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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Going to Heaven, #5
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 Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:28,29)
It is not true that a Gentile church will be in Heaven while Jewish saints inherit the earth. This is contrary to the teachings of the Apostle Paul, who taught us that we Gentiles are part of the one family of God (Ephesians 2:11-22).
To whom, then, did the Prophets of Israel speak? Precisely who are the recipients of the utterances of Isaiah, of Ezekiel, of Micah?
To whom are the Scriptures written?
The holy Scriptures are written to only one set of people—the elect. The elect are the one true Seed of Abraham. Christ, and those who are an integral part of Him, regardless of their physical race, compose the elect of God, the one Seed of Abraham.
The elect of God were known by Him before the creation of the world. They have been predestined to be changed into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are the brothers of Christ, having been born of the same Father.
The entire earth, the heavens, time, mass, energy, human history, and everything else are bringing forth the elect, the brothers of the Lord Jesus Christ. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament speak to God's elect.
The Hebrew Prophets were not addressing their own race except for specific events of their own history. The visions of the Prophets that speak of Christ, of the Kingdom of God, were written for the Lord Jesus, and then for God's elect, whether Jewish or Gentile by physical birth.
The Messianic Kingdom does not consist of physical Jews. Both the Jew and the Gentile must be born again of the Spirit of God in order to see or to enter the Kingdom of God.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. (Galatians 3:16)
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (Galatians 3:19)
Is it not clear that the Seed of Abraham, the one Seed from God, is Christ and those who are of Christ? The physical Jew must receive Christ in order to be an heir of the Kingdom of God. It is the Seed of Abraham who is the Heir of the Kingdom of God.
The Hebrew Prophets were addressing Christians, not the Jews of their own day:
Unto whom [the Prophets of Israel] it was revealed, that not unto themselves [the Old Testament Israelites], but unto us [the Jewish Peter and the Gentile converts whom he was addressing] they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (I Peter 1:12).
To be continued.