GENTILES BECOME ISRAELITES

Ro 4:12 Abraham the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Abraham was saved through faith even before he was circumcised.

Ga 3:6  Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.
Ga 3:29 If ye be Messiah’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Ro 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be THE FATHER OF ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: 12  And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

You become a son of Abraham, an Israelite through faith in Messiah. You are no longer a Gentile or a pagan but an Israelite because Abraham descendents are Israelites.

Ro 2:28  For he is NOT a Jew, which is one outwardly (bloodline); neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Ro 9:6  Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:  7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham (bloodline), are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.  8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh (bloodline), these are NOT the children of God: but the children of the PROMISE are counted for the seed.

The Jews and other Israelites are no longer considered descendents of Abraham. That’s correct, you read it right. They must again become children of Abraham through the door that is Yahshua. Read again these astonishing statements from Paul.

For he is NOT a Jew, which is one outwardly (bloodline);
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham (bloodline), are they all children:
They which are the children of the flesh (bloodline), these are NOT the children of God.

No wonder the Jewish leaders were always after him.

Joh 10:9  I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved.
Joh 14:6  Yahshua said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.
Heb 10:19-20 We have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Yahshua, by the new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
Ac 4:12  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Yahweh will not be moved, it’s unequivocal, to be saved, to be an Israelite you must believe in and accept Yahweh’s son. Yahweh will not allow any other avenue, no other entrance into His realm other than the door He gave us.

By faith in Messiah you become a son of Abraham, grafted into the olive tree that is Israel (Ro 11:17), made a citizen of the commonwealth of Israel (Ep 2:12 & 19), no longer a Gentile but part of the “Israel of God” (6:16). So even Gentiles become “heirs according to the promise” so that “the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law (Jews), but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham” (Ro 4:16).

Eph 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

In verse 11, to whom is Paul writing to in this passage? He’s writing to the Gentiles, contemptuously called the “Uncircumcision” by the Jews. Before they came to Messiah they were “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,” (vs.12). In verse 13 and 19 he tells them that through Messiah they are now “no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.” He writes in verse 14 that Messiah “hath made both one.” “Both,” being the Gentiles and the Jews, the Uncircumcison and the Circumcision.

Let’s dig into this a little deeper.

Jer 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says Yahweh, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was their husband, says Yahweh. 33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says Yahweh; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

This is the first statement that Yahweh made indicating He was going to bring in a New Covenant (NC) to replace the Old Covenant (OC) “which they broke.” Verse 34 is interesting because they will not have to say to each other “Know Yahweh” because everyone in this NC will have to know Yahweh in order to take part in the covenant because they will have to know Yahshua and come into the covenant through him.

Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him.
Mt 11:27 No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

So, everyone in the NC knows and believes on Yahshua and so they know and believe on his Father. Yahweh says His NC is only with Israel and there is no covenant with any other people, Gentile or otherwise.

Mt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Yahweh only deals with Israel and Yahshua knew his mission was only to Israel not to the Gentiles. In regards to salvation Yahweh never deals with other nations. You have to become an Israelite in order to partake in the NC. The promise of a saviour was made to Abraham, Isaac and Israel.

Ex 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thine own self.
Le 26:42  Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember.
2Ki 13:23 Yahweh was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
De 29:13 That he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Abraham, Isaac and Israel/Jacob were given this promise that Messiah would be from their bloodline.

Ga 3:6  Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, THE SAME ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.
Ga 3:29 If ye be Messiah’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Ro 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be THE FATHER OF ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

You become a son of Abraham, an Israelite through faith in Messiah. You are no longer a Gentile or a pagan but an Israelite because Abraham descendents are Israelites.

Ro 2:28  For he is NOT a Jew, which is one outwardly (bloodline); neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Ro 9:6  Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:  7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham (bloodline), are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.  8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh (bloodline), these are NOT the children of God: but the children of the PROMISE are counted for the seed.

The Jews and other Israelites are no longer considered descendents of Abraham. I might add this is regarding acceptance into the New Covenant because Yahweh still evidently deals with Jews and Israelites who are of the bloodline of Abraham but do not accept His son.

Jer 11:16 Yahweh called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. 17 For Yahweh of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

The olive tree is Israel but because of sin the branches (people) of the olive tree Yahweh broke off.

Ro 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. 19 You will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast only through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

For a Jew to be grafted back into the tree they must believe in Yahweh’s son.

Verse 24 For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.

In a sense we could say Gentiles are not natural born citizens of Israel but are adopted into Israel whereas Jews are taken back in through Messiah.

Verse 26 And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; 27 “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

All Israelites will be saved because only Israel is in the NC and all non-believing Jews and Gentiles are not Israelites.