All of these pages have the same verses at top in the introduction, designed to help you understand how to understand the Word of God, in context, without any of one's own private interpretation which changes meanings to fit one's pet doctrines. Not to mention goes against the Word of God.
(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV]) Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV]) Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
(2 Peter 3:16 [KJV])
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
(Psalms 12:6-7 [KJV])
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
(2 Timothy 2:15-16 [KJV])
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
(Acts 17:10-11 [KJV])
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
As the verses above say and teach, always research for yourself, always use all of the context of all Scripture, always rightly divide that Word of Truth and never privately interpret it!
All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, concordances nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.
There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:
Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!
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ISRAEL: THE LAND, THE PEOPLE, GOD'S GLORY
INTRODUCTION
It is both utterly undeniable and openly denied at the same time that Israel is God's chosen people for so many purposes of His, that they are His children, that He is their God, that theirs is the nation who God Himself would visit as a man to die for their sins and ours, through whom He would, via the prophets and scribes, give and preserve His Word and words, forever. That He would keep His covenants of His land He gave them, His covenants with them forever, His promises to them, forever. That all that He said would be accomplished in them and to them and also to their enemies, in judgment. He used them as a sword upon His enemies also, to destroy them, some for a time, some forever. He said it, it has happened and will continue until all is fulfilled. Most of it has been fulfilled, most prophecy in our Bible is about Israel and Israel's Messiah. Most has been fulfilled, on time, exactly as how and when God said. He further told us that they would be punished for their sins, scattered, persecuted, hated, and then brought back. And they were. He said it; He did it.
Isaiah 5:3-8
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
He did it, over and over when they sinned, then brought them back from destruction and captivity. He said He would. Then He said He would do this one last time and that is today, since 1947. But He is not in any way finished with Israel. His fulfillments to day are still ongoing. They are a cup of trembling all over the world, a burdensome stone today, hated even by the very people who are called to love them, despite their faults-the Body of Christ, Christians and "Christians" both.
The name ISRAEL means "wrestled with God", from when God changed Jacob's name to Israel:
Genesis 32:24-28
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Why study Israel and prophecy? Because in these last days, there is so much abject hatred for Jews and Israel, this needs to be stated here, repeated later, ad nauseam, whether anyone wants to hear it or not.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
What does this mean? It means God can never, ever, ever, ever be done with Israel whatsoever until this future time. That last, seventieth "week", a period of seven years, has not happened yet and will not until after the The Rapture of the Church
Their regathering and existence back in their land God originally gave them, forever, after 2,000 years of being scattered all over the world, and the recapturing of Jerusalem in 1967-1973 proves this, along with their declaration of independence and declaration of Jerusalem, God's Holy City, as their capital, their principal city, once again. The hatred of Israel in these last days is merely what God prophesied coming to pass, the fools fulfilling it unwittingly or wittingly as prophesied in Zechariah 12:2-3. They are indeed now in the news daily as a "cup of trembling" and a "burdensome stone" to all of the world now.
In Scripture, there are three groups of people to God:
- Israel, the Jews, the Jewish people, His chosen people, His chosen children whose citizenship is in Israel, now in their land forever
- Gentiles, non Jews, not saved. Not living forever, but until they die, then cast into hell and then dying forever (Mark 9:44, Mark 9:46, Mark 9:48)
- The Church, the bride of Christ, chosen of God, both Jews and Gentiles as one, serving the Jewish Messiah, the LORD Jesus Christ, forever alive in Christ, whose citizenship is in heaven and, eventually, the new earth with the LORD
1.) The word"Israel" is in God's Word 2,301 times.
2.) The word"Israelite" is in God's Word 4 times; 2 times in the Old Testament and 2 times in the New Testament.
5.) The word"Jew" is in God's Word 32 times.
6.) The word"Jews" is in God's Word 244 times 168 of which are in the New Testament, 147 of which are in Acts, the Epistles.
7.) The word"Jewess" is in God's Word 18 times.
8.) The word "Jewish" is only one time
9.) God's promises to Israel are UNCONDITIONAL
10.) God's promises to Israel are FOREVER
That part is spoken of by Paul in Romans chapters nine, ten and eleven.
Titus 1:14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
9.) The Name the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is found in both the Old and even in the New Testament, very many times.
Acts 7:32
Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Luke 20:37
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Mark 12:26
And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Acts 3:13
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Genesis 21:10
Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
THE MYTH OF THE 'TEN LOST TRIBES'
This myth comes from privately interpreting and reading into verses in:
2 Kings 17:1-23:
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2 Chronicles 6:6-11
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart: Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
1.) Twelve tribes are listed in Revelation
2.) Twelve tribes are mentioned by James
Acts 26:7
Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
James 1:1
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1 Peter 1:1-2
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
ISRAEL IS LISTED TWICE N REVELATION
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Revelation 21:12
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
The LORD Jesus Christ is the "King of the Jews", not just"King of Kings, LORD of LORDs". He will reign in JERUSALEM, the Holy City of God, given to the Jews and Israel alone, forever and ever and ever
Matthew 27:29
And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew 27:37
And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Mark 15:2
And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it.
Mark 15:9
But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
Mark 15:12
And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?
Mark 15:18
And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
Mark 15:26
And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Luke 23:3
And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
Luke 23:37
And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
Luke 23:38
And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
"Jews" in the New Testament
-Matthew: 5 times
- Mark: 6 times
- Luke: 5 times
- John: 65 times
THE CHURCH AGE, THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES
- Acts: 69times
- Romans: 3 times
- 1 Corinthians: 6 times
- 2 Corinthians: 1 time
- Galatians: 5 times
- Ephesians: 0 times
- Philippians: 0 times
- Colossians: 0 times
- 1 Thessalonians: 1 times
THE LAST TIMES UNTIL REVELATION....then ALL ISRAEL!!!
- 2 Thessalonians: 0 times
- 1 Timothy: 0 times
- 2 Timothy: 0 times
- Titus: 0 times
- Philemon: 0 times
- Hebrews: 0 times
- James: 0 times
- 1 Peter: 0 times
- 2 Peter: 0 times
- 1 John: 0 times
- 2 John: 0 times
- 3 John : 0 times
- Jude: 0 times
THE REFERENCES, NOT THE WORD, Revelation 4-22
- Revelation: times
Failure to understand this has led to persecution of Israel, the Jews throughout all of history, even the last two thousand years, particularly to the holocaust and now more so in the churches in America, who do not teach this, do not teach about prophecy and current events, out of fear of man.
THE CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING
Fools today in the "church" who believe in the pagan "Replacement" "Theology" love to take words out of context. The following verses are to the church in Philadelphia, during the reformation period, and to true Christians. The verse falsely interpreted, having nothing whatsoever to do with Israel, who starts to be addressed in Revelation chapter four only until the end, is an example of rank, smelly heresy. Causes "Christians" to hate Jews. They say they are Christians and are not, just like the verse says "of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not" means they are not Jews, exactly as it says, exactly as it is written, no interpretation necessary nor accepted, thanks. It is not hard, but to the venomous, evil, wicked and venomous heart that wants to hate Jews, it is their "go to" because they do not need, want or will read the context at all. It defeats their lie. No heretick wants to be exposed for that which they are. Like cockroaches, they hide in the dark. Light comes on? They scatter, like cockroaches and rats.
Revelation 3:7-9
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
This is a good example of ignoring the context. They are not Jews, they are false Christians claiming to be Jews, wanting to keep and force others to do Jewish law, but the unbelieving Jew haters, who abound today, do not want to hear that.
Today, we have the cults like the "Jewish Roots" movement, who want members to keep the Old Testament Law which never did, nor does, nor ever can, nor ever will, save a soul, any soul. Even Messianic Jews know this. These hereticks are one of the many who "which say they are Jews, and are not".
Revelation chapters one to three have zero to do whatsoever with the nation of Israel yet. That is all after the Rapture and the rest of Scripture shows this by telling us, IN CONTEXT, NOT PRIVATELY interpreted, that God has His covenant and plans for Israel eternally. He always did, always will. But that is why these hereticks completely have to ignore the context and want so desperately to privately interpret it to make it fit their venomous hatred. They never let the verses in Scripture tell them what it says, but rather try and twist the Scriptures, to make them appear to "say" (they do not) what they themselves want them to say. Would it and could it not be said daily that the Muslims who claim God's Holy city He gave to Israel forever, Jerusalem, are those who claim that city as their Holy City, like there is not any room throughout all of North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, etc. to make a "holy city"? Exactly a fulfillment of Zechariah 12:2-3 right there. That city belongs to God, not anyone else and HE gave it to Israel and n one else, not even Christians. And that was forever, even after they rejected the Messiah, into eternity (The New Jerusalem).
In Acts 13, Paul tells the Jews that God had destroyed nations for them to get His land He would give them, filled with abominable, pagan people.
Acts 13:19
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
The "them here, again in context, is the children, the people, the tribes of Israel. God destroyed those nations from before them, not they themselves. Because HIS land was polluted and He was to fulfill is covenant land promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob who was renamed Israel.
Revelation 21:2
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
- They SAY they are Jews and are not Jews at all, because they are in "The Times of the Gentiles" (until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled) during the CHURCH age
- This is the perfect description of the "law keepers" then who insisted men had to be circumcised as Gentiles, today they are the "Replacement Theology" fools and hereticks
- This is also an official false teaching of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, which falsely teaches, since Constantine's day, that "the Church replaces Israel"
- These same people lie and SAY, "God is finished with Israel!", when He Himself SAID in His Word, cover to cover that He is not, thereby calling God a liar. Not a good place to be in.
THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN: ACTS 15
Acts 15
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, 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:
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.
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment: It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them. And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles. Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
HOW TO SPOT THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN
- The Synagogue of Satan today is "Christians" who hate Jews, hate Israel and blame Israel for all problems on EARTH and want her DESTROYED forever!
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
What does this mean? It means God can never be done with Israel whatsover until this future time> That last "week", a period of seven years, has not happened yet and will not until after the The Rapture of the Church
- The Synagogue of Satan was simply Judaizers and no wonder, as most of the believers in the Old Testament, most of the first, early believers in the New Testament times when the Scriptures were written, were Jews, some being Judaizers, not Gentiles.
- This created arguments among them, because salvation was being discussed and involved:
Galatians 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
- Also see Galatians 3:1-15
- Paul, Barnabas, then later all of the apostles first had their ministry to the Jews, then to the Gentiles. (Romans 1:16)
- "Certain men" in Acts 15:43-46, below whoever they were, had Jewish leanings, religiously, culturally
- The religion they were trying to introduce, inject, institute into that church then was legalism, not understanding the Gospel, that it is by grace through faith alone (Ephesians 2:8-9), just like "denominations", "Roman"(from Rome) "Catholics"(universal), "Protestants" and all cults today.
- Welcome to Laodicea,
- This was in fulfillment of the Scriptures
- The Scriptures tell us so:
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Acts 13:43-46
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
- After that, the focus of God returns back to the Jews, during Revelation 4-22
- Revelation chapters 1-3 are all the church, until the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, when the church is removed
- This is a time of Judgment of the earth, judgment on Israel to turn them back to God and their Saviour, the Messiah, the LORD Jesus Christ, so all Israel shall be saved
- Therefore, there is no place in any true believer to hate any Jew nor the nation of Israel
- Paul mentions speaking to Peter on this later on in Galatians:
- This is a yoke on the necks of anyone trying to please God by keeping the Law for salvation
- All law was given for the purpose of keeping order society, to keep us healthy (what to eat; what not to eat), military law, marital law, family law, etc.
- All who love and follow God know that the Law can save no man and was not given for that purpose. See The Gospel
Galatians 4:11
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
- In this sermon by Peter here in Acts 15, Peter teaches us so much about legalism, Gentiles, Jews, the church, the differences
- In the church, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, but we are all one in Christ
- Outside of the church, there both Jew and Gentile to this day
- Paul wrote a letter to the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria to let them know that he understood tha they were troubled by this legalism, tht he understood it and that this was not a commandment he sent them out with to give to the Gentiles, but a holdover from their former lives is all it was
1 John 5:10
“He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
Today...
- They SAY they are saved and "Christians" and are not
- They SAY they know the Word and do not even read it, but read INTO it
- One word, taken out of context, twisted, "synagogue", is not at all any "proof" they so very desperately seek and want that this to be-their "proof text"
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
They know the context destroys their "proof: so they must ignore it, violating Scripture, but they do not care. All they want is to blame Jews.
- Today, the "Synagogue of Satan" is, 2,000 years later, the "Replacement Theologians" and their blind followers, same as were around in Paul's day, now prevalent
- Then, the "Synagogue of Satan" was, 2,000 years ago the same mindset Paul had to deal with, the
- All due to lack of wisdom, understanding, careful study of God's Word.
- These are those who led to the first holocaust, the bloodthirsty, pagan "popes" in Rome and the "protestants" who will be glad for another Holocaust. They even call for it.
"REPLACEMENT" "THEOLOGY": CLAIMS AND CORRECTIONS
Just some empty claims that they make:
- Israel is the source of all wars and problems in the Middle East!
- Israel no longer has any right to that land!
- Well, here is the problem with that with good examples
- Iran Iraq war........no Israel, eight years, over one million killed, all Islam
- Afghanistan/Russian war, nothing to do with Israel
- War in Pakistan, nothing to do with Israel
- War in Sudan, nothing to do with Israel
- War in Somalia, nothing to do with Israel
- Rockets lobbed into Israel from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc. unprovoked, just because Israel exists in their own land of Israel God gave them.
- 1,400 years straight years, Muslim nations constantly at war-WITH EACH OTHER!
