David Phillips

Because this Prayer of Ultimate Faith has been displaced and forgotten for what it really is, which is the LORD’s Prayer of God’s Will be done on earth as it is Heaven for His Church, and the impetus of The Great Commission, is why the Church has become so ineffective over at least the past 1800 centuries, by divisions resulting in derisions, so as to even allow an ideology like Islam or any other cult of idolatry to have ever been invented by men. The LORD’s Prayer “After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son so he can give glory back to You. For You have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one You have given him. And this is the way to have eternal life—to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one You sent to earth.  I brought glory to You here on earth by completing the work You gave me to do. Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began. “I have revealed You [*Greek, “Your Name”] to the ones You gave me from this world. They were always Yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept Your Word. Now they know that everything I have is a gift from You, for I have passed on to them the message You gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from You, and they believe You sent me. “My prayer is not for the world, but for those You have given me, because they belong to You. All who are mine belong to You, and You have given them to me, so they bring me glory. Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to You. Holy Father, You have given me Your name; [*some manuscripts read, “You have given me these disciples”] now protect them by the Power of Your Name so that they will be united just as we are. During my time here, I protected them by the Power of the Name You gave me. [*some manuscripts read, “I protected those You gave me, by the power of Your Name.”] I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold. “Now I am coming to You. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy. I have given them Your Word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I’m not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. They do not belong to this world any more than I do. Make them holy by Your Truth; teach them Your Word, which is Truth. Just as You sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by Your Truth. “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as You and I are one—as You are in me, Father, and I am in You. And may they be in us so that the world will believe You sent me. “I have given them the glory You gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and You are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that You sent me and that You love them as much as You love me. Father, I want these whom You have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory You gave me because You loved me even before the world began! “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know You, but I do; and these disciples know You sent me. I have revealed You to them, and I will continue to do so. Then Your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.” John 17:1-26 (NLT)

@timburchett And i’d guess that 75% of the 40% and 95% of the 30% either roll thru or all out run stop signs.

Only 12% of the legal population vote meanwhile 40% of evangelical Christians and 30% of gun owners don’t vote.

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First came to mind: “Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NLT) Then, in the context of the first six trumpets (The Revelation 8:6 — 9:21), Luke 21:25-26.

@D3715David The spirit of prophecy is the only lens that brings the present into focus. Most men see events. We see the unfolding of a decree. What part of the prophecy do you think the world is most blind to right now?

define "Biblically Accurate" in 5 words or less...

@GuntherEagleman Are we certain that it wasn’t the hospital that had the medical emergency when Mr. Norris arrived?

🚨 BREAKING: CHUCK NORRIS HOSPITALIZED AFTER MEDICAL EMERGENCY IN HAWAII! The legendary action star and martial arts icon has been rushed to the hospital on the island of Kauai following a sudden medical issue in the last 24 hours. Pray for Chuck!

