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IN PEACE
 
 Both Jews and Palestinians allows. continually do have a right to self existence, to have their own lands,  and both they do even have the same, equal human rights now too here on earth today. And yet people try to have us all now  take sides .. wrongfuly too and why?
(Psalm 133:1 KJV)  Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is God's clear will that these brothers, all of the sons of Abraham, both   the Jews and Palestinians do always  live together in peace in the same land as well...   or anywhere else too  and none of that cannot be denied as not being now God's will too
 
Obviously again both the Jews and the Palestinians. Muslims all even these days are very unreasonably in this, they really do not want real peace, they only wrongfully seem to want to escalate their wars and EVEN WRONGFULLY too often to to drag now the rest of us into them.. 
 
Most of the wars which have plagued mankind have come as a result of one group of people trying to enslave another group with their own false demands. ideas, doctrines, religion  and world view.
 
"The "nation of Israel" today knows it does not yet have all the land that they have  believed that they are intitled to. The promise to them was from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Seems to me that if they want all the land they think they are intitled to they would next wrongfully  to go to war and take it from some other countried around them.  The the river Euphrates goes right into Iraq, so  they would go to conquer Jordan, Kawait, etc.It requires big time war over there even to get the temple built. "
 
I support rightfully today still neither  of these groups  , especially not  their unholy wars or even in their seperate Holoy , promsied land claims now too, and I would also ask all   to rightfully still that even both sides to show some love, decency, restraints towards each other now too and always. This is not an option.
 
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery" (Gal 5:1, NIV)."Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen" (Gal. 1:3-5, NIV).
 
I do rightfully treat the Palestinians and the Israel land issue, all of their existing human rights  also as of equal importance including every man, women, child too.
 
(Mat 23:38 KJV)  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
 
Suffice to say here as an introduction Jesus made it clear that even Israel's present house, land grabs, will remain desolate.. and why?.. why do Judiazers want to rewrite the Bible using only Old Testament references? for they still clearly do not like what Jesus undeniably said above in the New Testament.. they still wrongfuly do  think they can change things on their own without God's blessing on this  now too. The Land belongs now to Jesus and he will come back to claim it fully for himself.
 
(Acts 1:11 KJV)  Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

(Mat 19:19 KJV)   Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

In reality neither nationaistic, ethnic groups side can claim any further ownership of the Land of Israel, not the Jews and not the Palestinians because it now belongs to the sole, only rightful heir, Jesus himself.
 
Israel as being supposedly the Chosen group today is rather alos a  clearly distorted emphasis too,  for  do note this there is no one New Testament verse, by Jesus himself or the Apostles, there are rather many contradictory ones, there are now verses confirming the present restoration of the land of Israel, or Israel's  rebuilding of it's temple, or not this also especially a separate means of Salvation for  the Jews outside of accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior individually like everyone elss has to as well.
 
Some supposedly Professing Christian and even Judaic Biblical scholars would falsely have all of us, and you, to personally believe that the Old Testament Bible references to Jerusalem, or Israel still do even prophetically apply today, and in the future, that they will also all be fully fulfilled as well particularly in reference to the re-establishment of the nation of Israel too, and Jerusalem as a world. religious center.
 
Most of the Bible Prophecies generally quoted have already come to pass rather, some will come to pass in their own rightful context rather. It is very  sad that these false Biblical expositors do still take mostly verses out of context, even disregarding the clear verses mentioned in the rest of the Bible as well. Yet it is also an undeniable fact that neither Jesus, nor any of his apostles next had confirmed their supposed  truths at all in the New Testament, not even once supported the reestablishment of the nation of Israel so how can any supposedly prefacing Christian then now as well? They cannot. 
 
Whose Jerusalem? Whose Land is it?  All this is an inappropriate issue for any serious, honest discussion for it all now all realy belongs to Jesus Christ the Messiah and who is no longer a Jew or a gentile! The Jews or the Palestinians thus as well have no biblical claim to this land any longer. I at least do have real love to even talk about it honestly, openly it too.. with all of the groups too. They cannot deny this reality, truths before God.
 
So many false Biblical scholars still do like to present a one side or a distorted Bible interpretations of Israel's land rights.. they really do like to twist non relevant, out of date Bible verses to say that Israel is unconditionally entitled to own the whole land of Israel, with borders from the Nile to the Euphrates river.. whereas in fact the possession of this land  in the past as per the Bible too now it was always still a conditional promise..  Israel finally  they clearly had failed to live up to God's sated conditions. The conditional was even on the Old Testament  Israel obeying  God still in all things... not just in those things of their own choosing.. Old Israel had finally not lived up to God's conditions for possessing the land, so it did not even acquire all of the promised land  firstly too.
 
The New Testament Israel, which is clearly identified in the new Testament as the body of Christ,  all of the Church, and  this Church  has no present territorial land ambitions on earth rightfully  still... not even in the present, or  the near future. Jesus himself clearly said my Kingdom is not of this world... but of the next.
 
 It is not the first time in life, history the Jews tooo now even  have been trying hard  to do their own thing. When they the Jews had left Egypt they even built a golden calf, idol. The Jews  even today  are thus trying to rebuild the nation of Israel in their own strength, all without God's approval, all without Jesus Christ's help too and thus are causing much unnecessary and undesirable conflicts in their process as well.
 
 (John 15:5 KJV)  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

"And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." Exodus 25:8

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Revelation 21:3
Rebuilding God's temple in one own strength is deadly

Warning: (2 Sam 6:6 KJV)  And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. 7  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

Because all of the   tents and temples that God ordained were intended to be a means of grace, and a revelation of His presence in the midst of His people, whenever the purpose of the temple was, is  perverted to mean something that man had built "for the glory of God," God himself did not, does not  hesitate to forsake it. 
 
(Isa 66:1 KJV)  Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Some persons would falsely say that Jesus' supposedly  implied that although the time of favour for Israel was at that moment to pass over to the Gentiles, there next would be a time when God would restore again the "kingdom to Israel." This idea still is rather is an unsubstantiated  assertion, directly not supported anywhere  in the New Testament.
 
There is not one direct verse that says the Nation of Israel will be restored next in the New testament. Not one! Why?
 
The Old Testament Jewish system was only a shadow of the New Testament Christian system, and next   the Old Testament system  was fullfilled by Jesus Christ  and thus really done away with next as well. Some people even still wrongfully are  trying to hang on to the past, old testament laws included, and they do try make it now very important again too. They are clearly upsring God's will here and are being lead by the devil rather to do this.   Judiazers plagued Paul wherever he went opposing his support of jesus Christ and the New Testament and they wrongfuly do so today to the Christians today as well.
 
(Mat 27:51 KJV)  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
 
(Mat 24:24 KJV)  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
 
(Acts 20:30 KJV)  Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
 
(Luke 6:22 KJV)  Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
 
Rather we all may  and must rightly understand the things of God. (2 Tim 2:15 KJV)  Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Too many people DO STILL REALLY EVEN preach, continue the  falsehoods because of their own personal  ignorance of the Bible firstly, and their listening to the lies of the devil and his followers, mere men and women.. They have already neglected to study, read  the too obvious words of the Bible too.
 
"Apostle Paul's purpose in writing his letters was also to address the great conflict which had fallen on the infant church because the Judiazers were saying that Gentile converts should obey the law of Moses and be circumcised. An entire Galatians epistle is a treatise on our blessings in Christ which are the result of God's promise to Abraham rather than by keeping the law. Apostle Paul dealt with the Judaizers who were trying to ensnare the Gentiles by adding Law to the grace by which they were saved. We also do have people today falsely telling us we must be  laying on the Jewish Culture and the Old testmaent laws on us, subtly or otherwise. The Apostle Paul makes two important points for us to consider today. 1. Our blessings in Christ are based on God's promise to Abraham (Gal. 3:8), and 2. We are saved by grace through faith, "and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast" (Eph. 2:8-9). Regarding Abraham, Paul said, "Thus Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith" (Galatians 3:6-9, RSV). In verse 16 of that chapter, Paul makes it clear that Christ is the promised seed. In Christ, the seed of Abraham, shall all nations be blessed.   "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death" (Rom. 8:2, RSV) and "But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law" (Gal. 5:18). Rejoice, for the law has been fulfilled in Christ who lives in you and me. We are free in Him and no one can take that way. Hallelujah! 
 
" As to why Paul was persecuted by the Jews far more than anyone else. (2 Cor 11:22-29). James and Peter enjoyed relative peace with the Jews for a period of time. There was a great persecution recorded in the book of Acts, but then it subsides. What stopped it? The conversion of Paul, the death of Herod (Acts 12), the removal of Pontius Pilate as governor, and the end of the reign of Caligula. All these things happened in a fairly short period of time. Then we see the rise of Claudius as Emperor. Claudius was somewhat enamored towards Christianity. He even wanted it recognized as an official Roman religion.  However, Paul continued to suffer at the hands of the Judiazers. Why did they go after Paul but not James and Peter? It had to have been the fact that he was preaching to the Gentiles only Christ and Him crucified. He did not teach them that they had to keep the Sabbath, circumcision, etc.  For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (I Cor 2:2)
 
The physical nation of Israel was a "type" or "foreshadowing" of the redemption that Jesus Christ would bring throughout all the nations of the world. Jesus is the true Seed of Abraham.
(Gal 3:16 KJV) "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."
(Rom 4:13 KJV) "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."

The nation of Israel in the Old Testament was to be a light unto the Gentile nations of the world. It is through Jesus Christ ,the true Seed of Abraham, that this light is breaking forth into the world.

(Rom 2:28-29 KJV) "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: {29} 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."

(Gal 3:26-29 KJV) "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. {27} For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {28} 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. {29} And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
 
Sadly the Jewish Religion, Nation, promised land  issue is still part of one of  the biggest religious deceptions we all do face in life, and  this now has been true now for thousand of years, where  the Jewish people have lied about the importance of their Judaic religion  daily to us Christians and they also have lied about the facts of Christianity, and God's will  as well to others.
As long as national Israel lives in unbelief in Jesus Christ, they live in a state of apostasy and are not to be regarded as part of God's covenant family. As we have already seen, Jesus instructed the unbelieving Jews of his day that they were not of the true seed of Abraham because of unbelief, but they were of the seed of the devil.

Fact one: Jesus himself clearly denied that he himself was coming to restore the land, the nation of Israel.

(John 18:36 KJV)  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

(Acts 1:6 KJV)  When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Fact two: The true  Apostles also did not work towards, or support the  restoration of  the land, the nation of Israel, and only one apostle did, the unfaithful apostle Judas did.

Fact three: There is not one single New Testament reference to indicate the present, future restoration of the land, the Nation of Israel as wel as being valid, legitimate.

