Israels Gods Blue Print

Romans 9,10,11

Gods Imessurable Love and mercy to Israel demonstrates his care and concerne fr all humnity

Romans 11:1-4, 11-12, 25-27

Romans 11:25–27 NKJV

For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.”

Introduction

From the time of creation to the call of Abraham, God dealt with all people alike,recognizing no national distinctions or privileges.

All men were of the same level before Him, and revelation was made by God to all men, irrespective of race or geographical location.

After the flood, which destroyed the human family from the face of the earth with the exception of Noah and his family, God revealed Himself to Noah; and through Noah, the knowledge of God was spread abroad over the face of the newly inhabited and repopulated earth. Men, however, rebelled against the revelation which God gave them and raised up gods for themselves, rejecting the revelation that God had given. It was against this background of rejection that God chose

Abraham that through him, He might raise up a new nation as a new vehicle through which the knowledge of Himself might be known to men. God's purpose in raising up a chosen nation was two-fold.

He had a primary or long-range purpose; He also had a secondary or immediate purpose.

His secondary purpose was to raise up a people who would be His witnesses on the earth. They would also serve as the natural channel for ushering in the Messiah. This was Jesus' meaning in His words, "We know...salvation is of the Jews" (John 4:22).

Through the nation of Israel salvation came to the world in the person ofJesus Christ.

God's primary or long-range purpose was to give the world in type and shadow a blueprint of His glorious Church which would one day establish in the earth. Every aspect of Hebrew life and worship has implications to the church of Jesus Christ today. Paul Emphasized this fact when writing to the Corinthians.

1 Corinthians 10:1–12 NKJV

Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

Just like Jews we too have the same purpose. We were called out for the salvation of the world.

God never intended for Israel to isolate herself and hold truth selfishly out of the reach of the rest of the world. Israel and the church were intended to be separate but not inclusive.

Within the levitcal laws there were provisions for making proselytes out of gentiles. But instead of reaching out to the world with Grace, Isreael lifter herself. As a result God rejected her and turned to the Gentiles from among whom He would call out a Church for His name. (This is temporary)

Paul warned the Corinthians not to make the same mistakes as did Israel, but rather look back to view God's intent for Israel and strive to achieve God's purposes in the Church.

He warned that we should not think that we are infallible simply because the foundation for the New Covenant is more perfect than that of the Old, but that we should "take heed lest (we) fall" (ICorinthians 10:12).

Another reason we do not belive once saved always saved.

The Old Testament Tabernacle, the Levitical ordinances and judgments, and the Aaronic priesthood are all beautiful pictorials of features of Christ's glorious Church.

We must remember God called Abraham and He gave him a promise.

This promise contained personal blessings, national blessings, and universal blessings. "I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing" (Genesis 12:3).

As a result of this a nation was born, an equal of which has not been in all of history.

The nation of Israel is unique in that it is the only nation that has ever been born again!

I. ISRAEL CHOSEN

When God called Abraham, He gave him a promise. This promise contained per blessings, national blessings, and universal blessings. The words, "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee" (Genesis 12:3), contain personal blessings.

The promise, "I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing" (Genesis 12:2),

contains national promises.

And the prophecy that "...in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed," (Genesis 12:3) makes the

promise universal in scope.

This inclusive promise was repeated seven times to Abraham, and in each case the promise or covenant had to do with two things: a seed and a land where the seed was to dwell, a land which He gave to Abraham's seed as an everlasting possession.

A. The Seed

For upward of 4,000 years, amid all civilization and countries and under all conditions of government, there has existed a distinct people with laws, habits, and customs distinctly their own.

The history of Israel is without parallel in human history.

Though oppressed, downtrodden, carried captive to other lands and scattered among nations, they have risen from the ashes of their dispersions to appear now upon the pages of history like never before.

No nation has ever had such manifest and visible tokens of the Divine Presence. No nation has given the world such great men like Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and David.

No nation has produced such prophets as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. And no nation has produced any man like that man above all men-the Man of Galilee.

Nineveh, Babylon, Perezites, etc are with us no more.

There are at least four basic purposes that God designed Israel to accomplish.

1.Israel was raised up to reaffirm and teach that there is but one God.

2.Israel was selected to be the nation from which was to come the writers and preservers and transmitters of the Holy Scriptures (Romans 3:1-2).

