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The conflict over Israel is not the wrong DNA.
GOD said he will make a nation out of Abraham. Genesis 12:2.
God confirmed a covenant with Abraham and his seed afterwards. Genesis 17:7.
These promises was also confirmed with Isaac and Jacob.
It's the heir of promise given to Abraham.
Down through Isaac and Jacob that is fought over.
See: Galatians 4:29-30. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
The seed that was promised to come that would bless the world is Christ.
Galatians 3:16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
If you study the Genealogy of Christ you will see they're Gentiles in it. Ruth being one. and also Rahab.
God sanctified Israel and gave them the seal of circumcision. "A cutting away the filt of the flesh " Gentiles was considered unclean. but if the wanted to come into the camp and remain they had to be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
TODAY CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH NOTHING.
Galatians 5:6.
Galatians 6:15.
We become that new creature through our new birth in Christ. "Baptism of The Holyspirit ".
God bless.
Hopefully these are helpful in your research
Exodus 34, after Moses had interceded for the "Hebrews" Israelites, broken the tablets because of their sin._. Was again with GOD to receive the LAW. If you continue through into Exodus 35, & rest of the books of Exodus, Hebrews 10, should be more clear.
then Isaiah 53, Psalms 22, John 18, John 19, to point to a few.
Hopefully these are helpful.
My nderstanding is that the work of Christ on the cross. Stretches. Forward to the end of time and backwards to creation, not just for the people of His days on earth. So, I believe "Gentiles" prior to Christ are saved by His work and grace including Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Japheth, and man of their descendants who live before there were Israelites, and even between Abraham and Jesus' time. It is up to God to judge all of this who lived from creation to the end of time, no us. He alone knows the hearts of all people and is the only righteous Judge
I think this is enough for now.
Our God is so great and amazing. He deserves our all.
I have been studying Hod's essence and attributes for the past month or so again, as I have done so in the past.
How please my heart is to be reminded of how wonderful He is.
I have purposely not cited Scripture verses for these thoughts because I would hope that those who want them would read up on this subject and find Scriptures cited by many who have written more extensively on this matter on a number of sites. These writers have done the work of searching the Scriptures for us. We would need to read the the whole Bible to get this knowledge. But, thankfully, others have done so, and we can read their findings and check out the Scripture verses to see if what is said in other their writings and Scripture align. I encourage people to do their own inquiry. They will be blessed. Having a truer view of who God really is is profitable to believers. In fact Jesus said that "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only True God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent."
John 17:3
After the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary had normal physical relations as a husband and wife would, but not before. Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus.
I remember hearing many, many years ago of missionaries going out to a people groups, both distant & isolated from any society - they had never seen any other faces apart from their own tribe & maybe a warring tribe. Though many of God's servants who go out to such unknown places are rarely received well & may soon lose their lives as being intruders or bringing forth 'another god'.
But we did hear of a couple of instances when those particular tribes, when they saw these 'white men', believing them to be gods, heard the Gospel & received it with joy & thanksgiving. No doubt great efforts to communicate were made prior to sharing Christ. Apparently, God had been preparing their hearts for this time (as He prepared His servants to be challenged to go out to the tribes), & these tribes had declared that for a very long time, they sensed that they were doing evil & had no knowledge or method of getting forgiveness & help, and as well, that they believed that someone would come one day to guide them. One could only envisage the joy on both the hearts of the hearers & the proclaimers, & the wonderful change wrought in each heart there with the assurance of being accepted by the Lord. These tribal folk knew absolutely nothing about God or the Gospel, but when hearing the Message, everything fell into place & they glorified the God of all flesh.
It's in the heart of every person to yearn for such Truth & help to live according to righteous standards. But many have turned to false gods & self-flagellation, or tried to deaden their evil consciences by good works or filling their lives with substitutes, so that even the liberating healing power of the Gospel becomes a Message for derision & hatred. Man will stand without excuse in that Day.
There is no place in the bible that mentions the USA in end-time prophecy. All end-time prophecy centers on the nation of Israel.
God never had a conflict within Himself, nor a true contradiction. He is completely true within Himself. His self-knowledge is complete. There is nothing about Himsrlf He does not know in full.
He knows all of the thoughts, plans, and actions of the all spiritual beings-those of the angels and heavenly hosts-and those of Satan and the hosts that rebelled against God.
He can never fool God or out maneuver Him.
We can ever hide anything from God. He knows us thoroughly through and through. Therefore, we may as well confess our sins, doubts, and failings to Hom because He already knows and He has determned that it is in our repentance and confession that He forgives us and works in us to overcome these things, having put each one to death in Christ eternally. We are often blinded to our sins and real motives, intentions, and contributing factors to our choices. We need the illumination of the Holy Spirit to reveal to us what is truly within us and what is faulty about our thinking or reasoning. The Spirit is in charge of maturing us spiritually, correcting our thinking, convicting us of sin, and changing us to be more and more like Jesus.
God is good because all goodness resides in Him. He will never do evil. He is the only and final determiner of what is good in His creatures.
