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Israel is the Church of Christ !
Israel is the Church of Christ !
Now when I say Israel is the Church/Body of Christ, I'm not talking israel after the flesh composed of ethnic jews or Abrahams physical seed or descendants, because Divine Inspiration tells us that they are not the children of God Rom 9:6-8
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That 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.
Israel after the flesh were not and are not God's Children, that inspiration recognizes such a group as Israel after the flesh, we read 1 Cor 10:18
Behold Israel after the flesh:
If that is True, there must be for like emphasis Israel after the Spirit !
We do know thers a contrast here Gal 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Israel after the Spirit therefore are all them of Abrahams Seed who are Born after the Spirit, as typified by the Birth of Isaac !
See there are also Two Israels mentioned in Rom 9:6
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Its one according to or after the flesh, the other after or according to the Spirit.
Now when Christ came in the flesh, He identified with Israel, the Seed of Abraham according to the Spirit, the Children of God Heb 2:14,16
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Now notice in Vs 14 that the Children took on flesh and blood, He took on the same in accordance with the Children, and these the Children, as in Children of God, are His Church of which it is written Eph 5:29-32
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Paul says of the Church, the Body of Christ, that we are members of His FLESH and of HIS BONES !
Israel is the Church of Christ !
Now when I say Israel is the Church/Body of Christ, I'm not talking israel after the flesh composed of ethnic jews or Abrahams physical seed or descendants, because Divine Inspiration tells us that they are not the children of God Rom 9:6-8
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That 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.
Israel after the flesh were not and are not God's Children, that inspiration recognizes such a group as Israel after the flesh, we read 1 Cor 10:18
Behold Israel after the flesh:
If that is True, there must be for like emphasis Israel after the Spirit !
We do know thers a contrast here Gal 4:29
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Israel after the Spirit therefore are all them of Abrahams Seed who are Born after the Spirit, as typified by the Birth of Isaac !
See there are also Two Israels mentioned in Rom 9:6
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Its one according to or after the flesh, the other after or according to the Spirit.
Now when Christ came in the flesh, He identified with Israel, the Seed of Abraham according to the Spirit, the Children of God Heb 2:14,16
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Now notice in Vs 14 that the Children took on flesh and blood, He took on the same in accordance with the Children, and these the Children, as in Children of God, are His Church of which it is written Eph 5:29-32
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Paul says of the Church, the Body of Christ, that we are members of His FLESH and of HIS BONES !