Righteousness, is Christ Jesus, bringing us into obedience to His Law, the opposite of sin [which is transgression of His Law, the Ten Commandments, 1 John 3:4 KJB].
It's looks very much like you didn't bother to read the scripture [KJB] I cited, otherwise you might have done better to respond to it:
"... Yes.
Matthew 2:13-15; citing
Hosea 11:1 KJB [Jesus is the true Israel, even as He is the True David, Adam, Solomon, etc, etc.
Jeremiah 30:9;
Ezekiel 34:23-24, 37:24-25;
Hosea 3:5;
1 Corinthians 15:45-46], turn then to
Hebrews 2:9-13 KJB, which in verse 13, cites
Isaiah 8:18 [read
Isaiah 8:8-20 KJB], therefore we know who Jesus [Israel's] children are, in
Isaiah 8:16 KJB, as he says of them, "my disciples". Consider the NT texts which Jesus over and over again calls them "my disciples", and even "little children" [
Matthew 12:46-50;
Mark 14:14;
Luke 14:26,27,33, 22:11;
John 8:31, 13:35, 15:8 KJB, etc], Thus we know who the "children of Israel" is in referring to
Exodus 31:13-18 KJB, and who is to keep the sabbath holy, as it is written, that there are two [not one] Israels:
[1] Israel after the flesh which are not the children of God [
Romans 9:6-8;
1 Corinthians 10:18 KJB]; [Head, ruler, Jacob, son of Isaac]
Genesis 32:28, 35:10,21; [body, peoples]
Genesis 32:32, 35:22; Israel, the person, is as a “king” which is a head or ruler [
Joshua 11:10;
1 Samuel 15:17;
1 Kings 1:35,
1 Chronicles 11:2;
Psalms 105:20 KJB], over a body or kingdom/land [
Isaiah 62:1-5 KJB]. The two [king & kingdom/land] are two things, yet joined, as husband and wife, or Head and body, Father and children, etc. and
[2] the Israel after the Spirit, Jesus Christ, and His children and body [
Galatians 6:16;
Hebrews 10:13;
Romans 9:8 KJB', as it is written, first the natural, then follows the spiritual [
1 Corinthians 15:46 KJB].
But if we consider
Isaiah 56:1 KJB, and ask who is "my salvation", and "my righteousness", we can go to the NT texts and know that it is Jesus [
Matthew 1:21;
Luke 2:20; Acts 4:10,12, see also
Isaiah 46:13, 51:5,68,8;
Psalms 119:172;
Isaiah 48:18]. Then if we jump down to
Isaiah 56:8 KJB, we see that it again refers to what Jesus is doing in the NT, as per its fulfillment in
John 10:16 KJB. Then all one has to do, is to go back, and read the context between
Isaiah 56:1 and
Isaiah 56:8, by reading
Isaiah 56:2-7, which mentions the "everlasting name", God's "my covenant" [which is the eternal, everlasting and also called New Covenant], and who is to join themselves unto the LORD, the Gentiles.
Thus for the fulfillment of those
Isaiah 56 passages, we turn again to the NT, and read
Matthew 10:25; [
Malachi 1:6];
Luke 6:40; “... the Gentiles are turned to God:” - Acts 15:19 KJB, “That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called ...” - Acts 15:17 KJB, not to cast away the Tabernacle of David, no, but to build it up, see Acts 15:16-17;
Amos 9:11-12 KJB, for God had winked at the ignorance of all men in the past, but now commands all men everywhere to come to Him in repentance, and come into obedience to His Law, see Acts 17:30 KJB, see Acts 4:24, 14:15-16;
Revelation 10:6, 14:6-7;
2 Peter 2:21;
Revelation 12:17; 14:12, 22:14 KJB.
Then compare
Exodus 20:8-11, especially verse 11, and align it with
Nehemiah 9:6,
Psalms 146:6; [Jews] Acts 4:24; [Gentiles] Acts 14:15-16; [all peoples]
Revelation 10:6; 14:6-7; and back again to the Gentiles repenting and coming into obedience unto God's Holy commandment [
Exodus 20:8;
2 Peter 2:21 KJB], in Acts 13:42-44; Acts 16:13, 18:4,11; Acts 15:21, 17:2 [compare
Luke 4:6 in language]; 17:3-4; and also in
Hebrews 4:2,4,9,10;
Romans 11:26; and then follow it to
Isaiah 58:1,12-14.
John 10:35 KJB, unbreakable..." -
Walter Martin's "Kingdom of the Cults" declares Adventist are not a Cult and destroys Hoekema's book
