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The Code Searcher is normally someone we have felt favorable about but today's presentation was a big disappointment. But, like all of us, he needs to rethink teaching that has been handed down for so long and that is who makes up the ecclesia/church. I am sure that once he understands this; it will open other doors of understanding for him as it did for us. We agree that it is a time for a Great Outpouring upon the 144,000.

I am going to use the term ecclesia rather than church because it makes it much more easily understand that what took place on Savot/Pentecost was NOT the birth of the ecclesia/Church but the endowment of the existing "Called Out" ones with the power of the Holy Spirit.

If you have trouble with that; think back to 10 days earlier when Jesus told His disciples to wait in the Upper Room for the 50th day to take place. Would you say that the little assembly that was already in place was not yet His ecclesia? Savot was not a new thing to the Jewish people but was the end of the counting of the Omer which meant the rest of the harvest was ready to reap. Now, He gave to them His Invisible Self to be with them in their spreading of His Gospel. In other words, although not seen, He would always be with them.

Remember, it was on the Jewish Feast of First Fruit, that represented His Resurrection which defeated Satan, when He presented himself, the First to rise from the dead, to The Father. The promise had been fulfilled.

It is people....always the people... who want to make divisions between The Father and Jesus Christ. "Hear O Israel, the Lord God is One God...." are the words spoken to the Children of Israel, the descendants of Abraham, whom was called out of the Land of Ur. That happened at the beginning with a lot of history between then and the Great Out-Pouring of His Spirit.

A reading of the Old Testament is proof of who the Called Out Ones are. Abraham was a Hebrew, not an Israelite. This Called Out body made up of the Gentiles that joined Abraham and his family that continued their walk of faith, did not become known as Israelites until Jacob's name was changed to Israel by God Himself.

The Great I Am had a plan that would bring Salvation to the world, both Israelites and Gentiles. It did not start in Jerusalem on Savot. In fact, there was another Savot, when God wrote His Commandments on Stone and gave them to Moses for the people. Would you say that God didn't have a Body of Believers back then because they weren't present in Jerusalem that Pentecost day? Of course not. Do you see how ridiculous it really all is to say that was the birth of God's Called Out Ones/ecclesia?

If you have read any of the articles posted on this site about how God promised Adam & Eve that He, Himself would come in the flesh, to restore them to Paradise, you'd know that He, the Father, through the Only Begotten and visible Christ and Power of His Holy Spirit has been there all along. How arrogant and misleading it is to declare the ecclesia/Called Out Ones, the Church beginng on a day when 3,000 were ADDED(by the way) to the existing Body of Christ.

Jesus Christ of the NT is Adonai of the Old Testament. He was there when the Pillar of Light shone in the night and the Cloud that covered them in the day when they were led out of Egypt. He was there when Daniel and his friends were thrown into the fiery furnace. So, to say that the Assembly, ecclesia, church, Chosen Ones began on Pentecost is a huge distortion of God's Word. Before Christ became the Lamb of God, the ecclesia lived by faith. Now, the ecclesia live by Grace.

But that is what the churches were taught and so it has remained as a hurdle to divide the Body of Christ. Do you see what is being said here?

The ecclesia, which is translated "assembly" denotes the whole body of the redeemed. All those whom the Father has given to Christ - the invisible universal church (Eph. 5:23, 25, 27, 29, Heb. 12:23)

It has been said that Israel and the Church are two separate entities. While at one time, we may all have believed that, we cannot and will not continue to believe that false teaching. It has been drummed into our heads in order to make us believe there are two Dispensations; one for the Church and one for Israel.

Do you see what this misunderstanding does? It gives a false foundation to when a Rapture must happen. God isn't going to take up a bunch of Gentiles up before He takes up those called the natural Olive Branch. For One thing, the two become One in Christ Jesus and the second thing is that they must all wait until the Resurrection of the Dead take place. It is in that order and no matter how man may try to re-arrange it, God does things His Way and in His Order: it is in His Word. I

I Thess. 4:16-17. " For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel. And with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; And so shall we ever be with the Lord."

Then, to get an absolute clear picture of what makes up Israel, one needs to understand that the 12 sons of promise given to Jacob make up the 12 tribes that lived in a United Kingdom called Israel during the reign of Solomon. Most of us are quite clear of how the 10 tribes split from the two tribes of Judah & Benjamin (also the Levites) after Solomon. Now Israel was divided...The Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom. History tells us that most of the Northern Kingdom were scattered to the 4 winds when the Assyrians invaded. Yes, for the sake of argument, there was an remnant that made up the Northern Kingdom remained in the land and rejoined the Southern Kingdom's rule.

The Jews rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah. Jesus came unto the House of Israel to bring Salvation. These were the other Sheep of His Fold who were now scattered at the time of His Coming. Among the House of Israel are the Gentiles that joined them. There have always been Gentiles such as Ruth, Esther, Rahab that became a part of the Children of Israel. That same Israel is the entity that makes up the present believers.

The exception would be those of the Tribe of Dan, from whom would spring the A/C as prophesied by both Moses and Jacob about Dan. That cannot be disputed no matter how one wants to waltz around the issue. They turned their back on the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, took up pagan practices and mixed their seed with the seed of Satan. The Bible makes references to the Sons of Satan. That is not a mere term but is taking the reader back to what occurred in the Garden, when the Seed of the Serpent was planted and for which God condemned him to a life-time of crawling upon his belly in the dirt.

But back to this subject of the Church and Israel being two separate entities. THEY ARE NOT as proven by the examples given in this text. Who are separate entities to this day is Israel and the Jews. Sorry, those of you who believe they are one and the same...they are not. They remain two separate sticks until God joins the two together. I know there are those that think they are united already because there is a nation called Israel. However, that claim is speaking without understanding that the Jews make up the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin (including Levite priests who are not tribes)

Bottom line, the ecclesia/body of the Lord is made up of Gentile & Israel

Whom are still separate to this day are the Israelites and the Jews because the Jews must call out to their Messiah, "Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord". Then He will return to them.

Gerlinda


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