We are going to be talking about a very controversial topic and that being Israel. Our sponsors steadfastsigars.com promo code escatology10rockwallbibles.com Boniface media Grayson Truth Press Grayson Truth Records. I'm not speaking about Israel's right to defend itself or Israel's right to the land or politically what's going on with Israel. I acknowledge they have a right as a nation to their sovereign nation and they have a right to do as they want. And we have a right to support them in that. And so that's a different topic then and our Israel as a political entity as a genetic people the people of God. And what I'm going to be explaining here is the people of God, the covenant community, the family of God, the bride of Christ, the church, has always been the same thing. Which means the church is Israel. As Paul says in Romans 9, not all of Israel are Israel. So when we say Israel we need to know what we're talking about. Certainly there is genetic and geopolitical Israel and that is one thing and then there's the Israel of God, the people of God, the old covenant was given to a people before they were a nation. And they became a nation. And the two things are not necessarily the same thing. And so I'm going to start off with a story and then I'm going to cheat and I'm going to have a video here from six years ago and you guys are going to mock the video. The recording isn't necessarily great. You can hear it clearly but it's not clear audio. I mean, but you can hear it clearly. There's background noise because it was filmed with a camcorder before COVID days when everybody juiced up their tech abilities and also a grown as a pastor. There's things there I would say differently. There's things there I would word differently and that's okay. I think the gist of it though is sound and solid and I don't have the time to redo it. I'm in the middle of a move literally from North Carolina to be with my family in in Florida who are already down there school has started. And all kidding aside by the way about like the dissenters pushback is good and we can all get better and so it's it's fine. But I'm going to start off with a story even though I've already given a long introduction before we get into how to understand Israel and the church the bride of Christ as one entity through through time. And this story comes again it now this is probably even before that the video that I'll put so it's over six years old I don't anticipate this person ever listening to this just knowing all the circumstances and all that. But this person had come up to me because there was a disagreement in a small group study where a person had said something about the holy speed like a Christian sinning grievously. And this this current that had come up to me to ask me these questions argued in this setting that the Holy Spirit will not allow a Christian to sin grievously. Now the Westminster Sanders say we you know we do commit heinous sins and not all sins are equally heinous and grievous. And so there are degrees to sin and we know that just from experience. But but at any rate when this current was telling me this and wanted me to confirm that the Holy Spirit who indwells us would not allow a Christian to say murder or or rape or do any number of heinous things I'd say well what do you do with David who you know clearly committed adultery who had Bathsheba's wife killed Bathsheba's wife Bathsheba's and by the way I do that all the time so that probably happens in the video that you'll see he said I did it was one time when I attributed something to Christ that was John the Baptist said there was a no it's I'd do that my mind is working at different speeds sometimes and I'm just not that's more honestly but at any rate you get the point so David is a murderer and this this conference well he was that was in the old covenant I said well what do you mean by that well he didn't have the Holy Spirit I mean so well Psalm 51 he begs the Lord take not your Holy Spirit from me and she said well that was in his capacity as a king and I said well Old Testament saints are in Christ who are in Christ have faith and then she objected to the concept of being in Christ and I'm not saying this is reflective of of dispensationalism or anything there's a point I'm getting to because it's not she she was obviously very confused and so I said well the book of Hebrews says Hebrews 11 that people had faith and Romans and Galatians confirm that Abraham was justified by faith she said yes I'm like okay so the Bible says says it's without without faith it's impossible to please God yes okay so she's on board okay and the Bible also says faith is a gift and where does it come from the the Holy Spirit grants it and so Old Testament saints are in Christ by faith they they have faith that means the Holy Spirit has to be giving that to them and that's where I lost her and again because you know a penicost there is a new way that the Holy Spirit comes to the people of God I acknowledge that fully it's prophesied but we still have to acknowledge the people of God in as much as there they are the people of God genuinely the remnant have the Holy Spirit so she didn't know how to process that they're in Christ even the book of Hebrews is telling us they are and she didn't know how to process this next thing I said well they're the bride of Christ and that blew her much she goes no they're Israel and I said well yeah they're the bride of Christ when John the Baptist comes on the scene and he says he calls Christ the bridegroom he's talking to Jewish people he's talking to those awaiting their Messiah their king their groom and so really maybe realize like this idea of Israel as the bride of Christ is confusing to people and then calling them the church because I called Israel the Old Testament church as our confession acknowledges Westminster Confession of faith says