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God renamed Jacob and called His people Israel. All the other people He called foreigners, synonym for gentiles.
> I see there can only be two people- Israel and foreigners (gentiles). One is either a foreigner (gentile) OR Israel; can't be both at the same time.
> I think God considers Israel as 'clean' and foreigners (gentiles) as ‘unclean’. Born-again are Israel and 'clean' while NOT born-again are foreigners (gentiles) and 'unclean'.
> God asked Israel not to intermarry with foreigners (gentiles). God asked us not to unequally yoke with unbelievers (foreigners/gentiles).
> Wild olive shoots are called as foreigners (gentiles), not anymore those who are grafted-in.
> I don't think there can be both foreign (gentile) believers and foreign (gentile) unbelievers. All unbelievers are foreigners (gentiles) and all foreigners (gentiles) are unbelievers.
> I don't think Paul called anyone a foreigner (gentile) after they became born-again. (I think this is not completely understood as he meant it to be).
You post some good points and I would like to address those later if I may.
When God 'divorced' Israel they became "gentiles", until they were reconciled back to him. Paul uses the term Gentile for both Israelites and non-Israelites. You have to study closely to determine which is which. The term itself means: Gentile (as non Israelite); nations (the); tribes (the).
Agree. I have never had my ancestry done, but w/o the dna of the sons of Israel/Jacob to compare to, just best to be called a "Christian", as many have suffered under that name for 2000yrs now.
Acts 11:26
And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people.
And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
Peter was chosen to preach to the Jews and his epistles are written primarily to the Jews coming to Christ:
1Pe 4:16
Yet if
anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.
Jesus came for the lost sheep of Israel, which were scattered amongst the Gentiles and remained that way until Jesus came to reconcile them to Himself, along with the Jews that wanted to follow.
Jesus said this to the Jewish rulers, not the common Jew or lost sheep of Israel:
Matthew 21:43 Therefore I am saying to ye, that the Kingdom of God be being
taken-away from Ye, and it shall be being
given to a Nation doing the Fruits of it.'
And what nation is that? The born again Christian Nation under Christ! AMEN!
In Acts, the Apostles asked Jesus this question. This is while Judah and Israel were still seperated. [topic for another thread]
Acts 1:6
The-ones indeed then coming together, asked Him saying, "Lord! if in to this time Thou are
restoring the Kingdom to the Israel?"'
Now look at the kings in Reve 17 "w/o a kingdom". Ironically, there were 10 tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel. God is actually
sending these Gentile kings against the "harlot"! and why are they hating her?[but that is also for a different topic].
Revelation 17:
12 And the ten horns which you saw are being ten kings, who any a-Kingdom not-yet received, but authority as kings one hour they are receiving/ with the wild beast,
16 And the ten Horns which thou saw and the Beast, These shall be hating the harlot,
and They shall be making Her desolate and naked, and the fleshes of Her they shall be eating and shall be burning Her in fire
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An interesting commentary on the 2 house of Israel and Judah [tho there are many others]:
The Two Houses Of Israel - Here a little, there a little - Prophecy
There is a general error among most Christians and a lot of Jews regarding the identity of the children of Israel.
Because of a general lack of historical understanding, most Christians believe that the Jews are ALL of the people chosen by God in the Old Testament.
Additionally,
many Christians believe that they belong to an unrelated group known biblically as "Gentiles."
In this article, we are going to show from the Scriptures that both of these conclusions are founded on incorrect assumptions.
CONCLUSION
The prophesied regathering of all the tribes of Israel is a process, not a singular event. This process began after the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua, and has slowly
but surely been taking place for nearly 2,000 years.
At this time, most
Jews (the House of Judah) don't accept Yeshua as the Messiah.
Conversely, most
Christians (the House of Israel) don't accept the necessity of keeping
Torah (the Law)...................
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