In ot, many ethnic Israelites were not followers of God, while a few were.
Daniel was the only one not bowing to statue, 3 young men only ones didn't bow to earthly king n.
God was using national Israel as a shadow , or to say a theatrical play to showcase what is to come.
Never about ethnicity, only about faith in God.
Yes israel rebelled continuously I wasn’t saying they were followers of God as a nation I was saying god had chosen them based on the promise made to Abraham.
thier national path was constant rebellion and idol worship it’s why God destroyed them when they killed his son
In the ot the covenant is here between these parties
“These are
the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.”
Deuteronomy 29:1 KJV
“And I have also
established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan,
the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.”
Exodus 6:4 KJV
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.”
Deuteronomy 31:16
None of thisbis applicable to gentiles because we weren’t part of the covenants made before Christ appeared
His covenant people in the ot was the children of Israel . It’s why Paul later in the nt explains this in the ot gentiles we’re excuded Paul’s explaining the fix here for gentiles
“Wherefore remember, that
ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that
at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
Ephesians 2:11-13 KJV
Notice the blood of Jesus an Israelite of the tribe of Judah is the blood that makes gentiles part of Gods family ….. it’s the same with Israelites they have to have the blood of Gods seed of promise thier flesh and blood no longer makes a difference
Jesus alone is the hier of Abraham and those who are in him the result bieng here
“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. 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. 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 3:16, 26-29 KJV
airs always been about the faithful israel had many faithful just as today there are faithful former Jew and gentile Christian’s.
But they don’t worship god through Judaism rejecting Christ . Nationally they are still rebellion and rejecting Christ and his name and blood I don’t really understand the arguments how they are being restored by god , while they still reject him following doctrines of angels given to them in ancient times