He is the ultimate source of all goodness, therefore He will always give good things to those who ask of Him.
God is love and His love within the Trinity is everlasting and unchanging. God loves His creation. His love towards His creatures never ceases. Grace and mercy are manifestations of His love and goodness. He gives us what we don't deserve in grace. He did not offer grace to Satan and His followers. He does not give us what we justly deserve (His wrath and eternal separation from Him) in His mercy. He does not show mercy to Satan and His followers. Along with all of His attributes, His grace and mercy is fathomless.
....more later
Thanks
Whatever God wills will happen; His purposes and intent cannot be thwarted or overruled as He is the Sovereign over all creation. Therefore, He is all-powerful (omnipotent). There is no being or invention of man or Satan that can withstand Him and overcome Him. He created and sustains the universe and all creatures, natural laws, and forces by His power. Without Him, nothing else would exist or have life.
He is invisible, not made of any created substance, has no matter within Him. Therefore, He cannot be weighed because He is without mass. He is Spirit of the purest and uncontainable way. He does not take up space, but instead, He fills up all the universe with His Presence. He is not localized in one place, but can manifest His Presence as He wills. When this happens He is 100% present in the manifestation and at the same time 100% everwhere present (omni-present). This is how the Holy Spirit can be present in individuals in a full way and is not divided between us. He is 100% in each believer and 100% everywhere present at the same time. There is no limit to the number of believers He can fill with His presence, He is given to believers without measure.
God is all-wise; He does not lack any wisdom that anyone can give Him. He knows all things past, present, and future. (Omniscient) nothing can surprise Him. He knows all the thoughts, intentions, words, and actions every person will ever make. Yet, in His wisdom, He created mankind with freedom, therefore, He does not force anyone to do as He wishes, He just knows all and before time began He knew all and dyer mined His will according to His perfect and full knowledge of everything. He directs the course of history by His power, wisdom, and knowledge. Yet, we can pray and trust Him to bring perfect answers. Because He has perfect knowledge and wisdom, He is Truth. There is no falsehood in Him. He cannot say something to be true and later need to correct Himself. He knows every fact.... More later
You are correct.
God is all love, all just, all righteous, all, good, all wrath etc. He is the perfect Being and , although we speak of His attributes separately, they do not constitute individually "parts" of God. He is a perfect unity of all of His attributes as His One Essence. His Being is infinite, eternal, life in the most perfect way. His Being cannot be measured or quantified. As the source of all things, living and non, visible and invisible and all life comes from Him, God is the only absolutely necessary Being. We need Him, but He does not need anything or anyone, as He is perfectly complete, self-sustaining and sel-satisfied within Himself. Nothing can be added or subtracted to His Being; it is exclusive and cannot be multiplied, communicated, transferred, or, acquired by any other creature. His Being cannot be divided, broken into parts because it is not made of particles but is pure Spirit.
God's Being is Three Persons, not three gods, and each Person is 100% God. They live as a unity and all share equally the same divine essence to the fullest. For all eternity, these Persons are perfectly satisfied and fulfilled in their relationship within the Godhead. There is no power, attribute, nor will outside of God that He draws from or that compels Him, as He is completely free from outside authority, morality, or law that causes Him to act. He is completely independent of anyone or anything outside of Himself. He is absolutely pure and holy; there is no variation in His attributes; as He is always operating in all of them at once, even though in His with creation manifest certain attributes as viewed by His creatures. He does not increase or decrease His love or wrath at anytime, as that would indicate a change in His inherrent nature, but He executes his love and wrath according to the situation in time and space. He cannot change in His essential nature as any change would indicate a lack of perfection in His attributes... More later
The conflict over Israel is not the wrong DNA.
GOD said he will make a nation out of Abraham. Genesis 12:2.
God confirmed a covenant with Abraham and his seed afterwards. Genesis 17:7.
These promises was also confirmed with Isaac and Jacob.
It's the heir of promise given to Abraham.
Down through Isaac and Jacob that is fought over.
See: Galatians 4:29-30. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
The seed that was promised to come that would bless the world is Christ.
Galatians 3:16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
If you study the Genealogy of Christ you will see they're Gentiles in it. Ruth being one. and also Rahab.
God sanctified Israel and gave them the seal of circumcision. "A cutting away the filt of the flesh " Gentiles was considered unclean. but if the wanted to come into the camp and remain they had to be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12. And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
TODAY CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH NOTHING.
Galatians 5:6.
Galatians 6:15.
We become that new creature through our new birth in Christ. "Baptism of The Holyspirit ".
God bless.
Part 7 of 7.
(3) Gentiles were not required, but had the privilege of, joining the Hebrew family via the proselytization process (cf. Acts 2:10; 13:16). Additionally, there were many instructions in Moses' law designed to benefit the "strangers" (Gentiles) who came among Israelite people ( Leviticus 19:33ff).
(4) The Lord sent Jonah to the Gentiles of Nineveh ( Jonah 3:1). Archer said that the theme of the book of Jonah "is that God's mercy and compassion extend even to the heathen nations on condition of their repentance" (1964, 295). Jonah is sometimes called "the first apostle to the Gentiles."
