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 12/5/14 6:08 PM |
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Lurker wrote:
Why do you say "WILL return"? Peter quoted parts of Hosea 1:10 and 2:23 in 1 Pet 2:10 and in context wrote to the house of Israel.....
1 Peter 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Does this text make sense if applied to you or any Gentile Christian you know? Did you once know and love God, go astray and come back again? Of course not.... it only makes sense when applied to a people of God who had been cast away and gathered again..... the house of Israel who were given into Assyrian captivity.Yes, Lurker, this is talking about the House of Israel. But, I've still got to admit that I believe I've been grafted into this. I can than GOD for the return to Him as if it was me. In the same way, Ruth and Rahab would have celebrated the Passover even though they didn't experience the actual Passover themselves. They had aligned themselves with the GOD and the people of Israel. The link between the House of Israel/Ephraim and gentiles goes all the way back to Jacob's blessing on his grandson, Ephraim. He said that he would become a multitude of nations. It's too big of a study for here, but, in effect, I believe this can mean that he would become "the gentiles". I realize many won't agree, but wit |
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| 12/4/14 3:09 PM |
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Concerning the House of Israel (northern kingdom):
"And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."
- Ho 2:23
"For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days."
- Ho 3:4-5The House of Israel WILL return and seek the one true GOD! I believe that the gentiles/nations/House of Israel are very closely linked. Israel *became* the nations or gentiles in effect, and it is by their casting out that we can come in. We are part of them that once were not His people, but now are called "His people"! Therefore, through the House of Israel we become grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel (Eph 2:12, 13) |
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