And All Israel Shall Be Saved!

God's prophets were prophets TO ISRAEL.
God's Word was given to Israel.
Jesus fulfilled the Law - especially the Ceremonial Law that instructed and commanded the high priest offer sacrifices yearly to atone - temporarily - the sins of the children of Israel under those Laws.
The high priest never left Israel to offer sacrifices for Gentiles. And Jesus as High Priest did not offer Himself for the sins of Gentiles. Gentiles were the enemy of God and of Israel. They were outside the covenants of God. The high priest sprinkled the Mercy Seat of the Hebrew Ark of the Covenant with the blood of the sacrifice and Jesus as High Priest was sent as Promised by God to the children of Israel to atone the sins of the children of Israel.

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Galatians 4:4–5.

There are NO GENTILES (non-Hebrews) that are mentioned in this passage by Saul. Saul was a rabbi and Pharisee and He knows that there are NO GENTILES in covenant with God.
NONE.
Stop adding to the Bible.
This is why, and I hope this is clear, there is a DISTINCTION between Israel (the remnant of in the nation of) and the Gentiles. Paul speaks to this in Romans. When the word Gentile is used by Paul in his letter, he is speaking of non-Jewish Gentiles, because they are a race. Mixed race Jews are NOT a race, thus not ethnos. Again, David, Jesus ancestor, was mixed race, because his father was mixed race. (Ruth, the Moabitess, was King David's grandmother.) Jesus had several non-Jewish Gentiles in his family tree. He was still a Jew, and considered a Jew. Moses married a non-Jewish Gentile after he received the law. It didn't bother God one bit. It set off his brother and sister, but God dealt with that personally.

I'm not adding to the BIble, you are removing from the Bible. Paul is clear. Non-Hebrew Gentiles being a part of the body of Christ was a mystery. God did not reveal it in the Old Testament. He first revealed it to Peter, but it was Paul who ran with it. God revealed it to Peter so that the non-Jewish Gentiles could be added to the church. As Paul says in Galatians, Jesus destroyed the emnity that existed between the Jews and the Gentiles. (Ethnos... so not mixed race.) In Acts, in one city, it speaks of Jews, Greeks and Gentiles in Acts. So, was Luke talking about the same people? Of course not, and the passage is actually quite clear about it.

IF you continue to believe that it is the flesh that saves, and thus the covenants, you are doomed. The flesh, the law, does not save at all. The Spirit, faith, that saves. Covenants do not. And again, Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant, as priest, but JEsus is not a priest of any line of Israel. He is priest in the line of Melchizedek. Abraham himself paid homage to Melchizedek. Abraham did not go to Melchizedek. Melchizedek came to Abraham. Melchizedek was NOT Hebrew or Jewish, but he, as a non-Hebrew Gentile, was the priest of the Almighty God. So why are you saying that Melchizedek was hell bound, for not being a part of any covenant with God?
 
In my opinion u do when it comes to israel, that says a lot
OK. Let's make this easy. Where, in all my comments, have I once equated God as the flesh? Where? God saves Israel, thus you must be calling God flesh since my trust is in God, and you say it is in flesh. I mean, the logic there is quite clear. You go as far as saying God is flesh, simply because my beliefs do not line up with yours.

But, to be straight up front, opinions are like backsides. Everyone has one.
 
All flesh means all flesh.
God is speaking to Israel. "All flesh" refers in context to all Hebrew/Jewish flesh.
That's your problem. You take everything God says to Israel and make it Gentile.
That's called "Replacement Theology" and it is a lie.
Joel was sent as God's prophet to Israel. His prophecies were spoken and later written to Israel.
Israel is the "apple of God's own eye." They are His people and they are His Church. They are His Bride.
Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. The New Covenant prophesied by Jeremiah is a covenant between the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the House of Israel and the House of Judah.
God made NO COVENANT with Gentiles. NONE.
 
All flesh means all flesh.
You hold to Replacement Theology.
You make everything Hebrew/Jewish and re-interpret to insert Gentile into the Hebrew Scripture.
Everything Jewish you make into Gentile.
You replace God's people with Gentile people.
This is why your theology fails. God made no covenant with Gentiles and to God Gentiles are nothing and vanity.