- 2012, six simultaneous civil wars worldwide. All of them involved Muslim nations, namely Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
- To repeat, this is increasing, not decreasing, in Muslim countries, civil wars, genocides, all blamed on a nation not even involved, Muslim nation against Muslim nation.
- To hunt in America, you need a weapon, license, tags. In Muslim nations, you need a guid, license, tags, and personal protection from the local MUSLIM people who will kill you
- DO NOT use any "mainstream" "studies" and "reports" to look into this......all lies
- Good Authority has information on this
- Another excellent site is Jihad Watch
- Not much to hunt in Israel and Muslims constantly threatening your safety as it is.
- But the world wants to blame Israel for their own problems
- Churches in America all across the nation do not teach truth about Israel, nor what is going on in Israel between her and her enemies, just teach "feel good about yourself" "Christianity" which the Word of God does not teach, since we are all wicked sinners saved by grace through faith alone in the the Blood and death on the Cross for us by the LORD Jesus Christ.
These are unsaved, unstable in their mind, unlearned, and were in Paul's day.
Consider the very next chapters until the end of Revelation, all of the way through: ALL ISRAEL.
Look at chapter seven, the 144,000 Jews, 12,000 from each tribe of ISRAEL, who ARE Jews and are NOT the church who is already in heaven in Revelation 3:10, taken out in the Rapture. These after that in Revelation 4-22 are the REAL Jews after that, God's focus returned:
Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
Which "churches" are the tribes Judah, Reuben, Gad, Aser, Nephthalim, Manasses, Simeon, Levi, Isaachar, Zabulon, Joseph, Benjamin? Please, name them. Knock yourself out. The church is never seen on earth ever again after chapter three of Revelation.
The woman persecuted by the anti-Christ who gave birth to the man child.....which "church" was that? Since the church was not born and God told us in Genesis 3:15 and on to the New Testament that the Saviour, the Messiah of ISRAEL, would come from Judah, as the Lion, which "church" is the tribe of Judah?
Revelation 12:1-2
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Later...
Revelation 12:1-2 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
...continued
Revelation 12:5
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Which "church" brought forth the Messiah of Israel? Mary and Joseph were JEWS; Jesus was raised a JEW, He was circumcised a JEW, declared to the the JEWISH Messiah, not a Gentile in any way. The woman has to be the Jews of ISRAEL who brought forth the man child in Revelation, since Jesus was not born by a Gentile nor by the church (which did not exist) . Contexts and careful studies of all books do wonders for understanding. No interpretation needed; it tells you what it says. This is what the people who walked with the LORD did. Those who did not di as the hereticks then, as the hereticks now do.
To become a heretick, to lie to oneself and others, all one needs to do is take verses out of context and twist them to fit what they want people to believe, not what the Scriptures say and clearly teach.
Genesis 37:9-10
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
The woman with twelve stars is which "church"? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm............
It is and can only BE ISRAEL, in Egypt, and this was a prophecy given to Joseph, later fulfilled:
Genesis 43:28
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
Later..........
Genesis 45:3-4
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Genesis 46:29-30
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Jacob, Israel, his twelve sons, his wife. Sun, moon, starts, all JEWS.
So them, "replacement theologist", which "church" was Joseph's twelve brothers members of?
There are approximately 2,000 verses in Scripture referring to the Messiah in one way or another, the LORD Jesus Christ, reigning on earth on David's throne. You cannot allegorize that many.
ISAIAH 41: GOD'S PEOPLE
Isaiah 41:8-11
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
Isaiah 41:16-18
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Isaiah 41:20-21
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
ISAIAH 43
Isaiah 43:1-7
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
ISAIAH 46:13
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Before embarking on a study of Israel, one must know that, searching, reading, studying God's Word, one will find a relationship between Israel and her Creator, the chosen people of God Himself, His purpose for her, that she has had a past and will a certain future. All of this is in Scripture throughout, Genesis to Revelation
Before one looks down their nose at any Jew or the nation of Israel in their false "Replacement Theology" where they think that the church replaces Israel forever, because they crucified the messiah, the LORD Jesus Christ. No, Israel turned Jesus over to the Romans who crucified Him. Jesus was crucified for Israel's sins-AND YOURS! Jesus was crucified for Rome's sins-and YOURS! Only a fool who does not know God's Word and listens to a "replacement theologian" will conclude God is done with Israel. They do not get it, just like Israel did not get the Old Testament telling them of their Messiah from Genesis to Malachi. Read that Old Testament and the New God gave you through the Jews.
If 1947, 1948, 1967, 1973 and today's events in the Middle East do not show clearly to a mind that God still has Israel as the apple of His Eye (Zechariah 2:8, et al), then one is spiritually dead or dying, deficient and will ultimately not fully, correctly understand Scripture as it relates to all history, all covenants He made with Israel, and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the church, the currents events of these last days, the old Testament in its entirety from Genesis to Malachi, let alone the nEw Testament.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
MOUNT SEIR,
Ezekiel 35:1-91
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
This was the land of the Edomites and that description, those characteristics, have now been adopted, that hatred, behavior, by the Muslims. They do not hate blood, they love it. They shed the blood of the children of Israel then as now.
THE LAST BATTLE IN ISRAEL: EZEKIEL 38
Ezekiel 28
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
There are things Stephen brought out in Acts 7 that were hitherto unknown, that he would have known, revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, also passed down to him by his ancestors, in the synagogue. These truths were hidden until this moment. There are more secret things awaiting us after the Rapture to be revealed instantly.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Psalms 105
O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen. He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies. He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength. He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them. He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night. The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Acts 7:1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
-Either one of two things: He himself did not know enough about his own faith, or enough about "the Way"
-He also probably was not an eyewitness to the events that brought Stephen there in the first place, so wanted some clarity
-There is no way he did not know the effect the apostles were having around Jerusalem!
-The question is from the conversation recorded in chapter 6
Acts 6:13-14 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.
Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
-Men were there, his brethren in the flesh (Israelites) were there, and the fathers, leaders, priests were there. Stephen further was a young man at this time, on his last moments
-Stephen does not address the high priest directly, but everyone, like Paul did
-This is not out of disrespect, but out of God's love and their need
-The best place to begin is, of course, at the beginning!
-The title "God of glory" only appears one other place, Psalm 29:3
Psalms 29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
Genesis 12:1-4 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
"MEN AND BRETHREN"
-The phrase appears only in Acts, for a total of eleven times
-Peter used it thrice
-Paul used it six times
-The Jews used it once
-James used it once
Acts 1:16 [PETER]Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
Acts 2:29 [PETER]Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:37 Now when they [JEWS] heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Acts 13:15 [PAUL] And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts 13:26
[PAUL] Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
Acts 13:38 [PAUL]Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Acts 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, [PETER]Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts 15:13 And after they had held their peace, [JAMES]James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
Acts 23:1 And [PAUL] Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Acts 23:6 But when[PAUL] Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days [PAUL]Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
Acts 7:3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
-This event they all knew well, recorded in the Torah
-This is the beginning of them selves and their people-the perfect place to start Acts 7:4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
-Charran is Haran
-God waited for Abraham to finish caring for his elderly father, knowing this man could not be traipsed all over the area, being a burden to both Moses and himself Genesis 11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Acts 7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
-Having only a promise, Abraham left for an unknown place, no land or heir yet
-He was given only PART of the overall, hundreds-thousands of years plan at that time. His ONLY task was to "believe and leave"
-This means 100% on faith, 100% trusting only in God. Stephen is telling them the exact requirements for their salvation in Jesus Christ here Genesis 15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Romans 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Hebrews 11:8-10 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Acts 7:6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
-This was bondage in Egypt, the Exodus and, again, the reason for the Passover
-This Passover continues today
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Acts 7:7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
-This is Egypt, and their Passover celebration, the biggest Passover ever, which was very recent to them, the sacrifice of the Lamb of God
-"This place" is the land that they are in at the time Stephen's speech, and now again today and forever
Genesis 15:13-14 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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.
-Circumcision was a ritual for them and theirs alone, not the Gentiles or any surrounding nations
-Now, they were expected to be circumcised in their hearts
-It was a sure fire way also to check if a man was a Jew if captured in war
-Abraham begat Ishmael also, but no mention, as Ishmael was not the child of promise, but of the flesh
-Abraham begat Esau also, but Esau is not mentioned either, as he rejected his birthright for a meal, and it passed to Jacob,
who later became Israel Genesis 17:10-13 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.
Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Acts 7:9-10 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
-His brothers hated Joseph because he was Jacob's favorite, for his coat of many colors and his dream about them which eventually came true
-Reuben alone tried to stop them, unsuccessfully
-We must always remember that favor and wisdom come from God, through grace, prayer, etc.
-Joseph, rejected by his own, became a great leader
Genesis 37:3-4 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Genesis 37:11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Genesis 37:18-20 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Genesis 39:2-4 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
Acts 7:11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
- All of this is familiar history to the Jewish leaders Stephen was addressing
-The road through Egypt is
- Sell Joseph into Egypt
- Make him powerful, over especially the food supply
-Forewarn of a great dearth
-Preparation for famine, storage of food
-Bring a dearth over the entire region, widespread
-Bring Jacob and his sons into Egypt
-Make Israel grow
-Enslave them 400 years to the Egyptians
-Raise up Moses as a deliverer
-Do signs and wonders before Pharaoh
-Harden Pharaoh's heart to prevent Israel from leaving
-Judgments upon Egypt's gods to force their hand, (their own doing)
-The Passover
-The Exodus
-Protection for Israel throughout
Genesis 41:54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Acts 7:12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
-An old man would be unwise to go on hearing of some food that far away, risking a certain desert death
Genesis 42:2-3 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
Acts 7:13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
-The first time Joseph was not recognized in face or voice...it had been too long, and not the time yet.
-Starting at the second time, he still wasn't recognized, and had to reveal to them who he was
Genesis 42:7-8 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
Genesis 45:1-4 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Acts 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
- This is a classic example of a "contradiction in the Bible"! Can you answer it?
- Three times in the Old Testament, the number is recorded as seventy (three score and ten)
- Did Luke follow the spurious LXX?
- Stephen was "full of the Holy Ghost" and was seen as having the "face of an angel". Therefore, how could me make a mistake?
- In the passage in Genesis (chapter 46, verse 27), neither Jacob's wife Rachel (see Genesis chapter 35, verse 19) nor any of his concubines are included in the calculations, arriving at the "seventy" number.
- Despite the mention of Jacob's "daughters and his sons daughters" (Genesis 46, verse 7), it seems that the only daughter included in the calculation, arriving at the number "seventy" was Dinah (Genesis chapter 46, verse 15), and the only granddaughter mentioned was Serah (Genesis chapter 46, verse 17).
- The wives of Jacob’s sons are not included in the seventy (46:26).
- Finally, whereas only two descendants of Joseph are mentioned in Genesis 46 in the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, in the Septuagint, Joseph’s descendants are calculated as being nine.
- So, there is no error and no reason to appeal to the Septuagint (LXX), which no one in the Bible used and the English translators ignored
Genesis 46:15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis 46:17 And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
Genesis 46:26-27 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six; And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Deuteronomy 10:22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Acts 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Genesis 49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Exodus 1:6-8 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Acts 7:16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
-Again, this verse is a perfect example of what unbelievers and conservative scholars call a "contradiction"
-Good for us, it is not. We are never to use "scientific and philosophical standards" of men (scholars)to judge whether the Bible is true on any verse, nor did those reading and believing it in the Bible itself
-IOW, it is not our job to "correct", "criticize" or "restore" the book, just to read and to believe it. It is not even our job to FULLY understand every passage, as we cannot.
-Abraham bought the sepulchre from the sons of Emmor, who gave birth to Shechem and other children.
-Ephron is a Hittite and dwells with the children of Heth (Gen. 23: 10)
-The field Jacob buys has nothing to do with any intention of anybody burying anybody in, nor did he intend to, according to the verses
Abraham bought a sepulchre from the sons of Emmor, who gave birth to Shechem and other children. .
Genesis 33:18-19 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 23:17-18 And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 49:32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
Acts 7:17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
-Being fruitful and multiplying is a command to all, and Israel was blessed for doing it
-The time of the promise was the deliverance from the four hundred years of bondage in Egypt
Exodus 1:10-12 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Exodus 1:15-20 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Exodus 1:7
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Genesis 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Acts 7:18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
-This person for sure would have known OF Joseph and would have known all ABOUT Joseph
-They simply did not know him personally, and did not care who he or who his people were
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
Acts 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
-This entire scenario was the epitome of Joseph's life, now lived out in the whole nation: "But God was with him"...
Acts 7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
-There was a deliberate attempt to destroy the Deliverer of Israel of their bondage by the enemy
-God thwarted the attempt
Exodus 2:1-2 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Acts 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
-This is both God's sense of humor and the ultimate irony.
-Pharaoh's own daughter raised his future Israelite conqueror
Exodus 2:5-10 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
-Moses did not consider himself mighty in words...but wrote the Torah
-Moses did not consider himself mighty in words...so God gave him Aaron Exodus 4:10-14 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
-Living thirty five plus years in Egypt, is why he was "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians"
-"it came into his heart".....from God
Exodus 2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.Acts 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
-It is as though Stephen is reading the books of Genesis and Exodus directly to them
-Moses was just like us; hateful of injustice
Exodus 2:11-12 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Acts 7:25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
-Moses idea of the deliverance was an uprising and overthrow
-After forty years, he himself still did not understand how they would come out
-This is works versus grace through faith personified
-God's idea was for He Himself to simply do it.
