1. First point, which must be understood - The Gospel was prepared before the foundation of the world. Even as early as Gen.3 a hint of The Gospel of Jesus Christ was shown with the idea of the crucifixion with the bruising of the heel. In Malachi 4, and Romans 9, we are shown that before Jacob (Israel) and Esau were born, that God loved Jacob, but hated Esau, even before either child had chance to do good or evil. Thus God ordained Jacob by predestination.
2. The Gospel was given first, before God's law. God's Promise to Abraham was by Faith, and Abraham believed, and it was counted to Abraham as righteousness. Those in Christ Jesus have believed on that same Faith as The Gospel was preached to Abraham according to Apostle Paul (Gal.3).
3. God's Promise to Abraham included other promises which are part of Abraham's inheritance which is God's Birthright promises to Israel, and are part of the inheritance of all believers on Christ Jesus. For during this present world, they are:
a. inheritance of a seed as many as the stars of the sky and sands of the sea.
b. inheritance of the best resources on earth, i.e., the fatness of the earth, plenty of corn and wine.
c. the power to control the gates of thy enemies, i.e., greatest military power.
d. nations bow down to thee.
e. Christ's throne He is to inherit.
f. Care of God's laws.
4. God's Birthright promises were originally only for the nation of Israel, as God had originally ordained Israel to be a nation of priests. All Israel rebelled against Him, so He split Israel into two kingdoms and into two separate captivities as He had promised He would do if they disobeyed Him (Deut.4 & 28).
5. The ten northern tribe "kingdom of Israel" was removed from the holy land first. These were taken to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, and never returned as a people. They were further scattered through the countries. But God showed they will be gathered in final (Ezek.37 as the stick of Joseph).
6. When our Lord Jesus was born through woman's womb, He came to seal The Gospel Promise by His crucifixion on a cross. The majority of Jews in Judea from a remnant of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi that returned to Jerusalem after their Babylon captivity, rejected Jesus as The Christ. Jesus then showed by parable that His vineyard (ten tribes) would be taken from those men and instead given to another 'nation' that would bear its fruits (Gospel).
7. After the Jews rejected The Gospel in Jerusalem, Jesus' disciples took The Gospel to the Gentiles, which scattered Israel were among those Gentiles. Many of both believed on Jesus of Nazareth as The Christ, God's Promised Saviour, and they together became His Church.
8. The Birthright Promises first given through Abraham and to Israel then migrated to the believing Israelites among Christ's Church. God removed David's throne from Jerusalem, but it was setup elsewhere under Christ, on earth where it still is today, waiting for Christ's coming to claim it as His natural right. The Gospel followed with it to new lands, to the fatness of the earth.
9. Yet for the Jews of the house of Judah, God still promised He would always leave one tribe in Jerusalem for David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake (1 Kings 11). Thus, there has always been a small remnant of Judah there, even though David's throne was removed, and many of God's Birthright blessings were removed from there; like Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews at the end of Matt.23, their house would be left desolate.
To this day, the unbelieving Jews in Jerusalem do not control all of the city of Jerusalem. The United Nations controls most of their borders, and their borders do not fit God's Promise to Abraham, nor even the original borders God gave Israel long ago. Even though today's lands in Israel are becoming more fruitful, it's still not comparable to best lands on earth, and the nation of Israel does not fit the greatest military power on earth today.
So where did God move the majority of His Birthright promises? As much as the orthodox Jews want us to believe that today's nation state of Israel is a Biblical comparison of God's Salvation Plan, it is definitely not! The majority of Jews in today's Israel still reject The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
10. God's vineyard, in the parable of the husbandmen in Matthew 21, was moved to the "multitude of nations" that Ephraim's seed was to become (Gen.48). God had promised Jacob that his seed would become "a company of nations" also (Gen.35), and not just one nation known as Israel. Where do you think those "multitude of nations" were, and are? They are the historical Christian West and their allied Christian nations.
