For
those who may want to look into this for themselves, below is a
sampling the kind of points that must be considered. The Jews have never
fulfilled the majority of the promises that God gave to Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, and his sons including Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manassas.
This is because when these promises were given they all went into the
"Birthright" which went from Abraham to Isaac to Jacob and from Jacob
they began to be divided by God among the sons of Jacob. Judah, one of
Jacob's sons was given the portion of the Birthright that included the
scepter and lawmaking but none of the other promises went to Judah "The
Jews" (Genesis 49:10). When for example have the Jews been known chiefly
by Isaac's name, as God told Abraham "In Isaac shall thy seed be
called"? Yet our race is known by Isaac's name as "Sons of Isaac" or
Isaac's Sons or Saxons, also Caucasians because the migration took
the ten tribes through the Caucuses Mountains where the Israelite
tribes "disappeared" but this mysterious multitude came from that same
place to be known as Saxons.
2 Esdras 13:
39 - And as for your
seeing him gather to himself another multitude that was peaceable,
40 - these are the ten
tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of
King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took
them across the river, and they were taken into another land.
41 - But they formed this
plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go
to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived,
42 - that there at least
they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land.
43 - And they went in by
the narrow passages of the Euphrates river.
44 - For at that time the
Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until
they had passed over.
45 - Through that region
there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is
called Arzareth.
46 - "Then they dwelt
there until the last times; and now, when they are about to come again,
47 - the Most High will
stop the channels of the river again, so that they may be able to pass over.
Therefore you saw the multitude gathered together in peace.
48 - But those who are
left of your people, who are found within my holy borders, shall be saved.
49 - Therefore when he
destroys the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he will
defend the people who remain.
50 - And then he will show
them very many wonders."
51 - I said, "O
sovereign Lord, explain this to me: Why did I see the man coming up from the
heart of the sea?"
52 - He said to me,
"Just as no one can explore or know what is in the depths of the sea, so
no one on earth can see my Son or those who are with him, except in the time of
his day.
I think this answers some of the objections raised
by Pastor Bob. It says the journey was long and hard but that God was
with them and performed miracles for them.
Continuing:
When
have the Jews dwelt in islands and coasts of the earth as God
repeatedly addresses His people Israel as dwelling in? Or When have the
Jews had the name "Great" associated with them as God promised Israel
they would? When have the Jews been the envy of all other nations? When
have the Jews been God's custodians of His word to the rest of the
nations? If it were not for the British and American Bible Societies,
the Jews would not even have their own scriptures today. If The US and
Britain are not Israel then God has chosen a new oracle people to take
His word to the nations because no other people have done the spreading
of the gospel to the world like America and Britain has. When have the
Jews been a
people terrible from their beginning hitherto and been able to say that
no weapon formed against them would prosper? Only for a short while
under David but not most of history. One famous infidel lost his faith
and claimed the Bible was faulty because the promises that God gave
supposedly to the Jews were instead being fulfilled by the British
Commonwealth and American peoples. This is not replacement theology but
placement where it always was initially, squarely on God's people Israel
but who would be known for a long time as "Not My People" (another
title never put on the Jews who have always been known as "God's Chosen
People") but in the place where this people were known as not His
people, there they would become known as Children of the Most High God.
God said that in the latter days He would once again join the two
nations, 1. Judah and 2. Israel (aka Joseph aka Ephraim) and make of the
two one nation again which is yet to happen but will take
place during the tribulation after the church is removed from earth and
God begins dealing with Israel and Judah again, and when all other
nations gather together against the one re-joined whole house of Israel.
Ezekiel 38 and 39 CANNOT happen until Ezekiel 37 happens first!
Ezekiel
37: 16. Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon
it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and
for all the house of Israel his companions:
17. And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18.
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt
thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19.
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick
of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and
the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with
the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in
mine hand.
How
can this be if as Pastor Bob says, they have always been one? They
became two beginning in 1 Kings 11. I'm not advocating the "cult" of
"British Israelism" or anything of Herbert W Armstrong but the truth of
the scripture and of history itself is nevertheless valid. Bob's
arguments against this are answered above from 2 Esdras but I will paste
here a portion of his objections:
(To
me, such arguments as these could be used to counter the entire Bible
ex. Noah and the ark, Jonah and the whale, David and Goliath... If you
take God away from the story, it all becomes unlikely, doesn't it?)
