Scott Downey
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Well, following your logic, you could then take the position some have done that the New Covenant is only for Israel and not any gentiles, as it says, that God makes the New Covenant with Israel and Judah. No mention of any gentiles. You see what I am saying?I understand all that, but Scripture about unrepentant Israel says :
Rom 11:27 “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.
Revealed by the Holy Spirit approx 2000 years ago, a covenant with unrepentant Israel, do note.
Furthermore about Israel :
Gal 6:15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
Gal 6:16 And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Paul obviously makes a distinction between the Body of Christ and the Israel of God (Romans 9-11)
Israel is God's business, I don't take sides in the Israel of 1948, I do believe 1948 has God's fingerprints all over it, that the Lord is in control and watch how things will play out, Him keeping the covenant of Rom 11:27.
I therefore have serious doubts Christians can hijack the name Israel.
Hebrews 8
A New Covenant
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins [b]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”13 In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.