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ISRAEL: THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD
Section Four


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ISRAEL: THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD

Section 4  -  God's Good Name
                    Still The Special People of God
 

God's Good Name

God is faithful! (1Cor.1:9; 10:13; 2Cor.1:18). Throughout all of God's dealings with humanity, His Name, His Integrity, His Glory are of paramount importance for Him to be GOD and not something less!

He put all of this ‘on the line’ when He chose the nation of Israel to be His People, a people whom HE would sanctify!

In view of such a grand undertaking, some questions need to be answered. 

Will He allow finite man to destroy or detract even an iota from His glory? 
Will puny man be allowed to thwart His pre-determined plan? 
Will man be able to force God's hand - and thus become the factor that really decides the future of God's Creation, his own happiness, and the extent and scope of GOD'S glory? 
OR, will He execute His pre-determined strategy to a glorious completion, achieving every one of His objectives along the way? 

Has God become so implacably angry with Israel that He will cast her off permanently? 
Has He now surrendered her to the utter destruction that her waywardness deserves?

As we search the Scriptures, we must remember that God does not operate according to our criteria nor along our guidelines. He does not try to fit in with our concepts of what He should be and how He should act.
Hos.11:9   I will not execute the heat of My anger; 
I will not return to ruin Ephraim, 
for the El am I, and not a man, the Holy One in your midst,…

Ps.89:33-37   Yet I shall not withdraw My benignity from him, 
And I shall not be false in My faithfulness. 
I shall not profane My covenant, 
And I shall not alter the utterance of My lips. 
Once for all have I sworn by My holiness; 
I shall assuredly not lie to David: 
His seed shall continue for the eon, 
And his throne as the sun in front of Me, 
Like the moon, it shall be established for the eon, 
Faithful like that witness in the sky. . 

Lam.3:31,32  For Yahweh is not casting off for the eon; 
Indeed though He afflicts, 
yet He has compassion according to the abundance of His benignities; 

Isa.57:16   For not for the eon will I contend, nor will I be permanently wroth, 
in case the spirit from before Me shall droop, and all who have breath, that I made. 

Isa.54:8   In effervescent wrath I concealed My face a moment from you, 
yet with kindness eonian have I compassion on you," 
says your Redeemer, Yahweh. 

Jer.3:12 KJV    Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 
Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; 
[and] I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: 
for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever

Ps.30:5   For there is only a moment under His anger 
But a lifetime under His benevolence. 
In the evening, lamentation may lodge, 
But in the morning there is jubilant song

Ps.136 (occurs twenty-six times in this psalm)  ….For His benignity is eonian; 

Ps.103:8   Compassionate and gracious is Yahweh, 
Slow to anger and with much benignity. 

Ps.103:9  He shall not contend permanently
And He shall not hold resentment for the eon

Ps.103:10-14   He has neither done to us according to our sins
Nor has He requited us according to our depravities
For as the heavens are lofty over the earth, 
So is His benignity masterful over those fearing Him.
As far as the east is from the west, 
So He removes our transgressions far from us. 
As a father shows compassion over his sons, 
So Yahweh shows compassion over those fearing Him. 
For He knows our formation,  remembering that we are soil.

Mic.7:18,19   Who is an El as You are, 
bearing with depravity, and passing over transgression, 
for the remnant of His allotment? 
He does not hold fast His anger for the future. For He delights in kindness
He will return, having compassion on us. He will subdue our depravities. 
And You wilt fling into the shadowy depths of the sea all our sins. 

Jer.30:7 KJV   Alas! for that day [is] great, so that none [is] like it: 
it [is] even the time of Jacob's trouble; 
but he shall be saved out of it

Dan.12:1   In that era shall stand up Michael, the great chief, 
standing over the sons of your people. 
Then comes to be an era of distress such as has not occurred 
since there came to be a nation on the earth, till that era. 
Now in that era your people shall escape--all those found written in the scroll. 

Lam.3:22,23   It is by Yahweh's benignities that we have not come to end, 
that His compassions are not finished; 
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness

Hos.13:14   From the hand of the unseen will I ransom them
from death will I redeem them
Where is your plague, O Death? 
Where is your sting, O Unseen? 
Regret shall be concealed from My eyes. 

