pt.2 Israel:

Her History & Her Purpose

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pt.2 Israel:

Her History & Her Purpose 

Rom_9:4  Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
Rom 9:5  Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Heb_2:16  For verily he (Jesus) took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Heb 2:17  Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Rom_11:1  I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Rom 11:2  God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Rom 11:3  Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Rom 11:4  But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom 11:6  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Jas_1:1  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

I left the study the Assyrian captivity of the Northern 10 tribes.

Let me give you some quotes from historical sources and Apocrypha to show what the people of the Lord’s day said about where the Northern 10 tribes  had gone:

Josephus Antiquities. bk 11, ch5.v2

And when these Jews had understood what piety the king had towards God, and what kindness he had for Esdras, they were all greatly pleased; nay, many of them took their effects with them, and came to Babylon, as very desirous of going down to Jerusalem; but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Iomans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers.

Ma_12:19  And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.
1Ma 12:20  Areus king of the Lacedemonians to Onias the high priest, greeting:
1Ma 12:21  It is found in writing, that the Lacedemonians and Jews are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:
1Ma 12:22  Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye shall do well to write unto us of your prosperity.

2Es_13:39  And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;
2Es 13:40  Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
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2Es 13:45  For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
2Es 13:46  Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,

What also happened to the house of Judah?

Mat_1:17  So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

The seed of Abraham was passed from father to son, father to son for 14 generations ariving in David, and again arriving at the time of the son of David who was carried away captive into babylon, and that seed of David the seed of Abraham was passed on 14 generation until it arrived as Christ.

The kingdom of Babylon sacked Jerusalem and took Judah-Israel (Jews) into captivity for 70 years

Jer_25:11  And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer_25:12  And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

Lam_5:1  Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Lam 5:2  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lam 5:3  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lam 5:4  We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Lam 5:5  Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lam 5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lam 5:7  Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Lam 5:8  Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Lam 5:9  We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lam 5:10  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Lam 5:11  They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lam 5:12  Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Lam 5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lam 5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
Lam 5:15  The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Lam 5:16  The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Lam 5:17  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lam 5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Lam 5:19  Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
Lam 5:20  Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Lam 5:21  Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Lam 5:22  But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Jer_29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

And that Good Word is exactly what Mat_1:17 tells us as we read the words of:

Joh_1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2  The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Joh 1:4  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

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Joh 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

This is the Word that came to Abraham in a vision, the one Seed of which it was said by the Apostles:

Gal 3:6  Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

This Seed of Abraham’s was the focus of Abraham’s faith thereby imputing righteousness.

This was the righteous servant of Isaiah

Isa_42:1  Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Isa 42:2  He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
Isa 42:3  A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Isa 42:4  He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Israel had and has failed the righteousness of the Law, they are not the righteous servant
Isa 42:5  Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isa 42:6  I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isa 42:7  To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Isa 42:8  I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

He that does these mighty things and in fact takes nothing from the Glory due to YHWH.

As He is the Just and the justifier, he is the Righteous righteousness giver

Rom_3:26  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

The righteous servant that justifies by his knowledge and resurrection.

Isa_53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

This is the focus of history, the ages of the world are Christocentric in their revolutions, and the Apostles of Israel’s seed are but the people of God’s special Grace gifted with the task of carrying the Law of Christ and Hist Gospel as contained in this Holy Bible to all the scattered seeds of Jacob, scattered in the captivities as gentiles, alien nation made strange to the common wealth of Israel and the redemption to be sought in the Messiah.

But has God cast away His people whom He has foreknown? or does he have a task for those of Israel, especially those of Christ the true seeds of Abraham and Israel.

Rom_9:6  Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Rom 9:7  Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Rom 9:8  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

Gal_3:7  Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Gal 3:8  And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

True Israelites, True Sons of Abraham: His Witnesses

Isa_ 43:1  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isa 43:2  When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isa 43:3  For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
Isa 43:4  Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Isa 43:5  Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
Isa 43:6  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
Isa 43:7  Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isa 43:8  Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Isa 43:9  Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
Isa 43:10  Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isa 43:11  I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
Isa 43:12  I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

So God, casts away his people of promise the tribes of Israel, but what if this was all part of that mighty purpose of God, the spirit of Christ that the Prophets knew of, the time of reconciliation and regathering of Israel?

