Jesus is the Israel of God

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It is the premise of this article that Jesus Christ is the true Israel of God and that everyone who is united to Him through faith becomes, by virtue of that union, an Israelite of God.

This means that it is error to look for, expect, hope for or desire a reconstitution of an ethnic Israel in the future. The New Covenant church is not something which God instituted until he could recreate a national people in Palestine, but rather, God only had a national people temporarily (from Moses to Christ) as a prelude to and foreshadowing of the creation of the New Covenant in which the ethnic distinctions which existed under Moses were fulfilled and abolished. Ephesians 2.11-22; Colossians 2:8 & 3:11

Matthew 2:14-15....Joseph takes Mary and Jesus to Egypt.....

In the Bible, the expression “out of Egypt” occurs more than 140 times. It is one of the defining facts of the existence of national Israel. When God gave the Law he said, “I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.” They were a redeemed people belonging to their Savior.

Thus it most significant when Matthew 2:15 quotes Hosea 11:1

That inspired interpretation of the Scriptures confirms it is our Lord Jesus and His followers, not the temporary, national, peoples; who is now the true Israel of God. Indeed it is not too much to say that the only reason God orchestrated the first Exodus was so that we might know that Jesus is the true Son of God and that all Christians are God’s Israelites, regardless of ethnicity. Revelation 5:10


As well, the Apostle Paul argues very clearly that the promises to Abraham were fulfilled in Christ.

Galatians 3.16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.

Paul explains what he means. The promises given to Abraham were promises to be fulfilled by Jesus. 2 Corinthians 1:20

They were given before Moses and they were fulfilled in Christ. Jesus is Abraham’s true Son, he is “the seed” promised to Abraham and we Christians are the people of many nations, his descendants by faith. Genesis 17:6-7


The New Covenant between God and His faithful Christian people, is the fulfillment and renewal of the Abrahamic Covenant and the Abrahamic covenant was the fulfillment and renewal of the gracious covenant made with Adam after the fall.
 

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It is the premise of this article that Jesus Christ is the true Israel of God and that everyone who is united to Him through faith becomes, by virtue of that union, an Israelite of God.
You will be hard pressed to find any Scripture which states that "Jesus Christ is the Israel of God".
 
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You will be hard pressed to find any Scripture which states that "Jesus Christ is the Israel of God".
The word 'israel', literally means; overcomer - an Overcomer for God, as Jacob was and as Jesus certainly was!
So Jesus and His faithful followers are the real Israel, we overcome Satan and we are the victorious ones as seen in each of the seven Churchs of Revelation.
I know why you must oppose this truth, it blows away your belief of a 'rapture to heaven' of the Church. Give up that fanciful and unbiblical theory and believe the real story of what God has planned for His people in the end times.
 
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Don't lower the status of Christ Jesus to a man like figure.
Silly and irrelevant comments are a poor excuse for the lack of genuine rebuttal.

Jesus is the True Vine and we Christians bear the proper fruit. John 15:1-6
Jesus is the Olive tree and we are the branches. Romans 11
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.... John 14:6
All who follow the Way are the Israel of God. Galatians 6:14-16
 

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Addressing the OP only. we agree with your assessment. as you satated The word "Israel", literally means; overcomer - an Overcomer for God, may we add this, or may you consider this. Overcomer in God. for according to the Mickelson's Enhanced Strong's Dictionaries of the Greek and Hebrew Testaments the term "Israel", is rendered,
H3478 יִשׂרָ•אֵל Yisra'el (yis-raw-ale') n/p.
1. he will rule as God.
2. Yisrael (Isra-El), a symbolical name of Jacob.

God changed Jacob name... Genesis 32:24 "And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 32:25 "And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
Genesis 32:26 "And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Genesis 32:27 "And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Genesis 32:28 "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed".

for we're ....1 Peter 2:5 "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
and yes, Revelation 5:10 "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

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IDENTITY THEFT: Stealing God’s Gift of a Name:

The identity under consideration is the title of “Israel.”
When this name first used, it was bestowed on Jacob by God at Peniel, after he had wrestled with Him through the night and it was given to designate the patriarch’s new spiritual status: in God’s own words, “Thy name shall be no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

This name is utterly unique! God, wanting to purify and equip His patriarch of the future Covenant people, Himself wrestles with Jacob, giving him strength to continue and even prevail, in his desire for the blessing. Jacob’s own strength was unequal to the task, and crippled in the struggle, he received strength from God: as with the names He gives, it is; what the name implies.

It should be clear that this is not a name to be bestowed by men, as God has created and reserved it for His own special use. It should also be clear He retains the right to strip the name from whom He will, and for people to use this name when it is not of right, is stealing from the Almighty God!

Moses Prophesied:
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He shall speak in My name, I will call that person to account.
Deuteronomy 18:18-19


This is a warning to heed the words of those appointed to the prophetic office, and in particular of Him who is the culmination and fulfilment of that office, Jesus of Nazareth.

Consider the destruction and exile that was brought on those, who with wicked hearts refused to “hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments… Deuteronomy 28:15

That promised destruction is shown in: “I will call them to account… to ancient Israel and the Jewish nation after Messiah appeared among them.
Peter, in quoting from this passage as he spoke to the people of Judah; “And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Acts 3:22-23

We have seen it specifically taken away from those of the House of Judah who, in the time of Christ and the apostles, refused to “hear that Prophet,” who rejected and killed Him. Jesus said: those born into the Kingdom [of Israel] will be thrown out and many from around the world will come and sit with the Patriarchs in the Kingdom of heaven. Matthew 8:11-12

God divided the nation, those who were His, and those who were not, even as aged Simeon prophesied over the infant Jesus in the temple.....many in Israel will stand or fall because of Him.....Luke 2:34, Isaiah 8:14-15

From this point on, many people of Israel gathered around their King, Messiah Jesus. Those who did not were “cut off” from the people by the conquest of Judea by the Romans. The Christians were able to escape to Pella.

Jesus Himself foretold this when He announced to the chief priests and elders of Israel, “The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. Matthew 21:43 Immediately prior to that statement He told them the same thing in the parable of the vineyard, there holding up a mirror to their motives and actions. Some of the priests, and a few Pharisees, did turn to Him.

The “identity theft” by a people of a mixture of ethnicities, whose only commonality was their religion of Judaism, was and is now, amazingly supported by some in the Community of faithful Christians, God’s authentic “holy nation”. 1 Peter 2:9-10, Revelation 5:10.

Many Christians promote the Jewish state as God’s Israel, His chosen people, despite their blatant apostasy, atheism, LGBT approval and their continuing rejection of Jesus and they insist on it, overlooking or avoiding, God’s decree on the matter.


The reason they do this is because an immutable tenet of the ‘rapture to heaven of the Church’ doctrine, is the Jews remaining on earth, under Tribulation, while they sit in heaven. All a totally false teaching, that will never happen.

It is every faithful, born again Christian, all who follow the Way of Christ, Galatians 6:14-16 and are the Overcomers for Him, the Victorious ones over Satan, as seen in each of the seven Church’s of Revelation; who are the true Israel of God.
 

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What an interesting idea! I thought of Jesus as the tree of life in the Garden, but not Israel