abu_rashid wrote on Nov 12
th, 2012 at 7:02pm:
Quote:Abraham was in Canaan, at the age of 90 or 99 he circumcised himself did he do this to become a Jew or because God told him to do it. Year 1730 BC, God gave the land of Canaan to Abraham.
Jacob is blessed by Isaac in Canaan. He becomes the first Jew and starts the Jewish nation. God gives the land of Israel to Jacob. The Year 1590 BC.
Clearly you don't know what Jew means. A Jew is a descendant of Judah. Judah was a descendant of Abraham (pbuh), therefore claiming Abraham (pbuh) was a Jew is just ludicrous. Even to claim Judah was a Jew would be a stretch.
"A Jew is a descendant of Judah."
Correct.
But
the Jews Judah was only one, of the 12 tribes of the Hebrew people, who ALL are the covenant people.
The other tribes [all of the Hebrew people] are now spread among the nations of the world, and are not identifiable - TO US [but God knows who we are]. [the woman, the wilderness, Revelation 12:6]
But the Jewish people today,
ARE the remaining identifiable remnant of the Hebrew people, the covenant people of God.
They are the people that SATAN wishes to exterminate, as the only remaining, identifiable remnant of the Hebrew people - The covenant people of God.
But
God will not, and never will, allow SATAN to destroy the last identifiable remnant of his covenant people.
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Also Abraham (pbuh) was the ancestor of not just Jews but Arabs and various other Semitic peoples of the Middle East,
Correct.
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........therefore such a claim is moot, as it applies to Arabs as well.
Incorrect.
The Ishmaelites [the Arab peoples] are the children of Abraham,
but they are NOT a people who are in the covenant line.
The covenant line are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob [<--- Jacob, AKA
'Israel'].
And Israel's [Jacob's] line
ARE the Hebrew people, the covenant people.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning,
and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Exodus 3:6
Moreover he said,
I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.......
Exodus 3:15
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,......
Exodus 6:3
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Deuteronomy 9:5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
......and many more verses referring to the covenant that God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.