Rom_9:22  What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Rom 9:23  And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Rom 9:24  Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Rom_9:25  As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
Rom_9:26  And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

Hos 1:10  Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Hos 1:11  Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

Rom 9:27  Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Rom 9:28  For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Rom 9:29  And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

This is why in Isiah 53:8 it says “he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.”
These Gentile nations to become Christendom, the harbingers of the Word of God, His witness to the ends of the earth to bless all the families of the earth as Abraham’s seed and by Abraham’s Seed, are the scattered people of Israel.

Rom_9:30  What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Rom 9:31  But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Rom 9:32  Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Rom 9:33  As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

 A remnant according to the election of grace

Rom_11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom 11:6  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Rom 11:7  What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
Rom 11:8  (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
Rom 11:9  And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10  Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Rom 11:11  I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Rom 11:12  Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Rom 11:13  For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Rom 11:14  If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Rom 11:15  For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Many people speak of the doctrines of Grace, that is the idea that God gives certain gifts freely, when we speak of grace not all grace is salvific- that is some grace is common grace given to all life, some graces are dispensed to human life alone, and other common graces maybe given to specific groups, nations or races of humanity. In this text we see a proclamation of a specific common grace given to a particular people called Israel- a name meaning ‘ruling with God’ these are the descendants of Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Jacob being the man whom God bestowed the name Israel upon.
And while a common Grace was historically given to Israel as a nation, saving Grace was not given to all every Israelite or every Son of Abr, Isa, Jac; rather the history of racial or genetic Israel is a lens for us to consider the doctrines or election and grace as a whole.

Rom_9:6  Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Rom 9:7  Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
Rom 9:8  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
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Rom 9:15  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Rom 9:16  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

This is teaching us a lesson that if it is true of Israel, than it is standard truth.
that is as stated:

Rom 11:5  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Rom 11:6  And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Rom_11:7  What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

So God Chose Israel foremost to carry the Seed of Messiah as a stock of wheat carries a seed, but what of all those other elect persons who have received of the common grace of God specific to Israel, what of them?

Well, what we read from Romans 9:4-5: to Israel “pertaineth the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises, of whome came the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came,”

Well, this is quite a common grace.
The Word of God further tells us,
Ps 147:19-20 SMP:

The doctrine of His Holy Word to Jacob He doth show

His statutes and His judgments He gives Israel to know

To any nation he never such favor did afford;

for they his judgments have not known

O do ye Praise the LORD!

Well this is quite a common grace, and yet what did Paul say: “the election hath obtained what Israel should have sought for but the rest of Israel were blinded.”

Blinded how?

Isa_42:19  And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them? yea, the servants of God have been made blind.
Isa 42:20  Ye have often seen, and have not taken heed; your ears have been opened, and ye have not heard.
Isa 42:21  The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify his praise.
Isa 42:22  And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
Isa 42:23  Who is there among you that will give ear to these things? hearken ye to the things which are coming to pass.
Isa 42:24  For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God do it against whom they sinned? and they would not walk in his ways, nor hearken to his law.
Isa 42:25  So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew it, neither did they lay it to heart.

Here is his blindness

Amo 3:1  Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amo 3:2  You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Here is the vast majority of Israel, the people of the specific common Grace, they are elect with a specific election but blind, they are given grace as the people of God’s adoption, glory, covenants, law, service of God, and promises, they are descendants of the patriarchs, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came from them- but they are blind.
Sure the blindness as spoken of Isiah and Amos caused a nation and racial Deuteronomy 30 scattering among the nations and blindness of historical Identity is a repercussion of the blindness of the purpose of God’s Election and Grace, the blindness which come by sin against the LORD and his Christ, as
Eph_2:12
“ without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world”

Here is blindness: Eph_4:17-20
to walk as Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 

But yet the Apostle says:

Eph 4:20  But ye have not so learned Christ; 

reaching back to

Eph 2:13  But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 

How?

Luk_4:17  And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias (61:1). And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20  And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21  And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Eph 4:21  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
Eph 4:22  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:23  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Eph 4:24  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

The Israelite that can do this is an Israelite indeed.

The focal point of the purpose and history of Israel: Jesus Christ, the Seed of the Woman, the Seed of Abraham’s promise, the purpose of the adoption, the purpose of glory, the purpose of covenants, the purpose of the giving of the law, the purpose of the service of God, the purpose of and promises, and the History of the patriarchal fathers is Christ come in the flesh.