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"Yahweh Is Still Working With Physical Israel"
Posted : 15 Feb, 2012 08:28 AM
"Yahweh Is Still Working With Physical Israel"
"Yahweh is still working with the House of Judah and the House of
Israel peoples, they are the ones who the New Covenant is directed
toward." Says a guy on another forum.
Saying that Yahweh is still working with the House of Judah and the
House of Israel is a side step away from the main issue of my
post, that the important end time apostasy is to be and is now
forming, which is various forms of return to the Old Covenant
observances.
The statement that "Yahweh is still working with the House of Judah
and the House of Israel, they are the ones who the New Covenant is
directed toward" is not articulated as it should be.
Christ was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But only a
small Remnant of physical Israel accepted Christ. Paul says in Romans
11: 28 "As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but
as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes."
"They" are the physical Israelites, the Jews, if you want to call them
that, who rejected Christ. The Jews who rejected Christ and supported
the murder of the Son of God on the Cross, advocated by the Pharisees,
and carried out by the Roman authority, are enemies of the Gospel of
Christ. But they are beloved for the Father's sake. How do we
understand this?
We know from the New Testament that God judged physical Israel. "O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not! 38.Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." Matthew
23: 37-38
Isaiah 1:21 says "How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was
full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers."
"And Jesus went out, and departed from the Temple: and His disciples
came to Him for to shew Him the buildings of the Temple. And Jesus
said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you,
there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down." Matthew 24:1-2
The judgment came in 70 AD with the destruction of the temple, much of
Jerusalem, the death of thousands of its citizens, while others went
into captivity and there are accounts of horrible things going on in
the city before its final fall.
And, Matthew 8: 11-12 says "And I say unto you, That many shall come
from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
12. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
When Amos 9: 8-11 is quoted, the apparent contradiction between verse
8 saying God will destroy the sinful kingdom, the house of Jacob (Or
Israel) and verse 9 saying God will sift the house of Israel and verse
11, saying "in that day" God will raise up the tabernacle of David
that is fallen and build it as in the days of old has to be dealt
with.
The resolution of this apparent contradiction is found in Romans 2:
28-29, Romans 9: 6-8 Galatians 3: 16-29 and Galatians 4: 24-26.
Raising up the tabernacle of David in Amos 9: 11, when interpreted by
the New Testament, does not mean that there is to be a restoration of
physical Israel, that is, the large part of physical Israel which
rejected Jesus Christ, as the dispensationalists say. Paul teaches
that there are two Israels. One Israel rejected Christ, and is found
in Romans 2: 28, the outward Jew, Romans 9: 8, the part that says
"they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children
of God," and in Galatians 4: 25, the Jerusalem, representing Israel,
which now is and is in bondage with her children.
To honor the shadow, mentioned in Hebrews 10: 1, one with sacred blood
or someone who honors the physical descendants of Abraham as the
chosen people would make Aliyah, the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to the
literal, present day physical city of Jerusalem, which now is and is
in bondage with her children. But the one who has Christ and the Holy
Spirit in him, who belongs to the Israel which is reborn in Christ,
the spiritual house of I Peter 2: 5, makes Aliyah to heavenly
Jerusalem, to Jerusalem which is above and is free. He goes up
spiritually, not literally to physical Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem he
goes up to is metaphor, representing what Paul explains in Ephesians
2: 6, where Christ has raised us up to have us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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