17 All nations before him are as nothing;
And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:17.

The Word of God.
 
Yes because at that time the church, the body of Christ was there. Even the prophets were part of the Church, the Body of Christ. For the most part they were hated and persecuted by the jews according to the flesh.

Matt 23 30-38


Israel according to the flesh hated Israel the Church, the Body of Christ
Natural Olive tree Israel became spiritual Olive tree Israel when God gave Israel His Spirit.
The Bride and Church of God are Israel.
Jesus said He was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
Gentiles are the enemy of God.
And there will come a day in which Jesus returns and fights alongside Israel against Gentiles.
And destroys them all with the breath and fire from His mouth.
Rev. 20:7-9.
 
Yes because at that time the church, the body of Christ was there. Even the prophets were part of the Church, the Body of Christ. For the most part they were hated and persecuted by the jews according to the flesh.

Matt 23 30-38


Israel according to the flesh hated Israel the Church, the Body of Christ
You are so very deceived.
And confused.
 
This is why, and I hope this is clear, there is a DISTINCTION between Israel (the remnant of in the nation of) and the Gentiles. Paul speaks to this in Romans. When the word Gentile is used by Paul in his letter, he is speaking of non-Jewish Gentiles, because they are a race. Mixed race Jews are NOT a race, thus not ethnos. Again, David, Jesus ancestor, was mixed race, because his father was mixed race. (Ruth, the Moabitess, was King David's grandmother.) Jesus had several non-Jewish Gentiles in his family tree. He was still a Jew, and considered a Jew. Moses married a non-Jewish Gentile after he received the law. It didn't bother God one bit. It set off his brother and sister, but God dealt with that personally.

I'm not adding to the BIble, you are removing from the Bible. Paul is clear. Non-Hebrew Gentiles being a part of the body of Christ was a mystery. God did not reveal it in the Old Testament. He first revealed it to Peter, but it was Paul who ran with it. God revealed it to Peter so that the non-Jewish Gentiles could be added to the church. As Paul says in Galatians, Jesus destroyed the emnity that existed between the Jews and the Gentiles. (Ethnos... so not mixed race.) In Acts, in one city, it speaks of Jews, Greeks and Gentiles in Acts. So, was Luke talking about the same people? Of course not, and the passage is actually quite clear about it.

IF you continue to believe that it is the flesh that saves, and thus the covenants, you are doomed. The flesh, the law, does not save at all. The Spirit, faith, that saves. Covenants do not. And again, Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant, as priest, but JEsus is not a priest of any line of Israel. He is priest in the line of Melchizedek. Abraham himself paid homage to Melchizedek. Abraham did not go to Melchizedek. Melchizedek came to Abraham. Melchizedek was NOT Hebrew or Jewish, but he, as a non-Hebrew Gentile, was the priest of the Almighty God. So why are you saying that Melchizedek was hell bound, for not being a part of any covenant with God?
This is God's attitude against "all nations" (Gentiles.)

17 All nations before him are as nothing;
And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:17.
 
The olive tree is Christ the head of the church. Just like He is the true vine in Jn 15
The Olive tree is Israel and Judah:

16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. Jeremiah 11:15–17.

The olive tree is a powerful symbol of identity, covenant, and spiritual life. While the text is very explicit about the olive tree representing Israel, the connection to Jesus Christ is often understood through his role as the "Root" and the "True Vine."

Root/true vine = Jesus Christ.
Olive tree = Israel and Judah.

The national symbol of Israel (unified nation) is the Olive tree. In this passage it cannot represent Jesus Christ for God does not pronounce evil upon Jesus Christ. But upon God's people who are disobedient Israel and Judah are "broken off", and if broken off God says He will graft the disobedient back in to make one unified Olive tree. Saul understands those that are disobedient and broken off that God grafts them BACK IN the Olive tree.

The Olive tree NEVER represents non-Hebrew Gentiles. The Scripture never says non-Hebrew Gentiles are an Olive tree. Your interpretation falls short of the glory that is God. Below, Saul quotes Jeremiah 11:16 and he, too, also knows the Olive tree is Israel and Judah and those that are disobedient are Jews that are broken off and grafted BACK IN again.

