God Has Made No Covenant With Gentiles

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the covenant is with jews we are grafted in. this destroys much bad theology if taken honestly

'And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed,
after that Paul had spoken one word,
Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
.. Saying, Go unto this people, and say,
.... Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand;
...... and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
........ For the heart of this people is waxed gross,
.......... and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed;
............ lest they should see with their eyes,
.............. and hear with their ears,
................ and understand with their heart,
.................. and should be converted,
.................... and I should heal them.
Be it known therefore unto you,
that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles,
and that they will hear it.'
(Act 28:25-28)

Hello @Jamie Russell CME,

Following the failure of Israel to come to repentance, and their rejection of their Messiah and King, both in the land and in the diaspora, there is no longer an Olive Tree to be grafted into. That is why revelation was given to Paul, by the risen Christ, concerning the church which is His Body, of which He is the Head, and made known through Paul as it's Steward: in the epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon.
Israel has no part in salvation at this present time, for salvation was sent to the gentiles. Both Jew and Gentile are equal and united in Christ their Head, as one Body, 'the fulness of Him that filleth all in all'.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[DavidTree]

Hello @Jamie Russell CME,

Following the failure of Israel to come to repentance, and their rejection of their Messiah and King, both in the land and in the diaspora, there is no longer an Olive Tree to be grafted into. That is why revelation was given to Paul, by the risen Christ, concerning the church which is His Body, of which He is the Head, and made known through Paul as it's Steward: in the epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon.
Israel has no part in salvation at this present time, for salvation was sent to the gentiles. Both Jew and Gentile are united in Christ their Head.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

False witness =

there is no longer an Olive Tree to be grafted into.

TRUTH = Genesis and Romans

 

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False witness =

'Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed,
and keep My covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people:
for all the earth is mine:
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.'
(Exo 19:5-6)

Hello @DavidTree,

The new covenant during this period, when Israel is Loammi, ('not my People'), is in abeyance, and the blessings associated with it. The Olive Tree will bud and blossom again, when Israel finally comes to repentance, and acknowledges their Messiah and King, and fulfill the purpose for which they were called:- to be priests of God among the nations.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[DavidTree]

'Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed,
and keep My covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people:
for all the earth is mine:
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.'
(Exo 19:5-6)

Hello @DavidTree,

The new covenant during this period, when Israel is Loammi, ('not my People'), is in abeyance, and the blessings associated with it. The Olive Tree will bud and blossom again, when Israel finally comes to repentance, and acknowledges their Messiah and King, and fulfill the purpose for which they were called:- to be priests of God among the nations.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

False witness = @Complete says: "there is no longer an Olive Tree to be grafted into."

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The True Olive Tree never stopped budding - Romans ch11

"I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery?f Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.12But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

13I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry14in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,18do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly notg spare you either.

22Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.24For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

 

[jeremiah1five]

Subject Heading:- 'God Has Made No Covenant With Gentiles'

'Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect,
and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
In hope of eternal life,
which God, that cannot lie, promised
before the world began';
(Titus 1:1-2)

'Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began,'
(2 Timothy 1:9)

'According as He hath chosen us in Him
before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame
before Him
in love:
(Ephesians 1:4)

Hello @jeremiah1five,

I agree that no covenant, or contractual arrangement, has been made by God with any other people. than His chosen nation, which is Israel.

In Titus 1:2 (above), we are told that eternal life was promised, 'before the world began'. 2 Timothy 1:9 says that the believer was called according to the Lord's own purpose and grace, 'which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began'. Ephesians 1:4 says that such were 'chosen in Him before the foundation of the world'. Here are covenants, agreements, promises, but they were not made with or to us, they were all made in and with Christ.

2 Corinthians 3 & 4 tell us that everything turns on two mediators, Moses and Christ. How thankful should we be to think that so far as the Church of the one Body is concerned there are no contractual agreements, no covenants, no testaments, that involve the believer, he finds all in his completeness in Christ.' All is IN HIM.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth
the adoption,
and the glory,
and the covenants,
and the giving of the law,
and the service of God,
and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers,
and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came,
who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Rom. 9:4–5.

