Most people never stop to ask the one question Scripture practically whispers beneath every line : WHAT IS ISRAEL ?
We hear the word used politically, geographically, and religiously. People passionately defend it, fight over it, claim it. But almost no one looks at the root.
Israel began as a person, not a place.
And it began as an inner transformation, not a nation.
Before there was a modern state, before there were borders, before there were theological arguments …
There was Jacob, wrestling with God, wrestling with his shadow, wrestling with his old identity.
And in that inner awakening - in that moment of surrender and union - God said: “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel.”(Genesis 32:28)
ISRAEL MEANS “THE UNION OF THE DIVINE WITHIN”
This is where the mystery goes deeper than most people realize.The word Israel appears in Hebrew scripture, but its linguistic structure reflects a much older ancient-world pattern.
A widely referenced esoteric understanding (found in various mystical traditions and early symbolic studies) breaks the word into three sacred components:
IS - ISIS
The feminine principle
Intuition, receptivity, the waters, the soul
RA - AMUN-RA
The masculine principle
Fire, illumination, will, the Spirit
EL
The Divine One
The God-force, the Source, the Eternal
When combined, they describe a union of forces :
Is-Ra-El =
Feminine + Masculine + God
Soul + Spirit + the Divine Breath
Water + Fire + Union
(Western Christianity has widely erased the Feminine/Masculine aspects of the meaning)
This is the very thing Jacob experienced.
This is the very thing Jesus embodied.
This is the very thing the mystics called “the marriage within.”
This is the very thing the Scriptures call the New Name.
Israel is not ethnicity.
Israel is not geography.
Israel is not politics.
ISRAEL IS UNION.
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THE INNER ISRAEL IS WHAT GOD RECOGNIZES
This is why Paul said :
“They are not all Israel who are of Israel.”
(Romans 9:6)
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Because Israel is not flesh.
It is :
* a transformation,
* a merging,
* a mystical rebirth,
* a new identity, the marriage of heaven and earth within the human soul.
The “pure in heart” see this.They see that the borders men draw are never the borders God draws. God sees the heart, not the heritage.
THE MODERN CONFUSION:
People today equate “Israel” with a modern political state that did not exist until the mid-20th century.
But Scripture speaks of :
* an inner nation,
* a spiritual identity,
* a people awakened,
* a union realized.
This is why Jacob’s transformation is the blueprint.
This is why Revelation says believers receive a new name.This is why Jesus taught the mystery of the wedding feast - the union the unwise virgins missed.
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THE STAR OF ISRAEL - THE SYMBOL OF UNION:
The “Star of Israel” is not originally a national emblem. It is ancient. It is mystical. It is symbolic.
The downward triangle (water)
The upward triangle (fire)
John (water) + Jesus (fire)
Soul + Spirit
Feminine + Masculine
Isis + Ra
And when they merge…
Israel is formed - the God-union within.
THE TRUE ISRAEL IS WITHIN EVERY HUMAN.
Every person carries the capacity for union.
Every soul holds the divine spark.
Every human contains the seed of “Israel.”
WE ARE ALL ISRAEL ...
Some awaken early.
Some awaken late.
Some resist.
Some surrender.
But the Spirit never stops calling.
The Bible traces the lineage of Israel all the way back to Adam & Eve (let that sink in).
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MODERN CHRISTIANS (who are called to be Peace-makers) WIDELY IGNORE THESE PASSAGES ...
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Luke 3:6 ... "ALL flesh shall see God's salvation."
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Ephesians 1:10 ..."ALL come into Him at the fullness of times."
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1 Timothy 2:6 ... "Salvation of ALL is testified in due time."
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Jeremiah 31:33-34 ... "ALL men will know GOD, from the greatest to the least."
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ll Peter 3:9 ... "ALL come to repentance"
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1 Timothy 2:4 ..."Who will have ALL men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
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Hebrews 8:11 ... "ALL will know God"
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Colossians 1:20 ... "ALL reconciled unto God."
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1 John 2:2 ... "He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and NOT ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (He will get what He paid for).
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2 Corinthians ... "Through Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself."
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Lamentations 3:31 ... "For no one is cast off by the Lord forever."
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Samuel 14:4 ... "But God will not take away a life; He will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from His presence."
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Psalms 65:2 ... "To You (God) ALL flesh shall come."
Luke 15:4 ... "If ANY stray, He goes after that which is lost until He finds it."
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John 6:39 ... "This is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing, but raise them up.
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Psalms 145:14 ... "He raises ALL WHO FALL."
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Romans 5:18 ... "Just as one man's trespass led to condemnation of ALL, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life of ALL."
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Philippians 2:9-11 ... "Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord."(In 1 Cor 12:3 Paul writes that no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit)
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John 12:47 ... "I do NOT judge ANYONE who hears my words and DOES NOT KEEP THEM, for I CAME NOT to judge the world, but to SAVE the world."
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2 Cor 5:14. ... "We are convinced that one died for ALL, and therefore ALL DIED."
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Colossians 3:11 ... "but Christ is all, and in all."
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Romans 3:3-4 ... "The unbelief of some will not nullify God's faithfulness."
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Romans 11:32 ... "He has shut ALL up in unbelief to show mercy on ALL."
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ACTS 10:28 ... "But God has shown me that I should not call ANYONE impure or unclean."
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John 12:32 ... "Jesus will draw ALL mankind unto Himself."
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John 17:2 ... "He has authority over ALL flesh to give eternal life."
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Psalm 33:15 ..."God fashions ALL hearts."
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John 3:35 ... "The Father has given ALL into His hands"
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John 6:37 ... "Everything that God has given to Christ will come to Him."
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Psalms 22:27 ... "ALL the ends of the earth and ALL the families of the nations will acknowledge God."
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Titus 2:11 ... "For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people."
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