Saturday, October 16, 2004

Spirt Compay and Bride Company

How can God violate His own laws of Divorce and re-marriage if He divorce Israel?

Rom 7:1-3 "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
v:2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.
v:3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to "another man"


First it is to be remembered that the vows taken at Sinai is a covenant. This covenant was much more than a legal "thing" especially as we know today we live in a legal society of laws. God’s laws were far more than a "legal thing" but they were principally based upon relationship. God who does not change has never changed about having a relationship with Israel or us.
The Covenant at Sinai was based upon two sides fulfilling there vows. As one has aptly written of this;

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When God brought the nation of Israel out of the bondage of the land of Egypt, He said unto them, "Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: And ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. - And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do." (Exodus 19:5-6, 8). The covenant of God with His people is briefly stated, "After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do My judgments, and keep Mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep My statutes, and My judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord." (Leviticus 18:3-5). Israel was not to live after the manner and doings of Egypt, nor after the manner of the land of Canaan into which they were going. They were to WALK GOD'S WAY, do His commandments, and if they did, they would LIVE, if they disobeyed, they would die. Thus, "Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them." (Romans 10:5). DO AND LIVE, was the essence of the covenant which God had with His people. But the problem was that with their carnal nature, filled with self, they could not DO the WAY OF THE LORD, they constantly failed,came short of the glory of God. Thus, rather than bringing them into an abundant life, it witnessed against them continually, that they were not DOING RIGHT. It became a "ministration of condemnation," which brought them into death. It was a very literal demonstration that in himself, by his own strength and abilities, man could not live the divine life." (end quote)

This relationship was based upon "do and live". This is what this marriage was based upon and is what many marriages today is based upon in the natural human covenants between men and woman. This is why so many marriages fail today and we should not be surprised that they do fail when based upon our own natural abilities.

All the promises given to Natural Israel cannot be thrown out. But how would God re-marry her as promised in Hosea? Isn’t just like our creator that He would come to make the sacrifice to take away the old covenant marriage vows by the sacrifice of Himself. To be the Husband that dies, in order to free His wife from her vows taken.

Eph 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;" ( if church means called out then this also applies to Israel whom was "called out" of Egypt)

Really the question must be asked;
Rom 11:12 "and if their lapse is the enriching of the world, and their overthrow the enriching of the Gentiles, will not still greater good follow their restoration?"

The division as to what is our Fathers thoughts concerning the restoration of Israel, which Paul taught they as a people shall be restored, and that Gods calling upon them shall yet be fulfilled. A question one should ask our Father why were the Apostles all from the House of Israel and not a gentile? Why did Jesus come forth from the House of Israel? If the contention is "House seed" "race" does not matter at all then why didn’t God go outside the Household of Abraham’s seed?

Many who read this and are so vehemently striving against Israel’s restoration and the part God has ordained her restoration shall play in the reconciling of the nations, know not they also are natural Israelites. This part of the blindness also our Father shall reveal in His time.

I’ll leave this word of caution as Paul wrote through inspiration of the spirit helping keep out hearts adjusted concerning this topic;

Rom 11:25-27 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret--that ye may not be wise in your own conceits--that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
v:26 and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,
v:27 and this to them is the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins
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Or as another translation helps to make this verse in Rom 11:25 clearer;
Rom 11:25 "My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in."

As for the rest of this subject it will not matter one whit if you believe it or not. For those who can see these things and know you are not only natural Israel and spiritual you can take the promises to natural Israel and Spiritual Israel as a double portion to be blessed by.

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