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Who does the bible teach are the people of god

By Robert O. Sanford

WHOM DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ARE THE PEOPLE OF GOD?

(Mat 4:4 KJV) "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT RROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD." To follow any other teachings than those written in the Holy Bible by the God of Israel, brings death from the God of Israel to that person. If one believes that the God of Israel is the only True God, than they ought to discard all Pagan teachings from the Babylonian Religion. They should not mix the Jewish Faith together with parts of the Pagans Faith in the Roman Empire.

When it comes to the True Jewish Christian Gospel, it is found in the Bible only The Christian Gospel according to the Roman Empire is a mixture of the Bible and Babylonian teachings. One must decide which one of the two he or she is going to be a servant to. These two Religions organization that are contending for the minds of the God's People. Both claim to have the True Gospel for the Salvation their followers. The one is the True Church of the Living God manifested in the Jewish Bible, born from the mouth of the God of Israel. The other is the traditions of the Church of the Roman Empire with the Caesar (Pope) as the Head.

The God of Israel had written in His Holy Book, the Past, Present and Future History of His people, the Physical and Spiritual called Israel. He has written down in His Holy Books, all the Blood Covenants (Testaments) that He has made with His People Israel for all to read and know Him. The God of Israel has given written instruction as to how a Jew or a Stranger who has accepted the Jewish Faith in God's Bible, must live their "Life from God". It tells what the rewards are for obeying and the rewards for disobeying His Written instructions. (3 John 1:11 KJV) "Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God." (John 5:29 KJV) "And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." All is not Grace. The New Testament of the Jewish Bible does carry the punishment of destruction to all who don't obey the Words of God.

Other Religions teach that they have salvation in their Christ, even if they disobey the God of Israel.

The other gospels, are the gospels of the Churches of the Rome Empire. Their gospels are from their various traditions found the different regions of the Roman Empire. The origins of most of their teachings are from the Pagan Roman Religion. All the Religions of Pagan Rome Empire, including the Protester of the Catholic Churches, are mixtures of the Jewish Faith in with their Pagan traditions. The Roman traditions replacing the traditions of the Jewish Church. From these mixtures were formed the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church. Even with this mixture of the two religions, the Protestant Churches of Rome still claim that their Reformed Churches are now the true Church that has their Salvation from the God of Israel. However, the Protestant Reform Churches still remain a mixture of Jewish Christianity, with the teachings of Pagan Idolatry. They may have an appearance of being a Jewish Christian Church, but at most they are a Pagan mixture of Judaism. They can only give an appearance of being the Gospel from the Christ of Israel that Christ and Paul Preached. The Mother Church in Rome never did claim to be the Church of the Bible, only a mixture of the two Religions. That claim was and is, being made by the Daughter's, the Protestant Churches. The Protesters, that rebelled against Pagan Roman authority, still remained part of that religion, by retaining most of her Babylonian teachings and Holidays. Their efforts were an attempt to reform their Catholic Religion into a form of Christianity that claims the Salvation of the God of Israel, but retains the freedom to worship their god as the Pagan do. Sun worship.  

The God of Israel in the Holy Bible, destroy His people for this Evil practice and promises to destroy all people who continue to practice the Religion of Idolatry. (Acts 17:16 KJV) "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when HE SAW A CITY WHOLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY." (1 Cor 10:13-14 KJV) "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. {14} Wherefore, my dearly beloved, FLEE FROM IDOLATRY." (1 Chr 16:26 KJV) "For ALL THE GODS OF THE PEOPLE ARE IDOL: but the LORD made the heavens."

We will use the Bible only to see whom

God calls "MY PEOPLE ISRAEL."

(Exo 3:6-8 NASB) "HE SAID ALSO, "I AM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHER, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB." Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. {7} And the LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction OF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN EGYPT, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. {8} "So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite." In this Scripture, the God of Israel identifies Himself as the God of the Jewish people whom He brought out of Egypt. The Nation of Israel is here spoken of as the People of God. Not the Gentile Nation that He brought them out of.

(Exo 5:1-2 NASB) "And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD, the GOD OF ISRAEL, "LET MY PEOPLE GO that they may celebrate a feast TO ME in the wilderness." {2} But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and besides, I WILL NOT LET ISRAEL GO."

It is very plain here from the Scriptures that the People of Israel are the people of the God of Israel.

