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Originally Posted by Sean
Nope, we go directly through Abrahams' covenant promise....Jesus Christ.(No Israel involved)
16 Now to Abraham and his seed(Jesus) were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.....
29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed(Jesus), and heirs according to the promise.
This is exactly why the saints are NOT under the Law.(the promise of the "seed, Jesus" was pre-law)
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You forgot something…
“Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
And hath confirmed the same” [covenant] “to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an
everlasting covenant.”
So the covenant to Abraham was until Jesus: to Jacob through the Law; but to Israel,
through the blessing.
What blessing, you may ask: the everlasting blessing through Jesus Christ.
Have you not understood how the man [iysh] changed Jacob’s name to Israel?
“And Jacob asked him,” [the iysh] “ and said, ‘Tell me I pray your NAME’.
And he [the iysh] said, ‘Why is it that you do ask after my NAME?’ And he
[the iysh] blessed him there.”
So we may infer that the Israeli nation is of Jacob; but the remnant, is of Israel.