Main references: Gn 21:13; Jn 1:13; Gn 21:21
According to the history of the Bible, Noah was the ninth descendant of Adam, who betrayed, while Abraham was the tenth descendant of Noah. Abraham had a wife named Sarah, and Sarah had a maidservant named Hagar. Abraham had a son born from Hagar, named Ishmael, and another son born from Sarah, named Isaac; Ishmael was the older brother of Isaac. Ishmael was born from a servant, while Isaac was born from the woman of promise (Gn 16 ~ 17, Gn 18:1-15, 21:1-7).
God spoke to Abraham, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned” (Gn 21:12). God’s word of law is the standard to become His child, born with His seed. Therefore, it can be said that one is only a gentile if he is not born with Abraham’s seed. Ishmael was born of Abraham’s seed; so one may think, “Why was Ishmael not born of Abraham’s seed?” This is because God’s Word is the law.
After Hagar and Ishmael were sent away from the house of Sarah and Isaac, they resided in the Desert of Paran (the desert located in the middle of Sinai Peninsula); this desert was close to Egypt. Since Ishmael married a woman from Egypt (Gn 21:8-21), this event is synonymous with the event in Genesis 6, when the son of God married the daughters of the earth and became the same flesh. Sinai Peninsula is a desert where people cannot reside. The Desert of Paran does not have any water nor plants and trees. This is why people residing in this desert had no other choice but to move towards Egypt, ending up becoming one with Egyptians.
Afterwards, Abraham looked for Hagar and Ishmael and helped them. The fact that Abraham, Jacob, and Jesus went to Egypt (Mt 2:13-23) and that Moses started his work in Egypt was all part of God’s work to accomplish His purpose.
Abraham’s maidservant, Hagar, was a woman from Egypt, along with the wife of Ishmael (Gn 16:3, 21:9). In fact, the Israelites who originated from Jacob (Israel), the son of Isaac, were a single people, and were not to be married to others from different nations (Ex 34:15-16; Dt 7:1-3; Jos 23:12-13). This was put into effect from the time of the Law.
Until the coming of Jesus, the people, or the descendants of Abraham , who were born since the time of Adam (the betrayers), were those born of the seed of flesh. They constantly broke the covenants of God. The worlds of Adam, Noah, and Moses all disappointed Him. For this reason, God promised a new scenario (refer to Is 14:24), which He promised through the Old Testament prophets (Jer 31). Jesus fulfilled this promise by sowing the seed, which was the secrets of the kingdom of heaven. It was not the physical seed of Abraham, but it was the seed of God. The sowing of this seed of God (Mt 13:24) was the new work and the new covenant. Those who are born of God’s seed are not born of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God (Jn 1:13). The seed of the new covenant was sown, and it grew for the last 2,000 years (proclaiming of the gospel). Jesus returns to harvest the fruit of the seed that was sown.
According to Matthew 24 (v. 29-31), Luke 13 (v. 28-30), and Revelation 14 (v. 14-16), those who harvest are Jesus and angels. They harvest with sickles, which symbolize flesh. In other words, the Lord uses people (who have the Word) to harvest; the ones who harvest are both spirit and flesh. Because Jesus and angels are spirits, they harvest a flesh that is born of God’s seed. This is why they use a flesh (a sickle) to harvest.
Everyone born of God’s seed does not have the image of people born of the seed of Adam (for example, Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses), the betrayer: they bear the resemblance of God’s image and likeness. Just as seen on the Mountain of Transfiguration (refer to Mt 17:1-8), although we are wearing our flesh as an external surface, our inner person is born into God’s image, and is born only of God’s seed, not of Abraham’s seed and natural descent (man) nor of the seed of gentiles and man. If one takes off his own flesh, his inner person will be shown. If he clothes himself with the holy spirit, the clothes his flesh used to wear will disappear.
It is only when the seed (the Word) is sown into our body, which is like soil and earth which grows, sprouts, and becomes a tree, that the birds (the holy spirit) will come and perch in us to live together. Whether one takes off his flesh or not, he is a man born of God’s seed. Just like Jesus’ image was transformed on the Mountain of Transfiguration, those who are transformed through the sound of the seventh trumpet will no longer be mortal and perishable (1 Cor 15:51-54). This is the same word as it says in John 10:35, “If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came.” They are the offspring of God as it is mentioned in Acts 17:29. In this manner, it is only feasible through the seed of the Divine Being/God that allows one to be the offspring of God and to become a god. These are the sons of God as it says in Genesis 6:2.
If one says he practices his faith, it means he knows the only true God and His will, and acts according to God’s will. In doing so, he can become God’s offspring and God’s child. This is how one becomes the family of God’s kingdom (heaven).
Concerning gentiles, there are physical gentiles as well as spiritual gentiles. Adam became a gentile that betrayed from the time he sinned. Furthermore, there was a person of the orthodoxy like Isaac, the child of God’s promise, and there was a gentile like Ishmael. Since the time of Jesus, there have been orthodox people born of God’s seed, and gentiles not born of God’ seed, but of the seed of the gentile, the dragon. Non-Christians may claim that they were not born of the seed of the dragon, but since they were born of the seed of Adam, the criminal/sinner, they, too, are nothing but gentiles.
Unless people are born again of the eternal gospel and wash their clothes within the period of 1,000 years, they will end up becoming gentiles who will be consumed by fire after the 1,000 years are ended. Today, the first judgment is taking place, but once the 1,000 years are over, there will be the second judgment (Rv 20:11-15). The partakers of the resurrection today are the participants of the first resurrection (Rv 20:4-6), and they are blessed people. The story beyond this will be kept as a secret. What is more, it is from today that the true gentiles and true orthodoxy are determined.
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