"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
National Israel vs Spiritual Israel ( Church )
Genesis 15:6 – Then Abraham believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness. And He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.” He said, “O Lord GOD, how may I know that I will possess it?” The LORD answered… v18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land
Of course we see clearly in Scripture that the descendants of Abraham were not children of the FLESH but are children of the Spirit. This promise of possession of a special land was first given to Abraham and to those that would come from the seed of Isaac. The possession of this special land has part to do with the the natural world. Not all Israel is Israel yet all Israel shall inherit this land. You need to understand that when God brought all of the Jewish People from the four corners of the earth back to The Land, it was to fulfill his Word, not to Bless someone for genetic ties to Jewish bloodlines. But the promise is true for all who become "the seed of Abraham, through Jesus Christ.
Non believers in Christ do not possess the literal land. The WORD does!
Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.
You see the promise of possessing the Promised Land literally was for both Prophetic Type,and that God's Word is true. "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away." God cannot lie and he will not let his Word be a confusion.
Satan wants to say "yea, has God said {thou shalt surely die?"} The law of 'first mention' is seen here where Adam and Eve died both spiritually and literally. Satan is raging with murderous hatred against both literal Jews and spiritual.
One main reason is he can decieve the world if people do not see the literal promises come to pass as the spiritual. Yea hath God said he will bring the Jews back to the Land?
The Zionist movement began in 1903 and Satan began to put hate in the hearts of those who Satan used to try and anniahlate them in an attempt to thwart God's Word.
If he can destroy all of Israel, he can destroy faith. Faith in God's Word!So while unbelieving Jews enjoy the land today, just 2 believing Jews gathered together, possess the Land according to promise.
Hebrews 11:10 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;10for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Deut 8:7-9 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
You see, possessing the land is not something we need to wait until Jesus comes back to possess. We possess this land right here and right now, if we are truly Born of God and are led by His Spirit. This is the spiritual resurrection, the literal is yet to come where we will inherit the heavenly city for eternal life in both a changed literal and spiritual body.
Deut 8:11-14 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; 12otherwise, …….. .then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. We are all born into bondage. We are born slaves to sin and our master is our flesh which is the nature of Satan. This is what we must die to, but we are warned time and time again to not fall from our steadfast position and make our calling and election sure.
So to Possess the Promised land we have to Possess our flesh, bringing it into submission and subject to our authority over it. The giants in our flesh is sin! We cross over and are circumcised like the generation born in the wilderness as we were when we were born again. "They entered not in because of unbelief."
If we like those who could not enter in, do not overcome, and die daily, we will not inherit the Land. We have entered into his rest because of Calvary and the promise of the Father, but if we continue in sin, there is no rest for the wicked. The Word will not return void, not for Satan, not for us.
Deut 8:15 He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.
Deut 8:16-17 In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end. Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand-made me this wealth.’
After all the mighty works of God to them, when faced with possessing the land by having to face the 'giants' unbeielf set in, after the spies brought "an evil report"...Satan comes to steal,kill,and destroy both literally and spiritually. God comes to give us life, and life more abundantly, both literally and spiritually. New Jerusalem, while described in a heavenly manner better than this earthly world which shall pass away,is still fulfilling the promise of "forever."
We only have to possess the Land now....in New Jerusalem we will be his possessions as we are supposed to be now, but our unredeemed flesh will be changed...the uncircumcised Philistine Giant will be dead!No more corruptable flesh, no more carnal mind. We will truly have the mind of Christ...we will be the Bride, his body, while we rule and reign with him, he does it all. He will possess us, as we possess our bodies he will us in like manner.
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