“What is So Special About Israel?”

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Date: September 6, 2023 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

We continue our study of Israel and God’s purposes, or as we have titled it, “What’s so special about Israel?” God made four unconditional and eternal covenants with Israel, and while each covenant was a further development of the one before it, each covenant also brought its own, unique blessings to the Hebrews, i.e., the Land, the Seed, the Blessings, and the Holy Spirit.   The ‘seed’ represents not only the Messiah, but also Israel who will one day occupy all the land she has been promised, and the blessings are the spiritual gifts that are also available to all believers.   So, it is through these four covenants that all of God’s blessings are mediated. Because of this, the blessings which were contained in the covenants are also available to Gentiles, but only because of our relationship with Israel, for, in effect, the Church was grafted into the Olive Tree, which is the symbol of God’s blessings upon Israel. Therefore, rather than having replaced Israel as the benefactor of God’s blessings, the Church is being blessed through Israel.

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A review of God’s covenants with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Prior to the fall, there was no need for a Redeemer. However, after Adam and Eve succumbed to Satan’s temptation, God said there would always be “enmity” between Satan’s seed and Eve’s Seed – the seed of the antichrist and the Seed of the true Christ.

There is also a connection between the nation of Israel and the Church.

From Romans 11

Why and how did the Jewish people fail God?

“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor? Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him? For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.”

Romans 11:33-36

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