In part one of this series the reader was introduced to the concept of “spiritual” Jews. The truth is that a Jew is a Jew regardless of his religious beliefs, customs, etc. This of course is in reference to biological Jewry, one of the characteristics of which calls for all male babies to be physically circumcised eight days following their births. This series deals with those people God calls “Jews” who are not necessarily biological Jews. In the early days of church history many Christians were not biological Jews, but were biological Gentiles. The inclusion of Gentiles (Heb.–goiim–heathen) within the church was not the first time Gentiles had been welcomed by the Almighty.

In the Book of Exodus we find the story of the Israelites coming out of Egypt where they had been living for over 400 years. During many of those years they had served as slaves of the Egyptians. In the New Testament we learn that it was the Word Who brought the Israelites out of Egypt. Who was the Word? Read John 1:1-4,14. The question is answered in First Corinthians 10:1-4 where we are told that the Israelites were set free “by the Rock that followed them, and THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST”–THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Read the series by that name. Key word–Old.

An interesting fact is that many of the slaves who came out Egypt on the night of Israel’s deliverance were not Israelites. Egypt was the mightiest nation on earth at that time. They had conquered a number of Gentile nations and had made slaves out of the survivors. Israel’s God (the Word Who became Jesus of Nazareth) performed a number of incredible miracles on behalf of Israel, causing Pharoah to allow God’s chosen people to leave his country. However, after seeing the miracles Israel’s God performed on her behalf, many of the Egyptians’ Gentile slaves embraced the Lord and came out of Egypt with the Israelites. It is noted in Exodus 12:38 that “a mixed multitude came out WITH them (Israel).” That mixed multitude consisted of biological Gentiles.

Note that in order to be absorbed into the Israelite family, everyone in this racially-mixed multitude would be required to obey God’s Law which He would give all of the escapees a few days later from atop Mt. Sinai. His Law would come in the form of the Ten Commandments which He wrote in stone. The recently freed people’s obedience to God’s Law began with the celebration of Passover which all were required to observe. The biological Gentiles would be required to observe that Holy Day, along with others God would require of everyone who called Him their God, and to do so “IN THEIR GENERATIONS,” meaning as long as Israelites inhabited the earth (Exo. 12:43,48). Today they number in the hundreds of millions world-wide but do not know who they are. Read Who and Where is Israel Today? Key word–Today. Obedience to God’s Law turned the Gentiles into “spiritual Jews.” God’s command to observe His Holy days holds true to this day. His true saints continue to observe them.

These LAW-KEEPING biological Jews and biological Gentiles are His “spiritual Jews”–His true church–His “chosen generation,” His “royal priesthood,” His “holy nation,” His “peculiar people” who reveal to the world that they have been brought “out of darkness (false religion) and into His marvelous light” (1 Pet. 2:9). These are the “few” who enter God’s church through His strait (difficult) gate and walk His narrow (restrictive) path leading to the Kingdom of God. Jesus said that “many” would enter his church through the enemy’s wide (come as you are) gate and would walk his wide (stay as you are) path leading to death. These are those who “… say they are (spiritual) Jews but do lie” (Rev. 2:9 and 3:9).

By reading Christ’s description of the last days (Laodicean) church (Rev. 3:14-18), we know that He was NOT describing those few spiritual Jews in today’s church. He was describing the vast majority that make up professing Christianity. We will now turn to the Book of Romans in order to identify the spiritual Jews within God’s church in the final days of this world as we have known it. God’s true disciples (1%) and those who claim to be His disciples (99%) both fall under the heading of “God’s people” who are separated spiritually according to His command found in Second Corinthians 6:141-7:1. Read this passage and obey His commands. Truth-seeking students of God’s Word know that the people God calls “My people who are called by My name” includes both true spiritual Jews and fake spiritual Jews. That is about to change. In fact, the process of separation is already happening as His spiritual Jews are beginning to distance themselves physically from the majority.

THERE WILL COME A TIME, AND SOON, WHEN THERE WILL BE A TOTAL PHYSICAL SEPARATION BETWEEN TRUE SAINTS (SPIRITUAL JEWS) AND FALSE SAINTS (SPIRITUAL GENTILES). THE TWO GROUPS WILL BECOME BITTER ENEMIES. THIS IS WHAT JESUS WAS REFERRING TO IN MATTHEW 10:21,22,35 WHERE HE WARNS US ABOUT CHILDREN BETRAYING PARENTS, SONS BETRAYING FATHERS, DAUGHTERS BETRAYING MOTHERS, BROTHERS BETRAYING BROTHERS AND MOTHERS-IN-LAW BETRAYING DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. I BELIVED THIS OPEN WARFARE WILL BEGIN WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO FOUR YEARS. ONCE THE SEPARATION IS COMPLETE, GOD’S PEOPLE WILL BE PERSECUTED BY THE FORCES OF EVIL FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THEN GOD WILL REMOVE HIS SAINTS TO A PLACE OF SAFETY WHERE HE WILL PROVIDE FOR AND PROTECT THEM WHILE THE WORLD DESTROYS ITSELF. THE “CHRISTIAN” MASSES IN THE FALSE (CATHOLIC/PROTESTANT) CHURCH (FALSE JEWS), WILL ALLIGN THEMSELVES WITH THE GOVERNMENTAL POWERS OF THE NATIONS IN WHICH THAT WHICH CALLS ITSELF “THE CHURCH” EXISTS. WITH THE DEPARTURE OF GOD’S SAINTS TO THEIR PLACE OF SAFETY, THE “GREAT TRIBULATION” WILL BEGIN. DURING THAT TERRIBLE TIME BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE.

