the Bible reads Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him when Jacob saw them he said
this is God's host he called the name of that place Mahanayim and Jacob sent messengers before
him to Esau his brother unto the land of seer and the country of Edom and he commanded them saying
thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau thy servant Jacob stayeth thus I have sojourned with Laban
and stayed there until now and I have oxen and asses flocks and men servants and women servants
and I've sent to tell my lord that I might find grace in thy sight the messengers returned to
Jacob saying we came to thy brother Esau and also he cometh to meet thee four hundred men with him
then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided the people that was with him and the
flocks and the herds and the camels into two bands and said if Esau come to the one company
and smite it then the other company which is left shall escape and Jacob said oh god of my father
Abraham and lord and god god of my father Isaac and lord which said his son to me return unto
thy country into thy kindred and i will deal well with thee i'm not worthy of the least of all the
mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed me unto thy servant for with my staff i passed
over this jordan and now i've become two bands deliver me i pray thee from the hand of my brother
from the hand of Esau for i fear him lest you will come and smite me and the mother with the children
and thou saidest i will surely do thee good and make thee seed as the sand of the sea which cannot
be numbered for multitude and he lodged there that same night and took of that which came to his hand
a present for Esau's brother 200 she goats and 20 he goats 200 ews and 20 rams 30 milk camels with
their colts 40 kine and 10 bulls 20 she asses and 10 foals and he delivered them into the hand of
his servants every drove by themselves and said unto his servants pass over before me and put a
space betwixt drove and drove he commanded the foremost saying when Esau my brother meeteth thee
and asketh thee saying whose art thou and whither thou goest thou and whose are these before thee
then thou shalt say they be thy servant Jacob's it is a present sent unto my lord Esau and behold
also he is behind us and so commanded he the second and the third and all that followed the
droves saying on this manner shall you speak unto Esau when you find him and say you moreover
behold thy servant Jacob is behind us for he said i will appease him with the present that
goeth before me and afterward i will see his face per adventure he will accept of me so went the
present over before him and himself lodged that night in the company he rose up that night and
took his two wives and his two women servants and his 11 sons and passed over the four jabak
and he took them and sent them over the brook and sent them over that he had and jacob was left
alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day and when he saw that
he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hall of jacob's
thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said let me go for the day breaketh
and he said i will not let thee go except thou bless me and he said unto him what is thy name
and he said jacob and he said thy name shall be called no more jacob but israel for as a prince
has thou power with god and with men and has prevailed jacob asked him and said tell me i
pray thee thy name and he said wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name and he blessed
him there and jacob called the name of the place peniel for i have seen god face to face and my
life is preserved and as he passed over penuel the sun rose upon him and he halted upon his thigh
therefore the children of israel eat not of the sinew which shrank which is upon the hollow of
the thigh unto this day because he touched the hollow of jacob's thigh and the sinew that shrank
let's pray dear lord god thank you for everything that you've blessed us with lord just thank you
for the king james bible lord and just thank you for pastor we pray that you bless him right now
as he preaches unto us your word lord and just pray that we could take these truths that uh
pastors prepared for us and apply to our lives lord we pray this all in jesus name amen amen
okay we're in genesis chapter 32 this evening and i'm going to preach on the subject of the
eras of israel the eras of israel and this evening is going to be more so of a teaching type of a
sermon and so you're going to have to discipline yourself to pay attention and make sure that you
are grasping a lot of the truths that are going to be said tonight because of the fact that i'm
really going to just give you a synopsis of the history of israel okay and you know obviously i
might get preachy in some of the parts because i can't help it however no promises i'm just going
to give you a lot of information and just go through literally genesis 2 revelation
regarding the history of israel now why is a sermon like this important well because of the
fact that you know a lot of christians today think that everything is about israel and they think
that israel is essentially the centerpiece of the bible the centerpiece of christianity and it's all
about israel but no sorry you know the bible is all about jesus christ and jesus is the centerpiece
of christianity he is the centerpiece of the word of god and even of the history of israel
old testament and new testament he's the most important person in the word of god and so
sometimes people give this inordinate amount of affection towards the nation of israel and the
people of israel even though they're simply a tool that god used to get the word of god out there
and really the most important person as the bible puts it in colossians chapter one the preeminent
one is jesus christ okay and all of israel's history is for the purpose of pointing us towards
jesus christ and the work of jesus christ that's what it's all about and so i want to go through
the history of israel and i'm going to cover about seven different eras briefly and spend
most of my time in the latter end of the list but we're going to talk about israel the person
the nation the monarchy the divided kingdom the remnant the israel of god and ultimately
the restoration of israel so let's start off by talking about israel the person now what's funny
about this is that you know when you talk to people who are very much pro-zionist they're
pro-israel and they think that the bible is all about israel you know he kind of points you like
what's your text verse and they always go to where genesis chapter 12 but the thing is is that israel
actually isn't mentioned until genesis chapter 32 and in fact israel didn't even exist in genesis
chapter 12 genesis chapter 12 is all about abraham who is obviously that patriarch he is jacob's great
grandfather excuse me he's his grandfather but yet people seem to point to genesis chapter 12
promises made to abraham and to his seed as though it somehow applies to the current state
of israel and it has nothing to do with it we find the first mention of israel in genesis chapter
32 now hold your place here go to genesis chapter 25 if you would genesis chapter 25 so let's look
at the person israel and of course prior to him being called israel by god his name was jacob
look at verse 22 of genesis 25 it says here and the children struggled together within her
and she said if it be so why am i thus and she went to inquire of the lord and the lord said to her
two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels
the one and the one people shall be stronger than the other and the elder shall serve the younger
and obviously what's being mentioned here is the fact that jacob and isol would be born from her
right and essentially what he's referring to what god is referring to here is that isol though he's
the elder will be serving jacob the younger now i believe that that was god's original intent
but yet when you read the story of jacob he kind of obtains those promises by deceitful means right
by taking the birthright deceitfully which is one of the reasons why he's essentially referred to
as a supplanter he's somewhat of a deceiver he has unjust balances and you look at jacob as a person
before he really starts getting serious about the things of god he's really dishonest he's really
conniving he's just not necessarily a good person and obviously he's not a necessary evil person
but he's not someone who is noble or honorary in the old testament prior to his encounter with
the lord and so you know he is that nation that would be served by esau but he went about it his
own way and did it unjustly now go to genesis chapter 32 genesis chapter 32 and we're not
going to read throughout the whole the whole story of jacob but obviously he's obtaining
the birthrights unjustly he's being dishonest and these types of things come with consequences
