Before Gentiles become Israelites, in what condition are they?
Answer
"Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles, at that time you were without Christ, being
aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and
without God in the world." Eph. 2: 11,12.
NOTE - If, in order to be saved, Gentiles must become Israelites as is everywhere asserted, then
when converted from their Gentile ways to the ways of Israel, they certainly must have faith in Christ, and
their lives must conform to the moral law which God gave to Israel, otherwise it would not be the
commonwealth of Israel, but of the Gentiles. The writing of the law in the heart is one of the provisions of
the new covenant with true Israel. See Jer. 31: P-34; Heb. 8: 8-12.
5. What previous instruction connected with the vision of Daniel 8 was thus being more fully carried out?
Under the old covenant, what did the people promise?
How did Christ's death on the cross affect the whole sacrificial system?
What does He say He will bring with Him when He comes?
Does He afflict to leave the one chastened in despair?
What is an evidence of perfection?
Whose prayers does Solomon say are an abomination?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle