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keras said:Words mean things, in the eyes of God, we who overcome Satan ARE Gods Israelites.
Certainly words mean something, of course, unless you make up sounds with no meaning. But you know better, there is such thing as playing with words. The autosuggest I use even knew that.
Those who respond to the Gospel, are the true Israelites:
The people who hear the voice of Jesus and do what Jesus says: are my people of Israel, My Overcomers, the Victorious ones, literally the Israelites of God. Revelation 3:20-21 Not ethnic Jewish Israel, but the genuine Christian Israel of God. Galatians 6:14-16
Jesus sent His Disciples-Apostles to the Gentiles; non-Jews, where the House of Israel was; scattered around the world. Not to Judah, as He preached to Judah and was rejected. Their mission was amazingly successful, resulting in the millions of Christians worldwide.
They didn’t disobey Jesus’ Command, by going to who the Jews referred to as Gentiles, because the people who heard the Gospel and who accepted it, plainly were Israelites, the ‘dispersion’, as John 7:35 informs us.
The prophecy of Caiaphas, John 11:50-52, was that; Jesus would die for the nation, in order to gather together the scattered children of God.
Jesus calls us His sheep, because we hear Him. John 10:16 Just as Noah heard God, and just as Abraham heard God. God says that no other people have heard Him but those with the faith of Abraham. He tells us that these are the people He chose... because they heard Him. Deuteronomy 7:6-10
Ephesians 1:4-5 Before the foundation of the world, He chose those who would accept Christ to be His people, to be without blemish in His sight and full of love of Him and their fellow men. It was His good will and pleasure that we Christians are predestined to be adopted as God’s children through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.
What else can it mean, but that every person who has understanding and who accepts the Gospel of Jesus, belongs to the true Israel? Grafted into the one Seed, Jesus; but an originally chosen, natural born Christian Israelite. John 15:16, 1 Peter 2:9-10
I never was suggesting I do not hear from Jesus, I do not think I need to be told about it. But there is authority with God's word, and I have need of the Bible to go to it, anything really from Jesus will not be contrary to that. Sometimes we might impose our own will on what we would say is from Jesus.
Those that the Jews were calling gentiles the Bible is also calling gentiles and nothing in the Bible is showing any of those were from the dispersal of Israel. There were people of the dispersal, Jews who were abroad in the world.
Since every nation in the world has been completely genetically mixed, the sheep who hear Jesus' voice are from all the tribes, races, nations and languages. Revelation 7:9
It IS the way to know that we ARE the true Israel, because we DO hear Jesus and as faithful Christians, worship and obey Him.
John 10:1-18 tells us in very specific terms, the nature of the sheep and the shepherd. If we truly match that definition, mind and soul, we have the faith of Abraham in our being.
Isaiah 51:1-2 Listen to Me, all you who follow after righteousness, all who seek the Lord. Consider the Rock from which you are descended. Consider Abraham, your father and Sarah, your mother, when I called him, he was but one; I Blessed him and he is now many.
This is a direct reference to Christians, the true Israelite sons of God. Romans 9:24-26
So what this means, that you are saying, is that it is meaningless as no one is not descended from Israel. I do not buy that at all, there are many people in this world, many have their own descent lines separate from others, and this is understood now. And the covenant relationship is minimalized or dismissed with this, it was something that others could enter into, to being counted with Israel, though not descended from them, such would mix with those of Israel. People can still become Jews, without having descent from them. But with the gospel available, that is not to be desired as it will not profit, while we can have access to Yahweh through Jesus Christ.
The other aspect to this doctrine; is how some people are made for different purposes. Call it predestination, or God the Potter making some ‘vessels’ to be kept and some to be discarded:
Romans 9:21-22 Surely the Potter can do what He likes with the clay? Is He not free to make two vessels out of the same lump, one to be treasured and one for common use?
But if it is indeed God’s purpose to display His retribution and to make His power known, it is that with great patience, He has tolerated vessels that are made for destruction?
Jeremiah 18:1-12
These are Bible truths, therefore it is beholden for us, who have had heard the ‘call of the Lord’ in our hearts, to be very sure to stand strong in our faith at all times and look forward to the great Day when Jesus comes, bringing our rewards with Him. Matthew 16:27
What we as believers are predestined for is to be conformed to the image of Christ, that is our destiny, and the growth we should have would be towards that.
No believers are discarded. But those God knows are remaining contrary to God's will are destined for the destruction. That is not the end, those ones will always remain in misery, for always remaining contrary to God.
Actually one of the best preventions of AIDS, is male circumcision. It is now widely done throughout Africa.
It now has no religious significance at all.
This is not understanding the male circumcision of the covenant, for Israel, which is distinct, it is a religious ritual to continue the process of Israel to be in the covenant relationship, if you were already a circumcised male and went to join with Jewish people, there would still be religious ritual for you, corresponding to that. And in general in most places male circumcision is not really better in most cases, certainly for modern societies.
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