Page 439 of the footsteps of the Messiah, and we're looking at the title there, the center of Gentile attention. One of the facets in the Millennial Kingdom is that Israel will be the head of the nations, not the tail, and they will lead the nations in this regard during the Millennial Kingdom. We'll read about it, we'll explain it, and we'll talk a little bit more of the implications of it. But let's start on the top page of 439 of Isaiah 14, 1 through 2. And it says this, for Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob and will yet choose Israel. So there's the choosing of Israel. By the way, just as an aside, notice the word that God keeps saying, I will choose Israel. My question then becomes, because choosing of Israel or the election of Israel, notice that he's electing them for a second time. They've always been the chosen nation, but he uses the term, I'm electing, I choose them again. And he's choosing them to be his client nation during the kingdom age. Okay, so we know there's all kinds of promises given to Israel, but here's what I want you to see in this aside. The understanding of choosing or election comes from understanding how Yahweh chooses Israel as a nation. So let me ask you this question, just simply just understanding the text. This is about Israel in the kingdom age. He says, I'm gonna choose them basically again to be my client nation. What does that tell you about the word election or choosing from the Hebraic understanding? Is he choosing them for salvation? What is he choosing them for? For a purpose, for service. I want you to make sure you get that because a lot of times when he says I elected Israel, I chose Israel as a nation is to be his client nation as a king priest nation to serve the other nations. Hence, then you start getting an understanding about election or choosing and where that term comes from and the proper Hebraic understanding of this, which then Paul uses in reference to us. Right? So this has implications far more than just a corporate body. It has to do with us. Okay, so when he chooses Israel to be a client nation again, because of all these promises, he's choosing them for service, okay? So then when you jump into, let's say Romans nine, and it says, Jacob I loved and Esau I hated, what is that a reference to? Nations. Okay, is that passage about individual salvation? What was Jacob's purpose? Paul's using this in terms of what happened to Israel, okay? He is using it in a corporate sense. Jacob, I love, Esau, I hate it. It's a corporate sense, which is where we're deriving this idea in Isaiah 14, a corporate sense of choosing. He chose the lineage of Jacob to be the client nation and he did not choose the descendants of Esau to carry on the promises of Abraham, right? That's basically what Paul's kind of trying to parse out about what happened to Israel. And then he'll break it down saying not all of Israel is Israel and the idea there's a remnant versus a non-remnant element of Israel, okay. When you start looking at that, all of a sudden things start coming to light. As far as when you think about Israel corporately, could you be part of the nation and not saved? Yeah, absolutely. That's Paul's point. Not all of Israel is Israel. So you could be part of the corporate nation of Israel, but not be saved. You could be lost as a ball in high weeds. It doesn't make a difference, right? But as long as you were part of the commonwealth, you have Jewish ancestry, and you participated in the formalities of the worship, whether, you know, Passover trumpets or whatnot, you could remain in Israel and be accepted totally in society. Okay. So then let's move to the church. The corporateness of the church is seen in Ephesians 1 and it's the term in Christ. You'll see Paul use this, and he uses it a number of times, something like 10 times, I think, in chapter one, or the whole book of Ephesians, like 10 times. And the term is used like 27 times altogether, in Christ, in Christ, in Christ. And he will never qualify anything other than in Christ. This will happen to you in Christ. This will happen to you in Christ. It's always the term in Christ. What you start realizing is that term in Christ is a technical term that Paul is throwing down, which refers to a corporate body. And he'll explain that in Ephesians, that this corporate body is made up of Jew and Gentile, called the body of Christ. But in order to be in Christ, then once you're in Christ, you receive the benefits of whatever it means to be in corporate, Ecclesia or church. So a lot of times when you interpret passages where it says he chose us. I'm going to misquote it. Okay, intentionally follow me. It does not say he chose us before the foundations of the world. It says he chose us in Christ. Which is far different. When did you go into the body of Christ? When you were born? Born again is when you entered into the body of Christ. So before then, were you in Christ or out of Christ? You had to be out, right? So I want you to see that there's an element of time in your own salvation that you were not in Christ before the foundation of the world. that at some point in your linear life you entered into salvation and when you entered in you entered into that body of Christ where then after you were saved you were called in Christ at that point in time. So what you