1God: FOREKNOWLEDGE In What form and how Christ "pre-existed" Bethlehem?

 

1God Series © FOREKNOWLEDGE:

In what form Christ "pre-existed" Bethlehem.
-by rory moore 

The Scriptures state Christ had glory before the the foundation of the world so that leads us to ask...

Was Christ a person, a Spirit being pre-existing with His heavenly Father before coming into the world as "God incarnate"? 
The Trinitarian thinks so, but a Onenness-Modalist believes GOD the Father "incarnated" Himself into a man leaving the throne vacant while He was on earth.
Was he an angel? A Spirit-being? 

-since those in scripture who saw heaven did not tell us of a multiplicity of God-persons, (see their words here), how can we reconcile passages such as:

John 17:5 
And now You, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world existed.

Let's look at how Christ could be "with" the Father before Bethlehem to answer how he was with the Father literally. 
And along with this thought, compare how that GOD also "knew" Jeremiah before he was born.

Jeremiah 1: 4-5 Now the word of the LORD (GOD) came to me saying,  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”. Was Jeremiah also foreknown as a literal person prior to his birth or was it  foreknowledge?

Foreknowledge, along with every Divine attribute was "with" GOD from eternity. God is eternal, infinite, all-knowing from before creation to the very end of time.

 The prophets who saw the throne and saw God, (see the link to visions of the prophets):

They are Macaiah, Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel. Moses and the elders also saw into heaven in Exodus 24:12, and John in Revelation 4-5. Stephen also saw the heavens opened and the "SON OF MAN".
Ezekiel 1:26-28 is most detailed vision and agrees with what others saw.
Since there is One God with a "form" and "likeness of a man" who was seen, and because Christ is "the Son of man", how could Christ have glory "before the world was"? 

The answer that resolves this enigma so beautifully is that Jesus was glorified before he was born, not literally as a co-existing or pre-birthed man, but that Jesus did exist in God's foreknowledge
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”.

Here are numerous passages affirming the eternal nature of God's infinite knowledge.

Foreknowledge:
Acts 2: 22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, 
23  𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒏, 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒐𝒅, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

Foreknowledge:
John 17:24: that they may behold my glory, which You have given me: for You loved me before the foundation of the world. 

Foreknowledge:
1Peter 1: 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit,

Foreknowledge:
1 Peter 1:20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

Foreknowledge:
Romans 8:29   For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Foreknowledge:
Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,

Foreknowledge:
2 Timothy 1:8-9
 but be thou a partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel according to the power of God,
9 who hath saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but in accordance with His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Foreknowledge.
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Foreknowledge:
Acts 15:18 Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world

Foreknowledge:
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Foreknowledge: the Lamb slain *before the foundation of the world*.
Rev. 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world

SUMMARY:
How then was Christ sharing glory with God before the world existed?
If he was not seen as a literal person, an angel, or a collateral second God-person, how might we reconcile?

I believe it was evidenced by the Father's eternal "foreknowledge" and that answers the many verses that seem to put the man, Christ Jesus as a pre-existing person.

If there is a shred of doubt, look again at the resurrection gospel preached by Peter at the beginning of the Spirit-filled church in Acts 2:

22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know

 23 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒏, 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒐𝒅, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

I hope this encourages you to seek and know Christ better.

1God WHO raised Jesus from the dead?

 How was Jesus raised from the dead?
compiled by rory moore

John 2:18 The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?” 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 

20 The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
 21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

This will clear up the misconception whether Jesus as God raised his dead body from the grave, or Jesus as a man was raised by God the Father.

Is Jesus GOD and raised Himself from the dead?
It does sound like he did from his words in John 2.

But like other topics, a closer look at God's Word reveals the truth.

We find more in John 10:17 For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. 18 No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. 

This commandment I received from My Father.” (NASB95)

Let's compare it in the Complete Jewish Bible:

No one takes it away from me; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This is what my Father commanded me to do.”

In the Names of God version: 
No one takes my life from me. I give my life of my own free will. I have the authority to give my life, and I have the authority to take my life back again. This is what my Father ordered me to do.”

No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.” from the NLT.

How did Jesus raise himself according to this passage? As in all He did, it was in obedience to a command and at the direction of The Father.

Now to solidify this truth, we have the following list of scriptures that all say the same thing in giving God the Father the glory for raising Jesus Christ, and knowing He did so by giving that command to Jesus to speak prophetically over his death and resurrection. As it is written:

John 12:49 For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

Now that we know how it came about for Christ to say he would raise himself from the dead, I will leave you with  20 verses stating GOD raised Christ from the dead:

Acts 2:32 This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. 

Acts 3:15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

Acts 4:10 be it known to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even in him does this man stand here before you whole.

Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:

Acts 13:34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken on this wise, I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.