I woke up out of a dead sleep witb these thoughts. Hang the keys up bro! You had a good ride. There's no humanity left in trucking. It used to be about the guy that had to go through all the stress for what that load paid. Now, it's about the stress that same guy has to go through to make ends meet while getting paid pennies on the dollar. Its watching brokerage firms become multi billion dollar firms while you struggle to pay off a $1500 repair bill. It's watching truckstop after truckstop pop up price gouging the trucker from the fuel pumps to $10 a gallon windshield washer fluid while offering you a food choice of a roller dog, subway, or McDonald's. It's having some young cocky employee of a broker calling you at 2am to get your location waking you up from a dead sleep and then mocking you because you're crabby. It's being harassed by the DOT at scales because you hit one of that states nuclear potholes and it knocked a marker light out. Its sharing the roads with third world people who have no business driving a bicycle let alone a semi and they have zero value for human life. Its having to deal with people in the public who treat us as an inconvenience rather than a necessity and cut us off just to hit their exit because they feel their time matters more. It's having to use truckstop showers that still have pubes on the floor from the previous guest. It's having to deal with regulations that were made up by a pencil pushing punk bureaucrat who tells me that im not safe to work more than 14 hours a day because he's unable to. It's being treated like a child because you have allowed children into an adult profession and they ruin it for the adults and rather than punish the children who make mistakes, you punish the adults who know better. It's wanting to park for the night closer to your destination but you don't risk it because you know the parking will be non existent. It's being told you have lane restrictions in certain states because those states think your time don't matter. It's watching your health deteriorate over time because of the nature of your profession. It's having to miss weddings, funerals, birthdays, and every important life event because you already committed to a couple weeks worth of loads. It's having to make do in a bucket or garbage can at a shipper/receiver because they've held you up for hiurs and offer no restroom facilities. It's waiting 12 1/2 hours to get loaded than run the load through the night straight through to deliver the load on time only for the receiver make you wait an additional 8 1/2 hours to unload you and then be told "we'll give you $340 for your time." (I lost a load because of that) It's breaking down and having roadside price gouging you because they know you have no other choice. It's being held up at shippers/receivers because no English speaking truck drivers can't understand basic instructions or they park in everyone's way because they have no common courtesy. It's watching non English speaking truck drivers park at fuel pumps and go in and take a shower. It's dodging bags of human feces in parking lots because the 3rd world is too lazy to bring that bag to a garbage can. I could go on and on but ladies and gentlemen this is a pretty good crash course of what we deal with out here to bring you your conveniences. The trucking industry, much like this country is no more. Greed and corruption is destroying this country and the trucking industry from within. It's time to take our country back or lose it forever. ~written by The Disrespected Trucker ~

@Biblicalman The parable of the tares among the wheat (Matthew 13) carries the same precept. And what’s incredible is the explanation (Matthew 13:37-43) by how the LORD reveals who is actually “left behind” and who really gets taken away. This the dispensationalists are blind and deaf to.

@D3715David That's exactly right. Satan has his tree. God has His. Romans 11 shows you who gets grafted in and who gets cut off. Two trees. Two kingdoms. Same war.

The tree of the knowledge of good and evil wasn't a tree. Ezekiel 31 tells you what it was. And it changes everything you think happened in the Garden of Eden... .

Isaiah 40:21, “Haven’t you heard? Don’t you understand? Are you deaf to the words of God— the words He gave before the world began?” (NLT) What good is any translation before the Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic ever was uttered, or even written after the moving of the Holy Spirit? Any translation of the original languages is misunderstood and useless without the leading of the Holy Spirit Who expressed what He dictated from The Word before man existed (John 1:1; 12:44-50; 16:14-15; 1 John 2:27; The Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches.” “He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future.” “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him. But it was to us that God revealed these things by His Spirit. For His Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.” “He lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what He teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as He has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.” The Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26-29; 3:5-6, 12-13, 21-22. John 16:13. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10. 1 John 2:26 (NLT) From whichever translation you care to utilize, the Word of God, along with Its Fulfillment, will mean exactly what the Spirit intended from before the world began.

A man asked me what Bible translation is easiest to understand. Wrong question. The Pharisees memorized Torah and it damned them. Slave owners quoted Scripture and it confirmed their evil. Cult leaders built empires on the same verses you underline at Starbucks. The problem was never the translation. It was the heart. Full post on Substack. Link below...

