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To: israelite98
Mt 21:43 - Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it."

And indeed it was taken away from them and given to the gentiles. And the new holy temple is being built with living stones on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ himself as the chief conerstone. (Ephesians 2:19-22)

It was God's purpose all along to make one body out of the two. (Jew & Gentile) "His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace... Ephesians 2:15 NIV. This was the mystery to which Paul alluded to . "This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Jesus Christ. Ephesians 3:6 NIV

Sounds to me like He is finished with national Israel and is married to His Bride - the Church. If someone has a problem with that, take it up with Him.

24 posted on 03/29/2002 7:40:29 AM PST by sola gracia
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To: sola gracia
Sounds to me like He is finished with national Israel and is married to His Bride - the Church. If someone has a problem with that, take it up with Him.

Hebrews 12:18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, 19 and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers entreat that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned." 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear." 22 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, 23 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, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.

Re 21:2 - Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

2Co 11:2 I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
Eph 5:23 - For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior
29 posted on 03/29/2002 10:01:46 AM PST by israelite98
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