start seeing is that there's a corporate element to the choosing that When it says that he chose us before the foundation of the world in Christ, it refers to that Hebraic understanding of corporate Israel. Now it's corporate church, and that you enter into that body when you come to faith. Let me read something real quick to you. And again, I'm going off on a side, but this is important, I think. Paul explains salvation in Ephesians 1, and he explains the order of salvation, and I want to read this to you. Verse 12 of chapter 1, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory in Him, in Him, you also trusted, this is verse 13, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. in whom also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of his glory." Notice the order salutis of salvation. You heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, you trusted, you were sealed. Did you see that? That's how the order of salutis of salvation is in according to the Apostle Paul. This is verse 13. So all of this and you look at the terms in him in him in him all over the place just as he chose us in him verse 4 before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Okay. So notice that the term he chose us in him to do what? The in him is before the foundation of the world. That we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Is that a reference to salvation? To be holy and without blame? Holy is set apart, sanctification, and without blame is beyond reproach. So what you're starting to see, and then eventually in other passages it talks about being conformed to the image of Christ, that we're predestined to be conformed in the image of Christ. What you start seeing is the promises are only given to those who are in Christ. Christ is the chosen one before the foundation of the world. Once you enter into him, you get all the blessings that accompany being in him or that corporate body, which means that you will be conformed to his image, you will be holy and without blame, that's the idea, but you only get that if you're in him. You have to, that's a technical term, you have to be in him. in order to get all these things. So the reason I'm showing you this, and I'm not trying to do a full-blown scale of Calvinism or whatnot, but what I'm trying to show you is there's a Hebraic understanding that most Gentiles are missing because they don't understand the corporate nature of Israel's choosing. God chose Israel as a corporate nation. That had nothing to do with their individual salvations. Okay, so if you take that corporate mindset Are there people in the church body who are not saved? Of course. So just because someone attends a church doesn't mean they're saved. Jesus talked about the wheat among the tares. And so you still have the same problem going on in the church, that there's a mixed multitude in the corporate body. as far as God is concerned there is a remnant in the church that's in Christ and they are only in Christ they're the true believers and they get all the benefits that accompany salvation but if you're not in Christ you do not get these benefits you do not get conformed to the image of Christ you do not become holier or become more without blame you're not afforded those only those who are saved so I only say that just to say Look at the word chose and how he's using it with Israel. Okay, any questions? Clear as mud? That's just a little bit. I don't want to go too far into it because it's... Well, if you look at Ephesians 1, 4, it's talking about He chose us in Him, and that's the caveat. He chose us in Him. The idea is that Christ is the chosen one, and He is the one chosen before the foundation of the world. that we should be holding without blame. So once you're in him, these are the benefits that you get. Verse 13 tells you how you entered into him. And then if you want to go any further, you can jump to chapter two, verse 11 and 12 and 13. And it says, therefore, remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh who are called them circumcised by what is called the circumcision made in flesh without by hands, that at that time you were without Christ. being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ." So even there, he says there was a time in your life that you were not in Christ, and now you are in Christ. You were not in Christ before the foundations of the world, that's impossible. Right? So before the foundation of the world is a reference to Messiah because he's eternal. It's not a reference to us because he's telling you when we entered. He's telling you there was a time in your life you weren't. If Calvinism is true, you were in Christ before you were born. You see how that works, or doesn't work, so to speak? You can't be in Christ before you were born. He's telling you the order of salutis, of salvation, in Ephesians 1.13. You have to believe. Then you get placed in there. Anyway, long story short. The Hebrew understanding of election decimates Calvinism. Absolutely destroys it. If you understand the Hebrew Bible, you would never come up with Calvinism. Never. It would never enter your mind, something like that. Anyway, I'm going to deal with Calvinism later on, but anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there. Okay, let's move on. And they shall cleave to the house of Israel, and