Friday, November 17, 2017

His People: Lo-Ammi to Ammi

Romans 9:25-29   
25 As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.” 26 “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.” 27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved. 28 For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.” 29 And as Isaiah said before: “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”

God spoke through the prophets to say that His people would be called out from those who were not worthy of love, from being outsiders to the chosen people Israel to His chosen (Hosea 2:23).  And even though Israel wandered off, a remnant would be called back from them as well, or they would have been destroyed also in judgment.  God promised His descendants through Abraham from many nations, as the sand of the sea and stars of heaven.  We know now that He gave Christ to accomplish all this. 

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