By Jim Stockstill
October 6, 2022
Choose This Day
The American people are being presented with a clear, distinct choice between the worship of Baal or Jesus Christ
The Call of a Kingdom of Royal Priests
Exodus 19:1-25 “1 In the third month after the children of Israel had left the land of Egypt, the very same day, they came into the Wilderness of Sinai. 2 When they moved out from Rephidim, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai, and they camped there; Israel camped at the base of the mountain [of Sinai]. 3 Moses went up to God [on the mountain], and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Say this to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now, therefore, if you will obey My voice and keep My covenant (agreement), then you shall be My special possession [H 5459: Jewel] and treasure from among all peoples [of the world], for all the earth is Mine; 6 and you shall be to Me a kingdom [H 4467: dominion, reign, and sovereign] of priests [H 3548: Kohane] and a holy nation [set apart for My purpose].’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.” 7 So Moses called for the elders of the people and told them all these words which the Lord commanded him. 8 [first time with no specific commands] All the people answered together and said, “We will do everything that the Lord has spoken.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. 9 The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may believe and trust in you forever.” Then Moses repeated the words of the people to the Lord. 10 The Lord also said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow [that is, prepare them for My sacred purpose], and have them wash their clothes 11 and be ready by the third day because on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai [in the cloud] in the sight of all the people. 12 You shall set barriers for the people all around the mountain, saying, ‘Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch its border; whoever touches the mountain must be put to death. 13 No hand shall touch him [that is, no one shall try to save the guilty party], but the offender must be stoned or shot through [with arrows]; whether man or animal [that touches the mountain], he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.” 14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified them [for God’s sacred purpose], and they washed their clothes. 15 He said to the people, “Be prepared for the third day; do not be intimate with a woman.” 16 So it happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and flashes of lightning, and a thick cloud was on the mountain, and a very loud blast was sounded on a ram’s horn [Long Shofar] so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. [one mile away] 17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood and presented themselves at the foot of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in a fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. 19 And it happened, as the blast of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice of thunder. 20 The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up. 21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through [the barriers around the mountain] to the Lord to see [Me], and many of them perish [as a result]. 22 Also, have the priests who approach the Lord consecrate (sanctify, set apart) themselves [for My sacred purpose], or else the Lord will break forth [in judgment] against them [and destroy them].” 23 Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, because You warned us, saying, ‘Set barriers around the mountain and consecrate it.’” 24 Then the Lord said to him, “Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through [the barriers] to come up to the Lord, or He will break forth [in judgment] against them [and destroy them].” 25 So Moses went down to the people and told them [again about God’s warning].”
Then God spoke all these words
Exodus 20:18-22 “18 Now all the people witnessed the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the smoking mountain; and as they looked, the people were afraid, and they trembled [and moved backward] and stood at a [safe] distance. 19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will listen, but do not let God speak to us or we will die.” 20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and so that the fear of Him [that is, a profound reverence for Him] will remain with you so that you do not sin.” 21 So the people stood at a [safe] distance, but Moses approached the thick cloud where God was. 22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.”
People Affirm Their Covenant with God
Exodus 24:3-8 “3 Then Moses came and told the people everything that the Lord had said and all the ordinances. And all the people answered with one voice, [Second time having heard all the ordinances] “Everything the Lord has said we will do.” 4 Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he got up early in the morning and built an altar [for worship] at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars (memorial stones) representing the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord. 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in large basins, and [the other] half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people; and they said, “Everything that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 So Moses took the blood [which had been placed in the large basins] and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
A New Prophet like Moses [Prophecy of Yeshua]
Deuteronomy 18:15-19 “15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me [Moses] from among you, from your countrymen (brothers, brethren). You shall listen to him. 16 This is according to all that you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb (Mount Sinai) on the day of the assembly [H 6950], saying, ‘Let me not hear the voice of the Lord my God again, nor see this great fire anymore, so that I will not die.’ 17 The Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well. 18 I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him [and there will be consequences].”
