Gentiles (Heb.-goiim–heathen) have no part in the true Church of God and are not participants in the joint-heirship with Jesus Christ that God promises His true saints (Rom. 8:17). Those Gentiles who believe and obey Him have become spiritual Israelites who have a part in both His church and in the promises He made to Israel. Romans 15:8 tells us that Jesus came to confirm the promises God made to THE (ISRAELITE) FATHERS–Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel). God made His promises (blessings in this life, salvation and rulership of the universe) to the descendants of these men only. THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN TO, FOR AND ABOUT ISRAEL. Gentiles are eligible to partake of those promises by becoming spiritual Israelites. Spiritual Israelites embrace Israel’s God by believing and obeying His Word–the Holy Bible/Law which He condensed into the Ten Commandments. At the point of conversion (from spiritual Gentiles to spiritual Israelites) biological Gentiles’ past lives become irrelevant.

Let it be known that God’s rules of conversion also apply to biological Israelites. Israelites who continue to sin are, in the eyes of God, spiritual Gentiles. Such worldly Israelites must also be converted–changed from spiritual Gentiles to spiritual Israelites–in order to receive eternal life. The Apostle Paul makes this clear in his letter to the Jews in the church at Rome (2:25-29). Here he tells the Jewish (Israelite) converts that if they continue to sin their circumcision (Jewishness) becomes uncircumcision (Gentileness) in the eyes of God. This nullifies the Jews’ “advantage” of having His oracles/commandments (Rom. 3:1,2).

At this point we will take a brief look at God’s expressed attitude toward Gentiles. In Romans 5:8 God, through the Apostle Paul, calls Gentiles “sinners.” In 5:10 He calls them His “enemies.” In Ephesians 2:11,12 He says that they “live in the flesh” and as such are “without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants (Old and New Covenants) of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.” In John 17:9 Jesus is praying to the Father about the disciples, noting that He prayed for them. A surprise to professing Christendom is the fact that He also said “… I do not pray for the world ….” Note it: JESUS DOES NOT PRAY FOR THE WORLD. The “world” consists of all who do not believe and obey His Words. This includes the billions within the worldly church who refuse to obey Him, as this website and my YouTube site repeatedly show. Recall that Jesus called a Canaanite woman a “dog.” In Psalm 5:4,5 King David tells us exactly why Jesus does not pray for the world (Gentiles) and why He called the Gentile woman a “dog.” Here David writes to His God (the Word Who became Jesus Christ–John 1:1-4,14): “For You are not a God Who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You. Sinners shall not stand in your sight for YOU HATE ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY.” The word “hate” is the Hebrew word “sane,” meaning to hate, to be an enemy, an adversary. God is the enemy/adversary of those who commit iniquity. Iniquity means “Lawlessness.” God is referring to those who sin by breaking God’s Law: “To transgress the Law is sin, for sin is the transgression of the Law” (1 Jn. 3:4). The Law that spiritual Gentiles have accused God of “nailing to the cross” is the very standard He uses to define sin. Because they do not recognize His definition of sin, and therefore do not repent of breaking His Law, they are “still in their sins” (1 Cor. 15:17). Therefore their religiosity is all “in vain” (Mat. 15:9). Jesus said that Law breakers would search for Him but would not find Him (Jn. 8:21). The tens of thousands of churches scattered throughout the world are proof of man’s futile search for the Lord. Their rejection of His Word is proof that they have not found Him. However, biological Gentiles within God’s tiny, rejected, despised church have become spiritual Israelites by believing and obeying His Word/Law.

Even though they are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), biological Israelites have no guarantee of salvation. The Jews of Jesus’ day believed that, because they were the children of Abraham, the fix was in for them. John the Baptist dispelled this error by telling those who had come to be baptized by him: “… do not say to yourselves (the fix is in for us because) ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say unto you that God can raise up children of Abraham from these stones (Luke 3:7,8).

This series has one agenda: to tell those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that the Bible was not written to, for or about those who call themselves “Christians” and refer to their religious organization “the church.” It was written to, for and about Israel. God’s true saints–His Very Elect–have nothing to do with “the church”–Catholicism/Protestantism. For this reason God’s people are labeled as “peculiar” by the false church (Exo. 19:5/ Deut. 14:2/ Titus 2:14/ 2 Pet. 2:9). They are viewed as heretics who are outside the realm of the Christian religion. Sadly, such accusers refuse to embrace God’s Word when it is presented to them. Such is the power that Satan holds over their hearts. L.J.