Okay, I catch that little nuance. But in the
Galatians 3 and
Romans 11 verses I cited, Gentiles are indeed brought into the promises God made to Abraham. The New Covenant redefines what "Israel" (or, "the Israel of God") is.
We share in justification through faith, the children of faithful Abraham, but we don't share the promise, everywhere you walk is yours in this plot of land.
I believe the 12 tribes of Isreal will receive their land alotments, and will be judged by the Apostles, who will judge under King David, who will rule Isreal under King Jesus, King of Kings, during the kingdom age. I believe that the Jews will have been saved at the end of the tribulation when they see Jesus. That they will without exception receive their Messiah, that they will enter the new covenant. This new covenant will wipe away their iniquity, and will write God's laws on their hearts, so that they will actually keep and do all that is written, materially and spiritually.
I believe that the nation of Isreal will continue, and I think that their children will be born alive in the Spirit, forever. I find all this prophesied, and with extremely strong affirmations that it will happen, and as such, I respect the place and role of National Israel throughout.
New Covenant People of God are no longer defined by Torah, Temple, land, race, gender, nationality, etc.
I'd have to question this statement, considering, "the days will come when I will make a new covenant with the House of Isreal, and the House of Judah", this seems to me that it IS actually defined according to nationality.
For myself, my real interest in this discussion at the moment is to ask, is the New Covenant effective now or not? While I see in our salvation the new heart, and the forgiveness of sins, but I don't see salvation of all Israel, and I don't see the Law written on their hearts to be kept completely.
Jeremiah 31:30-37 KJV
30) But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32) Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33) But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34)
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35) Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36) If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
37) Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
I see this part bolded only being fulfilled with Jesus returns.
Much love!