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To: ladyL
"The church is not now nor never will be the “new Israel.”"

Au contraire. Christ fulfilled the Old Covenant and instituted the New Covenant. In Christ, Israel consists of all believers.

"28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[g] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." Gal 3:28-29.

"For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And whosoever shall follow this rule, peace on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God." - (Galatians 6:15-16)

The Israel of the OT prefigures the Israel of the NT. Mana kept the old Israelite's bodies alive, the bread of the NT, Christ's Flesh, keeps the new Israelite's souls alive. The old Israelites had a temple made with hands, the new Israelites in Christ have a temple made without hands, built in three days. The old Israelites were the 12 tribes of Israel, the new Israelites are all those, Jew and gentile, who are in Christ. The old Israelites were given the Jerusalem of the promises land, the new Israelites are given the heavenly Jerusalem of Christ's kingdom which is not of this earth. The old Israelites will one day be accept Christ en masse, and will be fully within the New Covenant, as are the new Israelites.

As a Christian, I am an Israelite of the New Covenant. I am of Zion, of the new Jerusalem.

And one note, "The Bible is...written by Israel"" is a statement which requires correction. The Bible is written by God Himself, not Israel.

14 posted on 06/08/2014 12:53:34 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd; wmfights
As a Christian, I am an Israelite of the New Covenant. I am of Zion, of the new Jerusalem.

For you have not come to what may be touched....

Links that may come in handy, later in the thread:

  1. Godwin's Law
  2. "Big Lie".

16 posted on 06/08/2014 1:18:10 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Au contraire. Christ fulfilled the Old Covenant and instituted the New Covenant. In Christ, Israel consists of all believers.

So God came to Earth manifest in the flesh as the Jewish Messiah, got rejected and killed, and that was fulfilling the old covenant???

The old Israelites were the 12 tribes of Israel, the new Israelites are all those, Jew and gentile, who are in Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[g] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

There's your answer right there...No Jew nor Greek...No Israel nor Gentile...

As a Christian, I am an Israelite of the New Covenant. I am of Zion, of the new Jerusalem.

You just showed with scripture that there are no Israelites in Christ...There aren't any men nor women...I am happy to know that as a Christian I am not an Israelite but am in Jesus Christ...

21 posted on 06/08/2014 3:37:23 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Hmmm...and what happened to Abraham’s Covenant? and yes I didn’t clarify that Yahweh wrote the Bible through Israelites I Know not Timothy.,,however that is another long story going way back to Gen 12:3 ending in Gal 3:29 via Gal 3:8


31 posted on 06/10/2014 8:30:13 AM PDT by ladyL
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