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It
is possible that the deported Israelites emigrated to England,
however, the distance and travel conditions would have been extremely
difficult, in ancient time, especially for a large number of people
fleeing as a group. Geographically speaking, Afghan-Israelism and even
Chinese-Israelism or even Japanese-Israelism have a greater possibility
of occurring than British-Israelism. Furthermore, why would Assyria,
or later Babylon, or later Persia allow the Israelites to migrate
outside of their territories? Futhermore, if the Israelites had the
ability to migrate, why would they migrate to Europe/England instead of
back to
their ancestral homeland? So, while it is possible that some
Israelites migrated to Europe/England, it is highly unlikely that this
occurred to any significant degree.
The primary
goal behind British-Israelism is to claim that England and the USA have
inherited the covenant promises God made to Israel
["Replacement Theology"]. While England and the USA have been blessed
by God in many ways, it is not because God's promises to Israel have
been transferred to those two nations. God's covenant with Israel
always involved the specific land of Israel.
There is no way that England and the USA are the legitimate heirs of
God's promises to the Jews, as those two nations today do not possess
the Promised Land. British-Israelism is merely an attempt to disown or
dislodge the Jews of their birth
right.
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Again
the promises were not "transferred" to these nations they always were
to these nations not to the Jews. Tell me, when has Jesus been a light
to lighten the JEWS and the glory of His people the Jews? He has not
been so far because their eyes are blinded for the most part until the
fullness of the Israelite Gentiles comes in, the Lost Sheep of the House
of Israel (Matt 10:6, 15:24) unto whom Jesus sent His disciples and the
ones that He Himself said He was sent to. Jesus is a light to lighten
the GENTILES and the Glory of His People, Israel! The divorced wife
(Israel) has more children than the undivorced wife (Judah). Paul was
one born out of due season because he was a JEW who came to know Jesus
ahead of most of the rest of the tribe of Judah who will not see Jesus
until they look on Him whom they pierced and say
"Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord..." This also explains
why when Gog and Magog surround Israel in the Holy Land that an evil
thought also comes into their mind to GO UP to a land (a different place
than the one they are already attacking) of unwalled villages all
dwelling safely having neither bars nor gates etc. They are going to
attack the USA, God's people Israel at the same time that they attack
Israel in the Holy Land by coming up from Central America where they
have been biding their time (ask Col Oliver North about that) and people
here will cry out to God and God will intervene and you know the rest.
I found this video that at least summarizes some of these points pretty well:
And then there are some points to consider here from E. Raymond Capt:
It is hoped that the truths
expressed in this booklet have renewed faith in God, and in the inspiration of
the Bible, and have created an
interest in a more complete understanding of God's dealing with the man
Abraham whose remarkable destiny
the world has yet to understand and to reckon with.
APPENDIX
THE MARKS OF
ISRAEL
How strange it is, that with all
the definite and positive assurances in the Word of God as to Israel's
continuance for ever as a Nation,
there has never been any continued or persistent effort on the part of
genuine Bible believers to find
them. That they have been content to let them fade away and vanish into
nothingness is surely a deep
reproach on all true Christians.
There is, however, one probable
explanation. It was GOD'S WILL AND PURPOSE TO HIDE THEM.
While the Jews (some of whom are
only a part of the House of Judah) occupied the stage, and even
called themselves
"Israel", God could work unhindered with and in "Lost
Israel", till he had finished his
predetermined work and without
them knowing they were the people of the Book. Only as Israel's time
of punishment had run out with
the whole of God's purposes at the point of complete fulfillment, was the
identity of Israel to become
known.
However, it is a matter of
inspired record that God placed "marks" on His people Israel. During
the
Christian dispensation, Lost
Israel was to possess these marks of identification. So then, if we can
discover the nations and people
with Israel's marks, we have found the people whom God chose to serve
Him to be a channel of blessing
to all mankind. The God-given marks are very many, and while the
following list is not exhaustive,
they constitute a chain of evidence utterly impossible to ignore.
