Is that how rom 9:6 resolves it?
Romans 9:6 is very easy to understand, but many (like yourself) get it COMPLETELY backwards.
The CONTEXT of Romans 9-11 is ISRAEL. It is NOT gentiles.
Paul is explaining that the promises that God made with Israel only apply to BELIEVING ISRAEL.
Paul is EXCLUDING UNBELIEVING ISRAEL from the promises that God made to THEM!
The first FIVE verses clearly show the CONTEXT of what Paul is about to write:
Rom 9:1-5 (AKJV/PCE)
(9:1) I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, (9:2) That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (9:3) For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: (9:4) Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; (9:5) Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
How can you MISS IT? Because you have OTHER PLANS for the text, what's why!
What does 'what I consider the NT' mean? I'm referring to the four gospels, Acts, the letters of Paul and non-Pauline and the Rev.
That's my point EXACTLY! The New Testament CANNOT even BEGIN until the DEATH of the TESTATOR. That does NOT happen until the VERY END of the "four gospels".
Here is the list of NT passages with attention to the 2nd coming, in plain language (skipping the Rev for now) and there is nothing Judaic:
Rom 2, 8
I cor 15
2 tim 2
Heb 9
2 Pet 3
Acts 17
Let's NOT skip Revelation for now. It's TOTALLY and COMPLETELY Israelite start to finish.
Rev 21:22-27 (AKJV/PCE)
(21:22) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (21:23) And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof. (21:24) And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. (21:25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. (21:26) And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. (21:27) And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Compare this is the prophet of ISRAEL that spoke about the SAME EXACT THING.
Isa 60:16-22 (AKJV/PCE)
(60:16) Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (60:17) For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. (60:18) Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. (60:19) The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (60:20) Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. (60:21) Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (60:22) A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
Beside this, there are number of OT passages that say the land promise was already fulfilled.
PROVE IT!
P.S. Bonus question: Why does one writer of thirteen epistles in what you claim is ALL NT, never ONCE refer to Jesus as the Lamb of God?
