Is Paul in error when he states.....
Galations 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
John states:
Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
....impying that there is a difference between Jews and Gentiles.
Are we all one in Christ or not?
Hello Guy
The message to the Galatians is that they received the Spirit (salvation) by believing what they heard , not by the law. Read chapter 3 again.
Some Galatians were trying to bring back the importance of the law . Thus the rebuke from the author of Galatians. He said that under the original promise to Abraham(grace) both Jew and Gentile are alike (under Christ) (Under grace) . The law came much later than the promise (to Abraham) . We are both alike under grace (the Jew
with the law) and (the Gentile
without the law ) . Both are equal (under Christ) (under grace) That is the point.
As far as how that pertains to Rev 7 I think you are trying to blend two completely different things.
Revelation 7 is about a time when God selects 144,000 people from the original 12 tribes of Israel to be super evangelists in the last days. I expect they will be used in Israel (the Nation) with the rest of the world listening also. I expect they will proclaim Christ .
God does again deal with Israel (the nation) in a unique way in the future and he selects a unique group from the original 12 tribes. I think we must believe revelation 7 exactly the way it is written
Most of us have difficulty understanding and comprehending this unique Israel end time event.
But for 1900 years Christians also had difficulty understanding
ANY prophecy regarding Israel. The nation was long forgotten until 1948. That is why Christianity has all those strange teachings about Israel. They tried to make it something it was not. Some still do it today.
Just because we humans have difficulty understanding the future does not change the fact that God will do it the way he tells it in the bible. The mistakes come from us , not God. Christianity is overflowing with mistakes regarding Israel.
It may go completely against our wishful Christian desires but we must acknowledge God retains some special end time plans for his chosen nation Israel. Even though they remain in unbelief from our vantage point.
I have know of atheist criminal men who have repented on their deathbeds and finally accepted Christ because of a single christian visitor to a hospital. . Maybe God is going to give Israel and the world one last chance by sending the 144,000 . That is how it looks to me.
God will not abandon his covenant with Israel , any sooner than he will abandon his covenant with those of us who are in Christ Jesus.