by Gerlinda

"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, Jesus Christ.

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 is striking how God does 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.

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. And as, this video tells us, "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 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, that 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.

When 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 and her maid-servant Hagar. The first-born son to Abraham was Ishmael. But, was he the son of Promise? No, he was born to Hagar, an Egyptian, whom Sarah told Abraham to go into so that she might have a son through Hagar because Sarah was barren and wasn't able to give Abraham the son she desperately wanted. 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 then 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. This issue of the two boys, born of the same father and mother yet divided by what God knew would be their differences is on-going today. They both occupy the Land but the difference is in regard to the God that they serve. Someday, I expect, many of the children of Ishmael will discard their false god, Allah and serve the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But meanwhile, the discord between the two continue.

Now, back to the issue at hand. 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 great sin of taking up the gods of his pagan wives 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 resolved and won't be until the Lord Jesus Christ returns.

Meanwhile, you Gentile Church who believe you have a separate Dispensation, are kidding yourself because you bought into the lies given to you by the crafty Jesuits, who want you 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....TO RULE.

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. And we should stop limiting our understanding and seek the Biblical Truths.

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, the Lord Jesus Christ, 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 did come to save the Lost Tribes of the Northern Kingdom, who were never lost to him but scattered into the four winds. They themselves don't even know their true identity. Don't you see that Yahshua has been building his ecclesia with his own natural root and the grafted in Gentile? That is not so hard to understand once you throw away your preconceived notion that Gentiles are a separate church.

The Jews, named as such after the son Judah and Benjamin with their Levites priests, still face that second chance just prior to the return of the Messiah.

What part of this history do you Gentiles, that still think you are some separate group under some special Dispensation that is to be raptured before God will deal with the Jews of the Southern Kingdom, not understand?

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 Rapture of the Living, whom are changed for that event.

I truly hope there are some among the lot of you, that consider yourself separated from the natural Natural Olive Branch, to whom gentiles were grafted, , come to understand that the Lord is One Root which includes both the natural and wild Olive Branches.

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


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