Jerusalem

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I will leave you with one last thought in reference to the Jewish people, their state of Israel and what our spiritual relationship should be to them as Christians. When you really look at what God the Father was doing when He initiated making contact with this race of people, we are looking at an incredible, profound reality.

After Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden as a result of disobeying a direct command from the Lord, all of mankind became lost with no real way to make it into heaven after we physically die.

At this point, God could have easily washed His hands of the entire human race as the Bible tells us that everyone that would be born after Adam and Eve would also become sinners and fall way short of the glory of our Lord. But because we are dealing with an incredible great, loving, merciful and good God, God made an incredible sovereign choice to have mercy on us. And when He made this choice to have mercy on us, He had to implement a plan and a way in order for us to be able to receive His mercy, forgiveness, pardon, salvation and redemption from our sinful states and natures.

As we all know now, this plan would be implemented through His one and only Son Jesus Christ. However, there was only one little problem with this plan. Jesus would have to leave His heavenly kingdom and literally come down onto our earth to be able to save us from our sins. And not only would He have to literally come down upon our earth, but He would also have to literally incarnate Himself into a human flesh body like the rest of us have. Jesus thus would have to become fully man, yet still stay fully God.

In order for Jesus to come down onto our earth in the flesh, God the Father was going to have to arrange to have a bloodline that He would eventually be born through at the time of His birth into our world. Though Jesus was actually born of the Holy Spirit, He still had to pass through a female womb. And with Jesus having to literally pass through a female womb, this means that God the Father will have to deal with a line of descendants that would lead up to the virgin Mary being the one to bring Jesus into our world. Mary was a Jew, and God thus would have to deal with the generational bloodline that would proceed her.

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