The Divine Decree of Tribulation (conclusion) “TEST” comes from the Middle English word for a CUPEL, from the Old French word for a pot, or cupel. From the Latin, testum, the word for an earthen vessel, and testa, a piece of burned clay, or shell, that all leads down a rabbit hole of foreign language words that are over my head, but boils down to something very interesting. A meaning from the use of the CUPEL in examining metals. So bear with me until we get to the word, “CUPEL.” So to expedite this, sense 4 of the word “test” is an event or set of circumstances, etc. that proves, or tries, a person’s qualities. As in, “the delay” was a test of his, or her, patience. (This reminded me of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25:1-13. And especially verse 5. And still no wrath.) So finally we come to the coup de grace of this word exercise. The word “CUPEL.” From the French, coupelle. And from the Latin, cupa, see, CUP. (Remember this word: CUP.) Sense 1 of the definition for the word cupel is a small, shallow, porous cup used in assaying gold, silver, etc. Or, sense 2. A hearth for refining metals. (This definition reminds me of the account of the 3 Hebrews in Babylon from Daniel 3:16-27, and that furnace they were thrown into that was heated up 7 times hotter than usual. Which, incidentally, the strongest men of the army that bound them and threw them in the furnace were killed by the heat of the flames. And i perceive that this was the very furnace, or cupel, that was used to refine the gold Nebuchadnezzar used for his statue. Not to mention Zechariah 13:9 - but am, again.) Anyway, cupelled or cupelling is to assay, or REFINE, in a cupel. Or, in a CUP. Here is where i’m going with all of this. The prayer of our Lord Jesus from Matthew 26:39: ‘And He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this CUP pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” Did you catch that? “Let this CUP pass from me.” Going by all of the senses of the definitions of the words we have just gone over, He very well could have said, let this tribulation pass from me. And He conceded to His Father’s will being done, not what His free-will prayed might be possible. And not to forget this gem of a passage spoken a few days before His CUP in the Garden of Gethsemane from Matthew 20:20-23, “. . . Are you able to drink from the bitter CUP of suffering I am about to drink?” “Oh yes,” they replied, “we are able!” Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter CUP. . . .” And, “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33 NLT) “Believers” trying to dodge and slip aside tribulations have been and are being hoodwinked by thieves and robbers that have slipped over wall into the sheepfold. The Shepherds Voice is not in the tenets of dispensationalism, and His true sheep know it. See John 10:1-5.

The Divine Decree of Tribulation (part 4) Now let’s look at the following definitions from Webster’s New World Dictionary 2nd College edition of 1986. And let’s follow some key words that tie all of these words into the one reality John Nelson Darby, C.I. Scofield and their disciples have tried so desperately to dodge for over 140+ years now. The scary word “TRIBULATION” comes from European words that mean to afflict, or, to oppress. From the Latin, tribulum, to press, as in a threshing sledge. Which is akin to terere, meaning to rub. (Have you ever rubbed dry corn off of a cob? Or rubbed grains of wheat loose from its head? You have threshed grain. You have put those grains through a tribulation to get the most useful part of the entire purpose of their existence. Does this remind you of Isaiah 28:26-29 up there in part 2?) Tribulation, under sense 1 of the definition, can cause great misery or distress, as from oppression, and even deep sorrow. And under sense 2, tribulation is something that causes suffering or distress, affliction, or TRIAL. (Didn’t see any references to wrath there.) “TRIAL.” From the Anglo-French, trier, that is our word TRY. Sense 1 of our word TRIAL is, the act or process of trying, testing, or putting to the proof, or to test. Sense 2 is, (a), the fact or state of being tried by suffering, or by TEMPTATION, etc. (Does 1 Corinthians 10:13 ring a bell?) And (b), the fact or state of a hardship, suffering, etc. that tries one’s endurance . . . etc. (No references to wrath there.) “TRY” or, tried, or trying. From i think an old Latin word, tritare, meaning to cull out. (Which reminded me of the account of how the LORD instructed Gideon to test his men in Judges 7:1-8). This old Latin word also meant to grind, and is connected to another Latin word, tritus, or, terere, again meaning to rub, as in threshing grain. Sense 1 of the word try, originally, means to separate, to set apart. (Again giving the account from Judges 7 some more gravity.) Anyway, sense 2 of the word try is, (a), to melt, or to render fat, etc. To get the oil from grain, or from olives. And, (b), to extract, or TO REFINE (metal, etc.) by heating. (Remember Zechariah 13:9?) Gonna jump ahead to sense 5 of the word TRY now, which is to put to the proof, or to TEST. And sense 6 is to subject to trials, to annoyance, etc. To afflict. As in, Job was sorely tried. And sense 7 is to subject to a severe TEST or strain. Rigors that try one’s stamina . . . etc. (Nope. No wrath there either.) Okay, one more part to bring it home. Stay tuned please. Thanks!

