Who is Israel?
Israel of God is NOT the nation that currently has a satanic star on their flag, who rejects and hates Jesus and is currently slaughtering people for a piece of land, but the Israel of God are those who are now scattered throughout the whole world and who are now dying for the name of Jesus, they are those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith in Jesus, please see Revelation 14:12 and 12:17.
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When speaking to Christians, Paul said: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the ISRAEL OF GOD." (Galatians 6:15-16)
Why would Paul call Christians "the Israel of God" if it was only meant to be the name of a nation?
In Hosea 2:23 the Lord states, “…I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.”
At one time the Gentiles were not considered the people of God. In fact, they were considered unclean by the Jewish nation. But after Jesus worked, died, resurrected, and ascended, three and a half years later probation ended for the Jewish nation as Daniel the prophet predicted would happen 490 years after Jerusalem was allowed to be rebuilt in 457BC, see Daniel 9:24. Peter then received the vision of the sheet coming down three times which he later translates and explains to Cornelius in Acts 10:28, (see page 7 of this bible study for more detail). He explains that the Lord was declaring the three Gentile men knocking on his door at that moment were now cleansed and to be considered God’s people and worthy of the Holy Spirit.
When Jesus first arrived and started to share His Gospel truth, most of the leaders of the physical nation of Israel rejected Him, and as we can see today, that same physical nation still rejects Him, yet we find Jesus has been accepted by what that same nation still calls Gentiles in every other nation. His Gospel message has spread worldwide just as He prophesied it would.
The prophetic statement declared in Genesis 49:10 and Hosea 2:23 is also repeated by Jesus Christ Himself in Matthew 21:43 when He is speaking to the Jews. He clearly says that “The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”
The fact that the fruits have now grown into a global forest of believers proves this prophetic statement is fulfilled and is absolute truth.
Later in Acts 13:46 we find the prophecy regarding having the Kingdom of God taken from “physical Israel” straightforwardly fulfilled when Paul and Barnabas are being ridiculed and reproached by the Jews one day with blasphemous statements as they try to share the Gospel message. So on that fateful day, Paul and Barnabas turned to the Jews that were speaking out and said, “…It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.”
In Romans 2:28,29 we learn that “…he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
A few chapters later in Romans 9:6-8 it says that “…they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
In other words, you are not guaranteed Heaven simply because you are born into a Jewish family. Peering into this reality at its base elements, a family is nothing more than a flesh-generated unit. It is not a spiritual entity claiming spiritual things. It’s just a family name. As Christians we know that the “flesh” has no claim on Christ, nor can it ever lay claim because John 4:24 says "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit." (Romans 8:5) "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would." (Galatians 5:17)
Only those that understand, profess and believe the promise can be called heirs and citizens of Israel. Galatians 3:29 says that “if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.” What is this promise you ask? Galatians 3:14 says, "That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."
And finally, Galatians 3:26-29 says, "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
It was believed by physical Israel that to be Israel was a birthright and beyond the grasp of all those outside their camp. Yet here we see Paul clearly stating that all that claim Christ Lord are of Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise. Paul tells them it doesn’t matter if you’re a Jew or a Greek, bond or free, or even male or female. He was explicit so as to erase all doubt regarding the age-old tradition brought on by the Pharisees regarding their assumed God-given heavenly ethnicity. Paul plainly says if you follow CHRIST, then you are of Abraham’s seed. According to the Pharisee of old, to be of Abraham’s seed simply means you are ISRAEL.
But according to the Bible, God said in Jeremiah 31:35-37, "Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD."
Please don't believe the wolves in sheep's clothing who are convincing the unaware Christians who are not studying their Bibles in order to get them to support the nation of Israel by spreading the Vatican Antichrist lies that the murderous physical nation of Israel, who are currently mercilessly slaughtering the Palestinians for a piece of land, is the Israel of God - because the Vatican wants people to look the wrong direction when prophecies of the Bible are being fulfilled regarding the true people of God, and also this blind support for the nation of Israel of the so-called Christian world is going to help the Vatican Beast to accomplish his goal of building the third temple in Jerusalem in order to start animal sacrifices again in order to mock Christ and proclaim to Him and to the whole world that Jesus' one time sacrifice on the cross for the sins of the world was not enough.
Imagine how hurtful it will be for Christ when His own people who now have free access to His true Word which plainly says that His people are those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith in Jesus (see Revelation 14:12 and 12:17), will help the Antichrist to build a blasphemous temple in order to give great joy unto the Vatican for giving him the privilege to mock our precious Lord and Saviour? So please, don't allow Satan to use you like that, and study the Word of God to learn the true meaning of Israel, and don't be fooled by the propaganda of the cunning Beast of which Christ warned about so much in His Word.