Acts 17:31 inasmuch as he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness ***by the man whom HE has ordained***; whereof HE has given assurance to all men, in that HE has raised him <Christ> from the dead.

Romans 4:24 for our sake also, who believe on Him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

Romans 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no more has dominion over him.

Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead lives in you, HE that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 8:34 who is he that condemns? It is Christ Jesus that died, yea rather, that was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Romans 10:9 because if you shall confess with the mouth Jesus as Lord, and shall believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved:

1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

1 Corinthians 15:15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.

 Galatians 1:1 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

Ephesians 1:20 which he wrought in Christ, when HE raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Colossians 2:12 having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom HE raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Peter 1:21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

"My Lord and My God"

Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

People often point to that verse as a "Jesus is God" proof,
 but ignore two other passages in the same chapter that do not agree with what they think Thomas meant. 

Let’s examine in context three key verses in the same chapter.

20:17 Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them:
‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God’

20:28 And Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

20:31  <John>  but these have been written  that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

These are FOUR possible meanings.

1.  Thomas calling Jesus Lord ( a master, of authority) and God , <theos/ eloheim.  A word also applied to men, judges and kings) 

2.  As an exclamation, MY LORD AND MY GOD! -as an expression of shock and surprise to GOD above, as people do.

3. Calling him LORD (Yhwh)  and GOD (The Almighty)

4. Jesus responded to Thomas: John 20:29  Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Believed what? That he was God? 
Or that God raised him from the dead?
The context of the conversation is the resurrection of Christ, and not deity

There's only one answer and it was the fact that God raised him from the dead.
Reading a few verses prior should help us understand the best choice.

John 20:17 (NASB) Jesus *said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say, 
'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"

Because the word “God” or “theos” are not exclusive terms for the Almighty. 

It may refer to anything likened unto God, Gods Representative, or one entrusted with the word of God, a judge, a ruler, or king. All of which apply to Jesus.

Jesus said the Father is the ONLY true God and he said the Father is "MY God".
John said exactly why he wrote in John 20:31(NASB)

but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; 
and that believing you may have life in His name.

Summary:
How many times did anyone say or preach  “Jesus IS GOD”?  -0.
How many times did anyone say or preach Jesus is the “SON of God?  42 Times (NASB)
What are we to believe? -"Jesus is God" or "Jesus is the CHRIST, the SON of GOD"?
-and that God raised him from the dead, which is what Thomas came to believe.

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Does Thomas' exclamation  PROVE JESUS is GOD?

While GOD Almighty was still on the throne?

Did Thomas know that Jesus had just said "....I ascend TO MY GOD AND YOUR GOD" and somehow think Jesus was God?

DID JOHN knowingly write that Jesus was ascending "TO MY GOD AND YOU GOD"

and yet John still finished his gospel with "these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the CHRIST, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD"?

And WHY did NONE of the preachers in Acts say "Jesus is our GOD" or a simple "JESUS IS GOD"

***IF*** it was so?

These are clear reasons to think about and stop trying to prove what no scripture says:
 i.e. "Jesus is God".

He that overcomes is he that believes Jesus **IS** the Christ, the Son of God".

1God Thomas to Rest, My God it's Time

Time to change our view. 

A man asked:
“QUESTION to you anti-christ's here who say Thomas is not directing "my God" to him (Jesus).

Why is it that all the scriptures of the gospels, regarding the apostles walking with Jesus, they all already called him "Lord"?
But now that Thomas is saying "My Lord and my God", so that Jesus is saying "you have seen me and have believed" Believed what? That he lives?
Thomas was the LAST of the apostles to see Jesus alive again.

So.... It wasn't him seeing Jesus as his "Lord"/"Master". What was it that Thomas saw?
Could it be something similar <the revelation> to when Peter said "you are the Christ the son of God" and Jesus said "flesh and blood has not shown you this Peter bar Jonas, but my Father in Heaven has revealed it to you". 

My answer so that we can put Thomas to rest.

1. Calling  Jesus “Lord” is not calling Jesus “Yehovah”. “Lord” is master, kurios, not LORD/Yehovah” the Father.
Jesus is named Jesus. 
Yehovah called HIMSELF “YEHOVAH”, “my name forever”.

2. “ Could it be something similar to when Peter said "you are the Christ the son of God" and Jesus said "flesh and blood hath not shown you this Peter bar Jonas, but my Father in Heaven has revealed it to you".
Ans.: Did Jesus affirm Thomas’ exclamation with a similar affirmation as Jesus did with Peter?
NO! Jesus spoke of believing his resurrection!

3. Was Thomas with the others and received the Holy Ghost in Acts 2?  YES!
4. Did Thomas preach the “similar revelation” in Acts?  NO!
5. Did Peter preach Thomas’ “similar revelation in Acts ?   NO!

6. Did PETER preach his “revelation” of Jesus in Acts?  YES!
7. According to Joseph Russell, is Peter “antichrist” for not preaching the “Deity of Christ” and/ or Thomas’ exclamation?   YES!
8. Did Peter preach the revelation of Jesus Christ in Acts? YES! (numerous times)
9. Do I believe and preach what Peter preached? -YES!
10. Did Peter preach the words “Deity of Christ”  –NO!

11. Was Thomas present when "Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them” who Jesus is? –YES!

Acts 2:22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him…³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.”

 Acts 3: 6 But Peter said, “I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—walk!

Acts 4:8
  Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them..
10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead
—26 ‘The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ.’

27 For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed

Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross. 31 He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel.
 :42 every day.. they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. 

-BUT they were not “teaching and preaching Jesus is God”.

Acts 10, Peter:
The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)
— ³⁷ you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed. 
³⁸ You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power

Do the preachers in Acts affirm the antichrist accusation or state the “Jesus is God” doctrine?
NO!

PART 2 Thinking it over.
Does Thomas exclaiming "...MY GOD" in one place override and negate Jesus calling GOD "MY GOD" in FOURETEEN references? 
Thomas said it in an undefined manner as an exclamation without another person saying the same words or quoting him,  but when Jesus says it 14 times in specifics, should that be ignored?

If we want to speculate,  ASSUMING Thomas is saying to Jesus "YOU ARE MY Jehovah and my God!" but Jesus said I ascend "TO MY GOD and your God..." same chapter.

LISTEN TO JESUS!

Matthew 27:46
 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, **MY GOD**, **MY GOD**, why have you forsaken me?

John 20:17   Jesus said to her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to the Father: but go unto my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to MY FATHER and your Father, and **MY GOD** and your God.

Revelation 3:12 He that overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of **MY GOD**, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of **MY GOD**,
and the name of the city of **MY GOD**, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from **MY GOD**, and mine own new name....

Can you see the truth?

Neither "Jesus is God", nor "Jesus is my God" was ever preached.
Only by inferences and imposing the traditional view over passages such as John 20:28 do people make scripture say what is not said.

My other post on Thomas is HERE.

Putting Thomas to Rest "My God" it's Time

Part 11 Israel a dead body. "where the carcass is there the eagles are gathered" SHORT!

 

the truth is simple.

"where the carcass is there the eagles are gathered":

Let's look at the scripture parts to see the meaning behind the enigmatic words of Christ.

According to the Old Testament Law of Moses, the eagle was an abomination. see Lev 11:13 these are they which you shall hold in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey.

The Roman army carried eagle images were on their shields and flag poles.

"upon the wing of abomination.." *Daniel 9:26 (other translations say "for the overspreading of abominations)

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"where the carcass is"

In context, Jerusalem, and the dead body was the nation Israel.. DOA 70 AD. on the 9th of Av, the day of wrath, judgement, and destruction.

Mark 13:14 “But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not be”

The desolation was the work of the Romans who destroyed the city and the temple.

Luke 13:35 Jesus prophesied: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate;

Luke 21:20 “And when you His disciples) shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near. -The Romans encompassed Jerusalem for over 5 months.

The desolation was administered by Rome.

Titus was "the prince of the people that shall come". His father was Emperor Vespasian, Titus is the prince named below in Dan. 9:26..

Dan 9:26 .....the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

And the end thereof shall be with a flood,

and until the end of the war desolations are determined.

The Romans under the banner of the eagle-abomination carried out the desolations", plural, of destroying the the temple of God, Jerusalem, and Israel became a dead carcass.

Death was the prescribed penalty for adultery in Moses' law, and the unfaithful woman, Israel, was put to death by the sword of Rome to fulfill the law.

Leviticus 20:10

“‘And the man that commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

The Israel God created through the prophets, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, ended in the death of God's Israel.

The New Testament Israel of God created through Jesus Christ, a spiritual kingdom not of this world, is now the Israel that inherits the promises. It is populated by both Jew and non-Jew who have been born again and citizens of the "NEW Jerusalem".

All reactions:

2Shirley Thorson and Howard Disher

A Marriage in Trouble: Israel Part 10

 

Israel and God: a Marriage on the Rocks
In His Word, God actually referred to Israel as a wife, Himself as a husband and said through a prophet “I am married to you” -Jer 3:14..

Most people have developed their recent views of modern Israel through the news media, some through the Bible, and the blurring has been divisive.
Since the Bible is the truthful record of who Israel is and their relationship to God, we are best served to understand from God’s point of reference.

The Lord has always desired relationship with His creation, and the Hebrew people were called to be a special people for Him, and a light to the world. When He brought them into the Promised land, 
vows were exchanged, Deut. 27, and so God entered into a covenant <marriage>  with Israel at Sinai.
He warned Israel (as His wife) that He was a jealous husband (Ex.20:5) and regarded the worship of other gods as the equivalent of adultery in marriage (Ex.34:15-16).

