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Remnant-Theology.Pdf Examining the problems of a failed exegesis Bible Language aids Concordance Bible Teacher Dictionary and Encyclopedia Bible software Lexicon } 1 Corinthians 1:12 (NASB) 12 Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ." } Chafer said— } MacArthur said— } Piper said--- } Buttermore, Bush, Cone or Smith said-- } Book Study } Verse by Verse } Topical } Controversial } Theological } Dispensational } Covenant Theology } Biblical } Topical } Look at the totality of scripture when building a doctrine } Study a single verse always in light of its immediate context } Normal sense of words cannot be abandoned unless there is overwhelming evidence to do so } Take the Bible literally and understand the Bible also uses figures, idioms, parables, types and even allegory. } Judaism (Today) } Replacement Theology } Separation Theology } Remnant Theology } Biblical Theology } There is a growing theology that believes today's Gentile Believers are grafted into Israel. This is a misinterpretation of Romans 11:13-25 } There is also a need as Arnold Fruchtenbaum many years wrote about, a systematic teaching on Israelology. Better still we need to grasp the very Biblical Doctrine of the Remnant of Israel. } About the Two Houses of Israel } 1. We believe that through the two-house restoration, both houses of Israel are having their blinders removed. 2. Judah-Yahudah needs Moshiach and Ephraim-Yisrael needs Torah and their identity as Yisrael’s other house restored. Isaiah 8:14 3. The House of Ephraim/House of Israel is not a replacement for the House of Yahudah. The two are rejoining to be one "stick" in His hand. Ezekiel 37:15-22 4. We believe that all believers in Moshiach Yahshua are physical and spiritual Yisrael, regardless of whether they come from Judah-Yahudah, Ephraim-Yisrael (10 tribes) or have no Yisraelite blood but have joined Yisrael’s Commonwealth through submission to Yisrael’s King the Moshiach Yahshua. Thus the eklessia / kahal is Yisrael restored. Ephesians 2:11-19 } Romans 11:13-25 (NASB) 13 But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." 20 Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; 21 for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. 22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; } Don’t be married to a system or a theology } We could look at what the counterfeit has to offer and try to figure out how they arrived at their theology } We could do a verse by verse study of Romans 11:13-25 } We could do research about the majority opinion (now that is dangerous ground) } I want to make you familiar with this growing theological understanding } Then we will look at keys to unlock the context in Romans 11 } We will look at tools for Bible Study and how we would use them to unlock the mystery of Romans 11 83 times } <03498> rt;y" (yathar) (451b) 101x’s } Meaning: to remain over } <03499a> rt,y< yether (451d) 89x’s } Meaning: remainder, excess, preeminence } <06413> hj'yleP. peletah (812c) 26x’s } Meaning: an escape } <07604> ra;v' shaar (983d) 123x’s } Meaning: to remain, be left over } <07605> ra'v. shear (984b) 25x’s } Meaning: rest, residue, remnant } <07611> tyrIaev. sheerith (984c) 66x’s } Meaning: rest, residue, remnant, remainder } <08300> dyrIf' sarid (975a) 28x’s } Meaning: a survivor } <07611> tyrIaev. sheerith (984c) 66x’s } Meaning: rest, residue, remnant, remainder } In Jeremiah } Jeremiah 6:9 9 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel; Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer Over the branches." } Jeremiah 8:3 3 "And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them," declares the LORD of hosts. } Jeremiah 11:23 and a remnant will not be left to them, for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth— the year of their punishment." } Jeremiah 15:9 "She who bore seven sons pines away; Her breathing is labored. Her sun has set while it was yet day; She has been shamed and humiliated. So I will give over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies," declares the LORD. } Jeremiah 23:3 "Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply. } Jeremiah 24:8 'But like the bad figs which cannot be eaten due to rottenness—indeed, thus says the LORD—so I will abandon Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land and the ones who dwell in the land of Egypt. } Jeremiah 25:20 and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod); } Jeremiah 31:7 For thus says the LORD, "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise and say, 'O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.' } Jeremiah 39:3 Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. } Jeremiah 40:11,15 11 Likewise, also all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom and who were in all the other countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant for Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan. 15Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, "Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?" } Jeremiah 41:10, 16 10 Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put under the charge of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; thus Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and proceeded to cross over to the sons of Ammon. } 16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were soldiers, the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon. } Jeremiah 42:2, 15, 19 2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Please let our petition come before you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, that is for all this remnant; because we are left but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us, } 15 then in that case listen to the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there, 19 The LORD has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, "Do not go into Egypt!" You should clearly understand that today I have testified against you. } Jeremiah 43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the entire remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been driven away, in order to reside in the land of Judah— } Jeremiah 44:7 'Now then thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant, Jeremiah 44:12 'And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their mind on entering the land of Egypt to reside there, and they will all meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and meet their end by famine.
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