There is a specific oath made to a specific family. That one cannot deny.
"For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt."
(Deut 7:6-8 )
The question posed by Paul was what will happen when God begins to sovereignly move upon a specific family.
Rom 11:12 "Now if the fall of them [be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?"
If the gifts and callings of God is without repentance the question them becomes what was this particular "families" God given calling?
Isa 43:10-12 Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
V:11 I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no saviour.
V:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God."
We see the unfolding of Gods restitution of every man in there own order as seen in Acts 15: 14-18
Act 15:14-18 "Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
V:15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
V:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
V:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
V:18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world."
First God visits the nation to take out of them a people to become His firstfruits. AFTER THIS is the re-establishment of the Tabernacle of David which is fallen, to which Paul alludes to as " if the fall of them be the riches of the world, how much more there fullness?"
For then does God set up His governmental Kingdom, of which we read;
Isa 2:2-3 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
V:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem."
Why is this? For we see in Revelation also this;
Rev 22:17 "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
Please note the identifying article before "THE SPIRIT" and "THE BRIDE". When there is no identifying article used the word means quality but when it is used as here it identifies two separate orders. There has been but one mention of the Gods bride and wife and whom is that?
Now to pick up again from Acts, after the establishment of The Tabernacle of David, this brings about Israel’s "blindness being removed" to the effect that the very calling of them to be a witness to all the nations of the earth, that the nations in turn will turn unto the God of the House of Jacob. For now the Call of the Spirit and the Bride say come. And whomsoever hears in turn will say come. Everyman in His own order. For Israel shall become a first fruit family of all the earth to which Andrew Jukes alludes to in a writting;
http://online.sksm.edu/univ/writings/jukes-restitution.html In it He writes;[quote] "Israel is my son, my first-born, saith the Lord." (Exod. iv. 22.) All nations, therefore, shall yet be blessed in them. They are indeed only the earthly first-born, but as first-born, though of the least-loved wife, they must in their own sphere possess the double blessing; (Deut. xxi. 15, 16.) being not blessed only, but made blessings to the nations, whose conversion the Church is rightly looking for, but whom the Church shall not convert; for the conversion of the nations is already promised to Israel, who, dwellers among all nations, yet not of them, are even now being [/quote]
One more scripture which helps to bring this truth out about Israel’s re-gathering once again;
Isa 11:10-12 "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
V:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
V:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
First Gods ensign or first fruits brought forth. To which the people shall come but also then we see God stretching forth to gather together the outcasts of Isreal and the dispersed of Judah to build again the tabernacle of David.
All I can offer is but a glimpse into our Fathers time table of restoration and the mystery of Israel’s blindness, according to my present understanding.
So if this particular families purpose has become a mystery to most of Christendom, as Paul wrote;
Rom 11:25-26 " For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
V:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:"
Then Paul takes up three chapters dealing with this mystery of Gods purpose of Isreal. For the election of grace still has chosen out a remnant out of natural Isreal to be the Spiritual remnant of Isreal.
For Israel alone among all the families of the earth was chosen by God to become His wife. These vows were taken to become married to Him at Mt Siani. (Ex 24:3) And so Isreal was called Gods wife. (Jer 31:32) Yet she was full of adultry and God gave her a bill of divorcement. (Jer 3:8)
To be sown among the nations. (Zec 10:9 Amo 9:9) Yet this sowing of Israel among the nations was not for nought. But was part of our father’s divine purpose of the ages. These dispersed Israelites became nationalized Israelites.
That is these dispersed Israelites lost or forgot their identity and became as the other nations.
Paul pick up to say those who were sown among the nations, God did not cast them away; " I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." (Rom 11:1-2)
Yet they were shut up in unbelief along with the rest of the world so God would have mercy upon all. (Rom 11:32)
