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one of the twelve tribes of Israel and was chosen by God
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Ezra: 7:10: For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes
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The new prayer suggests that Israel will be saved if Jews convert and accept Jesus
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made with the people of israel after they had crossed the Red Sea and
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israel did not have doctors for
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He offered the people of Israel
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So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me
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“And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD
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As the children of Israel left
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shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the
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“And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel”
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are the forefathers in Israel
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“For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments
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Desire - Moses was willing to take upon himself the role of leading the children of Israel
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Trained - Moses was actually trained for 80 years prior to taking the leadership role of the children of Israel
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should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?“ God in the next verse simply says I will be with you
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hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD
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” The children of Israel looked to Joshua for leadership because
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children of Israel understood what lay ahead of them
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of Israel to the promised land
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His ability to confront, rebuke and reprove sin - The children of Israel
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Joshua realized that Israel could not prosper when sin existed in the camp
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but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded
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did everything he could to create division between Israel and Moses
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As leader of the host of Israel he
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“And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known
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all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel” (Joshua 24:31)
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The children of Israel and their forty years wandering in the wilderness; Saul, the first king of Israel (I Samuel, chapter fifteen)
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The faith's greatest early victory, the reason for its birth, had been the destruction and eradication of Israel
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Israel the nation had been defeated, its women dispersed thruout all the countries that would later be called Talstan
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improper leadership of Israel by evil shepherds is discussed
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We know that in the next chapter of Isaiah that the same Hebrew word is used to call Israel a seed (or children/offspring) of snakes
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God devastated Israel through a famine before sending fire upon Elijah’s sacrifice in 1 Kings 18
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It has to be someone outside of Israel that will take care of Israel
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Can you imagine an entire nation of Pauls going to and fro throughout the earth to proclaim the freedom that they have now experienced in Christ? It will be during the Millennial Kingdom that Israel will fulfill her ultimate purposes of being the priestly nation to the nations (Exodus 19:6)
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You read in the Old Testament that Israel is told to not offer to the detestable god Molech
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During certain feasts that would require offerings and sacrifices, the whole land of Israel would gather toward Jerusalem
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We have said that we are the new Israel and that they have no part in this unless they want to become like us
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We are actually committing the same sin that Jesus condemned by running out the moneychangers when we call ourselves the elite people of God and condemn Israel
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“Hear oh Israel, the Lord your God is one,” Deuteronomy 6:4
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Moses was a man, but he delivered Israel
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Do you see what is happening here? Do you see how Jesus is struggling with Israel because they won’t believe in Him?
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The nickname comes from Deuteronomy 7:1 where God says that Israel will possess the land of “seven nations mightier than you
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His own land is considered the land of the twelve – the twelve tribes of Israel
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God has spoken and revealed Himself, but the people of Israel have been hardened to it
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It is the nation that is used to bring judgment upon Israel
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It is a symbol of the immanent kingdom of the north that brings judgment upon Israel, but ultimately will be destroyed by the coming of the Messiah on the Day of the Lord
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The same people that saw the glory of God bringing Israel out of Egypt and into the Land is the same generation that will see heaven on earth
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We need to understand that Israel is not simply another ethnic people or nation
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Deuteronomy 32:8-9 say, “When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided all mankind, He set up the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the sons of Israel
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” Can you imagine the humility it would take for a nation to come under that? Can you really imagine a nation that would acknowledge their boundaries being established by the hand of God according to the sons of Israel?
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” Israel is not simply at such and such a place on the globe, and all nations around her
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God put this world at the center of the universe, and Israel is the center of the nations on this planet
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Would God get that specific? Would He be that explicit, so to call Israel the center of the nations? Does God really think that the land of Israel is that important? And what for? If we think that Israel is simply a location or a spiritual metaphor for something else, then we have missed it
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God’s emphasis on Israel is everything
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Israel is the nation of God in the midst of nations, and that has a couple of implications
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And so if Israel is not holy, not teaching the difference between the sacred and profane, if they are indulgent in all the things of the world, and if they have promoted all the same mentalities and attitudes the rest of the nations promote and hold to, then all the nations will be vile
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If Israel is wicked, all nations are wicked
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Because Israel is lax and not devout to God, we find the nations are nefarious to God
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The issue of Israel is the issue of nations
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As it says in Isaiah 14:1-2, “For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob
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And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors
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Are We the New Israel?