besides this law commonly called the moral God was pleased to give to the people of Israel as a church under age this is in chapter 19 also as the last video I may talk about the covenants the mosaic covenant being a part of the one covenant of grace this is not two plans there's one covenant of grace there's one covenant community there's one people of God there's one eclesia that called out the church the assembled of of God there's one bride of Christ through space and time now admittedly we as we said in in the old covenant there are different there we say as covenant theologian dispensations of that one covenant of grace and so we do understand dispensations of how the covenant of grace is administered that was my last video so it was to ethnic Jews to people who came from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob it is significant that Abraham is called the father of the Jewish people and the father of the faith but Israel is Jacob his grandson and why I think this is significant is because God could have given Abraham the law when God chose Abraham out of all the people out of the nations and he said I'm going to make you a nation at that time he could have given Abraham the law he doesn't until Moses and so I think what you have the reason for that is of course things are developing and historical redemptive redemptive history is playing out of course but I think there's more Abraham is known as the father of faith even as much as he's the father of the Jewish people and Moses is known as the law so the law is is becomes synonymous with this figure Moses and and Abraham is not known for the law but for faith and why that's significant is because he becomes the father of all those who have faith and John Baptist makes this clear Matthew's gospel don't say we have Abraham as our father because God could raise up children of Abraham from these stones and John 8 Jesus says essentially the same thing they say we have Abraham as our father and he says Abraham's not your father your father's the devil and so and then you have that going back and that as a part of the argument in Romans chapter 4 and Galatians where Abraham is justified apart from the law he's just his his believed God and his faith was counted to him as righteousness and that's an amazing thought to think that God doesn't give Abraham the law yet makes him the people the people come from him and centuries later Paul uses that as a defense of this idea that we are not we are say by grace through faith that's not your undoing is a gift of God that no one may boast and that the dividing line between this ethnic group and the nations is is now gone that the people of God are those who believe in Christ okay all of that still doesn't really it starts to build the case for God's plan was that the whole earth would have the glory of God I mean it when you think of Isaiah in that great Isaiah chapter 6 where he's in the temple and that and we know as the uh presence of the Lord the glory of the Lord fills the temple what what are the angels saying holy holy holy is the Lord the whole earth is full of his glory and that's the that's the thing the plan was always for God's people to cover the earth to not be a part of of genetic lines but of every tribe nation and tongue because that's God created every tribe nation and tongue in Adam and so for a restoration it has to go to the nations who who then separate after Adam but God chooses to start with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob who becomes Israel and the people become big and great and they become slaves in Egypt and then God says let my people go but it's interesting because he calls his people his firstborn son this nation of potentially millions he boils down to one individual my son and that son is birthed through you know blood is poured over the doors it's interesting they come out through a bloody passageway that's a birth they are baptized into red sea first Corinthians tells us and they are in the wilderness a pattern of suffering onto their glorification this is the paradigm of the Christian life we are we have a new birth a baptism signifying that our sanctification in the wilderness en route to our glorification it's a paradigm we are freed out of slavery that symbolism that phraseology is is used in the New Testament again you can think of Galatians 3 and 4 not to human taskmasters but to the slave of sin and all so far everybody saying yes and amen everybody understands that if you're in Christ I don't think I've said anything controversial yet but what we have in the people of Israel that God chooses to reveal things give the oracles the prophecies the law the prophets in this in this nation who reject God I mean the prophet the minor prophets when you read them it's it's significant how they're often described along with the nations God brings judgment on this naidum and Moab and this and then he brings judgment on Israel on Judah he compares them to the nations this supposed people that he has so Christ comes on the scene of course he's foretold and he's the fulfillment of everything in the book of Hebrews tells us this he is the fulfillment of the temple he's the fulfillment of the sacrifices he's the fulfillment of the priest he's a better temple he's a better priest he's a better sacrifice he's a better mediator he's a better prophet he's he's a greater and he's a greater Israel so in Matthew's gospel when Jesus is born and he goes into Egypt to fulfill the prophecy for out of Egypt I called my son that's Hosea 11 speaking of the first Exodus speaking of of who would ever associate that with the Messiah that is a verse talking about what God had done before in redemptive history but the point is he's expecting us to recognize and he's showing us very clearly a pattern a paradigm so just as Israel is called my firstborn son as a nation Jesus