Fact four: The possession of the land of Israel by the Jews was conditional on obeying and following fully after God and they were warned the negative consequences of their disobedience towards God himself, being kicked out of their promised land included.. they did, had failed to live up to God's conditions and lost the land for it and were occupied by other nations as a result.

Review what the Bible actually says on all of this.
 
(Gen 26:1 KJV)  And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.  2  And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3  Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; 4  And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5  Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 6  And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

Num 14:23-24 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where into he went; and his seed shall possess it. 

Fact five: God has superceded  the Old Testament, the old covenant with a New Testament, the new covenant which is the Covenant now solely also obly with his Church.

Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

(Heb 10:16 KJV)  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21  And having an high priest over the house of God; 22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
 
(Mat 22:2 KJV)  The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3  And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4  Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. 5  But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: 6  And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. 7  But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. 8  Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. 9  Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. 10  So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. 11  And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.  13  Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14  For many are called, but few are chosen.
Here is the present reality

(Rom 3:29 KJV)  Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

(Gal 3:16 KJV)  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

(John 20:31 KJV)  But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

(Mat 23:38 KJV)  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.39   For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. (Mat 10:34 KJV)  Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.  35  For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36  And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. 37  He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38  And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. (Heb 12:2 KJV)  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

(Acts 20:  KJV)  20  And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, 21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Acts 26:20 KJV)  But showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

The original Apostles of Jesus  themselves taught that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah and they looked forward to a heavenly Jerusalem and cleay note this not an earthly one!

(Acts 2:22 KJV)  Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: 23  Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24  Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. 25  For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: 26  Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: 27  Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 28  Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 29  Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 30  Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

(Rev 3:12 KJV)  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

(Rev 21:2 KJV)  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4   And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

(Rev 21:10 KJV)  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

Being a true Jew includes accepting  the true God and his sole  true religion from the start to the end.
 
The majority of Christians have often accepted the fact that Jesus of Nazareth--the founder of their religion, their Messiah, as being the promised original Jewish Messiah too, and also as the second part of the Trinitarian God--was God himself  and thus he jesus not only was a  Christian but indisputably a Jew  as well,
 
The sole basis of the Christian faith today, which is why it is also  called the New Testament as well, is not at all the Old Testament Judaism but the New Testament Jesus. The true Christians since Jesus Christ  next always left their old Jewish Synagogues all together... and all Christian Jews, Messianic Jews too need to do this today as well, also they are supposed to give up their Jewish roots, Jewish culture, Jewish religion  when they accept Jesus Christ as their master, lord and savior . Some clerics, theologians, and scholars have worked hard to recover the supposedly historical Jewish Jesus. why?  Ironically this rather was aided also by the Jews, Judiazers, even the false christians   themselves who falsely wanted it seems  to promote their own self importance, the false value of the now rather false, obsolete old Judaic religion, and it's also still the false observation of the Old testament letter of the law over the New Testament spirit of the law approach. It is an ungodly act still too.

(Acts 20:29 KJV)  For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30   Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.31   Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.  (1 Tim 4:1 KJV)  Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

(John 19:30 KJV)  When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (Mat 27:50 KJV)  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,53   And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.54  Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

(Gal 3:23 KJV)  But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. . 24  Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25  But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28  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. 29  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

(2 Cor 5:17 KJV)  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  18  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19  To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20  Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Jesus- Christianity- a religion starting in Judaism and then moving away from it on it's own  or rather  initially  kicked out of it by the false Jews?  but still all serving God's purpose .

(Gal 2:16 KJV)  Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

(Amos 8:1 KJV)  Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.  2  And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3  And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4  Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5  Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6  That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7  The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8  Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 9  And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 11  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13  In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 14  They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. 9:1  I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2  Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3  And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: 4  And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. 5  And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 6  It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name. 7  Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? 8  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. 9  For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. 10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

(Amos 9:11 KJV)  In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:  12  That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. 13  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14  And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15  And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

and what was.  is the promised restoration of the tabernacle of David now? The restoration of the nation of Israel? the  Temple worship in Jerusalem? or what? what does God say it is?

(Acts 2:29 KJV)  Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 30  Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

(Acts 13:22 KJV)  And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.23  Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

What can be more clearer than this the restoration of the tabernacle of David it is the personal salvation of any of the Jews by Jesus Christ. It is certainly not the supposedly promised restoration of the nation of Israel, or the restoration of the earthly temple rituals in Jerusalem.

(2 Sam 6:14 KJV)  And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.1 5  So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

The personal baptism of the Holy Spirit expereince is the restoration of the tabernacle of David.. where Holy Spirit anointed, filled King David as a result DANCED before the Lord in praises.. the people not HOLY SPIRIT filled can tend to see only the restoration of the nation of Israel, the temple  and wrongfully too not the singing and the praises to God, worship side. Not a coincident that the anti holy spirit fundamentals, persons cannot see this truth too and tend to support as a  result the error filled,  WRONG dispensationalist, Jewish based theology.

Note also that the predicted Old Testament restoration of the tabernacle of David is foremost actually the New Testament personal Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Pentecostalism, the restoration of the personal method of the worship of God. (John 4:23 KJV)  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth and not a nationalistic empire building.

"And He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." (Acts 3:20-21) "…Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luke 21:24) "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 if happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob."   Romans 11:25-26, 
 
(Isa 44:18 KJV)  They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

There is also no need for another Main temple now as well for we can all now have direct access to God again through jesus Christ... (Mat 27:51 KJV)  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,  (Rev 21:10 KJV)  And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,... 22  And I saw no temple herein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

Abraham, He was looking for the city, Jerusalem the true city of God is a heavenly one firstly.. being next built in our hearts for a start. (Heb 11:8 KJV)  By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

"Trust in the LORD with all our heart  and lean not on our own understanding" (Prov 3:5).

Lean not on your own flesh even for your own understanding, doctrines..
 
Psalm 134:1-3 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD. The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

"I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight" (Lk. 10:21).

Humans  have a spirit originally fashioned after God’s image, which  has a vacuum because it is capable of God-consciousness and of divine fellowship.
 
And this image was defaced by Sin. It is  restored in accepting personally the finished work on the cross of Jesus Christ and there will be personally as a result an ever-increasing unfolding of His will, and an ever-expanding revelation of His glory.  It is a  constant growth in the realm of the Spirit until we are able to "comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to KNOW the love of Christ, which PASSETH KNOWLEDGE" until we are "filled with [or, unto] ALL THE FULNESS OF GOD" (Eph. 3:18-19). It is entering into and appropriating the inheritance which God has already given us,  the promsied land, to take hold upon and apprehending that very thing for which God has laid hold upon and apprehended us! God is still the  One Who is looking for a "home" in which He might dwell, in a people whom He has created for His own glory, wrongfully thought by many to be something too far-out, and not for today. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit  experienced  at Pentecost... the initial  baptism of the first Church, it’s  also  for us to experience as individuals today promsied and given to us  by the "Living word" today also. Did not Apostle Paul himself clearly identify the life we have in the Holy Ghost, and the good Word of God, with the powers of the next world?… and assure us that we are now actually partaking of the "powers of the world to come" (Heb. 6:4-5)

"And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." Exodus 25:8

"Martha was surprised that Jesus would spend so much time just talking to Mary, when He knew there was so much work to be done; and Mary should have been helping her--helping her to serve the Lord who had come to visit them. But Jesus told her plainly that Mary had chosen the better part, and that no one was to take this portion from her.  He Jesus took Evidently greater delight in fellowshipping with Mary, than He did in Martha’s efforts to prepare Him a good meal. Now the Marthas  too often they do not recognize what God really desires, and how He intends to accomplish the things that need to be done in the earth. For truly God’s plan is not merely to "get the job done." He is creating a people that will be to the praise of His glory. And this can only come about as they submit to His Word and Spirit, and become vitally one with Christ Himself; and consequently one with His many brethren. What instruments and resources God may use from time to time and from one generation to another in working out His purposes in the earth are really quite incidental. He has shown us clearly that the world will know and believe only when God has a people "sanctified" unto the will of the Father, and made one with the Lord Jesus, as He is one with the Father. (Jn. 17:17-21.) 

"My soul, wait thou only upon God;  For my expectation is from him" (Ps. 62:5).

"Our soul waiteth for the LORD: He is our help and our shield" (Ps. 33:20).

"Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion" (Ps. 65:1).

"Blessed are all they that wait for him" (Isa. 30:18).

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time...Though it tarry, wait for it" (Hab. 2:3). 

"They that wait upon the LORD Shall renew their strength" (Isa. 40:31).

"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Revelation 21:3

He was looking for the city, Jerusalem the true city of God is a heavenly one firstly.. being next built in our hearts for a start. "…he was looking for the city… whose architect and builder is God" Heb 11:10

Paul's warning for each of us to "take heed how he builds" is to be heeded.
 
  ( 1 Cor 3:10  According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11  For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13  Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14  If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15  If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. 16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 18  Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20  And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;)

"They soon forgat his works;  They waited not for his counsel" (Ps. 106:13)

For  Man still has a propensity to build false things. For not all of man's building is of God.
 
This is reflected also in the first human community at Babel when they said, (  ''Come, let us build ourselves a city…so that we may make a name for ourselves… ." Gen 11:4 ) Many today are also building ­false  ministries, churches, networks, movements, and denominations, but they still are not building the true city of God. (Mat 15:14 KJV  Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.) Rather than building themslves a false  name they need to build  God's kingdom which is somethign else and at a level higher  altogether. They also do need to remember that "  Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so that only the unshakeable will remain ( Heb 12:25-29   See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29  For our God is a consuming fire.)

What about Abraham now even who also failed to wait upon God to keep his promise to give him a son?

Too many persons are still involved with the outward presentations, the  packaging rather than the substance. They are playing  " Gods", "Church" and not really connecting  with the head of the church, they are reading  the Bible and still really do know the author, and  do you  also "worship" and not really commune with the One worshipped.  ''Though seeing, they do not see;   though hearing, they do not hear or understand."   In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:  "'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;   you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.'" Mtt 13:13-14 and "You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked." Rev 3:17  in fact, you are deceived, or seduced?

John said, "… the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him." 1 Jn 2:27

(Psa 131:2 KJV)  Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. 3  Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

"Wait, I say, on the LORD" (Ps. 27:14). For "he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Phil. 1:6).

Without a personal direct current revelation of Christ and ­ without firect intimacy ­with Christ  the merely religious church, also by definition, cannot be the true church. It may be the institution that calls itself "the church", but it is not the church or the city that Jesus said would even overcome the gates of hell! 

"Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." Heb 13:13-14
 
 My tabernacle also shall be with them; Indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people"  Ezekiel 37:27  
 
"God  promised the seed  of Abraham with the promise land." Seed is a singular term that includes all the children of God in the New testament now as well and it is the heavenly Jerusalem and not the earthly one..

" "In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates" (Gen. 15:18). Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." (Genesis 50:24) In context: (Genesis 50:23-25)

The entitlement of any one past specific indwelling group religious to territory in the Middle East called the "Holy Land" cannot be supported by Scripture. In fact, the land promises specific to Israel in the Old Testament were also fulfilled.and

I draw your attention to some Scriptures which plainly state that God has fulfilled all that He promised Abraham concerning the land.   Now the fulfillment. In Deut.1:7,8 Moses said to the children of Israel -- "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in all the plains, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in the south and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river the river Euphrates. Behold I have set the land before you; go In and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them."

After the death of Moses, the same promise was given to Joshua. Then shortly before Joshua died, he said --- "And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed It, and dwelt therein. . . There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass" (Josh. 21:43,45).

In Nehemiah chapter 9 we have the same statement. Verses 7 and 8, "Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees and gavest him the name of Abraham; and foundest his heart faithful before thee .... and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give It I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous." And verse 24 says ---"So the children went in and possessed the land."

Now turn to Jeremiah, Chapter 32 verse 21 ... "And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror. And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey; and they came in, and possessed it."

In the face of all this, how can it be said that Genesis 15:18 has never been fulfilled? We can believe that God certainly did fulfil all that He promised concerning the land. God keeps his part of the promise.

Possession of the land was also conditional.

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. (Deut.8:1) But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. (2Ch 7:19-20)

Did God know Israel would brake his covenant?

When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant. (Deut. 31:20)
 
Scripture also says the (land belongs to God) and was not a permanent entitlement to anyone. "'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants."' (Lev. 25:23 NIV) The Bible says that they were only "tenants". As tenants there were in the land or God's property for a fixed period of time. This arrangement is usually under the terms of a lease or some similar legal Covenant or agreement. (See Deut.8:1; 2Ch 7:19-20) To teach or imply otherwise is nothing less than to compromise the Bible and the Gospel itself.

A heavenly inheritance has been the expectation of Abraham and the people of God in all ages.  "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith Abraham, even though he was past age and Sarah herself was barren was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. "(Hebrews 12:8-16 NIV)

"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel." (Hebrews 11:13-16)

The Gospel offers eternal life in heaven to Jews and Gentiles alike as a free gift in Jesus Christ. Eternal life in heaven is not earned or deserved, nor is it based upon ethnic descent or natural birth. And there is also now no special divine favor for inheritance upon any member of any religious group to the earthly land of Palestine whether Jew or Gentile or Muslim. (Lev. 25:23)

The Apostle Paul, to the Circumcision, in Rome says nothing about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel in the land of Palestine. Instead, Paul persuades his Jewish readers to consider themselves dead to the old but alive to the new. (Romans 6:5) He fixes their hope upon the resurrection.
 
"No New Testament Apostle writer expounds on, or  foresees a regathering of ethnic Israel in the land, as did the prophets of the Old Testament after the destruction of the first temple in 586 B.C. Moreover, the land promises of the Old Covenant are consistently and deliberately expanded in the New Testament to show the universal dominion of Jesus, (Psalm 2:7-8) who reigns from heaven upon the throne of David, inviting all the nations through the Gospel of Grace to partake of his universal and everlasting dominion. The promsied land issue regarding the "Middle East" and Palestine doctrine is both contrary to the teaching of the New Testament and a violation of the Gospel mandate.

Under that old covenant earthly blessings were promised to an earthly people, including national existence and the possession of the land of Canaan. Those blessings, moreover (and it is important to observe this) were made to depend upon express conditions, to be faithfully observed by that people, and were to be forfeited if those conditions were not observed. But that covenant, the Lord declares, "they brake." And now, through Jeremiah, He proclaims the great fact that He will make, in a time then future, "a new covenant," which was to be of a different sort. The Epistle to the Hebrews explains fully this prophecy of Jeremiah concerning the new covenant, the prophecy itself being quoted in full in Heb. 8:7-13, and in part in 10:15-17. It is the "everlasting covenant," secured by the blood of Jesus Christ (Heb. 13: 20). It is established with a heavenly people, those who are "come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem, . . . and to the church of the first born (ones) who are written (i.e. enrolled) in heaven" (Ch. 12:22, 23). It is "a better covenant established upon better promises" (Ch. 8:6)"

We have already seen that, by the covenant of Sinai, God offered them the highest of all blessings, but upon the express condition of obedience; the terms being, "If ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My Covenant" (Ex. 19:5,6). To this they all agreed, saying, "All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do" (v. 8). And this pledge of obedience was twice repeated by them after the ten commandments had been spoken to them (Ex. 24:3 and 7). Nevertheless, that covenant was broken by them within forty days through the idolatry of the golden calf ("Which My covenant they brake," Jer. 31:32).

Now the matter of the past national destruction of Israel by the Romans inluded that there was to be no recovery. And in this, the prophecy of Moses is in full accord with that of Jesus Christ, recorded in Matthew 24 and Luke 21. For Moses said: "God will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land wither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of the earth even to the other" (Deut. 28:63,64). This, according to this prophecy, was to be the end of their history as a nation.

And now the law has been superseded by the gospel, with its "better hope." The economy of the law, with all its shadows - people, land, city, temple, priesthood, sacrifices- has been set aside, and forever.

Being a member of Israel in the Old Testament was dependent upon faith and obedience to God. When the Israelites obeyed God, God loved them. But when the Israelites turned from him, He hated them, stripping them of their Israelite status. After centuries of Israelite rebellion against God, culminating in their rejection of Jesus the Messiah, the titles, attributes and blessings of Israel were transferred to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and to no one else, regardless of Abrahamic descent.""


PS God's blueprint involves also involves generally De-construction before Construction 
 
This means the personal loss of all things ­­ of past understandings, poet theologies, personal goals, ambitions, desitres, even reputation, respect, and resource ­ of all the securities of this life and its regular patterns. (Phil 3:8 KJV  Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10  That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11  If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 12  Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.)

"The "architecture of the Spirit" will always de-construct before it constructs ­ it will uproot, tear down, destroy and overthrow before it builds and plants ((Jer 1:10 KJV)  See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.). As long as we are proud, secure and satisfied with our patterns and ways, we are not able to humbly  receive revelation, nor experience true intimacy with Christ by his Holy Spirit. " (Isa 57:15 KJV  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.)

(Isa 66:2 KJV)  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3  He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 4  I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not. 5  Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. 6  A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompense to his enemies. 7  Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8  Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9  Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. 10  Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: 11  That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 12  For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. 13  As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 14  And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. 15  For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16  For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17  They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. 18  For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

God still seeks to lead His people into a higher relationship with Himself;  and not rather to any false self, human, group exaltations
 
He instituted and ordained previous temples that was to provide for His people a place where they could draw nigh to Him, so that this place would become a "house of prayer" for all nations, and a means of grace whereby the inhabitants of the earth could discover the pathway to God, the greatest Temple of the ages.  And so it was fulfilled in the Lord Jesus who declared Himself to be the Temple of God in the earth. And then He showed us, through His holy apostles and prophets, how this Temple would be expanded and enlarged to embrace those who now are the redeemed of the earth, and are part of the  "living stones" in that same Temple.

"The great heavenly "architecture himself " is calling you into a place of total, personal, complete abandonment  to God alone,  ­ a place where you are no longer in control. even  ­ into a place of brokenness and contrition of heart where God can thus build in you  a "new thing", the new city whose maker is God, the heavenly Jerusalem.

(Eph 3:14 KJV)  For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,15  Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17  That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18  May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, 21  Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

And when God finds His home in the hearts of all of His redeemed, He will be again at rest and so will earth, mankind

(John 7:24 KJV)  Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Still one of the devil's most common method of harassment, the same devil who is the accuser of the brethren, is to send false persons, unholy, to try it detour us, the same people pretending to be our friends, claiming they are wanting to help us and are ready to give us false advice, false teachings  as to what we should be doing.. firstly we should not be listening to any of these demon possessed persons.. or seeking, listen to their advice too

(2 Pet 2:9 KJV)  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10  But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15  Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16  But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Secondly our best help comes not by listening to other people but personally daily abiding in God's word alone..  our help is still mainly not in people, books, sernons of others, tapes, videos, but in the Bible alone..

(Psa 119:41 KJV)  Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. 42  So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. 43  And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. 44  So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. 45  And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. 46  I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. 47  And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. 48  My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. 49  ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. 50  This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. 51  The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law. 52  I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself. 53  Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. 54  Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55  I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. 56  This I had, because I kept thy precepts. 57  CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.  58  I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. 59  I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 60  I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. 61  The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. 62  At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. 63  I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. 64  The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. 65  TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. 66  Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. 67  Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. 68  Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. 69  The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70  Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. 71  It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.  72  The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. 73  JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. 74  They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. 75  I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. 76  Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77  Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 78  Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.   79  Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies. 80  Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. 81  CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. 82  Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? 83  For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes. 84  How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? 85  The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. 86  All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 87  They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. 88  Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. 89  LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. 90  Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. 91  They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. 92  Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. 93  I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. 94  I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. 95  The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. 96  I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. 97  MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. 98  Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100  I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. 101  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. 102  I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. 103  How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 105  NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 106  I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. 107  I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. 108  Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. 109  My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. 110  The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. 111  Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 112  I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end. 113  SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. 114  Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. 115  Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. 116  Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. 117  Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. 118  Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. 119  Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.  120  My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. 121  AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. 122  Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. 123  Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. 124  Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. 125  I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. 126  It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. 127  Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128  Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. 129  PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. 130  The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

A past  individual had contacted me by email with obviously a phony name, of Clark Kent, claiming that he was a news reporter, who wanted to be my friend, to give me advice..  and next when I next replied that he needed to become a Christian,  to accept Christ rather firstly, he responded with unkind vulgar, swearing words at me, even lying about me too.. he thus revealed who he really was, a demon possessed person being used by the devil.

(Gal 2:4 KJV)  And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

(John 6:31 KJV)  Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33   For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

(John 6:34 KJV)  Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.

The Pharisees in the New Testament times they claimed that Moses  was the cause of their blessing, keeping old testament  laws, and the same liars say the same thing today.. keeping the laws was a commandment of God for the Jews but still not a means of their salvation.. personally accepting the lamb of God, Jesus  is still also their salvation

In reality (John 7:19 KJV)  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

The false Judiazers claim that going along with the Jews cause our blessing.. even today are still lying.

(John 1:17 KJV)  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
(John 3:14 KJV)  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jews also do need to accept Jesus Christ as their savior now to be saved, otherwise they too will go to hell.

