Bible Study The True Israel

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rom 9:

6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed

There is only one True Israel of God, and that is comprised of the children of promise. Not the children of the flesh..

Israel is the hebrew word Yisrael:

God prevails

This name was given to Jacob after a struggling or wrestling with God, in fact, whom I believe to be The Lord Jesus christ..



gen 32:



24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

25And 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.

26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

27And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

28And 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.

29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

This is a momentous event in the Life of Jacob, and in biblical history, I humbly submit that this was a true conversion experience of the patriarch Jacob..and a type set forth as to all the the true Israelites indeed, whom Have prevailed with God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus christ, and its through him our lives have been preserved..

Jude 1:

1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

The Israel, the true Israel has been preserved in Jesus christ.

Gal 6:

12As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

15For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God



Notice vs 12, those who want to make a fair show in the flesh, by constraining to circumcision, are no doubt, abrahams seed through the flesh..remember rom 9:

8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed

abraham [Type of God] had two seeds, a seed according to the flesh, and a seed according to promise..

These two seeds have always been made to differ throughout biblical history, and this is pauls theology and the theology of Jesus christ..notice Jesus words to some very religous people, jews of His day..

Jn 8:



33They answered him, We be Abraham's seed,[by flesh] and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

37I know that ye are Abraham's seed[by flesh]; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children[by promise], ye would do the works of Abraham.

So clearly Jesus recognizes two distinct seeds of or children of abraham..

The fleshly children of abraham, makes a show in the flesh, that is they trust in their performances and misunderstanding of the law covenant, to bring them acceptance with God,,see rom 10:1.

This israel paul says is under bondage, to do the whole law..

Lets look at gal 4:

21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.



This is extremely important, and gives to understand a profound truth, as to why we had the events of the life of hagar and her son recorded, to show forth a allegorical truth..

Most should know that the son that abraham had through hagar, ishmael, was not the son God promised, and because of the self effort taken by sarah and abraham to produce the promised son of God, the consequences were very disheartening and solemn indeed..

It lead to these words by God:

gen 18:

10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

This paul alludes to gal 4:

30Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

Now this is the point, the children of abraham by the handmaid, ishamael and his descendants, who are not heirs of promise..they being booted out the house..

This same principle applies to the natural seed of abraham, the physical Jew, they too are as ishamel and his mother, they too are not the heirs of God, the true children of God..

So God, is no more claiming them , the phsysical Jew as spiritual heirs through Jesus christ, no more than if he would claim ishmael and his descendants as heirs to the promises..

This is fascinating, because the dispensationalist of today, and those teaching that fleshly israel has a hope through Jesus christ, or that they will someday be recognized as the True people of God, they are saying, just as much, that ishmael descendants of abraham, have the same claim..which is impossible..

Paul is describing the Jews, the fleshly Jews, those making a shew in the flesh as being under bondadge to the covenant of works:

gal 4:

22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.



look at vs 25, hagar and her children, those children are the fleshly Jews of the nation of Israel, they are synomous to her real child ishmael, a outcast..

The fleshly israelites are outcast, just as much as heathens and unoticed as ishmael was..

Renmber God when speaking to abraham ? notice..

gen 22:

11And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

God recognizes only one son of abraham here, its as though ishamael did not exist..

And so it is with israel of the flesh, they do not even exist as to being heirs of God and His promises, but only the children of promise, those given to abraham by promise of God as Isaach was..and if we be christ, then we be children of promise as issach:

gal 4:

28Now we, brethren,[jew or gentile] as Isaac was, are the children of promise.



And this is Israel..

 

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WHO IS TRUE ISRAEL?
by [the late] Col. Jack Mohr U.S. Army, Ret.


That this issue may be clear at the start: most Christians state that the Jew's and Israel are one and the same; that the United States, the British Commonwealth nation, and the Nordic nations are Gentile (in the sense of heathen) nation, If their claim is true and the Jews, are the "Israel of God," then they MUST FULFILL EVERY SCRIPTURE WHICH GOD SAID ISRAEL WOULD FULFILL.. So let me ask you the following question. I do not ask you to believe what I say, but be honest enough to read and believe what the Word of God says:

1 - Have the Jews blessed all the nations of the earth. Genesis, 12:3: 22:18?

