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The Bride of Jesus is his only desire

God has never had two peoples or two plans concerning his redemption plan. God didn’t make a mistake in marrying and divorcing Israel. It was always part of his one and only plan. Ain’t nobody messin’ up his plan!

From Eden to Calvary to the New Jerusalem in Heaven, there has only ever been one true object of his true desire; his beautiful Bride that is his Wife, Church, and Body that he purchased, redeemed, and saved on the cross in his biological blood and body sacrifice. Israel of the Old Testament was divorced on the cross in order for Jesus to be with his true Bride that he gave his life for, to redeem and save her on the cross. It was always his beautiful Bride (Wife, Body, Church) that he knew he would die for on the cross. The divorce of Israel on the cross was simply God’s way of getting to the true object of his true desire that he foreknew and predestinated even before he created the literal Creation in the beginning.

God never had plan A, plan B, plan C, and more. It was always his Bride (Wife, Body, Church) that was on his mind and in his heart concerning his one and only redemption plan that was in place even before he created the literal Creation in the beginning. Jesus did not mess up by divorcing Israel on the cross and then becoming betrothed to his beautiful Bride, the Church. And Jesus was not two-timing on his Bride with Israel after the cross. Jesus did not have two spouses or “women” at the same time after the cross. He had to divorce Israel before he became betrothed to his beautiful Bride, the Church, on the cross. God’s plan is perfect, and it has only ever been the Church that has always been the object of his desire.

The Church that was saved on the cross is not Israel in any way, shape, or form. The Church is out from Jesus in his death exclusively. Nobody else. Like Eve was out from Adam in his “sleep”, the Church is exclusively out from Jesus in his “sleep”. She is not out from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob (Israel), David, or anybody else. She was purchased, redeemed, and saved in the precious biological blood and body sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. Done deal! “It is finished!” It is the finished atoning work of Jesus on the cross in his one and only biological sacrifice that purchased, redeemed, and saved his beautiful Bride, the Church! Nothing could ever possibly be added to what Jesus did on the cross in purchasing, redeeming, and saving his beautiful Bride! Nothing!

3 responses to “The Bride of Jesus is his only desire”

  1. I was listening to the discussion you had with Jeremy and Tristan on YouTube. You were about to explain “all Israel”, but never got around to it. I would love to hear your understanding of it!

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    1. Very simple. Out from the whole history of the nation of Israel on Earth, there were some Israelites saved. These saved Israelites out from the nation of Israel make up “all Israel” and “the Israel of God”. The history of the nation of Israel on Earth was from ca. 1700 with Jacob to AD 70.

      The Church/Bride/Wife/Body of Jesus was purchased, redeemed, and saved on the cross in the biological blood and body sacrifice of Jesus. All persons who make up the Church/Bride/Wife/Body that was saved on the cross find their personal redemption and salvation in the biological sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but not the FULLNESS of their personal salvation. The Israelites who were saved out from the whole history of the nation of Israel on Earth also found their personal salvation in the biological sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. They are obviously members of the Church/Bride/Wife/Body that was saved on the cross. These individual saved Israelites came to see the FULLNESS of their PERSONAL SALVATION in AD 70. The reason “all Israel” was saved in AD 70 is because the nation of Israel on Earth was judged and destroyed in AD 70 in God’s reckoning and accounting. The individual saved Israelites out from the whole history of the nation of Israel on Earth each saw the fullness of their personal salvation at that time – which personal salvation was worked on the cross in the finished atoning work of Jesus on the cross.

      The Church/Bride/Wife/Body of Jesus is made up of persons from many nations. Israel is merely one of these nations, and since this nation on Earth was judged and destroyed in AD 70, ALL the ISRAELITES who were saved out from this nation came to see the fullness of their personal salvation in AD 70. Of course, there were others from other nations besides these saved Israelites who came to see the fullness of their personal salvation in AD 70 too. These saved Israelites simply make up a fractional part of the Church that was saved on the cross. The “all Israel” makes up just a part of the Church that was purchased and redeemed on the cross. AD 70 happened to be the time all these individual Israelites out from the nation of Israel on Earth came to see the fullness of their personal salvation, and in this way, “all Israel” was saved in AD 70.

      In God’s reckoning and accounting, he was done with the harlot who sat on the beast and who fornicated with the kings of the Earth in AD 70. After AD 70, no Israelite would ever be added to the “all Israel” that was saved in AD 70 (individual Israelites who came to see the fullness of their personal salvation in AD 70). Again, plenty of others from other nations ALSO came to see the fullness of their personal salvation in AD 70 too. This is directly related to both the General Resurrection and the Rapture, which were two separate events happening together.

