Featured Jesus is Israel. How so?

1689, before you run off to Tehran and proclaim yourself a true Jew, please explain where Scripture says exactly what you said when you wrote in the # 1 post as I am having trouble finding it:

The Church of Believers are called by God's name - Israel.

 

You know they're descendants of Jacob how?

And, what does it matter given Galatians 4 that Christians are the seed of Abraham and Sarah and unbelieving Jews aren't.

 

Once again, there's PHYSICAL Israel, of which Judah is a part, & SPIRITUAL Israel, made up of all Christians of all races & nationalities. Spiritual Israel did NOT replace physical Israel & Judah in prophecy.

 

I don't see that we are called Israel but Christian. You have me all mixed up. No one ever called me a Jew and I never called myself one either. I am not sure that God is called Jew or Israel either. What is the name that God is called by?

 

"Israel" means "he strives with God". It's the name God gave to Jacob, which was passed on to his posterity.

"Jew" is an English handle for Old English "iudeas", from the Latin "iudaeus". It was coined in the 1500s in Britain, along with spelling it with a "j" & had become common usage before 1600. Its meaning was still the same, "a person of the Israeli tribe of Judah" during all this time of word metamorphosis.

And, of course, there are still physical Jews. despite their genealogies before 70 AD being lost, their history clearly shows who they are. While the ten tribes (Samaria) lost their national identity for now, thye Jews never did. And please study Ezekiel 23 closely to see that Aholibah (Jerusalem & the Jews) was to be punished more-severely than Aholah (Samaria & the ten other tribes) because the Jews saw Israel punished by exile by the Assyrians, but yet exceeded the ten tribes in idol worship & general debauchery.

Thus, the Jews have been almost-constantly punished ever since the Babylonian conquest-exile. They did not become a sovereign nation again til May 1948 after the culmination of their punishment by the nazi holocaust. No other people in history has undergone such punishment & abuse from almost every other nation they encountered & still kept their national identity. (Do I see the POWER OF GOD at work there ?)

Now, you can deny these facts all you wnt, but over 2600 years of history speax much-louder than your "replacement theology" does !

 

No, "Israel" means "strives with God". God was never called "Israel". In fact, the name is unknown in history before God gave it to Jacob.

God gave Jacob that name after he wrestled with the angel. it comes from "sara" (to fight, contend, or strive) and "El" (God).

 

i just showed you you're wrong. Apparently, you believe only those Scriptures which suit your notions.

 

Not at all. Jesus went by the OT while starting the NT.

YOU need to start believing ALL Scripture & learn some history.

 

Jesus NEVER denied physical Israel & Judah would be restored. He never said the Jews would become extinct. He generally interpreted OT Scripture as written, adding that David was a prophet.

God preserved the OT as well as the NT. He had Paul write that Christians are not under "the law". But again, He NEVER denied Israel & Judah will be restored, or that the ten tribes were extinct, or that the Jews would become extinct.

Nor did God ever say He was transferring the prophecies concerning Israel and Judah to His Church !

 

HORSE FEATHERS!

HERE'S WHAT PART OF ROMANS 11 SAYS: 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”

Now, NOWHERE does "Jacob" mean the Church ! When used apart from speaking of the man Jacob, it means "all of Israel & Judah". PHYSICAL Israel is NOT SPIRITUAL Israel !

"Replacement theology" is FALSE & APOSTATE !

 

The "tree" is the CHURCH, not israel. You're so mixed up !