The Day of Trumpets
The Jewish Head of the New Year is declared when the first crescent sliver of the new moon is physically sighted from the Land of Israel, after the barley in the Land of Israel has become Aviv [barley ripening].
The declaration of the Head of the Year establishes the timing of all the Feasts of the first month, including Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Wave Sheaf, and even the Pentecost. All of these feast dates can be determined just as soon as the Head of the Year is known. However, until the first crescent sliver of the new moon of the seventh month has been physically sighted the dates of the Feasts of the seventh month cannot be known, because Yahweh is ultimately in control of the weather.
The New Moon Day of the seventh month is called ‘Yom Teruah’ which can be translated as the ‘Day of Trumpets,’ although it translates more like the ‘Day of Blowing,’ or the ‘Day of Shouting.’
- John 11:43 “When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out.”
But what is the deeper significance of Yom Teruah? Yom Teruah is sometimes called ‘the feast of which no man knows the day or the hour’ because, like the Head of the Year, we cannot know in advance the day or the hour it will begin. Rather, we must wait until Yahweh shows us the first crescent sliver of His new moon.
- Matthew 24:36-39 “36 But when that day and hour will come, no one knows — not the angels in heaven, not the Son, only the Father. 37 For the Son of Man’s coming will be just as it was in the days of Noah. 38 Back then, before the Flood, people went on eating and drinking, taking wives and becoming wives, right up till the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they did not know what was happening until the Flood came and swept them all away. It will be just like that when the Son of Man comes.”
Strong’s Concordance tells us that the word ‘Teruah’ refers to an acclamation of joy, especially of trumpets, and also as a cry of battle, or an alarm.
- OT: [Hebrew 8643 teruw`ah (ter-oo-aw’)]; from [H 7321]; clamor, i.e., acclamation of joy or a battle-cry; especially clangor of trumpets, as an alarum [sic].
- OT: [Hebrew7321 ruwa` (roo-ah’)]; a primitive root; to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e., shout (for alarm or joy). Thus, the idea is one of ‘splitting the ears’ with sound, particularly with shouts of joy or alarm.
In this light, let us consider Numbers 10:8-9, which tells us that whenever Israel went out to battle, the priests would blow the silver trumpets sounding an alarm so that Yahweh would remember Israel, and save her from her enemies.
The Feast of Trumpets in 2022/5783
Head of the Year occurred as the sun set on September 25th with Jewish families all over the globe were prepared for the first of the fall Biblical holidays: Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets.
As I have taught, the spring holidays speak of Jesus’s first coming, while the fall holidays speak of his next coming. The Feast of Trumpets reminds us that Jesus is King and also announces that judgment is coming. One day, a series of one hundred trumpet blasts are sounded to announce that the eternal court is in session. We will be called to gather and given time to prepare for our time in the judgment seat on the Day of Atonement which was solemnly celebrated on October 5th.
Therefore, 5782 was about the “marking of the truth” that took place, and because the truth, and the marking, begins first with God’s household, 5782 was also about the revealing of which churches and Christians remained faithful and obedient to the truth – the word of God – and each other “the assembly.” Therefore, 5782 was a year of preparation for 5783 the coming of blessings and rewards for those who remained faithful and true to Christ, and also in [Prophetic] preparation for the coming curses and judgments for those who are not.
The Jewish Year 5783 (2023) officially ends the Shmita year (7th Holy Year) and begins a brand new 7-year cycle. 5783 (2023) that will occur September 25th on the Feast of Trumpets, also known as the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah, is represented by the Hebrew letter Gimel (or Gimmel) for the number 3. The letter Gimmel resembles both a foot and a person walking in the direction of the left. The word Gimel is derived from the root Hebrew word Gemul [H 1576] which means ‘justified repayment’, or the giving of reward and punishment.
Therefore, 5783 will be a continuation and pinnacle point of the year 5782. Because a marking always takes place before the act of judgment occurs, the year 5782 resembled the marking of truth, and 5783 will conclude with the act of judgment occurring resulting in both blessing and curse according to the recipients. And because 5782 was a Shmita year (7th Holy Year), and 5783 is the beginning of a new cycle, 5783 will also signify the ending of one season and the beginning of a new season. Therefore, we will also see God bringing the works of this season to completion and beginning a new work.