31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. Jn. 1:31.

24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mt. 15:24.

5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mt. 10:4–6.

 

[jeremiah1five]

'And God said unto Noah,
This is the token of the covenant,
which I have established
between Me and all flesh
that is upon the earth.'
(Gen 9:17)

Hi @Matthias,

That covenant was made with 'all flesh'. The word 'Gentile' was necessitated when the nation of Israel was formed: to distinguish the nations (Gentiles) from God's chosen nation.

'For from the top of the rocks I see him,
and from the hills I behold him:
lo, the people shall dwell alone,
and shall not be reckoned among the nations.'
(Num 23:9)

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

Follow the family line from Abraham to Shem to Noah back to Eber, who is the father of the Hebrews.
Gentiles come from Ham and Japheth.

 

[civic]

False witness =


TRUTH = Genesis and Romans

Let’s stop calling another poster a false witness. That’s a personal attack on them.

Attack the argument and not the person. Thanks

 

[DavidTree]

Let’s stop calling another poster a false witness. That’s a personal attack on them.

Attack the argument and not the person. Thanks

You just committed the very thing you accused me of.

No one was called a false witness = Go back and read again = smarten UP in Christ

 

[DavidTree]

Let’s stop calling another poster a false witness. That’s a personal attack on them.

Attack the argument and not the person. Thanks

And let me know if you figured it out correctly - ty

 

[DavidTree]

Let’s stop calling another poster a false witness. That’s a personal attack on them.

Attack the argument and not the person. Thanks

Apology will be accepted - thank you

 

[DavidTree]

'Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed,
and keep My covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people:
for all the earth is mine:
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.'
(Exo 19:5-6)

Hello @DavidTree,

The new covenant during this period, when Israel is Loammi, ('not my People'), is in abeyance, and the blessings associated with it. The Olive Tree will bud and blossom again, when Israel finally comes to repentance, and acknowledges their Messiah and King, and fulfill the purpose for which they were called:- to be priests of God among the nations.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

Dear Brother @Complete,

i just want to clarify that i am not calling you a 'false witness' = only your statement = "there is no longer an Olive Tree to be grafted into."

Please forgive me if you mistook my post as a personal attack, which it was NOT.

Thank You

 

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Hello @DavidTree

It was I who influenced @civic's response, for I remarked upon it to him, which was the reason for his interjection. So, if I was wrong in my understanding, I must apologise to you, and to him too. I thank you for your apology, and ask you to accept mine, within the love of Christ our Saviour, our Lord and Head.

Chris

 

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Subject Heading:- God Has Made No Covenant With Gentiles

'But I say, Did not Israel know?
First Moses saith,
I will provoke you to jealousy
by them that are no people,
and by a foolish nation I will anger you.'
(Rom.10:19)

'... 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.'
(Rom.11:11)

Hello @jeremiah1five, ( * see @Jamie Russell CME's post - reply #15: - accredited by @dizerner and @civic )

Believers during the Acts period were grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel to provoke Israel to jealousy, and for no other reason. It was only at Acts 28:28 that salvation was sent unto the Gentiles, for they would 'hear' it: Israel having failed to 'hear it', not having heard with faith. Except for the believing remnant whom God had called of course.

After the rejection at Acts 28 and the events of AD70 Israel ceased to be a nation, so there was no Olive Tree for Gentile believers to become part of, that is what necessitated the creation of the church which is the Body of Christ, which God revealed to Paul, for him to administer, and make known, which he did in the epistles written by him as ''The Lord's Prisoner. (Eph. Phil. Col. 2 Tim., Tit, & Phil.).

* So how can believers today be said to be grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel, which is symbolic of Israel's Religious Privileges (Judges 9:9, Romans 11).

* I would value your understanding of this, along with @Jamie Russel CME, @dizerner and @civic of course, and whoever else would care to respond.

