And God told Abraham, any not circumcised were to be cut off. This meant they were not his covenant
Biblical Truth! How wonderful is God's Truth!
Circumcision and God's Covenant go hand in hand, that is one cannot be separated from the other.
So when Jesus abolished circumcision on the cross, he broke off all physical unbelieving members of Israel. This left only the believers in Christ who like Abraham had circumcised hearts.
To be circumcised meant you belonged to the house of Israel.
Israel within the Old Covenant was a person called Jacob.
Israel within the New Covenant is the
SEED of PROMISE Jesus Christ.
The etymology of the word Isra-EL, comes from the terms Zera-EL, where Zera means SEED.
Israel means the SEED of Elohim, that is the SEED of God. Jesus is that SEED in the singular that Paul spoke about. (Galatians 3:16, 29)
The Etymology of the word is to contend for birth right, as Jacob wrestled with God to contend for that birth right, to be Abraham's heir.
Here is the Etymology....
Jesus replaced Jacob, Jacob is no longer called Israel. Jesus is the Prince Melchizedeck, Prince of Peace, the true and rightful heir of God, the Son of God, the true Zera (SEED) of God (Zera-EL).
God only granted Jacob as Israel by name only, until his true and rightful heir Jesus Christ, came into the world, to whom ownership of the name Israel is his and his only, for he, unlike Jacob is the Son of God, therefore dismissing Jacob's contention to the NAME Israel.
By invalidating circumcision, the Only biblical Israel today is Christendom. And the State of Israel is nothing more than the gentiles, calling themselves Jews, who trample down Jerusalem until the times of the gentiles are fulfilled.
Perfect Biblical exegesis. Those under the man Jacob, are become the Gentiles of the world, as Jacob no longer has rightful claim to the NAME Israel, as heir to the house of God.
Jesus is the Strong Man of his Father's house, for he is the only Israel of God. The rest who claim that name, have no right to it, unless they through the SEED OF PROMISE, are adopted into the house of God and have become citizens of the Heavenly Commonwealth of Isra-EL.
The people who use the name Israel and have no adoption, are like people who counterfeit and do forgery.
God will have no part with those who contend with his Son Jesus Christ for the NAME Israel.
Those who do not belong to the Son of God, do counterfeit and commit forgery and it is ironic that
they claim "Replacement Theology", when in fact they are the ones committing it
AGAINST the Son of God.
God will deal with those who deceptively use the name of Isra-EL, the NAME does not belong to them.
It is written......
Submit to God's royal son, or he will become angry, and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities--for his anger flares up in an instant. But what joy for all who take refuge in him! (Psalms 2:12)