(5) Four Gentile women were woven into the genealogical fabric of the Messiah-Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba-in both legal and biological senses ( Matthew 1:5-6; Luke 3:31-32).
(6) In addition, the prophets clearly revealed Jehovah's redemptive concern for the Gentiles, who were to be grafted into the New Testament church on an equal basis with the Jews ( Genesis 17:4; 22:18; Psalms 2:8; Isaiah 42:1, 6; 49:6; cf. Romans 11:1ff; Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 2:11ff).
Conclusion
There always has been a way for honest people to be right with their Creator-if they seek after him and choose to please him ( Acts 17:27ff). God so loved the entire world and gave his Son as a potential redeeming sacrifice for all who avail themselves of his gift ( John 3:16). He is the loving benefactor to everyone who submits to his will in faithful obedience ( 1 Timothy 2:4; Hebrews 5:8-9; cf. 2 Peter 3:9).
Article by Wayne Jackson.
I share this information for one to go over. I haven't had the time to do no more than glance over the beginning being I'm out town on business again.
Hopefully some others can share on this great question you asked.
God bless.
Part 6.
EVIDENCE OF DIVINE CONCERN FOR THE GENTILES. Continued.
(1) The practice of offering sacrifices as atonement, typically foreshadowing the coming of Jesus, apparently was a human requirement from the very commencement of history. Abel, son of Adam and Eve, brought the "firstlings of his flock and the fat thereof" ( Genesis 4:4). The offering must have been killed, otherwise he could not have presented the fat, which was the best part. Moreover, we are told that "righteous Abel" (so designated by Jesus [ Matthew 23:35]) offered his sacrifice "by faith" ( Hebrews 11:4), which, in the overall context of this chapter, clearly is an objective faith grounded in revelation, and not that which was subjectively whimsical.
When Noah departed from the ark after the waters of the flood subsided, he built an altar and offered sacrifices of every clean animal and bird, and Jehovah was pleased with his offering ( Genesis 8:20-21). What compelled him to do such?
Melchizedek, whom Abraham encountered on his return from the rescue of his nephew, was designated by Moses as a "priest of God Most High" ( Genesis 14:18). A priest is an appointed servant who officiates in the offering of sacrifices to atone for sin. The modernistic notion that Melchizedek was merely the "high god" priest of the Canaanites (e.g., Baal), worshipped in pre-Israelite Jerusalem, is absurd (Hicks 1962, 343). God would hardly have chosen a Baal-worshipper to be a type, prophetically previewing his Son ( Hebrews 7:3). See also Leupold (1942, 463).
(2) The entire world population was one in kind prior to the call of Abraham. He was the first to be designated a Hebrew ( Genesis 14:13). The Hebrews were not set apart as a distinct people until the giving of the law of Moses ( Exodus 19:5-6; cf. Ephesians 2:14). It is wholly unrealistic not to recognize that God's love for the Gentiles was a part of the ancient world.
See Part 7 of 7!
Part 5.
Incidentally, Hume conceded that there is no rational excuse for the worship of many gods.
Were men led into the apprehension of invisible intelligent power by contemplation of Nature, they could never possibly entertain any conception but of one single Being, who bestowed existence and order on this vast machine and adjusted all its parts to one regular system (quoted by Monser 1961, 494).
This speaks to the issue of the Gentile idolatry described in the context of Romans 1:20ff.
Professor Alan Johnson, a respected biblical scholar, tells of a missionary in northern Brazil who once observed a native enter his village. He was extremely nervous and fidgety, and his brow was covered with sweat. He seemed quite uneasy, even in the presence of his friends. Later, it was discovered that he had just killed a man from another tribe-although it was not considered wrong to kill a member of some other tribe, and he would not have been condemned by his peers. The man obviously was under the internal pressure of a guilty conscience (1976, 44; emphasis added).
The conscience is a part of the human package, and it demonstrates a moral chasm between men and women and other biological creatures of our planet ( Genesis 1:26-27).
EVIDENCE OF DIVINE CONCERN FOR THE GENTILES.
Though the Old Testament story is mainly the story of the Hebrews' role in God's wonderful plan for human redemption, there are numerous glimpses in the sacred literature of the early history of divine interest in, and provisions for, Gentile salvation.
See Part 6.
Part 4.
All rational human beings do have an intrinsic sense (a conscious awareness) that there is right and wrong. It is not perfectly defined in nature; that requires revelation. Nevertheless it is there, and it is universal. C. S. Lewis, one-time professor at Cambridge, wrote:
If anyone will take the trouble to compare the moral teaching of, say, the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how very like they are to each other and to our own (1960, 19; emphasis added).
Even more significant perhaps was the testimony of David Hume, the notoriously skeptical Scottish philosopher who was so militant against Christianity. In his volume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (published in 1749), he stated: It is universally acknowledged that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions; the same events follow from the same causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit; these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed through society, have been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprises which have ever been observed among mankind. Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English; you cannot be much mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature (1910, 37.VIII.I).
See Part 5.