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The Daily Word of Righteousness
You Are My People, #20
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: (Hebrews 8:8)
A separate Divine covenant will never be made with Gentiles. The new covenant is for "the house of Israel and . . . the house of Judah."
Since this is true, how does a Gentile come under the blessing of the new covenant? Only by marrying the Lord Jesus. Asenath, the wife of Joseph, became an integral part of Israel by marrying Joseph. Gentiles become an integral part of Israel by marrying the Lord Jesus and then are eligible to partake of the new covenant.
As Asenath lost her identity as an Egyptian by marrying Joseph, so people lose their Gentile identity by marrying Christ.
Regarding the Law, the Torah, it never shall change. The concept of the Torah being abolished is one of the major misunderstandings of new-covenant theology.
The Ten Commandments, in their fullest interpretation and application, represent the eternal moral nature of God and are a judgment upon Satan.
The Torah shall never be done away. The difference between the two covenants is not that the Torah is done away. The difference is that under the old covenant the Torah was written on stone, parchment, and paper. Under the new covenant, the Torah is written in the heart and mind of the Israelite.
It still is the Torah and it still is the covenant made with the House of Israel. Under the new covenant, the Torah is greatly amplified in scope. God's elect could not begin to keep the amplified version of the Torah were it not for the fact that the Word of God has become flesh and is being formed in them. Only as the Word, the Torah of God, is formed within us are we able to obey its holy injunctions.
The new-covenant Torah is kept through the Spirit of God, not through the efforts of the adamic nature.
To be continued.