THE MARKS OF ISRAEL

If you have a favorite country for the nomination of the Israel of God, fit the following marks to them.

1) Israel to be a great and mighty nation. (Gen 12:2, 18:18, Deu 4:7,8)

2) Israel to have multitudinous seed. (Gen 13:16, 15:5, 22:17, 24:60, 26:4, 26:24, 28:3 28:14, 32:12, 49:22, Isa 10:22, Hos 1:10, Zech 10:7-8)

3) Israel to spread abroad to the west, east, north and south. (Gen 28:14, Isa 42:5-6)

4) Israel to have a NEW home. (2 Sam 7:10, 1 Chron 17:9)

5) Israel's home to be northwest of Palestine. (Isa. 49:12, Jer 3:18)

6) Israel to live in the islands and coasts of the earth. (Isa 41:1, 49:1-3, 51:5, Jer 31:7-10)

7) Israel to become a company of nations. (Gen 17:4-6, 17:15-16, 35:11, 48:19, Eph 2:12)

8) Israel to have a Davidic king. (2Sam7:13 &19, 1 Chron 22:10, 2 Chron 13:5, Psa 89:20, 89:37, Eze 37:24, Jer 33:17, 33:21, 33:26)

9) Israel to colonize and spread abroad. (Gen 28:14, 49:22, Deu 32:8, 33:17, Psa 2:8, Isa 26:15, 27:6, 54:2, Zech 10:8, 9)

10) Israel to colonize the desolate places of the earth. (Isa 35:1, 43:19-20, 49:8, 54:3, 58:11-12)

11) Israel to lose a colony, then expand, demanding more room. (Isa 49:19-20)

12) Israel to have all the land needed. (Deu 32:8)

13) Israel to be the first among nations. (Gen 27:29, 28:13, Jer 31:7)

14) Israel to continue as a nation forever. (2 Sam 7:16, 7:24, 7:29, 1 Chron 17:22-27, Jer 31:35-37)

15) Israel's home to be invincible by outside forces. (2 Sam 7:10, Isa 41:11-14)

16) Israel to be undefeatable--defended by God. (Num 24:8-9, Isa 41:15-17, Micah 5:8-9)

17) Israel to be God's instrument in destroying evil. (Jer 51:20-24, Dan 2:34-35)

18) Israel to have a land of great mineral wealth. (Gen 49:25-26, Deu 8:9, 33:15-19)

19) Israel to have a land of great agricultural wealth. (Gen 27:28, Deu 8:7, 8:9, 28:11, 33:13, 33:14, 33:28)

20) Israel to be rich by trading. (Isa 60:5-11, 61:6)

21) Israel to be both envied and feared by all nations. (Deu 2:25, 4:8, 28:10, Isa 43:4, 60:10, 60:12, Micah 7:16-17, Jer 33:9)

22) Israel to lend to other nations, borrowing of none. (Deu 15:6, 28:12)

23) Israel to have a new name. (Isa 62:2, 65:15, Hos 2:17)

24) Israel to have a new language. (Isa 28:11)

25) Israel to possess the gates of his enemy. (Gen 22:17)

26) Israel to find the aborigines diminishing before him. (Deu 33:17, Isa 60:12, Jer 31:7-10)

27) Israel to have control of the seas. (Deu 33:19, Num 24:7, Psa 89:25, Isa 60:5)

28) Israel to have a new religion. {Covenant} (Heb 8:10-13, 9:17, Matt 10:5-7, Luke 1:77, 2:32, 22:20, Jn 11:49-52, Gal 3:13)

29) Israel to keep Sabbath forever. {one day in seven set aside} (Ex 31:13, 31:16-17, Isa 58:13-14)

30) Israel to be called the sons of God. {accept the new Covenant of Christ} (Hos 1:10-11)

31) Israel to lose all trace of her lineage. (Isa 42:16-19, Hos 1:9-10, 2:6, Rom 11:25)

32) Israel to be a people saved by the Lord. (Deu 32:27-29, Isa 41:8-14, 43:1-3, 49:25-26, 52:1-12, 55:3-10, Jer 46:27-28, Eze 34:10-16, Hos 2:23, 13:9-14, 14:4, 14:6)

33) Israel to be the custodian of the Oracles of God {Scriptures}. (Psa 147:19, 147:21, Isa 59:21)

34) Israel to carry the Gospel into all the world. (Gen 28:14, Isa 43:10-12, 43:21, Micah 5:7)

35) Israel to be kind to the poor and set the slaves free. (Deu 15:7, 15:11, Psa 72:4, Isa 42:7, 49:9, 58:6)

36) Israel to be the heir of the world. (Rom 4:13)

37) Israel to be God's glory. (Isa 46:13, 49:3, 60:1-2)

38) Israel to possess God's Holy Spirit as well as His Word. ( Isa 44:3, 59:21, Haggai 2:5)

39) Israel to be God's Heritage, formed by God, forever. (Deu 4:20, 7:6, 14:2, 2 Sam 7:23, 1 Kg 8:51, 8:53, Isa 43:21, 54:5-10, Hos 2:19, 2:23, Joel 2:27, Micah 7:14-18)

40) Israel is the nation appointed to bring glory to God. (Isa 41:8-16, 43:10, 43:21, 44:23, 49:3)

How strange it is, that with all the definite and positive assurances in the Word of God promising Israel's continuance FOREVER as a Nation, there has not been any continued or persistent effort on the part of organized 'religion' to find them. Many have been blinded by the 'preachers' who believe that the little insignificant country in the middle east that call themselves Israel is the Israel of God. Some believe the lie taught by some unlearned TV preachers and other 'cemeteries' that it is these 'Jews' that are Gods chosen people. Very few know this is a lie, and that there is a vast difference between those that call themselves "Jews" and Israel. There IS a vast difference. They are separate peoples.

Another possible explanation for this blindness can be that it was God's will and purpose to hide them. While the Jews (some of whom are only a part of the House of Judah) occupy the stage, even naming their country "Israel", God works unhindered with and in "lost Israel", untill he has finished his predetermined work, and without them knowing that they were the people of the Book. Only as Israel's time of punishment had run out, with the whole of God's purposes at the point of complete fulfillment, is the identity of Israel to become known.

The blinders are coming off for some.

It is a matter of inspired record that God placed 'marks' on His people. Israel. During the Christian dispensation, lost Israel was to possess these marks of identification. So, then, if we can match these Biblically recorded marks to a people, we have found Israel, the people who God had selected to serve Him by being a channel of blessing to all mankind. These marks are many, and while the list of 40 at the beginning of this article is in no means complete or exhaustive, they constitute a chain of evidence utterly impossible for thinking individuals to ignore.

One race, and one race alone has all the marks. Nations within this race may have a portion of them, but the race as a whole has them all. With few exceptions Joseph (the birthright nation) was the recipient of them all. By inheritance, (See Gen 48:16-20) his two sons, Ephraim (Great Britain) and Manasseh (USA) will be found possessing them all !!

Although some Israelites remain in all the countries of the world, America is the homeland of the millions of the 13 tribes (one out of many) and thus is representative of the whole House of Jacob. We are thus bound by Israel's responsibilities; fulfilling Israel's destiny. The marks are on us everywhere: In our NAME; in our CONSTITUTION: in our SABBATH; in our INSTITUTIONS; in our PHILANTHROPHY; in our COMMERCE; in our WEALTH; in our MINES; in our AGRICULTURE; in our CHURCHES; in our MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES; in our ARMED FORCES; in our POSSESSION OF THE BIBLE; all these are 'birthmarks', which neither time, nor the ages, nor even our sin can wipe away.

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