From Exodus 4: 22-13, Hosea 11: 1, and Matthew 2: 15 To Galatians 3: 16, 26-29

[tulsa 2011]

From Exodus 4: 22-13, Hosea 11: 1, and Matthew 2: 15 To Galatians 3: 16, 26-29

“And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
23.And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn." Exodus 4: 22-23

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.” Hosea 11: 1

“And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.” Matthew 2: 15

The seed to whom the Old Testament promises were made was not to the multitude of Old Covenant Israel of the flesh. It was to Christ. And in the remnant of Romans 11: 1-5 Christ fulfilled the promise that he would redeem the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15: 24). In Romans 11: 1-5 Paul starts by saying that God did not cast away his people. Then he begins talking about the remnant of Israel by quoting I Kings 19: 10 14 18. In I Kings 19: 9-10 Elijah says to God that "...they have thrown down thy alters and slain the prophets...and I even I,only am left..."

But God answers in I Kings 19: 18, "Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed down unto Baal..." This is the remnant of Israel, and Paul's point is that at times when Israel was in apostasy, God preserved a remnant with which to begin all over again with his people Israel. Then, in Romans 11: 5 Paul says "Even so at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace." Paul is stating the principle of the remnant, and clearly implying that Christ fulfilled his mission to redeem the lost sheep of the house of Israel in this remnant of Old Covenant Israel he chose to begin his people Israel all over again as those reborn in Christ.

Exodus 4: 22-12 Hosea 11: 1 and Matthew 2: 15 all point to Christ alone as being the one seed to whom the Abrahamic promises were made which is confirmed in Galatians 3:16. "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."

And - "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27.For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
29. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." Galatians 2: 26-29

There is no more Old Covenant Israel of the flesh by their discent from Abraham. The shadow of a physical seed - from God's man, Abraham - was fulfilled in the spiritual substance which is Christ Jesus.

“And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. Isaiah 10:17

“ I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John 8: 12

“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. Isaiah 42: 6

Jesus Christ was originally the light of Israel. And he, as the light to Israel,
makes a covenant with the people, seen in Daniel 9: 27. As long as Christ is in Israel, Israel is a light. But when Christ is no longer in the multitude of Israel,
as Revelation 18: 23 says - the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee - then God calls his people out of the multitude (Revelation 18: 4), what the multitude
calls the church. Christ is then in and with the remnant as seen in Revelation 12: 17 and Revelation 14: 1.

 

[norapture]

Tulsa why do some people say , that during the tribulation, that God is going turn back to the nation of Israel ? when there has always been a remnant to the election of grace.

 

[tulsa 2011]

John Darby, the father of the theology called
dispensationalism, said that the
"Church has sought to settle itself here, but it has no place on the
earth... [Though] making a most constructive parenthesis, it forms no
part of the regular order of God's earthly plans, but is merely an
interruption of them to give a fuller character and meaning to
them..."

John. N. Darby, 'The Character of Office in The Present Dispensation'
Collected Writings., Eccl. I, Vol. I, p. 94.

"Them" are all physical Israel. The church, for Darby exists to "give
fuller character and meaning to"... all physical Israel. Darby, known as
the Father of dispensationalism, thought that the purpose of the
Christian church, the ekklesia as a meeting, assembly or congregation
of Israel reborn in Christ, the Israel of God, made into The Body of
Christ like the Catholic capital C Church, was to honor all physical
Israel, which is the multitude of Old Covenant Israel.

Charles C. Ryrie (born 1925) says: "basic promise of Dispensationalism
is two purposes of God expressed in the formation of two peoples who maintain their distinction
throughout eternity." Charles C. Ryrie, Dispensationalism Today, 1966,
pp.44-45.

J. Dwight Pentecost is another dispensationalist theologian who in his
book Things To Come ( 1965) says "The church and Israel are two
distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan. The church is a
mystery, unrevealed in the Old Testament. This mystery program must be
completed before God can resume His program with Israel and bring it
to completion. These considerations all arise from
a literal method of interpretation." (page 193, J. Dwight Pentecost,
Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965)....

"And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." John 10: 16

"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
5. So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another." Romans 12: 4-5

"For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him." Romans 10: 12

"He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second." Hebrews 10: 9