One race, and one race alone, has
all these marks. Nations within this race may have only a portion of
them, but the race as a whole has
them all. With a few exceptions, Joseph (the birthright nation) was the
recipient of them all. By
inheritance, his two sons, Ephraim (Great Britain) and Manasseh (U.S.A.) will
be found possessing them all.
While Israelites remain in other
countries. America is the home of millions of all the thirteen tribes (one
out of many) and thus is
representative of the whole House of Jacob. We are bound by Israel's
responsibilities, fulfilling
Israel's destiny. The MARKS are on us everywhere; in our NAME; in our
SABBATH; in our INSTITUTIONS; in
our PHILANTHROPY; in our COMMERCE; in our WEALTH;
in our MINES; in our AGRICULTURE;
in our CHURCHES; in our MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES; in
our ARMED FORCES; in our
POSSESSION OF THE BIBLE; - all BIRTHMARKS, which neither
time, nor the ages, nor even our
sin can wipe out.
1. Israel to be a great and
mighty nation.
Gen. 12:2; 18:18; Deut. 4:7,8.
2. Israel to have multitudinous
seed.
Gen. 13:16; 15:5; 22:17; 24:60;
26:4. 24; 28:3. 14; 32:12; 49:22;
Isa. 10:22; Hos. 1:10; Zech.
10:7,8.
3. Israel to spread abroad to the
West, East, North and South.
Gen. 28:14; Isa. 42:5. 6.
4. Israel to have a new home.
II Sam. 7:10; I Chron. 7:9.
5. Israel's home to be north-west
of Palestine.
Isa. 49:12; Jer. 3:18
6. Israel to live in islands and
coasts of the earth.
Isa. 41:1; 49:1-3; 51:5; Jer.
31:7-10.
7. Israel to become a company of
nations.
Gen. 17:4 - 6.15.16; 35:11;
48:19; Eph. 2:12.
8. Israel to have a Davidic King
(a perpetual monarchy within Israel).
II Sam. 7:13.19; I Chron. 22:10;
II Chron. 13:5; Isa, 89:20, 37; Ezek. 37:24; Jer. 33:17, 21. 26.
9. Israel to colonize and spread
abroad.
Gen. 28:14; 49:22; Deut. 32:8;
33:17; Psa. 2:8; Isa. 26:15; 27:6; 54:2; Zech. 10:8. 9.
10. Israel to colonize the
desolate place of the earth.
Isa. 35:1; 43:19, 20; 49:8; 54:3;
58:11, 12.
11. Israel to lose a colony, then
expand, demanding more room.
Isa. 49:19. 20.
12. Israel to have all the land
needed.
Deut. 32:8.
13. Israel to be the first among
the nations.
Gen. 27:29; 28:13; Jer. 31:7.
14. Israel to continue as a
nation for ever.
II Sam. 7:16, 24. 29; I Chron.
17:22 - 27; Jer. 31:35 - 37.
15. Israel's home to be
invincible by outside forces.
II Sam. 7:10; Isa. 41:11-14.
16. Israel to be undefeatable -
defended by God.
Num. 24:8. 9; Isa. 15 -17; Micah
5:8, 9.
17. Israel to be God's
instruments in destroying evil.
Jer. 51:20; 51:19 - 24; Dan.
2:34. 35.
18. Israel to have a land of
great mineral wealth.
Gen. 49:25. 26; Deut. 8:9; 33:15
-19.
19. Israel to have a land of
great agricultural wealth.
Gen. 27:28; Deut. 8:7. 9; 28:11;
33:13. 14. 28.
20. Israel to be rich by trading.
Isa. 60:5-11; 61:6.
21. Israel to be envied and
feared by all nations.
Deut. 2:25; 4:8; 28:10; Isa.
43:4; 60:10, 12; Micah 7:16. 17:Jer-33:9.
22. Israel to lend to other
nations, borrowing of none.
Deut. 15:6; 28:12.
23. Israel to have a new name.
Isa. 62:2; 65:15; Hos. 2:17.
24. Israel to have a new
language.
Isa. 28:11 (The Bible, by means
of which God speaks now to Israel, is English not Hebrew).
25. Israel to possess the gates
of his enemies.