Isa.45:17  Israel is saved by Yahweh, with a salvation eonian. 
They shall not be ashamed nor confounded for future eons

Isa.45:25   In Yahweh shall they be just, 
and in Elohim all the seed of Israel shall boast 

Isa.43:25  I, I am He Who wipes out your transgressions on My own account
and your sins I will not remember further

Ezek.36:31,32 KJV   Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, 
and your doings that [were] not good, 
and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight 
for your iniquities and for your abominations. 
Not for your sakes do I [this], saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: 
be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel

Joel.2:12,13  And, moreover, now, (averring is Yahweh, your Elohim), 
Return unto Me with all your heart 
and with fasting and with lamenting and with wailing, 
and tear your heart and not your garments, 
and return to Yahweh, your Elohim. 
For gracious and compassionate is He, 
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He regrets over the evil. 

Amos.9:8,9   Behold! the eyes of my Lord Yahweh are on the sinning kingdom, 
and I will exterminate it off the surface of the ground, 
only that I will not utterly exterminate the house of Jacob, (averring is Yahweh). 
For behold! I am instructing, 
and I will jerk the house of Israel to and fro, among all nations, 
just as grain in a sieve is jerked to and fro, 
yet a pouch-full shall not fall to the earth. 

Hos.5:15   For I will go and return to My place 
till they are pleading guilty, and they seek My face. 
In their distress they will seek Me early, saying: . 

Hos.6:1   Go, and we will return to Yahweh, our Elohim, 
for He tore to pieces, and He will heal us: 
He was smiting, and He will bind us up. 

Jer.29:13,14   For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you—
an affirmation of Yahweh; 
thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope. 
And you have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, 
and I have hearkened unto you, 
And you have sought Me, and have found, 
for you seek Me with all your heart
And I have been found of you--an affirmation of Yahweh;
and I have turned back [to] your captivity, 
and have gathered you out of all the nations
and out of all the places whither I have driven you--an affirmation of Yahweh--
and I have brought you back unto the place whence I removed you. 

Jer.30:10,11   And you, be not afraid, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Yahweh, 
Nor be affrighted, O Israel, For, lo, I am saving you from afar, 
And your seed from the land of their captivity, 
And Jacob has turned back and rested, 
And is quiet, and there is none troubling. 
For with you [am] I, An affirmation of Yahweh--to save you
For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have scattered you, 
Only, of you I do not make an end, 
And I have chastised you in judgment, And do not entirely acquit you. 

Jer.30:18-22   Thus said Yahweh: 
Lo, I turn back [to] the captivity of the tents of Jacob
And his dwelling places I pity, and the city has been built on its heap, 
And the palace according to its ordinance remains. 
And gone forth from them has thanksgiving, and the voice of playful ones, 
And I have multiplied them and they are not few, 
And made them honorable, and they are not small. 
And his sons have been as aforetime, 
And his company before Me is established, 
And I have seen after all his oppressors. 
And his honorable one has been of himself, 
And his ruler from his midst goes forth, 
And I have caused him to draw near, And he has drawn nigh unto Me, 
For who [is] he who has pledged his heart to draw nigh unto Me? 
An affirmation of Yahweh. 
And you have been to Me for a people, And I am to you for Elohim. 

Jer.46:27,28  And you, you do not fear, my servant Jacob
Nor [are] you dismayed, O Israel
For lo, I am saving you from afar, 
And your seed from the land of their captivity, 
And Jacob has turned back, And has been at rest, 
and been at ease, And there is none disturbing. 
You, you do not fear, My servant Jacob, An affirmation of Yahweh—
for with you I [am]
For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have driven you, 
And of you I do not make an end, 
And I have reproved you in judgment, And do not entirely acquit you!' 

Mic.2:12  Verily I will gather Jacob--all of you together.
Verily I will convene the remnant of Israel…. 

Jer.50:4,5  In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Yahweh, 
Come in do sons of Israel, they and sons of Judah together, 
Going on and weeping they go, and Yahweh their Elohim they seek.
[To] Zion they ask the way, thitherward [are] their faces: 
Come in, and we are joined unto Yahweh, a covenant eonian--not forgotten. 

