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- THE TWO ISRAELS DETERMINED BY CIRCUMCISION
- ... ONE OF THE FLESH AND ONE OF THE HEART [Bible, KJV]
- The question is: Who is a Jew and who isn't.
- Circumcision of the foreskin is the sign of the Abrahamic
Covenant.
- Genesis 17:1-2 "And when Abram was ninety years
old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him,
I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply
thee exceedingly." Genesis 17:6 "And
I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations
of thee, and kings shall come out of thee." This
prophecy related to the Old and New Testament. Genesis 17:8
"And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after
thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the
land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be
their God." Notice God is referring to today, when
Israel is considered to be a stranger in its own land. Palestinians
inists that it is their land and want it back.
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- Genesis 17:10-14 "This is my covenant, which
ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every
man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise
the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the
covenant betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days old shall
be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations,
he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger,
which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and
he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised:
and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant. And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh
of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut
off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. God
established here who is to be Israel the nation. Note that it
included servants who were purchased.
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- Genesis 21:4 "And Abraham circumcised his son
Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him." To
confirm this practice it is discussed in Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham
begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat
Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs." Joshua
5:4 "And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise:
All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even
all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after
they came out of Egypt." Reason for that was that
many children were born in the wilderness and needed to be circumcised.
This practice was a first of its kind and had nothing to do with
cleanliness. It had to do with daily remembering who they were.
God wanted to make it stick that they had been set apart from
the rest of the world. Joshua 5:9 "And the LORD said
unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt
from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal
unto this day." They had rejected Moses and his
10 commandments and God rolled away the reproach in His mercy.
This was a forerunner of what was to come when Jesus died for
our sins and rolled away the reproach from all humanity.
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- Note that Abraham himself did not get circumcised. He got
a new name. There was a good reason for that. The reason was
that Abraham simply believed when God approached him. Abraham
believed that his son Isaac was going to be resurrected when
God told him to sacrifice Isaac. Did he need circumcision? No.
Why, because circumcision was of the flesh and also represented
a work of the flesh.
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- God goes on to teach what happened to Israel and the circumcision
after Jesus went to the cross and gave His blood and consequently
His young innocent 33 year old life for our sins.
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- Romans 4:1..25 "What shall we say then that Abraham
our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham
were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before
God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God,
and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
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- Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned
of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but
believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith
is counted for righteousness.
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- Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,
unto whom God imputeth righteousness without
works, Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
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- Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or
upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned
to Abraham for righteousness.
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- How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision,
or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision,
but in uncircumcision. And he received the sign of circumcision,
a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet
being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them
that believe, [Abraham was going to be the father of all
is the another reason why he was not circumcised. His moving
from being the father of Israel to being the father of all was
not a change. Everything was already contained in Abraham. Provision
for all humanity was already decided because God is allknowing].
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- though they be not circumcised; that righteousness
might be imputed unto them also: And the father of circumcision
to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also
walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham [just simply
believing] , which he had being yet uncircumcised. For the
promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not
to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith.
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- For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is
made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because
the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there
is no transgression.
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- Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by
grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed;
not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which
is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As
it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before
him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be not as though they were.
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- Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become
the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,
So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered
not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years
old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
- He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief;
but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully
persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed
to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered
for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."
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- What happened to the circumcision of the foreskin and for
that matter, of Israel? Since they rejected Jesus Christ, those
who believe in the Old Testament are most likely practicing this
command by God. They even tried to interfere with the New Testament
Covenant by telling Christians that they needed to be circumcised.
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- The Apostle Paul quickly interruupted that by the teaching
the following: 1 Corinthians 7:18-24 "Is any man called
being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called
in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Circumcision
is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing,
but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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- Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was
called. Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but
if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. For
he that is called in the Lord, being a servant,
is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is
called, being free, is Christ's servant. Ye are bought
with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every
man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
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- Colossians 2:10-15 "And ye are complete in
him, which is the head of all principality and
power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision
made without hands, in putting off the body of
the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with
him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through
the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him
from the dead.
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- And you, being dead in your sins and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with
him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having
spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly,
triumphing over them in it. [Cephas Ministry
Editor]
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- In the book of Galatians, the Holy Spirit inspired Paul the
Apostle to address the issue of circumcision, namely the two
types of circumcision. There is circumcision of the flesh, and
the circumcision of the heart. Circumcision of the flesh was
a sign of the covenant between GOD and Israel. Circumcision of
the flesh is not a requirement in terms of salvation under the
New Covenant between man and GOD.
I Corinthians 7:17-20
Circumcision of the heart actually takes place at the time of
the Born-Again experience when one accepts the blood atonement
of Jesus Christ on the cross. Circumcision of the heart is the
sign of ISRAEL, His Church, Christians and Jews as ONE Body of
Born Again Believers.
THE BOOK OF "GALATIANS"
The Book of GALATIANS ... A letter of Paul concerning circumcision!
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The Holy Spirit questions not the Law (Torah), but Circumcision:
Who is a Jew and who isn't.
The Natural and Wild Olive Tree.
The National Israel. and Israel of GOD. .
