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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Olive Tree
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? (Romans 11:24)
If we would understand the one Israel of God, the one Kingdom of God, the one Christ, the one hope of redemption, we must have a clear understanding of the one Olive Tree.
The Olive Tree is the Spirit of Christ. It was the Spirit of Christ who spoke through the Hebrew Prophets.
Searching what, or what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (I Peter 1:11)
The Olive Tree spoke to Abraham. The Spirit of Christ called Abraham from the city in which he was dwelling, leading him forth to the land of Canaan. The Divine inheritance was given to Abraham and to Abraham's Seed. Abraham's Seed includes the Lord Jesus Christ and those who by faith have received Christ and become part of Him.
We know that Christ was before Abraham and is greater than Abraham. Yet God's Word refers to Christ as the Seed of Abraham. This is because Christ came from the physical lineage of Abraham.
The branches of the Olive Tree are always in accordance with the promise of God. The branches were chosen of God before the creation of the world. No man at any time has gained a place in the Olive Tree by his own righteousness or striving. The inheritance is by faith in the promise of God.
The calling out of Abraham from Ur marked the beginning of the material expression of the Olive Tree, of Israel, of the Church, of the Kingdom of God. It was a beginning in type, in vision. The reality of the Kingdom came into being when the Lord Jesus rose from the dead.
Every branch of the Olive Tree is not of the world but has been called out of the world to be a representative of God, to be part of the holy nation, the royal priesthood.
The Olive Tree, the mantle of the Spirit of prophecy, passed to Isaac, not through his blood relationship to Abraham but through the promise of God to him.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; (Genesis 26:3)
It was the prophecy, the promise, not the fact of physical birth, that made Isaac part of the Olive Tree.
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. (Romans 9:7-12)
To be continued.