Israel's Salvation and Biblical Covenants

Alexander lived 2500 years ago, everybody. So, that wasn't the time of the end. But anyhow, we'll continue with Yom Kippur here. But Hosea prophesied Messiah would return to heaven after His first coming events, which occurred approximately 2,000 years ago. Okay, I've already read that, so please excuse me. The Apostle Paul clearly explains God's sovereign, righteous, and divine plan of salvation for Jews and Gentiles that will ultimately be fulfilled at His second coming events, including the Days of Awe from Feast of Trumpets to Yom Kippur. Romans 11:25-29: "For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written: 'The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

This is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.' Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake; but concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."

Okay, so let's go through that really quick. Paul, this is a beautiful chapter to go through, really, for Jews and Gentiles to go through, Jews and Christians to go through Romans 11, because it would correct both of their attitudes towards the other. Okay? So, first, "I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in." Okay, what does that mean? That means the fullness of the Gentiles, the Antichrist and the Gentile, the kingdoms are Gentiles, and it also can mean the believers of the Gentiles reaching their full capacity.

But the fullness of the Gentiles will not end until Yeshua returns. Okay? The Antichrist will be a Gentile. The armies will be Gentiles. They will trample all over Jerusalem. Zechariah 14. So the time of the Gentiles will not end until the Feast of Trumpets when Yeshua returns. And then what does it say? "And all Israel will be saved." What does that mean? All of Israel will be saved. That means believing Jews, believing Gentiles. We're all part of the commonwealth. We're all part of the kingdom of Israel. Paul goes through that in Ephesians 2 very clearly for our Christian friends. You are in the commonwealth or kingdom of Israel. Okay? If you read what he says, what does he say? "You Gentiles, uncircumcised in the flesh, who were strangers from the covenants of promise, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel." But with Messiah Yeshua, the blood of the Messiah, you're in the commonwealth of Israel.

Paul goes through that very clearly in Ephesians 2. He was going off of Exodus 12. So go read Exodus 12 and Ephesians 2. They go perfectly together. And he tells you you're grafted in into the commonwealth of Israel. Romans 11, you're grafted in. "All of Israel will be saved." That doesn't mean every Jewish person will be saved. They will not. A lot of them will die. Zechariah 13 goes through that. Okay? So "all of Israel" is not talking about every Jewish person will be saved. No, that's incorrect. "All of Israel shall be saved." That means the Jew and the Gentile together who believes in Yeshua, the Messiah, will be saved. Okay? That's what it's talking about. The commonwealth of Israel, which includes both believing Jews and believing Gentiles at the very end. Okay? And then "all of Israel will be saved when He returns." Amen. "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins." He's talking about Ezekiel 36, Jeremiah 31, etc., after the tribulation. Okay? "Concerning the gospel, right now they are enemies for your sake," the Jewish people as a whole. "But concerning the election, they are the beloved because of the sake of the fathers." What does that mean? That they are the elect of the Torah. The Torah was given to them, the calendar, the days, all of these things. Yeshua was going to be birthed out of them, out of Israel, etc. They're still the elect because of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Okay? Is what He's saying for the love of the fathers because of those covenants are irrevocable. They're everlasting. They're unconditional. And this is where people get confused even today is the Abrahamic Covenant is the land and the rights to the land to the Jewish people and the seed that's going to rule over that land.

Okay? Who's the seed of Abraham? Yeshua is. Matthew 1. Okay? So, He's the seed that's going to rule over the promised land over the believers of the Jewish people and the believers of the Gentiles. Okay? Abrahamic Covenant. Beautiful. If you're a seed of Christ, you're a seed of Abraham. Galatians 3, you're heirs according to that covenant. Abrahamic Covenant. Amen. Now, go to the Davidic Covenant. It builds and extends upon that. What's the Davidic Covenant? It's the promise to David that Yeshua is going to sit on His everlasting throne. Okay? A seed of David. That's why the New Testament, the first sentence of the New Testament says seed of David, seed of Abraham. So that we know that He's going to fulfill the Davidic Covenant and the Abrahamic Covenant because He is the New Covenant. You see? So again, the Abrahamic Covenant is the land, peace, and the seed that's going to go rule over that land, peace.

And the Jewish people have the right to the land, okay? Responsibly.

The Davidic covenant is the seed of David that will rule on David's everlasting throne over the promised land of the Abrahamic covenant over the people. The new covenant fulfills both of those, and that is the millennial kingdom. We are not living in the new covenant yet. The new covenant will be fulfilled when we enter the millennial kingdom, when the Jewish people say, "You are my God," and He will say, "You are my people." We are saved by the new covenant. Paul addresses this clearly in Ephesians 1. If you know the feast days, we are saved in redemption, forgiveness of sins, sealed by the Holy Spirit. Paul asks, "Until what?" Until the purchased, treasured possession is redeemed. How do we know that? On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. If we do not understand the feast days, we will not understand Ephesians 1, because that is what Paul was writing through. This is why I keep telling people that if we do not understand how Paul is writing these things, then welcome to replacement theology.

Just as Peter says in 2 Peter chapter 3, do not twist Paul's writings, as people do with the other scriptures, to their own destruction. I would trust Peter on that to be very careful with taking Paul out of context to their own destruction. We must have a proper understanding in Ephesians 1. No one can understand that unless they understand the feast days, because that is what he says: you have forgiveness of sins, sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of these beautiful things at Passover, individual salvation, and you are sealed until the purchased possession is redeemed. If we do not know that, then we need to get educated to understand what that means. That means one day you are redeemed nationally. Yom Kippur is individual salvation leading to national salvation. Amen and amen and amen. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. So, my friends, there are gifts and callings of the Jewish people that are irrevocable.

We must respect that and acknowledge it. At the same time, we must provoke them to jealousy, just as Romans 11 states. We must provoke them to jealousy with the covenants and with the feast days, with Yeshua in the feast days, and all of these things that they understand as well, from a Torah-based gospel. Let us go through the Mosaic covenant. All three covenants I just mentioned—Abrahamic, Levitic, and new covenant—are unilateral, unconditional, irrevocable, and everlasting. They depend only on God's sovereign righteousness. Now, the Mosaic covenant, and this is where our Christian Zionist friends need to understand this, and the Zionists as well, overall Jewish Zionists: the Abrahamic covenant gives the people the right to the land. But when they get into the land, that is when the Mosaic covenant takes over. Now that they are back in the land, it is about Moses and how to live in the land.