The Church ‘that Jesus started with His apostles’ is called “the BRIDE of Christ” and “NEW Jerusalem” according to the Holy Bible. (Matthew 9:15, John 3:29, Revelation 19:7-9, 21:9-14 ) The “Bride” has made herself ready to see Him in the way that our Father God has required: in truth, repentance and worshiping Jesus as our “first TRUE love in life.”
Israelies (Jews) ARE the called the “chosen of God,” not for any other reason than God calling out a man named Abraham through which to show Himself to in so many ways as recoreded; through the line of he and his wife Sarah with Isaac, and not through the son Abraham had with Sarah’s maid servant Hagar – Ishmael – from which comes the line of Islamists who hate all Jews. And since their beginning (Ishmael and his line) have been at war with the Jews/Israel.
God chose Abraham/Isaac/Jacob’s line to reveal His presence, mercy and power to the rest of the world of nations that worshipped “created things” instead of the Creator – the One True God.
The Day is coming when Jesus (in bodily form again – for His 1K year reign in Jerusalem) will show Himself to the Jews as the One they rejected as their Savior, unwilling to repent of their sins, all the sins Jesus accused them of. They wanted Him killed because of it, and so He hung on the cross, and even to forgive THEM.
Their (the Jews) day is coming when they fall to their knees before Him and confess with their mouth that HE IS LORD and the Savior they did not recognize as God’s only Son and perfect sacrifice for all sins. But their door of God’s favor being shut ‘for a time,’ was God’s way of inviting all Gentiles to receive eternal life by faith IN CHRIST, and in Christ alone.
Yet, some Jews ARE believers in Jesus Christ as their Savior, and they have a ‘double-blessing.’ The early Apostles, and currently Jonathan Cahn (Rabbi) as one of many current day Born-again Jews. Cahn has a “church,” where he preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and brings to light the prophetic messages of the Old Testament and how prophecy is being fulfilled right before our eyes. And there are others.
Islamists believe they are the CHOSEN of God, because Ishmael was Abraham’s first-born son (through Hagar), but the Promise from God to Abraham was not through Hagar a “slave-woman,” but through Sarah, the “free-woman.” Free because of so many ways God ‘chose’ to bless them (and their line) and to guide them on their journey to the “Promised land,” Canaan, where they were to go to war with all those godless idol-worshiping groups.
I love Genesis and Exodus especially, which gives us our ancestry as believing gentiles “grafted into Abraham’s promise from God.” Our “promised land’ is NEW Jerusalem as the Bride of Christ. Theirs is still the earth’s Jerusalem from where they will inherit the earth.
NEW Jerusalem comes down to hover over it for all that takes place – according to Revelation 21 and 22, after Christ’s 1k year reign on earth to do what it says in Revelation 19 and 20, and to restore all things that God once called “good” (Genesis 1).
When I consider all that is happening right now, and even worse to come with hatred of Jews and Christians, I just remember WHO is still in control and through it all is STILL inviting people to repent, and “come to Jesus,” and “taste the goodness of God.”
What a great future ahead for those who love the LORD of lords and KING of kings.