Acts 7:26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
-Moses thought no one saw or cared what he did to the Egyptian
-"Set them at one" simply means to reconcile, agree and be at peace; it does not mean to eliminate one to set two back to one!
-When it was his own beaten by his own, Moses tried to make peace. When it was his own beaten by an Egyptian, he decided to exact revenge and justice his way.
Exodus 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
Acts 7:27-28 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
-Only certain, important highlights and facts are retold by Stephen, which is specifically what they need to hear from their past
-OOPS! Busted!
-Even the people at this time did not accept Moses as a leader...who became one of the greatest ones in their history
-This shows that if God is with you, great. He will make you a great godly leader and ensure the people He wants to follow you, do so. If not, men do not make people godly leaders, just leaders who they want to follow
-Therefore, like Joseph, Moses likewise was rejected by his own people and yet became a great leader in Israel
Exodus 2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Acts 7:29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
-Again, part of God's timing and plan
-God took His time preparing Moses for this important role, miles apart from the Israelites.
-Perhaps because, if not, he would have become a murmurer himself, just like them Acts 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
-Forty is the number of testing, trials
-Forty days on the mountain
-Spies sent by Moses for forty days
-An entire Bible study can be done on just the number forty, by itself
Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Acts 7:31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
-God is jealous for His people Israel, and for us
-God is judgment in a moment and for forever for His enemies, the unbelievers
Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
Hebrews 12:28-29 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.
Acts 7:32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
-This is one of God's most important names, identities, separating Himself from all other false gods, just like the title I AM
-No one could bear to look upon God Himself in their flesh
-The voice of the LORD, I AM, consuming flame of fire, jealous God, the angel of the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who sees, hears, delivers.
Acts 7:33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
-The only way it can be Holy is that God is there
-Whether God is there in Spirit or in the Flesh, it is Holy Ground
Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Joshua 5:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Acts 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
-God had heard it for four hundred years straight, but it was not the time, not the season
-The time of the "fullness of the sins of the Amorites" had not come yet, either
-God has arrived personally to deliver them
-Moses has a new mission and purpose
Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Acts 7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
-"This same Moses".......is ironic
-Ruler, not a judge. Ruler and a deliverer, not a judge-not yet
Acts 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
-Signs and wonders again for Jews, past and then in Stephen's days
-These were signs and wonders while both in Egypt (represents the world) and in the wilderness (represents trials, tests in the world)
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
-This, that was once represented to you by Moses, is Jesus (like unto me)
-They heard from Jesus, but rejected Him
-Peter said the same thing in Acts 3
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
John 4:25-26
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
Matthew 17:5
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Acts 7:38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
-This is that same Jesus, there all of the time
-Jesus spoke to Moses, through angels
Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Acts 7:39
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
-No Jew was to ever return back into Egypt for any reason, in any way
-No Christian is to ever go back into the world for any reason, in any way
Acts 7:40
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
-Egypt is idolatry, idols, false gods to worship
-Idolatry is Israel's number one sin throughout Scripture
-Some things never change
Isaiah 44:13-20
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god. They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Acts 7:41
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
-This is what we call RELIGION
-Reject the true God
-Make a false god
-Sacrifice to that false god
-Rejoice in your own works
-God's plan for them and us and all of mankind was always GRACE
-Believe and accept God
-Reject all false gods and all religions
-Recognize He alone is the sacrifice for your sins
-Rejoice in Him and His Works
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
-Astrology, stargazers, diviners, magicians, prognosticators, all part of the same paganism enjoyed today as then.
-Joseph encountered them, as did Moses, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednigo
Genesis 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
Exodus 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
Isaiah 47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
-Idolatry was the main purpose for Israel's judgments, always
-They had one task: WORSHIP GOD with all of their heart, soul, mind. That was it.
-These images were not given from God; they decided on their own to make and worship them
-Today, the star of Remphan is the "Star of David", something God never told them to make
(Amos 5:26) But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
THE STAR OF REMPHAN
-This star was the sign/symbol of Moloch
-This is the result of "turning their hearts back into Egypt"............adopting their six pointed star
-This symbol is made of six triangles, originally representing "The Land of the Spirits"
-Called by Jews the Star of David
-Also later called "the seal of Solomon"
-Ancient Egypt had it
-Ancient Babylon had it
-Rome called it Saturn (planetary name for satan)
-On the popes' fish god hat
-Was a mark of shame on Jews by Hitler
-This was then brought to the Knesset, as the symbol of Zionism
-It is incorporated into the symbol for the Israeli version of the Red Cross
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Acts 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
-The tabernacle was a shadow of things to come, which was its witness
-Moses had to mediate the fashion of the tabernacle to them, as only he knew it.
Exodus 25:40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
-If your Bible does not read "JESUS" here, it is in error.
-The word means "JESUS", not "JOSHUA".
-The English translation is the word JOSHUA from the GREEK JOSHUA!
-The Hebrew to the Greek is two different words for Jesus and Joshua
-You can do the translations on the web on numerous translational web sites
-God's sovereignty is what gave them the Promised Land, not their efforts
Leviticus 26:7-8 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Leviticus 26:36-39 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Acts 7:46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
-David wanted to build God a house; God said no, Solomon would do that
-David was a man of war; Solomon of peace
1 Chronicles 17:1-4 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains. Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
2 Samuel 7:1-2 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
2 Samuel 7:12-13 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Acts 7:47
But Solomon built him an house.
-David found the favor, and did not get to build it.
-Solomon sinned profusely, and got to build it-SOVEREIGN GRACE
-David was a man after God's own heart. Despite his faults
-Solomon was more worldly, but God is sovereign
1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
Acts 7:48-49 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
-He said it because the prophet said it. The prophet said it because they believed God could live in a house they made
-In other words, their God was too small!
Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Isaiah 66:8
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
2 Chronicles 2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Acts 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
-Since God made the Universe and is bigger than it, and His feet rest upon the earth, how could man build a house God could fit into?
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
-Both barrels, direct hit, fatal shots each
-"Their fathers" were not the believers, the real patriarchs, the followers of God. Their fathers were of a different father
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
-Apparently they could not even name any who did not kill prophets, since Stephen asked and they simply answered him with stones
-For prophesying of the Messiah, the suffering Messiah-and they were slain
-The sins of the fathers
Matthew 23:23-36 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
THE SINS OF YOUR FATHERS
(Exodus 20:5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
(Numbers 14:18) The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
(Deuteronomy 5:9) Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
(Ezekiel 18:20) The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
-Stephen was rebuking them because of the actions of their fathers, but..
-Not because of their heritage, but because they were indeed continuing the legacy, forward to that day
-They were as responsible as their fathers were, because they were practicing the exact same thing-rejection of the LORD Jesus Christ and His prophets
Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
-Disposition: The disposal; alienation; distribution; a giving away or giving over to another;
-National repentance by one man, for the nation and then rejected by the nation!
-So the very last thing Stephen gets to tell them before they stone him is, "You had the Law and did not keep it!", the very thing they cherished more than God Himself, their laws
DISPOSITION, n. [L.]
-The act of disposing, or state of being disposed.
-Manner in which things or the parts of a complex body are placed or arranged; order; method; distribution; arrangement. We speak of the disposition of the infantry and cavalry of an army; the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice, of the parts of a discourse, or of the figures in painting.
-Natural fitness or tendency. The refrangibility of the rays of light is their disposition to be refracted. So we say, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upwards; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
-Temper or natural constitution of the mind; as an amiable or an irritable disposition.
-Inclination; propensity; the temper or frame of mind, as directed to particular objects. We speak of the disposition of a person to undertake a particular work; the dispositions of men towards each other; a disposition friendly to any design.
-Disposal; alienation; distribution; a giving away or giving over to another; as, he has made disposition of his effects; he has satisfied his friends by the judicious disposition of his property.
Galatians 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Acts 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
-Gnashing the teeth is an extreme amount of anger
-To date, many of them are still gnashing their teeth, in addition to weeping
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
BRUXISM: GNASHING OF TEETH
Teeth grinding (bruxism) is involuntary clenching, grinding and gnashing of the teeth. It is thought that about half of the population bruxes from time to time, while around five per cent are habitual and forceful tooth grinders. It generally happens during sleep, but some people experience it when they are awake.
Bruxism can be a physical expression of stress; for example, susceptible people may tend to grind their teeth when they are angry, concentrating hard on a particular task or feeling anxious.
Matthew 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
-His reaction is not fear, with them gnashing and closing in
-This is not the first death of a member of "The Way" by these men's hands
-He was "full of the Holy Ghost (did not speak in tongues, heal, do signs and wonders), and he already had the Holy Ghost from prior to this
-Jesus is standing, not sitting..
Acts 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
-A vision of where he is about to be in seconds
-It does not say they or anyone else nearby saw this; this is for him and him alone
Acts 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
-They did not want to hear about Heaven, the Son of Man who they knew and had killed, or God on His Throne so badly they put their hands to their ears
-The leaders of God's chosen people acted exactly like atheists do today
Acts 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
-"Out of the city, for he is a blasphemer!"
-Being taken out of the city was for lepers, blasphemers, accursed ones sentenced to death for crimes against God and Israel
-They gave Saul their coats because, like a school yard fight or street brawl, people always say, "Hold my coat, will ya please?" because they have physical business to do
Leviticus 24:23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
1 Kings 21:13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
-They probably could not silence him fast enough!
-It does not record a trial, or charges read-they heard his testimony and that was it
Acts 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
-The epitome of Christ-likeness-forgiveness for them killing him
-IT was not their only sin, just the only one against him
-God called Abraham and made everlasting, eternal promises based upon
Himself only
-No other nation in Scripture is so tiny and yet so powerful
-No other nation in Scripture is so tiny and yet so influential, daily in the news
now
-No other nation in Scripture is so tiny and, yet, so much Scripture is written
about it, especially prophecy from the past, to now, prophecy for the future, most
fulfilled, with more to come
-No other nation on earth could ever have been, is or could be called the
barometer of history, current events in the world like Israel, this tiny land
-No other nation in Scripture is so tiny and yet so much of the book of
Revelation will be about it, from chapter four to chapter twenty two
-No other nation in Scripture is so tiny and yet no other nation will Jesus Christ
come to save at His Second Coming to earth at the end of Revelation, at a time
when, in the human realm, she is totally surrounded, outnumbered, overwhelmed
and about to be "once and forever destroyed", which will never happen
-On earth, there are two groups of people among all nations: Jews and Gentiles.
That is it.
-God gave us the Law through them
-God gave them and us the Messiah, the LORD Jesus Christ, through them
-God used them a a sword to remove the pagans, abominable people from His
land He promised to them forever
-Whenever they sinned, He punished, disciplined, judged them
-God gave them land He used them to clear of their enemies and God's
enemies
-His covenants, laws, promises, covenants, preservation and protection are
forever, eternal, everlasting towards them
-He made them completely unique in blessings from the land, from their hands,
from the wombs, from the flocks and herds, with the military
-He made them completely unique in being the only nation He calls His children on earth
-He uniquely calls Israel a nation with His own Name, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Israel
-He calls Himself their Father, calling them His children, the children of
Israel
-He made them so unique in that they prove His existence and the enemy knows
this and has tried and failed to destroy them numerous times and always
will
-God has scattered them, destroyed them, sent them into captivity and slavery,
then regathered them back in a miracle numerous times, given them back their
land, had them rebuild their city, their temple, several times
-This despite their idolatry, their abominations like the enemies around them,
burning sacrifices in the high places, rejecting Him, ignoring Him, snubbing their
noses at Him
-He remained faithful at all times, no matter their sin
-No other nation has lost their entire language for centuries and then revived it,
resurrected it, regained it, Ancient Hebrew. All languages devolve, without
exception, except Israel's language, Hebrew. It was lost. Today it is being
resurrected in Israel
-He used that nation to bring the Messiah forth, the LORD Jesus Christ
-He used their scribes and prophets to give us the Word of God, copy it, preserve
it throughout all of the ages
-He has now, in these last days, shown the world His nation and fulfilled so
many prophecies through them by miraculously bringing them home one last
time, preserved and protected them, given them back their capital city of
Jerusalem, many victories over absolutely impossible enemies, under impossible
odds, all united with only one purpose-DESTROY ISRAEL FROM THE EARTH
!
-There is not one other nation, people on earth which has been more hated,
persecuted, scattered, gone into captivity than Israel and, yet, she is still there,
FOREVER. Can your nation say this?
-Now, before we go all self-righteous over this, remember Israel also shows us God's Grace, which is also extended differently, by that same gracious God to us Gentiles through Jesus Christ
Zechariah 2:7-10
Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.
(Exodus 4:22 [AKJV/PCE])
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
(Exodus 5:3 [AKJV/PCE])
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Numbers 33:51-53
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
God own the earth and gave the land to Israel. It is now their land, and He, using Israel, removed His enemies the idolaters, from that land. No one else owns the earth and can decide who gets what land but God. Oh, and at the Cross, Jesus purchased the earth back from the temporary possession given to the enemy by Adam and Eve; He simply has the title deed and is waiting to exercise that deed. Ultimately, God owns it all and will take it back.
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, 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. These are the words
which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exodus 50:10-12
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know
all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were
hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Numbers 36:2
And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance
by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give
the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
Isaiah 1:25-27
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Isaiah 2:1-3
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 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. 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.
Despite all that God had against Israel for her sins, spoken of in Isaiah, the prophets, and elsewhere, He kept saying that he wanted to extend grace and mercy to them:
Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:4
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 14:27
For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
JEREMIAH 3:
Jeremiah 3:3-11
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
THE LAND OF ISRAEL
The Word of God calls the land Israel, as in "the land of Israel" thirty one times, forever because of God and His covenant with them, telling them He would give, He did give that land to them, in an everlasting, one-sided covenant He made with them through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel).