      None of this points to any kind of “corporate body salvation of Israel” or “corporate body salvation of the Church” in AD 70. Israel or the Church (or Israel as the Church) was not atoned for or corporately saved in AD 70 through any ongoing process of Atonement. The Atonement for the Church was a one-time event on the cross in AD 31.

      Some individuals in the Church (that was purchased, redeemed, and saved on the cross in the one and only biological blood and body sacrifice of Jesus) came to see the fullness of their personal salvation in AD 70. WHAT THE SAINTS RECEIVED IN AD 70 IS NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR SAINTS ON EARTH TODAY! No saint on Earth right now has come to see the fullness of their personal salvation that was worked on the cross in the finished atoning work of Jesus. I am waiting for what they were waiting for – to go to glory in the highest Heaven to be with Jesus where he is at right now. “Christ in you, the hope of glory” is as much true for saints on Earth today as it was for the pre-AD 70 saints waiting for the salvation that was ready to be revealed.

      To be personally baptized with the Holy Spirit by God today means that there is a guarantee of going to glory in the highest Heaven to THEN SEE the fullness of your personal salvation. Those saints prior to AD 70 were waiting on their complete individual salvation that was soon to come for them. I am now waiting on the fullness of my personal salvation that will be mine when I physically die. Again, I cannot receive the (fullness of personal) salvation that they received until I physically die and put off my flesh and go to Heaven.

      “All Israel” is just a fractional part of the Church that was redeemed and saved on the cross. AD 70 is when their full number took place. Yet, all the individuals who saw the fullness of their personal salvation in AD 70 were from many nations and it was not an Israel only thing.

      People are being added by God to the Church that was redeemed and saved on the cross all the time. This is exclusively an AD 31 cross salvation for the Bride/WifeBody/Church of Jesus, and it has nothing to with anything that took place in AD 70.

      My personal salvation and redemption is 100% secured by the biological blood and body sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, and the fullness of my personal salvation and redemption is secured by laying off my flesh – my biological physical flesh body – which is an integral part of my “old man” that I am even now putting off – as I am now putting on my new man that is in the image of Jesus. Only when I receive my individual spiritual immortal incorruptible heavenly glorified personal body that is reserved for me in the highest Heaven is when I will be complete in Jesus and personally immortal, incorruptible, glorified, and perfected. Until then, I must struggle with my flesh – my sinful nature – my old man. It’s not pretty, but my hope, salvation, and life is in Jesus. He is the faithful one to complete the good work that he begins in somebody. When I physically die and put off my mortal coil – my earthly tent – my earthly house – my jar of clay – my meat suit – I will be with Jesus and all the other saints in glory in the highest Heaven! Even “all Israel” will be in the highest Heaven when I get there – meaning all the individual Israelites saved out from the whole history of the nation of Israel on Earth (ca. 1700 BC to AD 70). They are all already there ever since AD 70. But there will many persons from many other nations too obviously.

      All persons who make up the Church that was redeemed and saved on the cross – the Elect of God – find their personal salvation exclusively in the biological blood and body sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. There is a positional sanctification for saved persons today, and there is a progressive sanctification too. This is the PERSONAL “already but not yet”. I am saved. I am being saved. And I will be saved. These are not contradictory to one another. They compliment each other.

      The Church never dealt with an “already but not yet” salvation. The Church’s redemption and salvation (the Atonement) was a done deal on the cross in the finished atoning work of Jesus on the cross! Individuals get added to this one and only Church by becoming sovereignly saved by God, which is to be personally born again by God and personally baptized with the Holy Spirit by God – which therefore guarantees this individual’s personal eternal inheritance reserved in Heaven for them.

      “It is finished!” Jesus paid the price in full for his Bride/Wife/Body/Church on the cross in his biological blood and body sacrifice. “All Israel” (all individual Israelites saved out from the whole history of the nation of Israel on Earth ca. 1700 BC to AD 70) makes up just a part of the Bride/Wife/Body/Church that was purchased, redeemed, atoned for, and saved on the cross. I hope this helps you see my position.

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    2. Pieter, I just cleaned up what I previously wrote into paragraph form. Of course I’ll be doing videos of this when I get back into my YouTube channel. Let me know your thoughts. My view should be easy to get a grip on – if even one disagrees. I think you’re IBV. Is this correct?

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