MARKS
OF IDENTIFICATION
by Lt. Col. J.G. Wright
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- Israel
was to have a new name. 9Isaiah 62: 2 & 65: 1-15,
Hosea 2: 17)
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Israel was to have a new religion. (Jeremiah 31: 34-34,
Hebrew 8: 13 & 9: 17 show the New Covenant brought
in, Luke 1: 77, Galatians 3: 13, John 11; 49-52)
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Israel was to lose all trace of her linage. (Hosea 2:
6, Hosea 1: 9-10, Hosea 2: 17, Isaiah 42: 16)
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Two Great Rival Nations were to spring from Joseph. (Genesis
48: 13, 20)
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Israel was to have a heathen empire. (Psalm 111: 5-6 &
149: 2-8)
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Israel was to be the custodian of the Oracles of God.
(Isaiah 59: 21, Psalm 147: 19-20)
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Israel was to be a people glorying in Christ. (Isaiah
41: 16, Acts 5: 31, Romans 11: 26, Luke 2: 32, but not
Jews-see 1 Peter 2: 7-8, John 11: 52)
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Israel was to carry the Gospel to the entire world. (Genesis
28: 14, Isaiah 43: 21, Micah 5: 7, Witnesses: Isaiah 43:
10-12, not church, see verse 14)
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Israel was to be God’s Heritage, formed by God,
for God, for Ever. (Deuteronomy 4: 20 & 14: 2, 2 Samuel
7: 23, 24, Isaiah 43: 21 & 54: 5-10, Micah 7: 14-18,
Hosea 2: 19, 23, Joel 2: 27, 1 Kings 8: 51, 53)
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Israel will not be found in Circumcision. Circumcision
was a sign of the Old Covenant.
- Israel
will be found under the New! (Hebrews 8; 6-9 & 9:
17, Acts 15: 10, Galatians 3: 13; Circumcision abolished:
Acts 15: 19-29)
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Israel was to be kind to the poor. (Deuteronomy 15: 7,
11)
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Israel was to be the refuge of the Downtrodden, the Liberator
of the Slaves. Isaiah 49: 8, 9 & 58: 6-7)
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Israel is described as “drunken.” (Isaiah
28: 1-7)
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Israel was to be called or named after Isaac. (Genesis
21: 12, Amos 7: 16, Romans 9: 7)
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Israel was to be a Kingdom of Priests, a Holy Nation to
the Lord. Exodus 19: 6, Deuteronomy 19: 6, Leviticus 20:
26, Isaiah 61: 6 & 62: 12)
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Israel was to pray towards Jerusalem. (1 Kings 8 –
Solomon commanded it, and so prayed, see 2 Chronicles
6: 21, 26)
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The Nation was the Church. The whole people good and bad
formed the Assembly, the Congregation: so is it with our
National Church today.
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The Singular Name. “Great Britain.” Brit or
Brith is Hebrew for Covenant; it is also Welsh for the
same. Britain id Covenant Land; British is Covenant Man.
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Israel or Joseph must have possession of the Stone of
Israel. (Genesis 49: 24)
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Israel was to deliver Jerusalem in the last days. (Ezekiel
25: 14 & 36: 8, 12, Luke 21: 24)
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Israel’s new home was to be filled with the treasures
of the Gentiles. (Isaiah 60: 5, 16, Isaiah 61: 6)
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Israel was to colonize the desolate places of the earth.
(Isaiah 49: 8 & 54: 3)
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Israel teachers, pastors and shepherds were to be blind.
(Ezekiel 34: 1-16; Peoples as well, Isaiah 60: 12, Acts
16: 26)
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Israel was to encompass or girdle the earth. (Deuteronomy
32: 8, 9, Jeremiah 10: 16 & 51: 19, Psalm 74: 2, Isaiah
60: 12, Acts 17: 26)
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Israel’s return is to be, among other places, from
Australia. (Isaiah 49: 12; A.V. says “Land of Sinam.”
The Vulgate says “Terra Australis.”
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The Lord undertakes to fight against all who fight against
Israel. (Isaiah 41: 8-14 & 49: 25, 26 & 52: 12
& 54: 15, 17)
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Israel’s seed were to be honoured among the Gentiles.
(Isaiah 61: 4, 6, 9)
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Israel’s was to possess God’s Holy Spirit
as well as His Word. (Isaiah 44: 3 & 59: 21, Haggai
2: 5)
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Israel was to be gentle and magnanimous in victory. (1
Kings 20: 31)
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Those who blessed Israel were to be blessed, and those
that cursed Israel were to be cursed. (Genesis 12: 3,
Numbers 24: 9)
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Israel is to be the chief opponent of Antichrist at Armageddon.
9Ezekiel 38 & 39)
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Israel is to be the Heir of the World. (Romans 4: 13 –
Through faith, not the Law. If through the Law, the Jews
would be heirs. See Isaiah 60: 21 – Ferrar Fenton’s
translation: Zephaniah 3: 19 – also Ferrar Fenton)
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Israel is to be God’s glory. (Isaiah 46: 13 &
49: 3 & 60: 1,2)
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Israel is to call an unknown nation and unknown nations
are to run to srael (Isaiah 55: 5)
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Israel is to pride herself in the lifting up of the nations.
(Isaiah 49: 8, 9 & 61: 6)
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Israel is to be sown in the earth. (Hosea 2: 23, Jeremiah
31: 27, Zechariah 10: 9, Amos 9:9)
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Israel is to punish Edom in the last days. (Ezekiel 25:
14, Obadiah 18, Isaiah 11: 14, Amos 9: 12)
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Israel is to break in pieces the Nations. (Jeremiah 51:
19-24, Micah 5: 8, Numbers 23: 24 & 24: 8, 9, Daniel
2: 44)
- Israel
is the Nation appointed to bring glory to God. (Isaiah
41: 8-16 & 43: 10, 21 & 44: 23 & 49: 3 &
60: 2)
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