Gen. 22:17.
26. Israel to find the aborigines
diminishing before them.
Deut. 33:17; Isa. 60:12; Jer.
31:7 -10.
27. Israel to have control of the
seas.
Deut. 33:19; Num. 24:7; Psa.
89:25; Isa. 60:5 (F. Fenton translates this last, "when rolls up to you
all the
wealth of the sea". That
could not be unless Israel controlled it).
28. Israel to have a new religion
(New Covenant).
Heb. 8:10 - 13; 9:17; Matt. 10:5
- 7; Luke 1:77; 2:32; 22:20; John 11:49 - 52; Gal. 3:13.
29. Israel to lose all trace of
her lineage.
Isa. 42:16 -19; Hos. 1:9,10; 2:6;
Rom. 11:25.
30. Israel to keep Sabbath for
ever (one day in seven set aside).
Ex. 31:13,16,17; Isa. 58:13,14.
31. Israel to be called the sons
of God (i.e.. accept Christianity).
Hos. 1:10 -11.
32. Israel to be a people saved
by the Lord.
Deut. 33:27 - 29; Isa. 41:8 -14;
43:1 - 8; 44:1 - 3; 49:25, 26; 52:1 -12; 55:3 -10,13; Jer. 46:27. 28; Ezek.
34:10 -16; Hos. 2:23; 13:9-14;
14:4, 6.
33. Israel to be the custodians
of the Oracles (Scriptures) of God.
Psa. 147:19. 21; Isa. 59:21.
34. Israel to carry the Gospel to
all the world.
Gen. 28:14; Isa. 43:10 - 12
(witnesses). 21; Micah 5:7.
35. Israel to be kind to the poor
and set slaves free.
Deut. 15:7.11; Psa. 72:4; Isa.
42:7; 49:9; 58:6.
36. Israel to be the heir of the
world.
Rom. 4:13.
37. Israel to be God's Glory.
Isa. 46:13; 49:3; 60:1. 2.
38. Israel to possess God's Holy
Spirit as well as His Word.
Isa. 44:3; 59:21; Hagg. 2:5.
39. Israel to be God's Heritage,
formed by God. for ever.
Deut. 4:20; 7:6; 14:2; II Sam.
7:23; I Kings 8:51, 53; Isa. 43:21; 54:5-10; Hos. 2:19, 23; Joel 2:27;
Micah 7:14 -18.
40. Israel is the nation
appointed to bring glory to God.
Isa. 41:8 -16; 43:10.21; 44:23;
49:3.
"YE SEED OF ISRAEL'S CHOSEN
RACE,
YE RANDSOMED OF THE FALL,
HAIL HIM WHO SAVES YOU BY HIS
GRACE,
AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL."
NAMES GOD GAVE
TO ISRAEL
ANCIENTS (Is. iii, 14;
xxiv, 23; Jer. xix, I; Ezek. vii. 26; viii. II).
ANOINTED (I Chr. xvi. 22;
Ps. ii. 2; cv. 15; Hab. iii. 13; Zech. iv, 14.
BATTLE-AXE (Jer. li. 20).
BELOVED (Ps. Ix. 5; Is
v. I; Rom. xi. 28).
DEARLY BELOVED (Jer. xxxi. 20).
BETROTHED (Hos. ii. 19).
BLESSED (Gen. xii. 2;
xiv. 19; xviii. 18; Deut. vii. 14; Ps. xxxiii. 12; Is. li. 2; Ixi, 9; Ixv, 23).
BLESSING (Gen. xii, 2. 3;
xxviii. 4; Deut. xxxiii. I. 16; Ps. iii, 8; Is. xix. 24; Ixv. 8; Zee. viii. 13;
Gal.
iii, 14; Heb. vi, 14).
BRANCH (Ps. Ixxx. 15;
Is. vi, 2; Ix. 21).
BRIDE (Is. Ixii. 5;
Jer. xxxiii. II; Joel ii. 16).
CHIEF OF NATIONS
(Jer.
xxxi. 7).
CHILDREN (Deut. xiv. I; I
Chr. xvi. 13; Ps. Ixxxii. 6; Is. xlix.23;Joelii.23).
