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A Brief His-Story of Time
His-story of the Future
Section IV
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Chapter 142
Adopt the last gentile & the last Israelite in His Family
Section IV
God, of Whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, - Eph 3:15, is adding members to His family and is waiting for the last member in His family to join His household.
The Church is composed of born-again Israelites and Gentiles as its members. God has a unified view of the Church and is filling it with souls that are being saved from both these populaces. He is waiting for the last non-Jew to be saved – the fullness of the Gentiles. Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. – Rom 11:25. There will also be the last Jew who will be saved among the existing population spread across the world – the fullness of the Jews. 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? – Rom 11:12. God has foreknown these two persons too even before the foundation of the world. This gentile might be concealed among his own people and this Jew / crypto-Jew might remain obscure among the gentiles. Though hidden today in the world, the Lord knows His own. It is the Church’s responsibility to reach these last souls with the gospel of Salvation.
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision (non-Jews) by that which is called the Circumcision (Jews) in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh (brought near) by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through Him, we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; - Eph 2:11-19. There is no alternate plan of Salvation for the Jews of today! They are saved in the same manner as the Gentiles are – by their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God. And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. – Acts 15:9. There will be no more opportunity given to them once the Lord returns for His church, the household of God, which would have been fully populated/made complete by the time He returns.
Will all the Jews be saved at the sight of His coming – like how Saul of Tarsus was saved in an instant? Most unlikely. Jesus said that the Jews would not believe even if they are given a sign from heaven. Rightly so. Jesus had come from heaven, but they refused to believe Him. – John 6:36. He came unto His own but His own received Him not – John 1:11, even the first time. Besides, all Jews are not in today’s geographical Israel; a huge Jewish population is in the USA and elsewhere most of who lead a complacent agnostic lifestyle. Many Jews who have lost their identity in the gentiles-dominated world don’t even know that they are Jews (like the Jewish Aryans of India) who lead a hypocritical lifestyle (Some do have a genuine but blindfolded faith and lead a strong religious life in vain). There might be a God-fearing Jewish remnant including the crypto-Jews (and I sincerely desire this!) who would be saved at His coming. Might be! (a big “?”).
All of these “Israel of God” – gentiles and Jews – would remain the sons of God and His people forever. (Not Gods because, while all of these would definitely not have an end, they did have a beginning as God’s creation in Time. And they would not be all-knowing, all-powerful, and exist everywhere as God does and is).