3. Israel was chosen to be the people through whom God would give the world a Savior, Jesus Christ.

4. Israel was designed to save the world from moral decomposition. "Salvation is of the Jews" (John 4:22). "Ye are the salt of

the earth" (Matthew 5:13).

Thus, the salvation of the nations, morally and physically, and the preservation of the human race on the earth depended upon the preservation and continuation of Israel as a race.

B. The Land

Genesis 15:18 NKJV

On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—

The terms of the covenant that God made with Abraham were clearly stated.

There is to be a land and that land was to be shown to Abraham. In Genesis 15:18, the exact location of the land is given: from the river of Egypt to the River Euphrates.

That would take in most of Syria and all of Lebanon. That is the northern boundary of the land. The southern boundary is to be the River of Egypt.

The land stretches also from the Persian peninsula to Asia Minor. Thus God was signifying to Abraham and his descendants that Canaan was their God-given possession forever.

For the covenant relating to the land was an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17:8).

Today the nation of Israel, though promised the land, is not in full possession of it.

II. ISRAEL CAST OFF

The Lord predicted the scattering of the nation in the days of Moses.

"And I will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste"

(Leviticus 26:33).

Moses prophesied the future Assyrian and Babylonian captivities and also the Roman captivity as God's judgments for disobedience. The judgment of God would take the form of captivity and expulsion from the land of promise (Deuteronomy 28:63-68).

"The LORD shall scatter thee

among all people, from the one

end of the earth even unto the

other" (Deuteronomy 28:64).

A. The Division of the Nation

After the death of Solomon, 975 B.C., the kingdom was divided; his son Rehoboam retained possession of two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, and with them Jerusalem and the temple; and Jereboam, a usurper, became the ruler over the remaining ten tribes, setting up his capitol at Samaria.

This northern division of the kingdom known as "Israel," rapidly declined and in 721 B.C., the ten northern tribes were carried captive to Assyria. The two tribes, known as "Judah," survived over 100 years longer, but in 606 B.C. they were carried in captivity to Babylon, and Jerusalem was destroyed in 587 B.C. With the captivity of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem began that long period which still known in the Scriptures as, "The Times of the Gentiles."

A time where Israel is under dominion by gentile nations, one day it will have dominion over gentile nations though.

B. Their Rejection of Jesus

The Books of Kings and Chronicles are

records of the apostasy and idolatry of the

nation Israel. The people to whom God

had revealed Himself, to whom He had

given His love, for whom He instituted the

Tabernacle as a center of worship to provide a way of access to Himself, has gotten so far into idolatry that they set up an image before which they offered infants in human sacrifices. Furthermore, they fol-

lowed the religious system instituted by

Jezebel, in which they set up idols in every

grove. In accordance with God's established principle of justice, the nation was moved out of the Land of Promise.

When Jesus came unto His own to be acclaimed as Messiah, "His own received Him not." When He presented Himself as Messiah, the Jews cried, "Away with him, away with him. . .We have no king but Caesar" (John 19:15). Consequently, Christ had to pronounce judgment on that nation, and thus Israel was cast-off.

"And they shall fall by the edge

of the sword, and shall be led

away captive into all nations: and

Jerusalem shall be trodden down

of the Gentiles, until the times of

the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke

21:24).

C. Israel is to be Restored (super important)

God has not abandoned His chosen peo ple Israel. The great reason why God has not disowned His chosen people is that He set His heart on them in former covenant with Abraham was an everlasting covenant.

The provision of Abraham's

covenant is sevenfold:

1. His name shall be great (Abraham's name).

2. A great nation should come from him.

3. Abraham would be the father of and line many nations.

4. In him shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

5.To him and his seed, Canaan would be given forever an everlasting possession.

6. Whosoever blessed him would be blessed, and whosoever cursed him would

be cursed.

7. The covenant shall be perpetual.

Therefore, Israel must be preserved, converted, and restored. And since the covenant is unconditional, these events in Israel's national life are inevitable.

III. RESTORATION OF ISRAEL

The restoration of Israel is the capstone of the grand structure of doctrine relating to the Abrahamic covenant.

The Apostle Paul said, "Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11:25-26).

