THE EXCLUSIVENESS OF ISRAEL

Table of Contents

FOREWORD                                                                                                                                                                             6

AUTHOR’S PREFACE                                                                                                                                                           7

NO DISPARAGEMENT OF NON-ISRAEL RACES                                                                                                          7

THE FOUNDATIONS USED THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK                                                                                          8

ON THE RIGHT FOUNDATION, ISRAEL IS EXCLUSIVE                                                                                             9

WE HAVE TO BELIEVE MOSES TO BE ABLE TO BELIEVE JESUS                                                                             9

not BELIEVING WHAT GOD SAYS BRINGS JUDGEMENT                                                                                    11

chapter outlines                                                                                                                                                         12

CHAPTER 1: exclusive nature of Israel in the OLD TESTAMENT                                                  16

A BOOK BY BOOK LOOK AT THE EXCLUSIVENESS OF ISRAEL                                                                           16

GOD PLACES HIS NAME ON THE ONE PEOPLE                                                                                                        20

CHAPTER 2: EXCLUSIVE nature OF ISRAEL in THE NEW TESTAMENT                                                 21

EACH BOOK IN ORDER through the New Testament                                                                                 21

ISRAEL IN THE REVELATION                                                                                                                                        30

TO CONCLUDE                                                                                                                                                                  31

CHAPTER 3: REACTIONS to an EXCLUSIVE ISRAEL                                                                                         32

REACTION ONE [THE MOST COMMON]                                                                                                                   32

REACTION TWO                                                                                                                                                               33

REACTION THREE                                                                                                                                                            33

REACTION FOUR                                                                                                                                                              33

REACTION FIVE                                                                                                                                                                34

REACTION SIX                                                                                                                                                                  34

REACTION SEVEN                                                                                                                                                            34

REACTION EIGHT                                                                                                                                                            34

REACTION NINE                                                                                                                                                               35

REACTION TEN                                                                                                                                                                 35

REACTION ELEVEN                                                                                                                                                          35

ARE THERE two or THREE WITNESSES for “EXCLUSIVE ISRAEL”?                                                               36

Chapter 4: WHICH WORLD DID GOD “SO LOVE”?                                                                                             37

WORD MEANINGS                                                                                                                                                           37

GO INTO ALL “THE WORLD”                                                                                                                                        38

THE WORLD – KOSMOS OR OIKOUMENE?                                                                                                               40

WHAT “WORLD” DID GOD SO LOVE?                                                                                                                         40

THE TWO VIEWS OF “THE WORLD” ARE TWO DIFFERING GOSPELS                                                                 40

DOES GOD LOVE THOSE HE DECLARES- THAT HE HATES?                                                                                 40

JOHN CHAPTER THREE                                                                                                                                                  41

WHICH “WORLD”?                                                                                                                                                            41

“ALL”, “EVERY ONE”, “WHO-SO-EVER”, ETC.                                                                                                            42

ARE “ALL” and “EVERY” LIMITED EXPRESSIONS?                                                                                                42

GOSPEL NUMBER ONE [The FALSE Gospel of the universal]                                                                    43

GOSPEL NUMBER TWO [The True Gospel of the particular]                                                                 44

CHAPTER 5: STUMBLING BLOCKS TO AN EXCLUSIVE ISRAEL                                                                      45

1.  IT IS CONTRARY TO THE NATURE of God                                                                                                        45

2.  “OF EVERY KINDRED, TONGUE, PEOPLE AND Nation”                                                                                 45

3.  “ALL THE ENDS OF THE Earth”                                                                                                                            47

4.  THE EXODUS                                                                                                                                                                47

5.  “EVERYONE THAT Thirsteth”                                                                                                                             47

6.  CORNELIUS                                                                                                                                                                   47

7.  PETER’S SHEET VISION                                                                                                                                              48

8.  THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH                                                                                                                                        48

9.  THE WIDOW OF SAREPTA                                                                                                                                        48

10.  “GO INTO THE HIGHWAYs”                                                                                                                                   49

11.  “EVERYONE THAT ASKS RECEIVES”                                                                                                                    49

12.  “WHOSOEVER SHALL CONFESS ME”                                                                                                                    50

13.  THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA                                                                                                                                   50

14.  PENTECOST                                                                                                                                                                50

15.  ALL MEN JUSTIFIED BY THE FREE GIFT                                                                                                            51

16.  “WHO WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED …”                                                                                                 51

17.  SALVATION TO ALL MEN                                                                                                                                       51

18.  “BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE …”                                                                                 51

19.  THE KINGDOM NOW INCLUDES Everyone                                                                                                     52

20.  THE LORD’S PRAYER                                                                                                                                               52

21.  THE ISRAEL OF GOD [Gal 6:16]                                                                                                                            52