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It wasn’t until the context of Israel came that I could finally see what was being spoken of
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“11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ
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So are we the new Israel? Never
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God has made us to be something altogether distinct, and yet at the same time grafted into Israel
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We do not replace Israel; we complete Israel
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Israel is not Israel without the Church, and the Church cannot be an entity apart from Israel
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Old Testament prophecies – such as Isaiah 56 – tell us that there would be people outside of Israel that are accepted by the Lord as a part of Israel
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Israel is God’s nation
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The nations recognize this well enough that they have tried to exterminate that people for as long as Israel has existed as a nation
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When God is chastising Israel, He hands them over to their enemies
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When Israel has been obedient (like with David), God defends them and takes down their oppressors
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The reason that nations oppose Israel is because to oppose Israel is to oppose God
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To annihilate Israel annihilates God’s very relatedness to those nations
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The principalities and powers manipulate such motives because the restoration of Israel is their end – the coming of the Lord
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The redemption of Israel will mean the redemption of the nations
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He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God,” Psalm 98:2-3
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When God has redeemed Israel, and they return to that Land a final time never to be uprooted again, it is the sign to the nations of God’s existence and His great love and righteousness
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By this one thing God will make Israel to be a blessing to all nations
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” If that God, and that King, can reign over that stiff-necked people, a people whose last national statement towards God was, "We have no king but Caesar" (John 19:15), then what do you think will be the disposition of other nations? If God can possess Israel, a people who, in all their unbelief and opposition to Him, have blasphemed His name in the nations, then He will have all the nations
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Can you imagine the Islamic and Moslem extremist nations that desire the death of Israel seeing this take place? Can you imagine what will happen when those nations hear the Jewish people admitting their failure before God – and that their judgment was due to their sin – and in love embracing their enemies and blessing them that cursed them?
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At the end of the Bible in Revelation 17, the call is made to Israel to “come out from her
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I look around and I can’t help but think that the Church needs to be delivered from Babylon just as much as Israel
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It is through suffering in this priesthood that we learn obedience, and we ourselves are perfected unto the salvation of Israel – the author of that salvation being Christ, and being reiterated through His Body (Hebrews 5:8-9)
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What I want to encourage you with is that when we take up our own crosses for the sake of Israel, we too will feel this same anguish
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He had built fountains and temples and monuments and all sorts of architecture in cities that weren’t in Israel
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One question would be, if there weren’t any farmers in Jerusalem, then where did they get their food? It is believed that in the time of Jesus, 80 or 90 percent of the people of Israel were (or were at some point) some sort of farmer/fisherman/agricultural worker
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In this story, the Amalekites are the first peoples to attack Israel after coming out of Egypt
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Those who were fatigued and weak, and could not keep up with the rest of the congregation of Israel, were attacked from behind
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Saul being unwilling to utterly destroy that kind of enemy – wolves searching to destroy the weak and defenseless of Israel – is what caused Samuel the prophet to weep
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Saul was not jealous over the flock of Israel, and yet he was supposed to be their king
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This is an establishment of the rule of David over the nation Israel
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It is at His coming that Israel finds redemption
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Israel is sifted through all nations, but God is not only sifting Israel
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Those nations will watch as Israel goes from being the persecuted and oppressed to being delivered by God and exalted unto priesthood
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It is at this point that we have a lot of questions that are asked: what about the current state of Israel? What exactly is Israel’s purpose? What about we the Church? What exactly is taking place in the world when Jesus returns? What takes place during the millennial reign of Christ?
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As it is said in Isaiah 10:20, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more lean upon him who smote them (the Antichrist), but shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth
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Jeremiah 31:1 reads, “At that time, says the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people