CHILDREN OF ZION
(Ps.
cxlix, 2).
LOVED CHILD (Hos. xi. I).
PLEASANT CHILD (Jer. xxxi, 20).
CHOSEN (Deut. vii, 6;
xiv. 2; Ps. cv, 6; cxxxv. 4; Is. xli. 9; xliii. 10; xlvii. 10)
CHOSEN
GENERATION (I
PET. II. 9).
CONGREGATION (Num. xvi. 3;
Ps. Ixviii. 10; Ixxiv. 2; Joel ii,16).
CONSECRATED (Ex. xxxii. 29;
I Chr. xxix. 5; 2 Chr. xxix. 5; 2 Chr. xxix. 31; Ezek. xliii. 26; Micah
iv. 13).
DELIGHT (Deut. x. 15).
DEW FROM THE
LORD (Micah
v, 7).
ROYAL DIADEM (Is. Ixii. 3).
DOMINION (Ps. cxvii. 4;
Ixviii. 34).
ETERNAL
EXCELLENCY (Is.
Ix. 15).
SWORD OF
EXCELLENCY (Deut.
xxxiii. 29).
FIRSTBORN (Ex. iv. 22;
Jer. xxxi. 9).
FIRSTFRUITS OF
INCREASE (Jer.
ii. 3).
FLOCK (Is. xl. II;
Jer. xiii, 17. 20; xxiii. 2; xxxi. 10; Ezek. xxxvi. 38; Micah vii, 14; Zee. ix,
16; I Pet.
v, 2).
FOUNTAIN (Deut. xxxiii.
28; Ps. Ixviii. 26).
FRUIT (Is. xxvii. 6:
Ezek. xvii. 8; Hos. xiv. 8; Matt. xxi, 43).
WATERED GARDEN (Is. Iviii. II;
Jer. xxxi, 12).
GLORIFIED (Is. xxvi. 15;
xliv. 23; Iv. 5; Ix. 9).
GLORY (Is. xliii, 7;
xlvi. 13; Ix. 7; Luke ii, 32).
CROWN OF GLORY (Is. Ixii. 3;
Zee. ix, l6).
HEIRS OF PROMISE
(Heb.
vi. 17).
HEIRS OF
SALVATION (Heb.
i. 14).
HEIRS OF THE
WORLD (Rom.
iv. 13).
HERITAGE (Is. liv. 17;
Joel ii, 17; iii, 2; Micah vii. 14. 18; I Pet. v. 3).
SPIRITUAL HOUSE (Eph. ii. 21.
22; I Pet. ii. 5).
INHERITANCE (Deut. ix, 26.
29; I Kings viii. 51; Ps. xxxiii. 12; Ixviii. 9; cvi, 5; Is. xix. 25; bdii,
17).
PEOPLE OF
INHERITANCE (Deut.
iv. 20).
ROD OF
INHERITANCE (Ps.
Ixxiv. 2; Jer. xi. 16; Ii, 19).
JEWELS (Is. Ixii. 3;
Mal. iii. 17).
JOY OF MANY
NATIONS (Is.
Ix. 15).
KINGS (Is. xlix. 7.
23).
KINGDOM OF GOD (Matt. xxi, 43).
KINGDOM (Ex. xix, 6;
Num. xxiv. 7; Deut. xvii. 20).
LAW GIVERS Ps. Ixxviii. 5;
cxlvii. 19; Is. xlii. 4; Ii. 7).
LIGHT (Is. Ii. 4; Ix,
3; Luke ii, 32).
GREAT LION (Num. xxiii, 24;
Micah v. 8).
YOUNG LIONS (Is. v. 29;
Ezek. xix. 2; xxxviii. 13).
LOT (Deut. xxxii.
9).
EVERLASTING LOVE
(Deut.
vii, 8; Jer. xxxi. 3; Hos. xi. I).
MIGHTY MEN (Joel iii. 9;
Nah. ii. 3; Zech. x. 5).
VALIANT MEN (Nah. ii. 3).
MERCHANTS OF
TARSHISH (Ezek.
xxxviii, 13).
MESSENGERS (Is. xiv. 32;
xlii. 19;xliv. 26).
MESSENGERS OF
THE COVENANT (Mal.
iii. I).