22.  THERE are TWO ISRAELS: ONE NATURAL, ONE SPIRITUAL                                                                       53

23.  STRANGERS can become Israelites                                                                                                             54

24.  JESUS IS NOW THE KING                                                                                                                                         55

25.  “IN THEE SHALL ALL NATIONS BE Blessed”                                                                                                   55

CONCLUSION                                                                                                                                                                    55

CHAPTER 6: THAT UNFORTUNATE WORD “GENTILE”                                                                                      56

WHERE DID “GENTILE” COME FROM?                                                                                                                       56

HOW “GENTILE” IS MISUSED                                                                                                                                        56

HOW the HEBREW AND GREEK WORDS ARE TRANSLATED                                                                              57

POPULAR THEOLOGY ABOUT “GENTILES” … IS IT RIGHT?                                                                                58

THE KINSMAN-REDEEMER                                                                                                                                           59

TO WHOM DID THE APOSTLE PAUL WRITE?                                                                                                           59

JESUS’ MINISTRY WAS NOT PRIMARILY TO THE JEWS OR IN JUDEA                                                              60

COMMENT                                                                                                                                                                         61

WHAT IS BEING SAID?                                                                                                                                                    62

CHAPTER 7: COULD THE MODERN JEWS BE ISRAEL?                                                                                       63

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT                                                                                                                                              64

IN THE NEW TESTAMENT                                                                                                                                             65

Those Who SAY THEY ARE JEWS, BUT ARE NOT                                                                                                  66

JOHN CHAPTER EIGHT                                                                                                                                                   66

WHENCE THE TARES?                                                                                                                                                     68

CAN THE JEWS BE IDENTIFIED?                                                                                                                                   69

JOSEPHUS AND HIS COMMENTS ON THE JEWS                                                                                                      70

THE DESTINY OF THE EDOMITES [“The Jews”]                                                                                                     72

DOES EDOM HAVE ANY MARKS OF IDENTIFICATION TODAY?                                                                        73

JEWS WHO ARE NON-SEMITIC                                                                                                                                     74

SOME COMMENTS FROM HISTORY                                                                                                                           76

THE RELIGION OF THE JEWS                                                                                                                                        76

WHAT IS THEIR BLASPHEMY?                                                                                                                                      77

EDOM, THE ETERNAL ENEMY OF ISRAEL                                                                                                                78

ANTI-SEMITISM                                                                                                                                                               78

NON-ISRAELITE JEWS                                                                                                                                                     79

1.  THE ASHKENAZIM JEWS                                                                                                                                           79

2.  THE KHAZAR JEWS                                                                                                                                                   79

3.  THE SEPHARDIM JEWS                                                                                                                                            79

4.  THE SEPHARDIM / ASHKENAZIM JEWISH MIXTURE                                                                                              79

5.  THE ETHIOPIAN DESCENDANTS OF HAM [The Falashas]                                                                                 79

6.  BABYLONIAN JEWS                                                                                                                                                   80

7.  PROSELYTES TO JUDAISM                                                                                                                                       80

8.  THE SHEMITE DESCENDANTS OF ESAU                                                                                                                 80

RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL NONSENSE                                                                                                                    80

ARE THE CHURCHES TEACHING THESE THINGS TODAY?                                                                                   81

IS THIS THE MASTER DECEPTION OF SATAN?                                                                                                        81

cHAPTER 8: GALATIANS AND ISRAEL EXCLUSIVE                                                                                             83

1.  THE LAW AND THE WORD GIVEN AS A COVENANT TO ISRAEL ONLY                                                                    83

2.  ISRAEL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THE SAME AS THE OLD TESTAMENT                                                          83

3.  THE GENTILES IN GALATIANS ARE ISRAELITES                                                                                                    84

4.  “THE JEWS” ARE NOT ISRAELITES                                                                                                                         84

WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED                                                                                                                                          84

CHRISTOS WITHOUT IESOU [Or Christ without Jesus]                                                                                 84

CAN THE PROMISES MADE TO ABRAHAM’S SEED BE SPIRITUALISED?                                                          85

WHO ARE THESE “HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE”?                                                                                 86

WHO is THE SEED TO WHOM THE ORIGINAL Covenants Were MADE?                                                     86

“AS OF ONE” AND “THE ANOINTED SEED”                                                                                                              87

“IN CHRIST” OR “IN JESUS”                                                                                                                                           88

THE MEDIATOR                                                                                                                                                               88

“NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK”                                                                                                                                         89

WHO ARE THE GREEKS?                                                                                                                                                 90

CHILDREN OF PROMISE                                                                                                                                                 92

THE WORD ‘brethren’                                                                                                                                                92

Isaac … hearing faith … and freeborn sons                                                                                             92

IN THEE SHALL ALL NATIONS BE BLESSED                                                                                                              93

