“The Church” in the NT is the false creation of the catholic church.
Yeshua founded his congregation, not a human corporation, but the collection of those to whom he was “sent.”
He was sent only to lost sheep of the House of Israel.
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And they rejected Him thereby offering a way for the Gentiles to be grafted in. The Gentiles are NOT Israel.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Israel was set aside and salvation has been offered to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
Take that veil from your mind and heart by turning to Christ and away from reading the law of Moses.
Yes he was...But after Israel was set aside, Jesus sent Paul to the Gentiles...
Jesus said, “For God so loved the world...”