Jer.50:19,20  And I have brought back Israel unto his habitation, 
And he has fed on Carmel, and on Bashan. 
And in mount Ephraim, and on Gilead is his soul satisfied. 
In those days, and at that time, An affirmation of Yahweh, 
Sought is the iniquity of Israel, and it is not
And the sin of Judah, and it is not found
For I am propitious to those whom I leave! 

Ps.23:3  He is restoring my soul; 
He is guiding me in the routes of righteousness, on account of His Name

Jer.31:10,11   Hear a word of Yahweh, O nations, 
And declare you among isles afar off, and say: 
He who is scattering Israel does gather him, 
And has kept him as a shepherd [does] his flock, 
For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob
And redeemed him from a hand stronger than he. 

Jer.23:3,4   And I do gather the remnant of My flock
Out of all the lands whither I drove them, 
And have brought them back unto their fold
And they have been fruitful, and multiplied. 
And I have raised for them shepherds, 
And they have fed them, And they fear no more, nor are affrighted, 
Nor are they lacking--an affirmation of Yahweh. 

Jer.31:8,9   Lo, I am bringing them in from the north country, 
And have gathered them from the sides of the earth, 
Among them [are] blind and lame, Conceiving and travailing one--together, 
A great assembly--they turn back hither. 
With weeping they come in, and with supplications I bring them, 
I cause them to go unto streams of waters, 
In a right way--they stumble not in it, 
For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim--My first-born [is] he. 

1Sam.12:22  for Yahweh does not leave His people, on account of His great name
for Yahweh has been pleased to make you to Him for a people. 

Hos.14:4,5  I will heal their backsliding; 
I will love them willingly, for My anger is reversed from him.
I will become as the night mist to Israel. 
He shall bud as the anemone and shall stretch out his roots as Lebanon. 

Jer.31:28   And it has been, as I watched over them to pluck up, 
And to break down, and to throw down, And to destroy, and to afflict; 
So do I watch over them to build, and to plant, An affirmation of Yahweh. 

Ezek.36:24,25  And I have taken you out of the nations
And have gathered you out of all the lands
And I have brought you in unto your land, 
And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And you have been clean; 
From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you

Ezek.36:26-28   And I have given to you a new heart
And a new spirit I give in your midst, 
And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, 
And I have given to you a heart of flesh. And My Spirit I give in your midst
And I have done this, so that in My statutes you walk, 
And My judgments you keep, and have done them. 
And you have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers
And you have been to Me for a people, And I--I am to you for Elohim.

Ezek.36:29,30   And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, 
And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, 
And I have put no famine upon you. 
And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, 
So that you receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations. 

Jer.32:42   For thus said Yahweh: 
As I brought in unto this people all this great evil, 
so I am bringing in on them all the good that I am speaking concerning them; 

Zech.8:13   And it shall come to be, 
just as you came to be a slight among the nations, 
house of Judah and house of Israel
so I will save you, and you will become a blessing. 
You must not fear! Your hands shall be steadfast! 

Deut.7:9   Then know that Yahweh your Elohim, 
He is the One Elohim, the El, Who is faithful,
keeping the covenant and the kindness to those loving Him 
and to those observing His instructions for a thousand generations, 

Ezek.36:32  …Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, 
Be it known to you, 
Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel

Isa.43:25   I, I am He Who wipes out your transgressions on My own account,
and your sins I will not remember further. 

Isa.48:9-11 On account of My name am I long-suffering in My anger, 
and for My praise am I repressing for you, to avoid cutting you off. 
Behold! I refined you, yet not as silver; 
I tested you in the crucible of humiliation. 
On My account, on My account am I doing it. 
For how is My name being violated! 
Yet My glory I will not give to another! 

Ezek.20:9  And I do [it] for My name's sake
Not to pollute [it] before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they [are], 
Before whose eyes I became known to them, 
To bring them out from the land of Egypt. 

Ezek.:20:14   And I do [it] for My name's sake
Not to pollute [it] before the eyes of the nations, 
Before whose eyes I brought them forth. 