The whore of Revelation, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, Revelation 17:1,5,6
represents all religion on the earth. At the outset we must understand
that true biblical christianity is not a religion, but a relationship
with Jesus Christ. The whore of Revelation in chapter seventeen
verse one represents the apostacy, the culmination of false religious
activity on the earth whose power eminates from the spirit of
antichrist.
… "GALATIANISM ... ALL ROADS LEAD BACK TO ROME"
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In the apostacy of the church, all roads ultimately lead back
to Rome whose persecution of the Judeo Christian Concept, {the
Jewishness of the Bible}, have foisted false religious opposition
under the banner of self righteous attacks on the Jewish people.
Evil religious spirits have followed the examples and edicts
of the apostate Constantine who for political gain declared christianity
the official religion of his empire ... yet, it wasn't christianity
at all. Constantine attempted to remove the jewishness of the
gospel of Jesus Christ by declaring any Jewish identity of christianity
to be that of "Judaizers". What Constantine did in
reality was craftily impose "Gentilizers" upon the
church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Gentilizing is the true evil
that has led to what is now known as the Roman Catholic church.
Galatianism then, is the removal of the jewish identity of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Hebrew Messiah who is Lord of
the "whosoever" among all humanity. John 3:16
In the book of Galatians, the Holy Spirit inspired Paul the apostle
to address the issue of circumcision, namely the two types of
circumcision. There is circumcision of the flesh, and the circumcision
of the heart. Circumcision of the flesh was a sign of the covenant
between GOD and Israel. Circumcision of the flesh is not a requirement
in terms of salvation under the New Covenant between man and
GOD.
I Corinthians 7:17-20
Circumcision of the heart actually takes place at the time of
the Born-Again experience when one accepts the blood atonement
of Jesus Christ on the cross. Circumcision of the heart is the
sign of ISRAEL, His Church, Christians and Jews as ONE Body of
Born Again Believers.
See Romans 2:28,29 & Galatians 6:12-15
THE NATURAL & WILD OLIVE TREES ... THE ISRAEL OF GOD
In the above scriptures, ROMANS 2:28,29 and GALATIANS 6:12-15,
we see that under the New Covenant promised in the Old Covenant
Jeremiah 31:31-34 that one is truly a Jew by "circumcision
of the heart, in the spirit", thus is identified as a member
of the "Israel of GOD" Galatians 6:16.
In Romans chapter 11, the entire chapter likens the Jewish people
as the "Natural Olive Tree", and Gentiles {those who
aren't born as Jews according to the flesh} are likened to "Wild
Olive Trees". Because of unbelief on the part of natural
born Jews who reject the "Finished Work Of Christ on the
Cross", they are likened to branches broken off of the Natural
Olive Tree, which in turn brought salvation to the Gentiles {those
not born Jewish}. Unbelief in the blood atonement of Christ on
the Cross will keep both Jew and Gentile out of the kingdom of
GOD, yet the unbelief on part of Jews {the Natural Olive Tree}
likens them to branches broken off, yet Gentile converts who
accept the Blood Atonement of Christ on the Cross represent the
"Wild Olive Tree" whose branches are GRAFTED IN the
Natural Olive Tree, thus becoming a member of the commonwealth
of the Israel of GOD
Romans 11:11,17,19,20-33 & Galatians 6:16
WHAT ABOUT THE LAW {TORAH}?
The Finished Work of Christ on the Cross is the centerpiece of
all faith from Genesis to Revelation. The Old Covenant prophets
strained toward the coming Messiah while the New Covenant delcares
the Messiah who has already come and is ready to make His second
advent, and of course, we are talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
The New Covenant reveals that the Law {Torah} and the commandment
is Holy, Just, Good and Spiritual. Romans 7:12,14 After all,
it was handed down from GOD Himself! The problem isn't with the
Law, commonly known as the Torah, but the problems lie with the
sin nature of man and the sin nature of man, being the fallen
nature of man due to the fall in the garden of eden, was dealt
with and eliminated on the Cross of Christ on Calvary, at least
for all who will believe and accept it. The Law {Torah} of GOD
is perfect but simply cannot be kept by man in totality. Therefore,
in His mercy and grace, GOD Almighty has made provision for to
cleanse mankind from sins by means of the blood of His Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ. I John 1:7, Galatians 3:24 & 6:14
JERUSALEM ... THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING
We are seeing the last great revival for the souls of mankind,
and at the same time we are seeing the apostacy of the church
occuring right before our eyes.
National Israel is GOD's timeclock. Prophecies concerning
the land of Israel are taking place and the battle for Jerusalem
is becoming intense indeed. The borders for Israel reveal that
today it is about the size of Rhode Island in America, yet being
surrounded by some two-hundred and fifty million arabs Israel
is being told that there will be war if they do not continue
to give up more land.
The bible outlines reveal that Israel's promised land actually
should reach out into parts of Iraq and Iran. The Arabs should
be giving up land to Israel. No part of Israel should be refered
to as Palestine. GOD gave the promised land to Abraham by promise.
Galatians 3:18 ... The promised land is for the people of GOD,
and until Jesus Christ comes back in glory it belongs to Israel,
but according to the promise of the Abrahamic Covenant, it is
for all of GOD's people upon Christ's return in glory. "...
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seen, and heirs
according to the promise."
See Galatians 3:29
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