Ubiquity and Iniquity

[Keraz]

There are some who think that there is no distinction among the peoples of the world, they are all simply descendants of Adam. The idea of the ubiquity of all humans.

However, God did choose a man, Abraham; to be the father of peoples who would be God’s special people to be His witnesses, Isaiah 43:10, John 15:27 and to display His Light to the nations. Isaiah 49:8, Matthew 5:14-16


Matthew 8:11-12 Many, I tell you; will come from the East and the West and sit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at the feast of the Kingdom. But those who were born into the Kingdom, will be thrown out into the dark, where there will be wailing and extreme sadness for what they have lost.

These Words of Jesus plainly show that there is a people who are part of the Kingdom of God by descent, but they can lose that advantage by their own rejection of Jesus and failure to keep the Commandments. This was spoken to a Roman Centurion, so it applies to Gentile and Jewish peoples.


We know that the Jewish people only represent the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin. The Jews themselves admit this truth.

The other 10 tribes remain scattered among the nations, Deuteronomy 4:27-28, John 7:35, serving their decreed time of exile. Ezekiel 4:4-5, multiplied by; Leviticus 26:18 = 2730 years. This time of exile is nearly finished and those people who have accepted the Salvation offered by Jesus, Matthew 15:24, will be Redeemed, restored and forgiven for their iniquities.

They ARE the people who comprise the ‘nation’, who bear the proper fruit; Matthew 21:43, all faithful Christians, now belonging to many diverse nationalities and speaking many different languages.

They will all come together, as prophesied; Ezekiel 34:11-16, Isaiah 35:1-11, Jeremiah 50:4-7, +, into the holy Land, all the area given to Abraham, but never yet fully occupied by the Lord’s people.

John sees them in his vision of the future; of Revelation 7:1-14, when the Lord will select 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel to go out and proclaim the coming Kingdom. Isaiah 66:19, Revelation 14:1-7


Malachi 3:6-7 I the Lord do not change and you, [my People] have not ceased to be the children of Jacob. Ever since the time of your forefathers, you have been wayward and have not kept My Laws. But if you return to Me, I shall return to you.

We Christian believers ARE the Lord’s people. WE must keep our faith through all that must happen and prove ourselves to be worthy when Jesus Returns, to be His priests and co-rulers. Revelation 5:9-10, Isaiah 66:21

Isaiah 49:8-13 says that the tribes of Israel will be restored and the Lord’s Salvation will reach to the ends of the earth. The Salvation has reached us and now we await the restoration back into our heritage. Ephesians 3:6, Romans 8:16-18, Psalms 37:29, where we will be called the children of the Living God. Romans 9:24-26

 

[Keraz]

Who is the House of Israel?

A study of the first two chapters of Hosea shows us that Israel was to be cast off and divorced from God. They were to be scattered (“Jezreel”); they were to have no mercy (“Lo-ruhamah”); and they were to be no longer God’s people (“Lo-ammi”). But at the same time, God promised that they would be regathered under one Head (Jesus Christ) and come out of captivity. In fact, God told them He would “betroth thee unto Me in righteousness” (Hosea 2:19). The prophecy culminates with a Hebrew play on words. The name “Jezreel” means “God scatters,” but it also means “God sows.” (One must scatter the seed in order to sow it in the field.) Thus, at first the name prophesies that Israel was to be scattered; but ultimately it shows God’s Purpose—to sow Israel in the earth in order to multiply her as the sand of the sea, so as God remains faithful to His promise to Abraham.



Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not My people, Thou art My people; and they shall say, Thou art My God.

In other words, even though God did indeed cast off His people Israel, scattering them in the nations by the hand of the Assyrians, God’s ultimate Purpose was to sow them in the earth, so that they would multiply and fulfill the promise to Abraham. Furthermore, Hosea prophesied that; in the very place (of their captivity) where it is said that they are not God’s people (Israel), they would be Christians known as; “the Sons of the living God." Hosea 1:10, Romans 9:24-26



The problem is that most Christians try to make the Jews fulfill these prophesies, when the House of Judah, is fact, fulfilling an entirely different set of prophecies. God in His great mercy has allowed them nearly 2000 years to change their hearts to Him and to accept Jesus as Messiah.

If people realized that the Jews are to fulfill the prophecies of the House of Judah, instead of those dealing with the lost House of Israel, they would not have made this mistake. The Jews were certainly “cast off” in 586 BC and again in 70-135 A.D., even as Israel was cast off during 745-712 B.C.—but the difference is that the prophets uniformly prophesy good things for lost Israel even during the time of their captivity; while severe judgments were pronounced upon Jerusalem and the Jewish people.

Note that Ezekiel 21:14 tells of 3 Judgements. The next one, to come; will be by the Hand of the Lord Himself. Ezekiel 21:1-7



In Jeremiah 18:1-10, God says that the House of Israel was marred in the Potter’s hand, so God was going to beat down the wet clay and remake it into a vessel fit for His use. Then beginning in verse 11, God begins to prophesy about Jerusalem and Judah. First comes an indictment for their sins, and then in Jeremiah 19:1-15 we see that Jeremiah was to take an old earthen vessel (as opposed to wet clay that was pliable), he was to go to the city dump and smash the earthen vessel there, saying: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again, and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. Thus will I do unto this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet.



God’s choice of an allegory to suit each House is amazing!