THE “FAMILIES OF THE EARTH” BEING BLESSED IN ABRAHAM                                                                             93

THE PROMISE AND “THY SEED” IN THE NEW TESTAMENT                                                                                       95

CHAPTER 9: ADOPTION                                                                                                                                                    96

THE WORD “ADOPTION”                                                                                                                                               96

THE FIRST adoption VERSE                                                                                                                                       97

THE SECOND adoption VERSE                                                                                                                                  97

THE THIRD adoption VERSE                                                                                                                                     98

THE FOURTH adoption VERSE                                                                                                                                 99

THE FIFTH ADOPTION VERSE                                                                                                                                      99

HOW CAN ANY ARGUE with god?                                                                                                                         100

WHAT IS THE TEACHING ABOUT ADOPTION?                                                                                                     100

WHO ARE THESE SONS?                                                                                                                                                100

HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN                                                                                                                                           102

CHAPTER 10: PILGRIMS, STRANGERS AND ISRAEL                                                                                          103

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF STRANGERS?                                                                                         103

NEW TESTAMENT STRANGERS                                                                                                                                 105

CHAPTER 11: SEEDS, NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL                                                                                               109

THE DIFFERENT WORDS FOR SEED                                                                                                                          109

SEED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT                                                                                                                                 110

THE TWO SEEDS IN GENESIS 3:15                                                                                                                             110

ABRAHAM’S SEED IS GENETIC                                                                                                                                  111

SEED AND OFFSPRING                                                                                                                                               111

SEED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT                                                                                                                                 112

“SPERMA” (AV: seed)                                                                                                                                                112

THE TWO SOWINGS IN HIS FIELD                                                                                                                               113

“SPOROS” (AV: seed)                                                                                                                                                113

THE WORDS “SPIRITUAL” AND “NATURAL”                                                                                                         113

NATURAL                                                                                                                                                                      114

SPIRITUAL                                                                                                                                                                    114

ISRAEL – THE HOLY SEED                                                                                                                                            115

ISRAEL – AN HOLY PEOPLE                                                                                                                                         115

ISRAEL – A SEPARATED PEOPLE                                                                                                                                116

ISRAEL – A PECULIAR PEOPLE                                                                                                                                   116

ISRAEL – THE ANOINTED SEED                                                                                                                                  117

ISRAEL – A CHOSEN PEOPLE                                                                                                                                       117

ISRAEL – A STONE PEOPLE [OR NATION]                                                                                                                118

WHAT IS BEING SAID?                                                                                                                                                  118

CHAPTER 12: “Born AGAIN” OR “BEGOTTEN FROM ABOVE”?                                                                 119

Again                                                                                                                                                                               119

BORN                                                                                                                                                                                 120

born of water AND OF SPIRIT                                                                                                                              120

WHO DID GOD BEGET?                                                                                                                                                 120

Abraham AND Sarah – THE ORIGIN                                                                                                                   121

FORMED FROM THE WOMB                                                                                                                                        122

HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN ¼ BORN OF GOD                                                                                                          122

REGENERATION                                                                                                                                                             124

WHAT IS BEING SAID?                                                                                                                                                  124

CHAPTER 13: THE CHURCH                                                                                                                                        125

SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT “THE CHURCH”                                                                                                            125

the origin of the word “church”                                                                                                                   126

THE FOUNDATION OF “THE CHURCH”                                                                                                                   126

COULD “THE CHURCH” TAKE OVER THE PROMISES MADE TO ISRAEL?                                                      127

WHO is “THE assembly”?                                                                                                                                          128

WHAT IS THE assembly?                                                                                                                                           128

THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD                                                                                                                                             130

THE CHURCH WHICH IS THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN                                                                                             130

SIGNS AND WONDERS IN THE assembly                                                                                                              132

WHAT ARE WE SAYING?                                                                                                                                              133

CHAPTER 14: WHY not proclaim THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?                                                             134

WHY “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” AND “THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN”?                                                           134

JESUS’ TEACHING ABOUT THE KINGDOM                                                                                                            134

THE WORD “KINGDOM”                                                                                                                                              135

IS THE KINGDOM PHYSICAL OR SPIRITUAL?                                                                                                        136

What do the prophets say?                                                                                                                                137

THE THRONE OF THE KINGDOM                                                                                                                              138

THE ETERNAL NATURE OF THE THRONE                                                                                                              139

Proclaiming THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN                                                                                                          140

THE PARABLES                                                                                                                                                               141

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN THE BOOK OF ACTS                                                                                                  141

THE KINGDOM IN THE EPISTLES                                                                                                                              142

WHAT is being said?                                                                                                                                                  143

CHAPTER 15: THE REGATHERING OF ISRAEL - Old Testament                                                            144

who are regathered?                                                                                                                                            144

what saith the law, the psalms and the prophets?                                                                           144

