God is not Finished With Israel

___Israel is still God's chosen people. Covenants with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel) are still intact. Messiah (Jesus) will come as conquering King and sit on David's throne.

___For Obama and Kerry to insist on a two-nation divided Palestine shows their profound ignorance of Bible prophecy and lack of faith in God's promises. The PLO is a known terrorist government controlled by Hamas. Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist puppets of Iran, and Iran will use these mercenary terrorists to fulfill its goal to "wipe Israel off the face of the Earth."

___In Deuteronomy 30: When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you, and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

___In Genesis 15: On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates." Israel (the covenant is extended to Isaac and Israel) was given all of the land from the Nile River in Egypt to the Euphrates River in Iraq. This is forever.

Call to Prayer For America

___Before and after the election both pastors and “christian media” used 2 Chronicles 7 to motivate people to pray. The covenant applies to drought, locusts and pestilence and is specific to Israel at the dedication of the temple completed under King Soloman. The problem with applying covenants between God and Israel to the United States of America or to the Church is that we are in the dispensation of grace, not law. We do not obligate God to act by completing a checklist of deeds. The phrase “I will hear from Heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” is for Israel under law rather than America under grace.

___The problem with replacement theology is that it negates the free gift of salvation and places one under law. If God saves us, then our salvation is secure. If we earn even a portion of our salvation, then we can lose it. If God is obligated by our deeds, then we have doubts when He fails to keep the promise that we have made for Him.

___We live in the age of the church of Laodicea which is characterized by the “lukewarm” church. It is rare that christians, so called, do in-depth Bible studies. They hear a verse taken out of context and repeat it without checking the context. Another scripture is “one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” The simple-minded say “God's timing is different than man's.” The statement is true, but the context is Jesus Christ's second coming. I use this as one of my 3 ways that the Bible reveals a “young Earth.” Please see my in-depth study of Genesis' six + one days of Creation, 2 Peter 3:8 and Luke 3 (Mary's geneology back to Adam, August 2009).

Dispensations

Dispensations (Eph 3, Col 1):

1) Innocence (Eden)

2) Conscience (fall to flood)

3) Human Government (Noah)

4) Promise (Abraham)

6) Law (Moses)

7) Grace (Jesus)

8) Millennial Kingdom (Jesus)