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To: af_vet_1981
---->Jesus was addressing "the chief priests and the elders of the people" NOT THE NATION OF ISRAEL, which endures forever.

The question is “what/who is Israel?”

LITERAL Israel and it’s vinedressers, the Jewish leadership

SPIRITUAL Israel, and it’s vinedressers, the Christian church, those in Christ Jesus

Earthly literal Israel and the Jewish nation are finished, forever. (literal nation of Israel, CORPORATE JEWISH NATION)

There is no more a LITERAL nation of Israel, ruled by Jewish leadership.

(Nation: a country considered as a body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular area or territory:)

The following was written by Pastor Stephen Bohr (same guy from the video).

Israel as a Vineyard

Matthew 21:33-46:

"Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner [God the Father] who planted a vineyard [Israel] and set a hedge around it [the law], dug a winepress in it and built a tower [the temple]. And he leased it to vinedressers [the Jewish leaders] and went into a far country [heaven].

34 Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers [before the Babylonian captivity], that they might receive its fruit. 35 And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another [what they did to the prophets].

36 Again he sent other servants [after the captivity until John the Baptist], more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37 Then last of all he sent his son [Jesus] to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 38 "But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him [the death of Christ] and seize his inheritance.' 39 "So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard [Jesus died outside of Jerusalem] and killed him. 40 Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?" 41 They said to Him, "He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers [the Gentiles] who will render to him the fruits in their seasons." 42 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the LORD's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

43 "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you [THE KINGDOM NO LONGER BELONGS TO LITERAL ISRAEL] and given to a nation [ethne] BEARING THE FRUITS OF IT. 44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder." 45 Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them.”

Matthew 3:8, 10: John called upon God’s people TO BEAR FRUIT that flows from repentance, that is, to live a sanctified life:

“Therefore BEAR FRUITS worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves: 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not BEAR GOOD FRUIT is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

John 15:8: “By this My Father is glorified, THAT YOU BEAR MUCH FRUIT; so you will be My disciples.”

The Guiding Principle: When we are dealing with literal Israel we deal with a literal person on a local stage. When we are dealing with spiritual Israel we are dealing with a movement of people on a worldwide scale.

Some Very Important Conclusions If God’s true Israel today is not the literal Jewish nation and if Israel is to be understood as spiritual and worldwide, then those who are looking to the Middle East for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy setting themselves up for a great deception. The final war will not be fought between the Arabs and the Jews but rather between those who have truly accepted Jesus and those who have not. This must mean that all the ‘Jewish language’ of the book of Revelation must be interpreted as applying to the Church on a global scale. The final war against the remnant of the woman’s Seed will be a worldwide war against the remnant of Jesus.

93 posted on 12/04/2023 5:10:34 PM PST by Philsworld (It's all short quips and funny memes, until you find that you've come up short in the judgment. )
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To: Philsworld
The question is “what/who is Israel?”

Romans 9:5
[1] I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
[2] That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
[3] For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
[4] Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
[5] Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.


Be careful, belonging to a modern cult can be more than ignorance.

Remember Balaam.

Revelation 2:14
[14] But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
96 posted on 12/04/2023 5:40:42 PM PST by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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