Truther
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This is not about whether the Jews are God's people or not, but about a promise to the fathers. The promise says God will restore the kingdom to Israel, not you.The LORD places His sons into His Body = the Israel of God
The Body of Christ does not replace the earthbound unsaved nation Israel.
The LORD Jesus Christ took the kingdom away from them because they rejected their King and became apostates to the FAITH.
The Israel on earth is dead in trespasses and sins.
The Eternal Israel of God is Born from Above and consists of Jew & Gentile in MESSIAH = no one else is allowed in.
Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
ONLY the Seed of MESSIAH becomes the Israel of God
Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Two covenants
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—
but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
You need to get into the 1st century mindset per Acts 1....
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know...
Jesus said this event, they will never know.
Jesus did not tell them that THEY were the kingdom, as many believe today.
Again, get 1st century. You are smarter than the Apostles