God changed Jacob's name to be no more called Jacob, but to be called Israel (Gen 32:28). Jacob represents God's elect people (Rom 9:11)
The house of Israel (Jacob) turned away from God, and God chastened them, but there was a remnant of the house of Israel/Jacob that were a poor and afflicted people that were left in the midst of the house of Israel that trusted in the name of the Lord and did no iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Both the house of Israel/Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel/Jacob, are those that God gave to Jesus to redeem them from their sins, and secured them an inheritance of heaven by his death on the cross. (John 6:37-40).
Some of the nation of Israel are not included in the house of Israel/Jacob. (all Israel/nation is not of Israel/Jacob - Rom 9:6).
God changed Jacob's name to be no more called Jacob, but to be called Israel (Gen 32:28). Jacob represents God's elect people (Rom 9:11)
yeah NOw add this revelation in
“Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For
they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is,
They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:
but
the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
Romans 9:6-8 KJV
doeasnt this very simple statement tell you there is an israel identified by thy flesh and blood descendants of Israel ? And they aren’t the elect ? But instead God has counted the children of the promise as his seed and his heir ?
right can you acknowledge there are two definitions form israel the flesh children ( abrams) offspring , (Jacobs’s )descendants the nation we recognize as isreal
and hen there’s another definition according to Gods word ? Can you acknowledge that isn’t the flesh and blood that identifies isreal ? But instead it’s receiving Gods spirit that identifies them ?
this verse is all you would have to acknowledge for that
“they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is,
They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:
but
the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
Can you acknowledge that being born of abrams Hebrew blood doesn’t make a person an Israelite to God ? And instead it’s this ?
“For
ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And
if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Galatians 3:26-29 KJV
If your wondering what Abraham has to do with it God renamed Abraham and then renamed his grandson Jacob based on the same messiah and same promise of the gospel
to be the seed of Abraham is what defines Israel and to be the seed of Abraham one needs to accept the gospel whether they used to be a gentile or used to be a Jew doesn’t have any effect whatsoever on thier status with God
what defines thier relationship and status with God whether a Jew or gentile is to accept Christ the messiah given to Israel fornthier salvation
if an Israelite rejects Jesus they can’t be saved and can’t belong to God if anyone a Jew or a gentile accepts Christ that makes them the elect of God or in other words Gods israel born of his spirit and washed in his blood
this world is doomed Webhave a better home and a better Jerusalem look up and not at the worldly Jerusalem
“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and
confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. But now
they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.”
Hebrews 11:13-14, 16
That city isn’t on earth inhabited by fleshly people
“but ye are come unto
mount Sion, and unto
the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written
in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
Hebrews 12:22-24
glory is on high and Jesus hasn’t promised us a broken and desolate nation but instead a true home
“but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
2 Peter 3:7, 13
new people not defined by flesh and blood but by his spirit , a new heaven and new earth where we will reign a we were meant to in the beginning a new covenant creating all these things of faith
Israel can be saved and so can anyone who believes the gospel that’s all that matters now our skin doesn’t our blood doesn’t our flesh doesn’t but his spirit does that’s how israel
Is truly born by the flesh and the blood of Jesus Christ
“His body and his blood his name “ not my body and my blood or my name “
Jacob is of the flesh israel
Of the spirit
just like we’re called to new identities from the old
“if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
Ephesians 4:21-24
we have a new name also we’re called the children and heirs of God and what flesh we are born from has no bearing
