“Those who believe that they are the owners of Jerusalem today will not find a single tree to hide behind tomorrow.” – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkey)

Romans 11:1-24 (TPT)

So then I ask you this question: did God really push aside and reject his people? Absolutely not! For I myself am a Jew, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. ² God has not rejected his chosen, destined people!         

¹¹ So, am I saying that Israel stumbled so badly that they will never get back up? Certainly not! Rather, it was because of their stumble that salvation now extends to all the non-Jewish people, in order to make Israel jealous and desire the very things that God has freely given them. ¹² So if all the world is being greatly enriched through their failure, and through their fall great spiritual wealth is given to the non-Jewish people, imagine how much more will Israel’s awakening bring to us all!

¹³ Now, I speak to you who are not Jewish, since I am an apostle to reach the non-Jewish people. And I draw attention to this ministry as much as I can when I am among the Jews, ¹⁴ hoping to make them jealous of what God has given to those who are not Jews, winning some of my people to salvation.

¹⁵ For if their temporary rejection released the reconciling power of grace into the world, what will happen when Israel is reinstated and reconciled to God? It will unleash resurrection power throughout the whole earth!

¹⁶ Since Abraham and the patriarchs are consecrated and set apart for God, so also will their descendants be set apart. If the roots of a tree are holy and set apart for God, so too will be the branches.

¹⁷ However, some of the branches have been pruned away. And you, who were once nothing more than a wild olive branch in the desert, God has grafted in—inserting you among the remaining branches as a joint partner to share in the wonderful richness of the cultivated olive stem. ¹⁸ So don’t be so arrogant as to believe that you are superior to the natural branches. There’s no reason to boast, for the new branches don’t support the root, but you owe your life to the root that supports you!

¹⁹ You might begin to think that some branches were pruned or broken off just to make room for you. ²⁰ Yes, that’s true. They were removed because of their unbelief. But remember this: you are only attached by your faith. So don’t be presumptuous, but stand in awe and reverence. ²¹ Since God didn’t spare the natural branches that fell into unbelief, perhaps he won’t spare you either!

²² So fix your gaze on the simultaneous kindness and strict justice of God. How severely he treated those who fell into unbelief! Yet how tender and kind is his relationship with you. So keep on trusting in his kindness; otherwise, you also will be cut off.

²³ God is more than ready to graft back in the natural branches when they turn from clinging to their unbelief to embracing faith. ²⁴ For if God grafted you in, even though you were taken from what is by nature a wild olive tree, how much more can he reconnect the natural branches by inserting them back into their own cultivated olive tree!

Fullness

Romans 11:12 (NKJV)

Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

• Romans 11:15 NKJV calls it “life from the dead”!

 

Commanded Blessings

Psalm 133: 1-3 (NKJV)

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity? 2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, running down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, running down on the edge of his garments.  3 It is like the dew of Hermon, descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessing— life forevermore.

Psalm 122:6 (NKJV)

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

Genesis 12:3 (NKJV)

I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you;  And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

 

Abraham’s Inheritance

Ephesians 3:6 (NKJV)

that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,

 

Identity

Ephesians 2:19 (NKJV)

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

 

Revival

Ephesians 2:22 (NKJV)

in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

 

Signs, Wonders and Healing

Ephesians 3:10 (NKJV)

to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,

 

Purpose with Power

Ephesians 3:11 (NKJV)

according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Fullness of God’s Love

Ephesians 3:16-19 (NKJV)

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Abundance

Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV)

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Maturity through Unity

Ephesians 4:13-16 (NKJV)

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

True Prayer Warriors

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)

if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Being a Part of Bible Prophecy

Isaiah 60:10 (NKJV)

“The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I have had mercy on you.

Isaiah 61:3 (NKJV)

3 To console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

Amos 9:11-14 (NKJV)

11 “On that day I will raise up
The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, and repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name,” says the Lord who does this thing.  13 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed; the mountains shall drip with sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. 14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; they shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.

Watchmen

Isaiah 62:6-7 (NKJV)

6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
7 And give Him no rest till He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Isaiah 60:12 (NKJV)

For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, And those nations shall be utterly ruined.

An Answer to Yeshua’s Prayer

John 10:16 (NKJV)

And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

John 17:20-21 (NKJV)

“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

We are His Kings & Priests

Matthew 25:40 (NKJV)

And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

We are His Church

Revelation 3:7 (NKJV)

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”

Isaiah 22:22 (NKJV)

“The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open.”

 

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