Luke 1
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Do you think Jesus is reigning over Israel now, sitting on the throne of David in Jerusalem?
Yes, over Israel now.
Who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
Are they literal keys?
if the keys of David are spiritual why would you think the Throne of David would not be?
The throne of David is the lordship of the saints aka Israel - The children according to faith in the promise.
There are not two different paths or two different kingdoms.
In the end the children according to the flesh of Jacob, get included in the Israel according to faith in the promise.
At that time the physical people do have some very special tasks.
Especially if you are a virgin and male.
We have already established that the kingdom of God and the Kingdom are used interchangeable in the gospels and by Jesus in about the same sentence.
But who is Israel?
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. - Jesus
Israel has always been the chosen of God.
The chosen of God has always been Israel.
The physical people like the law where stewards, keepers of the promises of God or the singular promise of God in that they all are found in Christ Jesus.
The promises where never to the physical seed of Abraham but the singular seed, that being Christ.
The child of faith and child of promise is always how Abraham's children have been counted.
No according to the flesh, not the natural branch.
The natural physical people where cut off from the promises (or the promised one, the promised kingdom if you like)
But we are grafted into that promise and become citizen of Israel and are placed under the lordship of Christ and his rule of that kingdom.
The throne of David is the rule of Israel, not the physical Jew but the Spiritual descendants of the father of faith, Abraham the father of many nations (not one physical nation).
Jesus says his kingdom not of this world or his disciples would fight.
His kingdom is spiritual and so His throne would be also spiritual.
Therefore remember
that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the
so-called “Circumcision,”
which is performed in the flesh (
that is the Jews according to the flesh) by human hands—
12 remember that you were
at that time separate from Christ,
excluded from the
citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the
covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14For He Himself is our peace,
who made both groups into one (
that is one Israel, one citizenship in one kingdom ) and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall,
15 by abolishing in His flesh the enmity,
which is the Law of commandments
contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the
two into one new man, (
two different flesh into one new spirit man fit for a spiritual kingdom)
thus establishing peace,
16and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.
17AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR;
18for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
19So then you are
no longer strangers and aliens(in regards to citizenship of Israel), but you are
fellow citizens with the saints (AKA The Israel of God, AKA Gods chosen), and are
of God’s household ,(which is what it means to be Israel)
It has never been according to the flesh.
One house, one new race, one new nation
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