Israel is NOT called Israel through Hagar and Ishmael.
DUH...Israel is a promise...
even as this ekklesia was in the wilderness a mixed group with already some NOT OF JACOB amongst it...and yet called Israel...
THEY TOO received the Sabbath...the ONLY commandment SPECIFYING them INCLUDED IN THIS PROMISED family...ya dig?
I just wanted to add that descendants of Hagar and Ishmael can also be adopted in...neat eh?That is what the discussion between RD and myself was about.
To think He destroyed the middle wall of separation between Jews and Muslims too...
Actually my Muslim friends find it an easier transition as they already follow Him His dietary lifestyle...LOL
They do not have to unlearn your idolatry of "eat anything"...