Ezek.20:22   And I have turned back My hand, 
And I do [it] for My name's sake, 
Not to pollute [it] before the eyes of the nations, 
Before whose eyes I brought them out. 

Ezek.20:44   And you have known that I [am] Yahweh, 
In My dealing with you for My name's sake
Not according to your evil ways, And according to your corrupt doings, 
O house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh.' 

Ps.106:7,8   Our fathers in Egypt did not contemplate Your marvelous works; 
They did not remember Your many benignities, 
And they defied the Supreme by the Sea of Weeds. 
Yet He saved them on account of His Name
To make known His masterful deeds. 

Rom.9:17   For the scripture is saying to Pharaoh that 
"For this selfsame thing I rouse you up, 
so that I should be displaying in you My power
and so that My name should be published in the entire earth." 

Jer.32:37,38   Lo, I am gathering them out of all the lands 
whither I have driven them in Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, 
and I have brought them back unto this place, 
and have caused them to dwell confidently; 
and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for Elohim; 

Jer.32:39-41   and I have given to them one heart, and one way, 
to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them: 
and I have made for them a covenant eonian
in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good
and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me; 
and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, 
and have planted them in this land in truth, 
with all My heart, and with all My soul. 

Isa.46:9,10   Remember the first things from the eon, 
for I am the El, and there is no further Elohim, and the limit is as Me.
Telling from the beginning, the hereafter, 
and from aforetime, what has not yet been done. 
Saying, `All My counsel shall be confirmed, and all My desire will I do.' 

Isa.46:11   Calling from the sunrise, a bird of prey, 
from a land far off, the man of My counsel. Indeed, 
I speak! Indeed, I will bring it about! 
I formed. Indeed, I will do it. 

Isa.46:12,13   Hearken to Me, sturdy of heart, far from righteousness. 
I bring near My righteousness. And it shall not be far. 
And My salvation shall not delay. 
And I bestow, in Zion, salvation for Israel, My beauty. ! 

Isa.42:8,9   I am Yahweh, The Elohim! That is My name, 
and I will not give My glory to another, nor My praises to carvings. 
The former things; behold, they came! 
And the new things will I tell. 
Ere they are sprouting, I will announce them to you." 

Ezek.36:36   And known have the nations who are left round about you, 
That I Yahweh have built the thrown down, I have planted the desolated: 
I Yahweh have spoken, and I have done [it]. 

Ezek.36:37,38   Thus said the Lord Yahweh: 
Yet this I am required, by the house of Israel to do to them, 
I multiply them as a flock of men, 
As a flock of holy ones, as a flock of Jerusalem
In her appointed seasons, So are the waste cities full of flocks of men, 
And they have known that I [am] Yahweh!' 

Zech.9:16   And Yahweh, their Elohim, will save them in that day, 
as the flock of His people; for they shall be the stones of sequestration
themselves a banner waving over His ground. 

Jer.33:6-9   Lo, I am increasing to it health and cure, and have healed them, 
and revealed to them the abundance of peace and truth. 
And I have turned back the captivity of Judah, and the captivity of Israel
And I have built them as at the first, 
And cleansed them from all their iniquity, that they have sinned against Me, 
And I have pardoned all their iniquities, that they have sinned against Me, 
And that they transgressed against Me. 
And it has been to Me for a name of joy, for praise, and for beauty
to all nations of the earth, who hear of all the good that I am doing them
And they have feared, and they have trembled 
for all the good, and for all the peace, that I am doing to it

Ezek.39:7,8   And My holy name I make known in the midst of My people Israel, 
And I pollute not My holy name any more, 
And known have the nations that I, Yahweh, the Holy One, [am] in Israel
Lo, it has come, and it has been done, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh,
It [is] the day of which I spoke

Ezek.36:21-23   And I have pity on My holy name
That the house of Israel have polluted among nations whither they have gone in. 
Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh: 
Not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, But--for My holy name
That you have polluted among nations whither you have gone in. 
And I have sanctified My great name, that is profaned among nations, 
That you have polluted in your midst, 
And known have the nations that I [am] Yahweh, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, 
In My being sanctified in you before your eyes. 