so it gets to a point where esau wants to kill jacob his brother for robbing him of his birthright
and he's very bitter towards jacob he's very angry towards him he's threatened him so jacob
flees for a time he ends up getting married he becomes a polygamist unfortunately and he ends up
getting married to rachel and leia okay laban's daughters and of course he ends up having children
well when he finally realizes that esau is coming to meet him he has in his mind oh man esau is
coming to kill me he's going to destroy me and so therefore you know i need to appease him right
so what he does is he essentially sends three companies previous to him going to esau to go
and bring esau gifts essentially to kind of ease the wrath of esau so that when he finally sees
jacob he's cool with him right what he doesn't know is that esau is actually pretty happy to
go and see his brother he hasn't seen him in a couple years but jacob obviously has a guilty
conscience okay he has a guilty conscience for what he's done he understands that what he's done
is wrong and so he sends that company well previous before uh right before he meets esau
he meets god okay and this is where he picked up in verse 27 it says he said to him of course he
begins to wrestle with him he says he said to him what is thy name he said jacob now it says here
that he's wrestling with the angel but we know based upon the latter end of the chapter that
he's actually wrestling with god himself and more specifically we would say jesus christ now how do
we know that because of the fact that he sees him face to face and no one can see the face of god
the father and live right so this is a pre-incarnate christ so to speak where you where you have the
angel of the lord appearing he's wrestling with jacob and it's not that you know the lord isn't
strong enough it's not like the lord couldn't just snap them in two obviously this has a purpose
behind it and that is that he needs to wrestle with god and really be changed through that
encounter okay because jacob's not necessarily an honest person and god's trying to make an
honest person out of him so in order for him to do that he has to break him he has to change
something physically within him so that he comes out a different person and so as he's wrestling
with him he doesn't prevail against him he wrestles with him throughout the night and then what the
lord does is he touches the hollow of his thigh to the point where he makes him handicapped for the
rest of his life he has a limp somewhat of a limp when he's walking and it is a perpetual sign
that he had a meeting with the lord that god essentially broke him and humbled him for his
pride arrogance deceitfulness and it says in verse 28 he said thy name shall be called no more jacob
you know the deceiver the supplanter this guy who is just dishonest but israel for as the prince has
thou power with god and with men and hast prevailed and it goes on to say look at verse 29 says jacob
asked him and said tell me i pray thee thy name and he said wherefore is it that thou dost ask
after my name and he blessed them there and jacob called the name of the place penual for i've seen
god face to face and my life is preserved now obviously when you look at the story there's a
lot of principles that we can learn from this and one of the main principles that we can learn from
jacob's encounter with the lord here is the fact that you know as christians in order for us to change
maybe we have bad conduct or bad habits or as we mentioned this morning bad ideologies
you know we need to wrestle with god and sometimes god has to kind of take the carpet out from under
us kick us off our high horse in order to humble us so we can change right because sometimes you
know christians for whatever reason because of our sin nature we become prideful arrogant we think we
know everything we think that we're just all that and sometimes god has to humble us he has to touch
the the hollow of our thigh and shrink that sin you and essentially affect you for the rest of
your life in order to get your attention and so you could be humbled and so we see that that's
essentially the principle there that you know even though previous to getting serious about serving
god you might be a dishonest person you might be a lazy person you might be a person who's just
carnal but you can become like an israel right where god essentially changes your name he changes
your reputation from being a supplanter to being a prince god can make a prince out of you right
and so it's important for us as christians that we are looking for that type of encounter with
the lord as we read the word of god and wrestle with god through prayer wrestle with god through
reading the bible wrestle with god as we strive for that process of sanctification to be what the
lord wants us to be which is essentially that new man okay and so we see that there now look at
genesis chapter 35 genesis 35 if you would and look at verse number one because that's the first
time that god tells jacob thy name shall no no more call jacob but israel right but here's the
second time look at verse one of genesis 35 it says god said unto jacob arise go up to bethel
and dwell there and make there an altar unto god that appeared unto thee when thou fledest from
the face of esau thy brother then jacob said into his household and to all that were with him
put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and change your garments and let us arise
and go up to bethel and i will make there an altar to god who answered me in the day of my distress
and was with me in the way which i went and they gave unto jacob all the strange gods which were
in the in their hand and all their earrings which were in their ears and jacob hid them under the
oak which was by shechem look at verse number nine if you would verse number nine and god appeared
unto jacob again when he came out of pandanaram and blessed him and god sent him thy name is jacob
thy name shall not be called any more jacob but israel shall be thy name and he called his name
israel now what's the principle there well you know one of the things when it comes to
encountering god wrestling with god having god change your reputation of who you are
you know requires you to kind of like let go of some things right we see that jacob had to
put away the strange gods they changed their garments and then he went to bethel well what
does bethel mean the house of god one of the sure ways to change into what god wants you to be is
you got to be in the house of god and you can't really become what god wants you to be and uphold
the reputation that god wants you to have without being in the house of god i know those people out
there they want to minimize the importance of church attendance but folks being in god's house
being in church is essential for christian growth it's essential for transforming you from being
jacob the supplanter to being israel okay and so we see that go to exodus chapter one if you would
exodus chapter one so we have that story with jacob and that is the first mention of israel is
when his name is completely changed you know god does this throughout the bible abraham became
abraham sarai became sarah jacob became israel and in fact the bible even says that in the new
heaven and new earth we're all going to receive new names okay likened unto our new nature so god
wants to change your name your reputation who you are and that is a beautiful picture there
that we see with jacob so jacob you know he's not a perfect guy made a lot of mistakes one of which
is the fact that he became a polygamist you know he married leah and rachel and obviously we can
say well you know that was laban's fault you know what i mean because he wanted rachel but they gave
him leah who's the older sister and he ended up just taking both well throughout that turn of
events those turn of events he ends up having 12 children 13 to be exact because if you include
dina in that number and rachel gives birth to two of his children bilha her maidservant who he also
marries ends up having two children by him so you know what are you doing you know what i mean and
it's one of those things where it's just like don't you think that god could have just done it
if he if he told you he was going to do it if he told you he was going to bless you you know you
could have gone about it god's way and you would have arrived to that specific destination of god's
blessing the 12 tribes and you could have gotten from one woman right but of course all things work
together for good and so he has two children by rachel two of which are joseph and benjamin
through bilhah his mate uh his wife's maidservant dan and neftali and then leah had six children
okay six sons should i say the seventh being dina that's reuben you have simian levi juda
isekar and zebulon and then of course he also ended up marrying her handmaid zilpah and had
