'Nation' is from Hebrew "goy" (or Greek "ethnos"). It
primarily means a people group. It has come to mean a non-Jew. The
latin translation of goy is gentile. But, is the Bible only
concerned with non-Jews with regard to healing?
Genesis 35:10-11 (goy refers to Israel and the twelve tribes
here)
LITV 10 And God
said to him, Your name is Jacob; your name will not any more be
called Jacob, but Israel will be your name. And He called his name
Israel. 11 And God
said to him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation
and a company of nations shall be from you. And kings shall go
forth from your loins.
Jeremiah 30:12-17 (the goy in need of healing here is
Israel)
LITV 12 For so
says Jehovah, Your break cannot be cured; your wound is
grievous. 13 There is
no one to plead your cause; for your ulcer there are no healing
medicines for you. 14 All your
lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you. For I have wounded
you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel
one, because of the greatness of your iniquity. Your sins are
many. 15 Why do
you cry out over your crushing? Your pain is incurable, for the
greatness of your iniquity; your sins are many, so I have done
these things to you. 16 Therefore,
all those who devour you shall be devoured. And all your enemies,
every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they who rob you
shall be given for plunder; and all who strip you, I will give to
be stripped. 17 For I
will give health back to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,
says Jehovah, because they called you, Outcast; saying, This is
Zion; no one is seeking for her.
Ezekiel 47:12 (the garden-city image suggests it's God's
covenant people that get healed)
KJV 12 And by the
river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall
grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall
the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit
according to his months, because their waters they issued out of
the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the
leaf thereof for medicine.
Malachi 4:2
CAB 2 But to you
that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and
healing shall be in His wings: and you shall go
forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.
Revelation 22:2 (the 12 apostles of Yeshua were first to bear
fruit to the 12 tribes)
KJV 2 In the
midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was
there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and
yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for
the healing of the nations.
Jesus cursed a fruit tree to
"never bear fruit again" on His way into the typical city with the
typical sanctuary; then on the eighth day He started a new body of
people. He was the first to be resurrected into the new and
fruitful national body.
Matthew 21:18-22
LITV 18 And
returning early to the city, He hungered. 19 And
seeing one fig tree by the road, He went up to it, and found
nothing on it except leaves only. And He said to it, Let there be
no more fruit from you forever. And the fig tree immediately dried
up. 20 And
seeing, the disciples marveled, saying, How quickly the fig tree is
dried up! 21 And
answering, Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have
faith and do not doubt, not only will you do the miracle of the fig
tree, but even if you should say to this mountain, Be taken up and
thrown into the sea, it will be so. 22 And all
things, whatever you may ask in prayer, believing, you shall
receive.
The fig tree represented the
typical city that was all show with no fruit. It may also remind us
of the failure of the fig leaf to provide sufficient cover after
the fall. The oppressive legalism of the pharisees produced more of
that inadequate covering. They tended to rule more through guilt
and fear rather than providing a real propitiation. The symbolic
tree that Jesus destroyed took up ground and collected light only
to serve itself. The typical temple on the mount was also doomed by
Jesus, to be destroyed by the Romans. The Romans are Biblically the
sea that comes in like a flood in AD 70 to remove the unfruitful
temple and city structure. After AD 70 there is no more symbolic
sea outside the city since the new city of God is without land
boundaries. All nations today have equal access to God through the
body of Christ. Anyone can take cover under the Tree Of Life in New
Zion. Jesus came out of the real most Holy Place in heaven and
destroyed the copy, because all the typical sacrifices and copies
of the true temple only served to point us to His final
propitiation. They are no better than fig leaves now when compared
to Christ. Turning back to 'fig leaves' is not a valid option once
a better cover is in place.
Hebrews 12:22
YLT 22 But, ye
came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,
Hebrews 13:10 (during the transition years)
LITV 10 We have
an altar of which those serving the tabernacle have no authority to
eat.
Revelation 22:19
ALT 19 And if
anyone takes away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy,
may God take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy
city, the [things] having been written in this
scroll.
Who would want to change the
meaning of Revelation more than those in the first century who
rejected their promised messiah, wanting instead for the types to
continue forever? Typical representatives try to take unfair
advantage of their positions. They make everyone sick.
John 11:48
ALT 48 "If we leave
Him in this way, all will believe [or, trust] in Him, and
the Romans will come and will take away both our place and
nation."
Mark 14:56
ALT 56 For many were
giving false testimony against Him, but their testimonies were not
consistent.
Did not the gospel of eternal
life go from the 12 apostles to the 12 tribes first, and then they
bore fruit to the other nations?
John 15:1-8 (Jesus pruned his Jewish disciples to bear much
fruit)
LITV 1 I am the True
Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. 2 Every branch
in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and each one bearing
fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are
already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to
you. 4 Remain in Me,
and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself,
unless it remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain
in Me. 5 I am the Vine;
you are the branches. He that remains in Me, and I in him, this one
bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are not able to do
anything. 6 Unless one
remains in Me, he is cast out as the branch and is dried up; and
they gather and throw them into a fire, and they are
burned. 7 If you remain
in Me, and My words remain in you, whatever you desire you will
ask, and it shall happen to you. 8 In this
My Father is glorified, that you should bear much fruit; and you
will be My disciples.
