The Old Covenant was a covenant with a people group. Not individuals.But Men are not...
Scripture teaches that "Jews" that didn't follow the Torah were excommunicated from among the people of God and were considered heathen (Ex 12:14-15,19; Ex 31:14). Such a person was at that point considered a heathen and not a child of Abraham.
That bears repeating:
There is no such thing as "Jews" that didn't follow the Torah. Such "Jews" were excommunicated from among the people of God and were considered heathen (Ex 12:14-15,19; Ex 31:14). Such a person was at that point considered a heathen and not a child of Abraham.
Today's Jews don't follow the mandatory feasts of Moses. Why don't they do what Moses commanded? Because today's "jews" don't follow the Old Covenant whatsoever, as I have been saying. They don't have anything in common with the ancient Hebrews, nor do they even have their bloodlines, so far as anyone knows. The tribal system went extinct in the first century, and it did so precisely because the Jewish Messiah came and made the faith of Abraham universal to all people groups. In contrast with the Covenant of Moses, The Messiah's Covenant detached from race, from animal sacrifices, from the Temple, from the priestly class of Aaron, and from any earthly city--and it delivered this NEW judaism decades before the OLD judaism went extinct at AD 70. This proves that Christianity was of divine origin. They prophetically foresaw that the Old system was about to vanish (Heb 8:13) and history proves they were true prophets.
Acts 3:22-24. The Rock crushed them (1 Pet 2:7-8/Mt 21:43-45), for they rejected the time of God's visitation (Luke 19:40-44). And this is the same pattern that took place in Isaiah's day and in Elijah's day -- i.e., the REMNANT of the jews is true Israel and the rest are destroyed and do not have any heritage (Rom 9:27/Rom 11:2-5).
Genesis 12:3. The true faith was only TEMPORARILY sequestered to one family's kin [i.e., Abraham's blood descendants]. But the Christ came and made it universal for all the families of the earth. And the Christ's NEW covenant with Israel intentionally detached from lineage, Temple, priestly-class of Aaron, and any particular earthly city.
Romans 2:25-29 shows us how God sees true Jewishness. Namely, a genetic jew, if disobedient to God's will, is viewed by God as an uncircumcised pagan (v.25). Meanwhile the genetic gentile, if obedient to God's will, is viewed by God as a circumcised Jew (v.26), despite his lack of family genetics and the outward marks. Paul teaches that true Jewishness, as God counts it, is based on a man's inward disposition of faith and obedience to God (v.28-29). From this passage we see that You and I are true Jews in God's eyes, whereas outward-only jews like the High Priest Caiaphas surrender their status as Jews in God's eyes. Such jewish persons are uncircumcised pagans, in God's eyes.
And please show Biblically that the people who are DNA descendants of the Patriarch's are not held in the Abrahamic Covenant.
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