gad and ashur so collectively these are the 12 children of israel okay and this is not a uh
blueprint of how we should be doing things okay like oh man jacob's such a great man of god
god blessed him so let me go ahead and get myself four wives well here's the thing folks is that
you know there's a lot of problems that came with this okay and it's funny how people want to exalt
these men as examples of you know oh man you know that guy had four wives so i'm gonna get me
four wives well first of all how are you gonna afford four wives okay one wife is expensive
enough amen two is like really and then you got three or four like good night and then you got
12 kids on top of that i mean you know it's a lot but here's the thing people want to exalt that
as like you know an illustration of how we can do it but they never really want to talk about
all the negative stuff that came attached with it which is why god told us from the beginning
that he made a male and female right and they twain shall be one flesh not they three not they
four not they five they twain and you know we're getting to a point in this country where we got
to talk about that again because of the fact that now you know uh not only is polygamy being
being permitted in society but even just a dude you know dating like two girls or something
where they're all where all three of them are just living together okay they call it like a
throuple or something okay it's disgusting but you know you talk to those people they want to
point to the men of God in the Bible who did these things and say oh they did it oh well just let's
just forget everything that God said regarding marriage and regarding what is what is permissible
according to the word of God and let me just remind you that just because God was silent
regarding these things it doesn't mean that he put a stamp of approval on it don't mistake God's
permissible silence as his stamp of approval when people did stupid stuff like this okay you know
these are given to us as an example of what not to do he allowed people to make these mistakes so
that when we read the word of God we see their examples we're like well that was dumb I'm not
gonna get man I'm just gonna stick to one wife I'm definitely not gonna get it I was thinking about
getting a second one but you know after reading about Jacob and Abraham and all these wonderful
patriarchs I'm not going down that route because God already gave me all these clear examples of
men who married multiple wives and you know they had horrible lives thereafter now obviously God
blessed them he blessed their descendants and he worked it out together for good because he
obviously loves them and these people love the Lord but folks that does not mean that they didn't
suffer some severe consequences because of it okay so he has these 12 children so now we go from
Israel the person to now Israel the nation okay and this is God's original intent he wanted to
create a nation of these 12 tribes because out of these 12 tribes one particular tribe
would end up producing the Messiah the Christ okay now you're in Exodus chapter one look at
verse number one says now these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt every
man and his household came with Jacob now let me just give you a synopsis here of what's taking
place so from the time that Jacob had his 12 kids up until this point you have of course the 12
children of Israel they've grown up they have families of their own and one son in particular
named Joseph was hated amongst his brethren okay so when it comes to Israel the person
the main focus of that story is Jacob but when it comes to Israel the nation the main focus of that
is actually Joseph okay and the reason we know that is because of the fact that when you read
the story of Joseph you see how much it parallels the Lord Jesus Christ and how many symbolic
representations we get of the Lord through Joseph okay because Joseph is hated of his brethren he
sold into slavery he sold into Egypt he basically receives a lot of persecution at the hands of his
brothers at the hands of Egypt and Potiphar but then ultimately he ends up becoming the vice pharaoh
of Egypt through those turns of events he becomes an important person and he ends up saving not just
Egypt throughout the famine but even his own family who are back in Canaan land from the
famine as well his father and the 12 tribes and their children okay because at this point
the 12 children of Israel have grown to be large families you know they have lots of children and
so they're growing well he ends up saving them because they come to Egypt to buy corn they find
out that Joseph is the vice pharaoh and then they all end up moving to Egypt so this is like the
golden era so to speak of the 12 tribes right because they're in Egypt they're they're dwelling
in the fat of the land they have pharaoh's favor they have they have Joseph's favor I mean they're
kind of living large in spite of the fact that there's a major famine okay and it's because of
Joseph now Joseph has two children Ephraim and Manasseh Ephraim and Manasseh essentially ended
up getting adopted by Jacob which is why when the 12 tribes are distributed their particular
inheritance and lots Ephraim and Manasseh get their own law essentially Joseph is split in two okay
but there are they are in Egypt and when that Pharaoh was alive I mean everything was good but
then that Pharaoh dies and another Pharaoh arises which knew not Joseph okay so now we're entering
into a new era of the history of Israel it's no longer favorable towards Jacob it's no longer
favorable towards his children now they become the enemy of the state so to speak okay this is the
first two Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher
and all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls for Joseph was in Egypt already
and Joseph died and all his brethren and all that generation and the children of Israel were fruitful
and increased abundantly and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty and the land was filled with them
now there arose up a new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph so now we're no longer talking
about the 12 children of Israel like the physical children of Israel that came from Jacob now we're
talking about the descendants of those men because those men are they're dead now they're gone right
I'm talking about you know Joseph's gone Levi's gone Judah's gone the actual people they're gone
themselves but they produce these tribes of people that make up collectively the nation of Israel
and you know they came into Egypt with 70 people but now as we will see towards the the exodus of
Egypt now it's like a million people okay so you have tons and tons of Israelites and of course
they're having babies they're you know marrying and giving in marriage and because the Egyptians
practice abortion and the Israelites do not the Israeli numbers are overpowering the Egyptian
numbers so Pharaoh is very much against this he wants to kill him off he wants to kill off the
first males and this is where we find the story of Moses and of course Moses ends up growing up
delivering the children of Israel out of the hand of Pharaoh and this is essentially where God's
promise comes into play to deliver them into what's known as the promised land okay now this is very
important now go to first Samuel chapter 8 if you would first Samuel chapter 8 he said well how do
they go from 70 people to like a million well they were in Egypt for 430 years okay from the time
that Jacob and his sons went into Egypt to the time that they literally stepped out of Egypt they
were forced out of Egypt because they became uh essentially I want to say a plague unto them but
they essentially became like a thorn in their side because of the plagues because God was chasing
Egypt and Pharaoh it's literally 430 years to the day and in fact the Bible says you don't have to
turn there Exodus 1240 says now the sojourning which is kind of funny because sojourning means
like you go there for like a short time okay 430 years is not a short time you know now the
sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was 430 years and it came to pass at the end
of 430 years even the self same day it came to pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out from
the land of Egypt so even now you can kind of see God's hand in all this situation because God's
original will was not that the children of Israel would be in Egypt he doesn't want them to be in
Egypt okay that's not the land that he promised them to them Egypt is a picture of the world
Pharaoh is a picture of the devil that is not the land that he wanted him to inherit but he wanted
them to be there temporarily to grow them as a nation because Egypt at that time was very
much fruitful it was a fat land it's a land where they can increase in numbers so he wanted to use