The Days of Awe, the Time of Jacobs Trouble, and what the Lord has shown for the last quarter of 2022 and specifically into 2023 – remember the year of Jubilee (every seventh year of the freedom of slaves).
- Exodus 21:2 “If you purchase a Hebrew servant [because of his debt or poverty], he shall serve six years, and in the seventh [year] he shall leave as a free man, paying nothing.”
- Deuteronomy 15:12 “If your fellow Israelite, a Hebrew man, or woman, is sold to you, and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you shall set him free [from your service].”
Jeremiah 34:14-15 [the judgment on the nation which is to come and the prophetic word for 2023]
As we have discussed, Gemul or retribution means “to recompense, or reward, the dispensing or receiving of a reward or punishment.” For 5783, and heading into this year’s election (November 8th), the American people are being presented with a clear, distinct choice between the worship of Baal or the God of our national heritage – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in Jesus Christ.
As Clear As A Crystal Stream
Jeremiah 7:29-31 “29 Cut off your hair [your crown] and throw it away and take up a mournful cry on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned The Generation of His wrath. 30 For the children of Judah [and America] have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord… 31 They have built the high places of Topheth, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire [to honor Molech, the fire god]—which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart (mind).”
- In the Hebrew Bible, Tophet or Topheth is a location in Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom, where worshipers engaged in a ritual involving “passing a child through the fire,” most likely child sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named Moloch. Wikipedia
- Molech H 4432: Means “King”, the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom
Paraphrased for a prophetic word:
Jeremiah 19:3-9 “3 Hear the word of the Lord, O [“corrupt politicians, immoral activists, and those who commit abominations in the weary land] kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of America Israel, Listen carefully, I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of everyone who hears about it will tingle in shock. 4 Because the people [of this land] have abandoned (rejected) Me and have made this an alien and profaned place by burning sacrifices and incense to other gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent 5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My heart; 6 therefore, listen very closely, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when this land shall no longer be called Topheth but the Nation of Slaughter. 7 I will pour out and nullify the counsel (plans) of [the men and women] Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make their people fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their lives, and I will give their dead bodies as food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. 8 I will make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues and disasters. 9 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and each one will eat one another’s flesh during the siege and distress brought by their enemies and those who seek their lives.”’
Jeremiah 32:26-35 “26 Then came the word of the Lord to Jeremiah, saying, 27 “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too difficult for Me?” 28 Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it. 29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in and set this city on fire and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs incense has been offered to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to provoke Me to anger. 30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only evil in My sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have been provoking Me to anger by the [idols that are the] work of their hands,” says the Lord. 31 “From the day that they built it [Temple of Solomon], even to this day, this city has been such a provocation of My anger and My wrath, that I must remove it from My sight, 32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them repeatedly, yet they would not listen and receive instruction. 34 But they put their detestable things (idols) in the house, which is called by My Name, to defile it. 35 They built the high places [for worship] of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and their daughters pass through the fire to worship and honor Molech which I had not commanded them, nor had it entered My mind that they should do this repulsive thing, to cause Judah to sin.”
November 8, 2022 – The Crossroads of an Immoral Nation
Joshua 24:14-15 “14 Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
The Revelation of Yeshua
- Greek 602: coming, revealed, and appearing. The revelation of future things relating to the consummation of the divine kingdom.
Revelation 1:1 “This is the revelation which God gave to Yeshua [Jesus] the Messiah so that he could show his servants what must happen very soon. He communicated it by sending his angel to his servant Yochanan [John].”
Revelation 22:11 “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”
Matthew 5:45 Yeshua speaks about the Just “righteous” and the unjust “evil and sinful” and the rain
- Unjust – [Greek 94 ad’-ee-kos, from G 1349]: vengeance, judgment, and punishment related to a judicial hearing, judicial decision, esp. sentence of condemnation and to impose severe punishment.
- Filthy [G 4510] (2x): To be morally filthy and defiled.
