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Originally Posted by Ronzo
One more point and y'all can start boiling the oil to dunk me in...
Have fun...
"The Church" did not REPLACE Israel. The Church is an extension of Israel. We gentiles are grafted in.
It's interesting that Paul uses the olive tree as the metaphor for the gentils being grafted into Israel, because when something is grafted into an olive tree, that something becomes an olive tree. The olive tree's life takes over that piece that was grafted in to it. The graft doesn't retain its own structure. It assumes that of the tree that now gives it life.
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I posted this idea of us grafted in the vine earlier... my Dad always love to teach this ..
I just feel there are some things he's promised to Israel through the prophets that are yet unfulfilled ...