God also said He would "restore Israel and bring them back to the Promised Land."
God also said He would "restore Israel and bring them back to the Promised Land."
So who will you see in promise land? They are spiritual Israel, not the physical nation of Israel making up of all
As a statement of agreement, one important point when interpreting Revelation (and Scripture in general): often we think of interpreting something as literal, vs. spiritual. But that is fundamentally flawed from our limited, mortal vantage point. Just because something is spiritual, that does not make it non literal. In fact, the physical: THAT is the parable. The spiritual: THAT is literal.
What was the tent tabernacle patterned after?You do not make any sense. Sorry. you make the same mistake as the Jews who once thought Christ was talking about a physical temple when he actually talked about the temple of the body, John 2:18-21. Spiritual discernment regardless of your "limited, mortal vantage point". It is God's spirit that reveals things to you.
God also said He would "restore Israel and bring them back to the Promised Land."
"Israel" is mentioned 71 times in the NT. Nowhere is it ever spiritualized to refer to Gentile Christians and/or Old Testament saints. Being "children of Abraham" has nothing to do with who Israel is. Israel is Israel. The Church is the Church. They are radically separate in the NT. Old Testament saints are not part of the Church in the NT. Nowhere is the "body of Christ" ever called "Israel" in the Bible.
No, we are not adopted into Israel. We are grafted into Israel. Romans 8 tells us we are adopted into the family of God. Being grafted in does not make us Israelites or Israel. We are children of Abraham by faith, but "Israel" is counted through Jacob, not Abraham.This is just not true. We are adopted into Israel as the children of Abraham. The same covenant given to Abraham is the covenant shared with us through Christ, it is the covenant of promise received through faith alone.
Not true at all. God is not finished with Israel and there is prophetic future for Israel. There will be a millennial Kingdom and Jesus will reign on the throne of David from a restored national Israel on earth. God has promises not yet fulfilled. He must fulfill them to biblical Israel, or otherwise, God is not faithful to His word. If God chooses not to restore biblical Israel as He promised, then we cannot be sure he can be trusted to fulfill His promises to us. God is 100% faithful to word and we would not want that any other way.Those promises are fulfilled in Christ, not in dirt in the Middle East. Israel was disobedient so God himself had to take on Israel and fulfill its mission.
There is only one Promised Land Christians need to be concerned about, and it is in the world to come.
I suggest that everyone go back and read the Book of Numbers in the Bible. That Book, in the final chapters, describes the boundaries of Israel ... as it was originally given by God to the Israelites. The original land of Israel was a great, diverse, and beautiful land. It was much bigger than Israel today.
The end of Chapter 33 contains God's warning to Israel about why they would lose that land that was given to them. And they did.
I am not saying that Israel should go back (be restored) to the original boundaries. History is history, what has happened ... has happened. It cannot be undone.
The real message is that God can remove any land from any people. When the land is stained with bloodshed, violence, and deceit ... God will remove it. The words are quite clear in the Book of Numbers.
Blessings!
Not true at all. God is not finished with Israel and there is prophetic future for Israel. There will be a millennial Kingdom and Jesus will reign on the throne of David from a restored national Israel on earth. God has promises not yet fulfilled. He must fulfill them to biblical Israel, or otherwise, God is not faithful to His word. If God chooses not to restore biblical Israel as He promised, then we cannot be sure he can be trusted to fulfill His promises to us. God is 100% faithful to word and we would not want that any other way.
.....and leave history out of it as well? That may be YOUR way to interpret the Bible....but without knowing the context of what was going on in the days of the Bible....I don't think that gives us the whole picture.
I think the trouble was the personal nature of your post (instead of addressing the content). LLoJ spends a lot of time comparing Scripture to Scripture - AND studying the context as well.
That's interpreting faithfulness in human terms. God isn't interested in being a real-estate dealer. As Jesus told the Samaritan woman, the hour is coming when people will worship God in spirit and truth, not on on a particular mountain.