2 - Have the Jews ever been circumcised in heart? Deut. 10:16: 30:6; Rom. 2:28, 29: Phil. 3:3; Co. 2:9, 11.

3 - Have the Jews ever glorified Jesus Christ? Has Christ been recognized by the Jewish nation? Isaiah 41:16; Luke 1:32; 7:16.

4 - Do the Jews declare that Christ is the GOD of Israel of the Old Testament? Isaiah 43:10-12; 44:8; 49:3, 6; 52:6: Acts 1:8.

5 - Do the Jews show forth the praise of Jesus Christ? Isaiah 43:21.

6 - Have the Jews carried the gospel to all the world? Have they witnessed for Jesus Christ? Have they opened the Bible for the world? Gen. 28:14; Isa. 43:10; 44:21; 49:3, 6; Acts 1:8. Who has carried the Word of God into all the world? Who has published the Bible, or portions of it in over 1,000 language', and dialects? Who has been responsible for over 95% of all the world missionary activity? Which nations of the earth have based their laws on God's laws? There is only one answer and you know it. It has been the United States of America and the British Commonwealth.

7 - Do the Jews have God's Spirit and the Word of God in their mouth and their uttermost being? Isaiah 59:21. Oh no, my Christian friend, their religion is based on a heathen book called the Babylonian Talmud, which repudiates everything the Bible teaches. It is the work of Satan himself.

8 - Was the New Covenant written only to the Jews? The Bible states that it was made with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. Jer. 31:33; Hebrews 8:8-10; Matt. 26:28.

9 - Are the Jews the SHEEP of the House of Israel? Ezek. 34:11, 12; Ps. 78:52; 95:1,6,7; Isa. 53:6; John. 10:26, 27; Matt. 15:24. In the passage from John 10, our Lord clearly states to the Jewish rulers: "Ye believe not, because ye are not my sheep." How much plainer must the Word of God be for you to believe?

10 - Are the Jews the "children of God scattered abroad?" John 11:52; 10:16; 7:35. Certainly the Israelites "scattered abroad among the Gentiles," were not Jews. When Jesus said in Matt. 10:6 and 15:24, that He was sent only to the "Lost sheep of the House of Israel, "He was not speaking of being spiritually lost. The word for lost, as used here, is the Greek word: "appolumi," it comes from two root words: "apo", meaning "separation," and "ollumi" meaning "death or punishment." Put the two together and you have: "those who are banished or put away for punishment. "This could only have had reference to the ten tribes of Israel who had been taken captive into Assyria, as punishment for their idolatry.

11 - Is Jesus being glorified in the Jews? Isa. 49:3; Rom 8:28, 29; 11:1, 2; 9:4. Always remember, there is a vast difference made in Scripture between Israelites and Jews. They are not one and the same, as your preachers have told you. To say they are is "intellectual dishonesty'' of the worst sort!

12 - Are the Jews the SERVANTS of God? Isa.41:8; 43:10; 49:3. The Jewish leaders them-selves say that their God is "materialism." They do not believe in the God of the Bible and their Talmud repudiates the God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob.

13 - Are the Jews a Holy Nation, a Chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people? (The word peculiar means: "set aside for a special purpose.") Ex. 19:5, 6; 1 Peter 2:9, 10; 1:1, 2. Notice especially, how Peter addresses his Epistle "To the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Asia, and Bithtnia," in others words Asia Minor. These were not Jews, but Israelites.

14- Are the Jews the great characters mentioned in the "faith chapter" of the Bible, Hebrews) 11? Abel was not a Jew, neither Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Sarah, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, Barak, Samson, David, Samuel. None of these were Jews. There were no people known by the name of Jews, until 2 Kings 16:6, where the name is used for the first time. This was in 742 B.C. at least 1,100 years after the death of Abraham. Oh I know that your pastor has called Moses a Jew, but this is not what the Bible says.

15 - Are the Jews a "righteous nation?" Isa. 26:2. If you will honestly check the record of history, you will find that the Jews have always been a wicked, unrighteous people. They have not been persecuted because Satan hates them, as Jerry Falwell will tell you, for John 8:44 tells us that thy are of "their father the devil." Satan will not persecute his own children. The Jews have been kicked out of every nation in Europe at some time or other and always for the same reason. Their wickedness, their avarice, and their greed. I challenge you to look at every evil which is destroying America, which is strangling our freedom and at the top you will find Jewish names in charge. This has been the indictment of all history against these evil people they never have been a "righteous nation."