MINISTERS (Is. Ixi. 6).
BLESSED NATION (Ps. xxxiii.
12).
EVERLASTING
NATION (Gen.
xvii. 5, 6; I Chr. xvii. 21, 22; 2 Sam. vii, 23. 24; Ezek. xxxvii. 12-28;
Luke i, 33. 55).
GREAT NATION (Gen. xii. 2;
Deut. iv. 6. 8).
GREAT AND MIGHTY
NATION (Gen.
xviii. 18).
HOLY NATION (Ex. xix. 6; I
Pet. ii, 9).
ISLAND NATION (Is. xxiv, 14;
xli. I; xliii. 4. 5. 10; xlix, I 19; Jer. xxxiii. 8; xxxi, 10).
MIGHTY NATION (Is. xxvi, 2).
NATION WHOSE GOD
IS THE LORD (Ps.
xxxiii. 12; cxliv. 15).
NATION &
COMPANY OF NATIONS (Gen.
xxxv. 11).
RIGHTEOUS NATION
(Ps.
cxviii, 19. 20; Is. xxvi. 2; Hos. ii. 19).
STRONG NATION (Is. Ix, 22;
Micah iv.7).
WEALTHY NATION (Jer. xlix, 31).
ACCEPTED ONES (Is. Ivi, 7;
Ezek. xx, 41; I Pet. ii. 5).
GATHERED ONES (Is. xxvii. 12;
liv. 7; Ivi. 8; Jer. xxix, 14; xxxi. 10; Ezek. xxviii, 25).
LOVED ONES (Deut. iv. 27).
MARRIED ONES (Jer. iii. 14;
Hos. ii. 19).
REVIVED ONES (Ps. Ixxxv. 6;
Hos. vi, 2).
SANCTIFIED ONES (Is. xiii. 3;
Ezek. xx. 41; xxxix. 27).
SAVED ONES (Deut. xxxiii.
29; Ps. xliv. 7; Is. xiv. 22; Luke i. 71).
OUTCASTS (Ps. cxlvii. 2;
Is. xi. 13).
PASTURE (Ps. xcv. 2).
PEOPLE OF THE
GOD OF ABRAHAM (Ps.
xlvii. 9).
HIS PEOPLE (Ex. vi. 7;
Deut. xxxii, 9; 2 Chr. ii. II; Ps. Ixxviii. 71; Luke vii. 16).
PEOPLE CHOSEN
FOR HIS OWN INHERITANCE (Ps. xxxiii, 12).
COLONISING
PEOPLE (Is.
xxxv, I; xlix. 8).
COVENANT PEOPLE (Gen. xvii. 7;
xxii, 16; Ps. cv, 8. 9, 10; Ezek. xxxvii, 26; Luke i. 73; Heb. vi,
13).
HOLY PEOPLE (Deut. xiv, 2;
xxvi, 18; I Pet. ii. 9).
PUSHING PEOPLE (Num. xxiii. 22;
Deut. xxxiii. 17; Is. xxxiv. 7).
PURCHASED PEOPLE
(Ex.
xv, 6; Ps. Ixxiv. 2).
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE
(Is.
Ix. 21).
SEPARATE PEOPLE (Num. xxiii. 9;
Deut. xxxiii. 28).
SPECIAL PEOPLE (Deut. vii. 6).
PLEASANT PLANT (Is. v. 7).
PLANTING (Is. Ixi, 3).
PORTION (Deut. xxxii,
9).
PURCHASED
POSSESSION (Eph.
i. 14).
PRAISE (Deut. xxvi. 19;
Is. xliii, 21).
KINGDOM OF
PRIESTS (Ex.
xix. 6).
HOLY PRIESTHOOD (I Pet. ii. 5,
9).
ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
(I
Pet. ii. 9).
PRIESTS OF THE
LORD (Is.
Ixi, 6).
RANSOMED (Is. xxxv. 10;
Jer. xxxi. II; Hos. xiii. 14).
REDEEMED (Is. xliv, 23;
xlviii, 20; Ixii. 12; Jer. xxxi. II).
REJOICING (Is. Ixii. 5;
Ixv. 13, 19; Ixvi, 10. 14; Jer. xxxii, 42).