THE REGATHERING AS FOUND in the law                                                                                                         144

THE REGATHERING in the psalms                                                                                                                       146

THE REGATHERING in the prophets                                                                                                                   146

THE REGATHERING IN JEREMIAH                                                                                                                             147

DO OUR MODERN PROPHETS AGREE WITH JEREMIAH?                                                                      147

THE REGATHERING IN EZEKIEL                                                                                                                                149

THE PROPHECIES OF THE DRY BONES AND THE TWO STICKS                                                            150

THE DRY BONES                                                                                                                                            150

THE TWO STICKS.                                                                                                                                         151

THE REGATHERING IN DANIEL                                                                                                                                  152

THE REGATHERING IN HOSEA                                                                                                                                   152

THE REGATHERING IN JOEL                                                                                                                                      152

THE REGATHERING IN AMOS                                                                                                                                     153

THE REGATHERING IN MICAH                                                                                                                                   153

THE REGATHERING IN NAHUM                                                                                                                                  154

THE REGATHERING IN HABAKKUK                                                                                                                            154

THE REGATHERING IN ZEPHANIAH                                                                                                                           154

THE REGATHERING IN HAGGAI                                                                                                                                 154

THE REGATHERING IN ZECHARIAH                                                                                                                           155

THE REGATHERING IN MALACHI                                                                                                                               155

TO CONCLUDE                                                                                                                                                                156

chapter 16: THE REGATHERING OF ISRAEL - New Testament                                                           157

THE REGATHERING IN MATTHEW                                                                                                                           157

MATTHEW 24                                                                                                                                                                158

MATTHEW 25                                                                                                                                                                158

THE regathering IN THE OTHER GOSPELS                                                                                                       158

THE regathering IN THE BOOK OF ACTS                                                                                                          159

WHAT IS THE New Testament GATHERING TIME?                                                                                         159

HAS THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT BEEN FULFILLED?                                                                                      160

chapter 17: THE HEIRS OF JACOB - ISRAEL                                                                                                     161

THE BLESSING ON EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH                                                                                                     161

SOME POPULAR INTERPRETATIONS AND COMMENTS                                                                                     163

1.  EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH ARE SAID TO BE ‘TYPES’                                                                                         163

2.  “GALILEE OF THE GENTILES”                                                                                                                              163

3.  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN                                                                           164

4.  THE ISRAEL OF GOD … AND… CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART                                                                        164

5.  THE SO-CALLED NEW TESTAMENT PASSOVER                                                                                                     164

WHEN EPHRAIM REPENTS                                                                                                                                          165

WHAT ARE WE SAYING?                                                                                                                                              165

CHAPTER 18: THE SONS OF JOSEPH                                                                                                                        166

TURNING AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB                                                                                                    167

WHO are EPHRAIM and Manasseh today?                                                                                                    167

WHAT OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH TODAY?                                                                                                    168

the monarchy over the house of Israel                                                                                                   168

the new place appointed for Israel                                                                                                             168

where is this new location?                                                                                                                              169

WHERE MIGHT EPHRAIM BE NOW?                                                                                                                           170

WHERE MIGHT MANASSEH BE NOW?                                                                                                                         170

CONCLUSION                                                                                                                                                                  170

CHAPTER 19: THE NON-ISRAEL RACES                                                                                                                  172

THE BASIS OF GOD’S JUDGEMENT OF NON-ISRAEL NATIONS                                                                        172

RACIAL DIFFERENCES                                                                                                                                                  173

RACISM                                                                                                                                                                             173

IS GOD RACIST?                                                                                                                                                              174

RACIAL ORIGINS                                                                                                                                                            174

IS THERE A THIRD GROUP?                                                                                                                                         175

SHOULD THE WORD OF GOD BE TAUGHT TO THESE OTHERS?                                                                             175

HOW DO WE ASSESS OUR BELIEFS?                                                                                                                           176

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY                                                                                                                                        177

GOD WILL BE GRACIOUS TO WHOM HE WILL BE GRACIOUS                                                                           178

TO CONCLUDE                                                                                                                                                                179

CHAPTER 20: WHAT OF BALAAM’S DOCTRINE?                                                                                                180

WHAT IS BALAAM’S DOCTRINE?                                                                                                                              180

NEW TESTAMENT FORNICATION                                                                                                                             182

GOING ASTRAY                                                                                                                                                              185

WHOREDOM                                                                                                                                                                    185

IS BALAAM’S DOCTRINE THE NORMAL TEACHING?                                                                                         186

HARD SAYINGS?                                                                                                                                                             186

CAN BALAAM’S DOCTRINE APPLY TODAY?                                                                                                         186

PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS                                                                                                                                  187

TO CONCLUDE                                                                                                                                                                187