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WHO IS A TRUE
ISRAELITE?
(A TRUE SON OR DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM?)
To know who is a true Israelite, we
must go to the sacred scriptures and find out how the Lord
defines a true son or daughter of Abraham, a true Israelite...
A
true Israelite has had a heart transplant:
"And the LORD thy God will
circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love
the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
that thou mayest live." [Deuteronomy 30:6]
"And I will give them one heart,
and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the
stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of
flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will
be their God." [Ezekiel 11:19-20]
A
true Israelite realizes everyone is a condemned sinner from
birth:
"The wicked are estranged from
the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking
lies." [Psalm 58:3]
"Behold, I was shapen in
iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." [Psalm
51:5]
"The LORD looked down from heaven
upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did
understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they
are all together become filthy: there is none that
doeth good, no, not one." [Psalm 14:2-3]
"Behold, the LORD'S hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it
cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that
he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your
fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue
hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any
pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity." [Isaiah
59:1-4]
A
true Israelite understands that he cannot merit salvation by
keeping the Law or by any other human effort:
"But we are all as an unclean thing,
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all
do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken
us away." [Isaiah 64:6]
A
true Israelite realizes that Hell is a literal place:
"And many of them that sleep in
the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and
some to shame and everlasting contempt." [Daniel
12:2]
" For great is thy mercy
toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest
hell." [Psalm 86:13]
"Hell and destruction are never
full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." [Proverbs
27:20]
A
true Israelite understands that Hell is the final destination of
those who die without the blood atonement of the Messiah:
" The wicked shall be turned into
hell, and all the nations that forget God." [Psalm
9:17]
"For the life of the flesh is
in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make
an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul." [Leviticus 17:11]
A
true Israelite understands that God Himself provided the blood
sacrifice for sin, as He did when He asked Abraham to sacrifice
his son Isaac:
"And Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the
fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them
together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My
father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the
fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."
(Genesis 22:6-8)
"The next day John seeth Jesus
coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)
A
true Israelite believes the prophet Isaiah when he said the
Messiah had to die:
"Who hath believed our report?
and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up
before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there
is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and
rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and
we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and
we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and
carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his
own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he
opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of
the living: for the transgression of my people was he
stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the
rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither
was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to
bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his
soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in
his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be
satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify
many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I
divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
[Isaiah 52:13-53:12]
A true Israelite
believes the psalmist who spoke of the crucifixion of the Messiah
in Psalm 22:
"They gaped upon me with their
mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like
water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like
wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried
up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou
hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed
me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced
my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and
stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots
upon my vesture." [Psalm 22:13-18]
A true Israelite
believes the prophet Zechariah who spoke of the crucifixion of
the Messiah:
"And it shall come to pass in
that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that
come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house of David,
and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for
his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is
in bitterness for his firstborn." [Zechariah 12:10]
What
is the bottom line?
The bottom line is this: the Messiah
is coming soon. If the scriptures are true, and it turns out that
He is Jesus Christ, and you are still in your sins, and not
covered in the atoning blood of the Messiah, Yeshua, then you
will be like all the others who will be crying out in horror as
the universe collapses:
"And I beheld when he had opened
the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the
sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as
blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig
tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their
places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in
the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb" [Revelation 6:12-16]
Do You Have A Saviour?
Are you like most people, trying to
work your way to heaven? Do you think your prayers and good deeds
will get rid of all your sins? If you do, then you have no idea
of how much God hates sin: "For the LORD thy God is a
consuming fire, even a jealous God." (Deuteronomy
4:24). God is much holier than people realize. Sins are not just
bad things that we do. People don't realize that they are
breaking God's commandments all day long, every day, just by the
things they say and the thoughts in their minds. By the time
people get old and die, they have committed perhaps millions of
sins. Even just one sin will send a person to hell for eternity.
Adam and Eve were cursed by God for committing just one sin. That
is how holy God is.
Only God can take away sins and He requires blood atonement.
There is only ONE Messiah who ever who ever claimed His shed
blood would be the atonement for anyone's sins and who at the
same time proved He was eternal God by raising Himself and others
from the dead: Yeshua - Jesus Christ - The Lamb of God!
Even the most learned
Rabbi can be wrong in his teachings about the Messiah, especially
if he does not want to believe the truth of scripture:
"Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If
I tell you, ye will not believe" [Luke 22:67]
"Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and
wonders, ye will not believe." [John 4:48]
"I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your
sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your
sins." [John 8:24]
"The other disciples therefore said unto him [Thomas], We
have seen the Lord. But he [Thomas] said unto them, Except I
shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger
into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I
will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were
within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being
shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then
saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands;
and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not
faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him,
My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou
hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not
seen, and yet have believed." [John 20:25-29]
You must repent of your sins,
forsaking them and hating them as God hates them… "Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols;
and turn away your faces from all your abominations."
(Ezekiel 14:6). Ask God to give you a hatred for your sins and to
enable you to faithfully serve Him. Cry out to God to have mercy
on you and to save your lost soul from the wrath to come - before
its too late… "God be merciful to me a sinner"
[Luke 18:13] … "How shall we
escape, if we neglect so great salvation" [Hebrews 2:3]
Are you a true Israelite of God?
Are you sure?
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