But legal immigrants who go through the naturalization process become American citizens, whose citizenship is not inferior to those who were born citizens. Just like those who are baptized enter into the Church, and are not inferior to those who entered before them.
Consider Romans 11
17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22Behold 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. 23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 24For 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?How else to interpret this, than for it to mean that those who were baptized have been grafted into Israel? And who were the branches that were broken off of Israel, if not those Israelites who rejected Jesus?
The “branches” that were broken off were broken off long before Yeshua was born.
The biggest was Dan, from whose lineage will come the “antichrist.”
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