the people shall take them and bring them to their place. The house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for his servants and for handmaids. And they shall take them captive, whose captives they were. And they shall rule over their oppressors. So notice that, that these Gentiles are going to join themselves with Israel in the Messianic kingdom, cleave to them, and they will actually take them back to their place. So as Jesus is drawing them back into the land after the second coming, Gentiles who are saved will actually help the Jews get back into the land at that time, probably during the 75-day interval. But notice what it says, that Israel is going to rule over the Gentiles. So in the Messianic Kingdom, Israel becomes that client nation that the Gentiles actually serve. The Gentiles will serve them. down to Isaiah 49 22 more of this thus says the Lord Yahweh behold I will lift up my hand to the nations and set my enzyme to my to the people's the nations basically and they shall bring your sons in their bosom and your daughter shall be carried upon their shoulders and And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and the queens your nursing mothers. They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am Yahweh, and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame." Again, this is all reference to Israel. The Gentiles will actually carry them back. That the highest nobility of the Gentiles will serve them. It doesn't matter what the social structure is. If they're a king and queen, they will become servants to Israel. They will lick the dust of their feet, which is a Hebrew idiom, which means they're defeated. They're like the serpent will eat the dust of the ground. It means they're defeated in subservient mode. and Israel will not be put to shame. All this to say is there's going to be a role reversal. As you see, when we talk about this Rashida Tlaib and the Ilhan Omar and these anti-Semitic individuals, even in Congress or even in the churches, it's all going to be reversed. And God's saying, no, they're going to lick the dust off your feet. I'm going to put them down. They're going to serve you. The highest of the Gentiles will serve them in the millennial kingdom. One more passage, and then we'll do some application on this. One of the main reasons for this is because the Shekinah glory envelops Israel and abides over them. This is Isaiah 60 on the next page. And it says, Arise, shine, for your light has come. The glory of Yahweh has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, the gross darkness of the peoples. But Yahweh will rise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you. And a nation shall come to your light, and the kings of the brightness of your rising. The rabbi said that referred to the Messiah. I definitely agree. It's a reference to Jesus and the Messiah in the Kingdom Age as the Shekinah glory is above Israel. The Shekinah glory will be not only above Israel, it will encircle Israel, it'll be on the walls, and of course the visible presence of Jesus will be manifested so everyone will see that God is with Israel and no one else. One more let's do what Isaiah 61 4 through 9 and they should build the old waste and they shall raise up the former desolations and they shall repair the way cities the desolations of many generations and Strangers shall stand and feed your flock talking about Gentiles feeding their own animals the Jews animals and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your wine dress vine dresses But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh men shall call you the ministers of our God You shall eat of the wealth of nations and in their glory shall you boast yourselves? Instead of your shame, ye shall have double. And instead of dishonor, they shall rejoice in your portion. Therefore, in their land, they shall possess double. Everlasting joy shall be unto them. Talking about the Jews. For I, Yahweh, love justice. I aid robbery with iniquity. And I give them their recompense in truth. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, a new covenant. And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offering among the people. All that see them shall acknowledge them. that they are the seed which Yahweh has blessed obviously reference to the Jews okay we've talked about this a little bit but again just when you read this you realize God is still going to use Israel they're his client nation and at that point They're going to be the head of the nations. Everyone will serve them. Everyone will minister to the Jews as they administer the word of God out. So the way it'll work in the messianic kingdom is Israel will be the teachers of the nations about Yahweh. That's what happens. They'll be the priests, but also the teachers. Now we'll be there to assist this, but the Jews lead the charge in this. And because of their teaching efforts of the Jews to the Gentile nations, the Gentile nations will pay them monetarily for that blessing. They feed their flocks and stuff like that, so they get a lot of money from the Gentiles for doing that. Well, in some ways, yeah, kinda, in some ways, not the full blessing like obviously this, but in some ways, yes, even in unbelief, they're serving nations because a lot of the healthcare's coming out of there. I think they're