Phoneman777 said:
I didn't ask you about some "future" wars. I asked you to whom was Paul referring when he said "Israel of God".
I answered you in post 321, and you ignored my question. Are you moving to Judea Phone? Israel is seen fleeing from the antichrist in Matt 24:16 NIV. The "Israel of God" is an analogy to describe the spiritual condition of the church, and the promises of God. Kinda blows your non-osas doctrine out of the water huh.....
Gen 32:28 NIV Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,
because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Psa 20:6-9 NIV Now this I know: The Lord gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. 7Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 8They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. 9Lord, give victory to the king! Answer us when we call!
Psalm 44:5-8 NIV
Through you we push back our enemies;
through your name we trample our foes. 6I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; 7but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. 8In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.
John 16:33 NIV "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world."
Acts 20:28 NIV Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of
which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
Rom 8:35 NIV
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Rom 8:37 NIV No, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him who loved us.
1 Cor 15:54-57 NIV When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 2:14 NIV But thanks be to God,
who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
1 Pet 2:24-25 NIV “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 25For “you were like sheep going astray,”
but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
1 John 4:4 NIV You, dear children,
are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 5:4-5 NIV for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5
Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
Rev 12:11 NIV
They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
- ATP