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Christians, do you believe that you are a true Jew? The children of Israel, of which the tribe of Judah was one tribe among them, were to be a light to the Gentiles. Are you aware that if you are a Christian that you are a true Jew? What is your understanding on this?
I vote with Kriss on this. I am an Israelite, but not a Jew (of Judah). Judah rejected Messiah, Israel accepted him.However, as I pointed out on other forums (which goes over many people's heads BTW) there are two elections: the election of race and the election of grace.I sense by this question that you are interested in the election of grace. However, the elect of race play an important role in God's plan, for it was thru them that the elect of grace would come to be a light to the Gentiles as you pointed out.Mainline Christianity has this mistaken concept that the Jew is all of God's people and upon rejecting him entrusted the gospel to the Gentiles.No. Rather, as Paul pointed out regarding the mystery of the wild olive tree, that some Gentiles were graphed in because some were loped off---- mostly Jews, but the other tribes of Israel remained in that tree as they would become other nations that accepted the gospel.This, in fact, makes the Gentiles fellow heirs with the children of Abraham and the gospel is still entrusted to Israel as prophesied. Israel is merely lost to their identity and Israel sees themselves as "Gentiles" bringing light to other Gentiles.The story of Joseph in Egypt (where his brothers did not know him) is a type of Israel when they were lost to history and became as Gentiles just as Joseph did.