Just so you know....science and genetic testing today prove The vast majority of Jews today can be traced genetically back to the Levant area.
Further.....
Thus says Adonai,
who gives the sun as a light by day
and the fixed order of the moon
and the stars as a light by night,
who stirs up the sea so its waves roar,
Adonai-Tzva’ot is His Name:
“Only if this fixed order departs from before Me”
—it is a declaration of Adonai—
“then also might Israel’s offspring cease
from being a nation
before Me—for all time.”
(Jeremiah 31:34-35)
I kept thinking how this comports with our sense of justice the righteous die and the wicked live and I reproached God for it.
I will never accept this was just or deserved and we deserve better from the Judge Of All The Earth.
Humans may have free will but a world where evil prevails over good isn’t a world I can ever be at peace with.
Baruch Dayan Ha Emet. May the memory of the dead and living martyrs be for an eternal blessing.
Yeah, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz has American Indian genetic material (as I do), but that doesn't make her (or me) an Indian. I'm sure I have Jewish genetic material, but that doesn't make me a member of any one (or more) tribe. Jesus explained in John Chapter 8 that just because some Jews were descendants of Abraham that did not make them "children". Paul in Romans 9 explains this at length.
As I indicated in my previous post, Ephesians Chapter 2 has something remarkable to say about who is a citizen of the commonwealth of Israel. I give it in its entirety.
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Faithful Old and New Covenant believers are fellowcitizens of the commonwealth of Israel. The centrality of Jesus is remarkable and essential. We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus himself the chief corner stone.