Ezek.39:22   And known have the house of Israel that I [am] Yahweh their Elohim, 
From that day and henceforth

Isa.60:21   And your people, all of them are righteous; 
for the eon shall they tenant the land, 
the scion of Yahweh's planting, the making of His hand, to beautify itself. 

Isa.29:22,23  Wherefore, thus says Yahweh to the house of Jacob
He Who distinguished Abraham: 
"Not now is Jacob ashamed, and not now is the face of Israel hot. 
For when they see their boys, the work of My hands, within them, 
they will hallow My name, and they will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, 
and by the Elohim of Israel shall they be terrified. 
And those straying in spirit shall know understanding, 
and the grumblers shall learn influence, 
and the deriders tongues shall learn to talk welfare." 

Isa.43:21  This people I have formed for Myself, and they shall relate My praise

Isa.49:3   And He is saying to me, 
"My servant are you, Israel, in whom I am beautifying Myself." . 

Isa.44:21,22   "Remember these things, Jacob and Israel, for My servant are you. 
I formed you. A servant of Mine are you, Israel. 
You shall not be oblivious of Me.
For behold! I wipe out as a dense haze, your transgressions, 
and as a cloud, your sins. Return to Me, for I redeemed you.

Psalm.94:14   For Yahweh shall not abandon His people
And He shall not forsake His allotment

Isa.41:8,9   Now you, Israel, My servant; Jacob, whom I have chosen; 
the seed of Abraham, My love, whom I encourage; 
from the ends of the land, and from beside it I called you. 
And I am saying to you, `My servant are you. I choose you, and I do not reject you. 

Isa.43:10-13   "You are My witnesses," averring is Yahweh Elohim, 
"And My servant whom I have chosen
that you may know and will believe Me, and understand that I am He: 
Before Me was formed no El. And after Me none shall come. 
I, I, Yahweh am El! And there is no Saviour apart from Me. 
I tell and save and announce. And an alien is not among you. 
And you are My witnesses," averring is Yahweh, "And I am El.
Moreover, from the eon I am He, and there is no rescuing from My hand.
I will contrive, and who will reverse it?" 

Isa.14:26,27   This is the counsel counseled by Yahweh over the entire earth
and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations of the habitance
For Yahweh of hosts has counseled, and who will annul it? 
And His hand is outstretched, and who will reverse it?" 

Scripture clearly shows that God is always TRUE and FAITHFUL - to Himself, to Israel, and to Creation - in every detail. He will not allow Israel or anything else in Creation to tarnish, even in the most insignificant way, His magnificently glorious scheme that is in keeping with His good Name.
 

Still The Special People of God

Earlier, we examined passages detailing the unique position the nation of Israel enjoys with God. We then studied the devastating chastisements that God wrought upon Israel for her waywardness (which would inexorably lead her to murder His Son). After the Pentecostal period God suspended directly dealing with her as the nation through whom He would bless the world, as is shown at the end of Acts 28.

But, Scripture insists that He will resume this programme. For now Israel has been hardened and will remain in her stubbornness ‘until the complement of the nations may be coming in’ (Rom.11:25-27).

At that juncture, the Body Of Christ will be complete - with every member having been called and justified by faith only according to the evangel PAUL was commissioned to preach (Eph.1:13,14; 2:8-10; 3:6-12; Col.1:21-29; Gal.2:6-9; etc.). God removes this ecclesia from the scene (1Thes.4:13-18; etc.) and the way will at last be open for ‘the man of lawlessness’ to be revealed (2Thes.2:1-12)!

This restored program with Israel will be introduced by a time of selection and refining - at the start of the ‘great affliction’ phase of The Day Of The Lord.

Only then, and not before, will God's promises to Israel really begin to come to fruition!

We shall now consider a number of passages relevant to that time, yet future, to see where the chosen people stand according to God's pre-determination.

Isa.27:6  Those coming to take root, will be Jacob
and those blossoming and budding, will be Israel
and they fill the face of the habitance with produce. 

