Acts 7 :38 tells us that the Israelites in the wilderness according to The Lord was the church! How mysterious is He!!! The birth of the church on Pentecost in Acts 2 is not the beginning of the church like we presume. This is an example of choking on the letter and missing the heart or the fragrance of Truth.
The church was in His heart in Genesis 1:1 and before that if we can receive it. She is a mystical body of both Jew and Gentile… The Bride. Now this is not saying that Israel and the church are the same, they are not. For an intermittent period of time for pattern purposes only, they are two flocks. They will be one in the end. But this only occurs after Christ’s second coming where Israel looks upon Him whom they have pierced and receives their Messiah at last.
The bad thing is that the day the church celebrates Pentecost is not even the right day! We know the day on the calendar yet ignore it and use a pagan schedule to calculate a false day.
The reason Pentecost is used as a day on the calendar to commemorate the birth of the church is because the feasts tell the gospel and the plan of God for creation. This is to show us where we are on His prophetic calendar (for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear).
Lets not separate the two flocks any more than The Lord does and we can better understand prophecy for these days we are in. Now Paul says that not all Israel is Israel so the Israelites who did not receive Messiah when they saw Him were not Israel. But they would have believed if they were really God’s people. It’s the same today.
So the next fulfillment to occur will be feast of trumpets. Remember that Israel is separate for a purpose only to project a pattern for His people, whosoever will believe…ultimately, the church.
During the thousand year reign that is soon coming, there will still be a bit of a separation but all under Christ and knowingly. There will be those who believed before He came of both Jew and Gentile (the Bride or church), the redeemed nation of Israel, from every tribe, who see Jesus and believe. It will be the redeemed nation of Israel that will repopulate the entire earth exactly as Noah did and became many nations and people. During the thousand year reign, the Bride, the church, will be in their glorified bodies and serve as Kings and Priests. Not lording it over nations but ruling and reigning with Him in righteousness.
After that, then there is the New Jerusalem, the New Heaven and he New Earth where there will cease to be any difference. All those who believe will be one people of God, forever.
Just as there is a pattern used with Abraham, Sarah Isaac and Ishmael, God tells truth through pattern which is stronger than words!
How cool is this: Abraham is faith. Sarah is grace. Isaac is the son of promise or the new man (redeemed). Ishmael is the “wild ass of a man” who is the unruly old nature or old man. Salvation (Isaac) comes by grace (Sarah) through faith (Abraham).
Ishmael is the son of the bond woman (Hagar). A slave under the law, the old man and he is an unruly, wild ass of a man!!! Our old nature before grace through faith!
The entire word is full of these patterns and Israel and the church are just one of many. Ill show another even better one next time with Adam and Eve that The Lord showed me. It’s amazing!
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Love,
Cheryl
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