Christ now is called Israel Jesus is true Israel he follows the pattern where he too is baptized as they were baptized to the red sea he's baptized by John the Baptist where he goes into the wilderness they went for 40 years he goes for 40 days the Lord in the Exodus says he was testing them and Christ was tested in the wilderness and unlike them who fail the test who anger the Lord God says of his own son this is my son in whom I'm well pleased listen to him he is the new Adam he is true Israel now when we are baptized it says we are baptized in the Christ of course the baptism isn't what is is doing that we are saved by grace through faith before baptism or in some cases after baptism the baptism is just signifying that it is a sign in a seal but we are baptized into Christ death we put on Christ we are in Christ our union with Christ so if Christ is Israel and we are in Christ what does that make us as the church Israel Glacias 6 were the Israel of God I mean you want to prove text there it is Christ is called Israel and then the church is called Israel the reason the church is called Israel is because we are in true Israel Jesus Jesus Christ this is not replacement theology and in this video is going to kind of lay that out this is always the plan there was always a remnant now people of of my persuasion covenant theologians although I'm not a theologian but I believe in covenant theology and reform reformed clearly I can acknowledge God have a plan for the Jewish people I believe that Romans 11 could be indicating a mass turning of this genetic group to see their Messiah that their winding could be open I think that's okay but anything like a John Hagee teaches that Torah believing Jews in his words and Torah obeying Jews have a right to eternal life because they obeyed the Torah that God has given them is that's a demonic teaching we are saved in and through Christ and faith receives that truth and the modern day Jewish people as the Jewish people the pride the majority of them during Jesus time or at least the religious leaders rejected their their Messiah and Paul was grieved over that so I I lay this out in this this next video this class and hopefully the point is is clear and hopefully you see just the beauty in God's God's plan of redemption that the church the bride of Christ the people of God the family of faith the family of God Israel are one and the same the covenant community okay this is this lesson is the culmination of a lot of the work that he'd been doing and it's it is kind of exciting to see already fits together and the more you study this the more connections you'll see being a Christo-centric study word that you probably haven't heard but Exodus the Christ-centered book and it's so much more Christ-centered than than we even imagine because the Exodus story and Israel as a nation as an entity is all is all pointing us to Christ and it's it's setting forth a paradigm for the Christian life for what Christ will do and how we fit into the big story here oh and there's a lot of confusion about this this whole concept of the first born very early on in chapter four God calls Israel his firstborn son and that shows the significance of why the last play is the killing of the firstborn sons they Pharaoh has withheld God's firstborn son as a people Israel and so God and acts vengeance by killing their firstborn sons in the the Passover what I want to show us is as the people come out and this idea that Israel is the son of God right that's what he said my firstborn son he's calling this nation his child we have in Isaiah 66 now this is not a you know Isaiah's written hundreds of years after the Exodus so this is not written referring to the Exodus but it is showing us how when God births something it's just out of nowhere and it's it's quick and it's fast before she was in labor she gave birth before her pain came upon her she delivered a son who has heard such a thing who has seen such things shall a land be born in one day shall a nation be brought brought forth in a moment for as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth says the Lord shall I who caused to bring forth shut the womb says your God in other words he has plans he sets them in motion will he not bring them about and when he brings them about is it not in an instant and do we not see through the red sea crossing exactly this shall a land be born in a day shall a nation be brought forth in a moment suddenly this people who were people of slaves dwelling in a foreign land are now a nation coming out it's a birth and so what we have is in Israel being called God's son so this nation collectively being called a child of God essentially we see the Exodus in self is showing a birth and so I think haven't powdered this but in Exodus 122 it says this month shall be for you the beginning of the month it shall be the first month of the year for you so in the Exodus you actually have a birthday it's a new calendar fresh completely separate from what the Egyptians had and completely new it says if it were a birthday in Exodus 1222 when he's explaining about the the putting of the blood on the doorposts this is Roman or rural two letter C on your sheet take a bunch of his and dip it in the blood that is in a basin and touch the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin none of you shall go out of the door of this house until the morning so the implication is they are going to go through that door covered in blood it's a it's a birth through blood I mean we're we're born in blood and and that's what you have so you have a birthday and a birth we've already covered this over and over again from first Corinthians 10 that the correct C crossing is a baptism and Israel themselves and we've covered this is called God's firstborn son in multiple places we've looked at the Exodus 422 Isaiah 111 says let's see what I have