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I'm not sure where are going with that GD...
Basically, Romans 11 reads as a warning that as the Jews once loathed the Gentiles, the Gentiles mustn’t loath the Jews.
Just as the Jews thought Gentiles had little to no hope, the Gentiles mustn’t do the same.
It ends exalting the richness of Gods mercy.
The world and all that is in it belongs to the Father. And all that belongs to the Father also belongs to the Son. The gathering will be from the ends of the heavens by the Son on the last day. Flesh and blood can't inherit the eternal kingdom God promised to those that loved Him. A kingdom that can never be destroyed ruled by a faithful High Priest who was appointed to the line of David.Does it mean anything, End Times related, that the modern State of Israel was created by the UN (a global empire resting on many waters/people) through Resolution 181, and that the UN claim ownership of Jerusalem?
Ah, I read that as a warning not to pay any heed to race because such is irrelevant to salvation.
I'm also wondering whom the 'Palestinians' would be, in End Time language, if the modern State of Israel is a counterfeit of God's Israel (as is seen in its secular nature) made by a body (the UN) who could be seen as the "first beast" that sits on many nations...
They correspond to a false land claim, and ancestral claim, in my opinion.
Turkey is where that seat of Satan is mentioned, in literal geographic correlation.
I'm also wondering whom the 'Palestinians' would be, in End Time language, if the modern State of Israel is a counterfeit of God's Israel (as is seen in its secular nature) made by a body (the UN) who could be seen as the "first beast" that sits on many nations...
I’ll add this, I personally, believe Israel is real due to much scripture pointing to it being brought back by God and Zechariah 14 coupled with Joel 3 really bring it home.
Israel has been lorded over by:
Egypt
Assyria
Babylon
Persia
Greece
Rome
Ottomans
And now, just as the UN has majority Islamic (united league of Arabs) infiltration, it (Jerusalem) is fully biblical with Jerusalem being its capitol.
The whole US embassy thing is a mystery to me. I don’t try to figure out stuff like that one bit.
Israel is looking to the US for protection, but as always, God desires Israel to look to Him.
It seems like the same Israel, having the same struggles and the same divine protection as before.
Nothing earthly is perfect, but God’s ultimate desire is. The gathering of Nations against Israel seems more and more realistic as time goes forward.
You forgot Zechariah 14, Joel 3 and what Jesus said, after the verse you quoted.
“Matthew 23:39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
Any reason for that?
It's tricky to say, especially when there is the possibility of the "Ezekiel 38 War" but I just find it odd that Israel was brought back through a global humanistic empire (Babel 2.0) that sits on many peoples and nations, which claims ownership of Jerusalem, and then once it had brought Israel back began to turn against it.
All three faiths, Christianity, Judaism and Islam hinge on Abraham.
Judaism established their doctrines on the sage writings that became the Babylonian Talmud, a work of their own traditions which they put before the Torah (Books by Moses) and the prophets. This is why Jesus rebuked them, because of their traditions having made The Word of God of no effect (Mark 7:8-13).
Actually they do not.
Judaism only came about during and after the Babylon captivity as a corruption of what they had followed from Moses before. Judaism established their doctrines on the sage writings that became the Babylonian Talmud, a work of their own traditions which they put before the Torah (Books by Moses) and the prophets. This is why Jesus rebuked them, because of their traditions having made The Word of God of no effect (Mark 7:8-13).
Islam hinges on what Mohamed claimed, not on Abraham. Before Mohamed came, many of the Arab peoples were following idol worship of false gods, Molech, Chemosh, and the like. Mohamed simply co-joined his claimed revelations with a new twist of worship of those old gods. To this day, Chemosh worship by Muslims continues, as the Muslim is required to make a pilgrimage once in their lifetime to Mecca and march around the Mecca stone while citing verse out of the Koran. The Mecca stone is a black stone, which was also the symbol of old Chemosh worship (see... https://www.bible-history.com/faussets/C/Chemosh/). Molech was the fire-god of the children of Ammon. He required human sacrifices, which have continued in radical Islam with the practice of suicide in jihad. The only connection between Abraham and Islam is that Ishmael, the father of the Arab peoples, was a son of Abraham and Hagar, and his family is jealous of the children of Abraham and Sarah, thinking Israel stole their birthright from God.
The connection with Abraham and Christianity is unique and isolated from Judaism and Islam. The Faith which Abraham had, and God accounted to Abraham as righteousness, is the same Faith on The Gospel of Jesus Christ which all Christians have believed. Apostle Paul showed this in Galatians 3, and even proclaimed those of Faith have become the children of Abraham. The promise by Faith God gave Abraham is The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Neither Judaism nor Islam accepts that Faith.
No Abraham, no Father of faith for Christianity.
No Abraham, No Isaac, No Jacob, No Israel
No Abraham, No Ishmael, No Waring Tribes, No Islam
You may want to study Galatians 3 if you haven't. Also see the end of John 8 when Jesus said Abraham saw His day, and was glad.
The OT saints knew about The Gospel of Jesus Christ. They just didn't get to live to see it fulfilled by Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. David was given to prophesy of Christ's crucifixion in Psalms 22, and Isaiah in Isaiah 53. And those of us in Christ are on the other end of that Faith because we didn't live in the time when Jesus died on the cross and resurrected either, yet we have believed also as they.
No Abraham, no Father of faith for Christianity.
No Abraham, No Isaac, No Jacob, No Israel
No Abraham, No Ishmael, No Waring Tribes, No Islam
That can be found in extrabiblical, vanilla history.
But, throw the Bible into the mix and that Donkey of a man rising up against his brothers becomes apparent.
Surely you’ve seen his descendants in the news lately?
Certainly,
But genetically speaking, can you disagree with what I wrote?
Ishmael is the ancestor of Islam. They admit this and have it in their Hadith.
Jacob is the son of Isaac
We are all adopted into the fold of Abrahamic faith, through Jesus Christ.
It's not about genetics, as you will eventually discover. Because anyone of any peoples can believe on Jesus Christ The Savior and be counted as a child of Abraham, it means His salvation is not according to blood, but according to one's Faith.
One of the things many brethren do not understand, is that The Gospel begins in Genesis and flows all the way through the Old Testament Books to the New Testament when Jesus came to fulfill it. Abraham knew:
John 8:56-58
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto Him, "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?"
58 Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
KJV
By that Jesus pointed to Abraham having known about The Gospel. By Jesus saying Abraham was glad about it, shows Abraham believed it. Now when going back to Genesis and reading about God's promises to Abraham, with Abraham believing God and God then accounting it to Abraham as righteousness, it means The Gospel of Jesus Christ MUST be included in those promises that Abraham had faith that God would accomplish. And since God gave Abraham that 430 years prior... to the giving of the law, it means the Promise by Faith (The Gospel) was first, before the law. And that Promise by Faith is what Christ's Church has believed on unto eternal salvation.
Gal 3:6-14
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
KJV
Keep in mind, genetics have some value. Just ask Onan. He interfered with the lineage of Jesus and that didn’t work out well for him.
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