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The Daily Word of Righteousness
From Moses to Christ, #3
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. (Galatians 4:25,26)
However, the physical people and land of Israel are not, in the present hour, what God means by "Israel." The term Israel refers only to those who are God's elect by promise. God has promised that in the end time the physical people and land once again will become "Israel." As of now, Jerusalem on earth is Hagar, that is, the slave woman. Jerusalem on earth is not of Isaac, of the Divine Seed. But physical Jerusalem yet will experience the fulfillment of the declarations of the Prophets!
So let us think now about present-day "Israel." True Israel is limited to God's elect through Christ. The Jews by race have been broken off from the Olive Tree, which is Christ. All Christians, whether Jewish or Gentile, have been grafted on the one Olive Tree.
There now is one new man in Christ. Those who were under the Law and those who were not under the Law have become one because of the cross of Christ.
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; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: (Ephesians 2:15,16)
There is no difference in Christ between the Jewish Christian and the Gentile Christian. The only differences between the Jewish Christian and the Gentile Christian have to do with the adamic creation, that is, with race and culture. But as far as the program of redemption is concerned, the transition from the adamic man to the new creation is precisely the same for Jew and Gentile.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:27-29)
What passage of Scripture teaches there is more than one body of Christ?
What passage of Scripture teaches there is more than one Church of the Firstborn?
What passage of Scripture teaches there is more than one wife of the Lamb?
What passage of Scripture teaches there is more than one family of God?
What passage of Scripture teaches there is more than one elect of God?
What passage of Scripture teaches there is more than one seed of Abraham?
What passage of the New Testament shows that any of the writers implied there is one program of redemption for the Jew and a different program for the Gentile? We are well aware of the fact that the first Christian church, the church in Jerusalem, consisted of Jews who observed the Law.
And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: (Acts 21:20)
To be continued.