God Has Made No Covenant With Gentiles

[TomL]

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Genesis 17:1–7.

The Abrahamic Covenant. A covenant in which a man and his wife were given outstanding promises for not only him and his immediate children but for their descendants also. A covenant in which a Redeemer and King would be born to remove the sins of God's covenant people and give them eternal life. And from this day forward God has been working to that end using only this covenant and no other for there is no other Name by which anyone will be saved but the Name of God: Yahweh (YHWH.) It is only through this covenant will God save His Chosen people Israel. But God has made no covenant with Gentiles. But Gentiles are not excluded for there are many prophecies through the decades sent to Israel from God's prophets that Gentiles will be included, and we later find from the writings of Paul, grafted in along with the natural branches of the Olive Tree, which is Israel, that Israel will be the light to lead the Gentiles to Jerusalem to worship God alongside them.

The Church, or Great Congregation of the LORD is Israel. The Bride of Christ is Israel for God says in the Old Testament that He is betrothed to Israel forever. But God has made no covenant with Gentiles.
When all is said and done, and Israel's Messiah and King sits on the throne of David to rule His people from Jerusalem there will be a Marriage Supper of the Lamb and His Bride. Israel is there by covenant, but Gentiles will be there by invitation.
God has made no covenant with Gentiles.
But you Gentiles have receive an invitation to partake of the blessings God has bestowed upon Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, and the twelve tribes of Israel and their descendants.

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. 1
2 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
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.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Romans 11:11–29.

All well and good but God has made no covenant with Gentiles.

Gentiles receive the blessings of the covenant

ESV I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Galatians 3:14 (KJV 1900) — 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.


Ephesians 2:11–19 (KJV 1900) — 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

 

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Gentiles receive the blessings of the covenant

Gentiles receive the blessings of Christ, not the covenant. Gentiles have nothing to do with the Hebrew/Jewish covenants because they are NOT the seed of Abraham.

ESV I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

This is a blessing given to Abraham, NOT Gentiles.

Galatians 3:14 (KJV 1900) — 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

These Gentiles are proselytes and God-Fearers. They were citizens of Israel, obedient to the Torah and already receiving the blessings of Abraham in their vows to God.

Ephesians 2:11–19 (KJV 1900) — 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: 17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. 18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

These Gentiles are receiving the blessings of Christ, NOT the Abrahamic Covenant because Gentiles are NOT the seed of Abraham and the Abrahamic Covenant touches those that are his seed, and in the case of proselytes and God-Fearers were already receiving the blessings of Abraham due to their vows to God to obey His Torah. Gentiles that do not obey God's Torah are disobedient and when Christ comes - after the sins of Gentiles have been stored up - then God will dispense judgment upon Gentiles who, unlike Gentile proselytes and Gentile God-Fearers are disobedient to God's Law.

The requirement to being in the Abrahamic Covenant is to be the seed/descendant of Abraham (Gen. 17:7.)

If YOU, being Gentile had been taught from the bible and led of the Spirit would KNOW the Abrahamic Covenant is with Abraham and his seed and Gentiles are NOT his seed, so stop trying to steal what inheritance doesn't belong to you. All Gentiles have is Christ and the blessings Christ decides to bestow.
Incredible! Learn to read and believe the bible instead of other men's bible studies.

 

[TomL]

Gentiles receive the blessings of Christ, not the covenant. Gentiles have nothing to do with the Hebrew/Jewish covenants because they are NOT the seed of Abraham.

Ephesians 2:11–19 (NASB 2020) — 11 Therefore remember that previously you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision” which is performed in the flesh by human hands—12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, 15 by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace; 16 and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility. 17 AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR; 18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,

Galatians 3:14 (NASB 2020) — 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

This is a blessing given to Abraham, NOT Gentiles.

Gentiles receive the blessing of Abraham according to scripture

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:8–9 (NASB 2020) — 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.

These Gentiles are proselytes and God-Fearers. They were citizens of Israel, obedient to the Torah and already receiving the blessings of Abraham in their vows to God.

