Both Evangelical Christendom, and Catholicism preach that the covenant which God made with Israel is gone, indicating that God conceived a different plan after that first covenant failed. In other words, God didn’t do it right the first time, making the old testament only history, but non-effectual for the new testament church.
Why would an unchanging God, and Christ (Messiah) differentiate His policies, one failed policy for one group of the past, and an effective policy for another group of people in the present? This sends a message that God realized He didn’t do it right the first time so He had to make up a different plan.
If that is true Gospel, how do we reconcile that God is not a respecter of persons?
Both Evangelical Christendom, and Catholicism preach that the covenant which God made with Israel is gone, indicating that God conceived a different plan after that first covenant failed. In other words, God didn’t do it right the first time, making the old testament only history, but non-effectual for the new testament church.
The plan of God about His creation will never change from the beginning.
That we need to know ; what is His plan?
He wants us to bring glory for Him.
Isa43:7
Even every one that is called by my name:
for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Men can glorify Him if men
understood that their
Salvation is by God’s Grace alone
Mat13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word,
and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
In the premise ;
Salvation is by God’s Grace alone there should be
the chosen people, the redeemer, the savior.
These are
the cores that He should teach us/His people to comprehend well, so the steps should be
started from OT /old covenant before NT.
Then He chose a nation literally as His Chosen people ---> Israel nation, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob ( not because this people has goodness more than other people but just
only for the stipulation , means His people would be born from the wombs of this people only that time ) , for educating them He should treat differently than the other people .
Exo11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
11:7
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast:
that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel (other examples ; treats to Canaanites , Amalekites , except Noah and families in that era )
Sometime God treats a special person from other people so special like His own people such Rahab etc , for teaching His literal Chosen people that they were chosen as literal actually
just only for the stipulation, because for a long time period it surely does some things counterproductive to His Actual plan such arrogances of Israel over the other people , so it is inevitable being renewed one day to be the spiritually Chosen people
Eph1:4 According as
he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love ( Eph1:4) .
Many times He told that He is the only redeemer, He is the only savior.
Isa43:11 I, even I, am the LORD; and
beside me there is no savior
Isa43:14 Thus saith the LORD,
your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.
Isa43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One,
the creator of Israel, your King
Why would an unchanging God, and Christ (Messiah) differentiate His policies, one failed policy for one group of the past, and an effective policy for another group of people in the present? This sends a message that God realized He didn’t do it right the first time so He had to make up a different plan.
If that is true Gospel, how do we reconcile that God is not a respecter of persons?
It turn out that one day times He proclaims that His covenant will no longer like the old one when He led the Jews went out from Egypt , but brought back His people from every places He scattered from .
Jer31:29 In those days
they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
(The father = other people beyond Israel, all the descendants of this people entirely lost/unsaved according to the old covenant)
31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity:
every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD ( No longer physically Chosen people but spiritually Chosen people , distributed to all people according to His will ).
Jer32:37 Behold,
I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely
Jer50:19 And
I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead
And the peak of this education is His arrival as the Messiah for demonstrating His Grace showing that the redeemer is only God , the Savior is only God.
Then by His Grace, we are /His churches begin to grasp that
The Salvation is by God Grace alone (Men started to know that His Chosen = have spiritually ears to listen = have spiritually eyes to see = born of God = spirit abide in our bodies that is sent by God to wander/sojourn in this perishable earth Isa6:10 ,Mat11:15, Rev3:6 , Zec12:1 ,1Pet1:17) ---> can bring Glory to Him = the purpose of creation is achieved .
Isa6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Mat11:15
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Rev3:6
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches
Zec12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth,
and formeth the spirit of man within him.
1Pet1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
Note ; men will never realize /recognize that the
Salvation is by God Grace alone if they have not passed the OT.
No one really knows ; who is born of God, who is born of flesh ,
only God knows.
