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They were briefly united when gentiles were adopted and began to act in God's will, leaving their old life behind.[/quote ]
They were united that's the point.
They did not stay united and that is the reason there are so many prophecies of their unification in the last days when Christianity returns.
The other kingdom must become one with the Jews, that's the point of making one man out of the two.
If the Jews suddenly believed in Jesus tomorrow, what would make them one? They have two wholly different worship systems.
Now let's see.
#1 I am of the seed of Abraham.
#2 I am of the seed of Isaac.
#3 I am inwardly a Jew.
#4 I am of Israel under the promise given to Ephraim as a redeemed gentile through marriage.
Should I rather be saying that the gentile is a Jew, rather than to show the gentile being called of Ephraim?
Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, now is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.; But he is a Jew who IS ONE INWARDLY, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Who is the seed of Abraham?
Romans 4:9 Does this blessedness then come the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham as righteousness.............THAT HE MIGHT BECOME THE FATHER OF ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness must be imputed to them also.
FOR THE PROMISE THAT HE WOULD BE THE HEIR OF THE WORLD WAS NOT TO ABRAHEM OR HIS SEED THROUGH THE LAW, BUT THROUGH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.AS IS WRITTEN,{'' I WILL MAKE YOU A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS.''}
Romans 9:6 But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; But, '' In Isaac your seed shall be called.''
That is, THOSE WHO ARE TH CHILDREN OF THE FLESH, THESE ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF GOD; BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE ARE COUNTED AS THE SEED.
Romans 9:24 EVEN US HE CALLED not of the JEWs ONLY, BUT ALSO of the gentiles? as he says in Hosea: '' I will call them my people who were not my people{Ephraim's promise}.......THIS PROMISE OF EPHRAIM ALSO MAKES ME OF THE SEED OF EPHRAIM.
speaking TO GENTILE BELIEVERS IN Corinth taken from Ezekiel 37 speaking of Israel. Corinthians 6: 16 ''I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
At the Pentecost, what happened concerning Gentiles?
Acts21.
Isaiah 44:3I will pour out my spirit on your descendants, And my blessing on your offspring: They will spring up among the grass Like willows by the water courses. '' One will say, 'I am the Lord's; another will call himself by the name of Jacob. Another will write with his hand, '' The Lord's AND NAME HIMSELF BY THE NAME OF ISRAEL!
Isaiah 41-Covenant to gentiles -acts 13:47
I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the gentiles.
Acts 15:14 God at first visited the gentiles to take out of them A PEOPLE FOR HIS NAME.
It shows Jesus being seen as a light to gentiles in the place where it was said to the ten tribes,'' You who were not my people, have become my people.''
Isaiah 8-
5 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,
6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many,
even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
Isaiah chapter 9 King James Version
1 Nevertheless the dimness
shall not
be such as
was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict
her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation,
and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest,
and as
men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
The unification of all Israel
He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
Together they shall plunder the people of the East;
Isaiah 11, I believe speaking of the spirit of Elijah that prepares a highway for those returning .
There will be a highway for the remnant of His people
Who will be left from Assyria,
As it was for Israel
In the day that he came up from the land of Egypt.
Proclamation Against Syria and Israel-- Isaiah 17
Why are the two related?
17 The burden against Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease from
being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.
2 The cities of Aroer
are forsaken;[
a]
They will be for flocks
Which lie down, and no one will make
them afraid.
3 The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,
Says the Lord of hosts.
4 In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will wane,
And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.
5 It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain,
And reaps the heads with his arm;
It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain
In the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet gleaning grapes will be left in it,
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two
or three olives at the top of the uppermost bough,
Four
or five in its most fruitful branches,
Says the Lord God of Israel.
7 In that day a man will look to his Maker,
And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8 He will not look to the altars,
The work of his hands;
He will not respect what his fingers have made,
Nor the wooden images[
b] nor the incense altars.
9 In that day his strong cities will be as a forsaken bough[
c]
And an uppermost branch,[
d]
Which they left because of the children of Israel;
And there will be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation,
And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold,
Therefore you will plant pleasant plants
And set out foreign seedlings;
11 In the day you will make your plant to grow,
And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish;
But the harvest
will be a heap of ruins
In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people
Who make a noise like the roar of the seas,
And to the rushing of nations
That make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But
God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 Then behold, at eventide, trouble!
And before the morning, he
is no more.
This
is the portion of those who plunder us,
And the lot of those who rob us.
Isaiah 27:6 Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 28-Woe to Ephraim and Jerusalem.--18 Your covenant with death will be annulled,
And your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
Then you will be trampled down by it.
Who is Israel, who is the seed of Abraham, and Isaac?
Who is a Jew?