that but ultimately he wanted to take them to what's commonly referred to as the promised land
okay which would later be the land of israel okay canaan land as as it's referred to also
so what you have is the exodus then they spend 40 years in the wilderness of sin
god punishing them because of the rebellion against god and then you have joshua and judges
essentially dealing with the children of israel going into the promised land joshua mainly dealing
with them inheriting their lands and their lots things of that nature so when they actually go
into the promised land it's already inhabited by a bunch of heathens and pagans okay houses
already built there wells already exist you have vineyards there pretty much it's like a airbnb
type thing you know what i mean it's like a it's just like a really massive airbnb food the fridge
is already stocked i don't know if airbnb's do that but you know the fridge is stocked
you know there's fruit everywhere it's just like already made for you that's how God wanted it
and he basically told the children of Israel you're gonna go into this land but you're not
just gonna inherit it like you have to like work for it though like you have to destroy all these
people okay remove all of the inhabitants of the land you take over and then that'll be your land
so essentially what Joshua does is he designates specific areas of Canaan land for each particular
tribe and what you have is that all of the tribes except for Levi actually get a land okay so you
have all the tribes we're talking about Reuben Simien Judah Dan they all get a particular plot
so to speak okay but the only ones who don't get it is Levi the reason for that is because Levi
is the tribe that God selects for the priesthood and the only inheritance that they were going to
receive was the Lord okay their job was essentially to uh they oversaw the work of the house of God
so they were essentially scattered throughout the 12 tribes of Israel they kind of lived everywhere
but they didn't really have an inheritance themselves so to speak okay and then of course
Joseph was split in two so you have Manasseh and Ephraim getting their own little plot there as
well okay so you have Israel the person who produces the 12 tribes of Israel those 12 men
die but they produce an entire nation throughout the 430 years that they are in Egypt that nation
relocates to Canaan land where they inherit the land then you have the history of the judges
and this is a really dark time in the history of Israel okay because essentially what's taking
place throughout the system of the judges is there's no earthly king but they have men who
essentially teach them the word of God they're judging Israel but you have generations of the
children of Israel during this time who are getting involved in paganism they're getting
involved in idolatry so God ends up delivering them to foreigners to oppress them to take them
captive to persecute them they cry on into God because of it then God raises up a deliverer we
get a cool story like Ehud he delivers them and then the cycle essentially continues over and
over again in the book of judges that's what judges is about the judge being that particular
deliverer okay and it gets so dark during that time that you have even a tribe of Israel known
as the tribe of Benjamin who ends up being just this reprobate tribe who is raping and they're
killing they're just the worst scum of the earth they they're children of Belial because they're
so far removed from the Bible they end up getting involved in some of the most wicked things ever
that's judges chapter 19 so the system of the judges though working wasn't necessarily optimal
per se because they're not they're just kind of like doing their own thing and in fact the Bible
literally says that every man was doing that which was right in their own eyes they're not doing that
which is right in God's eyes they're not necessarily adhering to God's word that's what you have there
so it goes from Jacob or Israel the person to Israel the nation now we're going to switch over
to Israel being the monarchy and this is very much different because Israel the nation is like a
nomadic nation you understand what I'm saying meaning like they just they live in tents they're
living in the wilderness you know they're just kind of going about and they don't really have a
particular place when they're in the in the land in the wilderness of sin excuse me but then when
they're in the land of Israel they finally settle they don't have a monarch they don't have someone
ruling over them and it gets to a point where the children of Israel don't really like the system of
the judges they want to be like the other nations okay now look what it says in first sammy chapter
eight in verse number five it says and said unto him behold thou are old and thy sons verse number
five and thy sons walked not in thy ways now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
so they're coming to samuel and they're basically saying like hey dude you're old we love you your
sons kind of suck they're not like you so what we'd like is for you to make us a king so we could be
like everyone else not a good request because that wasn't god's original intent god is their king you
know the lord they're under a theocracy essentially from the time of joshua to the system of the
judges god is their king but they're just not operating well under that system and you know
it's almost as if they're asking for earthly accountability because the king is not you know
to be to be like the other nations you're basically saying we want someone to rule over us
is what they're asking for and samuel is essentially the last of those judges and
he's a righteous judge he he does a fantastic job he's a righteous man look at verse six says says
but the thing this please samuel when they said give us a king to judge us and samuel prayed into
the lord and the lord sent into samuel one of the saddest verses in the bible hearken into the voice
of the people and all that they say into thee for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected
me that i should not reign over them isn't that sad he's like don't take it don't take it personal
samuel they're not really against you really what they're doing they don't like me as their king you
know they haven't rejected you they've rejected me and essentially this will be the stigma of
israel for the rest of their lives is that they're rejecting the lord you know they don't want god
reigning over them and in fact even to the point where the word of god has made flesh and dwells
among them they don't want him to reign over them that's not what they want okay and it goes back
all the way to here he says in verse 8 according to all the worst which they have done since the day
that i brought them up out of out of egypt even unto this day were what they have forsaken me and
served other gods so do they also unto thee now therefore hearken unto their voice albeit
yet protest solemnly unto them and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them so
we're looking at the monarchy collectively known as israel and this is essentially when israel
although it is a nation now it is a kingdom okay under one particular ruler now it starts off with
a good ruler but then he becomes bad that's saul okay who's of the of the tribe of benjamin then
after saul david takes over and then of course after david you have solomon and of course you
have many others but those particular three kings are probably the most important because
of the fact that they were the monarchs when israel was still united okay so they ruled over that
kingdom under when israel was a united kingdom which is very important and obviously when you
really study saul and david you see a lot of foreshadowing of new testament truths and doctrines
in particular end times doctrines right because you have saul who is a king but then the real king
shows up later which is david okay and obviously that's figurative that's symbolic of the fact that
the antichrist will appear but then the real king comes afterwards right which is jesus christ you
know the antichrist is this fake king and it also pictures you know jews and believers in the new
testament as well because you know samuel tells saul that the kingdom of god shall be that the
kingdom shall be taken from you and given to someone who is better which echoes what we read
in the book of hebrews that the kingdom of or excuse me in matthew chapter 23 that the kingdom
of god is taken from the jews and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof
and the reason he says someone better is because jesus christ it pictures jesus who's a better
mediator of a better testament established upon better promises so you see a lot of parallels
there so now israel is no longer just a person it's not just a nation from those 12 tribes
now it is a united monarchy made up of the 12 tribes of israel okay now go to first king's