on the cutting edge right now of having a breakthrough with cancer, a pill that they've developed that is gonna destroy about 90% of cancer, and they're just ready to come out with it. How come they develop that? How come they're developing the highest technologies? I mean, they have the Silicon Valley right there in Tel Aviv. It's unbelievable what they're developing. The agriculture is amazing. The military is amazing. We give them our military jets and then they soup them up. It's utterly amazing. So when you see all this and how they're blessing other nations, whether it's medical, technological, you see, like Paul said, if they bless people now, what's going to be the blessing when they're actually in belief? More Nobel Prizes are coming out of there than any other nation, and it's the smallest nation on the planet. And so at the end of the day, they are serving the nations, but probably unknowingly. But at this point, they full force do it. Well, definitely there's counterfeits. And Satan always wants to counterfeit the blessings of God, right? And you can see why he would do it. Well, they're not unique because these guys over here are making it or whatever. Let's say solar panels or something. But they're not going to be able to outdo the supernatural abilities of the Jews, which is not indicative of them. It's indicative of Yahweh. Like when they fight wars. Stuff happens in their wars that's just completely supernatural. You just can't explain it. It's not them. You know, when they're out manned in the six day war, and they're out gunned, out tanked, everything, and they still win, and they rout people, or they capture information, like that one dude I told you, they found all the tunnel maps on him. Come on, man, that's Providence, that's God. How could they have, I mean, they didn't have any intelligence about this dude. They arrest him, all of a sudden he has all the maps of Gaza tunnels. Bingo! I mean, that's a God thing, right? So that's what they see when they can't match is that supernatural element that only God does. Even in unbelief, He helps them. So, yeah. Yeah, it seems to indicate that once they're in the millennial reign, it just starts. Now, the only thing I would say is the population explosion takes time, because their population is going to be reduced severely. But as far as the teaching ministry of the Jews, whatever is involved in that, it just instantly starts once the kingdom starts, and the nations are blessed by that. I will say this, as time goes on in the millennial kingdom, the resentment of them is going to rise. And so eventually, they attack Jesus, but they attack Israel, they attack Jerusalem. And so there's gonna be eventually some deep-seated animosity in these Gentiles eventually, that even though they're being blessed like there's no tomorrow, they're gonna turn on the Jews, and to turn on the Jews, they're gonna attack Israel, Jerusalem, and Jesus. And then, of course, he wipes them out with fire. Spiritual jealousy is a problem, I guess. And when we study the story of Cain and Abel, it's a picture of actually, it's a picture of Messiah too, but with Israel, but it's also a picture of the Jews with the Gentiles. And Cain is representative of the Gentiles, Abel representative of the Jews. And then when you do the Israel Messiah thing, Messiah is Abel and Cain is the religious Jews. Okay, anyway, question about Cain and Abel. The Hebrew indicates that Cain routinely had been doing this, as far as the sacrifice to Yahweh. That, like, him and Abel had been doing this for somehow. This was like, it wasn't one time that this happened. They had repeatedly been doing this. And all of a sudden, Cain says, I don't want to do it anymore. Okay? And what were they supposed to bring before Yahweh? What kind of sacrifice? an animal sacrifice, right? A lamb, probably. And it was blood. It was a blood sacrifice, okay? What profession was Cain involved in? Agriculture. He's a farmer. Able? Shepherd. So if I'm a farmer and I don't have animals, where am I going to get my animals? I'm going to have to go to a shepherd. There are not too many of them. So I'm going to my brother, okay? His brother is in right relationship with God, but Cain's starting to drift. So in order to do the proper worship of Yahweh, I gotta go through who? My brother, who I can't stand. He's irritating me because he thinks he's so goody-goody two-shoes with Yahweh, but I have to go to him to secure a lamb. Do you see, wait, step back, step back. In order to have a relationship with Yahweh in the millennium or Jesus, I gotta go through Israel. I gotta go through Israel in order to worship Jesus because there's a temple there. And you just can't rush upon Jesus. There are Zadok priests that you have to go through, and you can't go in there. There's constraints of how far even a Gentile in the Millennial Kingdom can get close to Jesus. Now you and I will have perfect access to Jesus, but I'm talking mortals, right? So they got to go through who? Israel, who represents Abel. who Cain didn't want to keep going through and getting lambs. So it created a spiritual jealousy, a spiritual resentment that I got to keep going through this guy and I don't like him. Which is exactly what the Old Testament is showing you too, that Israel's the client nation and the other nations didn't