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Also, I am convinced that many, if not most of the people in His Church are of the other flock, not the flock of Judah, but of the tribes that disappeared into the world, individuals being of the twelve tribes, even unbeknown to themselves. Jesus said that He had other sheep not of this flock (Judah). The other flock is fully understood to be the Northern Kingdom in a prayerful understanding of The Old Testament. The Church has been grafted in, a wild olive branch into the cultivated olive tree. It is interesting that we are considered an olive branch, which represents Israel, and not of some kind of foreign tree.
If you carefully and prayerfully read Hosea, you will see that Northern Israel was utterly rejected by The LORD as not my people, and not being subject to His mercy, utterly cut off. Judah was not cut off. The two are treated distinctly. The Northern Kingdom people would in the future regain their people of God status again and be reunited with their Israel. These, on the whole, are the people Jesus, The Good Shepherd, would go out after and find to bring back, first into His Church and later, after the tribulation, back to Israel, to live as reinstated people of God, Israelites. This will be a surprise to them, and to all.
The gentiles who will also populate the world during the Millennium, though not full fledged people of Israel, are mostly, if not all children of Abraham, having various past relatives who hailed from the seed of Abraham, in one way or another. God fulfills His promise to Abraham that in Him all the nations of the world would be blessed. Yes, first through Jesus Christ, the Holy Seed of God, but also as genetic progeny of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob themselves, though not full fledged Israelites. Also, we are the bride of Christ, a Jew of Jews. As the believing wife we become incorporated into His tribe automatically. ________________________________________________________ Romans 11:17
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.