chapter 11 if you go to first king's chapter 11 now the rule this era of a united kingdom
is very short-lived it's only 75 years actually saw came started off good finished bad okay he
ends up killing himself just put it just you know that's the summary of his life right there
okay david comes though and david is one of the strongest symbolic representations of jesus christ
in the old testament he's from the tribe of juda and you know of course jesus christ is also from
the tribe of juda but david is so uh makes such a a powerful impact as a king in the old testament
that essentially he ends up becoming this perpetual symbol of jesus christ throughout
the old testament even up until the new testament okay very powerful uh representation of him well
david is a warrior right he's a man of war he knows how to fight he knows how to conquer he
knows how to lead he loves the lord with all his heart and even though he did some pretty stupid
stuff like you know adultery and murder stuff like that and a lot of other stuff like his heart
never really departed from loving the lord his god you know he's the sweet psalmist of israel
and he does a lot of great exploits but obviously he has a lot of mistakes but at the end of it at
the end of the day like at the end of his life we can summarize his life and say that's a man who
is after god's own heart he's the sweet psalmist of israel david like we all want to strive to be
like david to have a heart like david and you can when you read david like man david loves the lord
and i want to love the lord like david loves the lord he has this just unwavering passion of love
for god which is wonderful but then you know you know david has a lot of sons and a lot of them are
bad and one particular son he ends up having which is essentially kind of like a byproduct of
an adulterous relationship with basheba he ends up producing solomon and the lord loves solomon
well solomon ends up taking over the kingdom so he is the successor of this united monarchy that
we're looking at known as israel right but solomon didn't really experience those same battles that
david experienced he didn't really experience rough times and he is a man who loves the lord
though and he is definitely a man who essentially submits to the instructions and commandments of
his father because when david is dying david's like david's about to pass off the scene he tells
solomon he's like i want all these guys dead right here write it down before you forget you know and
he gives him like a hit list of all these guys and they're all wicked people he tells him he's
just like make sure they don't go down to the grave and peace and he's just like you know one
in particular is joab right i think we all kind of enjoy that story where joab gets it as he's
holding on to the horns of the altar and baniah just comes and slays him he's just like fall upon
him there you know and so solomon is very much thorough in his execution pun intended of you know
his father's commands you know and in fact once all of those men are destroyed then the kingdom
is established in the hand of solomon obviously picturing the fact that you know revelation 19
when jesus christ comes once the enemies of god are destroyed then the kingdom is established the
millennial reign so you have those right and solomon is essentially like his father his father
is we could say is the godliest man in the bible he's almost likened unto one of the most godliest
men in the bible whereas solomon is like the wisest man of the bible right in the book of
proverbs you know he has the book of ecclesiastes song of solomon he spoke of many proverbs and
songs very wise man and he was a very righteous man there's only just one little problem though
and the little problem is just that he likes women multiple women he's got that problem of
polygamy and the issue is is like you know it wouldn't necessarily be an issue if he wasn't
so rich about it because you know he has all this money so he can afford all that you know if he was
a man who's just like i want multiple wives but you couldn't afford it who cares if you want it
you're not gonna have it but this man can have it and he had like 700 of them and you know there's
dudes today they're like oh man that sounds great no one doesn't no one doesn't and again you read
his story and look God was displeased with him because of the fact that he knew that if you're
picking up 700 wives the vast majority of them are probably pagans heathens women who don't love
the Lord and what they're going to end up doing is they're going to end up stealing your heart
away from the Lord which is exactly what happened to Solomon his heart was turned away from serving
the Lord his God and ended up not necessarily worshiping idols but kind of basically because
his wives are worshiping idols he's building altars for his wives to worship these idols
and that made God really mad because you know God endowed Solomon with such unique and anointed
wisdom and you know you read the life of Solomon then you read his writings it's like like they
don't match you know you it's like you pull out socks from a drawer you know and they're like black
socks but one shade is like lighter than the other and it's just like you're just like you know
hopefully no one sees it or something but we all see it no I'm just kidding it's just like you know
what you're writing in Proverbs chapter six chapter seven you know you're not really practicing that
Solomon you got 700 you know and it's like all this stuff that you wrote about you're actually
like violating but you know what you'd be surprised what people do when they go down that road of
disobedience towards God it's like the sermon this morning it's like he put on those those shades
again he's not looking at the world in the service of God through the lens of the Bible so he becomes
he begins to become very disobedient his heart is taken away and God is very much displeased
with it go to first kings chapter 11 are you in first kings 11 okay cool all right so we have
listen we have israel the person then we have israel the 12 tribes which is the nation after the
nation now you have israel the united kingdom under one monarch with jacob with israel the person
jacob is the most important person in that story and when you come to when it comes to the tribes
joseph is the important person when it comes to the united kingdom david is the most important
person so when we talk about israel it's like israel is just a kingdom that's under the king
which is david david is the most important person so this lasts for 75 years but then of course
solomon is disobeying so now god is going to rend the kingdom from solomon and he's going to split
it in two parts look at first kings 1128 it says the man jeroboam was a mighty man of valor and
solomon seen the young man that he was industrious he made him ruler over all the charge of the house
of joseph and it came to pass at the time when jeroboam went out of jerusalem that the prophet
ahijah the shilonite found him in the way and he had clad himself with a new garment and they
too were alone in the field and ahijah caught the new garment that was on him and rented in 12 pieces
and he said to jeroboam take thee 10 pieces for thus sayeth the lord the god of israel behold i
will rend the kingdom out of the hand of solomon and will give 10 tribes to thee but he shall have
one tribe for my servant david's sake and for jerusalem's sake the city which i have chosen out
of the tribes of israel because that they have forsaken me and i've worshiped asteroth the
goddess of the zydonians kimosh the god of the moabites milcom the god of the children of amen
and i've not walked in my ways to do that which is right in my eyes and to keep my statue to my
judgments as david did his father habed i will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand but i will
make him prince all the days of his life for david my servant's sake whom i chose because he kept my
commandments of my statues last verse but i will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will
give it unto thee even ten tribes so what you have here is god essentially giving ten tribes of the
twelve to jeroboam this essentially becomes the northern kingdom okay so it's no longer united
kingdom it's no longer israel the united kingdom now it's israel the northern kingdom and juda
the southern kingdom israel the northern kingdom is made of ten tribes juda is made up of juda and
benjamin and of course you have levites kind of scattered in both and you even have some people
from the northern kingdom fleeing the northern kingdom to come to juda because of the apostasy
that's taking place in israel the northern kingdom but it's not necessarily a large group of numbers
where where it's just like oh okay cool we have isekar here or something you know they're just
kind of integrating into the southern kingdom geroboam becomes the king of that northern kingdom
