JESUS AS ISRAEL

PREMISE #1: JESUS CHRIST IS ISRAEL

Jesus/Yeshua is the builder of the tabernacle of David -- He is the great King, both of the temporal and eternal worlds.  His supremacy over Jews as well as Gentiles is prophetically seen in Abraham's role as the father of both Ishmael and Isaac.    In Jesus Christ alone is the pattern of the Old Covenant body realized in His eternal glorious "One Body" --  The Body of Christ, The House of David (Isaiah 22:22) -- the "Israel of God" (Gal 6:15-16).

Exodus 4:22 "Israel is my son, even my firstborn"

Hosea 11:1 "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."

Matthew 2:15 "And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. "

Zechariah 6:12 "Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH: and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord."

Isaiah 22:20,21 "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah."

Jeremiah 2:3 "Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord."