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This is an informative work on the true Israel of God https://reformed1517.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-true-israel-of-god-lee-roy-shelton.html
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The "true Israel of God" is there defined distinct from the Christ, who though he fulfills various types from the Old Covenant, is not quite the ideal embodiment of them. He does not "fill them up," in this perspective, but relegates them to an irrelevant past--not historically meaningless, but not existentially meaningful for the present either. Again, in part6, note the same separation:This shows us that in Christ Jesus, the true Israel of God, made up of believers, born again by His Spirit, need no future earthy altar, temple, sacrifice or throne because we are forever complete in Christ by His "once for all" salvation which He finished at Calvary.
I'm not exaggerating how this effort to unify the people of God in the OT with the people of God in the NT--which is absolutely true, and vital--bypasses the Nexus of connection, the Person of Christ, The One True Israelite. The author has a last chance to make this clear in part8, when he refers to the Vine (Jn.15; Rom.11); but again Christ/Branch is not identified as "Israel," but only the lesser branches are identified as "Israel."The New Testament writers... apply these Scriptures [OT texts pertaining to a kingdom of glory] which describe the true Israel of God, to the church of the living God in Christ, and to every believer who makes up the body of Christ, the kingdom of God.
What the NT teaches is that C H R I S T ALONE is HEIR of the promises, 2Cor.1:20. This text is referred to just once in the essay, near the end, but without identifying Christ as the Sole Heir (ala Isaac).The New Testament teaches that the church, the body of born-again believers, the true Israel of God, is the true and only heir to all the Old Testament promises.
He is not just referring to the NT age or beyond it. He is cutting a divide ACROSS the whole of Scripture. How does this differ from a Presbyterian, classic-covenant theology perspective?You see, only one body of people--either the nation of Israel or the church, but not both--can be the children of promise.
We cannot be satisfied with the whole treatment here, whether regarding "worldly" fulfillment, or the "spiritual." Clearly (according to Heb.11:13-16, 8), Abraham way-back-when did not conceive that any earthly grant (obtained by himself or his posterity) was exhaustive of the promises made to him. Nor was he ignorant that one Seed of his would be his Savior, and Savior of all those who shared his faith.This greatest of all the promises was not expressed to Abraham, or to Isaac or Israel, in those terms.... The apostle Paul was shown by divine revelation the identity of the Seed in whom all the nations of the earth were to be blessed.