{"id":365,"date":"2010-03-17T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-07-06T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T12:14:15","slug":"israel-or-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Israel or the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father God raised up a nation called the children of Israel [People who came from the linage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob] to be a witness to the world of what happens when they listened to His voice and were obedient to what they were told.<br \/>\nThe end result after many generations was a nation that lost the relationship, lived by laws they had made and became full of pride saying they were the chosen ones and every one else was dammed.<\/p>\n<p>After Jesus came, died on the Cross, buried, rose after 3 days and returned to heaven, the nation of Israel was replaced as a nation to be the witness to the world.<br \/>\nFather God created a body on earth called the Church to be that witness until the time the church age ends. <\/p>\n<p>Sad to say the church has gone the way the nation of Israel went, full of pride proclaiming to be God&#8217;s chosen and locked away unto themselves especially<br \/>\nin western nations.<br \/>\nThere are nations in the world right now where professing Christians are dying for their faith.<br \/>\nHow would those in western nations respond to being persecuted even to death as they are?<br \/>\nWould the response be as Stephens was as recorded in Acts 7: 59-\u201c 60 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.<br \/>\nAnd he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.<\/p>\n<p>The church age is about to come to an end, then Father God will return to the nation of Israel, as recorded in Romans 11:25-27<br \/>\n\u201cFor I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father God raised up a nation called the children of Israel [People who came from the linage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob] to be a witness to the world of what happens when they listened to His voice and were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/?p=365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forgiveit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}