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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Whole House of Israel, #2
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, (Romans 11:17—NIV)
The Jews who believed in Him and received Him continued as the Olive Tree. The Jews who did not believe in Him, did not receive Him, were broken off from the Olive Tree. They still were Jews, but they were no longer Israel. Once Christ, the Servant of the Lord, came to earth, only those who received Him were anointed with the Holy Spirit. Only those are Israel, the Kingdom of God, the one Seed of Abraham.
The first Christian church, the first Body of Christ, was composed of five thousand Jews, all keeping the Law of Moses. The Holy Spirit was with them and in them. Then, according to the promise given in the Book of Hosea, the Holy Spirit reached out to the elect Gentiles. The Gentiles who were ordained to eternal life believed in Jesus and became part of Israel, part of the one Olive Tree.
As soon as the full number of Gentiles has been grafted into the Olive Tree (membership in the Olive Tree is always by Divine appointment) God will turn again to the physical land and people of Israel as in the beginning.
This one group of people, beginning with Abraham, the father of all who believe, is Israel, the royal priesthood, the family of God. In the last days, all Israel will be delivered from sin and brought into the Kingdom of God.
After the Lord returns, the Lord's Apostles, all Jewish by race, will sit on thrones judging the people of Israel, that is, the physical nation of Israel including all who are Jewish by birth as well as being part of the one true Olive Tree.
You are those who have stood by me in my trials. And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. (Luke 22:28-30—NIV)
The Dry Bones
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. (Ezekiel 37:1—NIV)
Probably many Christians are familiar with the very dry bones of the Book of Ezekiel and how they were called together.
Sometimes this prophecy is applied to the nation of Israel, the physical Jews. The idea is that in 1948, the first time since General Titus demolished the Temple and took the Jews captive, the Jewish people once more occupied their original territory as a nation.
I have been to Jerusalem and have seen the Jews observing their feast days and going about their business. The continuing return of the Jews to their homeland may prove to be the major social event of the twentieth century.
We can see how inviting it would be to use the gathering of the dry bones as a prophetic picture of the building of the physical nation of Israel.
To be continued.