Alan, you wrote, "I am not suggesting to put Israel on a pedestal ". Who is Israel? ""God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."" (John 4:24 NKJV)
If God is spirit, then what are his children, those who have been born by His Spirit? Are these not the ones accounted as His children, the family of God, true Israel? If my Father is Spirit, then having been born of Him, I have His nature, which which is Spirit.
""Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising." (Acts 17:29 NKJV)
"by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." (2 Pet 1:4 NKJV)
God is ever desirous to impart to us the fullness of His truth in Christ Jesus.
David |
