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Mystery of IsraelDID IT EVER STRIKE you as most unusual that the Great God should haveraised up the ancient nation Israel to be his chosen people?Consider these seemingly paradoxical facts:God says he is not a respecter of persons. Is he, then, a respecter of nations? Doeshe have a favorite?Did you ever realize that God denied his chosen people salvation--save only theirprophets? That the chosen nation was given only material and national promises--thatGod's Holy Spirit was inaccessible to them?Did it ever occur to you that the Holy Bible is the book of and concerning onlythat one people Israel? And that other nations are mentioned only if and as they came intocontact with Israel?And here's another shocker!--almost totally unrealized today by Christianity--evenby Judaism and not recorded or understood by historians! The northern kingdom of Israelwas not Jewish! The first place in the Bible where the word Jews occurs is in II Kingschapter 16 and verse 6, where the nation Israel was at war, in an alliance with Syria,against the Jews!The truly amazing truth about Israel is a mystery totally unknown by any religion--by Christianity--by even Judaism!It is indeed true that the nation Israel was God's chosen people. But understand:They were not chosen as "teacher's pet" nor for special favors. They were chosen for aspecial PURPOSE preparatory to the ultimate establishment of the kingdom of God!It is an intriguing story! The answer to this chapter title, "Mystery of Israel," hasgreat significance in God's PURPOSE for all peoples! One cannot understand the realpurpose and incredible potential of man without this vital knowledge.Supreme Master PlanThe Creator God is reproducing himself in and through man! God's ultimate transcendentPURPOSE is breathtaking beyond words. The establishment of the ancient nation Israel isan integral part of the supreme master plan.Seven generations after the Flood, the Eternal found a man who would obey him.His name was Abram. He lived in Haran, in Mesopotamia. This man was to become atype of God the Father. It was from him that the nation Israel descended. Through thisnation God raised up his prophets, and in due time God's own Son, Jesus Christ.Man of DestinyAbram, as he was originally named, was not seeking God. But God chose to call and testAbram. This ancient patriarch, later in Scripture, is called the father of the faithful. Godwas calling him for a very special purpose. That purpose was not to "give him salvation"or "get him into heaven." God was calling him because he had seen in this man thepotentialities of obedience to God and of leadership. God was calling him to be prepared
for special service and ultimately high position in the kingdom of God--the coming worldtomorrow. I quote now from a book I wrote more than 50 years ago, The United Statesand Britain in Prophecy, commencing with page 16:To this man, Abram, God commanded: "Get thee out of thy country, and from thykindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make ofthee a great nation" (Gen. 12:1-2).Here was a command, which was a condition and a PROMISE, provided thecondition of obedience was met.And so now, as God had started the whole world with one man, he started his ownpeculiar nation in the world from one single man--Abraham. As the world, which hasstrayed far from God and the blessings of God's worship and rule, was started with oneman who rebelled against God and rejected his rule, so God's own flesh-born nation, fromwhich is to be reborn the kingdom of God, was started with one man who obeyed Godwithout question, and accepted his divine rule.Did Abram stop to argue and reason? Did he say: "Let's reason this out a bit first;here I am in Babylon, in the very center of all this world's commerce, society and gaiety.Why can't you just as well give me this promise right here, where everything is pleasantand alluring? Why must I leave all this and go over to that uncivilized land?"Did Abram quibble, resist, argue, rebel?He certainly did not!The inspired Scripture account states simply: "So Abram departed." There was noarguing with God. There was no human reasoning that God was all wrong. There were nofoolish questions: "Why must I leave here?" "Can't I do as I please?" There was nostopping to say, "Well, here's the way I look at it.""Abram departed." Just plain, unquestioned obedience!Here again we see the principle of duality. Abram was in the very center of thisworld's developing civilization. Remember, it was a world held captive--a worlddeveloping on Satan's pattern. God had chosen Abram to become the patriarch of hisnation Israel, the congregation or church of the Old Testament. The principle of duality isinterwoven all through the workings of God in fulfilling this great purpose throughhumanity on earth. There was the physical congregation of Israel under tho OldTestament and the spiritual Church of God under the New Testament. The word churchas originally written in the Greek of the New Testament was ekklesia, which meanscalled-out-ones.As Israel of the Old Testament was the physical forerunner and type of the Churchof the New Testament so God now called out the progenitor of the nation Israel fromSatan's world. Abraham later regarded himself as a stranger, a sojourner and a pilgrim inthe earth. This was not his world: "These all died in faith, not having received thepromises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embracedthem, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that saysuch things declare plainly that they seek a country [a different civilization]. And truly, ifthey had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have hadopportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a
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. . . . . . .MYSTERYOFTHEAGES. . .
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closed the Holy Spirit and eternal
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PrefaceDID you ever ask yourself: "
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different forms and shapes that can
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created. Religion involves one's co
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This self-analysis at age 18 led me
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my clients. My business was growing
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"Why," I exclaimed, "how can that b
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taken a severe beating. I had to ac
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eligious leader who arrived at his
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The first created man Adam, taking
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I am not condemning or judging thes
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If you were asked where in the Bibl
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all things created, that are in hea
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That character might be summed up i
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The generally accepted teaching of
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"the little flock." In the 17th cha
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call it--existing along with our ow
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therefore know more about the human
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And it CANNOT BE DIVIDED. It remain
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"first-fruits" of God's salvation (
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kingdom" upon being baptized, but a
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them on the spiritual milk--not yet
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specially called and drawn by God.
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eceiver, an ex-judge of a non-Chris
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Take an analogy from Satan's world,
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6,000 years. The Church is called o
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False Gospel ProclaimedSoon a viole
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The mad Nero in A.D. 64 blamed the
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they had. Booklets and articles wer
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This is not necessarily always refe
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A prominent evangelist said to a wo
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ulers, even today, he did not know
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Now here we have described FOUR uni
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He is the "nobleman" of the parable
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no crime, no jails or prisons, no p
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Look now at the solved problems!See
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Read of the huge earthquakes yet to
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Lord of hosts shall bless, saying,
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In God's kingdom, commands of his w
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But remember, the humans remaining
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First, it is the government of God-
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him, and held him down, Jacob also
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King David, resurrected, immortal,
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At that time, even as today, that w
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One of the great problems facing th
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Also the indication is that the tea
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"So I prophesied as he commanded me
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But wait a moment! Before you disbe
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It cannot be the state in which God
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