General God Stuff

  • Paradigm Shift: God’s Family

    / July 16, 2026 / 0 Comments
    True in the Natural and in the Spiritual Marriage/Family


    Here’s a thought for you.

    You know how churches that committed to true racially integrated congregations did away with thinking in terms of “white church” or “black church”? I just had the thought, and I will gladly say it was more likely a God-thought than a Donna-thought, that until we can get to the point that we can see ourselves as God’s whole family, a unity that transcends even “Israel and the Church” we are not going to move into a LOT of things God wants for us.

    Until we understand and embrace that we are moving toward the magnificent climax of the crescendo we are already in the midst of, we will not be living out the things God wants from us ahead of the Second Coming.

    Yes, the unique aspects of Israel and the Church will still exist, just exactly as the differences between husbands and wives continue after marriage changes their relationship and status in the eyes of God.

    Saved Israel and the Church, like husband and wife, are in a union, but only in a unity when we are seeing ourselves as God views the oneness of a marriage. After marriage we are increasingly becoming a family, and saved Israel and the Church will only ever come close to being in the spiritual state and position God wants us in when we see ourselves not as entirely separate entities, but as a whole family.

    We have to have a paradigm shift. There was the Israel history and then there was the Church history, but now we are clearly headed into a whole new realm of God’s kingdom. We must start looking at ourselves as a whole people – a whole Family of God.

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  • Jacob Got a Bad Rap – He ‘Stole’ Nothing

    / July 14, 2026 / 0 Comments
    In the end Jacob and Esau reconcile

    July 14 2026: For several months now during my ‘writing week’ between the bi-weekly compiling of the Arrows Summary of Prayer Requests and Activities of the Israel Believers Ministries, God has had me taking a fresh look at the Genesis accounts of the beginning formation of His family on earth.

    The reason is that these things have bearing on how, at the end, when God accomplishes the joining of His whole family together as one — as expressed in Ephesians 2:15 as the unity of “one new man” in the faith of His Son — there are things in Genesis we need to reconsider. God is wrapping up the plan for bringing His whole family together on earth as one.

    One like Jesus said, “the Father and I are One” in John 10:30. In John 17:20-21 Yeshua tells us that in God’s completed plan we will be brought into the same state of unity: “I am not asking on behalf of them alone (the Jewish believers), but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me (the Christian believers) through their (Jewish believers) message, that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.”

    Now at the beginning of the end of these things, God is directing us back to “In the beginning” so we might now see the things we missed, misconstrued, or otherwise did not take into proper account of what God is doing at “the end.” Genesis is the seedbed of all God’s plans.

    God is wrapping up His thousands-of-years plan to form a FAMILY from within mankind. In this eternal family will be both the family line from the Genesis Patriarchs and Matriarchs and in our day, the Christians who recognize and embrace what God has been creating among us and for us.

    God is the judge of all matters and all individuals that have ever lived or ever will live. He makes His choices, and what we think about that is not the issue. Some believe God wrote Israel and the Jews off long ago. The real shocker for them is going to be discovering that “good Christians” today are going to find themselves written off.

    If we cannot come to grips with God’s right to choose whom He chooses, sadly we will not make the cut for God’s eternal family. He has made His choice plain in His Word. To remain blind to how He has stated what He is doing will leave many saying, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name? And in Your name have cast out devils? And in Your name done many wonderful works?”

    In the days ahead we will see that those Christians who refuse to accept God’s whole family — including the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel — are going to be proven to be “workers of iniquity.” It is impossible to be a faithful servant of Jesus and refuse to see God’s people Israel. This is not a dual covenant, but the revelation of Israel’s Messiah to the Jews is already happening.

    I must say this over and over: It is not enough to just write an article about how the Patriarch Jacob has gotten a worse reputation than he deserved.

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