(Exo 7:15-16 NASB) "Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent. {16} "And you will say to him, 'The LORD, THE GOD OF THE HEBREWS, sent me to you, saying, "LET MY PEOPLE GO, that they may SERVE ME in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now." Here the Scriptures say that the Hebrew people are the people of the God of Israel.

(Exo 8:22-23 NASB) "But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where MY PEOPLE ARE LIVING, so that no swarms of insects will be there, in order that you may know that I, the LORD, am in the midst of the land. {23} "And I WILL PUT A DIVISION BETWEEN MY PEOPLE and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall occur."

(Exo 22:21-25 NASB) "And you (MY PEOPLE) shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. {22} "You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. {23} "If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry; {24} and My anger will be kindled, and I WILL KILL YOU WITH THE SWORD; and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. {25} "If you lend money to My PEOPLE, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest."

(Lev 26:6-12 NASB) "I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. {7} 'But you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; {8} five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. {9} 'SO I WILL TURN TOWARD YOU AND MAKE YOU FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY YOU, AND I WILL CONFERM MY COVENANT WITH YOU. {10} 'And you will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. {11} 'Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you. {12} 'I WILL ALSO WALK AMONG YOU AND BE YOUR GOD, AND YOU SHALL BE MY PEOPLE". In this Scripture it is said by the God of Israel that He will confirm His Covenant with them and be their God and they shall be His people. (Eph 2:10-12 KJV) "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. {11} Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; {12} That at that time ye were 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:"

(1 Sam 2:29-30 NASB) "Why do you kick at My sacrifice and at My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling, and honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the choicest of every offering of MY PEOPLE ISRAEL?" {30} "Therefore the LORD GOD OF ISRAEL declares, 'I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever'; but now the LORD declares, 'Far be it from Me-- for THOSE WHO HONOR ME I WILL HONOR, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed. "It is plain from this Scripture that the Commonwealth of Israel is God's people.

(2 Sam 5:1-2 NASB) "Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. {2} "Previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the LORD said to you, "YOU WILL SHEPERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND YOU WILL BE A RULER OVER ISRAEL." David was King over God's People. Who was these people? The Nation of Judah.

(2 Chr 6:5-6 NASB) "Since the day that I brought My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might be there, nor did I choose any man for a leader over My people Israel; {6} but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel."

(2 Chr 7:14-16 KJV) "IF MY PEOPLE WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. {15} Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. {16} For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually."

(Psa 81:8-13 NASB) "Hear, O MY PEOPLE, and I will admonish you; O ISRAEL, if you would listen to Me! {9} "LET THERE BE NO STRANGE GOD AMOMG YOU; NOR SHALL YOU WORSHIP ANY FOREIGN GOD. {10} "I, the LORD, am your God, Who brought you up from the land of Egypt; Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. {11} "But MY PEOPLE DID NOT LISTEN TO MY VOICE; AND ISRAEL DID NOT OBEY ME. {12} "So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices. {13} "OH THAT MY PEOPLE WOULD LISTEN TO ME. THAT ISRAEL WOULD WALK IN MY WAYS!"

(Jer 8:6-9 NASB) ""I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not right; NO MAN REPENTED OF HIS WICKEDNESS, SAYING, "WHAT HAVE I DONE?" Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle. {7} "Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But MY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE ORDINANCE OF THE LORD. {8} "How can you say, 'WE ARE WISE, AND THE LAW OF THE LORD IS WITH US?" But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie. {9} "The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, THEY HAVE REJECT THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND WHAT KIND OF WISDOM DO THEY HAVE?"

(Jer 8:17-21 NASB) ""For behold, I am sending serpents against you, Adders, for which there is no charm, And they will bite you," declares the LORD. {18} My sorrow is beyond healing, My heart is faint within me! {19} Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not within her?" "WHY HAVE THEY PROVOKED ME WITH THEIR GRAVEN IMAGES, WITH FOREIGH IDOLS?" {20} "Harvest is past, summer is ended, And WE ARE NOT SAVED." {21} For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me."

