True Israel.

First fruits.

theologians musing outside the gates of salvation but never enter.

Yes the whole of Israel will eventually be saved. God is eternally faithful to His chosen people.

Me

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, They which are the…[Read more]

Yes the whole of Israel will eventually be saved. God is eternally faithful to His chosen people

The lost sheep that the Good Shepherd had come to rescue will be.But we are gentiles and only added to that plan by God’s mercy. Our only hope is being joined to the Son and our striving cannot improve what he has done. He perfectly obeyed and f…[Read more]

Rev.14
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were…[Read more]

It is important to discern who was the target audience for Jesus’s  teachings. Just because he quoted the Law does not imply that he was putting all men under the OT Law. Purveyors of false religion offer heavier burdens than we can bear in the hope of salvation by our own efforts.

As gentiles we were never under that Law but we are invited to co…[Read more]

Yes Jesus was sent to the Jewish people who are under the Law to teach them about the Law.

It would be wrong to apply his teachings to the Gentiles.

Hi to all

Here is the Daily Devotional

NO REASON TO BRAG

So I say: Woe to me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, I dwell among a people whose lips are unclean, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. (Isaiah 6:5)

Those who experience sanctification according to the Word of God manifest a spirit of humility. Like Moses, they…[Read more]

Hi Proclaimer,

yes

Yes we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, however not of this age nor the rulers that of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had u…[Read more]

It isn’t saying that he needed to sell all he had to be saved. Rather, to be perfect. That was my point.

Ps 51:16 “For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.” So what does God want; “17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart”

Hosea 6:6 “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.” Here God desires “mercy and know…

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YOU: “Should God spell it all out so he can ruin God’s plan?”

ME: Please enlighten me, who is able to “ruin God’s plan”; are you saying God has no idea how it’s going to end? To say “Satan” could “ruin” God’s plan; is to say God isn’t all knowing and small.

God gave us free will. If you divulge your plan, then some could counter the plan because…[Read more]

@desiretruth

YOU: “If I had an enemy and I had a plan to defeat him within the laws that I myself set, then I wouldn’t be stupid enough to divulge that plan verbatim like you are expecting.”

ME: Are you saying “Satan” was to stupid to understand what was written in the OT?!?! Now there’s a good laugh! What exactly was “hidden” in the OT that man…

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The ineffectiveness of the shot

@miia

Coronavirus is God’s judgment on China’s widespread cruelty towards animals. If you don’t eat meat you are immune. Wait and see.

Do you still think this is the case?

Or do you now think it came from a laboratory?

The brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went to the synagogue of the Jews. Now these were more noble minded than those in Thessalonians, for they received the Word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed along…[Read more]

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery- so that you will not be wis in your own estimation- that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved….

Rom 11.25 f

Therefore, having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech, and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face, so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. But their minds were hardened; for until this present day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlisted, because…[Read more]

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Blessed are the…[Read more]