"so you and I would have salvation through Jesus Christ"
Not you and I, but rather the Gentiles of the first century when the New Covenant was inaugurated and the Gentiles joined the Jews in forming the new covenant Israel of God.
If you cannot read the scriptures in context, you cannot understand the scriptures.
The first century is past and finished! The Gentiles entered the Covenant of God, the remnant of Jews of faith were saved ("all Israel shall be saved" was fulfilled when all the Jews of faith finally accepted Christ after the jealousy of watching the first century Gentiles flood in the Church.)
We no longer live in the twenty first century after 20 glorious, holy and divine centuries of Church history. The children of Abraham --children of faith--were and are still being harvested out of every nation. The children of faith have glorified the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in every nation and among every people while the children of the flesh have glorified themselves in lust, money and pride.
In the old covenant, God spoke to his children through the prophets and the law:
Matt. 12
"13": For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14": And if ye will receive it, this is Elijah, which was for to come.
and in Hebrew 1
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
But under the New Covenant in the last days, God speaks to his children by Jesus Chrsit his son:
Hebrews 1
2: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Jesus established the New Covenant 2000 years ago and created his Church--the Body of Christ!
Hebrews 8
"7: For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8: For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more
And after creating the New Covenant, he abolished the old.
13: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away
Christ is now all in all! All the promises of God are now ye and amen in Jesus, not in Talmudic Judaism and not in Israel, but again, IN JESUS! |