The Divine Decree of Tribulation (part 1) Have you ever heard a preacher, or a fellow Christian, say something like, “You don’t want to be without Christ and left behind in the world during the Great Tribulation after the rapture!” Well don’t let that frighten you. What they’re referring to is a secret pre-tribulation rapture of part of the Church based in the non-theology of dispensationalism. This is merely a theory of eschatological prophecy that was strongly promoted by John Nelson Darby and C.I. Scofield in the 19th Century, from a misinterpretation of Scripture prophecy taken out of context. A modern ideology believed in American churches, (unknowingly now, but introduced in the 1870’s), that calls people thru fear of the Great Tribulation to Christ’s salvation from the Great Tribulation. And if it were true, which it is not, it would be a premature salvation before the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification in our life in this world. And before Christ our High Priest’s work in Heaven at God’s Throne of Grace is completed before the restoration of all things anyway. Acts 3:19-21 testifies to this truth where the Apostle Peter says: “Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and He will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah. For He must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through His holy prophets.” According to God’s complete plan of salvation, much of our sanctification, (the “being saved” part), comes by faith and endurance, thru tribulation, the sorrows and trials of this life in this present world. And Christ, in the Gospel by the Grace of God, calls people, through the Spirit of God, to salvation through His gift of faith by the hearing of, and according with, the Word of God. The gift of faith that hopes beyond the trials and sorrows of this life in the midst of those trials and sorrows. The faith that does things in the midst of trials and sorrows like the roll call of the faithful did in Hebrews 11. Read it and you’ll see. God doesn’t wipe away all of the tears of crying, and of pain, or of death and sorrow, from our eyes until after the Devil, and Death and Hell are cast into the Lake of Fire. And before all of this happens, nothing can ever separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord anyway. Haven’t you ever read about this? Then see The Revelation 21:4, and Romans 8:35-39. God didn’t send His Son Jesus Christ to die on the Cross to save our bodies from the tribulations of this life. If so, no one would ever get sick, or die. And there would not have ever been any natural disasters, or wars, with all of the miseries accompanying them. God, by His love, sent Him to die to save our lost souls from the Wrath of God found in the Second Death of the Lake of Fire. And to destroy the works of the Devil. And to free His creation from the curse. Check out Romans 8:14-30.

From a late 19th to early 20th century Bible commentary: “Doubtless, the return to literal sacrifices would seem to be a return to the beggarly elements of legal types after we have gotten the Antitype. “By one offering Christ hath perfected forever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14). And God hath said of all believers in Jesus, “Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now, where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin” (Hebrews 10:17-18). The virtual ignoring of this truth in our present dispensation is one of the greatest heresies of Rome; for, by her oft-repeated sacrifice of the mass, she implies that Christ’s one sacrifice is not a full and everlasting atonement, but needs her daily sacrifices to be added to it. We are sure, therefore, that the temple-sacrifices in restored Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40:39; 43:19-27), of whatever nature they may be, will not set aside this fixed principle, though we do not yet see how the two Scripture statements are to be harmonized. Two considerations may, in the meantime, help to lessen the difficulty: (a) The Jews, as a nation, stand to God in a special relation, distinct from that of us Christians of the present elect Church, gathered out of Jews and Gentiles indiscriminately. The same principle, therefore, of the nonexistence of sacrifice in any form may not hold good in that dispensation, to be ushered in by the advent of Messiah and His reign over the restored Israelite nation as holds good in our present Gentile times. That shall be the period of public liturgy, or perfect outward worship of the great congregation on earth, as the present time is one of gathering out spiritual worshippers one by one. Besides Israel’s relation to Christ as her spiritual Saviour, she will then also perform a perfect outward service of sacrifice, prayer, and praise, as a nation, to her manifested Divine King reigning in the midst of her; and all nations of the earth shall take a part in that service, as recognizing His Divine Kingship over themselves also. (b) The Israelites shall probably also set forth, in all its harmonious parts, the outward beauty and inward sanctity of the temple service, which, in their palmiest days of old, they had never exhibited in its full perfection. Thus Christ’s word shall be fulfilled, that “till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the Law until all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18). The full excellence and antitypical perfection of all the parts of the ancient temple service, which, from ignorance of its hidden meaning, seemed a cumbersome yoke, and unintelligible to the worshippers, shall then be fully understood, and therefore shall become a delightful service of love, instead of as formerly a burdensome task. To set forth this, and not to invalidate the principle of the Epistle to the Hebrews, that after Christ’s perfect sacrifice no further propitiation is needed, is probably one object of the temple liturgy which shall be. Israel’s province will be to exhibit in the minutest details of sacrifice, the essential unity of the Law and Gospel, which now seem opposed. The ideal of the theocratic temple and its service shall then first be realized.” “Notes” from the ‘Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary’ on Ezekiel 40. These guys’ commentary “notes” on Ezekiel 39-48 are extraordinary. And before having access to this whole Bible commentary, these chapters already told me these are the details The Revelation 20:4-6 didn’t have to go into because they were already recorded for us.

