Thanks for the birthday blessings, Jerry!
"
All the promises" means everything, including the KoH. It excludes nothing.
Hebrews 1:2
is the immediate context. It is reconfirmed in verse 3:
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
All of these verses exclude nothing. They include
all. The context is
all.
If these verses had used the word "some" instead of "
all", you would certainly and correctly argue that they support your claims.
But they don't. It's not "some". It's "
all".
Here's a lot more
all:
Luke 24
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at
Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in
all the scriptures the things
concerning himself.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that
all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the
law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the
psalms,
concerning me.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures
Acts 13
29 And when they had
fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
I agree that it's talking about sinners and saints, so I used the figure of viewing through a lens. Believers are not immune to the occasional failings of natural man, and they're not immune to the occasional perspectives of natural man.
The Church is a spiritual nation distinguished by faith and obedience. What distinguishes the physical nation of Israel to which you refer?
Spiritually, the inward Jew is a Jew; the outward Jew is not; and the inward Jew is the only Jew who will experience any kingdom blessings, as he is the only one who is circumsized in heart, and whose praise is of God.