
The Church, the body of Christ, is not under the New Covenant (Jer 31:31-34, Ezek 36:22-38, Deut 30:1-8, Lk 1:72-75):
- Not long after the Noahic covenant, made with all of mankind, God separated Israel from the nations (gentiles) and no longer entered into covenant relationship with the gentiles (Ex 19:5-7, Deut 6:24-25, Heb 8:6), as He had done with Noah.
- The age in which God dealt with the entire human race ended in failure. As a result, around 2,000 BC, God initiated a new program. No longer would He deal directly with all mankind. Instead, He would mediate His communication through a new, chosen people and establish covenants with them to bless the world.
- Israel was now to be the channel of blessings to the nations as God wants all nations to be blessed (Gen 12:3).
- With the creation of the Abrahamic Covenant, God created a division of the human race into Jew and Gentile.
- With Israel’s rejection of their Messiah and the creation of the Church, the body of Christ, there are today, within our current dispensation, three divisions (1 Cor 10:32): Jew, Gentile, Christian (members of the body of Christ).
- To understand the Bible correctly, one must understand that the Abrahamic Covenant decreed all divine blessing would be mediated through Israel.
- With the creation of the Abrahamic Covenant, God created a division of the human race into Jew and Gentile.
- Abraham is the father of the Jews (Is 51:2; Mt 3:9; Lk 1:73; Jn 8:56) and God made all covenants from this point forward exclusively with Israel (Rom 9:4; Eph 2:11-13).
- Gentiles and members of the Church are never called Israel or included in Israel.
- God did not and has not made a covenant with the Church, the body of Christ (Rom 15:8, Gal 4:4, Eph 2:11-13, Rom 9:4).
- Covenants are solely made with the nation Israel.
- The Abrahamic, Land, Mosaic, Sabbatic, Davidic, and New Covenants were divine promises made to Israel, each based upon God’s sovereign plan for the Jewish people.
- The gospel of the grace of God is not a covenant.