Originally posted by Noa
What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there in circumcision? Much in every way; chiefly because unto them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? *God forbid! Yea, let God be true, though every man a liar. As it is written: "That Thou mightest be justified in Thy sayings, and mightest overcome when Thou art judged." Rom.3:1-4.
Maybe I do not understand... I talk about the nation of Israël. Paul speaks about mercy and judgement.
Maybe I lost the way in this thread 
*Jerm.31:35-40
Noa,
Acts 15
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
The rest of these words are written to us by the Apostle Paul, a zealous Jewish Pharisee; (Acts 23:6
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question .)
Gal 3
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Again,
Rom 2
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart , in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Rom 3
20 Therefore by the deeds of
the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The law in view above is the Law of Moses, that has been done away with by the "Lamb of God" whom Jehovah Jireh has provided himself as a sin offering.
The Apostle Paul explains it perfectly in Ephesions above, how that the Law of Moses has been done away with.
Therefore we are now under a NEW COVENANT. Jer 31;31
Israel is the total SUM of all those who will have believed God, both jews and gentiles, and trust Jesus as Lord and Savior.
See Hebrews 11, for the great men of Faith, who have lived and died, believeing GOD's promises.
Historical Note:
In the end Paul the Apostle was killed for his faith in Jesus Christ .
God bless you as you seek him, thru his WORD.
Richard
King Yeshua! But the most Jews and Israëli´s will be there already (see the prophecys in the OT).