THE ORIGINAL LAND
Numbers 34:1-12
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea, and shall go on to Hazaraddar, and pass on to Azmon: And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border. And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham: And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward: And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
2 Samuel 8:3-6
David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates. And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots. And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
(Genesis 13:14-15 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
(Genesis 15:5 [AKJV/PCE])
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
(Genesis 17:19-21 [AKJV/PCE])
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
(Genesis 24:7 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
(Genesis 48:3-4 [AKJV/PCE])
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
1 Samuel 9:16 ([KJV])
To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain overmy people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
(Exodus 6:4 [AKJV/PCE]) And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Jeremiah 30:3 ([KJV])
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Ezekiel 13:9-10 ([KJV])
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
Ezekiel 28:25
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
Ezekiel 28:32 Upon the land of my people (which is Israel) shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
2 Kings 5:2
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
2 Kings 5:4
And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
2 Kings 6:23
And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.
1 Chronicles 13:2
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
1 Chronicles 22:2
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles 30:25
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
2 Chronicles 34:7
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 7:2
Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 11:17
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:19
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 12:22
Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
Ezekiel 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Ezekiel 20:38
And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:42
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Ezekiel 21:3
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel 25:3
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
Ezekiel 25:6
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
Ezekiel 27:17
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Ezekiel 36:6
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 38:18
And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
Ezekiel 38:19
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Ezekiel 40:2
In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.
Ezekiel 47:18
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
Matthew 2:20-21
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
THE ORIGIN OF ISRAEL: A PERSONAL PROPHECY TP A MAN AND A NATION
(Genesis 12:1-3 [KJV])
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
-Abram was renamed by God Abraham
-Abraham begat Isaac
-Isaac begat Jacob, later renamed by God Israel
-Thus, Israel is both a people and a land to this day
(Romans 9:7 [KJV])
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
(Hebrews 11:17 [KJV])
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
GOD'S PURPOSE FOR ISRAEL
Isaiah 43:10
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.
Israel is a witness for God. Are there 144,000 witnesses for Jesus in Israel today? No. Most in Israel are atheists or indifferent. It is their very existence that makes them witnesses for God and His very existence, and that is why the enemy and their earthly enemies want Israel completely gone, once and for all.
-Israel became a great nation. blessed of God with riches to bless all other nations
-Israel gave us God's Word, inspired by God to write, record, copy, preserve it
-Israel gave us the Messiah, the LORD Jesus Christ of the tribe of Jewish Judah
Isaiah 9:6-8
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his
government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon
his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
-Israel has been called, taken out of nations, used by God to draw His enemies out to try (and fail) to destroy her, so that he can show Himself their God and Savior by destroying the pagan nations, especially under Joshua to establish their land he gave them ub Gus promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel)
(Leviticus 18:24-25 [KJV])
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
It must be understood that the land was given to ISRAEL and no one else, and God cast out using Israel, using a lure, to destroy them for their abominations and gave Israel their land He promised to Abraham, Isaac, Israel (Jacob).
God even warned Israel herself not to do the abominable things that the inhabitants were doing when God cast the nations out for Israel or they also would be judged. They were, many times. But Israel herself was always preserved as a remnant and restored to her land, today one last time.
THE GOD OF ISRAEL
Outside of other ways to say it, such as "The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob", as that is recorded God calls Himself "The God of Israel" over 200 times in His Word, from Exodus to Malachi and in Matthew 15:31. No other nation group is called that. Now add in "the God of Abraham", "the God of Jacob", the God of Isaac", "My people Israel" and more and you have undeniable proof that God is their God and Israel is His people.
Isaiah 37:4
As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 54:5
For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer
the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not
depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the
LORD that hath mercy on thee.
THE "PALESTINIAN" PROBLEM TODAY
-"Palestinian"............derogatory word used originally on Jews, Israel as an insult. Comes from the word "Philistine"
-The "Palestinians" and the P.L.O. ("Palestinian Liberation Organization")
THEN:
In 130-135 A.D., after Rome destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., Rome rebuilt the city as
a pagan city with a temple, a monument to Jupiter, one of their gods, on the
Temple Mount. The Jews had an uprising, a rebellion for about five years and
about 500,000 of the Jews were killed, thousands of the remnant, the the rest,
were sold into slavery, and in anger, the Romans renamed Israel "Syria
Palestina" after their sworn enemy the Philistines. Everyone living there from
then on were called "Palestinians". Just because they lived there. They are not
"Palestinians" at all. They are simply people from among all of the enemy
nations surrounding them, then as now.
TISHA B'AV, THE NINTH OF AV
Tisha B'Av, the 9th day of the month of Av
-That exact day, Babylon destroyed the temple and other buildings by fire,etc. in (586 B.C)
- About 100,000 Jews were killed during the invasion and destruction.
2 Kings 25:8-10
And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. (The Jewish calendar says this is the ninth of Av that year)
- It is the exact day also that the Temple in 70 A.D. was destroyed in Jerusalem by the Romans, under General Titus (later a Caesar) and his army. under Caesar Vespasian. That is both Temples Destroyed, years apart, same day, a day of sadness still mourned today, a fasting day for the rabbis
- Bar Kokhba Revolt Defeat (135 A.D.), which was a Jewish rebellion against Roman rule which was led by Simon Bar Kokhba for the sake of gaining Israel's independence from Rome
-Julius Caesar
- Augustus: Rome’s First Emperor Augustus, Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew, Rome’s first emperor after defeating Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
- Tiberius: Tiberius succeeded Augustus in 14 A.D.
- Caligula: The Mad Emperor
- Claudius: The Scholar
- Nero: The Performer Who Watched Rome Burn
Nero, who ruled from 54 A.D. to 68 A.D. The Persecutor and Burner Christians
- Galba, Otho, Vitellius ,Vespasian, a former general: The Year of the Four Emperors
- Titus: Vespasian's son, The Conqueror of Jerusalem
- Domitian: The Paranoid Tyrant Domitian, Titus’s younger brother, ruled Rome with an iron fist from 81 CE to 96 CE. until his assassination in 96 A.D.
-That same day in 1492, King Ferdinand decided that all Spanish Jews would be expelled from Spain because they were "Enemies to Christians", "A danger to Christianity". God said they were, FOR OUR SAKES, and that leaves no excuse for ANY Christian or "Christian" top hate Israel and the Jews. never did, never will.
Romans 11:28
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
- On August 3rd that same year, Columbus left Spain for the Americas, which he had heard of but which were as yet undiscovered. They WERE JEWISH, funded by JEWS. and we are in American because of and thanks to them
- That Edit was issued on March 31, 1492 and the King gave the Jews until July 31 of that year to get out of Spain completely—that day was also Tisha B’Av. 150,000 had to leave.
- This exact day again was they day of the start of World War I in 1914, on Tisha B’Av. This war did a lot of damage to European Jews via destruction, death, displacement
Forward to WWII: The British had a volunteer "Palestinian Brigade" and who
was in it? Jews. The British also created a "Palestinian Symphony Orchestra",
all Jews, there was also a "Palestinian Post", a Jewish Newspaper.
The Arabs there and nearby at that time refused to be called "Palestinians" and
their leaders all over Europe would proclaim, "We are not Palestinians! There
was never a Palestinian people, there was no nation which was called Palestine,
there was never a Palestinian language, a Palestinian culture, a Palestinian
government" See how they know that this is not the name of Israel or of
themselves?
-That word name was coined by recently recoined Yasser Arafat's father, as a swipe at Israel
-"Palestinians".........are actually Arabians, Jordanians, Egyptians, Iranians, Iraquis, Sudanese, Syrians, Libyans, Yemenis, etc.-occupiers of Israel's land
-"Hamas"................terrorist organization, confused purposely and purposefully by mass media with normal residents of that area in the Gaza strip.
-Islam....a barbaric, warrior cult, characterized by absolute submission to Shariah law, wherein any violation can be punishable by death, beheadings, hangings, burnings, hands, limbs cut off, etc.
-"Taquiyya".................the right to lie for "Allah" (satan) to further the cause of Islam
-"Jihad"...............wipe out all infidels, but especially Jews, and take over the world for "Allah" (satan).
-Jacob (Israel).. people tied to the land God gave them.... about ten to fifty times the size larger than what they were given by God, not the UN miniature they reside in today
-Israel..........a land surrounded by her enemies who occupy dozens times more land (much of which is Israel's, given by God Himself)
-"Kindergarten" through high "Schools" are merely government indoctrination centers, nationwide, who take your child or children into a building you cannot enter without their permission, and can ONLY tell YOUR children hatever they decide you can with their leadership who indoctrinate YOUR children
-College...............a place where you leave your brain at the door, remain mentally like a ten years old, learn what to think (whatever they tell you), not learn HOW to think, only what to say, only what to read, only what to answer on tests, only what to write on essays, in order to get that sheepskin (no brain needed, just memorize and regurgitate the garbage back)
-The Hebrew scribes were tasked with copying the Scriptures in a very faithful, laborious process, doing it so well that we today in English have it perfectly translated in the Old Testament into English, in our King James Bible
THE CAPTIVITIES OF ISRAEL
Assyrian captivity (2 Kings 17:6):
2 Kings 18:11:
2 Chronicles 30:1 (later, after this)
2 Chronicles 30:6 (later, after this)-both Israel and Judah!
So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
Ezekiel 37:19
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL: ROMANS 11
These last days are rife, filled with hatred for God's people Israel in every corner. It is quickly growing in intensity daily, among all peoples on earth, including Christians and "Christians".
The lies, the fake, false arguments that the haters make are (as of now, not tomorrow)
- "They killed Jesus!"
- "God is done with them, for good, forever!"
- "The church officially replaced them 2,000 years ago!"
THE FOLLY OF BLAMING JEWS, ISRAEL
The haters love to blame the Jews and Israel for killing Jesus, when the Word of God clearly shows cover to cover that it is our sin that killed Jesus, and in fact it was the Romans who invented and crucified Jesus, not the Jews, as they had no authority any longer because "The scepter departed from Judah" (the right to execute a prisoner)
Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
John 8:1-11
Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
-Unlikely enemies are now united, such as atheopathic, Communist countries like Russia and China, uniting with Islamic republics
-"Now add the popes, and even many in the United States, because of the invasions of muslims since the terrorist attack of September 11
-Many false "peace" agreements where Israel gives land for "peace", with the U.S. "brokering, negotiating" them, with Iran in 2026 with Iran that fell apart-several times!
GOD WILL ALWAYS HAVE ISRAEL: ROMANS 11
(Romans 11:1 [KJV])
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.
-Today, Christians, "Christians", famous televangelists, "Christian" authors, pastors of mega churches, many Americans, Europeans and most of the world thinks that God has abandoned Israel for good, despite seeing them in their land once again, recapturing and regaining their capital, God's Holy city of Jerusalem and them being attacked on all sides, in fulfillment of the Scriptures, after thousands of years of exile, being scattered all over the world.
-One cannot get any clearer than God saying HE is not done with the Jews and the nation of Israel
-Now the following entire chapter, in the context of the rest of the Word of God, clarifies this all very succinctly
-There was, is and always will be a remnant of Jews in and out of ISrael who folow God, like in Elijah's day, so today.
(Romans 11:2-3 [KJV])
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
-Repeated, in case one is not paying attention to Him in the first verse with Elijah the prophet as the example
-Has Israel sinned and walked away from God? Of course!
-So have we when we sinned and broken fellowship with God until we confess and repent:
1 John 1:8-9
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
-Has God put her into captivity many times in the borders of her enemy, for many years, as punishment for their sins? Of course!
-Has God always been faithful to Israel? Of course!
-Now think about yourself and God and replace Israel with your name on each of these questions
-Now, has God abandoned YOU? Same answer to both questions
-They digged down the altars because they were earthen and not made by masons, carpenters, etc. so as to not be like the pagans making towers to get to heaven, like the tower of Babel
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
(Hebrews 13:5 [KJV])
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
(Romans 11:4 [KJV])
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
-As was said earlier, there was always, is still today a remnant and always will be a remnant until, the LORD returns
-A remnant will make it through the Great Tribulation as well, to enter into the Millennial Kingdom of the LORD Jesus Christ
(Romans 11:5 [KJV])
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
-This is the same exact grace that saves us then as now
-So then, if that grace today is not extended to Israel today, as in Paul's day and before, we are also not saved by that grace and are lost in our sins, bound for hell!
-Same God in Scripture, same grace, same grace by faith available to them as it is to us, same salvation for a nation in a remnant and extended to us Gentiles in the Church, now and forever
(Romans 11:6 [KJV])
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
-It was for them, as well as us, always by grace through faith, then, now and forever
-Grace and works are exact, polar opposites
-We obey God because we love Him.
