It doesn't make sense. After all, they heap honor and blessings all over physical Israel. They donate money to the temple rebuilding project, they get excited when they talk of restarting the daily sacrifice and they cherish stories and souvenirs from the country. Yet, when we look around, what do we see? Do we see the blessings being returned as the promise states or do we see curses?
Of course, we see curses, especially from a Christian perspective which includes moral values but also in most every other way we are seeing curses. So what's the problem here? The modern Church has been Israel's greatest friend haven't they? Maybe they haven't blessed them enough. Perhaps they should send more money over there and maybe then God would toss over a blessing or two.
Logically we know there is something wrong with this picture. The truth is if you toss a little blessing toward Israel you should reap that same little blessing back. From all of the blessings that have been heaped on Israel there should have been a decent return on them by now but we simply haven't seen that.
So what's the true problem? The actual answer to the dilemma is that they are not blessing Abraham's seed at all. The Church has been mistakenly blessing the spirit of antichrist, which is alive and well in physical Israel. How can I say that? Well, John tells us clearly how to recognize the spirit of antichrist:
"And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world." 1st John 4:3
Somehow what the Church has been missing is that the true seed of Abraham, and the real child with the promise is not the Jews (as of many) but Christ (as of one). We are plainly told this in scripture, yet they still miss it and not only have they NOT blessed him, they've actually chased him off and now stand guard at the door to see he doesn't get back in.
The true children of Abraham are those who believe on Jesus and through him have become the sons and daughters of God. YOU are Israel if you are in Christ. The Church has been blessing the wrong folks.
Matthew 1:1 gives us our answer
When Christ died on the cross He fulfilled the prophets by translating the house of Israel from the physical house into a spiritual house. The Church should be blessing spiritual Israel who is Christ, not physical Israel. Paul explains it to us in Romans 9: 6-8
"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."
So we see that the physical, flesh and blood Jews are not the Jews anymore. The real Jew is a spiritual Jew, as Paul explains further in Romans 2: 28-29
"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."
Israel has been remade as a spiritual body as Jeremiah prophesied in Chapter 8: 4-6
"And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel."
If you are in Christ you are that new vessel. We are the clay and God is the potter, when Christ died for our sins, this was the fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy "Oh Israel, I'm I not able to remake you as the potter remakes the vessel?" You see, God took the old, physical Israel and remolded them into a new house under the same name and the new was remade of the spirit.
Wow, imagine that! You really are a chosen people, based on your spiritual lineage not your physical one. You are not second to Israel, YOU ARE ISRAEL!!
Wow, what a wonderful thing to realize! How wonderful!! We are not second class citizens waiting to take our place after the physical Jews come back to Christ. (and I pray that many more of them do come to Christ) This is why the Jewish people got so mad at Paul and Peter, they we're telling them this very thing and they hated to hear that salvation no longer had anything to do with their flesh.
Still you either accept this or you don't and many cannot hear it. Acts 13:41 Paul refers to Habakkuk 1:5 when he tells the Jews at the synagogue in Pisidia the truth. "Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you."
A week later they chased Paul and Barnabas out of their city. If you have ever wondered why they got so mad, now you know. God turned the world upside down and did a work that they in no wise believed. Actually, many still don't believe it and it seems they still get just about as angry about it also.
So, if you reject that you are an Israelite by the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his sacrifice then you have rejected the promise, you have rejected your birthright and that is not a good thing. He came only to save the lost sheep of the house of Israel, not the so-called "Church". There are not two saved groups. There's only one flock and one shepard over them.
Look around you. Look how your plan of blessing physical Israel has panned out. What has it gotten you? Blessings? I don't think so, rather there have been curses. If we do good to Israel, which we supposedly have done, then there should have been more and more blessings not less and less blessings.
That alone should prove to you that the so-called "Church" is blessing the wrong group of people.
Just try it. Heap a few blessings on Christ and while you are at it heap a few blessing on those who honestly follow Christ and see if those blessing don't come back to you.
They will.
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