August, 2011
Jews & Followers of Jesus (Yahshua Ha’Mashiach) Are Fellow Heirs & One Nation Under God
“...I will bring (my) children from the east and gather (them) from the west. I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth―
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.” (
Isaiah 43:5-7)...So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD,
Even all the Gentiles who are called by (His) name... (
Acts 15:13-19)
“My people have been lost sheep...” (
Jeremiah 50:6)
Jesus said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” (
Matthew 15:24)My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. (
John 10:27)
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I myself will search for my sheep and look after them…I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land.
I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel… (
Ezekiel 34:11-16)
Genesis 48:19 declares that the descendants of Ephraim would become many nations.…The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when
I will bring my people Israel (Including Ephraim) and Judah (Jews) back from captivity and
restore them to the land I gave their ancestors to possess,’ says the LORD.” (
Jeremiah 30:1-7)
Judah’s enemies will be destroyed; Ephraim (fullness of nations who follow Jesus) will not be jealous of Judah (the Jews), nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim. They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them. (
Isaiah 11:13-14)I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone.
I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be
one king over all of them and
they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. (
Ezekiel 37:21-23)…it has now been revealed...that the
Gentiles should be
fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel… (
Ephesians 2:5-6)
Christ...has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation...so as to create in Himself one new man from the two...that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross...through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. (
Ephesians 2:11-18)
Romans 11 declares that the Gentiles who follow Jesus are grafted in with the Jews so all Israel will be saved…the LORD…will roar like a lion. When he roars,
his children will come trembling from the west. They will come from Egypt, trembling like sparrows, from Assyria, fluttering like doves. (
Hosea 11:8-10)
Yes! “...God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.” (Acts 11:18)
...is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also... (
Romans 3:30)
...“It was necessary that the word of God...be spoken to (the Jew's) first; but since (they rejected) it, and (judged themselves) unworthy of everlasting life, (the apostles turned) to the Gentiles. For so the Lord...commanded (them)...’” (
Acts 13:42-48)
...has God cast away His people? Certainly not!...
God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew… (
Romans 11:1-2)
...“God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.”...Israel’s Rejection Not Final I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy,
salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! (
Romans 7-12)
...know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that
God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. (
Galatians 3:7-9)
...you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And
if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. (
Galatians 3: 26-29)
...he is not a Jew who is one outwardly...but he is a Jew who is one inwardly... (Romans 2:28-29)
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they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham..
.those who are the children of the flesh...are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. (
Romans 9:6-8)
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.there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. (
Romans 10:12)“
But now listen, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen. This is what the LORD says—he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid… I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
…Some will say, ‘
I belong to the LORD’; others will call themselves by the name of Jacob; still others will write on their hand, ‘
The LORD’s,’ and will take the name Israel. (
Isaiah 44:1-5)
Yes, The Jewish People Will Soon Know God's Son, the One True Lord and Messiah. Yes, Jesus (Yahshua ha'Mashiach) is Lord!
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and
they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn."
(Zechariah 12:9-10)
Let those hear who have ears to hear; Jesus suffered and died for the sins of the Jewish people too!