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The age of the church? really? Are you under the new covenant? Yes you are and so am I. Here it is, right from the bible:

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

The new covenant was made with the house of Israel, the house of Judah. We as gentiles are grafted in to the promise. God is no respecter of persons and ANYONE now has a path to Salvation in the saving grace of Christ.

Abraham and everyone else in the old testament who will be in heaven was saved the exact same way as “us” Saved by faith.

“I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people” = keeping commandments of God and having the faith of Jesus.

Your post 210: So you believe we are Israel? Read WHO this is written to: THE HEBREWS. That’s why it’s titled HEBREWS. God made a covenant with Israel. He will keep that covenant and it will see it’s fulfillment when Christ returns to set up THAT KINGDOM with ISRAEL. I ask you to please read the book of Ephesians prayerfully. We are NOT ISRAEL. We are the CHURCH THE BODY OF CHRIST.

Israel was promised an EARTHLY inheritance from God. We are promised a HEAVENLY inheritance. That is the difference between Peter and the 11 and Paul

I marvel that the very first sentence of your post says clearly to whom the Hebrews passage is directed. The Chuirch is not Irael and Israel is not the Church. During the Church Age there is no difference in Jew or Gentile. The first members of the Church were JEWS, but they were members of a newly6 reveal phenomenon. Those converts from Judaism to Christ were not seen as Jews they were called Christians (first in Antioch).

The Age of the Church? YES! We are chosen to be the carriers of HIS salvation message. The Jews failed to do what God established His chosen nation (ethnos) to do.

Can you earn the Grace of God? Can you put His Spirit in your spirit to abide there? The Departure is the moment the Church Age ends and The Lord God begins dealing with Israel to obtain a remnant of the Jews who will believe by the end of the horrors of the Tribulation. The Tribulation is not about the Bride of Christ. It is about 'the time of Jacob's Troubles (see Jeremiah and Daniel chptr 9).