Next Broadcast
7783 [2022 – 2023] is going to be a year concerning God’s complete justice and judgment occurring of both blessing and curse depending on being Just or Unjust [no in-between, no compromise, and certainly not the lukewarm]. In the spirit/Spirit, we are experiencing an ending of a Shmita season and the beginning [Head of the Year] of a new epoch [season]. With the fervent prayers of the saints, at his crossroads of our nation, the Lord God will bring a short reprieve to the political and liberal era that began in 2008 with Obama [hope and change] and continues under his guidance with the puppets Humpty Dumpty [Biden] and Medusa [Harris].
The Shmita, Blood Moons, and Solar Eclipse and Roe vs Wade and the Democratic [liberal demonic elements of the religious leftwing]. Also, the underlying truth of the Congregation at Mt. Sinai and the Ekklesia and the significance of the Day of Trumpets for the End of Days and the return of the Messiah.
The Jewish Calendar is a lunar-based calendar where the Jewish festivals and feasts are determined by the moon’s lunar cycles. The Jewish Calendar operates in periods of 7-year cycles. According to the Bible, Exodus 23:20-11, God commanded Israel to observe the 7th year as a Holy Year of rest, known as a Shmita Year. After 7 cycles, of 7 years, or 49 years were completed, there occurs a 50th year known as a Jubilee. According to the Bible in Leviticus 25, God commanded Israel to observe the Jubilee Year. The Jubilee year was a year of great liberation, freedom, debt forgiveness, and a year of retribution/repayment.
The last Shmita year occurred in 5775 (2015). The year 5782 (2022) is also a Shmita year – the year we are currently in. This signifies an ending of one season and the beginning of another.
2 very significant celestial events occurred with the moon known as the blood moon tetrads. For 2 years straight, between 2014 – 2015, there occurred 4 blood moon lunar eclipses that occurred during 4 significant Jewish festivals (feast of tabernacles and Passover). These blood moons served as a precursor to a grave warning to the gentile nations concerning the land of Israel (not to divide it) and also served as a grave warning concerning abortion/late-term abortion (January 22nd, 2019). 4 is a number that signifies the entire earth, and the number 2 – is a number signifying division. The blood moons told us plague would occur over the entire earth for 2 years. On January 28th, 2020, the United States put forward a 2 state solution between Israel and the Palestinians that would have divided up Israel. 3 months later, the pandemic (plague) occurred.
This year, May 17th, 2022/5782, there occurred a blood moon on the Jewish festival of the 2nd Passover. There will be a second blood moon that will occur on the morning of November 8th, 2022 (5783), the morning of the US Midterm Elections. This most likely indicates a grave warning to US congress members (I believe a warning concerning the impeachment of Joe Biden/Kamala Harris’s Presidency).
Just as 5781 (2021) was an escalation and continuation of 5780 (2020), 5783 (2023) will be an escalation and continuation of 5782 (2022). In addition, 5783 will also signify the ending of one season and the beginning of another.
Trumpets
We can find further significance in the blowing of trumpets. Exodus chapters 19 and 20 are the account of God’s appearance on Mount Sinai and the giving of the Ten Commandments. Exodus 19:4-6 depicts God inviting the nation of Israel into a covenant. In a spectacular revelation, God manifests His presence in smoke and fire on the mountain, along with the fearful sound of a trumpet that causes the people to tremble.
When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain… On the morning of the third day, there were thunders and bolts of lightning and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in the fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. (Exodus 19:13, 16-19)
The events at Mount Sinai were stamped indelibly in the memory of the nation of Israel. And so, at the Feast of Trumpets, the sound of the shofar—the same word used in Exodus 20:18—reminds Israel that they are a people under the covenant, a nation who has accepted the responsibilities of being God’s people. Being in covenant with God includes repenting of sin, a form of breaking the covenant, and then seeking atonement. So, covenant and repentance become hallmarks of this day.