done yeah when Israel was a child I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son and so my point is the Exodus story is showing the birth of God's people and so Jesus very life undergoes the same pattern as what we just looked through and so we've looked at again what we've called the typologies between Moses and Jesus early on and we can continue to do that but I want to show how Jesus Christ is actually Israel in the beginning of the Exodus the seed is threatened and we see that for Israel and we see it for Christ and so here this passage is talking about Pharaoh killing the the babies and here her it is killing the babies and so this is the threat to the again you have to the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman and it's constantly under threat and we see that in the birth of both the nation of Israel and in Jesus Christ on birth we said it over and over and over that Israel is referred to as the firstborn son and Jesus forcing multiple places the Scripture is called the firstborn specifically Hebrews 16 but I think I have the other passages in your passage this one's very cool in describing Israel in Exodus 1, 20 and 21 it says and the people multiplied and grew very strong and because the midwife feared God he gave them families so essentially he's granting the Israelites favor for that look at what Luke 240 says about Christ and the child grew and became very strong or became strong he was filled with wisdom and the favor of God was upon him and we see so as Israel is kind of growing favor and growing strong that's Luke is drawing upon that they come out of Egypt in through the red sea and then Jose 111 so when Israel was a child I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son well in the gospels it says to that should be Matthew 2 and he rose and took the child and his mother by night departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod this was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken about by the prophet out of Egypt I called my son it's a fascinating thing because when you read that in Jose which of course is a minor prophet in the Old Testament you're reading out as if he's talking about Israel but Matthew says that's referring to Christ and who and how is it referring to Christ who what he doesn't say Christ it says Israel and so again pointing to that Christ is Israel again we over it over talk about Israel being baptized through the red sea that's how the New Testament tells us to interpret that all four gospels show Christ it being baptized so Israel is in the wilderness for 40 years they go into the wilderness in Exodus 16 but the book of numbers says this in Numbers 32 and the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel he made them wander in the wilderness for years until all that generation that had done evil in the cycle was gone but then in Mark's gospel you you read at his baptism the voice came from heaven you are my beloved son with you I am well pleased and he was in the wilderness 40 days being tempted by Satan and he was with the wild animals the angel from minister and so just like Israel was in the wilderness for 40 in their case years Christ goes out into the wilderness for 40 days whereas the first Israel produced anger in God the true Israel the Lord is well pleased with you know we have 12 tribes in Israel and Jesus has been in the process and so you see another connection there any thoughts on this or any questions and then we're all together you see it though oh yeah yeah I think one of the reasons maybe it's important is the contrast say between the wilderness Israel failed so much in the wilderness and Christ whereas Christ succeeded in the wilderness good yeah no we're gonna see as we continue in the Exodus God's gonna give his law right he's gonna give him the 10 commandments he said you are gonna be my people you are my people I'm going to be well with you and the people continually fail this first born son of God Israel continually fails over and over and over and the book of judges has just made him and then in the kings you have the split of the kingdom and just wicked wickedness from these representatives of God to his people it creates a longing in the people of God for a better Israel a better representative people for him and so you get that in Christ where it took a whole nation and there was this continual failure you have laser focused in Jesus Christ the true Israel of God fulfilling the law perfectly the 10 commandments that he'll be he'll be give it but we'll be give it let's see how that connects to us now okay so gee the point is Jesus is the new is real but really Jesus is the true is true okay Jesus is the true Israel of God okay so Israel had a birth Christ the new Israel is born it's not should be no surprise to us then that we as Christians use that phrase you must be born again it's a new birth John 3 of course to Nicodemus be born again must be born of water in the spirit of 1st predator 13 said he caused us to be born again he caused this to us just like we didn't choose our first birth we don't choose our second birth it happens to us and so we're born again and we too how baptism just like Israel was baptized just like Christ was baptized when we are baptized we are actually it says we are baptized into Christ our baptize our baptism baptizes into something I think Kevin covered a little bit about this where the first Corinthians 10 so they were baptized into Moses and here our baptisms called in the Christ for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ that's just a beautiful imagery our baptism puts on Christ I mean what a cool thing groans eight of course verse one there's therefore now new condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus the perfect and true Israel perfectly fulfilled the law but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out