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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.

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People are figuring out that the teaching that the modern day Jews are God’s people makes God a promise breaker and Christ a failure.

Teaching that God no longer deals with true Israel also makes God a promise breaker and Christ a failure.

God and Christ told us who is true Israel.

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. Isaiah 59:21.

There is only one people who have followed this verse and heard Christ’s voice and followed Him as He said they would. The bible defines its own terms. Here is the Greek meaning and verb tense for John 10:27.

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

The Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred peoples have taken the Gospel to the world and formed many Christian nations as God promised true physical Israel would do.

Romans 11:2a “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.”

God also did not add a new people.

There is a beautiful love story in the bible. Most churches can not teach it because of false doctrine, a lack of knowledge of the entire bible and a misidentified people.

God made a choice. God chose one group of people over all of the rest of everyone alive. Preachers have no idea the blasphemy they speak when they change the meaning of scripture to be inclusive.

Ezekiel 16:8 “Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the lord Yahweh, and thou becamest mine.”

When Moses brought the children of Israel into the dessert God married his chosen. The giving of the ten commandments was a marriage contract.

Isaiah 54:5 “For thy Maker is thine husband; Yahweh of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”

After the death of King Solomon the Nation of Israel split into the House of Israel, the Ten Tribes and the House of Judah, two tribes.

Ezekiel 23:1-4 “The word of Yahweh came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

After years of idolatry, God divorced the Ten Northern tribes. They became known as “not a people” and Nations [incorrectly Gentiles] in scripture. See Hosea 1.

Jeremiah 3:8 “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.”

Jeremiah 3:14 “Turn, O backsliding children, saith Yahweh; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion”.

This was a promise to bring Israel to the new promised land announced during the time of King David. They went by way of captivity instead. God keeps His promises even through unpleasant means.

Hosea prophesies that the “not my people” would one day become Christians and rejoin with the House of Judah under one head, Christ.

1 Peter 2:1 “Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”

God promised to remarry His adulterous people, but not without obeying God’s own Laws.

Romans 7:1-4 “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”

So you see another reason for the death of Christ and for immersion for the remission of sins.

Romans 6:3-4 “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

For the last almost two thousand years true Israel, as a people have been Christian. Each Israelite Christian becomes a bride in waiting for the return of the bridegroom. Due to the Law of the Kinsman Redeemer, Christ can only redeem His bride. The promise of remarriage is only for true Israel. This is why it is so important that one pay attention to context and not try to turn every verse into an inclusive mess. The modern day Jews are not Israel, but have been trying to prevent God’s bride from entering the Kingdom of God.

Mathew 25:1 “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.” (Read through verse 13.)

Be wise. Learn God’s word. Do not let anyone steal this future from you.