15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Romans 11:15–21.
 
The Olive tree is Israel and Judah:
Its Christ the root and firstfruit Rom 11 16,17

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
 
The Olive tree is Israel and Judah:
VERSE SIXTEEN

  • "For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches."
This is taken from the Jubilee Law, which was foreshadowing Christ, our Jubilee of rest. He is the true offering that makes the children of God Holy, which this ceremonial Law was the portent of.
Leviticus 23:16-17

  • "Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
  • Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD."
Christ is the Firstfruit that came out of Israel, and it is through His work that we become as firstfruits unto God. He is the little leaven that makes the lump or 'whole mass' Holy. This figure is of course drawn from the example of placing yeast (leaven) in a lump such as dough, and this little bit of leaven will make the whole cake of dough rise. Likewise, Christ is the one who makes the whole Church Holy. This is the illustration of Christ's work in the Church to make it increase.
Matthew 13:31-33

  • "Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
  • Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
  • Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."
Christ is the epitome of the Kingdom of Heaven come down to earth, and He is the leaven of the lump (Church) that makes those in it sanctified and used for the 'purposes' of God. The Lord God alone gives the increase. He is that firstfruit, Holy, so that the whole lump can be firstfruits and Holy.
1st Corinthians 15:20

  • "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept."
Because He is the firstfruit of Israel, we (as those risen in Him) are also firstfruits of Israel. The picture here is that Christ is the true Israel of God, which is the firstfruit, and Holy. In this He is what makes those branches growing from Him Holy and firstfruits. Whosoever thinks that they can of the law or by their own free will be Holy or righteous are deceiving themselves. It is the leaven that makes the lump rise.
And likewise, Christ is the Root of the tree, which sustains its life and nourishes it. This illustrates that it is the Root makes the branches Holy, and branches being Holy in and of themselves. Which is exactly why some could be broken off. The Root did not bear them, they were trying to bear themselves. Israel, in part, was trying to get into the Kingdom of heaven without Christ.

Revelation 22:16

  • "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star."
Christ is the Root, which is the same word [rhiza], and except man receive his holiness and strength from 'this' Root, he will not endure in Israel because he has no sustenance. He is like a tree that has no root from which to get water, nourishment and the strength to survive in the world.
Luke 8:13

  • "They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away."
These with no Root fall away because they do not have the strength of Christ. He is that root which would feed them that they would endure trial and strife. Without this root, when tribulation or trial arises, these plantings have no true faith that they would endure it. But if their Root and foundation is the strength and holiness of Christ, then these plantings will also be strong and Holy. Only then shall the branches endure and survive in this world.
The overview of verse sixteen is that, just as the children of Israel were cast off as dead, they can be received in again as life from the death. Because they do not stand on their own, Christ is able to make them stand. For if the firstfruit is holy, then whoever is in the lump will be made holy. Whether Jew or Gentile, if the root is holy, so are the branches of the Covenant tree of Israel. Gentiles aren't holier, Christ is the one who makes the children of covenant Israel the enduring Israel. The Covenant relationship with Israel symbolized by the, "Olive Tree," is one that without the Root bearing the branches, they are starved and cast off. For God is the one making the branches holy. It's not a matter of our free will, keeping the Law, or of Jewish lineage, it is a matter of God's will and His sovereign good purposes. He is the one who denies branches sustenance, and who cuts them off from Covenant Israel.https://www.mountainretreatorg.net/eschatology/romans11.shtml
 
You hold to Replacement Theology.
You make everything Hebrew/Jewish and re-interpret to insert Gentile into the Hebrew Scripture.
Everything Jewish you make into Gentile.
You replace God's people with Gentile people.
This is why your theology fails. God made no covenant with Gentiles and to God Gentiles are nothing and vanity.

17 All nations before him are as nothing;
And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:17.

The Word of God.
I never said I hold to replace theory. that's a trick out of your playbook accusatory. you are making everything up.
Amos 9:11-12-
“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David,
And wall up its breaches;
I will also raise up its ruins
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
that they may possess the remnant of Edom
And all the nations who are called by My name,
Declares the Lord who does this.
 