of a father so remember Christ is the firstborn son but we are in Christ more baptized into which is our adoption and for those whom he forenew he also predestined to be conformed into the image of his son in order that he might be the first born that worked in among many brothers so this new Israel has many brothers us so we're in Christ and so as Christ is Israel we become Israel because we are in him or we're wearing him we're the Israel God was gripping us by something therefore if anyone is in Christ that phrase again he is what he is a new creation the oldest past the way we hold the new has come so we're baptized we are in Christ we're in Christ we're a new creation the creation sixth says but you're circumcision counts for anything you're un-circumcision the whether you follow the mark of the genetic Jewish people circumcision or you are a Gentile doesn't count for anything but what a new creation again that same phrase there from the first Corinthians and ask for all to walk by this whole piece of mercy be upon them and upon the Israel God the way the Greek is the end doesn't indicate it's two different groups it's saying that's the same group so here he's saying Christians are the Israel of God that's what that says there's only one group of people not two groups not Jews and Gentiles one group remember Galatians and Singletters that says there's no more June or Greek the panel female we are all one in Christ one group the group is the Israel of God this is that replacement the dollar at all not saying that the church replaces Israel I'm saying that Israel and the church are one but the church is Israel and Israel is the church and it always has been this is something that I know creates confusion even here because I had people ask me and this is the teaching of reformed theology it's the teaching of the PCA and the book of Hebrews tells us that that he was chapter 11 by faith by faith by faith they were they did all these things by faith in the promise of the future Messiah and the future kingdom to come that they didn't have knowledge of and we have the knowledge of but they had the faith in those promises that's the promise of the future Messiah so they are they're in Christ the Old Testament saints are in Christ that's something people don't quite get not the whole nation of Israel the saved Jewish people in the Old Testament that's what he was 11 clearly tells us and so why is this not the place at the end because the promise in in Genesis 262 to 5 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and we'll give your offspring all these lands and in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall bless because Abraham will bathe my voice and kept my charge my commands and my steps so this is the Isaac a reaffirmation of what's called the Abrahamic covenant and the point is the promise is is for you and your offspring is the promise so you get to the New Testament Matthew 3 and 9 so remember the Jewish people are Jewish by by genes by genetics they're born by the flesh they're born Jewish that makes them Jewish they circumcise their male children as a sign of the covenant and they're in the covenant community and so for generations they just viewed that as it's a genetic thing your Gentile if you're not born that but that Abrahamic covenant which I read is reiterated to Isaac when you get to Matthew do not presume to say to yourselves we have Abraham as our father for I tell you God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham in case the Jewish leaders your Jewish and you call Abraham your father by your genes but God's able to raise up children for Abraham from anything we've even from these stones so that gets elaborated in relations in the Romans Abraham he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still on circumcised the purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised so the righteousness would be counted to them as well so Abraham is the father of Christians now we just we just kind of accept that to a Jewish person hearing that that sounds absurd he's father Abraham because they're Jewish and this Romans 4 is saying he's the father of all those who have faith relations we know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham so Israel as a nation comes from Jacob Jacob is renamed Israel but that lineage goes to Abraham and so we have the Abrahamic promises being made to Isaac and then being made to Jacob and then by virtue of that all the Jewish people but the New Testament tells you those promises and Abraham as your father is anybody who has faith in Christ becomes an actual child of Abraham the same thing for Jacob so Jacob's given name is Jacob but God renews in Israel of course Israel becomes the name of the nation so Romans 9 and this is still key to understand when you read Paul Paul's writings Paul is known for this especially specifically in Romans he uses one word in two different ways on purpose he's doing it as a wordplay so he uses the word flesh in two ways he says I love my brethren in the flesh when he's saying that he's not saying the flesh is a sinful thing he's saying I love my brothers by genetics I love my Jewish family but then he uses the word flesh as in the flesh and the spirit so he uses the word flesh in two different ways he uses the word Israel in two different ways so 9 verse 6 the question Paul is trying to answer will if what you're saying is truthful that we are saved by grace through faith that is not our because we were circumcised it's not because we are Jewish that were saved we're saying anybody can be saved just by faith what about the law and what about the Jewish people and don't you don't you don't he doesn't God care about that what about the promises so Paul says of course God cares about the promises he says the promises are for Israel verse 6 but it's not as though the word of God