NEWS REPORTS TELL US THAT SATAN’S GLOBAL ANTI-GOD MOVEMENT IS ALREADY ON THE SCENE AND RAPIDLY INCREASING IN NUMBERS AND POWER. JESUS EXPLAINS THIS SOON-COMING SPIRITUAL WAR IN MATTHEW 10:34 WHERE HE DECLARES THAT HE DID NOT COME TO EARTH TO BRING PEACE, BUT RATHER A SWORD. HIS WORD IS THAT “SWORD OF THE SPIRIT” (Eph. 6:17). IT IS THE WORD OF GOD THAT DISTINGUISHES TRUE SAINTS FROM FALSE SAINTS, THE TRUE CHURCH FROM THE COUNTERFEIT (CATHOLIC/PROTESTANT) CHURCH. NOTE THAT IT IS JESUS THAT SETS PEOPLE AGAINST EACH OTHER (MAT. 10:35). THE SEPARATING AGENT IS HIS WORD, WHICH I WIELD WITH EVERY MINISTERIAL WORD I WRITE AND SPEAK. Read about the church’s PLACE OF SAFETY (“HER PLACE”) using the key word–Safety.

CHURCH PEOPLE HATE GOD’S WORD. I am living proof of this fact. Though I have published numerous articles in the local (Athens, Texas) newspaper and have taught the Scriptures on a local radio station, I HAVE NEVER BEEN INVITED TO SPEAK IN A LOCAL CHURCH. Why? Because they know that I will tell them what God said, not what man says that God said, or wishes that God had said, which is what they hear each Sunday when they gather to unknowingly worship the sun god. UNDERSTAND THIS: IT IS NOT WHAT THE CHURCH GOER BELIEVES ABOUT HIS/HER RELIGIOUS PRACTICES THAT COUNTS; IT IS GOD’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THEM THAT COUNTS. IT IS NOT WHAT THE BELIEVER BELIEVES ABOUT HIS/HER RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THAT COUNTS; IT IS GOD’S VIEW OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP THAT COUNTS. God’s sword of the Spirit proves that professing Christendom’s “truths” are in fact Satan’s lies, which the Lord calls “doctrines of devils.”

Several members of my family are pastors of churches. Because I speak God’s Truth as it is written they will not invite me to speak to their congregations. I “have the receipts” for what I say. They are called THE WORDS OF GOD. No one wants to hear God’s unedited Truth (Word–Jn. 17:17) because, as the Lord tells us in Hebrews 4:12, the Word of God “… is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul, spirit, joints and marrow.” His Word is His light which exposes the thoughts and intensions of the heart (mind) and reveals what church people do in their spiritual darkness. Spiritual darkness hates spiritual light (Jn. 3:19,20). GOD’S TRUE MESSENGERS ARE HIS LIGHT TO THE WORLD. THEIR DISCIPLES ARE ALSO LIGHTS TO THOSE AROUND THEM.

Only spiritual Jews want to hear God’s Truth. The other 99% want to hear “smooth things, lies and deceits,” as did their spiritual ancestors (Isa. 30:10). Remember that it was their message that doomed Jesus and His apostles. The people loved their miracles but hated their message. Remember that it was THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THE DAY who had them killed. Nothing has changed. No one hates God’s Word like a church giant. As I stated earlier, it will be the Catholic/Protestant Religious System (“the church”) in conjunction with the reigning federal, state and local governments that will declare war on God’s true saints.

Everything comes back to God’s Holy Bible–His Word, His Truth, His Law, which is His will in printed form. It is this Law that God said He would write in the hearts of His people (Jer. 31:31-33/ Heb. 8:8-12). Spiritual Jews/Spiritual Israelites are those who comprise God’s true church today which He calls “the Israel of God” (Gal. 6:16). The Lord’s tiny but true church is comprised of those who study, learn, believe and obey His Law, which is the entire Bible which He condensed into the Ten Commandments. Recall that commandment number four requires the observance of His Holy Sabbath which He “blessed” and “sanctified” and called “My holy day, the holy of the Lord” (Gen. 2:3/ Isa. 58:13). God pours out His wrath on those who refuse to obey His Law. The Apostle James tells us (2:20) that to break one of the Ten Commandments is to break the entire Law. That includes #4. Read The “Voices” of God and the series on the Sabbath. Key words–Voices and Sabbath respectively. L.J.