Q: Did The Father call the descendants of Jacob "His people"?
A: Yes
Q: Did The Father say those descendants were "NOT His people" sometime afterward?
A: Yes.
Hosea 1:9
And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God."
The Almighty gave ancient Israel a certificate of divorce (
Jeremiah 3:8)...but as we read through both Hosea and Jeremiah, there is a promise to remarry Israel and promise that they will once again be called His people.
But only in the Western-influenced, modern world does an ex-wife get to claim the benefits (and name) from her former marriage to the ex-husband. But this wasn't true in the ancient world, during the time of the scriptures. Divorce meant she was cut off. Maybe this is why it's so difficult for some of us to understand that The State of Israel isn't "Israel" and doesn't get the benefits of being The Almighty's people simply because "once upon a time..."; today, we condone passing benefits outside of covenants so what we're seeing doesn't seem like a perversion of scripture.
No, The Almighty operates in decency and in order. None of the benefits these particular people have received are from the Former Husband outside of a covenant, rather they are from their
current one
Believing in the Messiah is critically important for people to marry The Almighty and receive His blessings because He is bound to His Word. The Almighty can't break His Word.
The Law of Marriage is "if you divorce your spouse to marry another you are
no longer allowed to remarry the former spouse
as long as you both shall live because such is considered adultery (and thus an abomination)" since marriage is for life in Almighty's eyes.
Thus the only way to fulfill The Almighty's promise to the descendants is for
both parties to die. It is a reset. This is what Paul explains in
Romans 7.
- The Husband died on the Cross.
- The Wife must also die by faith to the world (forsaking her current lover) and
believe in what the Groom did/does.
- And then both enter into covenant, without which, there is no passing of benefits.
Until this happens, she does
not get a right to reclaim the benefits of The Husband's name, property, or wealth. The Almighty would never be behind it else it breaks His law and the scriptures. Thus, those currently in the land are
not His people. He never previously covenanted with them so they wouldn't be bound from controling the land by His unbreakable Word.
Either the scriptures are a lie or those people in the land are. It's the god of this world who's given them all that they have; maintained through lies, theft, and murder, the very trades that he deals in. They are
his people, the synagogue of satan, claiming to be Jews but are not and do lie (
Rev 2:9 & 3:9).
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Disclaimer: I'm speaking generally about a government and/or nation group, not about any individual born again through belief in the Messiah; grafted in, regardless of their blood heritage to those people.