Israel

When the people of Israel return to the pagan ways of the Golden calf Moses "called out" the faithful of Israel. The Levites were appointed to be the Church in the wilderness who would serve the the congregations of the people in patterns of Tens. Early Israel was learning to follow the righteousness of the way of God which is what Jesus would teach the early Church as the righteousness of God in the eternal quest for the kingdom of God.

What is or who is Israel

The Hebrew word in the Bible we see as Israel is given to a nation spoken of in the Bible. It is defined as "the second name for Jacob" but also as the descendants or a nation with a long history.

The first place we see the word is :

• Genesis 32:28 "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. {Israel: that is, A prince of God}

The word "Israel" is from two words which is "sarah" meaning "preserver" as in have the "power of" and the word "el" meaning "god". If you are not a preserver or have the power of God then you are not Israel. Israel also includes the letter Yod which represents the Divine Spark which gives men access to Right Reason or Divine Will.

Jacob received the name Israel in Genesis 32:28 "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed."

The reason for this change is found earlier in Genesis 32 where "Jacob was left alone" like Jesus was alone when he prayed in the garden. In verse 24 he is said to wrestle with a man. It is often translated "a man" from the word "enosh" (אֱנוֹשׁ). In the text we only see אִישׁ֙ which is more commonly translated "another".

Hosea enduring the message

According to Benson's commentary "We are told by Hosea 12:4, how Jacob wrestled with him; He wept and made supplication: prayers and tears were his weapons. It was not only a corporal but a spiritual wrestling, by vigorous faith and holy desire;..."

How does the translation of "he had power over" relate to weeping with tears during prayer and supplication?

The word "malak"(מַלְאָךְ֙) is translated angel and also translated messenger.

The phrase wrestled with or he had power over or yes he struggled is from the verb suwr (שׂוּר‎) which could suggest he had power over an angel but suwr (שׂוּר‎) appears in the text as wāyyāśar (וָיָּ֤שַׂר). The Vav can represent the idea suggested by the word and but the appearance of a Yod states the divine spark of revelation. The following Shin Reish is the word (שַׂר‎ ) sar may mean a prince as a leader or one holding the position of the elder of a family. In fact, the same letters are the word for "umbilical cord".

"Yea he had power(וָיָּ֤שַׂר) over the angel and prevailed"

Jesus was a prince of peace and of God the Father but the people of Israel were also the children of God but not always obedient children of God.

It is important to understand that to say somethings name is to use a word that may describe its character or nature. Those who say "Israel Only" in relation to the Gospel of the Kingdom often do not understand that the term is meant to identify the way of faith in the God of Creation and not merely genetics but a spiritual character.

We see the יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל YodShemReishAlefLamed appears over 2500 times but 111 of those times it appears there with a Beit at the beginning of the word and is often translated "in Israel".

There are 50 times it begins with the letter Lamed and is translated "to" or "unto" "Israel".

Hosea 4:6 is about a Lack of knowledge because thèy rejected knowleďge but Hoaea 12 Jacob endures the knowledge that came to him during his prayer a d suplication.

 

Where is Israel

Israel was not a place but a people. They were not just a people but a peculiar people.

You are not Israel just because you say you are.

Do you manifest the peace of Israel like the prince of peace?

Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

Israel should be walking in The Way of faith which is the way of Abraham, Moses, and even Jesus if they all serve the same God.

• Exodus 4:22 "And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my firstborn:"

• Psalms 89:18 "For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king."

Comments Israel

: Supersessionism, also called replacement theology or fulfillment theology, is a doctrine that holds that the early Christian Church has succeeded the Israelites as the definitive people of God. This view directly contrasts with dual-covenant theology which holds that the Mosaic covenant remains valid for Jews.

: Many Early Church commentators taught that Israel was replaced (superseded) by the Church:

* Justin Martyr (about 100 to 165): "For the true spiritual Israel ... are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ."

* Hippolytus of Rome (martyred 13 August 235): "[The Jews] have been darkened in the eyes of your soul with a darkness utter and everlasting."

* Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 240 AD): “Who else, therefore, are understood but we, who, fully taught by the new law, observe these practices,—the old law being obliterated, the coming of whose abolition the action itself demonstrates ... Therefore, as we have shown above that the coming cessation of the old law and of the carnal circumcision was declared, so, too, the observance of the new law and the spiritual circumcision has shone out into the voluntary observances of peace.”

* Augustine (354–430) follows these views of the earlier Church Fathers, but he emphasizes the importance to Christianity of the continued existence of the Jewish people: "The Jews ... are thus by their own Scriptures a testimony to us that we have not forged the prophecies about Christ."

Others also supported forms of these perceptions like Origen, Luther and modern theologians like Karl Barth and his "theology of the Word". See Theology.

• Matthew 2:6 And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

This a clear statement saying that if Jesus is the Christ he shall rule Israel. Anyone who rejects the king or chooses another king is no longer Israel.

Even those who mocked Jesus knew he was the king of Israel.

• Mark 15:32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

Merely being called Christ is saying that someone is the King and many made this claim more clear with their words and praises.

• John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.

• John 12:13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed [is] the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.

• Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

Jesus stated that he would take the kingdom from those Jews who were not following the ways of God.

• Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Jesus made it clear who he would appoint that kingdom to.

• Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

And then He appointed that kingdom of God here on earth to them and told them not to be like the princes and rulers of other nations who call themselves Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other.

• Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

Thousands of Jews accepted Christ as their king at Pentecost as these new appointed ministers of the kingdom worked daily in the temple rightly dividing the bread from house to house and ministering to the people the Corban of Christ that made the word of God to effect in His kingdom. That daily ministration had been the responsibility of the Levites but now it was the responsibility of the early Church in the practice of Pure Religion.

Those who said they had no king but Caesar are no longer of the nation of Israel, the kingdom of God. Millions more of the "lost sheep" were grafted into that kingdom of God and His righteousness.

• John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

But they may repent and seek that kingdom of God and his righteousness.

• Luke 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

The Christian conflict with Rome brought judgment upon those people who persecuted the Church and those seeking that kingdom of God. Apostasy of the Church and an entanglement through a yoke of bondage were prophesied. Through covetous practices, the people would become merchandise and curse children.

Constantine brought in his apostate Church with his watered down baptism but for a thousand years true Christians survived and thrived. The kingdoms of men ruling over men collapsed and withdrew from its dominance over men. Then came false Christians and their damnable heresies who brought inquisitions and crowned men over men.

The problem today is the Modern Christian is under a strong delusion. They think they are professing Christ but they are actually workers of iniquity. The Modern Church does not instruct the people to sit down together in a network of tens as Christ commanded so that they may receive the true Eucharist of Christ.

The people have pursued the Corban of the Pharisees and seek social security through men who exercise authority one over the other. They do not live by faith, hope and charity and the perfect law of liberty but by the wages of unrighteousness.

The Modern Christian look to the Cain's, Nimrod's and Caesar's of the world with an appetite for free bread and benefits at the expense of their neighbor.

But they too may Repent and seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Early Israel

When the people return to the pagan ways of the Golden calf Moses "called out" the faithful of Israel. The Levites were appointed to be the Church in the wilderness who would serve the tens of the congregations of the people in patterns of Tens.

• Early Israel was not like Judea at the time of Christ.
• Early Israel were rejecting the leaven like that of the Corban of Herod and the Pharisees.
• Early Israel had no Kings and therefore had no forced taxation.
• Israel was one form of government that was essentially a viable republic in the tradition of the Libera res publica.
• They knew the living Altars of clay and stone kept from the bondage of Egypt, Sumer, and Nimrod's Babylonian type governments providing a social safety net through force and the covetous practices of idolatry.
• Early Israel depended upon freewill offerings in the form of tithes to support their public servants which would be called Levites.
• They knew the dainties of rulers provided a welfare that was a snare.
• They knew to have the One purse of socialism runs toward death.
• This changed when the voice of the people rejected God and chose to have a leader who could exercise authority one over the other to get rid of corruption in Israel and be their commander in chief.
• Despite the warnings of Samuel the people wanted a ruler rather than a mere leader.
• That Ruler we know by the name of Saul was corrupted by the power granted him by the people and he foolishly imposed the first real tax upon Israel.
• At that time Israel went from a Republic to a centrally controlled government.
• It never really was restored until Jesus the Christ came taking the kingdom from the Pharisees and appointing that kingdom of God to the apostles.

Jesus and Moses were in agreement but the Pharisees did not know Jesus because they did not know Moses. They thought they did but Jesus said they did not.

Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus and the early Church advocated a Daily ministration for the needy of the Christian community that was dependent on Charity only and it was not like the system of Corban of the Pharisees nor the free bread of Rome. It was their Pure Religion that brought them into a Christian conflict with Public religion and the Covetous Practices of the World.

They all read the Torah but through sophistry and vanity that had turned the religion of Israel into a false religion and belief system that was actually making the word of God to none effect.

Understanding the similarities and differences between the Church in the wilderness and the Church is essential. They were both called out. The Levites and the "ekklesia" or Church appointed by Christ had a similar purpose. They both helped form altars of living clay and stone appointed by men like Abraham Moses and Jesus.

Do Modern Christians understand Jesus or does their Corban make the word of God to none effect again?

Are they practicing Pure Religion?

Are they indulged in Covetous Practices that will entangle them again in the elements of the world and a yoke of bondage, make them merchandise and curse their children?

Everyone should step back and think about how did the early Church survive the decline and fall of the Roman Empire...?

How did early Israel bind itself as a nation in a hostile world as the children of God?

The Christian conflict was not simply because they would not be a part of the Corban of Rome but because they had their own Daily ministration.

Known by names

Edward Gibbons wrote,
"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom. A feeble senate and enervated people cheerfully acquiesced in the pleasing illusion, as long as it was supported by the virtue, or even by the prudence, of the successors of Augustus. It was a motive of self-preservation, not a principle of liberty, that animated the conspirators against Caligula, Nero, and Domitian. They attacked the person of the tyrant, without aiming their blow at the authority of the emperor."

Why were the people enervated?

The meaning of enervate includes those "lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor". This is because the people of Rome were degenerated by their custom of living at the expense of others and depending for their livelihood on the property of others after instituting a welfare system through the governments that exercise authority.

Moses forbid such institutions of force and David warned that such institutions were a snare and a trap. Proverbs tells us those benefits are deceitful dainties and to consent to having one social purse runs toward death.

While one may call themselves a follower of Abraham and Moses any name used is certainly a lie.

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