YECHEZKEL - EZEKIEL - CHAPTER 20 AND THE CORPORATE NATURE OF ISRAEL

Certain elders came to Yechezkel - Ezekiel - and sought to receive a message from God through him.  The response to these elders from the God of Israel was that he would not respond to their questions.  They were then told that the only reason that God had preserved Israel even from the time of Israel's captivity in Egypt was for the sake of his own name.  In other words, God has attached his name to the nation of Israel and this gives the nation of Israel its one unchangeable definition.  It is for this reason and no other that Mashiach died, was buried and was raised again from the dead.  And it is for this reason that Israel is preserved.  This is the true corporate nature of Israel and all nations shall rejoice with Israel because of it.

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Immersed In Israel's Good News

To believe that Yehoshua (Jesus) is the Messiah of Israel is to believe in the corporate redemption of the nation of Israel, whether or not the one who believes realizes and understands this. But it is far better to realize and understand this than not to. Realizing and understanding this is the beginning of the end of all confusion about the relationship of the grace of God and the Torah of God, and of all Antisemitism and of many other problems and evils.

Israel's Good News is that a belief that Yehoshua (Jesus) is the Messiah of Israel is itself a belief in the corporate redemption of Israel. How has this realization and understanding been blocked historically in the Gentile Christian believer? It has been blocked by the natural reasoning that since the faith of the majority of a nation constitutes the faith of the nation, if the majority of the people of Israel rejected Yehoshua (Jesus), then there was no redemption of the nation of Israel. The Good News, however, Israel's Good News, is that in the case of Israel it is not the majority of the people who determine the corporate identity of the nation but God who determines the corporate identity of the nation.

The corporate identity of Israel is written by God in the covenant of God made with Abraham, and God has made Yehoshua (Jesus), the same man who was crucified, to be Lord and Messiah of every Jew who does not reject the covenant of God and every Gentile who believes in the covenant of God. This is the Good News of Israel. Every soul that is immersed in the hope of God's covenant is immersed in Israel's Good News, whether or not they realize and understand this. But it is far better to realize and understand this than not to.

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