Buzzfruit
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Was Apostle Paul doing away with the covenants of promise and the commonwealth of Israel when he said this?...
Col 3:11
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
(KJV)
Gal 3:28-29
28 There 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.
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
(KJV)
Clearly not, otherwise he would not have mentioned Abraham and that idea of "heirs according to the promise", which was first given to the Hebrews and then through Israel.
You see God made two promises to Abraham.....one physical and temporary and the other spiritual and eternal. The one that is mentioned in verse 29 of Gal. 3 is talking about the latter. The Children of Israel were not promise the latter........there's was physical. But those who are called by grace are hairs with Abraham according to the promise that God made with him.....things that he would inherit when Jesus returns and set up the kingdom of God on the Earth. As the scripture says, he looked for a city whoes builder and maker is God.
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In Romans 11:1-5, was Paul talking about the Gentiles when spoke of the remnant according to the election of grace? No, he was speaking of flesh born Israelites which God chose and preserved in His Salvation. Not only that, but Paul made a distinction here...
That is obvious, but nevertheless my point still stand........there will be far more gentiles in God's kingdom than Jews or even the house of Israel. This is God's doing.......the last will has become the first and the first the last. The Israelites ignorance will remain until the gentiles fills the kingdom of God.
Romans 11:25 (ASV)
[sup]25 [/sup]For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in;
And remember what Jesus also said to the Jews of His day....."They shall come from the east and the west and sit down in the kingdom and they and they outside."
Rom 11:24-25
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
(KJV)
Will God's chosen Israel that believes be graffed into a different olive tree than their own? No, but "into their own olive tree" like Paul said there.
Now here's the bottom-line: the truth of the matter is it has been God's plan before He created time and space that human beings would inherit His kingdom......it was what was set before Adam and Eve. So the New Covenant is not really new at all......it was not an after thought; whether we are talking about Israelites or Gentiles. It just meant that the Word would come as a human being, live a sinless life, die for the sins of all people so that what God had eternally had in mind would become a reality. All have acess and none can boast in themselves......it is by the grace of God.