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All of Acts is full of natural branch converts. Later the gentiles too.No. The tree or vine is Christ, and the natural branches are Israelites, and the grafted in branches are Gentiles.
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5).
Israelites are not Gentiles as you claimed earlier. We (Gentiles) are grafted onto the tree or vine of Christ. This is why we are not to boast against the original branches (Israel). For we can also be cut off if we do not continue in His goodness.
“Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?” (Romans 11:18-24).
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