Some Old Testament Texts On the Transformation of Israel

Posted : 14 Aug, 2012 04:15 AM

Some Old Testament Texts On the Transformation of Israel



The transformation of Israel is a very important subject because so many are confused about this. Christian Zionism teaches that the only Israel that ever existed, now exists, and the only Israel that will exist in the future is All Physical Israel. That would include Marx, Freud, Trotsky, the Rothschild family, and many others, who would supposedly remain part of the chosen people.



Christian Zionism as a man made theology in its basic starting points does not discriminate between a very small Remnant of physical Israel who accepted Christ and came entirely out of the Old Covenant shadows, and the large majority who rejected Christ and still reject him. By Christian Zionism I am not talking only about John Hagee and his Christians United For Israel (CUFI), but about the entire theology of John Darby, C.I. Scofield, Lewis S. Chafer, Hal Lindsey and many other celebrities.



"And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon

her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not

my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."

Hosea 2: 23



Isaiah 11: 10 says "And in that day there

shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the

people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be

glorious."



Isaiah 42: 6 says "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and

will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a

covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles." Isaiah 49: 6

repeats this in saying "I will also give thee for a light to the

gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."



Then Isaiah 60: 2-3, Isaiah 66: 12, Malachi 1: 11 say the Gentiles

will become God's people. The Old testament does not say that the

Gentiles will become a separate group of God's people. Physical Israel

was first to be a light to the Gentiles to bring them to God.



Bringing the Gentiles in to be God's people is just one part of the

Old Testament prophecies on the transformation of Israel.



It starts in II Kings 21: 13 - God says he will set a plummet at the

house of Ahab, to judge it, and he will wipe Jerusalem and turn it

upside down, where Jerusalem represents physical Israel. Then Isaiah

29: 16 refers back to II Kings 21: 13, the turning of things upside

down, and in saying this turning of things upside down shall be

esteemed as the potter's clay, Isaiah refers to Jeremiah 18: 1-6, on

the parable of the potter who made one pot on the wheel which the

potter saw was marred and then took that same lump of clay and made

another pot which the potter thought was good.



Physical Israel was predicted to be transformed in Old Testament

prophecy, so that old physical Israel was no longer God's people, but

they had to become reborn in Christ as Christ said to the Pharisee

Nicodemus in John 3: 1-6. Having to be born again to enter the

kingdom did not apply only to Nicodemus, but to everyone, and

including those who were in former physical Israel.

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