(3rddaymessenger;61688)
Well, allow me to continue to dissagree with you. Yes, there are "two sides to the coin"...one side is Old Testament...the other is New Testament.The new Testament is the fulfillment of the old. I'm beholding the Glory of the new. That which has been fulfilled in Christ and being manifested in His predestinated sons and daughters.No natural, physical, political nation is "blessed". It is ONLY the spiritual seed of Christ which are blessed. Those that were "afore prepared to Glory"...those of the Gentiles and the Jews. Romans 9:23,24There's NOTHING that means anything to God outside of Christ. Nothing outside of the spiritual fulfillment of those physical and national types and shadows. NOTHING means anything to God outside of the "new creation" people...beginning with Jesus, "the beginning of the creation of God". Rev.3:14I don't know, maybe this teaching doesn't give you much to talk about; but it's wonderful to me.
Spiritually, I'm not disagreeing with you---- I'm saying there's more, and this is the foundation to the spiritual.I'm saying because of the Abrahamic covenant, there needs to be a multitude of actual seed of Abraham, in whom bring the spiritual to the rest of the world.This is different than mainline Christianity that claims that the gospel is entrusted to non-Israelite Gentiles while the actual seed enjoy no blessings, even if only earthly (which a large part of the Abrahamic covenant is earthly).It is possible to be chosen of God, inherit the promises and be his people from Abraham, and still perish. That's because the promises are national like I've been pointing out.Here's a general list of the great things promised to Abraham:A specific land was to be givenA great nation was to come from himA great nameHe was to be blessed and a source of blessingMany physical seedMany Spiritual seedMany nationsMany kingsA son of promise by whom this would be carried outThey would posses the gates of their enemiesThere was to be one seed by whom was the source of that blessingThis was understood and reiterated to be everlasting and unconditional covenants (I say plural because there were many things promised).So you see, although spiritual is included, it does not exclude the physical as well. The Israelites today (whoever they became) must all be gathered together so that the two chosen nations of God will become one again:The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?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.And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.So you see, God promised His cleansing to His own people--- those born from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And again God said, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.This New Covenant theologians will agree that it began with Christ. And notice here God will enact that new covenant with His two peoples, the house of Israel and the house of Judah. These are actual, literal sons of Jacob. This obviously is not symbolic because Gentiles would not be referred to as "the house of Israel" and the "house of Judah".And with that I trust God that He will put His New Covenant in those pople. Only the Spiritually wise take notice that only the "house of Israel" is mentioned in the second half of this promise. That's because it hints at the age of grace where the Israelites would overwhelmingly accept the gospel, but the Jews do not---- that's because the house of Israel was destined to become many nations and were to be the light (gospel) bearers to the rest of the world. The Abrahamic Covenant commands it.That's why I'm not afraid of terrorists. This nation of the United States (along with Britain, the Commonwealth and NW European nations) are the chosen people of God. Not because of any superiority, but because God made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And this is a responsibility we are obligated to keep---- if not, we reap trouble. The tribulation (aka the time of Jacob's trouble) God is hardest on His own, and the rest of the world hates us just like the Jews.