Book, chapter and verse stating all those gentiles here were proselytes

 

[jeremiah1five]

Ephesians 2:11–19 (NASB 2020) — 11 Therefore remember that previously you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision” which is performed in the flesh by human hands—12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the people of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, 15 by abolishing in His flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace; 16 and that He might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility. 17 AND HE CAME AND PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHO WERE FAR AWAY, AND PEACE TO THOSE WHO WERE NEAR; 18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household,

Galatians 3:14 (NASB 2020) — 14 in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Why do you think when you see the word Gentile that it means uncircumcised, non-covenant, idol worshiping Roman, Barbarian, or Greek Gentile. The Gentiles that heard the testimony of Jesus of Nazareth and the Holy Spirit of Promise were circumcised proselytes and uncircumcised, devout, God-Fearers. They were in synagogue when the first Jewish Christians returning from Jerusalem and the Feast of Harvest in which 3000 Jews, proselytes, and God-Fearers have been present were saved and born-again. Peter was speaking to the twelve tribes present in Jerusalem and it is only reasonable to conclude that these committed to God and obedient to God's Torah Gentiles were present in Jerusalem at this Feast. During another Feast in Jerusalem the Ethiopian Eunuch who was reading Isaiah when Philip went beside him was another Gentile proselyte who was witnessed to by a Jewish Christian. Again, another Gentile who was obedient to God's Torah. These are the Gentiles Scripture is speaking of when you see the word "Gentile" unless the context says otherwise. The mere mention of "strangers" and "foreigners" is a reference to Gentile proselytes and God-Fearers. The same language is found in the Hebrew Scripture, the same Scripture from which Saul studied and understood:

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. Gen. 17:11–12.

These were Gentile, or non-Hebrew and NOT of Abram's seed as it says so eloquently. And yet, although they were Gentile, they were NOT in covenant even in their circumcision for Gentiles are NOT the seed of Abram.
The Jews knew what the Scripture said about being of the seed of Abraham. They knew even though they were circumcised they were NOT of the seed of Abraham and NOT in covenant. Rabbi Saul didn't change the Law. And the Law was clear. The covenant was with the seed of Abraham, the children of Abraham's grandson Jacob also known as Israel:

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. Ex 13:1–2.

There were special instructions for strangers and foreigners under the covenant Law.

43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. Ex 12:43–45.

Even to eat the Passover, the same ritual that Christ would use to institute the New Covenant was in accordance with the Law and Scripture. A stranger, servant, or foreigner who was circumcised was allowed certain observances but in the end the only people that were in covenant were those of the seed of Abraham as the Scripture declares. And Saul, a rabbi, knew this. He would not say things that would violate the Law or Scripture.
Gentiles were never in any Hebrew/Jewish covenant with God. The covenants that in time were instituted by God had the seed of Abraham as participants. Abrahamic, Mosaic, and New Covenant are covenants began with Abraham and passed on to his seed and Gentiles are not his seed.

Gentiles receive the blessing of Abraham according to scripture

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The Promised Holy Spirit was never promised to Gentiles. God saves Gentiles without a covenant just as Gentiles in the Old Testament were allowed to participate in certain lawful observances of covenant but NOT be in covenant. And again, Saul as rabbi would not do or say anything that would violate the Law or Scripture.

Galatians 3:8–9 (NASB 2020) — 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU.” 9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.
Book, chapter and verse stating all those gentiles here were proselytes

Do you even know what proselytes and God-Fearers were?
From your response I can tell you've never studied this question.

 

[TomL]

Why do you think when you see the word Gentile that it means uncircumcised, non-covenant, idol worshiping Roman, Barbarian, or Greek Gentile. The Gentiles that heard the testimony of Jesus of Nazareth and the Holy Spirit of Promise were circumcised proselytes and uncircumcised, devout, God-Fearers. They were in synagogue when the first Jewish Christians returning from Jerusalem and the Feast of Harvest in which 3000 Jews, proselytes, and God-Fearers have been present were saved and born-again. Peter was speaking to the twelve tribes present in Jerusalem and it is only reasonable to conclude that these committed to God and obedient to God's Torah Gentiles were present in Jerusalem at this Feast. During another Feast in Jerusalem the Ethiopian Eunuch who was reading Isaiah when Philip went beside him was another Gentile proselyte who was witnessed to by a Jewish Christian. Again, another Gentile who was obedient to God's Torah. These are the Gentiles Scripture is speaking of when you see the word "Gentile" unless the context says otherwise. The mere mention of "strangers" and "foreigners" is a reference to Gentile proselytes and God-Fearers. The same language is found in the Hebrew Scripture, the same Scripture from which Saul studied and understood:

12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. Gen. 17:11–12.