 “I AM A JEALOUS GOD”, is part of the first commandment.

It did not take Israel long to reject the LORD’s rule and in 1 Samuel 8 they demanded to have a king to rule over them. God told Samuel “they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them”.
The marriage was in trouble. It was a rocky marriage to say the least.

Isaiah 54:5  For thy Maker is thine husband” the LORD of hosts is His name” …

The LORD warned that unfaithfulness on Israel’s part would result in a breaking of the covenant between Himself and them (Deut.31:16). 
God was faithful to His Word, Israel was not.
Jeremiah 3:14 ‘Turn, O backsliding children,’ says the Lord, ‘for I am married to you…;

As Israel went whoring after other gods, (Remphan, Baal, Ashtoroth, etc.) the LORD chastised them and sent prophets again and again to call the treacherous wife to repentance (Jer.3:20,22).

 When they would not repent, God gave Judah a 70 year separation out of His land into a 70 year captivity in Babylon (Persia).
Ezekiel 23:31 declare to them their abominations, 37 that they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery..

Even when God divorced Judah (Isa.50:1/Jer.3:8), He still offered a promise of forgiveness and restoration if she would repent (Jer.3:1).  

Judah in part repented and a remnant restored after the Babylonian captivity.
But Judah, (Israel), continued to violate the covenant and in the final indignity, rejected and crucified God’s beloved Son.

For this ultimate offense, God canceled <disannulled> the legality of first covenant (Old Testament) relationship (Zech.11:10) and exacted a horrific vengeance upon the Christ-rejecting Jews.

Could there be a re-marriage to Israel again?

In Deuteronomy, God told Israel that if she provoked Him to jealousy by going after other gods (committing spiritual adultery), He would provoke her by taking another people (wife) for Himself (Deut. 32:21). Hosea also states that same threat (Hos.2:16-23), and Isaiah repeats. (Isa.65:1, 15).

In their Law of the Old Covenant there were ordinances regarding marriage and remarriage:
Leviticus 21:7  They shall not take a wife who is a whore or profane, neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
again, 
Deut. 24:1 “When a man has taken a wife and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her.

Because Israel was a rebellious wife, God found much uncleanness in Israel, and as the nation rejected Christ, there was no more sacrifice for sin.

“ then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.”
God gave Israel a bill of divorcement via the prophets after many warnings to repent.

2 And when she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
(-thus Israel was put out of God’s “house” and became married to the world.)

3 And if the latter husband despise her and write her a bill of divorcement, and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband die who took her to be his wife,

4 her former husband  who sent her away may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled.

Note:
a dead body defiles, “Anyone who touches a corpse, no matter whose dead body it is, will be unclean for seven days. Numbers 19:11>;  and so the LORD sent "her" away, and slew the nation.

-for that is abomination before the Lord, and you shall not cause the land to sin which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

“IT IS FINISHED!”
-the divorce was finalized, Jesus pronounced judgement upon Israel, the marriage disannulled.

The “disannulling”  of the marriage between God and Israel removed Israel as the Covenant people and the gospel went to the whole world.
Heb 8:13 In that He says “a new covenant,” He has made the first old. Now that which decays and becomes OLD is ready to vanish away.

The First <marriage> Covenant with Israel was about to vanish when the writer of Hebrews wrote the above.
At the destruction of the nation of Israel in 70AD, there was not only a cancellation of the previous covenant with adulterous Israel, and according to the LAW, “she” was to be PUT TO DEATH. 

This was fulfilled.

The Law of adultery:
Leviticus 20:10 “‘And the man that commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committed adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Jeremiah 3:8  And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce;
yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

In these two passages regarding the law of adultery, we find a deeper truth that would come to pass in a greater fulfillment at the time of Christ. In rejecting Christ, the ultimate indignation against God, the Old Covenant nation Israel God put to death with the sword of Rome.

Thus, the modern “State of Israel” is a fraud, married to the world, a member state of the UN, with satan as the spiritual head. It is to this day politically “anti-Christ”.

The bride, the Lamb’s wife

In the New Testament, Jesus is betrothed (pledged) to another bride, a “chaste virgin” with a new (marriage) covenant, with a new people (Matt.21:43; 26:28-29) who have replaced forever the adulterous wife. 

Thus God, through Christ, both divorced his unfaithful wife, and through Christ has another wife through promise.  The bride of Christ is populated by both remnant Jewish believers AND gentile believers, together, in “one body”.

2 Cor 2:12 for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
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Revelation 21:9 And there came to me one of the seven angels,…. and talked with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” “and showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God.”

Do you see in the law of divorce and remarriage why Christ is not taking back a separate nation Israel after the flesh bloodline that can never be “a chaste virgin”?

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