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Prayerfully we ask
our God to grant us the wisdom and understanding we need to have as the last of
His prophecies are being fulfilled.
Reading the study
we've just had on prophetic signs we have no choice but to realize the truth
before us.
Step by step,
prophecy has unfolded in our history.
Israel of old were
promised many things, yet Israel of old constantly seemed to rebel against God,
voiding their right to the promises. God
made a covenant with Israel. What does
this have to do with us today? A lot! We
cannot neglect the study of the only scriptures our Savior preached from, we
cannot except to imperil our own eternity.
Jesus quoted from what we call the Old Testament. Jesus referenced the
Old Testament, to Him it was NOT the Old Testament but the only scriptures in
existence. For us to throw that all away
is to cut off a part of the truth that we cannot and should not ever do!
Let's recap--
God created us.
We rebelled.
God had a plan to
save us and this is all explained in His Word.
God found a man who
would accept His grace.
God found a man who
would accept His righteousness.
These men were the
few among the many who would rather turn their backs on God entirely than
sacrifice their self-serving.
God took these few
called, these few chosen that would be His and created a people. The people
from the called and chosen multiplied greatly and lived a life of suffering
with the hope of a promised deliverer.
God chose a
deliverer.
Moses freed the
great multitude from their life of slavery, a life that did not allow them the
freedom to worship and follow Him.
God spoke with the
multitude offering to make a covenant with them.
The multitude agreed
to the covenant.
The great multitude
rebelled against the covenant, quickly and often, choosing to forget the
miracle of their salvation.
An entire generation
of 40 years was denied a land promised to them because of this rebellion.
Constantly over many
centuries God's chosen would return and rebel against Him, they did this right
up until the time that God's Son revealed they would be forsaken because they
would choose to NOT be His no matter how often He would take them under His wing
to protect them.
The time came and
God's chosen were once and for all cut off as a chosen people, leaving only
individuals- not a corporate group- to be God's.
Individuals from
among God's chosen, and individual among those not chosen-the gentiles that
would become spiritually His but not His through a human lineage, but through a
human/God lineage found in Jesus Christ, his God lineage allowing the Spiritual
birth to take place even in those without the human lineage of Israel.
God again chooses a
people among those spiritually begotten in Him.
These spiritually
begotten are given a message to preach.
The message is
preached yet the chosen people rebel against truth, just as Israel of old,
spiritual Israel is in rebellion.
Just as Israel of
old were given warnings and told to repent, so were spiritual Israel.
Just as Israel of
old refused to repent as the final call to repentance was made, so too
spiritual Israel has failed to repent as their final call to repentance was
made.
Individuals from
Spiritual Israel will separate themselves from the forsaken, rebellious
Spiritual Israel - joining themselves to Christ.
This is truth!
Christ will have a
remnant among the few that find the way through Him. The rebellious multitude will NOT be His! Not
even those who cry out His name day after day whose hearts are not really His
will be saved! Only those who are KNOWN BY HIM will be saved.
More tomorrow by the
grace of God- cutting this short because it's very late, after a trip to the ER
with my daughter. Praise God she's going to be okay!
More tomorrow on all
of this… God's will be done in this and all things!
All in HIS LOVE!
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