The Third Temple and the Return of Sacrifices Many Christians have become fascinated with the idea that a third temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and that animal sacrifices will begin again as part of God’s prophetic plan. This belief has spread widely through modern prophecy industry. Conferences, books and videos treat it as though it were a central part of God’s plan. But when we examine the Bible carefully, this expectation reveals a serious misunderstanding of what Christ accomplished on the cross. Scripture does not treat the temple as the centre of God’s plan. The New Testament consistently teaches that the entire temple system reached its fulfilment in Jesus Christ. When Jesus died, He cried out, “It is finished” (John 19:30). That statement was a declaration that the sacrificial system had REACHED ITS COMPLETION. The work that the temple sacrifices pointed toward had finally been accomplished. The book of Hebrews explains this with unmistakable clarity. The writer says that the priests under the old covenant “stand daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God” (Hebrews 10:11–12). Christ did not offer another temporary sacrifice. HE OFFERED THE FINAL ONE. That is why the chapter continues by declaring, “Where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin” (Hebrews 10:18). This means the sacrificial system has reached its end. To return to animal sacrifices would not be a step forward in God’s redemptive plan. It would be a step backward toward shadows that have already been fulfilled in Christ. Hebrews warns about this very danger when it says that if the old system were still effective, the sacrifices would have continued without interruption (Hebrews 10:2). The reason they stopped is because Christ accomplished what they could never accomplish. Many Christians overlook another crucial event recorded in the Gospels. At the moment Jesus died, “the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom” (Matthew 27:51). That was not an accident of history. It was a divine declaration that the barrier between God and man had been removed through the sacrifice of Christ. The temple no longer functioned as the meeting place between God and humanity because Christ Himself had become the true mediator. The New Testament goes even further by redefining the temple itself. Believers are now described as the temple of God. Paul writes, “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). The church is built together as a spiritual house where God dwells by His Spirit (Ephesians 2:19–22). The focus of God’s dwelling place is no longer a physical building in Jerusalem but the people redeemed by Christ. This is why the expectation of a future temple with renewed sacrifices is not merely an interpretive mistake. It strikes at the heart of the gospel itself. If sacrifices were to resume as a legitimate act of worship, it would imply that the sacrifice of Christ was insufficient. The entire message of Hebrews exists to prevent that kind of thinking. Some argue that future sacrifices would only serve as memorials of Christ’s death. But the Bible never describes animal sacrifices as memorial rituals. In the Old Testament they were offerings for sin. To reintroduce them in that form would contradict the clear teaching that Christ’s sacrifice was offered once for all. History also teaches us something important here. The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70 just as Jesus predicted (Matthew 24:2). That destruction marked the visible end of the old covenant system. Since that day the worship of God has not been tied to a temple structure. Jesus Himself had already said that the hour was coming when true worship would not be confined to a place but would occur “in spirit and truth” (John 4:21–24). If a third temple were ever built in Jerusalem, it would not restore biblical worship. It would represent a tragic rejection of the finished work of Christ. The reintroduction of sacrifices would not honour the cross. It would deny its sufficiency. Hebrews is explicit that Christ offered one sacrifice for sins for all time and that where forgiveness has been secured there is no longer any offering for sin (Hebrews 10:12, 18). Any system that returns to animal offerings after the death of the Son of God would be proclaiming, whether intentionally or not, that the cross was not enough. IT MUST ALSO BE SAID PLAINLY THAT MUCH OF THE MODERN ENTHUSIASM FOR A REBUILT TEMPLE IS NOT DRIVEN BY THE GOSPEL BUT BY POLITICAL ZIONISM AND NATIONALIST AGENDAS THAT ATTEMPT TO MERGE BIBLICAL LANGUAGE WITH GEOPOLITICAL AMBITIONS. When Christians uncritically adopt those narratives, they end up supporting a project that shifts attention away from Christ and back to shadows that the New Testament declares fulfilled. The gospel moves forward from the altar to the cross, not backward from the cross to the altar. That is why the church must approach this subject with theological clarity rather than prophetic excitement. The gospel does not move backward to the shadows of the old covenant. It moves forward in the reality that Christ has accomplished redemption once for all. The true temple has already come. The final sacrifice has already been offered. And the last word spoken from the cross still stands. “IT IS FINISHED.” (John 19:30)

The Revolution that began in 1776 has not ended—it still continues, because the flame of Liberty and Independence still burns in the hearts of EVERY American Patriot. And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before. 🇺🇸

This, imo, is the best video explanation of Zionism you will find. I share it often because so many have truly been deceived, they don’t know, they truly don’t understand Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

(End) “Before the way of faith in Christ was available to us, we were placed under guard by the Law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until the way of faith was revealed. Let me put it another way. The Law was our guardian until Christ came; it protected us until we could be made right with God through faith. And now that the Way of faith has come, we no longer need the Law as our guardian. For you are all children[*Greek, sons (and daughters)] of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile,[*Greek, Jew or Greek] slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children[*Greek, seed] of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you. Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance for his young children, those children are not much better off than slaves until they grow up, even though they actually own everything their father had. They have to obey their guardians until they reach whatever age their father set. And that’s the way it was with us before Christ came. We were like children; we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles[*or powers] of this world. But when the right time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, subject to the Law. God sent Him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the Law, so that He could adopt us as His very own children.[*Greek, sons (and daughters)] And because we[*Greek, you] are His children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”[*Abba is an Aramaic term for “father”] Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child.[*Greek, son (and/or daughter)] And since you are His child, God has made you His heir.” Galatians 3:23 - 4:7 (NLT) So, nothing about a geographical location mentioned here to be of any importance.

(3) “Dear brothers and sisters, here’s an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or amend an irrevocable agreement, so it is in this case. God gave the promises to Abraham and his child.[*Greek, seed; Genesis 12:7; 13:15] And notice that the Scripture doesn’t say “to his children,[*Greek, seeds]” as if it meant many descendants. Rather, it says “to his child”—and that, of course, means Christ. This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the Law to Moses. God would be breaking His promise. For if the inheritance could be received by keeping the Law, then it would not be the result of accepting God’s promise. But God graciously gave it to Abraham as a promise. Why, then, was the Law given? It was given alongside the promise to show people their sins. But the Law was designed to last only until the coming of the Child who was promised. God gave His Law through angels to Moses, who was the mediator between God and the people. Now a mediator is helpful if more than one party must reach an agreement. But God, Who is one, did not use a mediator when He gave His promise to Abraham. Is there a conflict, then, between God’s Law and God’s promises?[*or, and the promises] Absolutely not! If the Law could give us new life, we could be made right with God by obeying it. But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ.” Galatians 3:15-22 (NLT)

A short thread on the whole who or what is really Israel Tucker vs Huckabee Christian Nationalism/Zionism issue, here’s the take of the Apostle Paul, a real Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin: (1) “. . . when Peter came to Antioch [See Acts 15:1-21], I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile believers, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision. As a result, other Jewish believers followed Peter’s hypocrisy, and even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. (14) When I saw that they were not following the truth of the gospel message, I said to Peter in front of all the others, “Since you, a Jew by birth, have discarded the Jewish laws and are living like a Gentile, why are you now trying to make these Gentiles follow the Jewish traditions? You and I are Jews by birth, not ‘sinners’ like the Gentiles. (16) Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the Law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the Law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the Law.” [* Some translators hold that the quotation extends through verse 14; others through verse 16; and still others through verse 21] But suppose we seek to be made right with God through faith in Christ and then we are found guilty because we have abandoned the Law. Would that mean Christ has led us into sin? Absolutely not! Rather, I am a sinner if I rebuild the old system of Law I already tore down. For when I tried to keep the Law, it condemned me. So I died to the Law—I stopped trying to meet all its requirements—so that I might live for God. My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (21) I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the Law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.” Galatians 2:11-21 (NLT)