- We love Him because He first loved us who are unlovable
(Romans 11:7 [KJV])
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
-There ya go. This is what ushered in the church age, called the "times of the Gentiles"
-What did this election obtain? Eternal life through the Messiah
-God chooses us ALL for salvation, but not all will be saved-both GENTILE AND JEW
-ALL names will be written in the Lamb's book of life, but some will be blotted out of that same book
(Revelation 3:5 [KJV])
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
(Romans 11:8 [KJV])
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
-It is not complicated. To usher in the church age, God temporarily shelved them (Romans 1:16, to the Jew first and also the Greek (Gentile)
-God allows anyone else also to be blinded and deaf to the Gospel because we want to be and reject it, stopping our ears
-The choice is our to see and hear and then God gives us what we want if we choose it: blindness and deafness or salvation by grace through faith-our choice
(Romans 11:9-10 [KJV])
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
-Paul is quoting David in Psalms 69:22-23, below
(Psalms 69:22-23 [KJV])
Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
(Romans 11:11 [KJV])
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
-We cannot ever fully understand the Word of God from a Jewish perspective, not being Jews ourselves
-A Messianic Jew then can understand it like we cannot, being their Scriptures, knowing their ancestry, culture, jeritage, practices more personal to them than do we Gentiles
-This is what the "to the Jew first and also to the Greek" after them means in Romans 1:16, in addition to the Messiah, the LORD Jesus came for Israel first, then the focus was turned over to the Gentiles
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
-That is all, a blindness until the fullness of the Gentiles, that last person get saved and God returns His total focus on Israel in the Great Tribulation. He said so.
-No Gentiles in great numbers ever came willingly to Israel in the Old Testament, outside of the book of Ruth with Naomi, et al
-That Gospel to us Gentiles in the church is a Jewish Gospel, from the Jews, written in a Jewish book about their Jewish Messiah the LORD Jesus Christ
-After they mostly rejected Jesus, in Acts, on the day of Pentecost, after until the end of the church age, it was turned over to the Gentiles
NO, BEING A CHRISTIAN DOES NOT MAKE US JEWISH
It makes us "Jew-ISH", because our origin of our Bible and our Messiah was out of Israel, out of the Jews. So thank a Jew for both.
However, that never stops cults. The "Jewish Roots Movement" is an attempt to return Christians to a lie, to legalism, to Judaism, as Judaizers, and not even being Jews, but lowly Gentiles, as is Seventh Day Adventism, etc. There is no justification from God's Word and Paul told Peter this. We are not to keep the Law but obey the LORD Jesus Christ. Not that the law was bad, but it di not save a single soul. Should we love our neighbor? Yes. Should we get circumcised to be saved? No. Should we keep the Sabbath to be saved? No. We are not Jews, so do not have a Sabbath day, but rather Jesus is our Sabbath. He LORD of the Sabbath.
To understand this, the entire book of the Acts of the Apostles must be understood as only the transitional book between Israel and the church, which is obvious from reading it, not reading into it, as it teaches a transition from the nation and people of Israel of the Old Testament to the church in the New Testament, from Jew to Gentile, from Peter the apostle to the Jews, to Paul the apostle to the Gentiles. This misunderstanding and that of Galatians 2:1-21, Romans 11:1-36 and in other epistles leads to the false teaching of trying to keep the law to be saved, to "replacement theology" and other rank, smelly heresies.
Galatians 6:13-16
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
THE ISRAEL OF GOD!
1 Corinthians 7:18
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
Galatians 2:3
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians 5:2
Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:3
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Acts 15:1
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Acts 16:3
Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
Acts 15:24
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
Colossians 2:11
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:
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.
Romans 4:11
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, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Galatians 2:2
And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Paul rebuked Peter for this:
Galatians 4:11
But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
Galatians 4:14
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
-We are not Jews, and therefore, being already saved by grace through faith, are not required to keep t he law, except for order in the family, civility, as our testimony by examining ourselves, our witness to the word of our Christianity, and not a legalistic keeping of their laws
-There were ceremonial laws, moral laws, animal keeping and breeding laws, sacrificial laws for the altar to cover (not remove) sins, dietary laws, etc.
-We keep the Ten commandments because we do not want to lie, murder, be idolaters, and to simply "love thy neighbor as thy love thyself", because God knows we love ourself.
Ephesians 5:29
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
-We love our neighbor as we love ourselves because we love ourselves.
ALSO TO THE GENTILES
(Acts 11:18 [KJV])
When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
(Acts 13:46 [KJV])
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
(Acts 14:27 [KJV])
And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
(Acts 18:6 [KJV])
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
(Acts 22:21 [KJV])
And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
(Acts 26:20 [KJV])
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
(Acts 26:23 [KJV])
That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
(Acts 28:28 [KJV])
Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
(Romans 11:12 [KJV])
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?
-Exactly like above, how a Messianic Jew now much more fully understands that Old Testament
(Romans 11:13-14 [KJV])
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
emulation
em·u·la·tionˌ em-yə-ˈlā-shən -yü-
1: ambition or endeavor to equal or excel others (as in achievement)
2 a: imitation
b : the use of or technique of using an emulator
3 obsolete : ambitious or envious rivalry
-Paul wanted Jews to get saved, any way they could, by being jealous of him preaching to the Gentiles, by him going into the synagogues to preach the Gospel as a Jew, while the may know he was called to be a preaacher and an aspostle to the Gentiles
-"some of them", knowing that not all would be, but a remnant ofthe remnant of Jews.
-These were his flash "my flesh"
(Romans 11:15 [KJV])
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
-Either it is love for the world and perishing like the world, or love for Jesus Christ and living as not of this world.
1 John 2:15-16
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(Romans 11:16 [KJV])
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
-This is in history in God's plan
-This was in Acts and is a principle for today to follow
-Jesus Christ is that firstfruit, we are that lump.
-A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, our reason to follow Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
-Roots of any plants determine the plant, how good it is, from the soil it lives in, the nutrients it takes into itself
(Romans 11:17 [KJV])
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
-This is the botanical definition of Romans 1:16 "to the Jew first, nd also to the Greek"
-Israel is the olive tree and we were graffed in when Paul said "we turn to the Gentiles
(Romans 11:18 [KJV])
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
-Yeah, do not act like, as Christians, we are so special, and are "replacing Israel". We are not.
-God chose you in a different way than how He chose Israel, but both are saved by grace through faith. God chose Israel to show His Glory through this nation, ans to bring the Messiah by whom both of us are saved, Jew and Gentile (Greek)
(Romans 11:19 [KJV])
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
-God had and has a plan, knowing all of this beforehand.
(Romans 11:20 [KJV])
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
-Exactly, and this section proves that the context of any verses determines the mean of that one verse
-Do not boast against the branches and DO fear God.
(Romans 11:21 [KJV])
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
-This means that, if you disobey God as saved, you do not lose your salvation, but you can lose your life.
1 Corinthians 11:24-30
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
-The communion is to be taken after we confess, pray, repent, and not before, coming to God with a clear conscience, knowing that it does not save us , but is in remembrance of the LORD's death until He comes"
-For disobedience, many are taken home early
-Lie continuing in sin as though unsaved
(Romans 11:22 [KJV])
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be .
-A warning to us then that we walk worthy of being called a Christian, as the world is watching and God is not interested in fleshly people who have a bad testimony and witness with their lives
-Were they ever saved? If they live a long life like this, in this state, no.
Matthew 7:16-23
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
-This is speaking of "Christians" and how to discern if that is what they are, or are playing "church" with their lives.
(Romans 11:23 [KJV])
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
-This would be a believing Jew, formerly unbelieving, who was a "branch cut off"
(Romans 11:24 [KJV])
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
-We are wild olive branches, who were grafted in later
-They are natural branches, who were lopped off so we could be grated in, whi then got saved
(Romans 11:25 [KJV])
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.
-Blindness......in part..........temporarily, until? ... "the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.".
(Romans 11:26 [KJV])
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:
-Again, God has a future for Israel and is not done
-Jesus Christ, at the end of Revelation, will save Israel from her enemies, surrounding her on all sides to destroy her as a worldwide coalition
-Israel will then turn to the LORD and they will get saved, no more unrighteousness, spiritually declared righteous in t he Millennial Kingdom of the LORD Jesus Christ
(Romans 11:27 [KJV])
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
-God's covenant with thm is not temporary
-This is the same as all of the covenants He made with them
(Romans 11:28 [KJV])
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
-So this is the argument and doctrine: Jews then and now, who are not saved rejected and reject their Messiah, making them enemies then as now
-That said, "they are beloved for the fathers' sakes", meaning that God has a plan for them, everlasting, eternal, that means they are chosen by Him and have a future
(Romans 11:29 [KJV])
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
-Rejecting Israel as the above means one calls God a liar, saying He is done with them, when He said He is not
-Numbers 23:19 says that this is impossible
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
-So it is impossible for God to lie Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
(Romans 11:30-31 [KJV])
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
-When God is done with the church, after the Rapture, He will again torun His mercy upon Israel
(Romans 11:32 [KJV])
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
-We are all born in unbelief from the moment we are aware that we sin, at a certain age of our lives which varies
-God WANTS to have mercy upon all, the Jew and the Gentile
-It is extended like and outstretched arm, but after that, it is up to us to accept that mercy
Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:4
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Psalms 136:12
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
(Romans 11:33 [KJV])
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
-AMEN! Study His Word for a lifetime and, when we get to heven, we find that there was so much more to learn!
(Romans 11:34-35 [KJV])
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
-The answer (not implied, but revealed) to those two questions is "NO ONE!" and
not much needs to be added to that
-The only way to know God and His will in our lives is by the Holy Spirit guiding us through His Word in careful study, prayer, submitting to the Holy Ghost
(Romans 11:36 [KJV])
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
-And this is why He is the Alpha, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, right there
Isaiah 31:4
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
It must be clearly stated here and understood that the whole heresy of "Replacement Theology" where the church replaces Israel is very deadly and dangerous, like "Going from Augustine to Auschwitz" and has no place in Scripture, but is openly and very widely accepted in American churches today. This next holocaust in Revelation is due to this and we are on that road today.
-As Christians, we should know all, everything about Israel that God tells us
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
-Because of the lack of faith in the first century, God has now opened the door to
the Gentiles in this age, the church age, as it says here, "until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. ".
-When the focus returns to Israel after the Rapture, at the end of the church age, God will preserve Israel through the reign and rule of the enemy, the anti-Christ, until the LORD Jesus Christ returns and destroys the enemies of Israel, bringing Israel into the Millennial Kingdom
-It says all Israel will believe at that point, and then, as people not in glorified bodies, will have children and many generations for a thousand years, who may or may not obey God and, like the Old Testament, will be judged with death if they do not get saved. Remember, Jesus IS ON EARTH at this point in the Millennial Kongdom
-Israel is God's barometer, so that we know where we are in history, in prophetic fulfillment
-Israel is God's people, because He chose them because He loved/loves them
(Deuteronomy 23:5 [KJV])
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
-God will preserve, protect them against all enemies, forever, according to His promises
-God promised them land, a lot more than they occupy today, and it is currently surrounded by their sworn enemies, who cannot oust her ever again, nor destroy her, ever
-God promised them a great number, innumerable, of people
-God chose Isaac over Ishmael, sovereignly against His law
(Genesis 21:12 [KJV])
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
(Romans 9:7 [KJV])
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
(Hebrews 11:18 [KJV])
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
-God said Ishmael would also be a great nation, but that he, corporately, would serve Israel, that Israel would be over them, superior, Divinely protected, which has happened
-God chose Jacob over Esau, sovereignly against His law
(Romans 9:13 [KJV])
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
-God gave Israel a specific land, theirs forever, using them to oust the unbelievers out of it and establish a kingdom for them, one day soon ruled over by Him
-Israel alone was chosen by God Himself as the nation that the Messiah , the LORD Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, for all of mankind, Jew and Gentile, to be saved
-The Gospel itself was first preached at Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and then afterwards to the rest of the Gentile world, according to Matthew 28:19-20 and Romans 1:16, etc.
-Israel is the sole nation on earth which was conquered, scattered and returned, not just once, but several times, and every attempt to wipe her out has since failed and always will. No other nation has been persecuted as much, and many of her enemies literally no longer exist because of the Judgment God gave them for this
-So far in history, hundreds of prophecies concerning Israel have literally been fulfilled in large numbers to date, many more to go, and all will be.
-In the book of the Revelation, the focus after chapter three on earth is all Israel, her twelve tribes, making a peace covenant with the anti-Christ, then having it broken by him, then being persecuted for the last time, Jesus Christ Himself saving them before the anti-Christ can wipe them out.
-Outside of the obvious evidence of Creation (Romans 1:20), Israel, her very existence, is absolute and very clear proof of the existence of God, so this is precisely the reason that the god of this world is trying to get that world to turn, all of them, against her, to wipe her out. His ultimate failure will once again still show that our Sovereign God is over them, controlling all that goes on and protecting Israel from utter destruction
GOD CHOSE ISRAEL
(Deuteronomy 7:6-10 ([KJV])
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. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
(Revelation 13:4-8 ([KJV])
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
(Revelation 20:4 [AKJV/PCE])
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
(Hebrews 13:8 [AKJV/PCE])
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
(Malachi 3:6 [AKJV/PCE])
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
THE CALLING OF ABRAM, RENAMED BY GOD TO ABRAHAM
(Genesis 12:1-3 [AKJV/PCE])
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
At the time before the calling of Abraham to leave his country to become a great nation in a land (Canaan) God would give them, there was a one world language, mankind trying to form a one world government, with a one world religion, at the tower of Babel, made to reach heaven. God confounded the languages, scattering all, dividing into different areas of the world, all over the globe. God brings Israel into Egypt under the rule of Joseph, Jacob's son, and she goes into captivity 400 years, to be released after ten plagues Israel under Joshua conquers all of the land given to Israel, the land of their enemies.
(Genesis 13:14-15 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
(Genesis 15:5 [AKJV/PCE])
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
(Genesis 24:7 [AKJV/PCE])
¶ The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
THE PROPHECY OF EGYPTIAN CAPTIVITY
(Genesis 15:13 [AKJV/PCE])
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
ISAAC: CHILD OF PROMISE
(Genesis 17:19-21 [AKJV/PCE])
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
(Genesis 21:1-3 [AKJV/PCE])
And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
(Genesis 26:1-4 ([KJV])
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
(Genesis 26:23-24 ([KJV])
And he went up from thence to Beersheba. And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
ISRAEL: THE CUP OF TREMBLING
These for sure are the last days of the earth before the Rapture, before the Great Tribulation and before the Second Coming of the LORD Jesus Christ to reign on earth. The way to know this is to know and understand prophecy, using all verses in their context and never privately interpreting them. Add to that not listening to men, but reading God's Word and watch the activities in Israel and worldwide today.
Zechariah 14:2-5
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
- Second half of the Tribulation, Armageddon, all hell breaking loose on earth after the anti-Christ breaks the covenant of peace
- Jesus comes, lands on the Mount of Olives, Mt. Olivet outside of Jerusalem
- That mountain splits in half, north-south
- He destroys His enemies, the enemies of Israel
(Numbers 24:14 [KJV])
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
(Deuteronomy 4:30 [KJV])
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
(Deuteronomy 31:29 [KJV])
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
(Jeremiah 23:20 [KJV])
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
(Jeremiah 30:24 [KJV])
The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
(Ezekiel 38:16 [KJV])
And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
(Daniel 2:28 [KJV])
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
(Daniel 10:14 [KJV])
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
(Hosea 3:5 [KJV])
Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
(Zechariah 12:2-3 [AKJV/PCE])
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
(Zechariah 12:8-19
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. 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.
Today, in these last days, the amount of hatred for Jews in nations which once supported her, even America itself, is explosive and exploding more daily. Literally, all Israel, all that any Jew here or in Europe or any place on earth, has to do, is live, breathe and merely exist. Anything they say or do brings an instant, knee-jerk reflex action; a reaction with hatred and cursing words, literally wanting that Jew to die, be killed, even repeatedly saying and affirming one another that they should never have been born.
It is how we know that we are in the last days, because God said it would happen and that idea has been resurrected especially because Israel was placed by God back into their land one last time, and she has prospered; she has been blessed of God, starting in a big way with Israel's return to the land in November 1947 in the British Mandate, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, which "partitioned Palestine into two parts, one for Israel and one for the Arabs. So after that, her declaration of independence in May of 1948, caused the war against her that immediately ensued and she won:
When Israel declared its independence and again entered their land, they didn't attack the Arabs. They were given 13% of the land that had been promised to them, a narrow strip of land it, which was too small to even be defended. When the United Nations gave it to them they were immediately attacked by the regular armies of about five to seven cooperating, collaborating Arab nations with overwhelming numerical
superiority of fire power of tanks and planes, guns, rockets and bombs, etc. and the backing of many more nations. The Jews fought with farm tools against technology and won! Why? God did it for them.
This was 60,000 Israelis, all civilians in a six month war by a rag tag army that went against 80,000,000 Arabs, helped by more nations, including the British.
60,000 versus 80,000,000 AND THEY WON!!
Then the wars happened in 1967 and 1973 to retake Jerusalem, and the world trying to wipe Israel from the map ever since, with as many nations as can be gathered against her, eventually all of them. In fact, there is not a single map in a Muslim country textbook that includes Israel. To them, she does not exist, yet they want to destroy her (and will be suddenly, utterly destroyed by God her Protector) So it starts with a one world language confounded, the world divided, then Israel created, then Israel destroyed several times (i.e. the Assyrians, Babylonians, last under the Romans), then scattered worldwide, now in 1948 and today a nation of Israel re-gathered into her land, following soon by a one world language (presumably English) once again, with a one world religion, one world government once again, this time under the anti-Christ. However, this time, unknown to the world, Israel cannot be removed, nor ever will be, ever again, though they all will try. God has her back, as always, and all is going according to His Divine Plan and His Divine Will God said what would happen and it is all coming to pass.
(Romans 9:6-8 [AKJV/PCE])
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
-There is a spiritual Israel, today called Messianic Jews. These are the believing Israel, the spiritually saved, exactly like Isaac and ishmael, jacob and Esau
-There is also the blood line, a physical Israel, who are descendants by blood of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel)
-By reason of heritage, these are the people of Jacob (Israel), but not spiritually, just by birth, just in the flesh, just descendants, and yet still unbelieving, unless and until they get saved by believing their Gospel given to them and now to us (Romans 1:16)
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of
mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
-Through most of their history, there was a remnant which believed, and a majority which did not
-By the way, this is also true of the Gentiles, and today even in the church itself; most in America are actually practicing "Churchianity" and not true, Scriptural Christianity.
It must be known, said and observed directly, that today, in America and Europe, self-hating Jews with power and money are against Israel and America, to bring her down. They are influential, participatory, ever present. They are many times atheists, evolutionists, one world government promoters, not actual Old Testament following Jews who love Israel. The context of this verse is Isaac and Ishmael, child of promise (Isaac) and child of sinful flesh (Ishmael), child born of miracle (Isaac), child born of the the flesh by natural means (Ishmael), child to be through whom Israel and their Messiah would come (Isaac) versus child through whom wars against Israel and all who do not believe as they do would come (Ishmael) and that continues today even, making Israel hated, a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone.
Isaiah 53:1-6
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.
-"Our report" is Israel's Messianic prophecies which few then believed and, even now, few believe today
-To whom was it revealed? To Israel! Now? To the world through God's Word
-Jesus is a root out of a dry ground, an unbelieving nation of Israel who missed the Messianic message by and large, who was spirituall dead and under Roman rule, The Messiah had two comings, the first one dying for them that was God's plan fulfilled, as most people, even today, do not think of themselves as sinners in need of a Jewish or otherwise Saviour. The Second Coming is soon and at the end of the Gret Tribulation
-Jesus was not particularly handsome and good looking, on purpose, because God knew that many would say, "Oh, they only followed Jesus because He was handsome and good looking, not because He was the Messiah and could save them from SIN!"
-This is the shallowness in the hearts of men, because that is what advertising,
Hollywood, propaganda, etc. does to people who "buy into the lie"-good look$
$$ell
-He is despised, rejected and hated, because of His message and mission, His
claims to Deity, His challenge to the leaders of Israel and Rome (both Jew (religious) and Gentile (secular) leaders, notice that?), etc.
-He was crucified for our sakes, in our place it says right here.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
UNTIL.....let that sink in.....that would not be possible if God was completely done with Israel forever! The very purpose of that Great Tribulation is to get Israel to acknowledge their sin, unbelief in their Messiah and turn to Him and He will then save them at that exact time.
Hosea 5:15
¶ I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
All of that said, this would not in any way excuse any hatred of Jews or Israel itself. There are televangelists, famous "Christian" authors, radio personalities, podcasters etc. fleecing the flock with their "replacement thrology". Does that mean we get to lump together ALL Christians and hate the church? No. When we ALL stand before God, on Judgment Day, that will not work as an excuse when we think we had an excuse to reject the LORD Jesus Christ.
In the exact same way, what a Jew does to you or a a group, a city or a nation is not any excuse to violate God and hate His people who HE chose forever to be His people and has never abandoned, nor will ever abandon.
(Zechariah 12:2 [AKJV/PCE])
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
God Himself is allowing Israel to become this cup of trembling:
-He is Sovereign
-To fulfill His Will and prophecy
-To bring Israel back to Himself
-To give the world free will to reject Him and exercise their will for their judgment forever, not as automatons, robots, but freely deciding to hate God
(Genesis 32:28 [AKJV/PCE])
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
(Genesis 48:3-4 [AKJV/PCE])
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
That land is much larger than Israel is squooshed into, forced into living in today, and is "an everlasting possession". Imagine that, and I am not even Jewish. Just a Christian who believes what God said!
THE PROPHECY OF EGYPTIAN CAPTIVITY: FULFILLED
Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Acts 7:6
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
GOD'S PLAN: JOSEPH FIRST, INTO SLAVERY
Genesis 37:28
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis 41:40 ([KJV])
Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall allmy people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
THE END OF THE CAPTIVITY: GOD TO MOSES
Exodus 3:7 ([KJV])
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus 3:10 ([KJV])
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Exodus 5:1 ([KJV])
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Exodus 7:4 ([KJV])
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, andmy people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
Exodus 7:16 ([KJV])
And thou shalt say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Letmy people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
Exodus 8:1 ([KJV])
And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Letmy people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus 8:20-23 ([KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Letmy people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not letmy people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in whichmy people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 9:1 ([KJV])
Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Letmy people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus 9:13 ([KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Letmy people go, that they may serve me.
Exodus 9:17 ([KJV])
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Exodus 10:3-4 ([KJV])
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? letmy people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou refuse to letmy people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
Exodus 12:29-32
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Psalm 105:6-15
O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth. He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Exodus 22:25 ([KJV])
If thou lend money to any ofmy people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Leviticus 26:12 ([KJV])
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
Numbers 24:14 ([KJV])
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Judges 12:2 ([KJV])
And Jephthah said unto them, I andmy people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
Judges 14:3 ([KJV])
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
Judges 14:16 ([KJV])
And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
Ruth 1:16 ([KJV])
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Ruth 3:11 ([KJV])
And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city ofmy people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.
Ruth 4:4 ([KJV])
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
1 Samuel 2:29 ([KJV])
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1 Samuel 9:16 ([KJV])
To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain overmy people Israel, that he may savemy people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
1 Samuel 9:17 ([KJV])
And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
1 Samuel 15:30 ([KJV])
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
2 Samuel 3:18 ([KJV])
Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will savemy people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
2 Samuel 5:2 ([KJV])
Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feedmy people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
2 Samuel 7:7 ([KJV])
In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feedmy people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
2 Samuel 7:8 ([KJV])
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
2 Samuel 7:10-11 ([KJV])
Moreover I will appoint a place formy people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, And as since the time that I commanded judges to be overmy people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
2 Samuel 22:44 ([KJV])
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
1 Kings 6:13 ([KJV])
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsakemy people Israel.
1 Kings 8:16 ([KJV])
Since the day that I brought forthmy people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be overmy people Israel.
1 Kings 14:7 ([KJV])
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince overmy people Israel,
1 Kings 16:2 ([KJV])
Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince overmy people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast mademy people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
1 Kings 22:4 ([KJV])
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art,my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.
2 Kings 3:7 ([KJV])
And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art,my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.
2 Kings 20:5 ([KJV])
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 11:2 ([KJV])
And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feedmy people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler overmy people Israel.
1 Chronicles 17:6-7 ([KJV])
Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler overmy people Israel:
1 Chronicles 17:9 ([KJV])
Also I will ordain a place formy people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
1 Chronicles 17:10 ([KJV])
And since the time that I commanded judges to be overmy people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
1 Chronicles 28:2 ([KJV])
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
1 Chronicles 29:14 ([KJV])
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
2 Chronicles 1:114 ([KJV])
And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:
2 Chronicles 6:5-6 ([KJV])
Since the day that I brought forthmy people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler overmy people Israel: But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be overmy people Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14 ([KJV])
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 18:3 ([KJV])
And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, andmy people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
Esther 7:3-4 ([KJV])
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, andmy people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Esther 8:6 ([KJV])
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Psalms 14:4 ([KJV])
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat upmy people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Psalms 50:7 ([KJV])
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Psalms 53:4 ([KJV])
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat upmy people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Psalms 59:114 ([KJV])
Slay them not, lestmy people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms 68:22 ([KJV])
The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bringmy people again from the depths of the sea:
Psalms 78:14 ([KJV])
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 81:8 ([KJV])
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Psalms 81:11 ([KJV]) Butmy people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Psalms 81:13 ([KJV]) Oh thatmy people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Psalms 144:2 ([KJV])
My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subduethmy people under me.
Isaiah 1:3 ([KJV])
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know,my people doth not consider.
Isaiah 3:12 ([KJV])
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Isaiah 3:15 ([KJV])
What mean ye that ye beatmy people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
Isaiah 5:13 ([KJV])
Thereforemy people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah 10:2 ([KJV])
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah 10:24 ([KJV])
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Omy people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
Isaiah 19:25 ([KJV])
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Isaiah 22:4 ([KJV])
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
Isaiah 26:20 ([KJV])
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Isaiah 32:13 ([KJV])
Upon the land ofmy people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Isaiah 32:18 ([KJV])
Andmy people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
Isaiah 40:1 ([KJV])
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
ISAIAH 43:1-5, THE GOD OF JACOB, ISRAEL
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
Despite the fact that they have sinned many times against God, until today, He formed them, preserved them, calls them His children, His chosen people, nation, the nation by Whom He is callled by name (God of Jacob, God of Israel). To this very day.
AND ISAIAH 46:3-4
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
ISAIAH 46:13
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Isaiah 44:23
Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth:
break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for
the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Isaiah 47:6 ([KJV])
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Isaiah 51:4 ([KJV])
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Isaiah 51:16 ([KJV])
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
Isaiah 52:4-6 ([KJV])
For thus saith the Lord GOD,my people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, thatmy people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. Thereforemy people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
Isaiah 53:8 ([KJV])
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 ofmy people was he stricken.
Isaiah 57:14 ([KJV])
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
Isaiah 58:1 ([KJV])
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shewmy people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 63:8 ([KJV])
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Isaiah 65:10 ([KJV])
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, formy people that have sought me.