An old clay vessel, once broken, cannot be remade into another vessel. Only wet, pliable clay can be used to remake a vessel. The House of Israel is like the pliable clay; but the House of Judah will be smashed and never again be built into a vessel of honour.

At the end of the first Temple era, God departed from it and Ezekiel saw the glory depart. Ezekiel 10:4-19 It has never returned to the Temple. Even when Zerubbabel rebuilt the Temple in 515 B.C., the glory did not return to it when they dedicated it to God. The work was good and was allowed by God, but the site itself was cursed.



This is consistent with the New Testament prophecies regarding the cursed fig tree, Matt. 21:21 the parable of the vineyard, Matt. 21:43-44 and the parable of the citizens who hated Him and would not allow Him to reign over them. Luke 19:27



The point is, these peoples must still be around to fulfill these distinct prophecies for Israel and for the cursed fig tree. The lost House of Israel must exist to be remade into another vessel and Judah must exist to be virtually wiped out. Isaiah 22:14 The problem comes when people think that the smashed vessel is going to be rebuilt into a vessel fit for God’s use, and when those same people think that the original House of Israel is lost forever.

 

[Davy]

Good posts. But the majority won't have a clue. And Satan's children have long since been pushing lying doctrines that denies any existence of a two house idea written in God's Word. They know it leads to discovery of God's Word as Truth.

 

[APAK]

@Keraz

This is a very important topic although I have a few important comments I care to share with you on it.

When you say in your 5th statement or idea that “We know that the Jewish people only represent the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin….” Who are these Jews you are speaking of? Are they the ones today that occupy the current lands of Palestine, called the State of Israel?

I believe these Jews or Judahites you speak of, eventhough they continued their descendancy blood line into Christ’s time and beyond were already spiritually ‘dead’ when they became exiled to Babylon. As you pointed out, their clay vessel was completely shattered by God. They, as a separate identifiable people for God’s service was over and is over forever, meaning also today.


This is no scripture suggesting the House of Judah alone shall have a completely new and separate ‘clay vessel’ in the future for God’s purpose; maybe for the imposters and evil spirits of this world to entice the ‘lost’!

When Christ arrived on the scene it was to confirm to their (Judah and Benjamin) descendants that they were all spiritually dead and shall be dead if they did not receive him. And most, except for remnant stay ‘dead’ at that time of Christ’s visitation!

So yes, I believe those calling themselves Jews todays are imposters in the true spiritual sense. These ones today are a combination of true Khazarians who were converted from paganism into Judaism, en-masse, around 800 AD., and many others over the centuries and even today, converted out of other tribes and nations.

Many of the true Judahites and Jews before Christ, during his earthly presence and afterwards were virtually all killed by the sword, or from disease and famine. Literally millions were killed form 66 AD to 125 AD. These Jews were definitely finished as a separate identity or even as a remnant of God’s House by the first part of the 2nd Century AD. Those that survived assimilated into the world of nations. Mant were teachers/rabbis that carried the spirit of the Pharisees with them. They later invented Judaism and their Babylonian Talmud, and was officially recognized in several nations by 500 AD.


Further, you later said three more paragraphs down, “They will all come together…..into the holy land…….” I guess you are saying that modern Jews shall somehow come back to God via Christ, and maybe en-masse? I do not think so. And your scripture references you provided as support in Ezekiel, Isaiah and Jeremiah all concern bot the Houses of Israel and Judah. Look at Jeremiah 5:4 and 5 for example:

(Jer 50:4) In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together: going and weeping they shall make haste, and shall seek the Lord their God.

(Jer 50:5) They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.

Before, and since Christ’ time and today, both Houses, of Israel and Judah have been scattered and then intermingled; unrecognizable to man from where they came from as tribes of the OT. Those of them that shall be destined to be in Christ are true believers, and I am one of them; whether from one of the Israelites or from another tribe or nation. It makes no difference.

BL: I do like your examination of the topic and it's very important, although I gather you also believe there is a separate House of Judah, and an identifiable one today, visible as the State of Israel. And that soon those in the State of Israel shall be poised to change their way to Christ, somehow and en-masse. And you believe this because you ‘see’ a tablespoon of scripture support, and have placed a teaspoon full of human support and desire in the mix, for it to happen.


Bless you,


APAK

 

[Windmill Charge]

There are only two groups of people in the world.
Sinners and saved sinners.

 

[Keraz]

BL: I do like your examination of the topic and it's very important, although I gather you also believe there is a separate House of Judah, and an identifiable one today, visible as the State of Israel. And that soon those in the State of Israel shall be poised to change their way to Christ, somehow and en-masse. And you believe this because you ‘see’ a tablespoon of scripture support, and have placed a teaspoon full of human support and desire in the mix, for it to happen.

Thank you for this excellent post.
I do not see that the majority of those citizens of the Jewish State of Israel are from Judah or any other tribe of Israel. A very small number may be, perhaps they are the remnant saved. Romans 9:27 Their faith in Christ is the deciding factor.
God does know who His people are, Amos 9:9, and He has drawn them to Him.

There will be many thousands of people from all the 12 tribes, gathered from all around the world to live in all of the holy Land, they will all be assigned to a tribe, into twelve divisions. Out of each of them, the Lord will select 12,000 to be His ambassadors and proclaim the coming Kingdom. Revelation 7:1-14, Isaiah 66:19

Al these things will happen as prophesied, it is the Lord's incredible Plan for mankind. If it doesn't, then our Bibles are false.