What about the word “memorial” spoken of in Leviticus? The day serves both to remind Israel of the covenant with its need for repentance, but also to “remind” God of His covenant promises, which include restoration upon repentance from sin. When Scripture speaks of God being “reminded” of something or “remembering” something, it means that He is going to act based on His past promises (see Genesis 8:1, Exodus 2:24). So, the Feast of Trumpets both implores God to accept Israel’s repentance and reminds the Jewish people that they have entered into a binding covenant with God.
The “Church”: Ekklesia
Ekklesia/Ecclesia
The Greek translation of the Old Testament or the Septuagint [LXX] was started in the 3rd century BC by a group of 72 scholars (hence the Latin association with the number 70) and has been used to translate the Old Testament into many languages. The Septuagint is important as it provides a direct bridge between the Greek of the New Testament and the Hebrew of the Old Testament.
Peter’s Confession of Christ
- John 16:13-18, and 20 “13 Now when Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they answered, “Some say John the Baptist; others, Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ (the Messiah) the Son of the living God.” 17 Then Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, because flesh and blood (mortal man) did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build My church; and the gates of Hades (death) will not overpower it [by preventing the resurrection of the Christ]. 20 Then He gave the disciples strict orders to tell no one that He was the Christ (the Messiah).”
The word translated as “church” in the New Testament is the Greek word [G 1577: ek-klay-see’-ah] Ekklesia. This word is formed from ek, meaning “out of” or “away from,” and kaleo meaning “to call.” Thus, it means literally “the called out assembly.” And Who’s doing the calling? God, of course. It is no mistake then that Ekklesia is also translated as “assembly” and “congregation.”
This is where it gets interesting. Ekklesia is used many times throughout the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew word qahal or kawhal [H 6950]. Recall that the Septuagint is using Greek to translate the Old Testament, the same Greek as used in the New Testament. What we end up with is an entire Bible written in Greek.
- Qahal is translated into English as a multitude, company, congregation, and assembly. Two of the four definitions of qahal are identical to those of Ekklesia.
We will review a few scriptures to validate and confirm the translation.
- Genesis 48:4 “And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.”
- Exodus 16:3 “And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
- Numbers 14:5 “Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregationof the children of Israel.”
- Deuteronomy 31:30 “And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israelthe words of this song until they were ended.”
- 1 Samuel 17:47 “And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.”
- Job 30:28 “I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.”
- Psalms 22:22 “I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.”
- Psalms 149:1 “Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.”
We can correctly interpret from Scripture that Ekklesia is the Hebrew word qahal and “church” in the New Testament. Therefore, the Holy Spirit identifies the “called out” Israelites at Mount Sini and believers, true followers of Christ [Ekklesia] in the New Covenant [Genesis to Revelation] as Royal Priests [Kohen]. From beginning to end there is only one called-out assembly, they are known commonly as the church and to God as Israel.
- Galatians 6:14-16 “14 But far be it from me to boast [in anything or anyone], except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For neither is circumcision anything [of any importance], nor uncircumcision, but [only] a new creation [which is the result of a new birth, a spiritual transformation, and new nature in Christ Jesus]. 16 Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule and upon the [true] Israel of God (Jewish believers).”
So, why did the Lord have me start with this truth? It is simple, there is only one body of believers (Romans 12:4). There is a single redemption for Christians, Jews, and all peoples, tribes, and nations on the face of this earth, and His name is Jesus Christ. There is no room for division and there is no distinction by God among His people. God is not partial or a respecter of men or women.
- Acts 10:34-36 “34 Opening his mouth, Peter said: “Most certainly I understand now that God is not one to show partiality [to people as though Gentiles were excluded from God’s blessing], 35 but in every nation, the person who fears God and does what is right is acceptable and welcomed by Him. 36 You know the message which He sent to the sons of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.”
Exodus 19:5-6 “5 Now if you will pay careful attention to what I say and keep my covenant, then you will be my treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you will be a kingdom of Cohanim for me, a nation set apart.’ These are the words you are to speak to the people of Israel.” Hebrew Translation
1 Peter 2:9 “But you [1 Peter 1:1 Jewish and Gentile believers as exiles in the Diaspora] are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
Blessings in Christ,
Joseph “Jim” Stockstill 
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