritual Israel. So easy to understand and yet so very few get it. Alas, just like Nicodemus. It’s not that any of us are special persons for we are not. The only thing we have done is put ourselves in a position to receive the blessing as the true Israel of God. And that opportunity is open to anyone with the ears willing to listen. Say on sister. And thank you for getting this message of the good news of the kingdom of God out to others. Scott
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
Jesus Christ is the King of the Jews. Jesus Christ the King of me!
Yes Lorreta the OT prophetic books over and over again tell us that the Gentiles are the tares. Isaiah exposes this contrast between the Gentiles, and Gods people in chapter 61.
Here Isaiah in ch 61 speaks as a witness to the sermon on the MT given by Jesus. Peter confirms this vs in 1 peter 2-9 as well.
Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: (((ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles))), and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
VS 6: “But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord” (notice Priests– spelt with a Cap. P) Men shall call you ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory boast yourselves. And in their glory – In what constitutes their glory, or what they consider as valuable “IE’ , their wealth, their talents, and their power .
6. “But ye” are contrasted here with the strangers who are the “Gentiles”.Ye shall have no need o be concerned with the (daily grind): Strangers “Gentiles will be doing that for you; your purpose will be as His “Priests” (Ex 19:6, which remains yet to be realized; compare as to the spiritual Israel, Isa 66:21; 1Pe 2:5, 9; Re 1:6; 5:10).
Ministers-(Eze 44:11). eating the riches of the Gentiles is found in (Isa 60:5-11). in their glory . boast yourselves-rather, “in their splendor ye shall be substituted in their stead”; ye shall substitute yourselves
1 Peter 2:9 [[[But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood]]], an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
H1471–GENTILE
גּי גּוי
גּוֹי גּוֹי gôy gôy
go‘ee, go‘-ee
Apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: – Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
G1484
ἔθνος
ethnos
eth‘-nos
Probably from 1486 a race (as of the same habit), that is, a tribe; specifically a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually by implication pagan): – Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
And of course Paul tells us who the NT Jews are in Romans 2-27,28,29.
Bill