(John 5:46 KJV)  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.47   But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

(John 9:28 KJV)  Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

and if you do not go along with the Jews false religion now they will kill you like the killed Jesus Christ.

(John 9:35 KJV)  Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36  He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 37  And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. 38  And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. 39  And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 40  And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?  41  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

(Gal 2:3 KJV)  But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4  And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5  To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

The US Rev John Hagee is a person now I also really cannot endorse him.. he is clearly a hireling, one that wants more and more money..  and he distorts the Bible truth to do this as well..
 
"These combined Scriptures verify that PROSPERITY (Genesis 12:3 and Psalm 122:6), HEALING (Luke 7:1-5) and the OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT came first to Gentiles that blessed the Jewish people and the nation of Israel in a practical manner." says John Hagee

Secondly he tries to support the rebuilding of the nation of Israel.. claiming that prosperity and healing comes by supporting Israel.. there is no such commandment by God too, not one in the whole New Testament..

(Luke 7:1 KJV)  Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.2  And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.3  And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.4   And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

By no means of the imagination can we use this New Testament reference to  try to justify that Christians should build directly any of the Jewish synagogues or fully rebuild the nation of Israel.. after Christ came there was no need of the Jewish synagogues as well.. rather all, all of the Christians clearly met in separate places from the Jews.

Rather in reality Judaism is today a false religion still, but to many Jews it is also a false idol even today  too for  they do worship their nation, culture, religion now even more than God, JESUS, and the HOLY SPIRIT

(2 Cor 6:16 KJV)  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,18  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

S ill our best peronsal  help basically comes not by listening to other people but personally, daily abiding in God's word alone..  our help is still not in people, their mere books, sermons, tapes, videos, but dwelling in the Bible alone .. really!!! And all of our Salvation, Deliverance Healing still comes to us by Jesus Christ, not by  the Jews or Moses or anything else....

While still even claiming to be God's chosen people, people following after God people blessed by God, the nation of Israel, almost all of it in reality  has even today still clearly turned away from God, is wrongfully doing it's own rebellious thing, and wrongfully try to justify it as well.. God is displeased at all of this and God is not being mocked by this as well.

Jer 2:20 KJV)  For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. 23  How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 24  A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
 
I also do have no doubt that I am Christian nor the fact God  has called me to do His work.. and I also clearly rightfully do oppose all Terrorists,  CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM OR JEWISH ONES TOO, Israel's religious land claims, and I rightfully do not accept this as a valid religion or worship of the same God that Christians do worship now too..  Like I said I am also mature enough to discuss it in love too.
The JUDGMENT UPON THE NATIONS, it parallels often the specific judgments of each of the individual persons too, in both the Old and New Testament now as well. Understanding clearer the Old Testament passages must also generally personally  involve our  Understanding clearer the New Testament passages too...
(John 1:1 KJV)  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2  The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5   And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
 
(John 1:10 KJV)  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13   Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
 
(1 John 1:1 KJV)  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2  (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3  That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4  And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. 5  This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  
Many many persons do even today, these days  misinterpret the Bible, it's passages even  firstly cause of their own real ignorance of what specifically the whole Bible says, and they as a result also do falsely rely on what others tell them.. which too often is still mere falsehood and lies.
 
Many persons do also still try to see the judgment of God as a one time event only, as  either A past, present, future event, a  sole  historical event, and not rather as a series of events, even continuos ones, events of both spiritual  and also next physical   judgments.. firstly spiritual judgments themselves are real and are next related to the earthly, real physical judgments, even although initially the physical correlation many not be that obvious, fully known beforehand always to some persons. 
 
One still personally cannot try thus to study the Bible, Old or New Testament  in the flesh, without the spirit of God's HELP  who helped to write it now as well.
(Gen 1:1 KJV)  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2   And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
 
(Gen 1:3 KJV)  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Here also is the clear reference to the trinity. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,  involved even in Creation.
(Gen 1:26 KJV)  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
 
(John 3:6 KJV)  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
 
(John 3:8 KJV)  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
 
(John 7:39 KJV)  (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
 
(Rom 8:2 KJV)  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
 
(Rom 8:5 KJV)  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.
 
(Rom 8:23 KJV)  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
 
(Rom 8:27 KJV)  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
 
(1 Cor 2:14 KJV)  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
 
(1 Cor 12:7 KJV)  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
 
(2 Cor 1:22 KJV)  Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
 
(2 Cor 3:6 KJV)  Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
 
(2 Cor 3:8 KJV)  How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
 
(2 Cor 5:5 KJV)  Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
 
(Gal 3:14 KJV)  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
 
(Gal 5:18 KJV)  But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
 
(Gal 5:22 KJV)  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
 
(Gal 6:8 KJV)  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
 
(2 Th 2:13 KJV)  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
 
(1 Pet 1:2 KJV)  Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Many persons today still also try to explain Old Testament prophetic passages as them next going to be literally and solely  fulfilled in the future, even  leaving out any reference to leading of the Holy Spirit to understand these passages and especially even to Jesus Christ's role in them, and this is impossible to do for Jesus Christ alone now, is the sole established heir of all things too... including all of the the present and the future.
(Acts 3:18 KJV)  But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.19  Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20  And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21  Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22  For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23  And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24  Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. 25  Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26  Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
 
(Phil 3:8 KJV)  Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
 
(Heb 1:2 KJV)  Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
 
(1 Pet 4:7 KJV)  But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
 
(1 John 2:27 KJV)  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
 
(Rev 1:2 KJV)  Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Understanding clearer the Old Testament passages..
 
For one example:  Regarding even the specific past the fulfillment of certain passages pertaining to the Old testament references to the judgment of nations:  (Joel 3:2,11,12 Zech 12:3,9  Zech 14:2,3,12,14). All three of these chapters refer to God judging and fighting "all nations"
(Joel 3:2 KJV)  I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

(Joel 3:11 KJV)  Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

(Joel 3:12 KJV)  Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

(Zec 12:3 KJV)  And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

(Zec 12:9 KJV)  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

(Zec 14:2 KJV)  For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

(Zec 14:3 KJV)  Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

(Zec 14:12 KJV)  And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

(Zec 14:14 KJV)  And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

Explanation Details:

Joel 3:18 In that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Wadi Shittim.

Now, specifcally compare the fountain with:
Zecariah 13:1 On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
These passages are both referring to the same fountain? If so, would you agree that the fountain  alone is Christ, the Living Waters? IS THIS HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS LED YOU TO UNDERSTAND IT TOO?

Also, consider the phrase in Zech 13 "in that day." So then, that would certainly lend itself to the rest of the context being fulfilled at the time of Christ. Consider how God uses that timeframe reference:

Zechariah 12:3-4 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. {4} In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:8-9 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. {9} And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Now watch closely:
Zechariah 12:10-14 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. {11} In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. {12} And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; {13} The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; {14} All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
Zechariah 13:1 On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
"On that day" or "In that day..."
Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Zechariah 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
Zechariah 14:4 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.
Now this next part is crucial:
Zechariah 14:6-9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: {7} But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. {8} And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. {9} And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Look at verse 8. That is clearly referring to Christ:
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
John 4:14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life."
and
John 7:37-39 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. {38} He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. {39} (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Clearly the Bible pssage declares Christ as the Living waters and the timing of it.

So then, it is not so much a matter of *whether* Zech and Joel were fulfilled. It is a matter of the exact nature of the fulfillment. Remember what Joel said about the waters:

Joel 3:18 In that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Wadi Shittim.
That water is Christ and that sweet wine is Christ.

"Also, when did Judah sell Grecians as slaves (Joel 3:4-8), and when did Egypt become desolate(3:19)?"

Well, consider these passages in regard to this type of language:

Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Again, it speaks of the parched ground becoming a pool. In other words through faith in Christ they receive the springs of living water. Through rejection of Jesus Christ Egypt and all other nations would be wasted or desolate and without water. Compare:
Zechariah 14:17-21 If any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain upon them. {18} And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, then on them shall come the plague that the LORD inflicts on the nations that do not go up to keep the festival of booths. {19} Such shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the festival of booths. {20} On that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the cooking pots in the house of the LORD shall be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar; {21} and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.
Zechariah is using metaphorical language to describe life without Christ-"no rain." But upon those who worship the Lord would be rain, or Christ Jesus. It is desolation to be without Christ. It is emptiness and there is great void. But in Christ we lack nothing and we are never thirsty:
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
But on the contrary, those who do not trust in Christ are thirsty:
Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
Again, without Christ in real life now too the end result is only shame and desolation.
(Mat 24:1 KJV)  And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.2   And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
 
(Mat 27:51 KJV)  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

As far as theissue as to when actually Judah sold Grecians as slaves, I have an idea  that specifcally which Joel is referring to is first century church of Jewish origin next also  taking captive the Gentiles as slaves of righteousness. Through Jesus Christ. Judah, the lion of Judah, Israel is finally able to convert the foreign nations,  the gentiles, something hey were not allowed to do in the Old testament.  In other words, those Gentiles who previously dominated the whole kingdom of Israel would now also be subject to the Gospel of Christ under the New Covenant. Here are some other Scriptures that may allude to this:

Psalms 72:8-11 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. {9} They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. {10} The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. {11} Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
Here is an incredible passage that clearly describes the New Covenant kingdom of Christ and how it would first be the glory of Israel and that Gentiles would come to their Light:
Isaiah 60 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. {2} For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. {3} And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {4} Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. {5} Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. {6} The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD. {7} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. {8} Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? {9} Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. {10} And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. {11} Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. {12} For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. {13} The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. {14} The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. {15} Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. {16} Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. {17} For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. {18} Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. {19} The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. {20} Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. {21} Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. {22} A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
 
(1 Ki 6:5 KJV)  And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
 
(1 Ki 6:15 KJV)  And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
 
(1 Ki 6:29 KJV)  And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
especially consider these verses:
Isaiah 60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
 
Isaiah 60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Notice that the Gentiles would "build" up the walls( of the temple) .
 