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[jeremiah1five]

Subject Heading:- God Has Made No Covenant With Gentiles

'But I say, Did not Israel know?
First Moses saith,
I will provoke you to jealousy
by them that are no people,
and by a foolish nation I will anger you.'
(Rom.10:19)

'... 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.'
(Rom.11:11)

Hello @jeremiah1five, ( * see @Jamie Russell CME's post - reply #15: - accredited by @dizerner and @civic )

Believers during the Acts period were grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel to provoke Israel to jealousy, and for no other reason. It was only at Acts 28:28 that salvation was sent unto the Gentiles, for they would 'hear' it: Israel having failed to 'hear it', not having heard with faith. Except for the believing remnant whom God had called of course.

Identify "Believers."
If you say (hard-core, uncircumcised) Gentiles I disagree.
If you say, "circumcised, Gentile proselytes" then I would agree. Being in the synagogues when the celebrants returned from Pentecost would hear the testimony of these Jewish Christians BEFORE uncircumcised Gentiles would for, they would not have access to the synagogue Sabbath gatherings where the witness of these Jewish Christians addressed their Judaic brethren before the split.

Another thing: Gentiles are never addressed in Scripture as being Olive Tree, wild or natural. They just are not Olive tree in Scripture. Israel is the natural Olive tree. Those grafted in are identified as wild but STILL are Olive tree. Well, who are these? IF Israel is identified in Scripture as an Olive tree, and they are, then we are dealing with a covenant people. Whoever are grafted in would also be Olive tree but wild. They would have to be covenant, meaning Israel-connected. Two possibilities. One is they could be Samaritan (half-Jew) but still in covenant. These are also the "other flock" Jesus mentioned in John 10.

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Jn. 10:16.

Or

The wild Olive tree can be covenanted, circumcised Gentile proselytes. Maybe both.

While the Temple stood the "ism" of Judaism remained and the New Covenant God made with the House of Israel had its beginnings in Israel (and in Gentile lands) with the House of Israel and it was treated like a Jewish Covenant which it was. So, everything for the first four decades after Pentecost was seeped in Judaic thought and practice until the Hebrew Scriptures were consulted and they made sense of Messiah's effect upon the covenants - which were not nullified, but fulfilled.

After the rejection at Acts 28 and the events of AD70 Israel ceased to be a nation, so there was no Olive Tree for Gentile believers to become part of, that is what necessitated the creation of the church which is the Body of Christ, which God revealed to Paul, for him to administer, and make known, which he did in the epistles written by him as ''The Lord's Prisoner. (Eph. Phil. Col. 2 Tim., Tit, & Phil.).

You need to make distinction between covenant Israel, circumcised covenant Gentile proselytes, non-covenant Gentiles, and the body of Christ. (1 Cor. 10:32.) First understand that the New Covenant is made with the House of Israel. Gentiles are excluded. There is no mention of Gentiles in the New Covenant described in Jeremiah 31:31-34. Everything in Acts (Holy Spirit, gifts of the Spirit, fruit of the Spirit, Body of Christ, etc.), is part of the New Covenant God made with the House of Israel. Once you establish this TRUTH then you can consider uncircumcised Gentiles who are saved and their place in the whole scheme of things. ALSO, it must be understood that in the Law, Psalms, and Prophets God made NO COVENANT with Gentiles or the seed of Gentiles.

* So how can believers today be said to be grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel, which is symbolic of Israel's Religious Privileges (Judges 9:9, Romans 11).
* I would value your understanding of this, along with @Jamie Russel CME, @dizerner and @civic of course, and whoever else would care to respond.
Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

As above.

 

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Identify "Believers."​

If you say (hard-core, uncircumcised) Gentiles I disagree.​

If you say, "circumcised, Gentile proselytes" then I would agree. Being in the synagogues when the celebrants returned from Pentecost would hear the testimony of these Jewish Christians BEFORE uncircumcised Gentiles would for, they would not have access to the synagogue Sabbath gatherings where the witness of these Jewish Christians addressed their Judaic brethren before the split.​

Hello @jeremiah1five,

Yes, I refer to believing Gentiles (ref. Cornelius - Acts 10).

