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"For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God." (Gal 6:15-16 RSV)
"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy." (1Pet 2:9-10 RSV)
From where and to whom are those descriptions in 1 Peter written?
"and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” (Exod 19:6 RSV)
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth." (Deut 7:6 RSV)
"but you shall be called the priests of the LORD, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory." (Isa 61:6 RSV)
How are New Covenant Believers described?
"For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, ... But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel." (Heb 12:18, 22-24 RSV)
OT prophecies are applied to the New Covenant Assembly of God Israel from all nations
Joel 2:28 applied Acts 2:16, 17
2 Sam 7:12 & Psa. 132:11 applied Acts 2:30, 31 .... not some 1000 years still yet future
Zech. 12:9-10 applied in John 19:36, 37
Amos 9:11,12 applied Acts 15:13-16
Jer. 31:31, 33 applied Heb. 8:1, 4, 6-8
Mal. 4:5, 6 applied Luke 1:17; Matt. 11:13, 14
"And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’" (Acts 3:24-25 RSV)
"The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation; they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things which have now been announced to you by those who preached the good news to you through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look." (1Pet 1:10-12 RSV)
"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy." (1Pet 2:9-10 RSV)
From where and to whom are those descriptions in 1 Peter written?
"and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” (Exod 19:6 RSV)
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth." (Deut 7:6 RSV)
"but you shall be called the priests of the LORD, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory." (Isa 61:6 RSV)
How are New Covenant Believers described?
"For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, ... But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel." (Heb 12:18, 22-24 RSV)
OT prophecies are applied to the New Covenant Assembly of God Israel from all nations
Joel 2:28 applied Acts 2:16, 17
2 Sam 7:12 & Psa. 132:11 applied Acts 2:30, 31 .... not some 1000 years still yet future
Zech. 12:9-10 applied in John 19:36, 37
Amos 9:11,12 applied Acts 15:13-16
Jer. 31:31, 33 applied Heb. 8:1, 4, 6-8
Mal. 4:5, 6 applied Luke 1:17; Matt. 11:13, 14
"And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your posterity shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’" (Acts 3:24-25 RSV)
"The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation; they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things which have now been announced to you by those who preached the good news to you through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look." (1Pet 1:10-12 RSV)