God is speaking to Israel. "All flesh" refers in context to all Hebrew/Jewish flesh.
Present the context, and all flesh means ALL FLESH.
That's your problem. You take everything God says to Israel and make it Gentile.
No I don't.
That's called "Replacement Theology" and it is a lie.
Welp, apparently you don't know what Replacement Theology is...
Joel was sent as God's prophet to Israel. His prophecies were spoken and later written to Israel.
Israel is the "apple of God's own eye." They are His people and they are His Church. They are His Bride.
No. Israel is Israel. God has His own plans for Israel, that are not the same as the church. And reading prophecy today, Israel is the WIFE of Jehovah, while the church is the bride of Christ. So not the same.
Jesus was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
Yes. Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews. What did God say in prophecy about the Davidic covenant? Will God violate it? Sure. If you can get God to break His covenant with day, and night, so there is no more days in seasons, then perhaps He will break His covenant. In other words.. NO, God will not violate the Davidic covenant.
The New Covenant prophesied by Jeremiah is a covenant between the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the House of Israel and the House of Judah.
Um... a covenant is overseen by an intercessor, and instituted by the priest, as it was with the Mosaic Covenant. However, Jesus is not a Jewish priest. He is not a priest of Israel. He is a priest of the line of Melchizedek. As such, the intercession of the new covenant is not for Israel, but for the world. Jesus is the Messiah of Israel. The Messianic Kingdom is for Israel.
God made NO COVENANT with Gentiles. NONE.
Why do you put all your trust in the flesh/covenants?
 
This is God's attitude against "all nations" (Gentiles.)

17 All nations before him are as nothing;
And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:17.
And then there is:

Isaiah 2
Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established [a]as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the [c]law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will [d]render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

Jeremiah 16:
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and [c]things of no profit.”
20 Can man make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!

21 “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—
This time I will make them know
My [d]power and My might;
And they shall know that My name is the Lord.”

Zechariah 2
10 Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” declares the Lord. 11 “Many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.

Psalm 22
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will worship before You.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord’s
And He rules over the nations.
29 All the [v]prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who [w]cannot keep his soul alive.

Gentiles are mentioned in the Old Testament, so obviously not your mixed race Jews, and are shown to be partaking in the Kingdom. I can't find all the passages at the moment, but they are very clear.
 
You say that my trust is in the flesh.
Yes as it pertains to you believe that God saves jews based upon ethnicity. Who are Jesus people promised to be saved here Matt 1:21

21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

And you are against the Truth that Spiritual Israel the remnant is the Church. So keep it in perspective as to why I said that
 
I never said I hold to replace theory. that's a trick out of your playbook accusatory. you are making everything up.
Amos 9:11-12-
“In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David,
And wall up its breaches;
I will also raise up its ruins
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
that they may possess the remnant of Edom
And all the nations who are called by My name,
Declares the Lord who does this.
When you take Hebrew Scripture that was recorded by God's messengers and prophets and change the designation of Israel and replace them with "Gentile" then you are teaching a replacement theology.

Case in point:

Joel is a prophet of God who was sent by God to the kingdom of Judah, of which is made up of the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin. The prophecies of Joel are directed to the kingdom of Judah and here is what Joel's message to Judah says:


12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD,
Turn ye even to me with all your heart,
And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments,
And turn unto the LORD your God:
For he is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness,
And repenteth him of the evil.
Joel 2:12–13.

Joel also says:

27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am the LORD your God, and none else:
And my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward,
That I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions:
Joel 2:27–28.

Clearly this is a prophecy by Joel upon Israel as a whole. For after Joel says "I am the Lord YOUR God" this God also says through His prophet to Israel that He will pour out His Spirit upon "all flesh" (referring to Israel) for in the next statement He qualifies who the "All Flesh" is, and they are the children that are Israel/Jacob, for He says "YOUR SONS" and "YOUR DAUGHTERS" shall prophesy. When you go OUT OF CONTEXT and claim that the "all flesh" refers to "all humanity" including non-Hebrew Gentiles with whom God has no covenant or promises to them to save any, then you have gone beyond the context of Joel's prophecy and replace Israel with "Gentiles."

