1st, Paul was talking about the 2 branches of the olive tree, the northern house(Ephraim) & the southern house(Judah & Benjamin). So these are not pagan gentiles who never had any historical connection to either branch that Paul is speaking of. What really trips my trigger is this...People who claim to be Gentiles (yes, I fell for this for a long time) & claim heritage to the eternal Kingdom. Gentile literally means “out of Covenant”, Hebrew meas “crossed over”. So setting religion of man aside, if we say we are followers then we are Hebrew Israelites. When Abram entered the Covenant he became Abraham, he crossed over, so those that claim the eternal kingdom is for any gentile are just plain ignorant & unstudied in the Word of YHVH because He emphatically speaks in His Word of the 2 types of gentiles.
The fact of the matter is, according to Paul, both houses(north & south) are partly blinded until Yehua's return, not just one. Christianity has missed the boat too and might I add, in a deeper & more damaging way because they have rejected His Covenant Law. Covenant & Law cannot be separated, they are one in the same. Therefore, if one claims to be a Gentile Christian, I wouldn't brag about it come judgment day.
his letters were to the Church, composed of Gentiles and Hebrew believers, thus the opening ‘Grace and Peace’ incidentally. Paul at one point in Acts says to the Hebraic Jews rejecting Jesus “we are going to the Gentiles because you have rejected Christ”... He wasn’t talking about another branch of Hebrews... you really have to twist Scripture out of the writer’s intent into some contorted picture to get that Gentile doesn’t mean Gentile and Hebrew doesn’t mean Hebrew.