281 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 1 - Book 24 - Not All Israel is Israel

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 24 NOT ALL ISRAEL IS ISRAEL Remember I'm always emphasizing that the largest part of Christendom, and I'm including the Roman Catholics, the Protestants, and many other groups refuse to accept the fact that God is not through with the Nation of Israel. Most of them have set Israel aside. Romans 9:6 "Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Genesis 32:24,25 God literally came down in a theophany in the form of a man, and He begins this true wrestling match with the man Jacob. In other words God crippled Jacob. Verse 26. Genesis 32:26 I think it's implied clearly enough, Jacob understands Who he's wrestling with? He knows that he's dealing with the God of his father Isaac, and his grandfather Abraham. And he understands that unless this God blesses him, he's destitute. Genesis 32:27,28 God told Jacob, "You just hung tough, you did not give up, you did not fail me." So God sees that faith in this man Jacob, and by it He transformed him. Here's Jacob's true salvation, here is where Jacob experiences what we call today the "New Birth." And so consequently since he is now a new man in God, in Christ, yes in Christ even back there. He's now a new man, and God also gives him a new name. He's no longer to be called Jacob, the deceiver, which was the natural, but now he's to be called Israel, the prince with God. Don't lose sight of those two names of Jacob and his offspring. First Ishmael the natural, then Isaac the spiritual. First Esau the natural, and then Jacob the spiritual. We were natural, we had nothing to do with the spiritual life, but after we're born into the family of God, we've experienced Salvation and what are we? We're Spiritual! Jacob is the beginning of this dividing line even within Israel the Covenant people of God. "The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel." The Israel. So not all Israel is Israel. Now verse 7. Romans 9:7 "Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called." Now again let's go back to the Book of Genesis Chapter 17. Remember that God for about 50 years had promised Abraham and Sarah a son. And out of that son would come the Nation of Israel, and the fulfillment of those Covenant promises. Abraham of course quickly agreed to that, and from that fleshly idea comes the man Ishmael - again the natural side. The Arab world says they are the true Children of Abraham because the Koran, if I understand it correctly, instead of putting the Covenant promises with Isaac puts them with Ishmael. Genesis 17:15 "And God said unto Abraham, `As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.'" Now verse 16: Genesis 17:16-19 (Why can't Ishmael fulfill your promises, and in verse 19 God refutes him) And God said, `Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.'" A promise. In other words Isaac becomes a promised Son, now I'm emphasizing that, and I'm taking it slowly because I want you to remember now that what God promises He is not going to let fail. And so in spite of the age of Abraham, now nearing 100, and Sarah nearing 90, the promise is valid because God said that He was going to do it, and Abraham was to call his name Isaac. Genesis 17:20 God has blessed them and they've nothing to complain about, but look what God says in verse 21: Genesis 17:21 Now let's come back to Romans Chapter 9, and here Paul says that all that are of the seed of Abraham are not the seed of promise. Ishmael had much off spring, and same way when you come to the next promised child, which is Jacob, we find that his brother Esau also had much offspring as well, and even though genetically Ishmael and Esau are children of Abraham, yet spiritually speaking they are outside the Covenant promise, because that could only go to the offspring of Isaac, and Jacob and down that family tree. Romans 9:7 "Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called." Romans 9:8a God never once told Abraham and Sarah to go and have a child with Hagar. Now reading on verse 8: Romans 9:8 "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." Galatians 3:16 "Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. John 17:6 "I have manifested thy name (He's praying to the Father remember.) Well God did, and you come on down to verse 12: John 17:12 Because God gave them to Him, and what God does no man can undo) but the son of perdition; (Judas) that the scripture might be fulfilled." #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible