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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Israel Is the Church, #5
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: (Acts 21:20)
When did the Church cease being Jewish and become Gentile? You will find no such change in the Scriptures!
Anyone who views Israel and the Christian Church as separate religious institutions needs to understand that the Church was born as a purely Jewish work of God. Just because Gentiles have been added to the Olive Tree does not mean the Church is now Gentile.
The true Christian Church was, is, and forever will be Jewish! The destiny of every member of true Israel, Jew and Gentile, is the new Jerusalem. The names of twelve Jews are in the foundations of the wall of the new Jerusalem. The names of twelve Jews are on the gates of the wall of the new Jerusalem. How, then, is the glorified Christian Church, the new Jerusalem, Gentile?
The Jewish Babylon and the Gentile Babylon. When we speak of "Babylon" we mean religion that is man-centered, man-instituted, man-operated. The Jewish Babylon persecuted the early Christians and the Gentile Babylon has tortured and murdered the Jews throughout the Christian Era.
Neither the true Judaic revelation nor the true Christian revelation are religions. Judaism came by revelation from the day God revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush. True Christianity came by revelation through the Lord Jesus Christ. Moses and Jesus were both Jews.
True Christianity is the giving of spiritual significance and incorruptible life to the words and forms of Judaism. Christianity actually is the spiritual form of Judaism. The two are one revelation from God.
The three symbols of Judaism are the altar, the menorah, and the booth. The altar speaks of the Lord Jesus on the cross of Calvary. The menorah, the golden Lampstand, portrays Christ—the One anointed with the Spirit of God. The booth reveals the ultimate intention of God, which is to dwell in man as well as with man, first in the elect Jews and then in the elect Gentiles, as being the firstfruits of mankind.
Thus Judaism and Christianity are one, and the same revelation of the same Lord.
Notice how Christianity is a continuation of Judaism:
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:1,2)
The "fathers" were Jews and the people to whom the Book of Hebrews was written were Christian Jews.
The "fathers" transformed what originally was a stupendous revelation of the eternal moral law of God into a body of traditions that could be mastered and administered by scholars. This is Judaic Babylon.
The fathers of the Christian church have transformed what originally was a stupendous revelation of God through His Son, His Christ, into a body of traditions that can be mastered and administered by scholars. This is Christian Babylon.
To be continued.