Well, I am sorry but that was not a clear answer to my question. But anyway, I’ll just take it then that you believe that the church is not in covenant with God. I may be mistaking you, but that is what I get from your indirect answer to my question.Okay.
God made a covenant with Abraham.
God promised Abraham that He would save every one of his future descendants at some point in time.
This promise is to future national Israel and is described throughout the O.T. prophets.
When the Holy Ghost was poured out a Pentecost, this event was depicted as a part of that future promise, but not the fulfillment.
What Pentecost was is an INCLUSION into the future promise to national Israel, not the fulfillment.
This inclusion is not the big event to come yet, but described by Paul as "partial" and "seeing through a dark glass' ,today, of this future Millennial event.
We have simply been INCLUDED in a partial way into a promise to Abraham that will only be fulfilled at the return of Christ. We only see things barely, through a dark glass now.
As for me, it is clear that the Christians are in a new covenant with God, whose mediator is Jesus Christ.
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