Jesus came for the lost sheep of Israel. THINK. WHO recognizes Jesus? Many just assume that the people who believe in Jesus are all gentiles....nope. God made the Israelites deaf and blind to who they really are. God is the one who moves people across borders. Out of all the time in the world, three lands opened up for migration "recently" - the USA, Canada and Australia. God said that once again His people would be placed in ships and lead away....
JerUSAlem.
Names are everything.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 20241035 Paul said that those who are in Christ are "a new creation", "neither Jew nor Gentile". So of course we come from both groups, but we become a third group. The purpose of including Gentiles, as Paul said, was to provoke Israel to jealousy, so that they might be saved.
So again, since we have no covenant relationship with God as nations, along with what Paul taught about a new creation, I see no part of the US in Bible prophecy.
And of course, the name Jerusalem is from two Hebrew words and would hardly have been a reference to the initials (in English) of a country never referenced in any other way.
Judah is still asleep to Jesus being the Messiah. We as gentiles are grafted in to provoke Israel(Judah) to jealousy but that won't happen until the jews moshiach they are waiting for appears. If you study messiah ben Joseph and messiah ben David and the Dead sea scrolls you will know ezekiel 37 is talking about the two witnesses and messiah ben david is that one that will join the northern and southern kingdom once again:15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore
