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To: boatbums; one Lord one faith one baptism
Does your Bible have a bunch of redacted sections in it? When you read all those passages that have already been shown to you where Almighty God refers to the nation of Israel as his "wife", that He was in a covenant "marriage" with her, that she committed adultery by going after strange gods, that He gave her a bill of divorce, but would one day draw her back to reconciliation and be reunited and she would be His again, do you just black out all those passages???

Close but no cigar - Two wives... The house of Israel, and the House of Judah.

One received a Divorcement (the House of Israel)

Jer 3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

See Judah compared to Israel?

Judah was not divorced... Notice, 'put away', not divorced.

Isa 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

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Isa 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Isa 52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isa 52:3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Isa 52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isa 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
Isa 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

Isaiah 54...Right after 53 where Messiah is crucified... Who is the barren woman?

Isa 54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Isa 54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
Isa 54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Isa 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

She can only be one entity - The House of Israel. Y'all are missing half the story...

And lastly Hosea, written specifically to the House of Israel where YHWH promises to remarry her and predicts her paths... but how can He without breaking His own Torah? For she had slept with other gods during her divorcement. This is a HUGE question, answered in Romans 7.

No, there is no doubt. YHWH has two wives, and neither one is named Mary. It is her context in the House of David, and in the house of Judah that she was chosen. Judah bears a Son from the House of David. That is why Judah weeps for her firstborn in Zech 12:10... Him whom they have pierced... That is why Judah necessarily remained married.

142 posted on 09/01/2014 10:49:58 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

I would suggest interpreting the OT by the NT, NOT the other way around.

Jesus says in John 10, “ so there shall be ONE FLOCK and ONE SHEPHERD”


148 posted on 09/02/2014 7:05:37 PM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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