In other words they would be servants helping build the kingdom of Christ, and, Isaiah describes, is in subjection to the original Jewish church or what we might remember as the tree (first century Jewish church) in which the fowls of the air (Gentiles) lodged. Consider this verse in Isaiah:
Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
So that, indeed, this slavery reference can be observed as something optimistic rather than pessimistic:
Romans 6:17-19 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted, {18} and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. {19} I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
However, the context in Joel does seem to suggest a larger context of judgment, though it is clear from the above passages that God uses this type of language in a metaphoric manner. I think the spiritual nature can be seen by this verse:
Joel 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, "I am a warrior."
Consider the opposite stated by those who would be called God’s people:
Isaiah 2:4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
You see, one is speaking of those who bow to the king and taking their carnal weapons and gaining the strength of the Gospel which would produce goldy fruit,  but stilldo produce death through its sword-like characteristics against those who would rebel:
2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. {15} For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: {16} To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? {17} For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Also, note, very important:
Psalms 149:5-9 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. {6} Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; {7} To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; {8} To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; {9} To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
 
(John 14:23 KJV)  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
 
(John 14:24 KJV)  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
 
(John 15:23 KJV)  He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
 
(John 15:24 KJV)  If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
 
(John 15:25 KJV)  But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
 
(John 15:1 KJV)  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away:
 
(John 16:11 KJV)  Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
 
(John 5:45 KJV)  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.46  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.47  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
It is clear that the Gospel would slay some of  the enemies of God and also be responsible next for their own real rightouss  jdugements as well if they refused to accept it..
 
This is precisely what takes place through the preaching of the Gospel to those who rebel against Jesus Christ. He slays them with the sword of His mouth.

Through the Gospel, they are "bound" with chains. Hence, the idea of slavery. Kings and nobles represent the haughty in the pride of their countenance in hatred of Christ. We get to execute judgment. It is our honor because of Christ and His power to make us holy by the Gospel. Originally John wept because only Christ was worthy to open the seals of judgment. But since the parousia we are all worthy because of Christ’s presence and word. Therefore, when we preach the Gospel, we are truly judging the world as Paul predicted:

1 Corinthians 6:2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
So then this selling into slavery makes perfect spiritual sense. Through the Gospel they are proven to be bound in sin and slaves to unrighteousness. They are made aware of their unbelief. They are made conscious of their rebellion against Christ. Thus they perish and are wasted and made an utter desolation. Surely the passage you quote has its origin with the first century church. But the Gospel is the everlasting Gospel the be proclaimed throughout eternity:
Revelation 14:6-7 Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation and tribe and language and people. {7} He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water."

(Hag 2:22 KJV)  And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

But I would again refer back to Psalms to convey more powerfully the idea of binding the heathen with the power of the word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Hence, the nations would be sold into slavery. So either way I believe their is an abundance of Scripture to show the vast usage of metaphorical language to convey this idea of the judgment that was to come as both spirutla and physical

(Rev 2:16 KJV)  Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

(Rev 19:21 KJV)  And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

(Psa 33:9 KJV)  For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. 10  The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 11  The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. 13  The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. 14  From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 15  He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. 16  There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17  An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength. 18  Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; 19  To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. 20  Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. 21  For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. 22  Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

 (Eph 6:17 KJV)  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

God still firstly  fights and judges the nations with the sword of His mouth, his own real warnings, promises  and God  he keeps his promsises. 

2 Corinthians 10:3-6 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: {4} (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) {5} Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; {6} And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
 
(2 Tim 2:15 KJV)  Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
 
(2 Tim 2:16 KJV)  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
 
(2 Tim 2:19 KJV)  Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.20  But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.21  If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
 
(John 5:38 KJV)  And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
 
(John 5:42 KJV)  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
 
(2 Cor 11:4 KJV)  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
 
(James 4:2 KJV)  Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
 
(Gal 6:7 KJV)  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
 
(Gal 6:8 KJV)  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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 The leaders of this movement purport to be teaching believers the "Hebrew Roots of Christianity" through the study of the Jewish foundational teachings. Having been enjoined to study "Hebrew Roots", it is only reasonable that one must take a close look at the teachings of the Messianic and Hebrew Roots movements, as well as the Hebrew faith itself. 
 
"This movement is not only a cult but a racist movement, it is still a demonic attempt by Jews to promote their own self importance, their own past now false customs, false religion on others, and people who do this may be sincere but they are not followers of Jesus Christ but of the devil still.. this is undeniable"
 
We are reminded rather  in Colossians 2:6-9: "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."
 
Is the Hebrew Roots, as some might suggest, merely the study of the Old Testament, which Christians already study in light of the New Testament?
 
What do the Hebrew foundational teachings expound with regard to the New Testament, the Messiah, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Persons or Manifestations of God, the Bible and the character of God?
 
 To embrace the Hebrew Roots theology without a full review and understanding of its teachings, would be blindness on our part and lead to ignoring the many warnings we find in the Word of God.
 
2 Timothy 3:13-17: "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them: And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be throughly furnished unto all good works."
 
 In James 3: 17,18 we are reminded:  " But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."
 
Scripture tells us in Matthew 12:37:  " For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."
 
John 3:20-21  "…For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."
 
James 3:13-16: "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness and wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
 
Do we indeed have to become Jewish in thought and custom in order to fully understand the Word of God and be pleasing before Him? 
 
" No, Not at all, the Holy Spirit is the one who teaches us, duides us in all truth and if he does nto help you allof your study is vain anyway.."
 
 Galatians 3:26-29  "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. "
 
What of the divine inspiration of the Bible? The Scripture is sufficient in itself and considered the inerrant Word of God.
 
Many Hebrew Roots and Sacred Name advocates are falsely decrying that the name, 'Jesus Christ', is invalid, mistranslated or unacceptable for whatever reason. One has to ask which Name do these people wish us to use if not the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? Which of the numerous "only Sacred Name," are we to use?
 
Would changing the name of our Savior and embracing another name become the rejection of Jesus Christ and His salvation?  It is imperative that we understand the significance of the Sacred Name issue, for
 
Scripture tells us in John 14:6,  "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
 
Acts 4:12: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
 
Part of the Antichrist's plan next  of changing times and dates that we understand as the truth and he is using the Jews still also to do this still too.
 
 Ephesians 5:17:   "Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is."
 
 Now is the time to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. "Behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation."  2Corinthians 6:2
 
Even the Jewish people have to become personaly Christians now and to accept Jesus, not their past religions, as Jesus being their sole master, lord, savior, forsaken all of the others now too.  http://www.seekgod.ca/embraceintro.htm 
 
Summary 
(John 8:39 KJV)  They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham....  (John 8:42 KJV)  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43   Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.45   And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
 
(Rev 2:9 KJV)  I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
 
(Rom 2:28 KJV)  For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29  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.
 
Apostle Peter identifies not Jews, not Gentiles, but the Christians in I Peter 2:9-10 when he writes of Christians   "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, the people of God..." note an nation too.. AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
 
It is absurd for any Jewish or any other persons to make any further "promised land" claim without accepting Jesus as their personal Lord and personal Savior firstly too. In the Old Testament, in Genesis, a specific  land was promised to Abraham's seed.  Next Galatians 3:26-29 in the New Testament identifies Abraham's seed as those who are Christ's, whether Jew or Gentile.  In other words: Christians.  Firstly Jesus Christ alone is the inital heir of all things and he will claim all of it and all of it's occupants too. It is the  Christians who will next co-rule with Jesus, and  the 12 originally Jewish apostles included who were all Christians now too.(2 Tim 2:12 KJV)  If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:  (Rev 20:6 KJV)  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
 
 For those who still wrongfully might like to claim that the land was solely promised to "Israel," .  Galatians 6:16 identifies Christians as the "Israel of God." Although Abraham received covenant promises concerning his seed, the promise was not to Abraham's "seeds"... It is only in Christ we inherit these redemptive promises.  Indeed, the books of Daniel (Old Testament) and Revelation (New Testament) clearly state Christ's preeminence, as well as the  messages of Galatians and Hebrews,  and that the kingdoms of this world shall rather next become the joint heirs, under the rule, the property of all of Jesus and all of God's people; that is the Christians.  Revelation 2:26 adds that overcomers (who have the testimony of Jesus) will be given "power over the nations."  In other words, Christians will have power over all the nations, will possess all the land, including the physical nation of Israel and all Arab nations.  Eventually, Peter says there will be new heavens and a new earth.  This is completion of God's promise to Abraham's seed fulfilled.  The people of God, His people forever, are those of faith in Christ Jesus. The same are Abraham's seed.  The same heirs do finally inherit the promise given Abraham.  and Romans 8:9-10, says "Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His."  
 
The book of Hebrews also makes it clear that the Mosaic provisions of the Levitical priesthood, the sacrifices and the law were only temporary - "he takes away the first [covenant], that he may establish the second." (10:9). Earlier in chapter (8:13) the writer had said "In that he said a new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away." How can anyone diagree with these Scriptures and now lie and even teaching that Israel and its Old Covenant shadows are to be restored? The book of Hebrews is devoted to teaching otherwise. It is also still a heresy  for any of the Judaizers to exalt any of the corruptible Jewish flesh when God's Word says that if a Jew (or Gentile) does not have God's Spirit, he is not of God too? The Jews clearly now are not of Christ because they clearly don't have His Holy Spirit.  The Jews are still rather  of Antichrist because they do mostly all despise God's and his  doctrines.  Thus the Jews next are going to hell because they are not even born again.  The New Testament clearly says all of this too. Only the born again in Christ Jews, the cut off natural jewish branches that they were, they will be grafted back again into the olive tree and comprise, with the Gentiles the Church of God  Romans 11 (vv.13-21). All Jews do have to be born again in Christ  to be readopted into the family of God.
 
Psalm 2:1  Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3  Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.  4  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5  Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.  6  Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7  I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8  Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy  possession. 9  Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10  Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11  Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  12  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
 
(Rom 4:14 KJV)  For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:15  Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 16  Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17  (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18  Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
 
(Rom 8:17 KJV)  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
 
(Gal 3:29 KJV)  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
 
(Titus 3:7 KJV)  That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
 
(Heb 1:14 KJV)  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
 
(Heb 6:17 KJV)  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
 
(Heb 11:9 KJV)  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
 
(James 2:5 KJV)  Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
 
(1 Pet 3:7 KJV)  Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
"Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come." Heb 13:13-14
 
Our final destination, even the related personal rewards for our service to Jesus Christ the Messiah are not here on earth but in the heavenly Jerusalem.
 
(Heb 11:8 KJV)  By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.  9  By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12  Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13  These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14  For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15  And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16  But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. 
 
My tabernacle also shall be with them; Indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people"  Ezekiel 37:27  
 
God  promised the seed  of Abraham with the promise land. Seed is a singular term that includes all the children of God in the New Testament now as well. The ultimate fullfillment of this promised land it is the Heavenly Jerusalem and not the earthly one..

" "In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates" (Gen. 15:18). Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." (Genesis 50:24) In context: (Genesis 50:23-25)

The entitlement of any one past specific indwelling group religious to territory in the Middle East called the "Holy Land" cannot be supported by Scripture. In fact, the land promises specific to Israel in the Old Testament were also fulfilled.and

I draw your attention to some Scriptures which plainly state that God has fulfilled all that He promised Abraham concerning the land.   Now the fulfillment. In Deut.1:7,8 Moses said to the children of Israel -- "Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in all the plains, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in the south and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river the river Euphrates. Behold I have set the land before you; go In and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them."

