claninja
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Sure, but they were not the 'holy people'
They did not believe in Christ, and were not sanctified by faith in Him were they.
Deuteronomy 7:6 for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground.
Deuteronomy 28:9 'Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways;
Jeremiah 2:3 Holy is Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah.
Yes, they were the "holy people" chosen and elect by God. As Paul states in Romans 11, Israel is holy because of the root. However, they were broken off (scattered) for a specific purpose: so that salvation may come to the gentiles. But the gentiles must remain humble, because they are not the natural branches and God can easily cut them out and bring back the natural branches (Israel).
Romans 11:13-24
For to you I speak — to the nations — inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify; 14if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them, 15for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception — if not life out of the dead? 16and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.
17And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become — 18do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee! 19Thou wilt say, then, ‘The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;’ right! 20by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing; 21for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee. 22Lo, then, goodness and severity of God — upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off. 23And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in; 24for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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