want to go through them. And God says, you're not going to approach me unless you go through Israel. Hence, when we studied the book of Revelation, why are the gates of the New Jerusalem named after the tribes of Israel? A perpetual reminder, if you're going to approach the Messiah, the Jewish Messiah, he's Jewish, and you're going to approach Yahweh, you're going through the Jews. And there's no other way you're getting there. They are the gate. They're not the way, the truth, and the life, but they are the gate to get to the Messiah, because salvation is of what? the Jews, not the Greeks, not the barbarians or anyone, it's of the Jews. And God continue perpetuates that, that you will go through Israel to get to me. They are my priest nation. So when you see this, I want you to think about today now, okay? Now we know that Israel is not cooperating, they're in unbelief, right? But that doesn't mean we've replaced them and we know that. But it does mean that you support God's plan for that. And we know that. And the people that don't are obviously replacement theology. Now, let's bring it to a personal level with you and all of us. So basically, we understand we need to be pro-Israel, okay? In order to properly relate to the Jews, Paul will say in Romans 15, I think in verse 27, yeah, that we Gentiles who have been blessed by the Jews owe them a debt. and that debt must be paid monetarily to them in money. Not just praying for them, not just evangelizing, but in monetary value. If they've blessed us spiritually, we owe them monetarily, is his point. So what I've told my Sunday school class, and I have always told you, The proof is in the pudding if you really believe Israel is God's apple of His eye, that God has a plan for them. The proof is that you will follow Romans 15 verse 27. Let's just read it real quick. Because at this point, Paul says, put your money where your mouth is. It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things." And you're not gonna get away with that one. What is material things? Money. So in your giving, if you truly support Israel, It will show up in your pocket book in helping the Jews. Now, let me make some qualifications about this. The qualification is he's referring to believing Jews, not unbelieving Jews. He's also referring to believing Jews who also witnessed to other Jews and their brethren, okay? So to the Jew first and then the Gentile. So let me make the qualification. It doesn't mean that you support, you know, the Temple Mount faithful is trying to rebuild the temple. That would be wrong. Okay, it's a Jewish organization, but they're not cooperating with God. You give to Jewish believers. So it'd be important for you in your profile of giving that you find a Jewish organization, something like Jews for Jesus, Israel My Glory, Friends of Israel, Chosen People Ministries, Ariel.org, that's Ruthenbaum's ministry. Trying to think of some other ones. Did I say Friends of Israel? Yeah, Friends of Israel, Jews for Jesus, Chosen People Ministries. Yeah, Amir Tsarfati's Behold Israel. What is it? Yeah, it's organizations like that would be good. Somewhere in your giving, there's got to be an element of giving to Jewish believers who are actually doing Jewish evangelism, right? Like Jews for Jesus or something like that. Now, a tertiary application. One of the issues then you have to understand about the issue of Israel, it is the dividing mark even now today among believers. One of the things that you're starting to see here is all these promises and what God's going to do. Be careful who you bond to and who you separate from. Okay? Be careful about this. Now, I'm not saying not to have fellowship with other believers, but I'm just trying to tell you, it is getting very difficult to fellowship with other believers who are into replacement theology. I have a hard time, not that I can't get along and stuff like that, but if I want a deep koinonia with a fellow believer, that's pretty hard to get past that anti-Israel sentiment in them. It really is. And Israel right now is becoming the dividing line with a lot of believers. I hate to tell you that. It is. If you take Israel's side, you're looked like you're crazy by most believers. Now, I will say this. Most believers are completely ignorant on the subject. They have no clue about what's going on with Israel. But I will say this. The ones who are, it's getting pretty ugly out there in Christianity. And the issue of Israel is actually splitting American evangelicalism. It really is. There are people, guys, that are in full support of the Palestinians and not Israel. Okay? And they're the ones who are controlling the narrative right now in Christianity. Guys like Hank Hanegraaff, guys like, you know, well, Len Hybels and Willow Creek, they're gone now, but there used to be real proponents of this. Gary DeMar and other guys who were leading the charge against Israel. Those guys, wow. Wow, they're about as mean as a sack full of rattlesnakes, man. If you support Israel, they're just downright mean. So I don't know. I just put that out there. Just be aware of this. But look what he says. I'm going to make them eat the dust of your feet, Israel. I think I want to be pro-Israel because of that. I don't know about you. I don't know about you. I don't know about you. I don't know about you.