After the death of Moses, the same promise was given to Joshua. Then shortly before Joshua died, he said --- "And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed It, and dwelt therein. . . There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass" (Josh. 21:43,45).

In Nehemiah chapter 9 we have the same statement. Verses 7 and 8, "Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees and gavest him the name of Abraham; and foundest his heart faithful before thee .... and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give It I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous." And verse 24 says ---"So the children went in and possessed the land."

Now turn to Jeremiah, Chapter 32 verse 21 ... "And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror. And hast given them this land which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey; and they came in, and possessed it."

In the face of all this, how can it be said that Genesis 15:18 has never been fulfilled? We can believe that God certainly did fulfil all that He promised concerning the land. God keeps his part of the promise.

Possession of the land was also conditional.

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. (Deut.8:1) But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. (2Ch 7:19-20)

Did God know Israel would brake his covenant?

When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant. (Deut. 31:20)
 
Scripture also says the (land belongs to God) and was not a permanent entitlement to anyone. "'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants."' (Lev. 25:23 NIV) The Bible says that they were only "tenants". As tenants there were in the land or God's property for a fixed period of time. This arrangement is usually under the terms of a lease or some similar legal Covenant or agreement. (See Deut.8:1; 2Ch 7:19-20) To teach or imply otherwise is nothing less than to compromise the Bible and the Gospel itself.

A heavenly inheritance has been the expectation of Abraham and the people of God in all ages.  "By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith Abraham, even though he was past age and Sarah herself was barren was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. "(Hebrews 12:8-16 NIV)

"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel." (Hebrews 11:13-16)

The Gospel offers eternal life in heaven to Jews and Gentiles alike as a free gift in Jesus Christ. Eternal life in heaven is not earned or deserved, nor is it based upon ethnic descent or natural birth. And there is also now no special divine favor for inheritance upon any member of any religious group to the earthly land of Palestine whether Jew or Gentile or Muslim. (Lev. 25:23)

The Apostle Paul, to the Circumcision, in Rome says nothing about the restoration of the kingdom to Israel in the land of Palestine. Instead, Paul persuades his Jewish readers to consider themselves dead to the old but alive to the new. (Romans 6:5) He fixes their hope upon the resurrection.
 
"No New Testament Apostle writer expounds on, or  foresees a regathering of ethnic Israel in the land, as did the prophets of the Old Testament after the destruction of the first temple in 586 B.C. Moreover, the land promises of the Old Covenant are consistently and deliberately expanded in the New Testament to show the universal dominion of Jesus, (Psalm 2:7-8) who reigns from heaven upon the throne of David, inviting all the nations through the Gospel of Grace to partake of his universal and everlasting dominion. The promsied land issue regarding the "Middle East" and Palestine doctrine is both contrary to the teaching of the New Testament and a violation of the Gospel mandate.

Under that old covenant earthly blessings were promised to an earthly people, including national existence and the possession of the land of Canaan. Those blessings, moreover (and it is important to observe this) were made to depend upon express conditions, to be faithfully observed by that people, and were to be forfeited if those conditions were not observed. But that covenant, the Lord declares, "they brake." And now, through Jeremiah, He proclaims the great fact that He will make, in a time then future, "a new covenant," which was to be of a different sort. The Epistle to the Hebrews explains fully this prophecy of Jeremiah concerning the new covenant, the prophecy itself being quoted in full in Heb. 8:7-13, and in part in 10:15-17. It is the "everlasting covenant," secured by the blood of Jesus Christ (Heb. 13: 20). It is established with a heavenly people, those who are "come to Mount Sion, and to the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem, . . . and to the church of the first born (ones) who are written (i.e. enrolled) in heaven" (Ch. 12:22, 23). It is "a better covenant established upon better promises" (Ch. 8:6)"

We have already seen that, by the covenant of Sinai, God offered them the highest of all blessings, but upon the express condition of obedience; the terms being, "If ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My Covenant" (Ex. 19:5,6). To this they all agreed, saying, "All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do" (v. 8). And this pledge of obedience was twice repeated by them after the ten commandments had been spoken to them (Ex. 24:3 and 7). Nevertheless, that covenant was broken by them within forty days through the idolatry of the golden calf ("Which My covenant they brake," Jer. 31:32).

Now the matter of the past national destruction of Israel by the Romans inluded that there was to be no recovery. And in this, the prophecy of Moses is in full accord with that of Jesus Christ, recorded in Matthew 24 and Luke 21. For Moses said: "God will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land wither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of the earth even to the other" (Deut. 28:63,64). This, according to this prophecy, was to be the end of their history as a nation.

And now the law has been superseded by the gospel, with its "better hope." The economy of the law, with all its shadows - people, land, city, temple, priesthood, sacrifices- has been set aside, and forever.

Being a member of Israel in the Old Testament was dependent upon faith and obedience to God. When the Israelites obeyed God, God loved them. But when the Israelites turned from him, He hated them, stripping them of their Israelite status. After centuries of Israelite rebellion against God, culminating in their rejection of Jesus the Messiah, the titles, attributes and blessings of Israel were transferred to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and to no one else, regardless of Abrahamic descent."
 
Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. (Deut.8:1) But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. (2Ch 7:19-20)
 
"The "nation of Israel" today knows it does not yet have all the land that they have  believed that they are intitled to. The promise to them was from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Seems to me that if they want all the land they think they are intitled to they would next wrongfully  to go to war and take it from some other countried around them.  The the river Euphrates goes right into Iraq, so  they would go a conquer Jordan, Kawait, etc."It requires big time war over there even to get the temple built. "
 
"As to why Paul was persecuted by the Jews far more than anyone else. (2 Cor 11:22-29). James and Peter enjoyed relative peace with the Jews for a period of time. There was a great persecution recorded in the book of Acts, but then it subsides. What stopped it? The conversion of Paul, the death of Herod (Acts 12), the removal of Pontius Pilate as governor, and the end of the reign of Caligula. All these things happened in a fairly short period of time. Then we see the rise of Claudius as Emperor. Claudius was somewhat enamored towards Christianity. He even wanted it recognized as an official Roman religion.  However, Paul continued to suffer at the hands of the Judiazers. Why did they go after Paul but not James and Peter? It had to have been the fact that he was preaching to the Gentiles only Christ and Him crucified. He did not teach them that they had to keep the Sabbath, circumcision, etc.  For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (I Cor 2:2)"
 
And  the whole House of Israel including the gentiles were reunited with the House of Judah under one leader, Jesus Christ our Messiah (Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 37:15-28;Hosea 1:11). And the whole house of Israel was now next present on the day of Pentecost when this happened. (Acts 2:36 KJV)  Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 37  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38   Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 42  And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
 
These first believers, converts were mainly Jews from the whole house of Israel now too

All of the  believers in the Messiah Jesus Christ have the status of being a first-born family (Hebrews 12:22-23) which is not based upon genealogy (I Chronicles 5:1).
 
Let me remind you of the undeniable fact for false personal, nationalistic, selfish reasons, many of the Jews, judaizers do even today still  lie and twist the word of God to suit their nationalistic, self centered too empire aims and they do wrongfully persecute still the christians workers.  Being an apostle serving jesus CVhrist in the church was, is also not an easy task.
 
(Acts 9:15 KJV)  But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:16  For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
 
(2 Th 3:3 KJV)  But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.4  And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
 
(2 Th 3:13 KJV)  But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. 14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
 
(Mat 19:29 KJV)  And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
 
(Gal 6:4 KJV)  But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5   For every man shall bear his own burden.
 
(1 Cor 2:3 KJV)  And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
 
(2 Tim 4:16 KJV)  At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17  Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
 
(2 Tim 4:10 KJV)  For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
 
The slanderous accusing, depressing, afflictions, persecuting  spirits that the apostle Paul suffered was came even from the Jews and the so called Christian brethren too.. False teachers had prejudiced his brethren against him. They had made false charges against him to destroy his influence among the churches which he had raised up. Many Christians today who do God's work suffer the same demons too.
 
  "He Apostle Paul  too often he could not count upon the sympathy and support of even his own brethren in the faith. The unconverted Jews who had so closely followed upon his track had not been slow to circulate the most unfavorable reports . . . both personally and by letter concerning him and his work, and some, even of the apostles and elders, had received these reports as truth, making no attempt to contradict them and manifesting no desire to harmonize with him." . The Jews continued to spread evil reports, and invented lying accusations; but saddest of all, some of his brethren had believed the lying reports. This must have pained Paul to his very soul. "Yet in the midst of discouragement, the apostle was not in despair." Paul kept his ear tuned to the One that spoke to him on the way to Damascus. No matter what men did to him, it sank into insignificance when he thought of what Jesus had done for him. He pressed on."
 
(Gal 6:12 KJV)  As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world15  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
 
"Do you know what a Judaiser is? It is a Christian Jew, who had accepted Christ as the Messiah, but still kept the Jewish rites. When they came into a Christian church, they told the people that if they would keep the Jewish ceremonies, more of the Jews would be converted. They advised that if the Gentile converts, who did not keep the ceremonies and were not circumcised were kept out, they would have many more Jewish converts—more than enough to make up for the loss of the Gentile converts. In this way they tore down the work that Paul had built up. "They visited every church which he had organized, creating division."  The Judiasers never stopped, and they are still busily at their work in our churches today." they are often even the Messianic Jews too.
 
"There was still a small group even inthe Church that hated Paul. They had a list of accusations that they used against him whenever possible. "They stubbornly resisted all efforts of Paul for the purification of the church; they displayed a most bitter spirit, and were bold in denunciation of Paul."    Their first accusation was that Paul preached the gospel with a "mercenary motive." In other words, the accusation was that he was preaching the gospel to make money. Maybe they contrived that since he preached to large crowds of people, everyone would know him, and he could sell lots of tents. Next they accused him of "craft in preaching the gospel and dealing with the churches." I Thirdly, "They charged him with receiving personal advantage from the means contributed by the brethren for various benevolent purposes." The next accusation came from the opposite extreme. Some said Paul was not an apostle because he did not demand support from the churches."  "Unfortunately, the relationship between Paul and the believers in Corinth could never be what it could have been. The dissension and evil surmising had ruined what could have been. However, Paul freely forgave them, and prayed for them. Paul bore the weight of all the churches. They were always on his mind. "The pressure was sometimes so great that he could scarcely endure it. Outward dangers and inward fears had harassed him beyond his own power to bear. False teachers had prejudiced his brethren against him. They had made false charges against him to destroy his influence among the churches which he had raised up. But amid all his persecutions and discouragements, he could rejoice in the consolation which he found in Christ."  Apostle Paul still in spite of all of this he never gave up, he continued with his eyes fixed on God, God's people, God's work he prayed for his enemies, showed love to all, and there is no record that he had done one wrong in his response too.  Paul was a human being, with feelings like ours, but even in the most discouraging circumstances, he put his eyes on and his faith in Christ.(Phil 4:13 KJV)  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 14  Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
 
1 Corinthians 9:19–23: "For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more; and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; and to them that are under the law, as are under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without law, as without law (be not without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I might gain them that are without law; to the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof .

"THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD   "For the better part of three chapters, the apostle Paul has been defending the doctrine of justification by faith alone against the attacks of a group of Jews known as the Judiazers. The Judiazers insisted upon the keeping of the laws of circumcision and the laws of Moses as a necessary prerequisite if one is to become the beneficiary of salvation, thereby instituting a salvation by works. Such a view of God's sole, final personal salvation of each one of us not only goes contrary to the truth of grace, but those who seek salvation in any other way than through faith in Jesus Christ will in reality still even remain a condemned sinner within their own personal prison cell of sin and go to Hell unsaved, personally unredeemed.. There is no doubt of this now too.

As Paul brings to a close chapter three, he does so by presenting the fact that down through history, the only true covenant people of God have been those who embraced by faith the Abrahamic promises as fulfilled in Christ. And every person who turns to faith in Christ becomes partakers within this covenant family.

Whether it be under the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, God's covenant family consists of Jews and Gentiles alike who place their faith in the redeeming work of God's only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. As we will see in today's study, this family of the redeemed make up the true commonwealth of Israel.

(Gal 3:26-29 KJV) "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. {27} For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {28} 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. {29} And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

According to this passage, we see that the true descendants of Abraham (or the true Israel of God) are those who are spiritually descended from Abraham through faith in Christ, no matter what their ethnic background is.

In the twenty-sixth verse, we see that God's true covenant family is made up everyone who believes in Jesus Christ.

(Gal 3:26 KJV) "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."

This is an extremely important passage because there are some who would falsely even now argue that there are two peoples of God; one group consisting of the physical descendants of Abraham prior to the redemptive work of Christ, along with those physical descendants of Abraham under a future dispensation called the Millennial Kingdom, and the second group consisting of Jew and Gentile alike under what is called the dispensation of grace. This some what popular theology is called dispensationalism. It is unbiblical still.

As we will see in this study, God has had only one true covenant people which has always been made up of the spiritual descendants of Abraham whether Jew or Gentile. In the Old Testament, the majority of these spiritual descendants were ethnic Jews, while under the New Covenant, the majority of these spiritual descendants were Gentiles.

As we will see later, under both Testaments both Jews and Gentiles were included in the true covenant family of God.

It is through faith and faith alone that introduces one into the covenant family of God.

(John 1:12 KJV) "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:"

The true covenant family of God includes only such individuals who trust in Christ. This is an important truth because the Jewish people of Jesus' day and many even today wrongly concluded that since they had Abraham as their father, that they were somehow automatically guaranteed acceptance into God's covenant community or family.

But as Jesus so sternly points out to those Jews who claimed to be the children of God, physical descent from Abraham alone does not make one a true descendant of Abraham or a child of God.

(John 8:37-41 KJV) "I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. {38} I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. {39} They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. {40} But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. {41} Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God."

Here we have the physical descendants of Abraham claiming their ancestry as proof positive that they were the true children of God. But rather than God being their true father, Jesus rebukes them by saying that they are descended from the devil.

(John 8:44 KJV) "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."

These Jews were born into Israel nationally, but they were not born into the true Israel spiritually. Spiritual birth is necessary for anyone to claim God as their father.

The reason why most of the physical Jews of Jesus' day were not part of the true Israel of God was because they lacked faith.

As we see in verse twenty-seven, everyone who has placed their faith in the finished work of Christ has been placed into the body of Christ and has put on Christ.

(Gal 3:27 KJV) "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

Though water baptism is an ordinance of God which is to be obeyed by all who believe, it is not water baptism that Paul has in view here. The baptism of which Paul refers to in this passage is the spiritual baptism whereby every believer is placed by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ.

(Rom 6:3-5 KJV) "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? {4} 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. {5} For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"

In some great and mysterious way which transcends time and space, the person who places his trust in Jesus Christ has been crucified, buried, and resurrected with His Savior.

Paul says in Galatians 2:20,...

(Gal 2:20 KJV) "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

Paul goes on to say that those who "have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

This putting on of Christ is sign of the believer's sonship and identifies himself with the true covenant people of God. It is being spiritually baptized into Jesus Christ, not physical circumcision that identifies the believer as a true child of God.

And as Paul points out in verse twenty-eight, there is no partiality with God when it comes to who belongs to His covenant community. There has never been a time in redemptive history when God loved the nation of Israel at the exclusion of the other nations of the world.

God did set His redemptive love upon national Israel as a whole but He did so in order to channel His love to the world.

(Gal 3:28 KJV) "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."

In Jesus Christ there are no social, economic, gender, or national distinctions placed upon those who make up this redeemed community called the church of Jesus Christ, the true Israel of God.

In the closing of this letter Paul addresses this mixed multitude of believing Jews and Gentiles as the Israel of God.

(Gal 6:16 KJV) "And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and (even) upon the Israel of God."

It matters not if you are born Jew or Gentile, it matters not if you are born free or under the awful oppression of slavery, it matters not if you are born a boy or a girl, it matters not you are black or white or whether you have blue eyes or brown eyes. What matters is this: are you born of God?

(John 1:13 KJV) "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

Jesus said in the third chapter of the gospel of John, "Marvel not that I said unto you, you must be born again."

As we have seen numerous times throughout our study in the book of Galatians, it is those who put their faith in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ who are justified and made a partaker of God's family.

Listen to the logic of Paul's argument in our text:

(1) You are made a child of God through faith in Jesus Christ. (v.26)

(2) Those who have placed their faith in Christ have been placed into the body of Christ and have therefore put on Christ. (v.27)

(3) This gospel is not offered to one particular class or race of people. (v.28)

(4) Therefore, everyone without distinction or prejudice who places their trust in Christ is one in Christ. (v.28)

(5) If you are in Christ, then you are the true descendant of Abraham, the true Israel of God, and heirs according to the promise given 2,500 years earlier to Abraham.

(Gal 3:29 KJV) "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

The true promised descendants of Abraham are not the physical Jews but those who are spiritual Jews through faith in the true Seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ.

(Gal 3:16 KJV) "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."

I do not mean to imply by these statements that God did not call out physical Israel as a nation and make to them promises. In fact, all of the promises that God made to Abraham regarding ethnic Israel did come to pass.

1. God promised to Abraham that his descendants would become a great and mighty nation. Did God fulfill this promise? Absolutely! Any overview of the nation of Israel's history, especially under David and Solomon, would reveal that they became a mighty and powerful nation..

2. God promised to Abraham that his descendants would become in number as the dust of the earth. Did that happen? Yes.

(2 Chr 1:9 KJV) "Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude."

3. God promised to Abraham that this nation would grow in number as the stars of heaven. Did God fulfill this promise to Abraham? Of course He did!

(1 Chr 27:23 KJV) "But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens."

4. God promised Abraham that he would possess the land of Palestine and more! Did the children of Israel inherit all the land that God promised to give unto them? Yes they did! Again I will allow the Scriptures to speak for themselves.

(Josh 11:23 KJV) "So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war."
(Josh 21:41-45 KJV) "All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs. {42} These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities. {43} And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. {44} And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. {45} There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass."
(1 Ki 4:20-21 KJV) "Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. {21} And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life."

God fulfilled all of His earthly promises to Israel nationally. But as we turn to the New Testament, we discover something more regarding these Abrahamic promises. We discover that they far exceed the promises to one man, one nation and one land. We see that they are fulfilled in the ultimate sense in the ministry and work of Jesus Christ.

The physical nation of Israel was a "type" or "foreshadowing" of the redemption that Jesus Christ would bring throughout all the nations of the world. Jesus is the true Seed of Abraham.

(Gal 3:16 KJV) "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."
(Rom 4:13 KJV) "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."

The nation of Israel in the Old Testament was to be a light unto the Gentile nations of the world. It is through Jesus Christ ,the true Seed of Abraham, that this light is breaking forth into the world.

We see in these passages that the true Israel of God will not only inherit a small portion of land called Palestine, but as coheirs with Christ they will inherit all the earth.

(Mat 5:5 KJV) "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."

It is likely that the culmination of these promises are seen in the New heavens and New earth at the end of this age.

(2 Pet 3:13 KJV) "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."

It is in this newly renovated heaven and earth that the believer will dwell in his resurrected and glorified body for all eternity. As one writer put it, "it will be paradise restored." This world still awaits that day of consummation when the curse of sin will be finally and completely removed.

(Rom 8:22-23 KJV) "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {23} And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."

That the true Israel of God is not made up of the physical descendants of Abraham is clearly seen in the following texts: (Rom. 2:28-29; Eph. 2:11-19; Rom. 11:11-24)

(ALL ISRAEL IS NOT TRUE ISRAEL).

(Rom 2:28-29 KJV) "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: {29} 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."

The context of this passage is clear to see. There were those who were of Jewish descendant who wrongly assumed that since they were Jews by birth and had the covenant seal of circumcision that automatically made them a true Jew.

But as Paul so keenly points out, their physical Jewish descent does not make anyone a true Jew. For Paul, a true Jew is one who has experienced the inward birth which comes from God and one who has been circumcised in the heart by the Spirit.

A true Jew is anyone who has been made a partaker of the new life found in Christ. This includes physical Jews and Gentiles alike. The true Israel of God is made up of true believers from out of all the ages. This is seen in the book of Ephesians as well.

(Eph 2:11-19 KJV) "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; {12} That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: {13} But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. {14} For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; {15} Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; {16} And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: {17} And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. {18} For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. {19} Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;"

Several important truths regarding who is the true Israel of God is brought out in this passage:

In verses twelve and thirteen we discover five things that were not true of the Gentiles prior to their faith in Christ but that are now true because of their faith in Christ.

(1) They were separated from Christ.

(2) They were excluded from the commonwealth of Israel. They were not part of God's covenant people.

(3) They were strangers to the covenants and promises of God. As of yet, the promises to Abraham did not belong to them.

(4) They were without hope.

(5) They were without God in this world.

In other words, they were not part of true Israel.

These five descriptions of the hopeless state of the Gentiles in their unbelief stand or fall together. All five were true of them prior to salvation and therefore all five are no longer true of them after salvation.