Joel's prophecy as given to Him of God with whom the children of Israel are in covenant with Him declares that the God who dwells in Israel shall give His Spirit to Israel and "none other." It is Israel's sons and Israel's daughters that will prophesy according to what God gives them to speak. And their message is between God and Abraham's seed.

How does God identify Himself and to whom that Identity is confirmed to make "all flesh" refer to non-Hebrew Gentiles when in the next sentence Joel's identifies "YOUR" sons, and "YOUR" daughters shall prophesy? Joel is speaking to Israel. God's message is to Israel. And God Promises His Spirit upon "all (Hebrew) flesh" and that "YOUR" sons and "YOUR daughters" shall prophesy? When you make "all flesh" to refer to non-Hebrew Gentiles then you have replaced Israel with non-Hebrew Gentiles and teach a replacement theology that takes everything Jewish, Hebrew, and Israel, and make it Gentile.
 
Present the context, and all flesh means ALL FLESH.

No I don't.

Welp, apparently you don't know what Replacement Theology is...

No. Israel is Israel. God has His own plans for Israel, that are not the same as the church. And reading prophecy today, Israel is the WIFE of Jehovah, while the church is the bride of Christ. So not the same.

Yes. Jesus is the Messiah of the Jews. What did God say in prophecy about the Davidic covenant? Will God violate it? Sure. If you can get God to break His covenant with day, and night, so there is no more days in seasons, then perhaps He will break His covenant. In other words.. NO, God will not violate the Davidic covenant.

Um... a covenant is overseen by an intercessor, and instituted by the priest, as it was with the Mosaic Covenant. However, Jesus is not a Jewish priest. He is not a priest of Israel. He is a priest of the line of Melchizedek. As such, the intercession of the new covenant is not for Israel, but for the world. Jesus is the Messiah of Israel. The Messianic Kingdom is for Israel.

Why do you put all your trust in the flesh/covenants?
Joel is prophet of God. God's message is to Israel. God identifies who the "all flesh" is when He follows up by saying "YOUR" sons and "YOUR" daughters shall prophesy, meaning Israel's sons and Israel's daughters shall prophesy. It is bad grammar to take something in context to the subject and make it apply objectively what originally applies subjectively. That's called replacement theology and that is what you teach. You take everything that is Jewish, Hebrew, and Israel, and make it into Gentile. Your interpretation of Joel's prophecy is an example. Here is what Peter says about WHO Joel made promise to:

7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? Acts 2:7.

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Acts 2:14–36.

Peter is addressing all twelve tribes or sons of Jacob/Israel in verse 14 when he says, "Ye men of Judah" referring to the two southern kingdom tribes that made up the kingdom of Judah; and when Peter says, "Ye men of Israel" is Peter identifying the ten northern kingdom tribes that make up the northern kingdom of Israel. Thus, the context of Joel's prophecy of God giving His Spirit to Israel and Judah refers to only Israel and Judah for only Israel is in Jerusalem and witness to the Spirit's manifestation upon the Jewish men who were in the upper room is made clear by the Scripture saying these men who were speaking in tongues were "Galileans."

Look again what Luke says:

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1.

Pentecost is a Jewish observance. The first people that were filled with the Spirit were Jews and Hebrews. The city is Jerusalem. The nation is Israel. And the people are Jew/Hebrew. On this day three thousand men, women, mixed-race Jews were being filled by the Holy Spirit that was Promised by God to the people of Israel. All these things are taking place among the Jews and Jews are directly involved. There are no non-Hebrews at this Jewish celebration and religious observance. The Holy Spirit "falls" upon Jews. Thus, fulfilling Joel's prophecy that the "all flesh" refers to all HEBREW flesh. Everything Luke says in Acts chapter 2 refers to Israel and to the Jew.
God Promised non-Hebrew Gentiles NOTHING. This is the attitude of God towards "all flesh" of non-Hebrews.

17 All nations before him are as nothing;
And they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah 40:17.

This is how God identifies His covenant people Israel:

6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deuteronomy 7:6–9.

'Nuff said.
 
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