Mic.4:1,2  And it comes in the days hereafter, the mount of Yahweh's house 
shall be established on the summit of the mountains, and it is borne by the hills, 
and all the peoples stream unto it. And many nations go and say: 
Go, and we will ascend to the mount of Yahweh, 
and to the house of the Elohim of Jacob
and He will direct us in His ways, and we will go in His paths. 
For from Zion shall fare forth the law, 
and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem

Mic.4:4   And each man sits under his vine and under his fig tree, 
and no one is causing them to tremble. 
For the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken, 

Mic.4:6,7  In that day, (averring is Yahweh), I will gather her that is limping, 
and I will convene her that is expelled and her to whom I have done evil. 
And I make her that is limping a remnant, 
and her that is beyond the border a staunch nation. 
And Yahweh shall reign over them in mount Zion, henceforth and unto the eon. 

Joel.2:32   ...And it comes that everyone who shall call on the name of Yahweh 
shall escape, for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, deliverance shall come to be, 
just as Yahweh says; and among the survivors are those whom Yahweh is calling. 

Joel.2:26,27   Then you shall surely eat and be satisfied, 
and you shall praise the name of Yahweh, your Elohim, 
Who deals with you marvelously, 
and My people shall not be ashamed for the eon
You shall know that within Israel am I
and I am Yahweh, your Elohim, and there is none else beside Me. 
And My people shall not be ashamed for the eon. 

Jer.31:8,9   Lo, I am bringing them in from the north country, 
And have gathered them from the sides of the earth, 
Among them [are] blind and lame, conceiving and travailing one--together, 
A great assembly--they turn back hither. 
With weeping they come in, and with supplications I bring them, 
I cause them to go unto streams of waters,
In a right way--they stumble not in it, 
For I have been to Israel for a father, and Ephraim--My first-born [is] he. 

Jer.31:35-37  Thus said Yahweh, 
Who is giving the sun for a light by day, 
The statutes of moon and stars for a light by night, 
Quieting the sea when its billows roar, 
Yahweh of Hosts [is] His name: 
If these statutes depart from before Me, An affirmation of Yahweh,
Even the seed of Israel does cease from being a nation before Me all the days. 
Thus said Yahweh: 
If the heavens above be measured, 
And the foundations of earth below searched, 
Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, 
An affirmation of Yahweh. 

Lev.26:44,45  Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies 
I will not reject them nor loathe them so as to finish them, 
to annul My covenant with them, for I, Yahweh, am their Elohim. 
For their benefit I will remember the covenant with the former ones 
whom I brought forth from the land of Egypt 
before the eyes of the nations to be their Elohim; I am Yahweh

Isa.35:10   and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, 
and they shall enter Zion with jubilation, and rejoicing eonian shall be on their head. 
Elation and rejoicing shall they overtake, and flee shall affliction and sighing. 

Isa.51:11-13   And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, 
and they come to Zion with jubilation, and rejoicing eonian is on their head. 
Elation and rejoicing shall overtake them, and affliction shall flee, and grief and sighing. 
I, I am He, your Comforter. 
Who are you, that you are fearing a mortal who is dying, 
and a son of Adam who as grass is drying?
And you are forgetting Yahweh, your Maker
the One Who stretches out the heavens, and Founder of the earth
And you are afraid continually, the entire day, 
in view of the fury of the constrainer, as he prepares to ruin. 
Yet where is the fury of the constrainer? 

Isa.51:15,16   And I am Yahweh, your Elohim, 
Luller of the sea, when clamoring are its billows. 
Yahweh of hosts is My name. 
And I will place My words in your mouth, 
and by the shadow of My hand I cover you, 
to stretch out the heavens, and to found the earth, 
and to say to Zion, "My people are you." 

Isa.54:5-10 KJV   For thy Maker [is] thine husband; 
the LORD of hosts [is] his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel
The God of the whole earth shall he be called. 
For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, 
and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; 
but with great mercies will I gather thee. 
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment;
but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, 
saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 
For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for 
[as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; 
so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; 
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, 
neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, 
saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. 

Psalm.94:14   For Yahweh shall not abandon His people, 
And He shall not forsake His allotment.