Another thing: Gentiles are never addressed in Scripture as being Olive Tree, wild or natural. They just are not Olive tree in Scripture. Israel is the natural Olive tree. Those grafted in are identified as wild but STILL are Olive tree. Well, who are these? IF Israel is identified in Scripture as an Olive tree, and they are, then we are dealing with a covenant people. Whoever are grafted in would also be Olive tree but wild. They would have to be covenant, meaning Israel-connected. Two possibilities. One is they could be Samaritan (half-Jew) but still in covenant. These are also the "other flock" Jesus mentioned in John 10.​

​

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Jn. 10:16.​

​

Or​

​

The wild Olive tree can be covenanted, circumcised Gentile proselytes. Maybe both.​

​

While the Temple stood the "ism" of Judaism remained and the New Covenant God made with the House of Israel had its beginnings in Israel (and in Gentile lands) with the House of Israel and it was treated like a Jewish Covenant which it was. So, everything for the first four decades after Pentecost was seeped in Judaic thought and practice until the Hebrew Scriptures were consulted and they made sense of Messiah's effect upon the covenants - which were not nullified, but fulfilled.​

You need to make distinction between covenant Israel, circumcised covenant Gentile proselytes, non-covenant Gentiles, and the body of Christ. (1 Cor. 10:32.) First understand that the New Covenant is made with the House of Israel. Gentiles are excluded. There is no mention of Gentiles in the New Covenant described in Jeremiah 31:31-34. Everything in Acts (Holy Spirit, gifts of the Spirit, fruit of the Spirit, Body of Christ, etc.), is part of the New Covenant God made with the House of Israel. Once you establish this TRUTH then you can consider uncircumcised Gentiles who are saved and their place in the whole scheme of things. ALSO, it must be understood that in the Law, Psalms, and Prophets God made NO COVENANT with Gentiles or the seed of Gentiles.​

As above.​

Thank you for your considered and informative post. I do appreciate it, and agree with everything you have said. You have put 'flesh' on the 'bones' of my understanding 'Praise God!'

In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[jeremiah1five]

Hello @jeremiah1five,

Yes, I refer to believing Gentiles (ref. Cornelius - Acts 10).

Cornelius was a "God-fearer." One cut away from being circumcised.

Thank you for your considered and informative post. I do appreciate it, and agree with everything you have said. You have put 'flesh' on the 'bones' of my understanding 'Praise God!'

In Christ Jesus
Chris

Good to hear.
Praise God, indeed!

 

[DavidTree]

Hello @DavidTree

It was I who influenced @civic's response, for I remarked upon it to him, which was the reason for his interjection. So, if I was wrong in my understanding, I must apologise to you, and to him too. I thank you for your apology, and ask you to accept mine, within the love of Christ our Saviour, our Lord and Head.

Chris

All is Good for us in Christ.
i usually make my posts very short and to the point, so there was an opportunity for misunderstanding that was easily cleared UP.

It is important for you and @jeremiah1five, and @civic to SEE that when God Calls a Gentile out of the world and brings him/her to Christ, we are no longer a "wild" branch but become a Permanent Member of the True Olive Tree which is Christ = His Body = the Tree of Life

God promised that Israel would never cease to be a Nation before Him = Jeremiah 31:31-40

There are two Jerusalems and two Israels = One is from Above and the other is of the earth = John 8:23 and Galatians ch3 and ch4

And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24which things are symbolic. For these are [g]the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”

28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

 

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Jeremiah1five said in reply#15:-
You need to make distinction between covenant Israel, circumcised covenant Gentile proselytes, non-covenant Gentiles, and the body of Christ. (1 Cor. 10:32.) First understand that the New Covenant is made with the House of Israel. Gentiles are excluded. There is no mention of Gentiles in the New Covenant described in Jeremiah 31:31-34. Everything in Acts (Holy Spirit, gifts of the Spirit, fruit of the Spirit, Body of Christ, etc.), is part of the New Covenant God made with the House of Israel. Once you establish this TRUTH then you can consider uncircumcised Gentiles who are saved and their place in the whole scheme of things. ALSO, it must be understood that in the Law, Psalms, and Prophets God made NO COVENANT with Gentiles or the seed of Gentiles.

