What is the House of Israel? We understand that the Nation of Israel was God's favored nation in the old testament and that all Israel was not of Israel. God denounced the nation of Israel due to their unfaithfulness and gave it to the Gentiles. The
house of Israel, which seems to be representative of God's elect, because God changed Jacob's name to be called no more Jacob, but to be called Israel (Gen 32:28). I am asking for the help and input from the members of this forum about this concept, sense I have not done an in-depth study on this concept. God choose Jacob over Esau to show that his elect might stand. God instructed his apostles to go preach to the "lost sheep" of "the house of Israel, which is Jacob (God's elect). If they are sheep, then they have already been given eternal life, but they do not know that the "kingdom of heaven" (Christ's church) is at hand. It would seem to me that when the scriptures talk about Israel, they are referring to Jacob who is representative of God's elect. Isaiah 46:3 - Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: Heb 8:10 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel (Jacob), after those days sayeth the Lord, I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts; and I will be unto them a God, and they shall be unto me a people. Awaiting your input.
The house of Israel is all 12 tribes.
Israel was called of God, and Israel is the Church.
From Abraham to the nation of Israel to the Church to the millennial reign of Christ to the New Jerusalem, where the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 12 apostles of the Lamb are written in the New Jerusalem, it is all about Israel.
Jesus said salvation is of the Jews, and when a Gentile is saved they become a Jew inward, and are part of the commonwealth of Israel for they are the Church.
Paul said God did not cast off His people that He once foreknew, and there is always a remnant that abide in the truth even today.
God said that if the ordinances of heaven are still in affect, the sun, moon, and stars, His covenant is still with Israel, and they will not cease to be a nation.
God said that He is the LORD, and He does not change, therefore the sons of Jacob are not consumed.
God gave Israel a blessing if the nation of Israel abides in the truth, and a cursing if they do not by way of their enemies going against them and scattering them in to the nations.
Which is what happened when God gave Israel 70 years to turn to the truth, but they did not, so He allowed the Roman Empire to go against them and scatter the Jews in to nations.
But He did not cast them away, but it is only a punishment.
God said anytime that the nation of Israel cries out to God in the truth, even in the latter days which is now, He will hear them and work with them as before time.
God said He will bring the all the Jews back to the nation of Israel which is already happening, for He is going to restore the kingdom back to the Jews like in the Old Testament.
And for people that say they are not Jews in Israel, but imposters, it will all be straightened out in due time, and the true Jews will be back on their land, and we will know who they are, if there be any false Jews as they claim, and any deception they go by now, such as not the New Testament, or the occult, will all be straightened out also.
And for people that say that African Americans, and Native Americans, and Latinos, are Jews, then we will see if they are, or not, for if they do not go to Israel then we will know they were not the Jews, for it is decreed by God, and cannot be thwarted and come to pass.
But they are not Jews, and if God is bringing all the Jews to Israel, would there be that many Jews to fit in the tiny country of Israel if they are those 3 ethnic groups.
And if African Americans are Jews, then all the Africans in Africa are Jews, and would have to go to Israel.
I think the math is wrong for when the Jews go back there is not going to be that many of them like that.
And when Israel became a nation again we do not see those people going to Israel.
And also if they are Jews what I would like to know is how come none of them knew anything about the Old Testament, and the teaching passing down, as if they forgot it all until recently when claiming that they are the Jews.
You mean the Native Americans, and even in Canada, and Latinos, forgot all that they believed for thousands of years, and nothing was retained at all, or passed down.
And for those that say the throne of David moved to England, and they are descendants of David, and the 10 lost tribes of Israel are European it is not true.
And again will they all go to Israel.
Nay, they will not, and the Jews will be few in number when this happens compared to people that say both positions are true.
The disciples asked Jesus if He was going to restore the kingdom on earth to the Jews at that time, and He said the Father will do it in His time, but be concerned with preaching the Gospel.
70 weeks are determined upon Israel to make an end of sins, and anoint the most holy who is Jesus, which started before Jesus came for the Jews were not in the truth then, for if they were in the truth before Jesus the Roman Empire would not have been in control of her.
69 weeks have passed with 1 more week to go, which is the time that God causes all people who do not love Him to follow the beast kingdom in Revelation 13, and bring the nation of Israel to the truth that Jesus is their Messiah.
The Bible says that Israel is blinded in part, which they acknowledge the Old Testament for the majority, but not the New, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in, when salvation is no longer available to them, and so all Israel shall be saved.
The man of sin, New Age Christ, will establish peace in the Middle East, and it will pave the way for all Jews to go to Israel, and the Jews and Gentiles will be separated, for the Gentile nations will see to it, and the New Age Christ wants them all back on their land, but God means it for good to the Jews.
The Jews will rebuild their temple, and go back to animal sacrifices, for they are blinded in part, with no hassle from the Palestinians, and the Jews will split Jerusalem with the Palestinians.
The Gentile nations will come together and say Peace and safety as they try to establish peace on earth.
The 7 years period will begin.
Repentance and salvation are still available to the world for the first three and one half years.
War will break out between Islam and the world in which one third of the world perishes which is mainly in the Arab countries, plucked up by the roots, nuclear weapons.
That war will be so terrible that the world turns to the New Age Christ as the solution to have peace, and prosperity on earth.
When the world takes the mark of the beast, which is a device stuck under the skin, a GPS tracking system for humans, then repentance and salvation are no longer available to the world, and the fulness of the Gentiles has come in.
God will then turn Israel as a nation to the truth by 2 witnesses, and the Jews that know the truth will work with the Jews concerning the truth, for the last three and one half years, and at the end of that time Israel as a nation will be in the truth.
The world will attack Jerusalem, Israel, the Jews, in which they go through half of the city of Jerusalem, which must be the Palestinian side, and when they get to the Jews then Jesus will save the Jews, and defeat the world.
The LORD will be King over all the world, and Jesus will rule out of Jerusalem on the throne of David fulfilling the role of perfect King on earth so the law can be fulfilled, and the kingdom restored to the Jews.
And in that day there shall be one LORD, and His name one, and the knowledge of the LORD shall fill the whole earth as the waters cover the sea.
The heathen that God spared at the battle of Armageddon, one sixth of the world, has to go up year after year to Jerusalem to worship the King, and to keep the feast of tabernacles to be right with God for they are in the flesh.
God said that He is going to make a full end of all Gentile nations, their governments, but will not make a full end of Israel, but she will not be wholly unpunished, but be corrected in measure.
God said He is going to bring the whole house of Jacob, all 12 tribes back to their land, and restore the kingdom to them after they have borne their shame for their sins, and trespassing against God, and they shall know the LORD their God from that day forward, and He will never hide His face from them again.
So this cannot be a past prophesy, and not the Babylonian captivity, for if that was true then Israel as a nation would be in the truth today, and they would of not rejected Jesus.
Once this prophesy happens Israel will always be in the truth nothing wavering, for now they are with Jesus on earth, and know it is the truth, and then to the New Jerusalem the final destination of the saints.