When did God say the Jews were no longer His chosen people and when did God nullify the Abrahamic Covenant?
At Mt. Sinai, Yahweh said Israel was the "kingly priesthood," the "holy nation," the "peculiar people of God" (Ex 19:5-7).
And St. Peter claims that the christians are this very people: "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people...Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God" (1 Peter 2:9-10).
Also, Israel was known as "the circumcision" (Eph 2:11; Rom 15:8; Rom 4:9; Rom 3:30), for that was their physical mark of distinction. St. Paul explicitly says that unbelieving Jews were "false circumcision," and states that the Christian sect was the true circumcision: "Beware of the false circumcision;
for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus" (Phil 3:2-3).
"If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed" (Gal 3:29)
The first members of the body of Christ were all obedient Israelites. They were obedient Israel, and they went out and taught that the followers of Jesus were the true sons of Abraham.
The "church" is Israel and is Jewish (not gentile) in its origin:
Acts 7:38
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers
Acts 2:47
And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. [Note that this "church" exists prior to any gentile inclusion, thus is believing Israel]
The blind disobedient part of Israel was an enemy;
but the ELECT and obedient part of Israel was beloved (the apostles, Joseph and Mary, John the baptist, converts like Paul, and all their jewish followers). True Israel passes to the obedient sons (Rom 9:27-29/Rom 11:2-5/1 Cor 10:2-5), and the disobedient sons are cut off from God and the covenant (
Acts 3:22-24; cf. Gen 17:14; Lev 18:29; Num 15:30; Ex 12:15). The REMNANT part of Israel was saved (Rom 9:27-29/Rom 11:2-5).
It is crucial to understand that c
ovenant-breaking Hebrews were always removed from among the true people of God (Gen 17:14; Lev 18:29; Num 15:30; Ex 12:15). Moreover, gentile foreigners who converted and faithfully followed the precepts of Moses and the covenant were counted as full members of Israel (Ex 12:48-49). So it was with the gentiles of the apostles' day, who joined themselves to the Jewish church of the Jewish messiah.
"YOU are Abraham's seed."
Israelites were known as Abraham's seed (2 Cor 11:22; Lk 1:55;
John 8:33), and St. Paul plainly says "If YOU are Christ's, then YOU are Abraham's seed" (Gal 3:29). As Paul also says elsewhere at
Romans 4:16: "For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end
that the promise may be sure TO ALL THE SEED, NOT ONLY TO THAT WHICH IS OF THE LAW, BUT ALSO TO THATH WHICH IS OF THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM, WHO IS THE FATHER OF US ALL."
Gal 3:29 plainly says "If you belong to Christ, then YOU are indeed true descendants of Abraham, and are heirs in fulfilment of the promise."
How can you yourself
NOT be counted among Israel when St. Paul calls you "Abraham's seed" (Rom 4:16/Gal 3:29)? How can you
NOT be counted among Israel when St. Peter calls you "the peculiar people, royal priesthood, holy nation" (1 Pet 2:9-10), the name given to Israel at Mt. Sinai (Ex 19:5-6)? How can you
NOT be counted among Israel when you are the true "circumcision" (Phil 3:2-3)? How can you
NOT be counted among Israel when Paul calls you the circumcision-less Israel of God (Gal 6:15-16)? How can you
NOT be counted among Israel when Paul says you are "no longer strangers and sojourners but fellow citizens" (Eph 2:19)? How can you
NOT be counted among Israel when Paul calls you "a Jew" (Rom 2:27-29)?
And how can you ascribe to disobedient jews the status as God's beloved people when Jesus says: "I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan" (Rev 2:9/3:9)?
Read this:
"Ye were...aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise...[but Christ] hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us...
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens." (Eph 2:12,19)
Gentile converts to christianity go from being "foreigners of the commonwealth of Israel" to "fellow citizens."
The Israelite apostles of the Jewish Messiah say I am a Jew (Rom 2:27-29), say I am "Abraham's seed" (Rom 4:16/Gal 3:29), say I am "the peculiar people, royal priesthood, holy nation" (1 Pet 2:9-10), say I am the circumcision-less Israel of God (Gal 6:15-16), say I am "no longer a stranger but a fellow citizen of Israel" (Eph 2:19), say I was once not a people but now am the people of God (1 Pet 2:10) and say I am the circumcision (Phil 3:2-3).
Each and every one of these statements takes a key identifier/distinctive of Israel and labels me and you with it. Meanwhile, Christ calls the disobedient genetic sons of Abraham the "sons of satan" and the "synagogue of satan" (Rev 2:9/
John 8:39-47), and St. John says that those who deny the Son have no claim whatsoever to the Father (1 Jn 2:23)
Why are you teaching the exact opposite of this?
