The first Israel is physical Israel outside of Christ.
The second Israel is spiritual Israel in Christ.
I call the second Israel true Israel, (my expression) because they are true to Christ.
This is not correct.
Adam is one family. Abraham is one family in Adam. Israel is one family in Abraham. The church is not a subset of Israel. Never was, never will be. You are exchanging a physical application for opportunity. Romans 11:13-23
13 "However, to those of you who are Gentiles I say this: since I myself am an emissary sent to the Gentiles, I make known the importance of my work
14 in the hope that somehow I may
provoke some of my own people
to jealousy and save some of them!
15 For if their casting Yeshua aside means reconciliation for the world, what will their accepting him mean? It will be life from the dead!
16 Now if the
hallah offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole loaf. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you — a wild olive — were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,
18 then don’t boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you.
19 So you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
20 True, but so what? They were broken off because of their lack of trust. However, you keep your place only because of your trust. So don’t be arrogant; on the contrary, be terrified!
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly won’t spare you!
22 So take a good look at God’s kindness and his severity: on the one hand, severity toward those who fell off; but, on the other hand, God’s kindness toward you — provided you maintain yourself in that kindness! Otherwise, you too will be cut off!
23 Moreover, the others, if they do not persist in their lack of trust, will be grafted in; because God is able to graft them back in."
Gentiles are not brought into Israel. The olive tree is the church, not Israel. Calling Israel spiritual and physical is the wrong interpretation of what the church is. The church is the physical olive tree. Israel made up the original branches. The olive tree is not Israel giving Israel a physical and spiritual membership. Israel was grafted in just like any member of Abraham's and Adam's descendants can be grafted into the church. For 1400 years church membership was by the Law. It was still Faith in God, but surrounded by a temple economy of animal sacrifices, the sacrifices meant nothing. Obedience to God in Faith was still the only means of salvation. Paul never associates time frames, nor judges Israel for past wickedness. Paul is just pointing out the branch that crucified Christ was used by God as the means to save the world. It was a warning for the Gentiles to not get too proud in their grafted position. God could restore a lost branch and bless it more than the wild branch.
Paul states, so what if branches are broken off or added in. The old and new covenant was never supposed to be a battle over who is in Christ and who is not. What is the big deal about theology that creates such a binary position? Some who think they are in the church today merely by their theological understanding, could be a branch already broken and in the fire, and how would one even know it? That was the state of Israel at the first coming. The church is not immune but more so since the original branches are still a warning of what happens, but we have exchanged the warning and created false theology around what it is to be part of Christ, the olive tree, the church.
