Shalom Barry,

         http://www.barrychamish.com/

Again ... so very glad you survived another attack on
your life!

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Please ... NOTE this part with special attention:
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"The genius of God in the mystery of Israel is not
merely His purpose for Israel, or even the Church
role in that restoration, but it is the profoundest
revelation of GOD HIMSELF AS HE in fact IS.

In Romans chapters 9 through to 11, there are many
references to one principal word: MERCY!

Mercy is a central attribute of God Himself.

When the knowledge of God shall cover the earth as the
waters cover the seas, it will be the revelation of
the mercy of God, what God Himself is.

Something of Gods mercy is going to be revealed in His
final dealing with Israel, as will not be seen in any
other place. If we lose the mystery of Israel, we are
not only losing the dynamic of Gods dealing with that
nation, but we are losing God in the way in which He
chooses to communicate and reveal Himself. What then
is the knowledge of God that we are presently
communicating?

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Is it sufficient to call men to repentance?
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We need to ask what Gods purpose was in electing
Israel as a nation.

Why did God need to have an earthly representative? He
employs men in His purposes, but Israel, as a nation,
is called to show God forth. Israel was to be a
literal, physical and visible presence in the earth,
communicating the reality of God by the visible
demonstration of the glory that God has invested in
His people. In fact, when you really get to the
question, can there be glory except it be exhibited
through an earthen vessel? Can glory be glory except
it has a structure that shows it forth be it a
tabernacle, a temple, an individual believer, a
fellowship, or a nation? That is why Paul ends chapter
3 of Ephesians with,

   ... to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ
Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

This is astonishingly literal, a habitation of God by
the Spirit in a people who are joined together, who
have been fitted together where His Spirit is not
grieved, or alienated, and can abide and dwell.

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That is why the nations will come up to Jerusalem in
the millennial age, because His glory will dwell
there. It will be His sanctuary, His tabernacle and
His dwelling place.
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For Paul, the revelation of Gods glory is the whole
issue. To him, both the restoration of Israel and the
role of the Church are means to the greater end.

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The issue is, and has always been, the glory of God,
and that He should be glorified forever.
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The significance of Israel in the Last Days, restored
through the instrumentality of the Church, is that
this will be the LAST time when this issue can be met
and answered.

Gods glory is going to be visibly demonstrated at the
end of the age by Israels restoration through the
Church, but it is a glory of such a kind

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   that it endures FOREVER.
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Once the age ends, there is NO longer a second shot at
it. You canNOT go back and do it over.

The (GOD apponted) key is not Israel, but the Church
as an active, dynamic agent of God operating out of
its own freedom to fulfill its enormous mandate,
namely, to be Israels "deliverer."

The Church is the key, but NOT a Church that is having
its arm twisted, but one who freely and voluntarily
gives itself for the fulfillment of these purposes.

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You cannot understand how jealous God is for His own
glory, and that He will not allow any flesh to boast.
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God literally means this. The whole mystery is from
Him; the fulfillment will be through Him in order that
the glory be to Him forever. This puts the Church on a
radical ground.
 

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Is that descriptive of the modern Churchs mode of
operating now?
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Can the Church say that what we do and what we are
about is through Him, or even from Him, or necessarily
to Him?
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Paul is absolutely insistent on this formula. The
mystery of Israel will not be fulfilled on any other
basis than from Him, through Him, and to Him (Romans
11:36a)."

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Baruch HaShem!
Psalm 103 is true and so is the whole BIBLE!
 
 
 
 

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