raeoboam who's the son of solomon takes over the southern kingdom now you are in first kings yellow
go to chapter 12 go to chapter 12 and look at verse 19 of chapter 12 it says in verse 19 so israel
rebelled against the house of david unto this day and it came to pass when all israel heard that
geroboam was come again that they sent and called into the congregation and made him king over all
israel there was none that followed the house of david but the tribe of juda only so uh go go to
second king 17 so why did god split the kingdom well he split the kingdom because the 10 tribes
are becoming apostate they're worshiping false gods it's like why even call yourself israel anymore
if you're not even worshiping listen to this the god of israel they're worshiping all these pagans
kimosh it's just like why call yourself a christian if you're going to worship the virgin mary right
why call yourself a christian if you are going to worship some saint it's like you might as well
just call yourself i don't know like a catholic and not a christian right because they don't you
don't run with the socks it's like that doesn't really go together right so it's it's of my
opinion that the reason he split those 10 is because it's those specific 10 that are actually
involved in pagan worship he's kind of like just just removing them and you have Judah obviously
Benjamin's a smaller tribe and there might be benjamites there who are worshiping the lord that's
why they stayed there but Judah is cleaving unto David they're cleaving unto the lord okay
so now you have this split kingdom which eventually becomes the remnant okay so you have Judah the
person then you have Israel the person you have Israel the nation Israel the united
kingdom then you have Israel the divided kingdom now you have Israel the remnant referring to those
who ended up staying and essentially being blessed of God they're still worshiping the lord things of
that nature look at second kings chapter 17 and verse number one it says in the 12th year of Ahaz
king of Judah began Hoshiah the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years and he
did that which was evil on the side of the lord but not as the kings of Israel that were before him
against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria and Hoshiah became his servant and gave him
presence and the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshiah for he had sent messengers to sow king
of Egypt and brought no presence to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year therefore the
king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison then the king of Assyria came up throughout
all the land went up to Samaria and besieged the three years in the ninth year of Hoshiah the king
of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away into Assyria and placed them in Halah in Habor
by the river Gozan and in the cities of the Medes now what's taking place here now this is
very important okay because this is a major turning point in the history of these Israelites why
well remember you have those 10 tribes that northern kingdom you have the two tribes at the
bottom the southern kingdom well the southern northern kingdom has become so wicked that god
basically allows them to go into captivity and we kind of hear that a lot right when you read the
bible you hear me preaching we often talk about the captivity of Israel and Judah this particular
captivity was for the Israelites because the capital of the northern kingdom is Samaria so
you have the Assyrians coming besieging it taking it over and then taking all 10 tribes captive
into Assyria now about 200 years later is when you have the Babylonian captivity for Judah okay now
the Assyrians after they took the northern kingdom captive they tried to do the same thing to the
southern kingdom but it didn't work and the reason why is because god was with them they had a
righteous king named Hezekiah prayed unto the lord and they were delivered from that okay we've
talked about that in our bible study in the book of isaiah but here's the thing is that when juda
is taken captive by the Babylonians they actually still exist as people who are from juda and
benjamin even while they're in exile and he what does what does god tell them in the book of
jeremiah i know the thoughts that i think of you thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an
expected end meaning that he was going to return them after what does anybody remember the years
70 years he said well what's what's your point here's the point the 10 tribes never come back
they go into captivity and guess what they remain in captivity they never come back
bye it's like like this is the last time you'll ever be israelites ever those 10 tribes he's like
you know what judah is just like you're going into captivity but for 70 years you know you're going
out there for 70 years then you'll come back and obviously they still had issues when they came
back but they were still somewhat of a righteous people when they came back there's people who
still wanted to serve the lord whereas those 10 tribes went into asyrian captivity and they never
came 10 entire tribes never came back and this was commonly referred to as the lost tribes meaning
it's a car who some jew tells you today i'm of the tribe you be like dude you're no you're not
those tribes are gone tribes are lost you know what are you doing here you should be in assyria
now just to further prove this in the new testament when jesus christ is in his ministry
he tells his disciples go unto the lost sheep of the house of israel but don't go into the way of
the what samaritans and the samaritans are the descendants of the assyrian and the ten tribes
mixing together you know because they're remember if you if you've read the gospels you see that
you know the israelites you know those of actual israel they were not very fond of the samaritans
why they call them like dogs they're like you guys are mixed people because they actually were
they were mixed with assyrians and with the ten tribes so by that point by the lord's ministry
the ten tribes didn't exist they were just kind of mingle you might have had a like a couple people
who were still abiding in the land of israel you know you you have um uh what's her name the
prophetess who knows here shout it out in the new testament what ana did you say ana did you say
ana yeah ana the prophetess and you know she's she's of one of the the lost ten tribes but here's
the thing though he said well there you go yeah but she she's in israel though she's one of the
ones that stayed because there's some that actually stayed when israel the northern kingdom was going
to posse and they're like nah forget that i'm not being a part of that i serve the god of the bible
and and here's proof that anna you know didn't just come from assyria she's worshiping jesus christ
the ten tribes do not worship jesus christ they worship kimosh and astro that's their gods so
essentially those ten tribes were were made reprobate he's like oh oh you like those gods
okay then get out of my land get out of here i'm i'm evicting you from the land and when can we
come back never hit the road jack and never come back and they never did they never came back so
juda and benjamin that southern kingdom retained the title of israelites why because they are the
true israel at that point you understand they're part of the nation of israel but really they're
like the only ones they are the remnant okay they are the house of israel when jesus christ was on
this earth preaching the word of god he said go to the lost sheep of the house of israel he's talking
about those jews and benjamites and people who retained that particular pedigree so to speak
okay does that make sense to everyone i know it's exciting i know you love this stuff so i'm gonna
i'm gonna keep uh going here okay let me see did i miss anything by the way you know the uh that's
actually where the term jew comes from it's from the assyrians he's the one who actually started
calling them jews okay in the book of the kings because jews are from juda so if you have a jew
is just like well i'm from istachar like then you're not a jew what are you what are you talking
about well i could trace my lineage back to the tribe of dan then don't call yourself a jew
because jews are from juda why on this young book of revelations 144 000 jews no there's not
what in the world doesn't say 144 000 jews of israel yes and i'll explain that what that means in
just a bit now go to matthew chapter 10 matthew chapter 10 actually you skip matthew 10 go to
roman's 9 roman's chapter 9 all right so we have israel the person israel the nation israel the
united kingdom israel the divided kingdom which ends up becoming israel the remnant and that
essentially carries over to the new testament and now we have israel the israel of god okay
