Clare73
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It might be better to call the Israel of old, either theocratic Israel or covenant Israel.
God made a covenant with Israel at Mt Sinai. That covenant was an agreement between God and the nation of Israel, a covenant that Israel pledged to obey. A covenant that the nation of Israel broke. So God terminated that covenant with the nation of Israel.
Small note:Jesus established a new covenant, a new olive tree.
The nation of Israel was grafted out of the new olive tree and the Gentiles were grafted into the root of that olive tree.
It's the same olive tree since Abraham to now.
Its roots are the holy patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
And only unbelieving Israel was cut off, not "grafted out," and believing Gentiles grafted in with the remaining believing Israel.
The Old Covenant was bilateral, being conditioned on the Law, and abrogated if the Law was not kept.Of course, this was prophetic as is virtually everything in the Old Testament.
That old covenant was a covenant of works, based solely on the book of the law.
The new covenant is a covenant of faith, based on the indwelling Holy Spirit, God's law.
One is flesh and one is the spirit.
The New Covenant is unilateral, unconditional, and cannot be broken by man, only by God.
One is law keeping, and one is Holy Spirit.
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