Here's another poster who does not really understand God's plan for redeemed and restored Israel on earth (as distinct from the Church). So the question arises: "Should not people carefully study the Bible before making categorical statements?"
it’s more fruitful to share the scripture with other believers who you think don’t understand it. Offering something like this can
provoke one to change thier own mind toward the truth through consideration , study and prayer
“Not as though
the word of God hath taken none effect. For
they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is,
They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
Romans 9:6-8
This is a clear statement there is a false israel and a true one who God recognizes . there’s an earthly israel identified by the ot law circumcision and adherence to Moses word, it corresponds to the earthly Jerusalem and israel
being randomly born of abrams bloodline defines them , by thier flesh and
not the spirit of Christ the seed of Abraham in them
the flesh israel is not the one who God counts for Abraham’s seed but they are born of any nationality or race , hearing the gospel and receiving the promise of remission of sins and the Holy Spirit
“Know ye therefore that
they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
So then
they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. …that
the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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.
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up unto
the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
For ye are
all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For
as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ( Abraham’s seed
) 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 3:7-9, 14, 16, 22-23, 26-29 KJV
“They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed”
the flesh doesn’t identify israel anymore our faith in Christ does whether formerly jew or gentile make or female black or white if we hear and believe the gospel we have been born into the promise and become Abraham’s heirs of salvation who would be blessed through his seed Jesus Christ
there’s the old and the new in all creation and God created both
“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Isaiah 42:9 KJV
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
if we cling to the old fleshly things of this earth we can never receive the new things promised ahead