These were Gentile, or non-Hebrew and NOT of Abram's seed as it says so eloquently. And yet, although they were Gentile, they were NOT in covenant even in their circumcision for Gentiles are NOT the seed of Abram.
The Jews knew what the Scripture said about being of the seed of Abraham. They knew even though they were circumcised they were NOT of the seed of Abraham and NOT in covenant. Rabbi Saul didn't change the Law. And the Law was clear. The covenant was with the seed of Abraham, the children of Abraham's grandson Jacob also known as Israel:

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. Ex 13:1–2.

There were special instructions for strangers and foreigners under the covenant Law.

43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. Ex 12:43–45.

Even to eat the Passover, the same ritual that Christ would use to institute the New Covenant was in accordance with the Law and Scripture. A stranger, servant, or foreigner who was circumcised was allowed certain observances but in the end the only people that were in covenant were those of the seed of Abraham as the Scripture declares. And Saul, a rabbi, knew this. He would not say things that would violate the Law or Scripture.
Gentiles were never in any Hebrew/Jewish covenant with God. The covenants that in time were instituted by God had the seed of Abraham as participants. Abrahamic, Mosaic, and New Covenant are covenants began with Abraham and passed on to his seed and Gentiles are not his seed.

The Promised Holy Spirit was never promised to Gentiles. God saves Gentiles without a covenant just as Gentiles in the Old Testament were allowed to participate in certain lawful observances of covenant but NOT be in covenant. And again, Saul as rabbi would not do or say anything that would violate the Law or Scripture.

Do you even know what proselytes and God-Fearers were?
From your response I can tell you've never studied this question.

Where is your evidence the Ephesian believers were all Jewish proselytes?

It was only in Christ they were no longer strangers to the covenants of promise, no longer without hope, and without God. That would not have been true were they proselytes.

Ephesians 2:12–20 (ESV) — 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

 

[jeremiah1five]

Where is your evidence the Ephesian believers were all Jewish proselytes?

It was only in Christ they were no longer strangers to the covenants of promise, no longer without hope, and without God. That would not have been true were they proselytes.

Ephesians 2:12–20 (ESV) — 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

Saul addressed his letters to Jewish Christians. In his letters he may write addressing Gentiles, Gentile proselytes and Gentile God-Fearers but he writes to Jewish Christians, his brethren in Christ.
And the Church he mentions is populated by Jewish Christians. There were no Gentile church fellowships at the time. Everything occurring in Israel and with the Jews were all events that happened to Jews as it was their covenant that was initiated by the Holy Spirit of Promise. The example is Peter's sermon in Acts 2. The Holy Spirit of Promise was a promise given of God through Christ to the Jews. Christ said He was to build His Church of "called out [ones]" (ekklesia) and this He began to do in the upper room which were eleven Jewish disciples. All Galilean. Peter addresses Jews that were descendants of the northern and southern kingdom tribes by addressing his comments to "Ye men of Judaea" (vs. 14), and "Ye men of Israel" (vs. 22.)
Jesus as Israel's King addressed the hatred and animosity that existed between the kingdom tribes in Matthew 5:

43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Mt 5:43–48.

The original command is found in Leviticus:

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. Lev. 19:17–18.

For the first four decades everything that happened in Israel and to the Jewish tribes living in Gentile lands occurred among the Jews. On Pentecost 3000 Jews were born again by the Holy Spirit of Promise. And it is reasonable to conclude this group may have had a few proselytes and God-Fearers among the converted to Christ. But everything that happened to the Jews was a Jewish phenomenon. It was their covenant. They were the seed of Abraham and were also the children of Jacob/Israel to whom God gave His Torah to through Moses. Being one of the three major Jewish Feasts the Feast of Harvest was attended by Jews from all over the Empire. The tongues that were spoken were understood by Hellenized Jews who were at the Feast. Three thousand Jews were converted to Christ but the remained obedient to the Torah which was not a contradiction. True, biblical Christianity was the fulfillment of the Law in Jesus Christ and by becoming Christ-followers their Judaism became a completed religion, a completed Judaism through whom Christ as Messiah and a "prophet like unto Moses" was the fulfillment of many covenant and prophetic promises (Deut. 18:15, 18; Isaiah 53; Jeremiah 31:31-34, et.al.)

