musterion
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https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/February-Berean-Searchlight.pdfGod didn’t break branches off of the Gentiles and graft them in to the olive tree of Israel, for that would make us part of Israel. No, when God cut Israel off because of the unbelief of some, the axe was laid to the root of the tree of Israel (Matt. 3:10) and the entire wild olive “tree” of the Gentiles was graft in to the root of Abraham (Rom. 11:17). . .
"...the connection that believing Gentiles have with the believing branches of the olive tree is not based on Jacob (Israel), it is based on Abraham. We are part of the seed of Abraham, but we are not part of “the stock of Israel” (Phil. 3:5). That is, if we return our attention back up to Romans 11:16, we see that Gentiles cannot be made to be a part of the aggregate “lump” of saved and unsaved Jews that stem from the firstfruit of Isaac and Jacob, for we can’t trace our family tree back to those patriarchs . . ."
“Lest ye should be wise in your own conceits” (Rom. 11:25), that is, lest you [L.A., Tet, et al] be found among those that boast against the branches of Israel by teaching replacement theology, God would have you to know that Israel’s blindness is only temporary (v. 25), and that the day will come when God will return Israel to her roots (vv. 26, 27). He is not through with Israel yet! Those who claim that God took all of her promises and gave them to us need to remember that “the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Rom. 11:29), and that Israel will one day get all that God promised her.
As has been said elsewhere, the Body of Christ itself has been grafted into nothing, nor does it need to be.