Jacob is Israel. God changed the name of Jacob to Israel it is not a country, do you think God is talking aboutbut the 10 tribes of Israel.
When Jesus returns his chosen people from all the nation, the 10 tribes of God will be greater than the land they have now, don’t you think. We are all God children who believe through out the nations of the world. Israel ( country name) is not the Israel God is speaking about in the bible. God is not talking about land, he is talking about his children Israel ( Jacob) When I look in the bible map the land God gives them is greater than what they have now. It is all divided by the names of the 10 tribes.
But not till all the gentles are in. Jesus Christ was not crucified for a piece of land was he? For God is the creator and owner of all things seen and not seen. Israel is his chosen people their are Israelites, hebrews. Jesus was a Hebrew. Moses was a Hebrew. we all come now from the seed of Abraham through Jesus Christ.
Thanks God Bless
That was very good. Thank you.
Jesus did not die for a piece of land. That whole concept is irrelevant. The land was necessary for a while – to preserve the Word of God until the Messiah would come. The children of Abraham are all those who live in the Mystical Body of Christ. We are children in a spiritual bond – which is deeper and more complete than the racial identity of the Hebrew people.
The modern state of Israel was not established by God and it has nothing to do with the Bible. Jesus was not concerned with real estate, nor was He concerned with racial identity. His death and resurrection were to bring all of humanity into His own life – that is the true Israel and the true Kingdom (His Church, His Sacraments).
As Catholics, we want to preserve the sacred places in the Holy Land – because those are the places where Jesus lived and worked His miracles. But the State of Israel really has nothing to do with that. It was established by the United Nations to give the people of Hebrew descent a “home”.
We can be certain that this fight over land and a modern government in Israel is not what God wants now nor what He wanted in the past.
Support for the Israel state that is heard so much in Evangelical Protestantism is based on a faulty interpretation of the Scriptures. Since Protestantism has no holy places of its own, some leaders decided that “Israel” as mentioned in the Bible, means the land in the place now owned by the Israeli government. They also think that God commands us to preserve that state – at all cost. Even the cost of billions of dollars and warfare.
Being of Hebrew blood is not the issue. In the new dispensation of Christ, it doesn’t have a meaning and is not required. It’s not the bloodline that gives us holiness and sanctification.
In the Kingdom of Christ, those who were the most outcast in terms of race or bloodlines (perhaps American Indians like St. Kateri Tekawitha, or African slaves like St. Josephine Bakhita) are the greatest in the Kingdom of God (the new Jerusalem). Far more than many who have the natural-bloodline of Abraham.
All that said, there is no excuse or defense for hatred or animosity towards the Hebrew people at all. That does need to be said because sadly, there are some who harbor that hatred. That is obviously an evil thing that cannot be acceptable to God. We must love the Hebrew people and admire them in many ways – as we admire all racial groups and people of different faiths for various reasons.
But Judiasm, as we know, is not correct about some things of major importance. Obviously, Jesus desires and deserves to be honored and worshipped by all people and is not in this case.
The chosen people of God are those who live in that relationship with His Son – through the choice they make to accept Him.
It’s not through following rituals (alone) or through a pure Hebrew blood-line that one is part of the chosen people.
