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The Bible defines its own terms.

Romans 11:25 “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.”

God wrote the phrase: “fullness of the Nations be come in”

This is an old testament quote for Ephraim.

Genesis 48:19 “And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall be a people, and he shall become great. But his younger brother shall become greater than he, and his seed shall become the fullness of the nations.”

The bible at times uses the name Ephraim to mean those of the divorced Ten Northern Tribes who were living in Europe at the time of Christ. They were reunited with Israel under one head, Christ, as promised in Hosea 1:10-11 and is shown in Ephesians 2:11-22.

There is no need for a Plan B or Spiritual Israel. Christ did not fail. True Israel is mostly Christian today.

The modern day Jews are not God’s Israel people. They do not fulfill over 100 bible promises.

The churches look at the world to understand the bible and they have been disappointed again. Praise God they are finally figuring out that the modern day Jews are not God’s true physical Israel. However another false doctrine has appeared. They are making Christ Israel saying He is God’s firstborn son. Christ must be a true Israelite as the Law of the Kinsman Redeemer requires it, but scripture says another is the firstborn. No spiritual aspect or non kin permitted.

Exodus 4:22 “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn”.

Colossians 1:15 does not contradict Exodus 4:22. It does not say firstborn of God. Colossians 1:15 goes along with John 1.

There are two parables in the new testament that show that it is not Christ, but rather the two Houses of true Israel. See starting at Matthew 21:28 and Luke 15:11.

If one wants to understand the world, one must see it through the eyes of the bible. Look to see who has fulfilled all the promises intended for true physical Israel. Then you will have found Israel. You will find that they mostly no longer remember they are Israel as promised. They are known by a name of God, Christians. They have also taken the Gospel to the world while forming many Christian nations. There are over 100 promises.

Christ did not redeem Himself. Christ fulfilled the promises intended for Himself, Luke 24:44. Christ came to redeem true physical Israel. Christ did not fulfill the promises intended for physical Israel to fulfill.

True Israel today is among the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and related peoples. It is up to you to decide to believe man or God’s word.

The modern day Jews are not God’s Israel people. They do not fulfill over 100 bible promises including Isaiah 59:21 and John 10:27.

Now that people are figuring out that those who hate Christ are not Israelites, there is a push to make Israel a spiritual entity. If that were true this would make God a promise breaker. It is time for forgotten history to come to light.

Ptolemy, one of the best known of the ancient historians, identifies the people of the British Isles.

"They were peopled by descendants of the Hebrew Race, who were skilled in smelting operations, and excelled in working metals."

Israelites in the British Isles a thousand years before Christ as promised by God. Add to that the ancient names for Spain, Iberia, “Land of the Hebrews” and Ireland, “New Land of the Hebrews” and one just gets started seeing much evidence for true Israel today.

During the reign of king David new land was promised for Israel. True physical Israel is still here and is mostly Christian today.

2 Samuel 7:10 “Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,”

Jeremiah 31:36 “If those ordinances [the sun and moon] depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

Stop looking to the old land. The modern day Jews are not God’s Israel people. They do not fulfill over 100 bible promises including Isaiah 59:21.

There are over one hundred bible prophecies and promises that apply only to true physical Israel. Here is just one.

Isaiah 59:21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Yahweh; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith Yahweh, from henceforth and for ever.”

John 10:27 “My [Israel] sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me [now and always].”

The bible defines its own terms. In six verses the bible defines sheep as only true physical Israel. Also the Greek verb tense has the meaning of “now and always into the future”. Thus John 10:27 has the above meaning. In John 10:16 Christ mentioned another fold of sheep. Since sheep is defined as Israel another fold means more Israelites. Ephesians 2 tells us they were “far off” at the time of Christ. These of Israel are called Nations [incorrectly Gentiles] in scripture from the Ten Northern Tribes.

John 10:16 “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”

Use of the word “alienated” in reference to the Commonwealth of Israel in Ephesians 2:12 and “reconcile” in Ephesians 2:16 tells us that these of the other fold had at one time been a part of the Commonwealth of Israel, but were divorced by God due to their idolatry, Jeremiah 3:8. They were not without hope, but had a promise to be brought back in Hosea 1:10-11. This is shown fulfilled in Ephesians 2:11-22.

Exodus 4:22 “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Yahweh, Israel is my son, even my firstborn”.

Then the nation of Israel split into two nations after the reign of King Solomon.

God then had two sons. There are two parables about them, The older son is the House of Judah. The younger son the House of Israel. These are stories about them.

Read the parables beginning in Matthew 21:28 and Luke 15:11. At this point there was still separation and enmity between the two Houses.

Here is one prophecy about their future.

Hosea 1;11 “Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Ephesians 2:13-14, 16-17 shows the fulfillment of the prophecy.

“But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition”. “And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.”

True Israel is one again under one head, Christ and in a new promised land. God did not fail. Christ’s death and resurrection healed the enmity between the two Houses. Christ’s Israel sheep do hear His voice and follow Him as He said. The majority of true Israel have been and are Christians today.

If the modern day Jews are Israel, then Christ must have gotten the stories wrong or mixed up since scripture shows the House of Judah obeying the Father and the House of Israel returned to God, both having made Christ their head.

Bible promise and prophecy tell us that the two Houses of Israel have been reunited under Christ.

The modern day Jews have never been reunited under one head, Christ.

There is logic in scripture. There is also the use of positive and negative statements.

Examples of positive statements include 1 Timothy 3:1

“If a man desire the office of an overseer, he desireth a good work.”

The “must be” is positive. Everything that follows it is positive.

“An overseer then must be

blameless,
the husband of one wife,
vigilant,
sober,
of good behaviour,
given to hospitality,
apt to teach”.

In verse three the text switches to negative statements.

“Not given to wine,
no striker,
not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient,
not a brawler,
not covetous”

As you can see this is a teaching method used by Paul.

What some have done though is to try to turn verse 2 into a positive and negative statement by putting a limitation on “the husband of one wife. Even a few translations have added words such as only or but which changes what Paul said. Even their Greek texts do not support those additions.

As written the phrase is understood as “Must be the husband of one wife”.

This is a positive statement and must be understood that way. In other words one “must be married” as opposed to not being married. If mentally you add the word only as in “only one wife”, then you change the positive statement into a negative statement and change what Paul said.

Be careful that you do not violate laws of logic. Be careful that you do not turn a positive statement into a negative or limiting statement. Be true to God’s word.

Tim