Spiritual Israelite
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That isn't what it says. The only way that anyone has ever been saved and entered the kingdom of God/heaven is by faith and they did not have faith.They got in just as Matthew 23:13 says …
Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
What are you talking about? How do you think someone was saved in old covenant times and how in new covenant times?The tares were sown into His field which could only have taken place under the old covenant. Under the new covenant it’s only by water and spirit.
What is your point here?John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do …
Also in Matthew 13:37 the word “sowing” <4687> is a present tense verb, so we know the Son of man was sowing when He spoke those words, during the old covenant age.