Thus The Gospel did go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (ten lost tribes) like our Lord Jesus said. And there they would bring forth its fruits, being sent as ambassadors of The Gospel to the nations. And together they with believing Gentiles would become Christ's Church, Apostle Paul's "commonwealth of Israel" per Ephesians 2.
2. The Gospel was given first, before God's law. God's Promise to Abraham was by Faith, and Abraham believed, and it was counted to Abraham as righteousness. Those in Christ Jesus have believed on that same Faith as The Gospel was preached to Abraham according to Apostle Paul (Gal.3).
3. God's Promise to Abraham included other promises which are part of Abraham's inheritance which is God's Birthright promises to Israel, and are part of the inheritance of all believers on Christ Jesus. For during this present world, they are:
a. inheritance of a seed as many as the stars of the sky and sands of the sea.
b. inheritance of the best resources on earth, i.e., the fatness of the earth, plenty of corn and wine.
c. the power to control the gates of thy enemies, i.e., greatest military power.
d. nations bow down to thee.
e. Christ's throne He is to inherit.
f. Care of God's laws.
4. God's Birthright promises were originally only for the nation of Israel, as God had originally ordained Israel to be a nation of priests. All Israel rebelled against Him, so He split Israel into two kingdoms and into two separate captivities as He had promised He would do if they disobeyed Him (Deut.4 & 28).
5. The ten northern tribe "kingdom of Israel" was removed from the holy land first. These were taken to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, and never returned as a people. They were further scattered through the countries. But God showed they will be gathered in final (Ezek.37 as the stick of Joseph).
6. When our Lord Jesus was born through woman's womb, He came to seal The Gospel Promise by His crucifixion on a cross. The majority of Jews in Judea from a remnant of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi that returned to Jerusalem after their Babylon captivity, rejected Jesus as The Christ. Jesus then showed by parable that His vineyard (ten tribes) would be taken from those men and instead given to another 'nation' that would bear its fruits (Gospel).
7. After the Jews rejected The Gospel in Jerusalem, Jesus' disciples took The Gospel to the Gentiles, which scattered Israel were among those Gentiles. Many of both believed on Jesus of Nazareth as The Christ, God's Promised Saviour, and they together became His Church.
8. The Birthright Promises first given through Abraham and to Israel then migrated to the believing Israelites among Christ's Church. God removed David's throne from Jerusalem, but it was setup elsewhere under Christ, on earth where it still is today, waiting for Christ's coming to claim it as His natural right. The Gospel followed with it to new lands, to the fatness of the earth.
9. Yet for the Jews of the house of Judah, God still promised He would always leave one tribe in Jerusalem for David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake (1 Kings 11). Thus, there has always been a small remnant of Judah there, even though David's throne was removed, and many of God's Birthright blessings were removed from there; like Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews at the end of Matt.23, their house would be left desolate.
To this day, the unbelieving Jews in Jerusalem do not control all of the city of Jerusalem. The United Nations controls most of their borders, and their borders do not fit God's Promise to Abraham, nor even the original borders God gave Israel long ago. Even though today's lands in Israel are becoming more fruitful, it's still not comparable to best lands on earth, and the nation of Israel does not fit the greatest military power on earth today.
So where did God move the majority of His Birthright promises? As much as the orthodox Jews want us to believe that today's nation state of Israel is a Biblical comparison of God's Salvation Plan, it is definitely not! The majority of Jews in today's Israel still reject The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
10. God's vineyard, in the parable of the husbandmen in Matthew 21, was moved to the "multitude of nations" that Ephraim's seed was to become (Gen.48). God had promised Jacob that his seed would become "a company of nations" also (Gen.35), and not just one nation known as Israel. Where do you think those "multitude of nations" were, and are? They are the historical Christian West and their allied Christian nations.
Thus The Gospel did go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (ten lost tribes) like our Lord Jesus said. And there they would bring forth its fruits, being sent as ambassadors of The Gospel to the nations. And together they with believing Gentiles would become Christ's Church, Apostle Paul's "commonwealth of Israel" per Ephesians 2.