(1) Every Gentile Christian is now in Christ.

(2) Every Gentile Christian is now included in the commonwealth of Israel, the true Israel of God.

(3) Every Gentile Christian is now partaker of the covenants and promises of God.

(4) Every Gentile Christian is now with hope in this world.

(5) Every Gentile Christian now belongs to God's covenant family.

In Ephesians 2:13-16, we see that through the blood of Jesus Christ, God has made one covenant community out of both believing Jews and believing Gentiles, and has formed these two people groups into one people.

According to verse nineteen, believing Jews and believing Gentiles are fellow citizens within the household of God.

In verse twenty we see that these two groups of people are built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. As the chief cornerstone, Jesus unites Jew and Gentile into one building in which God dwells through the Holy Spirit.

Any system of theology which denies the essential unity of both the Old and New Testament saints is a critically flawed system. There are those who teach that the church is an interruption or parenthesis in God's plan for Israel.

Nothing could be further from the truth. As we have seen this morning, the church is the fulfillment of God's plan for Israel. Beginning with Abraham, God's purpose in raising up this nation called Israel was never intended to bless Israel at the exclusion of the other nations of the world, but that through Israel as a nation, the blessing of redemption would spread into the world.

It is through the work and ministry of Christ that we see these covenant promises to Abraham coming to fruition.

We see the essential unity of the covenant people of God from all the ages in Paul's explanation of the good olive tree in Romans 11:11-24. I will not take the time to read this text in i's entirety but I will point out the basic teachings of this text:

(1) It is clear that because of national Israel's rejection of Jesus Christ that salvation has come to the Gentiles. (11:11-12)

(2) The branches that were removed from this good olive tree were unbelieving Jews.

(Rom 11:17 KJV) "And if some of the branches be broken off (physical Jews), and thou, being a wild olive tree (believing Gentiles) , wert grafted in among them (believing Jews) , and with them (believing Jews) partakes of the root and fatness of the olive tree;"

(3) The good branches that remain are those physical Jews who believe the gospel. (17-18)

(4) The wild branches which are grafted into this good olive tree are believing Gentiles.

(5) If the physical Jews who were broken off because of unbelief will turn to faith in Jesus Christ, they too will be grafted back into this one good olive tree.

Unbelieving Jews are removed from this good olive tree because of unbelief. Believing Gentiles are grafted into this one good olive tree with those physical Jews who did believe the gospel, leaving only one true olive tree made up of believing Jew and Gentile alike, the true Israel of God.

There are not two covenant peoples of God, one Israel and the other the church. There has been and will always continue to be only one true people of God made up of those who place their faith in the covenant promises of God whether they be Jew of Gentile.

The Gentile who believes the gospel will sit down in eternity with believing Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and Solomon. Every saint of every age has been made one in Christ.

Dr. O. Palmer Robertson in his wonderful book entitled, "The Christ of the Covenants" made this important observation regarding the fact that even in the Old Testament era any Gentile could become a true Jew by professing the faith of Abraham.

"What is interesting is that the Old Testament revealed in part essentially the same truth as taught in Romans eleven. Though often overlooked, it is plain from the beginning of the chosen nation of Israel's history that an Israelite could not be defined simply as a person ethnically descended from Abraham... Throughout Israelite history, any Gentile could become a full-fledged "Jew" by professing the faith of Abraham. At the same time, any one of Abraham's descendants could be declared not a part of the covenant nation of Israel by the violation of the covenant."

(Lev 19:33-34 KJV) "And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. {34} But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God."

Two of the most classic examples of Gentiles becoming full-fledged Jews are Rahab the harlot, and a Moabite by the name of Ruth.

What is fascinating regarding the inclusion of these two Gentile women into the Jewish family is that Jesus Christ was descended from the line of these two women.

The nation of Israel always included a mixed multitude who were not physically descended from Abraham but who were embraced as true Jews because they believed the covenant promises that God made to Abraham.

In fact, it is more probable than not that by the time Jesus came as a babe in Bethlehem that there was no one who could claim a pure Jewish descent ( their linage consisted only of pure Jewish origin).

Many within the Jewish nation often intermarried with those from the surrounding nations, not to mention marriage to the mixed multitude of Gentiles who became part of that covenant community through faith prior to the incarnation of Jesus Christ.

In other words, no one could lay claim to a pure ethnic Jewish linage.
Having said all of this, I am not saying nor is any reformed theologian saying that the church has become the political entity called national Israel. The church is not national political Israel, but the true church is the true Israel of God. The church is the true covenant family of God.

In other words, I am not equating true Israel with national Israel.

As long as national Israel lives in unbelief in Jesus Christ, they live in a state of apostasy and are not to be regarded as part of God's covenant family. As we have already seen, Jesus instructed the unbelieving Jews of his day that they were not of the true seed of Abraham because of unbelief, but they were of the seed of the devil.

The true Israel of God is made up of believers whether they be Jew or Gentile from out of every time period within God's redemptive history. There is only one true people of God made up of all who believe the gospel. These and these alone are the true descendants of Abraham and coheirs of the promises of God.

(Gal 3:29 KJV) "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

It is through Jesus Christ and His church, which is made up of Old Testament Christians and New Testament Christians, that the covenant promises of God made to Abraham now some 4,500 later are finding there ultimate fulfillment.

Faithful is God who has promised!" http://www.faithbiblechurch.org/transcripts/galatians/3_26-29.htm

Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. (Deut.8:1) But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. (2Ch 7:19-20)

"The promises (of the Abrahamic Covenant) were spoken to Abraham and his seed. The Scripture does not say "and to his seeds" (meaning all of his sons which would include Ishmael), meaning many people, but "and to your seed," meaning one person, who is Messiah jesus Christ (who was born of the Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve tribes originating from Jacob).
 
The Abrahamic Covenant which states the boundaries of Eretz Israel in Genesis 15:18-19 was passed onto Jacob who's name was changed to "Israel" by God in Genesis 32:28. Jacob's twelve sons and their descendants also inherit the Land.

If you read Jeremiah and Hosea, God only divorced the house of Israel (10 tribes). He did NOT divorce the house of Judah or the "2 southern tribes". Secondly, the New Covenant is about the restoration of both tribes and also all of the gentiles..  

Jer 31:31, "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a NEW COVENANT with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL and with the HOUSE OF JUDAH. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. "This is the covenant I will make with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my TORAH in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Notice God promised to preserve the HOUSE OF JUDAH. and he did this in Jesus Christ.

1 Kings 11:34-36 says, "But I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon?s hand; I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who OBSERVED my COMMANDS and STATUES. I will take the kingdom from his son?s hands and give you TEN tribes. I will give ONE tribe to his son so that David my servant may ALWAYS have a lamp before me in JERUSALEM, the city where I chose to put my Name.

God called the "House of Israel" the scattered people.

Ezek 36:19. "And I SCATTERED THEM AMONG THE HEATHEN, and THEY WERE DISPERSED THROUGH THE COUNTRIES: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them."

The whole point of the NEW COVENANT was also to one day to restore Israel. The restoration of Israel was to bring the 10 tribes (lost sheep of Israel) back together with the (2 tribes of Judah). This was fulfilled with Jesus death. The two sticks in Ezekiel 37 was the CROSS that restored both houses of Israel.

Ezek 37-19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which [is] in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

Hosea 1:10 says, "In the place where it was said to them (House of Israel), 'You are not my people (rejection by God),' they will be called 'sons of the living Elohim,"

Jesus Christ   came firstly for the lost sheep of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL: but  next for all people too.

Matthew 15:24 states, "I am not sent BUT unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel,"

Matthew 18:11 further says, "For the Son of Adam (Messiah) has come to save what was lost,"

James even wrote a book to the lost sheep of Israel. "....To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings,"  which included all of the lost from God jews..

Even Caiaphas prophesied that Jesus Christ  died on the tree to redeem and reunite both houses of Israel (John 11:49-52).

Jesus Christ's  death and resurrection made possible the restoration of Israel and all of the people to God if they accept the death of Jesus Christ for their sins

When a husband divorces his wife, and his wife goes and whoredom to another husband as we see in 1 Kings chap 10 &11, he cannot re-marry her. So if the Torah is correct, God can not re-marry the house of Israel unless he dies first. Then he can re-marry her (house of Israel) again. This is the only way according to the Torah, one can be release from the law of divorce and marriage Deut 24:1-4.

Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house. She leaves his house, goes and becomes another man?s wife; but the second husband dislikes her and writes her a get, gives it to her and sends her away from his house; or the second husband whom she married dies. In such a case her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again as his wife, because she is now defiled. It would be detestable to ADONAI, and you are not to bring about sin in the land ADONAI your God is giving you as your inheritance.?

Now read the beginning of Romans chap 7. Verse 1-4 talks about a divorce. The reason why Paul is taking about divorce is because God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ had  divorced (house of Israel) in Hosea because they were whore (idolaters of other Gods (kings chap 11 & 12). (Hosea 1:8). Notice again in Romans verse 2, to be released from marriage your husband must die. This is why God also had to come down as man (1Tim 3:16) and die. This was the only way He could remarry and restore the both houses of the 12 tribes and all of the gentiles too. This is the future spiritual event called the wedding supper.

The Messiah's jesus Christ role as the Great Shepherd (John 10:14) is best pictured in the redemption, restoration and regathering of Ephraim with Judah and all of the gentiles now too.

Secondly, the whole House of Israel including the gentiles were reunited with the House of Judah under one leader, Jesus Christ our Messiah (Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 37:15-28;Hosea 1:11). And the whole house of Israel was now next present on the day of Pentecost when this happened. (Acts 2:36 KJV)  Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. 37  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38   Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 42  And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
 
These first believers, converts were mainly Jews from the whole house of Israel now too

All of the  believers in the Messiah Jesus Christ have the status of being a first-born family (Hebrews 12:22-23) which is not based upon genealogy (I Chronicles 5:1).
 
Let me remind you Jesus the undeniable fact for false personal, nationalistic, selfish reasons, many of the Jews, judiazers do even today still  lie and twist the word of God to suit their nationalistic empire aims.

It is this whole body, the church  that one futrure day will receive the spiritual (Heb chap 11) and the physical (Gen chap 15) land. Galatians 3:29 says, "If you belong to Messiah (Christ), then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise (Abrahamic Covenant),".

(Acts 4:8 KJV)  Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 "If we this day are judged for a good deed [done] to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, 10 "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 "This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' 12 "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

The only thing for sure about the promised land here on earh that Jesus ever mentioned, promised  was the meek inheriting the earth.
 
You will never find real peace, happiness, joy, rest till you lay down all, your body, soul, spirit  at the sacrifice altar to God.