MYHB - Teaching - Israel

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Teaching - Israel

Who is Israel?

Theologians argue about who 'Israel' is. It is the name given by God to Jacob. [1] But it also refers to his children as the Sons of Israel who were brought into Egypt by Joseph when he was King of kings. [2] Then the nation of Israel split into Two nations: Israel and Judah. After the captivity, the returning people were known as Israel. Some also call the church Israel. In 70 A.D. Jerusalem was destroyed and the nation ceased to exist. In the last century, the Rothchilds took possession of the land of Israel from the British in payment for war debts, and a new nation was formed.

A man, several nations, and a church are all called Israel. How do you know when it means one or the other? Is a promise made to the man valid for the nation, nations or the church? Are commands given to the nation, but not to the man, valid for the church?

Surely God must have given us a way to know which Israel is which and how to apply his word.

  1. ↑ Ge 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
  2. ↑ Ge 47:28
Meaning of 'Israel'

'Israel' ישראל means 'man יש joined to God אל by revelation ר. It always means this in scripture. Whether a man, a nation, a split nation, a destroyed nation, a faithful nation, a harlot nation, or a spiritually born nation; Israel always means 'man joined to God by revelation'.

'Elohim' means 'God separated from man by ignorance'. God's solution to this was to reveal himself to make himself known. He revealed himself to each entity he called Israel.

The name is given to those to whom God has revealed himself.

It applies to Jacob, because God changed him through revelation in his dreams and his encounter wrestling with God in a ditch. It applies to the nation because God changed them through the revelation of the cloud and fire, the laws and judgements in the wilderness, and other such revelations.
It also applies to the children of Abraham. The nation of Israel are descendants of Abraham, but he had other children. They are called 'dust' [1], 'sand by the sea', and 'stars' [2].
  1. ↑ Ge 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.
  2. ↑ Ge 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
His children called 'dust' are those without the word of God (symbolized by water). The ones called 'sand by the sea' are washed by the word. The ones called stars are those who Jesus called the 'light of the world' [1], which are the lights in the firmament of Ge 1. [2] The church does not replace the nation of Israel, Israel was never the man or the nation. Those are just symbols of those who are changed by the revelation of God.
  1. ↑ Mt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
  2. ↑ Ge 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: [{the day … : Heb. between the day and between the night }]
God's name, Elohim אלהים, said that God was separated from men by ignorance. He fixes that problem by revelation. Israel, ישראל.
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