Monday, October 24, 2011

Explaining The New Covenant And New Chosen People Of God, Spiritual Israel

Hello World:
In the early history of man, God made a covenant with a group of people or nation of people called Israel or the Jews, to be His chosen people. Seperately, God also made a covenant to have the Messiah, Jesus Christ come through the people of Israel. A covenant is defined as a binding agreement or contract between two or more people.

That covenant, of being God's chosen people, was with natural Israel and natural Jews and was supposed to last forever. The Messiah DID COME THROUGH NATURAL ISRAEL. However, as time went on, and even before the Messiah was born, Natural Israel and the Jews BROKE the covenant with God to be His chosen people. Natural Israel broke that covenant with God by their continual sins, of rebellion, disobedience and idolatry.

Scripture Reference Jeremiah Chapter 11: Verse 8; "Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not."

Verse 9; "And the Lord said unto me, a CONSPIRACY is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem."

Verse 10; "They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the HOUSE OF ISRAEL and the house of Judah HAVE BROKEN MY COVENANT WHICH I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS."

Natural Israel or the Jews broke the covenant with God to be His chosen people, just like Lucifer broke a covenant with God, and just like Adam broke a covenant with God.

I wanted to put emphasis on those scriptures, so that people can see that God was talking, specifically, about the nation of Israel and her sister nation Judah. As, I mentioned in my archive posts, natural Israel or the Jews in Old Testament times, rebelled and disobeyed the commandments that God gave them over and over again, many times.

Then after Jesus came the first time, as a man, they, Israel as a nation, rejected Him as the Messiah and as the Son of God; and natural Israel as a nation, today, as of the timing of this post STILL reject Jesus as the Christ. ALL OF THAT is why natural Israel is NO LONGER God's chosen people, LIKE THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING OR EARLY HISTORY OF MAN.

There are several scriptures where Jesus talks in parables. It is believed that the interpretation of those parables, which I am about to give a list of scriptures in a moment, is that Jesus is saying that God had appointed the kingdom of God to natural Israel, the Jews, but because of their sins, God took away the kingdom of God from natural Israel and has given it to the gentiles, or non-natural Jews. Here are the parables and list of scriptures on the parables, from Jesus, I am talking about that everybody can look up and read.

1. The parable of the great supper; found in St. Luke Chapter 14: Verses 16 through 24. An interesting statement that is telling, from the Lord at the end of that parable, in which Jesus mentions the Lord saying none of those men which were bidden, or who were first entitled to, or who the supper was originally made for and asked to come to, shall taste of my supper.

2. The parable of the wicked husbandmen; found in three places in the Bible; St. Matthew Chapter 21: Verse 33 through 44; St. Mark Chapter 12: Verses 1 through 11; and St. Luke Chapter 20: Verses 9 through 18. Some other telling statements by Jesus in St. Matthew Chapter 21: Verse 43; "Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."

Also at the end of those parables in the book of Mark and Luke, Jesus says the Lord will come and destroy those wicked husbandmen and give the vineyard to others.

God made a new covenant for man or all of mankind, WHO ARE WILLING TO AGREE WITH IT, through His Son, Jesus Christ. After Jesus Christ died and rose from the grave for the sins of man, and is alive; God's chosen people NOW are all those who believe on and live for Jesus Christ, today, and in the past years and including those Jews and other people from the Old Testament who kept the faith in God like Abraham, in the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ, who again already came and will come again.

This new covenant through God's Son, Jesus Christ is God's way. It is God's plan that must be followed by everybody, including natural Jews to be saved or have everlasting life and be a part of God's chosen people.

So, there is now a new covenant in relation to the promise given to Abraham to those who are in Christ Jesus; who worship and serve God in Spirit and in truth, not according to nationality, ethnicity or tradition. BECAUSE Spiritual Israel is not based on one ethnicity or nationality, but different nationalities or a NATION OF NATIONS, or people of God from many nations. Under the new covenant, there is no difference or seperation between Jew and gentile, as to who is God's chosen people, for those who are in Jesus Christ. There is NOW only ONE group of chosen people in Jesus Christ.

Galatians Chapter 3: Verse 26; "For ye are all the children of God BY FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS."

Verse 27; "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."side insert-(and that baptism is a spiritual baptism, NOT water baptism; see ALL of my archive post series on water baptism does not save, installments).

Verse 28; "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."

Verse 29; "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

1 Corinthians Chapter 12: Verse 13; "For by one SPIRIT are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been made to drink into one Spirit."

Verse 14; "For the body is not one member, but many."

I want to note here that people will probably find some of these scriptures here, today, used in some of my archive posts on Israel.

Scripture Reference St. John Chapter 4: Verse 21; "Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father."

Verse 22; "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."

Verse 23; "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the TRUE worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him."

Verse 24; "God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

Verse 25; "The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things."

Verse 26; "Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he."

Again, in those scriptures above from St. John, Jesus is saying that salvation comes through the Messiah, which is Him, Jesus, who comes from the Jewish people; and the hour NOW IS that the TRUE people chosen of God really worship God in spirit and truth, because that is what the Father, God, wants; and he is looking for those who will do that.

Another important point that people need to know. Today, at the time of this post, natural Israel or those Jews living over in the land of Israel should live there for the time being or for a temporary time, and the Palestinians also need to live either there or have some decent land somewhere. Both the natural Israel and the Palestinians should also have peace.

However, when Jesus Christ returns to establish His millennium reign, that land of Israel and more will be owned and inhabited by Spiritual Israel; which as I mentioned above is made up of people from many nations; INCLUDING Jews, who have believed and accepted Jesus Christ, and NOT natural Israel or NOT by the current Jewish people if they still have NOT believed on and accepted Jesus Christ.

One more note I want to add in here, in my research of the scriptures in preparing this post, as led by God, I came across some information that is not talked about much. In the book of Deuteronomy Chapter 26: Verses 5 through 9, in the Old Testament, according to my Bible, it is revealed in verse 5, the only time the people of Israel or relatives of Abraham are referred to as Syrian.

The reason why it believed the people of Israel were called Syrian there is because some of them were living in that area of Syria for a certain time frame. This is an important note for future reference, because one of the titles of the Antichrist is the Asyrian, which is also referred to as Syrian, or someone from the land of Syria, as he is mentioned in Isaiah 10:20-27, 30:30-31, Micah 5:5, Daniel 11:35-45, and in another section scriptures in the Bible.