Matthew 3:10 (trees here probably represent first century
leaders)
YLT 10 and now
also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree
therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is
cast.
Colossians 1:4-6 (heavenly Jerusalem extends)
LITV 4 hearing
of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love toward all the
saints, 5 because
of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, which you heard before
in the Word of the truth of the gospel, 6 coming to
you, as also in all the world, and it is bearing fruit even also
among you, from the day in which you heard and knew the grace of
God in truth;
Not only did Abraham circumcise
a large gene pool of people with Isaac but many non related people
left Egypt to join the melting-pot nation during the
first exodus. Why is it surprising that many people from other
nations joined reborn Israel after the second exodus? Genetics was
never the covenant requirement or the sign. It did surprise the
pharisees to find out that they would not rule the world militarily
with Jesus in the new covenant. Jesus rules in all ethnics by
circumcising the heart.
Genesis 17:23-29 (Abraham circumcised foreigners)
YLT 23 And
Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house,
and all those bought with his money—every male among the men of
Abraham's house—and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in
this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him. 24 And
Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of
his foreskin being circumcised; 25 and
Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh
of his foreskin being circumcised; 26 in this
self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his
son; 27 and all
the men of his house—born in the house, and bought with money from
the son of a stranger—have been circumcised with him.
Genesis 14:14 (over 300 grown men had been born in his
house)
CLV 14 And
hearing is Abram that Lot, his brother, is captured. And numbering
is he those dedicated to him, born in his household, three hundred
and eighteen, and is pursuing them as far as Dan.
Exodus 12:38 (another conflation then leaves Egypt)
LITV 38 And also a
mixed multitude went up with them, and flocks, and herds, very many
livestock.
Romans 9:8
ALT 8 That is, the
children of the flesh, these [are] not children of
God, but the children of the promise are counted for
seed [fig., descendents].
Galatians 4:28
ALT 28 Now we,
brothers [and sisters], just like Isaac, are children of
promise.
Ephesians 3:5-6 (the Jewish apostles took their covenant to all
nations)
CLV 5 which, in
other generations, is not made known to the sons of humanity as it
was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets): in
spirit" 6 the nations
are to be joint enjoyers of an allotment, and a joint body, and
joint partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the
evangel"
Romans 4:13
YLT 13 For not
through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of
his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of
faith;
Romans 4:13
ECB
13
JUSTIFICATION VS THE
TORAH
For
the pre-evangelism he had, being the heir of the cosmos, was not to
Abraham or his sperma through the torah, but through the justness
of trust.
Galatians 3:16
YLT 16 and to
Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say,
`And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which
is Christ;
Galatians 3:29
YLT 29 and if
ye are of Christ then of Abraham ye are seed, and
according to promise—heirs.
God made it clear that having the right genetic connection is
not His covenant requirement or guarantee.
Matthew 3:9
ALT 9 "And
you(p) should not presume to be saying within yourselves, 'We
have Abraham [as our] father,' for I say to
you(p) that God is able to raise children to Abraham out of
these stones.
The (living and eternal) human
soul of Christ is and was re-created in his people by their being
born again of the Holy Spirit, not by them being born of the 'holy
jewish flesh'.
Acts 2:1-5
YLT 1 And in the day
of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at
the same place, 2 and there came
suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath,
and it filled all the house where they were sitting, 3 and there
appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also
upon each one of them, 4 and they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other
tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to
declare. 5 And there were
dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those
under the heaven,
Galatians 5:22-23
YLT 22 And the
fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness,
goodness, faith, 23 meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law;
God doesn't really need a certain building for a dwelling
place, says the Jewish believer to the Jewish non-believers who
were still serving at the typical temple of Herod that was about to
be destroyed in favor of God's people. Stephen had the healing
image of God living in Himself as he tried to reason with his
bretheren still in their flesh mode.
Romans 8:9
YLT 9 And ye are not
in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth
dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ—this one
is not His;
Acts 7:49-53
CLV 49 Heaven is My
throne, yet the earth is a footstool for My feet. What kind of
house shall be built for Me? the Lord is saying, or what is the
place of My stopping? 50 Is it not My
hand that does all these things?' 51 Stiff-necked
and uncircumcised in your hearts and ears, you are ever clashing
with the holy spirit! As your fathers, you also!" 52 Which of the
prophets do not your fathers persecute? And they kill those who
announce before concerning the coming of the Just One, of Whom now
you became the traitors and murderers -" 53 who got the
law for a mandate of messengers and do not maintain
it!"
Galatians 5:22-23 THE SINGULAR FRUIT OF
THE SPIRIT
ECB 22 And the
fruit of the Spirit: love, cheer, shalom, patience, kindness,
goodness, trust, 23 meekness,
self-control: against such there is no torah.
Thank God for the Jewish people
who took His Word to all the nations.
2 Timothy 1:7
YLT 7 for God
did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of
a sound mind;