because the bible talks about the book of galatians the israel of god now there's a major
turning point from old testament to new testament when it comes to the term israel when it comes to
the term jew israel there's a major turning point and that is you know jesus he kind of just he's
like the wrench that is thrown into this judaism and the superiority complex of the israelites
because he essentially does away with the old covenant not the moral law the old covenant
and he brings in the new covenant through his death he is the testator of that new testament
bringing in the new testament and redefining what it is to be an israelite and a jew according
to the bible and you know i know people want to ignore that and and they don't like when
jesus says things like that but who cares what people think let's go with what jesus says he
redefines what it is to be an israelite he redefines what it is to be a jew and his disciples
and the apostle paul are also priests the same exact thing okay now in the new testament the
israel of god is referring to believers because of the fact that the transition of old and new
testament when it comes to israelite is the fact that those who were israelites in the old testament
were considered the people of god based upon that old covenant but once they believe on the lord
jesus christ transitioning into the new testament now they retain the title of people of god and
anybody who's a gentile who believes on jesus christ adopts that title as well as being the
people of god now look at romans 9 if you would roman chapter number 9 and verse number one he
says i say the truth in christ i lie not my conscience also bearing me witness in the holy
ghost that i have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart for i could wish that myself
were a curse from christ for my brother and my kinsmen according to the flesh who are israelites
to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law
and the service of god and the promises whose are the fathers and of whom as concern in the flesh
christ came who is overall god bless forever amen so what is paul saying he's basically saying like
i really want my israelite brothers to be saved because unto them were committed to oracles of god
they got the bible they had the promises and so i want them to be saved and then he kind of like
switches gears here in verse six and he says not as though the word of god had taken that effect
for they are not all israel which are of israel now people hate people who are zionists hate this
passage because they want israel to only be israel but it's saying here there's some who are of
israel who are not of israel he's not being like you know um he's not he's not being crazy he's
not speaking in a crazy manner he's not going through a state of psychosis he's implying that
there are certain israelites who even though they think that they're israelites have not retained
the title of an israelite because they have not believed on the lord well you know the apostle
paul yeah but the apostle paul retained the title of israelite because of the fact that he believed
he says in verse seven neither because they are the seed of abraham are they all children but in
isaac's child i see be called that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not the
children of god but the children of the promise are accounted for the sea look at verse 27
isaias also cried concerning israel though the number of the children of israel be as the sand
of the sea a remnant shall be saved so just as god bared a physical remnant during the time of isaiah
meaning judah that remnant from the judgment that came upon the northern kingdom which is israel
in like manner we see that today and i'm speaking in paul's day and obviously even today there is a
remnant of israelites who are actually saved who peter john james many of the disciples paul
that's the remnant well that's only a few that's what a remnant is a remnant is like only a few
group of people so that means that if only a remnant is saved that means the vast majority
of the people who claim to be israelites are not israelites because israelites according to god's
new standard of definition in the new testament is that they are believers in the christ of the new
covenant if they reject the christ of the new covenant then you may no longer be an israelite
we will remove that title from you because you don't deserve it because you don't believe on the
lord turn in your uniform turn in your badge you know you're you're you're fired so either
you you know make mcdonald's burgers or give us the uniform if you're trying to make you know a big
not big max if you're trying to make whoppers here this ain't burger king you have to do what
the boss says you can't be like well you know i'm a whopper employee and so i'm gonna make whopper
burgers here at mcdonald's or something like that it's like no we only make double cheese
burgers in big max here you know we don't make stale burgers nasty or how about let's do a
better illustration okay i like the illustration i'm gonna give right now you know it's just like
well you know what i think i'm gonna make water burger at in and out water burger being led those
who are not israelites and in and out being the true the israel of god okay the true jews the
people of god because you know the scripture on the actual food itself it's always nice to be able
to look at scripture references as you're enjoying a fine meal water burger is just the texas version
of of burger king crazy what it is and so you know so it's like a water burger well back a water
burger we used to do it this way this is in and out you know we don't use styrofoam cups over here
we serve good food here so here's the thing you know you can these jews can say well i'm a jew
no you're not you can you can say that as much as you want but we don't believe in the power of
positive thinking or something you can't manifest you can't manifest that thought just because you
say it enough times because at the end of the day in order for you to remain an israeli if you want
to be grandfathered into the new testament as an israeli as a jew you have to believe on the lord
jesus christ if you don't then you can't go join those 12 tribes they got lost hundreds of years
ago go join kimosh and ashtaroth and all these false gods if you want to remain if you if that's
what you want because you know what at the end of the day you know the true believers are those who
recognize that jesus is the christ okay so he's leaving that remnant go to roman's 11 if you would
roman's chapter 11 now you know when you talk about the subject people get really uptight
if they're zionists and they're like roman's 11 though you know as if that like scares us or
something but roman's 11 is a powerful chapter to prove zionism or excuse me to prove anti-zionism
you know let me finish to prove zionism is whack and garbage and unbiblical and now how is it how
does it work in their favor well the only way it works in their favor is if they only quote the
first verse right because it says the first one i say then hath god cast away his people god forbid
not even the first verse they only quote that part right god forbid well let's keep reading for i
referring to paul i'm also an israelite of the seat of abraham of the tribe of benjamin
god hath not cast away his people which he foreknew and to define foreknew according to
roman's eight it's referring to people who have believed on the lord jesus christ now what's funny
about this is that if you read what is it look at verse 15 because when people say had god cast
away his people god forbid okay then explain verse 15 where it says for if the casting away of them
be the reconciling of the world you're like whoa i mean you know i don't know what it means of
course you don't when it says had god cast away his people he's not going to cast away believers
but he is casting away unbelieving israel well how do you know that because he removed 10 tribes
and allowed them to go into captivity and never come back isn't that a great picture of how he
just cast them away he just got rid of a large chunk a large percentage of israel he just
see ya what is that it's casting them away now go back up to verse two says god have they not cast
away his people which he foreknew why ye not what the scripture saith of elias how we make
it intercessions to god against israel how is that possible if elijah is an israelite how is he
making intercessions against israel because they're not all of israel who are of israel that's why
so you have elias praying against israel he says in verse uh three this is what he says lord they
have killed thy prophets and dig down thine altars and i am left alone and they seek my life
but what sayeth the answer of god unto him i have reserved myself to myself seven thousand men who
have not bowed the knee to the image of bail you know people seem to forget when they when we talk
about the story of elijah you know zionists seem to forget this is that those prophets of bail were
israelites did you know that you know those false prophets all those people who were against elijah
they were israelites well how can that be if they were worshiping the false gods because that's
what they do that's their manner they're not worshiping the god of the bible and people seem
to forget that romans 11 teaches us that elijah prayed against israel the same israel who were
bowing down to bail who's the false god he says in verse number five even so at this present time
also there's a remnant according to the election of grace verse seven what then israel has not
obtained out what you seek it for but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded now
let me skip down a couple verses here look at verse number look at verse number actually we'll
start in verse number 15 for if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world what shall
the receiving of them be but life from the dead for if the first fruit be holy the lump is also
holy if the root be holy so also the branches so he's saying you know if if they're attached to
the vine then they're holy so you know what that means the apostle paul is holy you know what that
means james peter john any israelite that believes in the lord they're holy because they're actually
attached to the vine the root which is jesus and if some of the branches be broken off and thou
being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them and with them partakes of the root and fanness of
the olive tree boast not against the branches but if thou boast thou bearest not the root but the
root thee now what does that really mean there when it says don't boast against the branches
in other words don't have a nationalistic superiority complex which is exactly what the
israelites had we're not better than jews because of our nationality we're better off because we
actually believe on the lord that's what it's referring to verse 19 says that will say then
the branches were broken off that i may be grafted in well because of unbelief they were broken off
and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear for if god spare not the natural branches
take heed lest he also spare not thee what is that referring to well in the new testament if you
decide to live a life of disobedience to the lord jesus christ and you're not abiding in the in the
vine what does the bible say in john chapter 15 you should be cast forth as a branch and they shall
be burned in other words you just become a useless christian cast out draw under the foot of men
you're just worthless okay you'll be humbled is what it's referring to look what it says in verse
23 and if they also verse 23 if they abide not still in unbelief shall be grafted in for god is
able to graft them in again so that leads me to believe that jews can be saved today so if a jew
believes on the lord jesus christ they'll be grafted in the promise is still available to them
all right i'm going to skip some of this because we already know the interpretation of all israel
being saved is not referring to that physical nation in the middle east right now and here's
my last passage i had a lot more to say but i must hasten because the time is running out
go to ezekiel 37 ezekiel 37 and this is in conjunction with what i wanted to say about
romans 11 because romans 11 tells us that um when the fullness of the gentiles become in it says
that all israel shall be saved right the jake the ungodliness shall be removed from jacob and then
all israel shall be saved and people will often take that verse as an interpretation to say well
what that means is that in the end times jews are going to see jesus christ coming in the clouds and
then they'll believe but that's not true because jesus came physically in this world in the first
century a.d and they rejected him and in fact they crucified him so that doesn't work okay you
said then what is it referring to when it says all israel shall be saved well if you remember in
roman's 11 we read it what shall be what shall be the receiving of them but life from the dead the
bible says so how is god going to receive israel how is that promise of all israel being saved
going to be fulfilled exactly well roman's 11 told us that they shall be received life they
were she were excuse me they shall receive life from the dead now look at ezekiel 37 because
ezekiel 37 is a powerful image that god gives ezekiel the prophet he sees this great valley of
dry bones an army of bones that have just they've been dead for a very long time you know as as
indicated by the fact that they're dry and obviously this is a vision that god is giving
to ezekiel and he's basically asking ezekiel can these bones live can these bones come to life
and ezekiel is like thou knowest you know so god performs this miracle within this vision
and he brings this army back to life look what it says in verse 10 so i prophesied as he commanded
me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood upon their feet an exceeding great army
then he said unto me son of man these bones are the whole house of israel behold they say our
bones are dried our hope is lost we are cut off from our parts therefore prophesy and say into
them thus saith the lord god behold oh my people i will open your graves and cause you to come up
out of your graves and bring you into the land of israel and ye shall know that i am the lord when
i have opened your graves oh my people and brought you up out of your graves and shall put my spirit
in you and ye shall live and i shall place you in your own land then shall you know that i the lord
have spoken it and performed it sayeth the lord that is a prophetic statement of the rapture
because he's given him a promise like you see these bones they've been dead well that's basically
the house of israel because there is plenty of israelites from the old testament who were saved
who love god they love the lord but they're dead their bones are in the ground and you know that
you know who's going to inherit the land not what's over there right now the jerry curl crowd over
there the jerry curl sideburn crowd over there so who's going to do it well it says here that he's
going to bring the bones out of the grave those who actually love the lord from the old testament
those israelites who believed on christ even though they didn't know the name of jesus they
believed on the lord and they looked for his coming that is a prophetic statement regarding
that because at the resurrection the rapture not just believers from the first you know last couple
hundred years we're talking about thousands of years we're talking about even from israel dan
you know daniel shall stand in his lot the bible says and so god has given that vision to ezekiel
to tell him like hey um it doesn't matter how dry the bones are they're still going to get the
promise i don't care how long you know these israelites these people of judah and benjamin
have been dead for i'm bringing them back and i will bring them out of their grave and and it
says there and i will put them in their land so this is obviously referring to that end times
understand that's what it's referring to and that is of course the restoration of israel so what's
the sermon this evening i just wanted to go through the history of israel so we have a clear
understanding that when we talk about israel what are we talking about specifically talk about the
person we're talking about the 12 tribes the nomadic 12 tribes are we talking about the
united kingdom are we talking about the divided kingdom or we're talking more specifically
regarding the remnant and not the 10 tribes who are kicked out excommunicated and were never able
to come back or we talk about the israel of god or if you want to talk about the physical israelites
then you must be referring to the restoration of israel referring to the old testament israelites
that are going to inherit the land in the end times that's the only israelites that we should
be talking about according to the bible let's pray father we thank you so much for your word lord
and we're so thankful for all the believers throughout history lord biblical history
who loved you they believed on you lord and one day we're going to meet them and we have so much
in common with them lord we've read their story so many times and their lives have inspired us
it's given us instructions sermons and ideas lord and helped us to live more righteously
i pray god that you help us to appreciate that but recognize simultaneously that the most important
thing about the bible is not israel it's the lord jesus christ and help us to not soon forget that
lord bless us as we go on our way we love you we thank you pray these things in jesus name amen
four zero six who is on the lord's side song number four zero six on that first verse