REMNANT (Is. xlvi. 3;
Jer. xxiii. 3).
RESIDUE (Is. xxviii. 5;
Zee. viii, II).
TREES OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS (Is.
Ixi. 3).
SAINTS (Deut. xxxiii,
3; Ps. 1, 5; Ixxxv. 8; xcvii, 10; cxlvii, 14; Dan. vii. 27).
SANCTIFIED [Lev. xxi, 23;
Is. xiii, 3; Ezek. xx, 41; xxxix, 27; Heb. x, 14.
SANCTUARY (Ex. xv. 17;
xxv, 8; Ps. cxiv, 2; Is. xliii, 28; Ezek. xxxvii, 28).
SEED THE LORD
HATH BLESSED (Is.
Ixi. 9).
SERVANTS (Ps. Ixix, 36;
Is. xli. 8, 9; xliii. 21; Ixv. 9 13, 15).
SHEEP (Ps. Ixxiv, I;
xcv, 7; c, 3; Jer. xxxi. 10; Ezek. xxxiv. 11, 12).
LOST SHEEP (Jer. I. 6;
Matt. x, 6; xv. 24).
SHIELDS OF THE
EARTH (Ps.
xlvii. 9).
SHIELD OF HELP (Deut. xxxiii,
29; Ps. cxv. 9, 10. 11).
SHIELD OF MIGHTY
MEN (Nah.
ii. 3).
SHIPS OF
TARSHISH (Is.
Ix. 9).
SON (Ex. iv. 22; Is.
xlii. 6; xlv, II; Hos. i, 10; xi, I; John i. 12; 2 Cor. vi. 18). DEAR SON (Jer.
xxxi,
20).
LIVELY STONES (Eph. ii, 21,
22; I Pet. ii. 5).
STRENGTH (Ps. Ix. 7;
Ixviii. 35; Deut. xxxiii. 17).
TABERNACLE (Lev. xxvi, 11.
12; Ezek. xxxvii. 27; Amos ix, 11; Acts vii, 44, 46; xv. 10).
TEMPLE (I Cor. iii. 16.
17; 2 Cor. vi. 16; Eph. ii. 21. 22).
TESTIMONY (Ps. Ixxviii. 5;
cxxxii. 12; cxlvii. 19).
PECULIAR
TREASURE (Ex.
xviii, 5; Ps. cxxxv. 4).
GREEN OLIVE TREE
(Jer.
xi. 16; Rom xi. 17).
TRIBES (Ps. cxxii, 4;
Is. xlix. 6; Ixiii. 17).
THRONE (Deut. xvii. 18;
2 Sam. vii, 13; I Chr. xxii. 10; Ps. xxxix, 4; Jer. xiv, 21; Ezek. xliii, 7).
VINE (Ps. Ixxx. 8;
Jer. vi, 9; Ezek. xvii. 6; Hos. xiv, 7).
NOBLEVINE (Jer.ii.21).
GOODLY VINE (Ezek. xvii, 8).
VINEYARD (Ps. Ixxx. 15-.
Is. v; Jer. xii. 10).
VIRGIN (Jer. xxxi, 4.
21; Amos v, 2).
WANDERERS (Hos. ix. 17).
WEAPONS OF WAR (Jer. Ii. 20).
WITNESSES (Is. xliii. 10,
12; xliv. 8).
"Hearken to
me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: Look unto the
rock whence
ye are hewn, and
to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham, your father,
and
unto Sarah that
bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him... Hearken
unto
me, my people;
and give ear unto me, O my nation."
Isaiah 51:
1-2.4.
This "Outline" of the
Identity of God's people as revealed by the study of God's Covenant with
Abraham
was compiled as a guide-line for
study. No infallibility is claimed for the opinions expressed herein.
Much research and study is still
necessary before every facet of this wonderful truth is known in all its
perfection. This remains to be
done by honest and sincere searchers for truth, who may not only correct
errors but add to our
understanding of God's truth. To gain this knowledge - Search the
Scriptures.
E. Raymond Capt
"Our eyes are holden that we
cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour arrives when the
mind is ripened. Then we behold
them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream."
(R. W. Emerson)