The spiritual seed was NEVER promised land.
Yes, the spiritual seed is Christ, the anointing Holy Spirit of God.
It was Never given the land of canaan as an eternal possession.
I would agree. The outward Jew born of the flesh and the land as part of this corrupted creation was used as a living parable up until the time of reformation. God puts no difference between a Jew and a Gentile purifying the hearts of both by a work of His faith, a labor of His Love.
The married land, the New Heavenly Jerusalem as that not seen was represented by that seen the temporal, Cannan
When looking at a parable because we look not to the things seen, the temporal, but to that not seen the eternal. We realize the kingdom of God is not of this world. Our wrestle is not against flesh and blood (Jew and Gentile) as that seen. And therefore we do not walk after our religious experiences. This would be walking by sight and not by faith, as in ; “who would desire that which they already have”?
This would take away the desire to walk by the faith of Christ .
The Jews had used their experiences as sign gifts as evidence of the Holy Spirit, as if it was necessary to be born again of the Spirit of Christ to the "Gentile" .but they were exempt seeing they did walk by sight. The cross their stumbling block
It is why I believe Christ informed them who followed after signs they designed for those who rebel rather than prophecy for those who are trusting God walking according to His faith(not seen) , as it is written.
New believers born in or brought up in a Christian environment can also become like the Jew, figuring their parents are Christian and they do Christians things, so they must be Christian. Like why read the book ( Bible) when you are the ones living it?
This is when Satan, the father of lies can gets his foot in the door. We should avoid familiarity with the Spirit by looking outward to the flesh. Our familiarity with God comes by believing His word.
Trusting in the flesh for familiarly can breed contempt and give birth to hatred. They hated Christ without reason and is why I believe a prophet is not welcome in why one home town.
It would be one ways the father of lies could temp a Christian, that there is no need to read the scripture searching the daily bread and seek the approval God, as he informs those he loves to perform. The commandment to Study is a vital, imperative.
2Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The Jew that sought the approval of men like that of the Catholics having a similar law of men, called the law of the fathers. The verse below would apply to both.
Having offered that verse below to a Catholic I was sharing with. They would so imply turn that upside down and say it proves a person cannot have eternal life by the authority of the scriptures , as if the words were dead .
And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. Joh 5:38
That is what the Jews performed requiring sign before they could believe. . In the working of the ceremonial laws they thought the kingdom of God was of here not realizing they were only shadows and types used in living parables up until the time of reformation.
Replacement theology tries to replace this promise with the church. It is false
I would agree it is rather reformation theology. T