The good news Jesus had for His disciples to deliver was a simple message to the twelve tribes scattered throughout the Empire and beyond whose main message was "Messiah had come. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has kept His Promise." Later, the good news about Israel's Messiah began to take on other forms of a "good news" message, such as the academic conclusions from Saul found in 1 Corinthians 15:

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Cor. 15:1–4.

The "good news" Saul says he 'received' was through study and familiarity with the Hebrew Scriptures in his possession and through the writings of the Talmud. Saul was a rabbi. He even expressed himself in his letters as a rabbi sometimes arguing a point of doctrine as a rabbi would and understanding these forms of rabbinic thought and surmising's helps interpret his letters more succinctly for if you're familiar with the rabbinical forms of argument and debate you can pointedly understand his writings. When he says he received "revelation' in Galatians 1:12, he is saying that through the Holy Spirit of Christ that dwelt within him he was revealed things found in the Hebrew Scriptures through study (Deut. 29:29.) In my studies I come to the same revelations as Saul did through study. Many Christians do. Saul may have become a Christian around two years after Jesus' ascension, but he also 'disappeared' for seventeen years before the events in Acts 13:1-4 when he and Barnabas were called out through prophecy went on their missionary journeys to visit Jewish Christians in their home churches throughout Asia Minor. But these home church fellowships he visited and later wrote to were already in existence as they were the fruit of the events that happened in Jerusalem at the Feast of Harvest (Pentecost) when the Holy Spirit of Promise first arrived in Acts 2.
What I am getting at is that since Pentecost - even while Jesus was alive before His passion - everything that happened that we find recorded in the New Covenant writings from Matthew to Revelation occurred to the Jews not Gentiles. The New Covenant was a Jewish covenant signed, sealed, and delivered by the blood of Israel's Messiah, Redeemer, and King with the Jews the recipient of the two covenants that were in existence at the time, and they are the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants. Now, I said all this because the tendency of Gentile Christians is to see the Scripture with a Gentile mindset when everything that happened occurred to the Jews until the destruction of the Jewish nation and their Temple by the Romans in A.D. 70. And the great error that followed these events among Gentiles who were beginning their ascendency with regard to the Jewish covenants and Jewish history within those covenants was that they saw the destruction of the Jewish nation and Temple as direct judgment from God - which it was - but Gentiles through an existing bias and hatred towards the Jews unmoored true, biblical, Jewish Christianity from its Hebrew roots and created a new religion which in time was drenched in Gentile thought towards a Jewish religion that was fulfilled by a Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ. The same 'growing pains' that happened to the Jews in the first four decades before the Temple's destruction occurred to the Gentiles after the Temple's destruction in which there were no Scripture except the Hebrew Scripture that either group could refer to in which to understand the things that took place not only among the Jews at the beginning but to the Gentiles later on after the Temple's destruction as more Gentiles were being converted to the Jews religion, except they didn't see it as a Jewish religion (Completed Judaism) they saw it as a Gentile religion void of any or all Jewish influence and thought.
And that is the great error of Gentiles that has continued to this day.

 

[TomL]

Saul addressed his letters to Jewish Christians. In his letters he may write addressing Gentiles, Gentile proselytes and Gentile God-Fearers but he writes to Jewish Christians, his brethren in Christ.
And the Church he mentions is populated by Jewish Christians. There were no Gentile church fellowships at the time. Everything occurring in Israel and with the Jews were all events that happened to Jews as it was their covenant that was initiated by the Holy Spirit of Promise. The example is Peter's sermon in Acts 2. The Holy Spirit of Promise was a promise given of God through Christ to the Jews. Christ said He was to build His Church of "called out [ones]" (ekklesia) and this He began to do in the upper room which were eleven Jewish disciples. All Galilean. Peter addresses Jews that were descendants of the northern and southern kingdom tribes by addressing his comments to "Ye men of Judaea" (vs. 14), and "Ye men of Israel" (vs. 22.)
Jesus as Israel's King addressed the hatred and animosity that existed between the kingdom tribes in Matthew 5:

43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Mt 5:43–48.

The original command is found in Leviticus:

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. Lev. 19:17–18.

