by John Thomas
With reference to Philippians 3:20—"Through the faith," then, Gentiles become "Jews;" and natural born Hebrews become "Israelites indeed." "Through the faith" expressed in "the obedience of Faith," men and women get into Christ; and in getting in become citizens of "the Polity of the Israel," to be planted as "the Wood of the Life," in the Paradise of the Elohim, where it will flourish unfadingly during the Olahm of a thousand years. "The Polity of the Israel", (!greek!), styled in the English Version, "the Commonwealth of Israel," is at present in the formative state (Eph. 2:12). It is being formed by the process of "taking out a people from the nations for the Name" (Acts 15:14). This name is the polity; and when the gospel of the kingdom preached has separated all required for the purposes of God, the Name, or Polity, will be complete; and, as it is a Hebrew Polity, by which the Jewish nation, and all other nations, are to be governed, all who share in its politeuma, or Commonwealth, must become "Inward Jews," or "Israelites indeed" (Phil. 3:20); as Paul says, "Our politeuma subsists in heavens, out of which also we wait for the deliverer the Lord Jesus Anointed." The citizenship begins there, by true believers on earth being immersed into Him now in heaven at the right hand of Power.
— Eureka — An Exposition of the Apocalypse, Vol. 1, Ch. 2 — Epistles To The Four Angel-Stars Of The Ecclesias In Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, And Thyatira., Section II — Jews of the Satan's Synagogue, p. 227
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