1 Peter 2
21  For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps
(aka NO pre trib rapture - NPTR)
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

25  Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and my Father are one. 

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

9  And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
11  And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.


10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 


24  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25  Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.


Christ came bring AGAIN those lost sheep to God, to make CHRISTIANS of those who were lost and anyone who wanted to.  Salvation opened up to all.  

There is today those who do err, not knowing the words of God.  WE MUST GO to  the schoolmaster if we are to gain understanding of what is written and what we need to know today. We can no longer allow anyone to just 'assign' their own 'thoughts' to the words of God,  that neither want nor require them because when they do, it mostly ends with false doctrines being born.  

If you don't understand THE BEGINNING of a thing, YOU will NEVER be able to come to TRUTH.  

HOW DO I KNOW THE CHURCH OF TODAY IS THE LOST HOUSE OF ISRAEL + whomsoever would?  I did go to the schoolmaster, so I DO KNOW WHO IS WHO today because I learned who was who from yesterday.  

God chose Abraham and made UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES.  And the people multiplied, and they ended up slaves in Egypt for 400 years till God led those peoples out of Egypt, and finally entered into A CONDITIONAL covenant with them.  

Unconditional -  Gods Plan will happen and his promises will come to pass and IT DOESN'T MATTER the CHARACTER of the people because it is a promise of God.  

Conditional - God makes promises AND the people make promises and IF ONE SIDE goes against those promises then THE OTHER SIDE is no LONGER HELD TO THEM. Covenant revoked. 


Example of a promise made through covenants UNCONDITIONAL AKA ARE GOING TO HAPPEN are Gods people though Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will become MANY NATIONS, many peoples, and will inhabit the then uninhabited lands of the world though which the world will be blessed. 

Example of a CONDITIONAL promise is follow my laws and blessings will abound, don't and you will lose the blessings and instead receive cursing's and will go into captivity losing your land and maybe even the knowledge of who you are.  


WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE CHURCH OF TODAY?  

GOD held up his end, they became a nation that thrived better than any nation.  Then they started to go the way of the world.  God gave warnings they didn't listen.  

GOD DIVIDED THE NATION INTO 2 NATIONS each will have a different purpose.  

ONE nation, the one that has ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN AS GODS PEOPLE is the House of Judah, Jews of Jerusalem that consisted of the tribe of Judah, the tribe of Benjamin and some of the Levites, and some people of the other nation who didn't want to worship a cow.

The OTHER nation, the one that consisted of 10 tribes as compared to the 2 tribes of the other nation, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM?  If you know anything it is that they went into captivity to the Assyrian over 100 years before the Jews went into captivity of Babylon.  AND then that is it.  You don't know where they went, what they did, what became of them.  THEY WERE LOST.  They are NOT and never have been the Jews.  

SO A COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS before Jesus was born, THEY WENT about 'fulfilling' the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, COMPLETELY UNKNOWN TO THEM.  They were 'scattered' to the world, first sifted through the nations they traveled through and then onto the uninhabited lands of the world.  

What does that mean?  That means that IF THEY NO LONGER KNEW they were once 'the House of Israel', they no longer knew God, they no longer kept laws, then WHAT WOULD THEY BE CONSIDERED?

Gentiles.  

What is the UNCONDITIONAL COVENANT?  to BECOME MANY NATIONS and many peoples.  

WHO did Christ come for?  Who bears the name CHRISTIAN?  

The lost sheep of the house of Israel..  

So, Paul was told not to go to the east,  but to the North and west.  Know where the prophecies say Gods people will go?  North and west and into the isles...

Micah
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men. 
13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.


In conclusion, The CHURCH is made up today of the Lost sheep of the House of Israel, the 10 tribes scattered to the world to become the many gentile nations, not knowing from where they came.  So though we MAY NOT KNOW if we are of the 'bloodline' or if we were grafted in, we are the children of God and heirs to the promises and we must endure to the end and overcome.  So put on the gospel armor and STAND up for God and His Christ and KNOW not matter what, we will have the victory in and through CHRIST.  





All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.