Isaiah 65:19 ([KJV])
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Isaiah 65:22 ([KJV])
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 2:11 ([KJV])
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? butmy people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Jeremiah 2:13 ([KJV])
Formy people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:31-32 ([KJV])
O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yetmy people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 4:11 ([KJV])
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
Jeremiah 4:22 ([KJV])
Formy people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Jeremiah 5:26 ([KJV])
For amongmy people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Jeremiah 5:31 ([KJV])
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; andmy people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 6:14 ([KJV])
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter ofmy people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:26-27 ([KJV])
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
Jeremiah 7:12 ([KJV])
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness ofmy people Israel.
Jeremiah 7:23 ([KJV])
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Jeremiah 8:7 ([KJV])
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; butmy people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:11 ([KJV])
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter ofmy people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:19 ([KJV])
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter ofmy people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah 8:21-22 ([KJV])
For the hurt of the daughter ofmy people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter ofmy people recovered?
Jeremiah 9:1-2 ([KJV])
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 9:7 ([KJV])
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 11:4 ([KJV])
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Jeremiah 12:14 ([KJV])
Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have causedmy people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
Jeremiah 12:16 ([KJV])
And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taughtmy people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
Jeremiah 14:17 ([KJV])
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter ofmy people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Jeremiah 15:7 ([KJV])
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
Jeremiah 18:15 ([KJV])
Becausemy people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
Jeremiah 23:2 ([KJV])
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:13 ([KJV])
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and causedmy people Israel to err.
Jeremiah 23:22 ([KJV])
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had causedmy people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Jeremiah 23:27 ([KJV])
Which think to causemy people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Jeremiah 23:32 ([KJV])
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and causemy people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 24:7 ([KJV])
And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 29:32 ([KJV])
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.
Jeremiah 30:3 ([KJV])
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity ofmy people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Jeremiah 30:22 ([KJV])
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jeremiah 31:1 ([KJV])
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:14 ([KJV])
And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, andmy people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 31:33 ([KJV])
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31: 35-37
Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances
of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the
waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart
from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from
being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast
off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:38 ([KJV])
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jeremiah 33:24 ([KJV])
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jeremiah 50:6 ([KJV]) my people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Jeremiah 51:45 ([KJV]) my people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
Lamentations 2:11 ([KJV])
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:14 ([KJV])
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:48 ([KJV])
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:3 ([KJV])
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter ofmy people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 4:6 ([KJV])
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter ofmy people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
Lamentations 4:10 ([KJV])
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 11:20 ([KJV])
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 13:9-10 ([KJV])
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
Ezekiel 11:14-21
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. 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. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 13:18-19 ([KJV])
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? And will ye pollute me amongmy people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying tomy people that hear your lies?
Ezekiel 13:21 ([KJV])
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and delivermy people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:23 ([KJV])
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will delivermy people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 14:8-9 ([KJV])
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst ofmy people Israel.
Ezekiel 14:11 ([KJV])
That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 21:12 ([KJV])
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
Ezekiel 25:14 ([KJV])
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand ofmy people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 28:25
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
Ezekiel 33:31 ([KJV])
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Ezekiel 34:30 ([KJV])
Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 36:8 ([KJV]) But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit tomy people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
Ezekiel 36:12 ([KJV])
Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, evenmy people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Ezekiel 36:28 ([KJV])
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 37:12-13 ([KJV])
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Ezekiel 37:23 ([KJV])
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 37:27 ([KJV])
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel 38:14 ([KJV])
Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day whenmy people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
Ezekiel 38:16 ([KJV])
And thou shalt come up againstmy people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Ezekiel 39:7 ([KJV])
So will I make my holy name known in the midst ofmy people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezekiel 44:23 ([KJV])
And they shall teachmy people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel 45:8 ([KJV])
In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
Ezekiel 45:9 ([KJV])
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 46:18 ([KJV])
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: thatmy people be not scattered every man from his possession.
Daniel 9:20 ([KJV])
And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin ofmy people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
(Hosea 11:1 [KJV])
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Hosea 1:9 ([KJV])
Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Hosea 1:10 ([KJV])
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Hosea 2:23 ([KJV])
And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Hosea 4:6 ([KJV]) my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea 4:8 ([KJV])
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Hosea 4:12 ([KJV]) my people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Hosea 6:11 ([KJV])
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
Hosea 11:7 ([KJV])
Andmy people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Joel 2:26-27 ([KJV])
And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: andmy people shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: andmy people shall never be ashamed.
Joel 3:2-3 ([KJV])
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there formy people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Isaiah 43:5-6
Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
And so God did, over and over again, this last time the last time.
Amos 7:8 ([KJV])
And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst ofmy people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
Amos 7:15 ([KJV])
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy untomy people Israel.
Amos 8:2 ([KJV])
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come uponmy people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
Amos 9:10 ([KJV])
All the sinners ofmy people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
Amos 9:14 ([KJV])
And I will bring again the captivity ofmy people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Obadiah 1:13 ([KJV])
Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate ofmy people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
Micah 1:9 ([KJV])
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Micah 2:4 ([KJV])
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
Micah 2:8-9 ([KJV])
Even of latemy people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. The women ofmy people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Micah 3:3 ([KJV])
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Micah 3:5 ([KJV])
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that makemy people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Micah 6:3 ([KJV])
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Micah 6:5 ([KJV])
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
Micah 6:16 ([KJV])
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Zephaniah 2:8-9 ([KJV])
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue ofmy people shall spoil them, and the remnant ofmy people shall possess them.
Zechariah 2:11 ([KJV])
And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
Zechariah 8:7-8 ([KJV])
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will savemy people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
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Zechariah 13:8-9 ([KJV])
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Jeremiah 30:7
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
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Matthew 2:6 ([KJV])
And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rulemy people Israel.
Acts 7:34 ([KJV]) I have seen, I have seen the affliction ofmy people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
Romans 9:25-26 ([KJV])
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
2 Corinthians 6:16 ([KJV])
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Revelation 18:4 ([KJV])
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
(Romans 11:25 [KJV])
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.
-"UNTIL the fulness of the Gentiles be come in", then their eyes shall be opened when Jesus comes to rescue them from their enemies at the end of Revelation at His Second Coming.
-Because God is not done with Israel at all, and the world is simply fulfilling Scripture in hating them
(Romans 11:26 [KJV])
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:
-The church is gone, in the Pre-Tribulation Rapture seven years earlier, in Heaven, coming back with Jesus to accomplish this. No enemies for Israel at that point as the LORD is there to save them
(Romans 11:27 [KJV])
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
(Romans 11:28 [KJV])
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
(Romans 11:29 [KJV])
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
(Romans 11:30 [KJV])
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
(Romans 11:31 [KJV])
Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
(Romans 11:32 [KJV])
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
(Romans 11:33 [KJV])
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
(Romans 11:34 [KJV])
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
(Romans 11:35 [KJV])
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
(Romans 11:36 [KJV])
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
GOD'S CHILDREN: ISRAEL
Genesis 32:32 ([KJV])
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis 36:31 ([KJV])
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis 45:21 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
Genesis 46:8 ([KJV])
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
Genesis 50:25 ([KJV])
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Exodus 1:1 ([KJV])
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Exodus 1:7 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:9 ([KJV])
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
Exodus 1:12-13 ([KJV])
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
Exodus 2:23 ([KJV])
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Exodus 2:25 ([KJV])
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
Exodus 3:9-11 ([KJV])
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forthmy people the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
Exodus 3:13-15 ([KJV])
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
-FOREVER, unto all generations, to Israel as a people and nation of twelve tribes today
- That means that is Who God is today, over Israel, the people and nation today
Exodus 4:29 ([KJV])
And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
Exodus 4:31 ([KJV])
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exodus 5:14-15 ([KJV])
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore? Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
Exodus 5:19 ([KJV])
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Exodus 6:5-6 ([KJV])
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus 6:9 ([KJV])
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Exodus 6:11-12 ([KJV])
Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
Exodus 6:13 ([KJV])
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 6:26-27 ([KJV])
These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 7:2 ([KJV])
Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
Exodus 7:4-5 ([KJV])
But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, andmy people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Exodus 9:6 ([KJV])
And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
Exodus 9:26 ([KJV])
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exodus 9:35 ([KJV])
And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
Exodus 10:20 ([KJV])
But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
Exodus 10:23 ([KJV])
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Exodus 11:7 ([KJV])
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exodus 11:10 ([KJV])
And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Exodus 12:27-28 ([KJV])
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exodus 12:31 ([KJV])
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
Exodus 12:35 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
Exodus 12:37 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Exodus 12:40 ([KJV])
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus 12:42 ([KJV])
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
Exodus 12:50-51 ([KJV])
Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Exodus 13:2 ([KJV])
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
Exodus 13:18-19 ([KJV])
But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Exodus 14:2-3 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Exodus 14:8 ([KJV])
And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.
Exodus 14:10 ([KJV])
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
Exodus 14:15-16 ([KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Exodus 14:22 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 14:29 ([KJV])
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Exodus 15:1 ([KJV])
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Exodus 15:19 ([KJV])
For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Exodus 16:1-3 ([KJV])
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Exodus 16:6 ([KJV])
And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:
Exodus 16:9-10 ([KJV])
And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.
And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
Exodus 16:12 ([KJV])
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
Exodus 16:15 ([KJV])
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Exodus 16:17 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
Exodus 16:35 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Exodus 17:1 ([KJV])
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 17:7 ([KJV])
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Exodus 19:1 ([KJV])
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:3 ([KJV])
And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
Exodus 19:6 ([KJV])
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Exodus 20:22 ([KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Exodus 24:5 ([KJV])
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
Exodus 24:11 ([KJV])
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Exodus 24:17 ([KJV])
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus 25:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
Exodus 25:22 ([KJV])
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Exodus 27:20-21 ([KJV])
And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 28:1 ([KJV])
And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
Exodus 28:9 ([KJV])
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
Exodus 28:11-12 ([KJV])
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
Exodus 28:21 ([KJV])
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus 28:29-30 ([KJV])
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually. And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Exodus 28:38 ([KJV])
And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
Exodus 29:28 ([KJV])
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
Exodus 29:43 ([KJV])
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus 29:45 ([KJV])
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Exodus 30:12 ([KJV])
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Exodus 30:16 ([KJV])
And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus 30:31 ([KJV])
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Exodus 31:13 ([KJV])
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Exodus 31:16-17 ([KJV])
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus 32:20 ([KJV])
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Exodus 33:5-6 ([KJV])
For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
Exodus 34:30 ([KJV])
And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Exodus 34:32 ([KJV])
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
Exodus 34:34-35 ([KJV])
But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Exodus 35:1 ([KJV])
And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
Exodus 35:4 ([KJV])
And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
Exodus 35:20 ([KJV])
And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
Exodus 35:29-30 ([KJV])
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
Exodus 36:3 ([KJV])
And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
Exodus 39:6-7 ([KJV])
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:14 ([KJV])
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus 39:32 ([KJV])
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Exodus 39:42 ([KJV])
According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
Exodus 40:36 ([KJV])
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Leviticus 1:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
Leviticus 4:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
Leviticus 7:23 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.
Leviticus 7:29 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
Leviticus 7:34 ([KJV])
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
Leviticus 7:36 ([KJV])
Which the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.
Leviticus 7:38 ([KJV])
Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 9:3 ([KJV])
And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
Leviticus 10:11 ([KJV])
And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus 10:14 ([KJV])
And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 11:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Leviticus 12:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
Leviticus 15:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
Leviticus 15:31 ([KJV])
Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
Leviticus 16:5 ([KJV])
And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus 16:16 ([KJV])
And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
Leviticus 16:19 ([KJV])
And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 16:21 ([KJV])
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
Leviticus 16:34 ([KJV])
And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 17:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying,
Leviticus 17:5 ([KJV])
To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the LORD.
Leviticus 17:12-14 ([KJV])
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Leviticus 18:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:2 ([KJV])
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 21:24 ([KJV])
And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Leviticus 22:2-3 ([KJV])
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD. Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 22:15 ([KJV])
And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the LORD;
Leviticus 22:18 ([KJV])
Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering;
Leviticus 22:32 ([KJV])
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
Leviticus 23:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
Leviticus 23:10 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:
Leviticus 23:24 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
Leviticus 23:34 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:43-44 ([KJV])
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus 24:2 ([KJV])
Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.
Leviticus 24:8 ([KJV])
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 24:10 ([KJV])
And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
Leviticus 24:15 ([KJV])
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
Leviticus 24:23 ([KJV])
And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 25:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Leviticus 25:33 ([KJV])
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
Leviticus 25:46 ([KJV])
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Leviticus 25:55 ([KJV])
For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 26:46 ([KJV])
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus 27:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
Leviticus 27:34 ([KJV])
These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Numbers 1:2 ([KJV])
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers 1:45 ([KJV])
So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Numbers 1:49 ([KJV])
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Numbers 1:52-54 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts. But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony. And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Numbers 2:2 ([KJV])
Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Numbers 2:32-34 ([KJV])
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses. And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Numbers 3:8-9 ([KJV])
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:12 ([KJV])
And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;
Numbers 3:38 ([KJV])
But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:40-42 ([KJV])
And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the LORD) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:45-46 ([KJV])
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD. And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
Numbers 3:50 ([KJV])
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
Numbers 5:2 ([KJV])
Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:
Numbers 5:4 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers 5:6 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
Numbers 5:9 ([KJV])
And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
Numbers 5:12 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
Numbers 6:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:
Numbers 6:23 ([KJV])
Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
Numbers 6:27 ([KJV])
And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
Numbers 8:6 ([KJV])
Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
Numbers 8:9-11 ([KJV])
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the LORD: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the LORD.