The Jews have not been supplanted by the Church or by the Gentile nations. The eleventh chapter of Romans begins with the question:

"Hath God cast away His people?"; then it proceeds to answer this question by replying, "God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew" (Romans 11:2).

In the eleventh verse, Paul asked a second question. "Have they stumbled that they should fall?" He replied, "God forbid; but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy."

The Apostle then added,"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?" (Romans 11:12).

A. National Restoration

Isaiah 11:11–12 NKJV

It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea. He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

That there is going to be a national restoration is clear from the words, of Isaiah.

Furthermore, a national restoration is clear from the vision of Ezekiel of the valley of dry bones. ( I know it preaches well on the topic of revival but that’s actually talking about the restoration of Israel) The children of Israel shall be restored to their own land; the whole twelve tribes will return.

In Romans 11:26, Paul said; "all Israel shall be saved"; and Ezekiel in his vision of the valley of dry bones, was told that the bones represented the "whole house of Israel" (Ezekiel37:11).

Israel is to be gathered back to her own land where she is to be first judged (Isaiah 11:11-12; Ezekiel 20:34-38; 22:19-22) and then converted (Ezekiel 36:24-27).

B. Spiritual Restoration

Romans 11:25

The spiritual restoration of Israel will

not take place until after the Lord returns

to the earth for His church. At that time

He will plead with the nation of Israel in

her land. Jesus spoke of this climatic

moment.

Matthew 24:29–31 NKJV

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

In Ezekiel 20: 33-38, we are given a prophetic description of a time of spiritual restoration of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:36–38 NKJV

Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God. “I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

In this passage, the physical regathering is linked with the revival of the covenant and a purging for spiritual renewal.

It appears that in bringing Israel back to God, the nation will pass through a time of intense trouble (known as the time of Jacob's trouble) (Tribulation)to purge the haughty, arrogant, and rebellious spirit from the people.

Ezekiel 36:24–28 NKJV

For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

The above prophecy proclaims that the people of Israel would be regathered in the land before they would experience a nation conversion. This time of conversion will be followed by prosperity. The waste cities I will be rebuilt and the land will become fertile again, even as the, garden of Eden

(Ezekiel 36:35).

The nation will be exalted and Jesus Christ as the Son of David will reign as King in Jerusalem over not only Israel but over the entire world.

(See Zechariah 14:8-16 and Isaiah 2:2-4.)

C. Israel's Present

We might well ask, "What is the relation of the newly formed state of Israel to this prophetic program?

Have these prophecies already been fulfilled?

A study of the Scriptures compels us to say that what we have recently seen of the establishment of the state of Israel is only the beginning of the fulfillment of these prophecies. ( Pastor Haney says that when the nation of Israel the wheels of prophecy started turning)

God today is only working toward the fulfillment of the program for Israel; the time of fulfillment has not come. As a nation, Israel was temporarily set aside when they

rejected Christ, and God today is calling out from among both Jew and Gentile a people for His name (Acts 15:14).

God will not fulfill these prophecies for Israel until the Church, which is His present age program, has been taken out by translation.

What is to be concluded, however, is that God is getting the stage set for this great drama. The world is being made conscious of Israel because God has never forgotten the promises made to her in the days of Abraham.

When we see the foreshadowing of these very things on the horizon, how near must be the coming of the Lord for His own.

Because of this it behooves us to be prepared for the moment of His coming so that when He comes, we shall be received into His presence.

SUMMARY

While both Jew and Gentile alike are brought into the Church through the new birth, and they are no longer distinguished as different people, it nevertheless remains that He is, essentially during this church age, "taking out from among the Gentiles a people for His name." This "called out" people is the Church, and when the lastone to be brought into the Body of Christ has been born again, it will be complete.

This will be the time of the "fulness of the Gentiles," and the Bride of Christ will be translated to meet Him in the air.

The Fullness of Gentiles and the Times of the Gentiles is not one and the same, time-wise. Whereas the Fullness of the Gentiles is fulfilled at the time of the translation of the church, the Times of the Gentiles, which began with the Babylonian Captivity of Judah, continues on and will be brought to an end by the destruction of Gentile world-power by the stone cut without hands, that is, by the coming of the Lord to the earth in glory.

If God makes a promise he will move heaven and earth to make it come to pass.God is faithful to His word He made a promise to Abraham and He’s going to keep it.