It strikes me that just because I a believer in Christ, Israel’s Messiah, and believe based upon Scripture that I am thus a Jew by adoption, that I am not exempt from a presence in what we are seeing today. Believing that I am part of Israel by adoption, and thus an offspring of Israel, having been grafted into her through her Messiah, that that belief then would mean (according to some) that I cannot believe that the promises of God to Israel will not also be fulfilled beginning with a future millennium following Resurrection and Rapture. But that also means that I am involved in the prophecies of these last days.

If we examine the concept of the bond-servant spoken of in Revelation and elsewhere in scripture, we must conclude that this term includes not just Israel’s believers, but even Gentiles within Christ’s Church.

Revelation 7:3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees until we have sealed the bond-servants of our God on their foreheads.” (NASB2020)

This would in this chapters context seem to relate to just Israel’s 12 tribes. But not so, when we examine the context of Scripture concerning the bond-servant:

Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. (NASB2020)

Does that verse exclude us as Gentiles from being as Paul was a bond-servant of Christ?

Colossians 4:7 As to all my affairs, Tychicus, [our] beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond-servant in the Lord, will bring you information.

Paul includes here these gentiles in Colossians as bond servants.

2 Timothy 2:24 The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, skillful in teaching, patient when wronged, (NASB2020)

This reference is to leaders within Christ’s Church. They are called bond-servants.

Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated [it] by His angel to His bond-servant John, (NASB2020)

We are one with these saints.

Revelation 2:20 ‘But I have [this] against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. (NASB2020)

Christ here speaks to us all.

Revelation 11:18 “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time [came] for the dead to be judged, and [the time] to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” (NASB2020)

We are among those rewarded, and the final remnants of Israel now on earth are still yet to be saved for that time of our rewards.

We know that the remnant of Jews, who were saved within the Olive Tree even before we gentiles entered in, still represented Israel’s saved and did not represent her unbelievers. We are ingrafted therein one with the saints as Paul puts it in Ephesians, and based on these verses referencing bond-servants we are also one with them in that regard.

Believing that we Gentiles, who are in Christ, are one with Israel does in no wise contradict Scriptures message. But what it does do, is to place the Church directly into the mix of the Great Tribulation.