Isa.49:13-16   Jubilate, O heavens! And exult, O earth! 
Crash, O mountains, into jubilation! And the hills into righteousness! 
For Yahweh is comforting His people, and on His humble is He having compassion. 
Yet saying is Zion, "I am forsaken by Yahweh, and my Lord has forgotten me." 
"Will a woman forget her child, not to have compassion on the son of her belly? 
Even if these a woman will forget, yet I will not forget you," says Yahweh.
Behold! On My palms I tattoo you, and your walls are in front of Me continually." 

Isa.41:10-14   You must not fear, for I am with you
and you must not take heed for yourself, for I am your Elohim
I make you resolute; indeed, I help you. 
Indeed, I uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.' 
Behold! Ashamed and confounded shall all be who were hot with you. 
They are coming to be as nothing. And perish shall all mortals who contend with you. 
You shall seek them, yet shall not find them. 
And the mortals with whom you strive shall come to be as nothing, 
and a limit is reached by the mortals who war with you. 
For I, Yahweh, your Elohim, am holding fast your right hand, 
saying to you, `You must not fear; I, I help you. 
You must not fear, worm Jacob, and death-doomed of Israel, I, I help you,'" 
averring is Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa.46:3-5   Hearken to Me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel
My lading from the belly, and carried from My womb. 
And till old age I am He, and till gray hairs shall I be burdened, 
I made, and I am bearing. And I will be burdened, and make you escape.
To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, 
and we shall be alike? 

Jer.51:5   For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah, By its Elohim--by Yahweh of Hosts, 
For their land has been full of guilt, against the Holy One of Israel. 

Zech.10:6   And I will give mastery to the house of Judah
and the house of Joseph will I save. 
And I will cause them to dwell, for I have compassion on them
and they shall come to be as if I had not cast them off; 
for I am Yahweh their Elohim, and I will respond to them.

Zech.13:9   And I will bring the third into the fire. 
And I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will test them as gold is tested
It shall call in My name, and I will answer it. 
I will say, My people is it. And it will say, Yahweh is my Elohim. 

Hos.1:10,11   Yet the number of the sons of Israel 
shall become as the sand of the sea, which is not being measured nor numbered. 
And it comes to be 
in the place in which it was being said to them, Not My people are you, 
there shall it be said to them, sons of the living El.
And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel shall be convened together
And they shall place one head over them, and they shall go up from the land, 
for great is the day of Jezreel. 

Zech.9:16 KJV    And the LORD their God shall save them in that day 
as the flock of his people
for they [shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. 

Mal.3:17   And they become Mine, says Yahweh of hosts, 
for the day which I am making, a special possession
and I will spare them just as a man is sparing his son who is serving him. 

Jer.31:1   At the same time, saith the LORD, 
will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. 

Joel.2:18,19   Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, 
Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: 
and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 

Isa.61:5,6   And aliens will stand and graze your flocks, 
and sons of foreigners will be your farmers and your vineyardists. 
And you, priests of Yahweh shall be called, 
"Ministers of our Elohim," to you shall be said. 
The estate of nations shall you eat, 
and with their glory you shall change yourselves. 

Rom.9:3-5  …my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh, 
who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants
and the legislation and the divine service and the promises
whose are the fathers, and out of whom is the Christ according to the flesh, 
Who is over all, God be blessed for the eons. Amen! 

1Pet.1:1; 2:9   Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, 
to the chosen expatriates of the dispersion… 
Yet you are 
     a chosen race
     a "royal priesthood," 
     a "holy nation," 
     a procured people
so that you should be recounting the virtues of Him 
Who calls you out of darkness into His marvelous light, 
who once were "not a people" yet now are the people of God, 
who "have not enjoyed mercy," yet now are "being shown mercy."

Rev.1:5,6  … To Him Who is loving us and looses us from our sins by His blood 
and makes us a kingdom and priests to His God and Father, 
to Him be glory and might for the eons of the eons! Amen! 

Rev.20:6   Happy and holy is he who is having part in the former resurrection! 
Over these the second death has no jurisdiction, 
but they will be priests of God and of Christ,
and they will be reigning with Him the thousand years. 

July 2001


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