Hello @jeremiah1five,

Please consider the words highlighted above. For you have included the Church which is the Body of Christ, 'the fulness of Him that filleth all in all' into the Acts period, and the New Covenant, when it was still 'hid in God' (Eph. 3:9) during that time: and was not the subject of the book of Acts, or of the epistles written prior to it's Divinely being revealed to Paul, and made known by him during his imprisonment at Rome. It being the subject of the epistles written during that time to Eph. Phil. Col. 2 Tim. Titus and Philemon.

The New Covenant is in abeyance at this time, along with the New Covenant, because of Israel's rejection of their Messiah: both 'in the land' during the gospels, and in the diaspora at Acts 28, resulting in their present Lo-ammi condition following the quotation of Isaiah 6:9-10 by the Apostle Paul (Acts 28:25-27).

Thank you
In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[DavidTree]

Hello @jeremiah1five,

Please consider the words highlighted above. For you have included the Church which is the Body of Christ, 'the fulness of Him that filleth all in all' into the Acts period, and the New Covenant, when it was still 'hid in God' (Eph. 3:9) during that time: and was not the subject of the book of Acts, or of the epistles written prior to it's Divinely being revealed to Paul, and made known by him during his imprisonment at Rome. It being the subject of the epistles written during that time to Eph. Phil. Col. 2 Tim. Titus and Philemon.

The New Covenant is in abeyance at this time, along with the New Covenant, because of Israel's rejection of their Messiah: both 'in the land' during the gospels, and in the diaspora at Acts 28, resulting in their present Lo-ammi condition following the quotation of Isaiah 6:9-10 by the Apostle Paul (Acts 28:25-27).

Thank you
In Christ

abeyance
noun [ U ]
formal /

Any proposed abeyance of the bylaws must be approved by the entire committee.

a state of not happening or being used at present:

Please review carefully to SEE if this is true in Acts

 

[jeremiah1five]

All is Good for us in Christ.
i usually make my posts very short and to the point, so there was an opportunity for misunderstanding that was easily cleared UP.

It is important for you and @jeremiah1five, and @civic to SEE that when God Calls a Gentile out of the world and brings him/her to Christ, we are no longer a "wild" branch but become a Permanent Member of the True Olive Tree which is Christ = His Body = the Tree of Life

There is nowhere in the Law, Psalms, and Prophets where it says Gentiles are or will be an Olive tree. You're adding to the bible and building a doctrine/understanding on sand. Show me in the OT where God identifies Gentiles as an Olive tree.

God promised that Israel would never cease to be a Nation before Him = Jeremiah 31:31-40
There are two Jerusalems and two Israels = One is from Above and the other is of the earth = John 8:23 and Galatians ch3 and ch4

There is only one Israel: those in covenant with God.

And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Where does it say that is Scripture that God Promise Gentiles the Holy Spirit? As far as Scripture is clear about the Promise of the Holy Spirit was given in Covenant with Israel. Post the Scripture God making Promise to Gentiles they would receive the Holy Spirit.

Speaking to the twelve tribes of Israel of both kingdoms Peter says this:

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
39 For the promise is unto you [JEWS], and to your children, and to all that are afar off [Jews living in Gentile lands due to Exile that never returned to their homeland], even as many as the Lord our God shall call. Acts 2:38–39.

Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24which things are symbolic. For these are [g]the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27For it is written:

“Rejoice, O barren,
You who do not bear!
Break forth and shout,
You who are not in labor!
For the desolate has many more children
Than she who has a husband.”

28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.