For the first four decades everything that happened in Israel and to the Jewish tribes living in Gentile lands occurred among the Jews. On Pentecost 3000 Jews were born again by the Holy Spirit of Promise. And it is reasonable to conclude this group may have had a few proselytes and God-Fearers among the converted to Christ. But everything that happened to the Jews was a Jewish phenomenon. It was their covenant. They were the seed of Abraham and were also the children of Jacob/Israel to whom God gave His Torah to through Moses. Being one of the three major Jewish Feasts the Feast of Harvest was attended by Jews from all over the Empire. The tongues that were spoken were understood by Hellenized Jews who were at the Feast. Three thousand Jews were converted to Christ but the remained obedient to the Torah which was not a contradiction. True, biblical Christianity was the fulfillment of the Law in Jesus Christ and by becoming Christ-followers their Judaism became a completed religion, a completed Judaism through whom Christ as Messiah and a "prophet like unto Moses" was the fulfillment of many covenant and prophetic promises (Deut. 18:15, 18; Isaiah 53; Jeremiah 31:31-34, et.al.)

The good news Jesus had for His disciples to deliver was a simple message to the twelve tribes scattered throughout the Empire and beyond whose main message was "Messiah had come. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has kept His Promise." Later, the good news about Israel's Messiah began to take on other forms of a "good news" message, such as the academic conclusions from Saul found in 1 Corinthians 15:

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Cor. 15:1–4.

The "good news" Saul says he 'received' was through study and familiarity with the Hebrew Scriptures in his possession and through the writings of the Talmud. Saul was a rabbi. He even expressed himself in his letters as a rabbi sometimes arguing a point of doctrine as a rabbi would and understanding these forms of rabbinic thought and surmising's helps interpret his letters more succinctly for if you're familiar with the rabbinical forms of argument and debate you can pointedly understand his writings. When he says he received "revelation' in Galatians 1:12, he is saying that through the Holy Spirit of Christ that dwelt within him he was revealed things found in the Hebrew Scriptures through study (Deut. 29:29.) In my studies I come to the same revelations as Saul did through study. Many Christians do. Saul may have become a Christian around two years after Jesus' ascension, but he also 'disappeared' for seventeen years before the events in Acts 13:1-4 when he and Barnabas were called out through prophecy went on their missionary journeys to visit Jewish Christians in their home churches throughout Asia Minor. But these home church fellowships he visited and later wrote to were already in existence as they were the fruit of the events that happened in Jerusalem at the Feast of Harvest (Pentecost) when the Holy Spirit of Promise first arrived in Acts 2.
What I am getting at is that since Pentecost - even while Jesus was alive before His passion - everything that happened that we find recorded in the New Covenant writings from Matthew to Revelation occurred to the Jews not Gentiles. The New Covenant was a Jewish covenant signed, sealed, and delivered by the blood of Israel's Messiah, Redeemer, and King with the Jews the recipient of the two covenants that were in existence at the time, and they are the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants. Now, I said all this because the tendency of Gentile Christians is to see the Scripture with a Gentile mindset when everything that happened occurred to the Jews until the destruction of the Jewish nation and their Temple by the Romans in A.D. 70. And the great error that followed these events among Gentiles who were beginning their ascendency with regard to the Jewish covenants and Jewish history within those covenants was that they saw the destruction of the Jewish nation and Temple as direct judgment from God - which it was - but Gentiles through an existing bias and hatred towards the Jews unmoored true, biblical, Jewish Christianity from its Hebrew roots and created a new religion which in time was drenched in Gentile thought towards a Jewish religion that was fulfilled by a Jewish Messiah, Jesus Christ. The same 'growing pains' that happened to the Jews in the first four decades before the Temple's destruction occurred to the Gentiles after the Temple's destruction in which there were no Scripture except the Hebrew Scripture that either group could refer to in which to understand the things that took place not only among the Jews at the beginning but to the Gentiles later on after the Temple's destruction as more Gentiles were being converted to the Jews religion, except they didn't see it as a Jewish religion (Completed Judaism) they saw it as a Gentile religion void of any or all Jewish influence and thought.
And that is the great error of Gentiles that has continued to this day.

Newflash if they were Jewish proselytes they would have not been strangers to the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world until they were so when they became in Christ

Your claim simply does not coincide with the facts of the text

 

[jeremiah1five]

Newflash if they were Jewish proselytes they would have not been strangers to the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world until they were so when they became in Christ

Your claim simply does not coincide with the facts of the text

No, any Gentile called proselyte or God-Fearers are strangers to the [Abrahamic] Covenant of promised because these Gentiles are not the seed of Abraham and not his direct descendants. Abraham's seed translates today to the twelve tribes of the sons of Jacob/Israel. I take Scripture as written and in the Abrahamic Covenant described in Genesis chapters 15 and 17 it says, "his seed" and non-Hebrew Gentiles are not of "his seed." So, any non-Hebrew that does not come from Abraham's seed/loins are called Gentile and are "strangers of the covenant of promise."