16 - Are the Jews bringing forth the "fruits of the Kingdom of God?" Hosea 14:8; Matt. 21:43. In the Matthew passage, Jesus speaking to the Jews clearly states that the "kingdom of God (this refers to God's earthly Kingdom) shall he taken from you (JEWS) and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Certainly the ungodly crew which is now in Palestine, is not bringing forth ''the fruits of the Kingdom.

17- Are the Jews kind to strangers? Lev. 19:33, 34; Matt. 25:31-46. Today in Palestine, if are not a Jew, you have no rights in the nation of Israeli. A Christian has no rights and a foreigner, unless he is one of the gullible Christians who is being brainwashed by a visit to the Holy Land, is treated as dirt under the feet of the Israeli.

18 - Are the Jews called the "sons of the living God?" Hosea 1:10. They have absolutely no right to this title.

19 - Do the Jews tell us that they are "not God's People?" Hosea 1:10. No, they boast that they are God's Chosen and that is why they have the right to the Land of Palestine. But the Bible says: "in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God."

20 - Do the Jews have all of God's Word? Romans 9:3-5; Ps. 147:19, 20; Deut. 33:4. The Jews do not have the Laws of Moses, for they have been superseded by the heathen Babylonian Talmud, which is the Jew's Bible.

21 - Are the Jews a great and mighty nation? Gen. 18:18. They number less than 3-million in Palestine and more Jew's are leaving than are coming in.

22 - Are the Jews today as innumerable as the stars of the heaven and the sands of the sea? Of course not. They number about 16-million, the same number as were alive in the time of Solomon.

23 - Do the Jew's "possess the gates of their enemies?" Gen. 22:17; 24:60. Of course they don't. They do not control the Suez Canal, or the Straits of Gibraltar. They control only a tiny bit of real estate in Palestine. They would collapse within six months if the United States did not underwrite them. Their own leaders admit that it is our aid that keeps them alive.

24 - Are the Jews a nation and a company of nations? Gen. 35:11; 48:19. The Zionist State in Palestine does not represent all Jews world-wide and it is certainly not a "company of nations." The only group that qualifies here is the Anglo-Saxon and related peoples.

25 - Are the Jew's above all people on the face of the earth? Deut. 7:6; 12:2; Ps. 135:4; Amos 3:2. There is no question that they would like to be. Their leaders for centuries have preached Jewish superiority. But today they are struggling to stay alive.

26 - Are the Jews now or have they ever been "God's battle axe?" Num. 24:8, 9; Isa. 41:15, 16; Jer. 51:20-23. The "true Israel" of God was to be a group of nations which would always war against evil. This has never been true of the Jews, they have always been the source of world evil. If you don't want to accept this, I challenge you to look at the names of those who were behind the Communist Revolution; over 90% were Russian Jews. (Interestingly enough - Jew's who had not one drop of Abraham's blood flowing in their veins, as is the case of the vast majority of those who are now in Palestine.)

27 - Have the Jews had an earthly king down through the centuries, who has been of the lineage of David? If they are Israel, the Bible says there must be a Davidic king among them somewhere. Ps. 89:27-29, 35-37; Jer. 33.17.They have not had a king since Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D. But there is a people who have had royalty dating back to David. Whether you are willing to accept it or not; they can be found in the British royal family. You or your pastor may not want to accept this, but the proof is in the archives in London.

28 - Are the Jews called today through Isaac? (The word Saxons, is a derivative of the Hebrew words which means "sons of Isaac.") Gen. 21:12; Amos 7:16; Rom. 9:7; Heb. 11:18.

29 - Do today's Jews claim to have lost their identity? Hosea 1:9, 10; 2:6; Isa. 1:3; 42:19; Deut. 32:26; Jer. 50:6, 7; Hosea 8:8; 9:17. The Jews brag that they are God's Chosen People but the Bible says that very few' of "true Israel" will realize who they are.

