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God makes an *unconditional* convenant with Abraham, a promise to follow after his seed, which will become many nations.

Abraham's seed according to the *unconditional* covenant God gave are Israelites. He invites of those Israelites present at Mt Sinai to enter into a *conditional* covenant as His Bride.

That Bride is adulterous--not only entering into covenants with other husbands, but even bearing children by their people--bastards who would not be under the *conditional* covenant nor the *unconditonal* covenant.

The adulterous Bride splits into two kingdoms: a Northern (Ephraim) and a Southern (Judah)--each named after the larger/ruling tribe.

God declares through prophets in both kingdoms that
>He has known no other people but the House of Israel; no other people have known Him
>the House of Israel (two kingdoms and many scattered) has become an adulterous Bride
>He is divorcing the Bride
>the House of Israel--those living and their descendants--will be "Not My People" and "Without Mercy"
>He will scatter them among other people
>yet He will lead them to become fruitful and forgetful abroad, while foreigners make a temporary end of the kingdoms
>He will make it so that a remnant returns for the sake of His word keeping
>all of the House of Israel are His sheep, and He will be the good shepherd, sending fishermen and hunters to gather them back to Him
>He will give to the House of Israel a new covenant, the everlasting covenant
>all of the House of Israel will be saved

The Israelites are overthrown by foreigners.
The kingdoms completely fall.
Most Israelites are scattered far abroad, for centuries. Some had never even received the law. They become nations.
A remnant that was in Babylon returns to the land, to rebuild.
They once again become adulterous.
They once again invite others into the old covenant who cannot be under the covenant. They have bastards by some of them. They are betrayed by these (especially the Edomites, as contemporary historians note), and these are rewarded with positions of governmental and religious rulership (Herod's line and Sanhedrin positions) by the conquering power (Roman) they'd aided. (We call this people "jews" today as they claim the name and we let them.)

God walks in the flesh.
He tells bastards that they are not His sheep and *therefore* do not hear Him--NOT that they are not His sheep because they don't listen; NOT that they may become His sheep. No, God is there for His lost sheep, the lost sheep of the House of Israel, and He is the good shepherd who knows His sheep, and His sheep know Him. The bastards are *not His sheep* as they are not sheep! Let alone lost sheep.
"Unless one is born of above, one cannot see the kingdom of God."

God is crucified, at the behest of the bastards.
This death of the Husband releases the Bride (every Israelite, whether in Judea or abroad, whether faithful or adulterous, aware of forgetful) from the *conditional* old covenant, fulfilled/ended by the death of either party--the Husband, rather than all of the Bride.

God will uphold the *unconditional* covenant He gave to Abraham and his seed that had become many nations.

An earnest of the Spirit is given at pentecost, a partial restoration.
The seed is once more "My People" and "With Mercy."

Israelites that had been descendants of those present at Mt. Sinai and thus under the law--any of these that had become broken away by the divorce--are grafted back (natural branches broken from the cultivated olive tree). Israelites that had never been under the law (not all went to Sinai, so wild olive trees) are under this new covenant (grafted to the tree), as the scope is according to the *unconditional* covenant of God given to Abraham and his seed. Paul spends his ministry conveying this to the seed scattered abroad.

The new covenent will be consummated at the end of the age, at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, when the Bride and the Husband are reconciled in an everlasting covenant.
The fullness of the Spirit will be given--the restoration, the resurrection of His Bride, whether faithful or not. All of the House of Israel will be saved. (Israelite =/= jew.)
He will then separate nations, by His sheep and the goat nations, and judge by how even the least of the sheep were treated. He will cast the goats away to be no more. All the sheep are saved by grace, yet the sheep will be rewarded each according to their work.

Though first upon His return to separate the nations, He will find His Bride in the wilderness (He had led her to rest in) as the Whore of Babylon, once more unfaithful, giving herself to many nations. He, the only faithful, the only one good, will save her despite herself, kill the rest, and be known by her by this.

The Revelation received is an uncovering of the history until that time, so that we may know that He is true and have encouragement and proof for the faith. (What is the point of the book of Revelation, if not this?)

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