rhomin57 wrote:
No, you have not misread me. Scripture states that if the Wild Olive Brance (America) begins boasting about itself (becoming so proud they leave Jesus Christ out of it all) Then the Original Branch (the Jews) can be grafted back in again.
Jesus Christ told the Jewish Pharisees that he will take their gift from them and give it to another that would bare fruit. For the first 150yrs, worshipping Jesus Christ is what happened here, and spread rapidly.
Our Lord God is not a hipocrit. We Gentiles are established in "Faith, and Faith alone." This is stated several time in OT. If Jesus Christ were to come in full view, then "Faith" is gone in the place of "Fact." That is not his teachings. When the Lord states that "every knee shall bend" to him, that is only at the time of each and every persons judgment, after death. That is the only way that could possible happen with all the people before us, here now, and after us.
When Jesus Returned, was in a manner unseeable to the human eye, and it was to retrieve his 144,000 at the time of the Holocaust. The 144000 were the Jews male children that were given to the Levitical Priesthood, their lives in exchange for the 1st born males of Egypt. God abides by hos own laws, a life for a life. They did noting but follow the Ark around putting up the tent of meeting, taking it down, and so forth. That was their life.
You have to remember, until Jesus Christ was resurrected as the "First" born into Heaven, all others before him slept in their graves (stated as "under the alter). So he came back for them in a manner unseen as they were dead, or asleep.
Jesus HIgh Priests spent 1000 years in Heaven with him, right? Well, now that is over because we are in the Second millennium, and America was found badly lacking in the precepts of Christ. So in 2001, our own Judgment began. Isaiah: 46:9-11, and Revelation 9:11.
No, you have not misread me. Scripture states that... (
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Addressing "Where does America stand with God?" first, and leaving until later discussion the covenant God made with Abraham (and that he reminded Isaac and Jacob of, and referred to later in many places throughout the Old, and New, Testaments), and the Law (the ten commandments and, the over six hundred, other laws) that he gave to Moses for the Hebrew nation alone; nowhere in the Bible did God ever make a covenant with any gentile nation. Nor can there be found any promise or prophecy stating that God ever would.
The United States has never been a theocratic government with a covenant initiated by God. Nor is there any promise or prophecy in the Bible declaring that such would ever happen.
Our government leaders have never been our spiritual leaders no matter how any of them may have been, or are, individually right with God. None of them have been ordained to that role. (that's not to say that none of them were Christians. I'm sure not a few were Jewish also.)
It is my contention that the spiritual condition of this country has always been in the hands of it's people. Where we've failed the country has also failed.