30 - Do the Jew's have a new' name today? Isa. 62:2; 65:15; Hosea 1:10; Rom. 9:25, 26; 1 Peter 2:10; Acts 11:26. The people we now know as Jews, have been called by that name since 742 B.C. But God's "true Israel," will not only have a new name, but a new language, Isa. 28:11. (And by the way, this is not speaking here of "glossolalia" - "speaking in tongues.'')

31 - Are the heathen nations aligned against the Jew's alone? Joel 3:9; Ps. 83. If you will take time to do some honest studying, you will find that the Communist nations of the world have not built up their tremendous armaments to fight against tiny Israeli. They are aligned against the white Christian world. This you know!

32 - Are the Jews described nationally as a "great lion?" Gen. 49:9; Num. 23:24, 24:9. No, this designation is made of only one group of nations, the British Commonwealth.

33 - Did the Jews deliver Jerusalem from the Turks in 1917? Luke 21:24. This occurred on the date predicted in Haggai 2:18, 19, 22 -December 9, 1917, which was predicted 604 years before the birth of Christ. It was numbered from the first assault against Jerusalem made by Nebuchadnezzar, plus 2500 years, see Lev. 26:18, 21, 24, 28; Ezek. 4:6; Rev. 2:3; 12:6, 14. It was the "lions of Great Britain" who rescued Jerusalem, another plus for the Israel Identity people, but not recognized by a majority of our preachers.

34 - Have the Jew's ever been called "Great?" Gen. 12:2. Only one nation has, "Great Britain."

35 - Have the Jews released those who have been in slavery? Isa. 42:7; 58:6. No, they have always been "slave traders." It was the Jews who brought the blacks to America in the first place and it was Jewish money, that fought a phony war in 1860, over the slavery issue. It was Great Britain who first abolished slavery, followed by her younger brother America in 1865.

36 - Have the Jew's ever been a colonizing people? Isa. 35:1; 49:8; Gen. 28:14. Only the Anglo-Saxon and related peoples have been known as colonizers, as they spread out to the east and west, north and south as promised in Gen. 28:14. The Jew's have never been great for going to desolate places and building them up; they were always content to move in on established places and cling to them like some bloodsucking leech.

37 - Lastly, do the Jew's recognize Jesus Christ as God? The Bible says the "True Israelites" would. Isa. 43:10, 12; Luke 1:68; 1 Tim 3:16; Acts 3:14. There are many more proofs I could give. But if you are not willing to accept these, no amount of proof would get you to change your mind and it is under the control of a Satanic power which will keep you from ever knowing the truth.

The separation of the twelve tribes of Israel into the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, seems to be the major stumblingblock for our preachers and teachers. Few seem to understand that these were distinct and very different peoples. For about 400 years, all thirteen tribes (counting Ephraim and Manasseh) were under one head, but after the death of Solomon, when he had turned from God by marrying heathen wives, God told him that the kingdom would be taken from him and given to Jeroboam.

The Kingdom was split over excessive taxation, with Judah, Benjamin and half of Levi, forming the Southern Kingdom of Judah and the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called Ephraim or Samaria. This Northern Kingdom was taken into captivity into Assyria and was scattered beyond the Euphrates River (2 Kings 17:6). The major part of Judah went with them (2 Kings 18:13). The remainder, except for a small portion known as the "bad figs" of Jer. 24:8-10; were taken to Babylon. Of the total number, only 42,660 at one time (Ezra 2:64; Neh. 7:66) and about 5.000 at another time (Ezra 8:3-20) ever returned. Of this group, many were not Judaites.

Those of Judah taken with Israel trekked westward after Ephraim (Hos. 12:1; Micah 2:12, 13.) (The "good fig" portion of Jer. 24:5-7 are probably Germany, as an incident taking place in 1914 at the Battle of Mons, when 10,000 German cavalry, charging British lines, saw the "White Cavalry" and stopped, quivering. The riders were frightened, the horses blinded and destroyed as predicted in Zech. 12:4.) The German people have always been noted for their industrial and scientific achievements and military poweress [prowess?-WBSG] (See Gen. 49:8). World War I and 11, was a fulfillment of Isa. 9:19-21 and Zech. 12:6.