Numbers 8:14 ([KJV])
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
Numbers 8:16-20
For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Numbers 9:2 ([KJV])
Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Numbers 9:4-5 ([KJV])
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers 9:7 ([KJV])
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Numbers 9:10 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Numbers 9:17 ([KJV])
And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
Numbers 9:18-19 ([KJV])
At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
Numbers 9:22 ([KJV])
Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Numbers 10:12 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 10:28 ([KJV])
Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
Numbers 11:4 ([KJV])
And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Numbers 13:2-3 ([KJV])
Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 13:24 ([KJV])
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Numbers 13:26 ([KJV])
And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 13:32 ([KJV])
And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Numbers 14:2 ([KJV])
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 14:5 ([KJV])
Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:7 ([KJV])
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Numbers 14:10 ([KJV])
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
Numbers 14:27 ([KJV])
How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
Numbers 14:39 ([KJV])
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
Numbers 15:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Numbers 15:18 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Numbers 15:25-26 ([KJV])
And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance: And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
Numbers 15:29 ([KJV])
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Numbers 15:32 ([KJV])
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Numbers 15:38 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
Numbers 16:2 ([KJV])
And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Numbers 16:38 ([KJV])
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
Numbers 16:40-41 ([KJV])
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses. But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
Numbers 17:2 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
Numbers 17:5-6 ([KJV])
And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
Numbers 17:9 ([KJV])
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
Numbers 17:12 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish.
Numbers 18:5-6 ([KJV])
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 18:8 ([KJV])
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
Numbers 18:11 ([KJV])
And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.
Numbers 18:19-20 ([KJV])
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:22-24 ([KJV])
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Numbers 18:26 ([KJV])
Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
Numbers 18:28 ([KJV])
Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
Numbers 18:32 ([KJV])
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
Numbers 19:2 ([KJV])
This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:
Numbers 19:9-10 ([KJV])
And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin. And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
Numbers 20:1 ([KJV])
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Numbers 20:12-13 ([KJV])
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Numbers 20:19 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
Numbers 20:22 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
Numbers 20:24 ([KJV])
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
Numbers 21:10 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers 22:1 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
Numbers 22:3 ([KJV])
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:6 ([KJV])
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Numbers 25:8 ([KJV])
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Numbers 25:11 ([KJV])
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Numbers 25:13 ([KJV])
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Numbers 26:2 ([KJV])
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Numbers 26:4 ([KJV])
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 26:51 ([KJV])
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Numbers 26:62-64 ([KJV])
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 27:8 ([KJV])
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Numbers 27:11-12 ([KJV])
And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses. And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
Numbers 27:20-21 ([KJV])
And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
Numbers 28:2 ([KJV])
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Numbers 29:40 ([KJV])
And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 30:1-2 ([KJV])
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded. Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Numbers 31:9 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Numbers 31:12 ([KJV])
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 31:16 ([KJV])
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Numbers 31:30 ([KJV])
And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Numbers 31:42 ([KJV])
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Numbers 31:47 ([KJV])
Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 31:54 ([KJV])
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
Numbers 32:7 ([KJV])
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
Numbers 32:9 ([KJV])
For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Numbers 32:17-18 ([KJV])
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Numbers 32:28 ([KJV])
So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Numbers 33:1 ([KJV])
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 33:3 ([KJV])
And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Numbers 33:5 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
Numbers 33:38 ([KJV])
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
Numbers 33:40 ([KJV])
And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Numbers 33:51 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers 34:2 ([KJV])
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:)
Numbers 34:13 ([KJV])
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
Numbers 34:29 ([KJV])
These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 35:2 ([KJV])
Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
Numbers 35:8 ([KJV])
And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
Numbers 35:10 ([KJV])
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
Numbers 35:15 ([KJV])
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
Numbers 35:34 ([KJV])
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
Numbers 36:1-5 ([KJV])
And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
Numbers 36:7 ([KJV])
So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
Numbers 36:13 ([KJV])
These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Deuteronomy 1:3 ([KJV])
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
Deuteronomy 3:18 ([KJV])
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
Deuteronomy 4:44-46 ([KJV])
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 10:6 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
Deuteronomy 24:7 ([KJV])
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 29:1 ([KJV])
These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
Deuteronomy 31:19 ([KJV])
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:22-23 ([KJV])
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
Deuteronomy 32:8 ([KJV])
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:49 ([KJV])
Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
Deuteronomy 32:51-52 ([KJV])
Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:1 ([KJV])
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy 34:8-9 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Joshua 1:2 ([KJV])
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all
this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Joshua 1:13
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you,
saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
Joshua 2:2 ([KJV])
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
Joshua 3:1 ([KJV])
And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua 3:9 ([KJV])
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Joshua 4:4-5 ([KJV])
Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Joshua 4:7-8 ([KJV])
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
Joshua 4:12 ([KJV])
And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Joshua 4:21 ([KJV])
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Joshua 5:1-3 ([KJV])
And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Joshua 5:6 ([KJV])
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Joshua 5:10 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 5:12 ([KJV])
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua 6:1 ([KJV])
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 7:1 ([KJV])
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
Joshua 7:12 ([KJV])
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Joshua 7:23 ([KJV])
And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
Joshua 8:31-32 ([KJV])
As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua 9:17-18 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim. And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
Joshua 9:26 ([KJV])
And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Joshua 10:4 ([KJV])
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
Joshua 10:11-12 ([KJV])
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Joshua 10:20-21 ([KJV])
And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities. And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
Joshua 11:14 ([KJV])
And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
Joshua 11:19 ([KJV])
There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.
Joshua 11:22 ([KJV])
There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Joshua 12:1 ([KJV])
Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
Joshua 12:6-7 ([KJV])
Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
Joshua 13:6 ([KJV])
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
Joshua 13:13 ([KJV])
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Joshua 13:22 ([KJV])
Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
Joshua 14:1 ([KJV])
And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
Joshua 14:5 ([KJV])
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
Joshua 14:10 ([KJV])
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua 17:13 ([KJV])
Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
Joshua 18:1-3 ([KJV])
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
Joshua 18:10 ([KJV])
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.
Joshua 19:49 ([KJV])
When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
Joshua 19:51 ([KJV])
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
Joshua 20:2 ([KJV])
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
Joshua 20:9 ([KJV])
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Joshua 21:1 ([KJV])
Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
Joshua 21:3 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
Joshua 21:8 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Joshua 21:41 ([KJV])
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
Joshua 22:9 ([KJV])
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Joshua 22:11-13 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them. And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
Joshua 22:31-33 ([KJV])
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
Joshua 24:32 ([KJV])
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Judges 1:1 ([KJV])
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
Judges 2:4 ([KJV])
And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
Judges 2:6 ([KJV])
And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Judges 2:11 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
Judges 3:2 ([KJV])
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
Judges 3:5 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Judges 3:7-9 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves. Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years. And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 3:12 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Judges 3:14-15 ([KJV])
So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 3:27 ([KJV])
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
Judges 4:1 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
Judges 4:3 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Judges 4:5 ([KJV])
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judges 4:23-24 ([KJV])
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Judges 6:1-2 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
Judges 6:6-8 ([KJV])
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
Judges 8:28 ([KJV])
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Judges 8:33-34 ([KJV])
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god. And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Judges 10:6 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Judges 10:8 ([KJV])
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Judges 10:10-11 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Judges 10:15 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
Judges 10:17 ([KJV])
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
Judges 11:27 ([KJV])
Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
Judges 11:33 ([KJV])
And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
Judges 13:1 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Judges 19:12 ([KJV])
And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.
Judges 19:30 ([KJV])
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Judges 20:1 ([KJV])
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
Judges 20:3 ([KJV])
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
Judges 20:7 ([KJV])
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
Judges 20:13-14 ([KJV])
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Judges 20:18-19 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first. And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
Judges 20:23-27 ([KJV])
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.) And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Judges 20:30 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20:32 ([KJV])
And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Judges 20:35 ([KJV])
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Judges 21:5-6 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death. And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Judges 21:18 ([KJV])
Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
Judges 21:24 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
1 Samuel 2:28 ([KJV])
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
1 Samuel 7:4 ([KJV])
Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
1 Samuel 7:6-8 ([KJV])
And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh. And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Samuel 9:2 ([KJV])
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
1 Samuel 10:18 ([KJV])
And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
1 Samuel 11:8 ([KJV])
And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
1 Samuel 14:18 ([KJV])
And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
1 Samuel 15:6 ([KJV])
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 17:53 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
2 Samuel 7:6-7 ([KJV])
Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feedmy people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?
2 Samuel 21:2 ([KJV])
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
1 Kings 6:1 ([KJV])
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 6:13 ([KJV])
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsakemy people Israel.
1 Kings 8:1 ([KJV])
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1 Kings 8:9 ([KJV])
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:63 ([KJV])
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 9:20-22 ([KJV])
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel, Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
1 Kings 11:2 ([KJV])
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
1 Kings 12:17 ([KJV])
But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
1 Kings 12:24 ([KJV])
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
1 Kings 12:33 ([KJV])
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
1 Kings 14:24 ([KJV])
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 18:20 ([KJV])
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
1 Kings 19:10 ([KJV])
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 19:14 ([KJV])
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 20:15 ([KJV])
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
1 Kings 20:27 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
1 Kings 20:29 ([KJV])
And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.
1 Kings 21:26 ([KJV])
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 8:12 ([KJV])
And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
2 Kings 13:5 ([KJV])
(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
2 Kings 16:3 ([KJV])
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:7-9 ([KJV])
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
2 Kings 17:22 ([KJV])
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2 Kings 17:24 ([KJV])
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
2 Kings 18:4 ([KJV])
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings 21:2 ([KJV])
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:9 ([KJV])
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
1 Chronicles 1:43 ([KJV])
Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
1 Chronicles 6:64 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.
1 Chronicles 27:1 ([KJV])
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
2 Chronicles 5:2 ([KJV])
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
2 Chronicles 5:10 ([KJV])
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 6:11 ([KJV])
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 7:3 ([KJV])
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Chronicles 8:2 ([KJV])
That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
2 Chronicles 8:8-9 ([KJV])
But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day. But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
2 Chronicles 10:17-18 ([KJV])
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 13:12 ([KJV])
And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
2 Chronicles 13:16 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.
2 Chronicles 13:18 ([KJV]) Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:3 ([KJV])
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:8 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
2 Chronicles 30:6 ([KJV])
So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:21 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
2 Chronicles 31:1 ([KJV])
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 31:5-6 ([KJV])
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.
2 Chronicles 33:2 ([KJV])
But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:9 ([KJV])
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:33 ([KJV])
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 35:17 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
Ezra 3:1 ([KJV])
And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
Ezra 6:16 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
Ezra 6:21 ([KJV])
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
Ezra 7:7 ([KJV])
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Nehemiah 1:6 ([KJV])
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
Nehemiah 2:10 ([KJV])
When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 7:73 ([KJV])
So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
Nehemiah 8:14 ([KJV])
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
Nehemiah 8:17 ([KJV])
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
Nehemiah 9:1 ([KJV])
Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Nehemiah 10:39 ([KJV])
For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.
Nehemiah 13:2 ([KJV])
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Psalms 103:7 ([KJV])
He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
Psalms 148:14 ([KJV])
He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.
Isaiah 17:3 ([KJV])
The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 17:9 ([KJV])
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Isaiah 27:12 ([KJV])
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
Isaiah 31:6 ([KJV])
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Isaiah 66:20 ([KJV])
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:21 ([KJV])
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 16:14-15 ([KJV])
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
Jeremiah 23:7 ([KJV])
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
Jeremiah 32:30 ([KJV])
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:32 ([KJV])
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 50:4 ([KJV])
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50:33 ([KJV])
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
Ezekiel 2:3 ([KJV])
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
Ezekiel 4:13 ([KJV])
And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Ezekiel 6:5 ([KJV])
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
Ezekiel 35:5 ([KJV])
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Ezekiel 37:16 ([KJV])
Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
Ezekiel 37:21 ([KJV])
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Ezekiel 43:7 ([KJV])
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Ezekiel 44:9 ([KJV])
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 44:15 ([KJV])
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
Ezekiel 47:22 ([KJV])
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 48:11 ([KJV])
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Daniel 1:3 ([KJV])
And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;
Hosea 1:10-11 ([KJV])
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Hosea 3:1 ([KJV])
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Hosea 3:4-5 ([KJV])
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
Hosea 4:1 ([KJV])
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Joel 3:16 ([KJV])
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Amos 2:11 ([KJV])
And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
Amos 3:1 ([KJV])
Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 3:12 ([KJV])
Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Amos 4:5 ([KJV])
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos 9:7 ([KJV])
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Obadiah 1:20 ([KJV])
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
Micah 5:3 ([KJV])
Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Matthew 27:9 ([KJV])
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
Luke 1:16 ([KJV])
And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
Acts 5:21 ([KJV])
And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Acts 7:23 ([KJV])
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Acts 7:37 ([KJV])
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Acts 9:15 ([KJV])
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
Acts 10:36 ([KJV])
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Romans 9:27 ([KJV])
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
2 Corinthians 3:7 ([KJV])
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
2 Corinthians 3:13 ([KJV])
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
Hebrews 11:22 ([KJV])
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
Revelation 2:14 ([KJV])
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Revelation 7:4-8 ([KJV])
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
-Notice that the tribes of Israel are still active, in God's favor, in God's plan
-Notice also that the names of the tribes are different in their listing over the course of history and Scripture, due to sin.
-When God drops one tribe out of His favor, another one, such as a son of Joseph, He replaces it with another.
-There were a total of twelve tribes, incluing Joseph and his sins, but always rwelve listed at a time
Romans 9:27
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 11:1-2 ([KJV])
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. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Revelation 21:12 ([KJV])
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
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