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That’s right. Good post. Believers are the Israel of God. 
Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 6:15-16 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 6:15-16 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
That’s right. Good post. Believers are the Israel of God.
Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 6:15-16 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Galatians 3:28-29 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 6:15-16 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
The church and Israel are distinct.
So you're saying that God has two distinct people - Israel and the Church?
Unbelieving Israel are God's people?
Romans 2:28-29
28 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
29 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
Romans 9:6-8
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Dispensational theology is false. Scripture is pretty clear that God has one people and they are true Israel, the church, who believe in the Messiah.
Unbelieving Israel are God's people?
Romans 2:28-29
28 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.
29 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
Romans 9:6-8
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named."
8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
Dispensational theology is false. Scripture is pretty clear that God has one people and they are true Israel, the church, who believe in the Messiah.
This is a loaded question, one assuming that a nation of neo-Pharisees is the land of regathered Israel. It is not. Read Hebrews, James and 1 Peter etc. These do not identify Israel as the neo-Pharisees which Israelis are. To identify Israel based upon the idea that Israel rejected Jesus and the New Covenant is totally contrary to the context of the general epistles. Yes, the Judean Pharisees and their loyalists rejected Jesus and the New Covenant, but they were only a small portion of Israel at that time.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. James 1:1
James, writing before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, was not describing these Israelites as the Christ hating Pharisees which everyone seems to think were all of Israel. Read James, it does not agree with the idea of an Israel which rejected Jesus 2000 years ago.
James, writing before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, was not describing these Israelites as the Christ hating Pharisees which everyone seems to think were all of Israel. Read James, it does not agree with the idea of an Israel which rejected Jesus 2000 years ago.
Read The Epistle to the Hebrews. Written to Hebrew-Israelites it describes them in a Christian New Covenant context. Chapters 8-10 are especially on this. They tell us that the New Covenant, that which was promised to, and made with, "the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah" (Jer. 31:31/Heb. 8:8)---was accepted by them, and was in effect 2000 years ago. Wake up you naive evangelicals, stop identifying Israel based upon the idea that these people rejected Jesus and the New Covenant. This is a lie, one for the benefit of today's Pharisees, for the benefit of "...them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 2:9; 3:9).
The same Apostle Paul wrote these under inspiration of the Holy Spirit...
Galatians 3:26-29
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Ephesians 2:11-17
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
Galatians 3:26-29
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Ephesians 2:11-17
11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—
12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,
16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
J
God still has a plan for Israel as there are prophecies yet to be fulfilled about the nation. The greatest prophecy recently fulfilled was in 1948 when the Jews became a nation again. Scripture foretold the scattering of the Jews throughout the whole earth and yet God promised to reunite them again as one nation, no longer Israel and Judah, but one nation.
Only those who believe upon and follow Christ are saved. However, God still has a plan for Israel and I do believe that nation will eventually have a revival and many more of them will recognize Jesus as Messiah.
Only those who believe upon and follow Christ are saved. However, God still has a plan for Israel and I do believe that nation will eventually have a revival and many more of them will recognize Jesus as Messiah.
Your have been following a theology contaminated with the leaven of today's Pharisees, one which portrays them as the Hebrews in the epistle to the Hebrews, and the Israelites described by James as "...the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad" (James 1:1). These epistles do not describe Israel as one and the same with the Christ hating Pharisees which rejected Jesus. The Israelites who rejected, hated, and killed Jesus were but a small fraction of the twelve tribes that were scattered abroad (hundreds of years before Jesus walked in Palestine).