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Who is God’ s true Israel? the Jews? the Samaritans? the Christians? The Muslims?




Who is God’ s true Israel? the Jews? the Samaritans? the Christians? The Muslims?

Who is God’s true Israel? The Jews? The Samaritans? The Christians? The Muslims? Well, the Book of Psalms goes on to say: “God is indeed good to Israel [to which Israel?... ], to the pure in heart ”- Psalm 73: 1, Christian Standard Bible.
Thus, God’s own Israel is comprised of those having a pure heart; no matter if they be Egyptians [like Josephs’ wife], Midianites [like Jethro], Canaanites [like Rahab], Moabites [like Ruth], Hethites [like Uriah], or Syrians [like Naaman].
And how can a non Hebrew person purify his heart? By willingly embracing God’s Law; in other words, by departing from evil, in order to start living by what God had commanded thru Moses [upon the two stone tablets]. As is written:
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping your Word… I have kept my feet from every evil path to follow your Word… How long will you refuse to keep my commands and instructions?
Pursue good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord, the God of Armies, will be with you Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what He commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility the humble will inherit the [promised] Land and will enjoy abundant prosperity…
… Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land…
Turn away from evil, do what is good … I, the Lord, examine the mind, I test the heart to give to each according to his way, according to what his actions deserve
As you have done, it will be done to you; what you deserve will return on your own head…
Didn’t your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him? He took up the case of the poor and needy; then it went well. Is this not what it means to know me? … ”
- Psalm 119: 9, Psalm 119: 101, Exodus 16: 18, Amos 5: 14, Zephaniah 2: 3, Psalm 37: 11, Isaiah 1: 16-19, Psalm 37: 27, Jeremiah 17: 10, Obadiah 1: 15, Jeremiah 22: 15-16 (Christian Standard Bible)

 

 

 

«The man without wisdom will end up blindly following another man of flesh and blood (Jesus, Muhammad, the Baal Shem Tov, Joseph Smith-- may peace and blessings be upon them)-- But a wise man refuses to place a blind trust upon any flawed human being («Thus saith the Lord; “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm... ”»- Jeremiah 17: 5); Preferring instead to follow the values and moral principles that are pleasing to the Creator (truthfulness, fidelity, justice, mercy, humility, etc), no matter who chooses to represent them. As is written: “But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the Earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord- Jeremiah 9: 24, KJB»

 

 

Israel was a divinely appointed paradigm for those who would please their Creator: when Israel fulfills such paradigm, it is God’s chosen people; otherwise, they become God’s enemies

Scripture hints at the idea that God has chosen the nation of Israel in order to function as one of many divinely ordained paradigms. In Israel’s case, their appointment was to incarnate a particular [yet universal] community of beings. What sort of beings? Those [from all races and creeds] whose commitment with honesty, humility, service, and holiness would make them qualify to be considered God’s chosen people (God’s own children! ).
Thus, whenever the nation of Israel collectively departs from it’s preordained task [becoming deceptive, arrogant, self centered, and debased] God gets upset, as [by betraying their calling] He no longer has any use for them.
As is written:

(1) «And the Lord said unto Gideon, “The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, LEST ISRAEL VAUNT THEMSELVES AGAINST ME, SAYING, ‘MINE OWN HAND HATH SAVED ME’ ”»- Judges 7: 2 (K. J. B. )
(2) «Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, ‘FOR MY RIGHTEOUSNESS THE LORD HATH BROUGHT ME IN TO POSSESS THIS LAND’: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee. NOT FOR THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, OR FOR THE UPRIGHTNESS OF THINE HEART, DOST THOU GO TO POSSESS THEIR LAND: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee... »- Deut. 9: 4-5
(3) “… give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, ‘WHO IS THE LORD? ’... ” - Proverbs 30: 8-9
(4) «THE LORD SHALL CUT OFF all flattering lips, and tHE TONGUE THAT SPEAKETH PROUD THINGS: WHO HAVE SAID, ‘WITH OUR TONGUE WILL WE PREVAIL; OUR LIPS ARE OUR OWN: WHO IS LORD OVER US? ’»- Psalm 12: 3-4
(5) “Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, THAT WE MAY SET FORTH WHEAT, MAKING THE EPHAH SMALL, AND THE SHEKEL GREAT, AND FALSIFYING THE BALANCES BY DECEIT? THAT WE MAY BUY THE POOR FOR SILVER, AND THE NEEDY FOR A PAIR OF SHOES; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? ’ he Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, SURELY I WILL NEVER FORGET ANY OF THEIR WORKS... ”- Amos 8: 4-7
(6) “But IF YE WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME, AND WILL NOT DO ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS; AND IF YE SHALL DESPISE MY STATUTES, OR IF YOUR SOUL ABHOR MY JUDGMENTS, SO THAT YE WILL NOT DO ALL MY COMMANDMENTS, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I WILL EVEN APPOINT OVER YOU TERROR, CONSUMPTION, AND THE BURNING AGUE, THAT SHALL CONSUME THE EYES, AND CAUSE SORROW OF HEART: AND YE SHALL SOW YOUR SEED IN VAIN, FOR YOUR ENEMIES SHALL EAT IT”- Lev. 26: 14-16
(7) «O THOU THAT ART NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACOB, IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD STRAITENED? ARE THESE HIS DOINGS? Do not my Words do good to him that walketh uprightly? Even of late MY PEOPLE IS RISEN UP AS AN ENEMY... »- Micah 2: 7-8
(8) «Then said God, Call his name Loammi: ‘for YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL NOT BE YOUR GOD’»- Hosea 1: 9
(9) «And it shall come to pass at that time, that I WILL SEARCH JERUSALEM with candles, AND PUNISH THE MEN that are settled on their lees: THAT SAY IN THEIR HEART, ‘THE LORD WILL NOT DO GOOD, NEITHER WILL HE DO EVIL’»- Zephaniah 1: 12

 

 

 

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