(Jer 11:3-8 NASB) "and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the GOD OF ISRAEL, "CURSED IS THE MAN WHO DOES NOT HEED THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT. {4} which I commanded your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, 'LISTEN TO MY VOICE, AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL WHICH I COMMAND YOU; SO YOU SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD, {5} in order to confirm the oath which I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day."'" Then I answered and said, "Amen, O LORD." {6} And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, 'HEAR THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT AND DO THEM. {7} 'For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning persistently, saying, "Listen to My voice." {8} 'Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart; THEREFORE I BROUGHT ON THEM ALL THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT, WHICH I COMMANDED THEM TO DO, BUT THEY DID NOT." It was Israel who rejected the God of Israel and His Covenant. If one is truly one of God's people, they should at least be keeping Israel's Covenant. God destroyed the Physical Nation for not keeping it.

(Jer 15:6 NASB) ""You who have forsaken Me," declares the LORD, "You keep going backward. SO I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST YOU AND DESTROY YOU. I AM TIRED OF RELENTING!

(Jer 18:15 NASB) "For My people have forgotten Me, THEY BURN INCENSE TO WORTHLESS GODS AND THEY HAVE STUMBLED FROM THEIR WAYS, From the ancient paths, To walk in by-paths, Not on a highway,"

(Jer 23:13-18 NASB) ""Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: THEY PROPHESIED BY BAAL AND LED MY PEOPLE ASTRAY. {14} "Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood; And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. {15} "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'" {16} Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are leading you into futility; They speak a vision of their own imagination, Not from the mouth of the LORD. {17} "They keep saying to those who despise Me, 'The LORD has said, "You will have peace"'; And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, They say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.' {18} "But who has stood in the council of the LORD, That he should see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened?"

Where are these false prophets found that lead God's people away from keeping the Laws in His Covenant? In the Sunday Churches and also in the Jewish Churches.

(Jer 31:1-2 NASB) ""At that time," declares the LORD, "I WILL BE THE GOD OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF ISRAEL, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE." {2} Thus says the LORD, "The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness-- Israel, when it went to find its rest." Here the God of Israel is said to be the God of the Family of Israel.

(Jer 31:33-36 NASB) ""But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I WILL PUT MY LAWS WITHIN THEM, ANDON THEIR HEART I WILL WRITE IT; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. {34} "And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." {35} Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day, And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: {36} "If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also shall cease From being a nation before Me forever." God's people are the people who have His Covenant, and the Stranger who has accepted Israel as their Nation and it's Covenant with God as their own COVENANT.

(Zec 2:10-11 NASB) ""Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," declares the LORD. {11} "And many nations will join themselves to the LORD in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you."

THE GOD OF THE OLD COVENANT IS ALSO THE GOD OF THE NEW COVENANT.

It was the God of the Old Testament that Created the Heavens and the Earth and then Created Mankind and placed Man in the Garden of Eden. It was the God of the New Testament, who created all things in the beginning. There is only One God in the Bible and that God Created all things, and that One God was in the Lord Jesus Christ. (John 1:1-5 KJV) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and THE WORD WAS GOD. {2} The same was in the beginning with God. {3} All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. {4} In him was life; and the life was the light of men. {5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." "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."

WHAT PEOPLE DID THE GOD OF ISRAEL SAY JESUS CHRIST WOULD BE THE SHEPHERD OF? "MY PEOPLE ISRAEL".

(Mat 2:4-6 NASB) "And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he began to inquire of them where the Christ was to be born. {5} And they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judah, for so it has been written by the prophet, {6} 'AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF YOU SHALL COME FORTH A RULER, WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.' Christ is said in this Scripture to be the Shepherd of Israel, not Babylon.

WHO ELSE DID GOD SAY HE WOULD MAKE JESUS CHRIST A SHEPHERD OVER? THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE FAMILY OF ISRAEL.

 Listen to the Words of the New Testament.

(Rom 9:23-33 NASB) "And He did so in order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, {24} even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. {25} As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'" {26} "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD." {27} And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; {28} FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD UPON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY." {29} And just as Isaiah foretold, "EXCEPT THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME AS SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH." {30} What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; {31} but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law. {32} Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, {33} just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

(2 Cor 6:16-18 NASB) "Or what agreement has the temple of God with IDOLS? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. {17} "Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I WILL WELCOME YOU. {18} "And I will be a father to you, And YOU SHALL BE SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO ME," Says the Lord Almighty." The God of Israel has no agreement with those who worship IDOLS. If one does not come out of the IDOL worship of the Gentile Churches, you cannot be God's People.

