Since ancient times, God's project for Israel and the world has included Israel; by no means God ever tought to keep Israel out of the plan. It's true been true the contrary! God never tought of exclude non only Israel, but God in His inclusion project, wanted to include also the "rest of the world".
The Bible teaches that when a generation changes, and new people come on power, people tend to forget the past, and therefore there is always an attempt to "change the game" and the historical facts. But one thing we know about God; it's that God never changes and therefore the attempt in our modern days to change history and facts, is a failed game.
This second part of God project is called the "New Israel"!
So it is imperative to understand that God's plan is made in "2 stages" and in "two different times"; in the first part the jews come to be a Nation and a people called Israel, and in the second stage, there is the inclusion of the "rest of the world Nations of good will", willing to eccept this project that INCLUDES the Nation and the people of Israel.
Taking out the jewish people or keeping out the State of Israel, is not possible, considering that "at first", God's project is made with them; the attempt to keep out Israel therefore, disqualifies everyone!
It's imperative to understand that in God's project, there is a desire of "inclusion" and not what today the Nations are tempted to do, ESCLUDING ISRAEL. Therefore just as God wanted to include what are know as the gentiles, the "rest of the world", we must include Israel, that was chosen first before anyone and anything.
The Bible in this subject is clear: whoever keeps himself out of the "roots of Israel", rappresented by the tree of olive, witch symbolazed the first Tree of God's Heaven (Gan Eden), is destined to be "cut off" from God's project.
The letter to the Romans 11 is even too clear: Christians are only "ingrafted branches"
11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.Do not be arrogant, but tremble. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. And if they (the jews) do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these jews, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
There are therefore a few things to meditate into in this simple Bible verse, that unveils really the mystery of God regarding His wonderful plan. First of all we must consider the "inclusion project" of the gentiles (all nations of the world eccept Israel), and the future inclusion of Israel in what become ONE NEW UNITED ISRAEL, including the so called Gentiles (Nations of good will).
To make a comparison and make everyone understand the project, God for "a moment" have "open a door" to the Nation for the "inclusion in Israel", while keeping them there anyway, to than in a second phase, INCLUDE everybody that wants to join Israel, in this Godly plan.
So the peremptory order to "the other Nations of good will" is that to be INCLUDE, they must graft in the already existent tree that symbolized Israel, and just like a good farmer grafts a branch in a tree, in the same way God give us this picture to understand that we non jews, have been "grafted by grace" and mercy by God to become Israel, or better the New Israel.
The New israel therefore is ONE PEOPLE UNDER ONE GOD, made by one original tree that is Israel, and "the rest of the Nations" that have accepted and is willing to amalgamate into this "new inclusive project with the original Israel.
It's therefore important to understand God's project and the two phases of this plan; first choose a people and a Nation, in the second stage include the other Nations of good will, and obtain therefore ONE NEW PEOPLE CALLED ISRAEL.
Another point to take into consideration is what will happen to "these Nations" or people that thinks to be part of this NEW UNITED PROJECT, without including the jewish people, who were already first. The Bible explain that whoever becomes arrogant and thinks to "exclude the jews" or to exclude the word Israel from this project, it's doomed to fail.
In fact a single branch of tree, cannot survive outside the grafting of the big tree, and therefore any attempt to exclude Israel has a Nation or the jews as people, from this project, it will not bring anything than dryness and instant death.
Farmers know far too well that the olive tree is a strong tree that an ancient tree that lives forever, and knows too well what is the grafting place and the grafting piece in the original tree; in the same way God knows very well that the jews are the original tree, and everybody else is grafted into it, only if it eccept the "sap of the roots" that carry them, and not viceversa.
In a modern world where sometimes nature is far from people life, this concept is not considered; but as the new generations carry on, must know that no branch have ever carried anything, but that viceversa a little branch is carried by a ancient tree.
The new Israel therefore is the ancient tree of Israel, plus this little grafted branch made up by the Christians of the all world, together they make THE ONE NEW ISRAEL.
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