When once i was surfing the You Tube, on 'Christian movies', i stumbled across a sermon given by sir Dave Hunt, about Israel. Just one thing keeps coming back to my mind, when i hear, see or share about Israel, that they are still GOD's nation/people. How many times these words as below, are written in the HOLY BIBILE
1. GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
2. GOD of Israel.
GOD brought them back after HIS wrath settled, scattering them and from that day until today, they are still declared as the nation Israel. Israel meaning 'a man who wrestle with GOD(JESUS in the beginning)', the name given by GOD Himself to their famous ancestor Jacob, who fathered the twelve who became the tribes of Israel and from the tribe Judah came famous and successful Kings but one spoken about by Angel Gabriel to mother Mary, would be the final KING of Israel forever (Luke 1;33).
Then one may say, "They rejected JESUS of Nazareth and put HIM to death and murdered their own final KING".
This is not based on what we witnessed in the HOLY BIBLE by reading them once, but by what we continue to witness reading the HOLY BIBLE, by the Help of the HOLY SPIRIT on and on, that our confession is witnessed as truth.
HE LIVES ON FOREVER AND EVER, ONLY SUBJECTED TO THE FATHER , AND REIGNS AS LORD of Lords AND KING OF Kings, AMEN.
According to sound doctrine in Prophecy, GOD as the Director, orchestrated and also hands on, the world and it's events, that in HIS one and only and one day will be proclaimed by all, who have breath, as the grand finale's best award winning in 'every way', 'every truth' and 'every life', Blockbuster 'Truth Redeeming' movie of all time and eternal, that the Jews minds were made shut that they must and shall reject their MESSIAH and have HIM crucified by the Gentiles.
And so that because of them in doing so by GDO's will and planned, then only 'unmerited favor', the Good News and peace shall be preached, given and done by some of the Jews who were chosen and who had faith HE is the MESSIAH, ministering onto the Gentiles.
So Gentiles Christian cannot be proud over them saved or unsaved but to be thankful and pray for them who is going through Tribulation for doing wrong until today. This is an affair between GOD and HIS children and we are just the adopted because of them and through them and JESUS who is also Jew and KING of Israel and from the line of David and is the first fruit of Resurrection.
For the Israelite today, they still have a chance of Salvation from GOD. As LORD JESUS CHRIST said that, 'when the Gospel is preached all over the earth, then it will return back to Israel'. i believe this will happen through and during the time of the two witnesses who will come to Israel and minister onto them during anti-CHRIST reign
Didn't JESUS teach HIS disciples how and what to pray to GOD and ask. And one of them for Israel goes like this;
"Pray to GOD, 'To save Israel from all of it's troubles.' "
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GOD has always had a remnant of genuine believers among the Israelites:
Romans 9:6-8 (HCSB)
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6 [/SUP] But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
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7 [/SUP] Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.
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8 [/SUP] That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but the children of the promise are considered to be the offspring.
Their covenant as His chosen Nation (people) is an everlasting Covenant.
Psalm 105:8-11 (NKJV)
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He remembers His covenant forever, The word
which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
[SUP]9 [/SUP]The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,
[SUP]10 [/SUP]And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
[SUP]11 [/SUP]Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,"1 Chronicles 16:17-18 (NKJV)
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17 [/SUP] And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel
for an everlasting covenant,
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18 [/SUP] Saying, "
To you I will give the land of Canaan As the allotment of your inheritance,"'
AND GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES.His chosen Nation (people), were promised the land of Canaan forever.
Who then are the 144,000?
All are Israelites, whom GOD sealed from harm in their mortal bodies, exactly 12,000 from each tribe.
For what purpose?
After all the Tribulation saints are beheaded by the Antichrist, when only unbelievers are left on this Earth; Christ will return as
King of Kings and
Lord of Lords casting the Beast and the False Prophet into the Lake of Fire, and HE will kill the REST with the sword of His mouth (His Word). THEN since we will all be in our resurrected, glorified, immortal bodies, the ONLY mortals left will be the 144,000. They will repopulate the Earth with mortals, starting in Israel, where Christ will be seated for a 1000 years on the Throne of David.
Revelation 19:20-21 (NKJV)
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the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.
These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse.
{At the Second Coming of Christ when He sets foot on Earth again.} And all the birds were filled with their flesh.
What about the Bride of Christ, how are they protected from the HORRIBLE THINGS that go on during the Great Tribulation?
I believe that Daniel's 70th week and the Great Tribulation are the SAME week of years. Since the Jewish wedding traditions required a week long Celebration, that same Week of Years is most likely the Wedding of the Lamb, thus we will be CALLED OUT to go to the Wedding in the New Dwelling Place He has built for us in His Father's House in Heaven. That is also a Jewish Wedding Tradition.
Who are the Bride of Christ, the Church or the Old Testament genuine Believers?
THE SUM TOTAL OF BOTH ARE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, and our covenant is to be His adopted Children in Heaven, not His Chosen Nation of mortals.
If you want to discuss the Jewish Wedding Traditions and how they relate to the Bride of Christ, jump over to this thread:
http://christianchat.com/bible-disc...ng-out-bride-go-wedding-lamb.html#post1604022
I tried to start that discussion a couple months ago and got no responses, perhaps God has chosen this as the time to discuss it.