has failed for not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel not all Israel are Israel and so just because somebody is a child of Jacob Israel they are not a part of Israel which tells you that there is a spiritual and there's again he's building on the whole flesh and the spirit thing because he just been talking about over and over and over about the difference between don't walk in the flesh walk in the spirit now he's actually going to actual flesh genetic flesh children of Isaac Jacob of Israel are not necessarily spiritual is verse 8 this means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God but the children of the promise are counted as offspring and then Romans 11 19 talks about Gentiles being grafted into Israel so what we have here is this is not that that we as Reformed Christians are saying that the church has replaced Israel what we are saying is it has always been in chapter 11 talks like this there's always a remnant so within national Israel part of national Israel is true Israel that's the remnant and all throughout history there's been a remnant it's like it's like a line of believers and and sometimes it intersects with who the Jewish people are and sometimes it doesn't and then other times like like in the case of Ruth in the case of many many Old Testament examples you have non-Jewish Gentile people actually being the true Israel graft and their grafted in because they have faith promise like God's promises that have their fulfillment in the Messiah of Jesus Christ so Israel the church and the bride of Christ are all the same thing it's all and and I know that's tough we don't think of Jewish people in the Old Testament as the bride of Christ revelation chapter 21 actually tells us they all John's gospel speaks about the bride groom right John also wrote revelation here's where you actually meet the bride come I will show you the bride the wife of the lamb the lamb is Jesus Christ very obviously in the religion and he carried me away the spirit to a great high mountain and showed me what the Holy City Jerusalem this is the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God having the glory of God it's radiance like the most rare Jew like a jasmine clearest crystal it's a beautiful bride it had a great high wall with 12 gates and at the gates 12 angels and on the gates the names of the 12 tribes at the sons of Israel were in stride then it goes on and the wall of the city had 12 foundations and on them were the 12 names of the 12 apostles of the lamb and so you see the bride of Christ is made up of all of it the indication of the old covenant church and the new covenant church all encompassing the bride of Christ this is Israel this is the churches the bride of Christ any questions do you were talking about from chapter 12 and exit the idea of this grafting end was not a new testament thing at all this was in right when the pastor was instituted it says uh restrain yourself sojourn with you and keep the pastor over to the lord let all his meals be circumcised then he may come near and keep it and he shall be as a native of the land and then even as soon as it was instituted they were allowed to graft in yeah outsiders yeah as long as they you know participated in the company and the company that's right they became part of it that's great yeah yeah it's just not till the new covenant that that invitation becomes broad but it was always available so what's what's the point what's the take away this is the birth of the true Israel Jesus Christ who will walk through the same steps that the nation of Israel and the Exodus walk through he'll walk through the same steps that his father generations ago Adam walked through and where Adam failed Adam was tempted and failed Christ will be tempted and succeed where Israel could not obey the ten commandments or the law of God Christ perfectly obeys the law of God this is all on our behalf and when we are born again born of the spirit when when that happens to us the same way that happened to the children of Israel again it wasn't a later choice it just kind of happened it got told him what was going to happen and it happened when we are born again we are grafted into Christ we baptized into Christ put on Christ if Christ is Israel that makes us Israel the people of God any people of God are Israel which are the children of God the church which the word for church just mean we get hung up on the word for church it just means the assembly so it's all that means it's an assembly of what of God's people it's the same word that's used when me and Maya has the assembly and he reads the word of God to Jewish people the assembly in Greek it's Ecosy and we on the bride of Christ and it's a beautiful thing and and one day we'll all be together there's one plan of salvation it always existed there's not two groups of people there's obviously different manifestations of how the covenant worked out but it was always one but I'm okay so I just I love the connection at this point once we've gotten through the red sea and we have this birth of a nation to remember that the Bible wants to Christ being the true Israel and then we are grafted into Christ we are the Israel and this is our story as they go into the wilderness this is kind of the picture of sanctification that's struggle in the wilderness you know we're born we're baptized that's you symbolizing our justification and then we go into sanctification one day we'll get to the promised land which will be our our glorification and so this is it's a beautiful thing that God did with his word you know when we think of God's word like we think well it's it's history and it's it's true but it's so much more than history God got didn't write a history book even though it's history this is a love letter he's showing us he's communicating so much more than facts to us and it's it's a beautiful