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According to the Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e is an 18-page digital Quickstudy Guide created to help readers follow that story through Scripture and understand what the Bible itself means when it speaks about Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than beginning with modern theological labels, this resource goes back to the biblical text and traces the identity of Israel from Genesis through the writings of Paul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFollow Israel Through the Biblical Story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe guide begins with Jacob and asks why Scripture continues calling him both Jacob and Israel even after God changes his name. From there, it follows the gradual development of Israel from an individual patriarch into the covenant family and nation that emerges in Exodus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat foundation opens the door to some of the bigger questions Christians have wrestled with for generations:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happened to God's promises to Israel? What is the significance of the Land of Israel? What does Paul mean by the \u003cstrong\u003e“commonwealth of Israel”\u003c\/strong\u003e in Ephesians 2? How are Gentiles brought near through Messiah without erasing God's continuing purposes for the Jewish people? And what does Paul's picture of natural and grafted-in olive branches teach us about the relationship between Israel and the nations?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead of separating these questions from the rest of the Bible, \u003cstrong\u003eWho Is Israel?\u003c\/strong\u003e follows the Scriptural threads that connect them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCovenant, Commonwealth, and the Olive Tree\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from the Torah, Prophets, Gospels, and Apostolic Writings, the guide explores the distinction between Israel's physical descendants and those who become heirs through faith, while examining God's continuing covenant faithfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecial attention is given to \u003cstrong\u003eEphesians 2, Romans 9–11, the New Covenant, and the Abrahamic promises\u003c\/strong\u003e, including Paul's language of citizenship and the commonwealth and his image of Gentile followers of \u003cem\u003eYeshua\u003c\/em\u003e being grafted into an existing olive tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a distinctly Hebraic pathway for understanding the unity of God's redemptive story without erasing the distinctions Scripture itself preserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom Understanding to Biblical Living\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe question “Who is Israel?” isn't merely theological. How we understand Israel changes how we understand our own relationship to the biblical story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final portion of the guide brings these ideas into everyday practice, challenging readers to see the Older Testament not simply as someone else's history, but as essential to understanding the family story into which followers of \u003cem\u003eYeshua\u003c\/em\u003e have been brought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat includes a renewed engagement with the whole counsel of Scripture, God's appointed times, Torah study, \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c\/em\u003e, and the biblical rhythms that reveal the character and faithfulness of the God of Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Quickstudy Guide\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho Is Israel? According to the Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e is primarily written by \u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Dr. L. 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