All of the royal houses of Europe except one, are of Germanic origin (Gen. 49:10; 35:11). The breach I between these two branches of Israel will be healed as promised in Isa. 11:13; Jer. 3:18. German safety will come before that of England and the United States to show us that we are not the only object of God's favor. (See Zech. 12:7). (And this Judah, is not the people we now call Jews.) In this connection, it might be well for you readers to know, that according to Jewish sources, more than 90% of the people in Palestine who go by the name of Jew, have not one drop of Abraham's blood in their veins. They are Khazar Jews from Russia and are Turco-Mongolians who were converted to Talmudic Judaism in the Eighth Century.

If you are honest, there is only one conclusion you can draw after researching the Scriptures and history; this is that the people we now call Jews cannot be the House of Israel, or the House of Judah and that they are not now, nor ever have been Israelites. The modern day Jews are frauds and imposters, who would like to steal back the "birthright" their father Esau lost to his brother Jacob many centuries ago. They are the "false Jews" of Rev. 2:9; 3:9, who "say they are Jews and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan."

 

[Drew]

1 - Have the Jews blessed all the nations of the earth. Genesis, 12:3: 22:18?

Indeed they have. And they have done so in a strange and unexpected way. Although the typical Jew probably believed that the Jews would bless the world by showing them how great it was to live under Torah, this is not how things worked out. Instead, God used Torah to magnify and intensify sin in Israel. How can this be? Because, true to his covenant promise, God is indeed using Israel to bless the nations, but in an entirely unexpected way - God uses Torah to gather the sin of the world together in the nation of Israel so that it can then be finally concentrated down into the flesh of Israel's Messiah and then condemned.

The Jews have blessed all the nations of the earth, by being the "lure" used to deceive sin into one place - ultimately the flesh of Jesus. Thus we have this from Romans 11:

15For if their (***Israel, by context) rejection is the reconciliation of the world,....

Israel's "rejection", also referred to as their "stumble" in verse 11 of Romans 11, is a reference to their acting out of the Christ pattern - being the place where sin is brought to its full expression, and therefore its full vulnerability, before it is then passed on to Jesus who deals with it.

We owe the Jews a great debt. They are the vessel fitted for destruction in Romans 9 - elected by God to a terrible yet necessary destiny, for the sake of the world.

 

[Drew]

2 - Have the Jews ever been circumcised in heart? Deut. 10:16: 30:6; Rom. 2:28, 29: Phil. 3:3; Co. 2:9, 11."

Some have. Let's look at the Romans 2 text:

A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man's praise is not from men, but from God

Paul is consistent - he sees two Israels, "national Israel" (or Israel according to the flesh) and "true" Israel (or Israel according to the spirit). In the text above from Romans 2, Paul is telling us about what makes one a member of "true" Israel. But, one can be a member of national Israel and also a member of true Israel:

What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrathâ€â€prepared for destruction? 23What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory 24even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

So while Paul sees "true Israel" as not being the same as "national Israel" in that only a sub-set of national Israel are also in "true" Israel, he nevertheless makes it clear who "true Israel" - those who have the same faith as Abraham:

16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspringâ€â€not only to those who are of the law (***that is to say "national Isreal)} but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all

I think this entire "the true Israel are in Great Britain and the USA, or whatever" argument is incorrect. There is national Israel - ethnic Jews, and there is true Israel - those who have the faith of Abraham - faith in the one true God and in His Son Jesus. There is no "other Israel" populating Great Britain and the USA.

 

[Drew]

21 - Are the Jews a great and mighty nation? Gen. 18:18. They number less than 3-million in Palestine and more Jew's are leaving than are coming in.

God's world-wide famiy - "true Israel" - those from many nations, both Gentile and ethnically Jewish, are indeed a mighty nation. True Israel is not the "Anglo-Saxons" or any particular people defined by ethnicity or race:

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise

True Israel is marked out by one thing and one thing only - faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (echoing the faith of Abraham - he believed in God and that belief was credited to him as "righteousness" - covenant membership).

 

[Catholic Crusader]

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The Church is the New Israel

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[Guest]

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The Church is the New Israel

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If by "The Church" you mean the Body of Christ which is made up of those who have Faith in Christ Jesus as as a result of that faith have been baptized....

and if by "New" you mean the fulfillment of, then yes.

The Body of Christ is the fulfillment of Israel, just as Christ has fulfilled the Law.

 

[Catholic Crusader]

I can go with that, in a broad sense