So, when a Gentile becomes converted, they are joined to Christ not the covenants. There simply is no passage in Scripture of God making any kind of covenant with Gentiles like God has covenant with Abraham and his seed. Here's the context of the Scripture we're dealing with.

18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Gen. 15:17–21.

and

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Gen. 17:3–8.

Notice God repeating Himself when He says "and thy seed after thee" which is important. Whenever something is repeated by God it is very important. The same can be said when the angels of God say, "holy, holy, holy."

 

[TomL]

No, any Gentile called proselyte or God-Fearers are strangers to the [Abrahamic] Covenant of promised because these Gentiles are not the seed of Abraham and not his direct descendants. Abraham's seed translates today to the twelve tribes of the sons of Jacob/Israel. I take Scripture as written and in the Abrahamic Covenant described in Genesis chapters 15 and 17 it says, "his seed" and non-Hebrew Gentiles are not of "his seed." So, any non-Hebrew that does not come from Abraham's seed/loins are called Gentile and are "strangers of the covenant of promise."

So, when a Gentile becomes converted, they are joined to Christ not the covenants. There simply is no passage in Scripture of God making any kind of covenant with Gentiles like God has covenant with Abraham and his seed. Here's the context of the Scripture we're dealing with.

18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Gen. 15:17–21.

and

4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Gen. 17:3–8.

Notice God repeating Himself when He says "and thy seed after thee" which is important. Whenever something is repeated by God it is very important. The same can be said when the angels of God say, "holy, holy, holy."

Newsflash The Abrahamic covenant promised blessing to all nations

Genesis 12:3 (ESV) — 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

 

[jeremiah1five]

Newsflash The Abrahamic covenant promised blessing to all nations

Genesis 12:3 (ESV) — 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

The families of the earth are in context to those that were to be in covenant with God meaning Abraham's descendants.

 

[synergy]

The families of the earth are in context to those that were to be in covenant with God meaning Abraham's descendants.

It says all the families of the earth. You must be hallucinating about alien planets wherein your ethnic cleansing humanoids reside.

 

[jeremiah1five]

It says all the families of the earth. You must be hallucinating about alien planets wherein your ethnic cleansing humanoids reside.

ALL the families are the families that will come from his loins and seed. They are the ones in covenant with God. And they are the ones in whom God has covenant.

 

[TomL]

The families of the earth are in context to those that were to be in covenant with God meaning Abraham's descendants.

All christians are Abraham's descendants

Galatians 3:29 (ESV) — 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Your comments come off as racist

 

[jeremiah1five]

All christians are Abraham's descendants

Galatians 3:29 (ESV) — 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

Your comments come off as racist

Well, God is the original racist. He's the One who through covenant with Abraham separated the Hebrew race from the Gentile race with covenant and with circumcision.
And Galatians 3:29? Saul is addressing Jewish Christians who were concern about their standing in the Abrahamic Covenant being Christ/Messiah-followers.
Let's look at the text:

23 But before faith came, we [Jews] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our [Jews] schoolmaster to bring us [Jews] unto Christ, that we [Jews] might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we [Jews] are no longer under a schoolmaster [the Law].
26 For ye [Jews] are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you [Jews] as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye [Jews] are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if ye [Jews] be Christ’s, then are ye [still Jews] Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Gal. 3:22–29.

The significance of Saul saying in verse 28 "there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female" has to do with an ideological prayer by Jewish men which states, "I thank thee God that I was not born Greek/Gentile, nor a slave, nor a female." By saying what Saul did in verse 28 he blows that ideology right out of the water and destroys such prayerful thinking. Saul was a rabbi and he, too, used to pray such a thing to Yahweh as did all males of the Hebrew religion. Talk about being an iconoclast.

So, these Jewish Christians were concerned with being in the Abrahamic Covenant and also being a follower of Messiah. Saul wrote to them to let them know that if they were Christ's they were STILL Abraham's seed and STILL heirs according to the promise God gave Abraham. Gentiles have never been heirs of the Abrahamic promises God gave to Abraham.

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