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Just think of what this word "Israel" encompasses? This includes Gentiles who were grafted into Natural Israel. What awesome Love has Our Creator for us that are willing to be put under one authority, the Root of David, Yahshua, the Messiah.


"Israel" is a code word for "The people of God", whether they be the Natural Olive Branch or the Wild, grafted in (Gentile) Olive Branch, which become ONE, not through their own works nor genetic make-up, but because of whom they are grafted into and that is The Root,Yahshua.

Those Gentiles who do not understand this have the idea that those in the Land of Israel today that include the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levites are the "Spiritual Israelites". It becomes very obvious that the way men see things is not the way God sees things. When studied, it becomes very, very clear that God has not followed the traditional way of looking at the first-born as we have but has His Unique Plan.

For one thing there are so many false theories in the church because they do not really consider the history of when the two Houses were divided. To them, a Jew is a Jew and there is no difference between the House of Israel from the House of Judah. The truth of the matter is there is a huge difference between the two Houses that make up the people of Israel.

Until the Lord Yahshua returns and brings the two sticks back together, they remain apart. One is saved, the other is not. That is not to say individuals of the Southern Kingdom aren't saved but as a whole, they still reject the Only Begotten of the Father that came unto them.

When God speaks of the First Born, He is not looking at the natural genetic birth order. He is looking at the Spiritual First Born.

The "Birth-Right" is given to the "First Born of the Spiritual Order".

Consider the story of Jacob and his twin brother Essau. Who was it that was first born to the mother, Rebecca? It was Essau, right? Yet, scripture tell us that God said, "Jacob have I loved, Essau have I hated". Romans 9:13 or Malachi 1:3.

In the natural, this sound very harsh and to the off-spring of Essau, it is a Vendetta against Jacob (Israel) whom they believe has stolen their birth-right to the Land and to the Temple Mount. Yet, think of it, the off-spring of Essau, did not follow the path of the One True God of Israel but went after other gods. This, the Great I Am knew; there-fore He was able to say what He did.

Down through the generations of man, it seems, it was not the first-born of a woman but God chose the second son. For instance, there was Cain and Abel. Cain, although the first to come out of the womb of Eve, was not the son of promise. It was Abel, the genetically pure son of Adam that was pleasing to God. Cain, we know was the seed of the Serpent, Lucifer.

God chose Abraham to come out of the Land of Ur to begin a "Chosen People" that would follow the One True God and also to spread His Word. Abraham had a legal wife, Sarah but she wasn't able to conceive so she gave her hand-maiden Hagar to Abraham so that he would have a son. The first-born son to Abraham was Ishmael. But, was he the son of Promise? NO!

Much later God opened Sarah's womb and she brought forth Isaac. The son by Hagar was sent away along with his mother. Again, we have an example of the second son that was born who received the "Birth-Right".

Muslims contend that Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his first born son (Ishmael). Scripture says no such thing.

Genesis 22:2 "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only (son) Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of."

Isaac was his ‘only’ son because Ishmael had been sent away when Isaac was weaned. Ishmael had gone to live in the Wilderness of Paran and was not even involved in Abraham's trip to Mt. Moriah with Isaac and the servant. See the scripture below:

Genesis 22:8 "So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. 10 Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac." 11 And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. 13 "Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed." 14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away.

Notice that Ishmael was no longer part of Abraham's household after Isaac was weaned. But of Ishamel it is said:

Genesis 22:20 "So God was with the lad; and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21 He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt."

The Hebrew word for ‘only’ does not mean ‘firstborn’. It has the alternate meaning of ‘the beloved’. This is clear from the Septuagint translation.

Septuagint Genesis 22:2 "And he said, Take thy son, the beloved one, whom thou hast loved––Isaac,"

Isaac married Rebecca who was the natural mother to twin boys named Ishmael and Jacob. Here, we don't have another woman in the picture but the One legal wife of Isaac YET we find out from scripture that God loved the second born son and not the first born son.

Now, at this point, Jacob's name had been changed to Israel and the off-spring of his were the 12 sons of Israel. This is at the point that no others are involved in the story but only the 12 sons of Israel, their times in Egypt and their return to The Promised Land which Jacob left when they went to buy corn in Egypt during the famine when the youngest son Joseph was second in command in Egypt.

The in-fighting between the 12 sons of Israel are many, which led to them asking for a king, whom was Saul, of the Tribe of Benjamin. That was a king which the people wanted but the next one was the king which God chose for them, David of the Tribe of Judah. Under David's son Solomon, Israel grew strong and expansive.

But because of Solomon's going after pagan wives and practices, his kingdom was divided after his death. That dear Christians, is where Israel is today....divided, not united. The two sticks, which include the Stick of Birthright, which is the Scepter that rules and the other Stick of Land Right, which was given to Ephraim, are not one yet and won't be until Yahshua returns.

Meanwhile, the Gentile Church who believe they have a separate Dispensation, are kidding themselves because they bought into the lies given to them by the crafty Jesuits, who want them to stay out of the picture while they, along with those grabbing up all of the Land, are working their plot to put their man upon the Throne of Israel in Jerusalem.

God is not limited by our understanding and it was His plan all along to disperse the Northern House of Israel that became divided after Solomon's death. It was God's plan to scatter His Sheep into all the world and it was God's plan to have His Only Begotten Son, Yahshua pay the redemption price to save All His Sheep. He became our Kinsman Redeemer.

Yahshua (His Hebrew Name given to a Hebrew man) is God come in the flesh, who said He came NOT BUT onto the House of Israel to redeem them all. In other words, that word "Not" means He didn't come to the Jews of the Southern House of Judah but He came to save the Lost Tribes of the Northern Kingdom.

The Jews rejected Him even though they knew it was the time of His visitation. The word Jew is derived from Judah, the first-born son of Jacob and he, along with Benjamin and their Levites priests, still face that second chance just prior to the return of the Messiah.

What part of this history do Gentiles not understand? Don't you see that you are grafted into the Sheepfold because of these of the dispersed Northern House of Israel?

There is no separate dispensation for Gentiles. The Father doesn't work that way. He arranged for Gentiles to be grafted into the natural fold. Gentiles weren't first in His Mind but were graciously offered the adoption into the fold. Goodness, is that so hard to understand? Just think how blessed you are because of the natural Olive Branch. You didn't come first and certainly aren't going to be caught up before it is time.

You are here just like the rest of us who have learned the truth that the Resurrection of the Dead happens first and then the Translation/Rapture of the Living, whom are changed for that event.

Do you really want to keep yourself separate? Then, you are not a part of "Spiritual Israel" which means "The Children of God".

I truly hope there are some among the lot of you Gentiles, who presently consider yourself separated from the natural Natural Olive Branch, Israel, who will comprehend that the hand of Salvation was extended to you and that you become Children of God the same as the Natural Olive Branches. There is One Lord.... One Root... which includes both the natural and wild Olive Branches.

Yes, I know that shoots down the pre-trib. rapture hope because you think you have to be out of here before God can deal with the "Jews" but as you can see, it just is not that way. Take it up with God, if you don't like it.

If you aren't one of those, who are you? I'd seriously consider that question.

Gerlinda


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Please let me make this correction right now. You will notice at this paragraph here, I typed in the wrong name for this son:

Isaac married Rebecca who was the natural mother to twin boys named Ishmael and Jacob. Here, we don't have another woman in the picture but the One legal wife of Isaac YET we find out from scripture that God loved the second born son and not the first born son.

It should read Esau rather than Ishmael.

No wonder George Foreman named all his sons, "George". He knew it was bound to happen sooner or later, he would use the wrong name.

Gerlinda