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"Because, often as not, I don't even wear underwear."

Now THAT is something I did not want to know.

"In other words, please tell me you're not serious... are you genuinely unable to discern that the Apostle was speaking of our equal Kingdom Standing before God?"

Well there you go! "equal Kingdom Standing" - i.e. equality implies some form of division or distinction. The distinction between "Israel" and "Church" is a real distinction. One has not subsumed the other.

Here again, you absolute identification of "Israel" as the Church is dead wrong - as wrong as identifying all females as "male" based on the above misinterpretation of Scripture.

Israel, the Jews, the Hebrew people, literal, physical Jerusalem has a distinct and future role in prophetic events. Any honest reading of the NT (i.e. one not clouded by unnecessary theological presuppositions) shows that.

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:

Afterward shall the children of Israel return, {{WE ARE RIGHT HERE TODAY}} and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

Hosea 3:4-5

Well there you go! "equal Kingdom Standing" - i.e. equality implies some form of division or distinction.

Um, no. For example, 1=1... no division or distinction.

Maybe I should turn you onto some of Pastor Steve Schlissel's sermons from "Messiah's Congregation", NYC -- did it ever occur to any of you "Israel-uber-alles" folks that Converted Orthodox Jews might like the idea of simply doing their part towards the Irresistible Advance of Christ's Heavenly Kingdom?

Oh, never mind.... it's a Calvinist thang, you wouldn't understand.