Only those people whom are willing to forsake the Idolatry of the Roman Protestant churches are welcome to come into the Spiritual Nation of Israel and become the People of God. The worship of the thing created by the God of Israel is the unclean thing that God hates. His promise in the Old and New Covenant that He made with His People Israel, is that He will destroy any of them that would not worship Him and Him only. One must worship the God of Israel in the way He told them to worship Him. If they insist on worshipping the God of Israel as the Pagans worship their gods, by worshipping the thing created, rather than the Creator. His Blood Covenant with Israel demands death for the individual who participates in Idolatry. (Rev 21:7-8 KJV) "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. {8} But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, AND IDOLATERS, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH."

(2 Cor 7:1-2 NASB) "Therefore, having these promises, beloved, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL DEFILEMENT OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT, PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD. {2} Make room for us in your hearts; we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took advantage of no one."

(Rev 18:4-9 NASB) "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, THAT YOU MAY NOT PARTICIPATE IN HER SINS, and that you may not receive of her plagues; {5} for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. {6} "Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. {7} "To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, 'I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.' {8} "For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong. {9} "And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning,"

(Rev 17:4-5 KJV) "And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: {5} And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

(Eph 2:10-22 KJV) "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. {11} Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; {12} That at that time ye were 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: {13} But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. {14} For he is our peace, WHO HATH MADE BOTH ONE, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; {15} Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for TO MAKE IN HIMSELF OF TWAIN ONE NEW MAN, SO MAKING PEACE; {16} And that he might RECONCILE BOTH UNTO GOD IN ONE BODY BY THE CROSS, having slain the enmity thereby: {17} And came and preached peace to YOU WHICH WERE FAR OFF, AND TO THEM THAT WERE NIGH. {18} For through him WE BOTH HAVE ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER. {19} Now therefore YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND FORIGNERS, BUT FELLOWCITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, AND OF THE HOUSE HOLD OF GOD; {20} And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; {21} In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: {22} In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

The Jewish Saints of the Old Testament and the Strangers who have joined themselves to Spiritual Israel by accepting the God and Savior of the Nation of Israel, both become one new man in Christ Jesus. They have received the promises in the New Covenant that God made with His People Israel.

(Heb 8:8-13 KJV) "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH: {9} Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. {10} For THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and THEY SHALL BE TO MA A PEOPLE: {11} And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. {12} For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. {13} In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."

(Isa 56:1-8 KJV) "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. {2} Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. {3} Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. {4} For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; {5} Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. {6} Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; {7} Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. {8} The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I GATHERS OTHERS TO HIM, BESIDE THOSE THAT ARE GATHERED UNTO HIM."

Remember, we gentiles, the people who were not born of Physical Israel, are those strangers that God has through the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God by Jesus Christ, invited to come join ourselves to His Kingdom of Spiritual Israel to receive His Salvation along with His Saints in the Old Testament.

(John 4:21-24 KJV) "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. {22} Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: FOR SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS. {23} But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. {24} God is a Spirit: and they that worship him MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH."

One can live by every Word that came out of the Mouth of God, or one can reject the teachings of the God of Israel. It was the Christ of God in Jesus that said "SALVATION WAS OF THE JEWS." Whom are you going to believe? The false teachers of the Roman Church or the Lord Jesus Christ who only has the Power to give His Saints Eternal Life in Himself? Christ is the God of Israel that we find in His Holy Bible that gives Salvation to all His Saints in both His Old and New Testaments.

(Gal 3:26-29 KJV) "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."

We can see from this scripture that through our faith in Jesus Christ, who was the Son of the God of Israel, we to become Abraham's seed to whom all the Promises in the Covenant that God made with His People Israel pertain. The present Seed of Abraham at this time are called Israel, the People of God. The Spiritual Seed of Abraham are called the Son of God.

The Scriptures clearly teach that the Nation of Israel is the Physical People of God to whom He gave His Two Covenants. It was to them the Christ of Israel came as the Saviour of Israel. It also teaches that the Jew as well as the Gentile must come to Jesus Christ to receive the Salvation of the God of Israel. If one does not become the seed of Abraham by faithful obedience to God every Word, than he or she is not a part of Spiritual Israel of God. (John 4:24 KJV) "SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS".

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Robert O. Sanford
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