Exodus 24:6-8 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar. 7 Then he took
the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”
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Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
And so, we see once for all, that they were not covenant people by birth, but by faith and obedience toward the law. And the law now being written down, any person of any nation, could have and keep the same covenant with God, by that same faith of Abraham toward God, even as today.
Gal 3:7
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
However, the argument is not against the
usefulness of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants for God making a covenant with men on earth.
Rom 3:1
What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
There was a 'natural' advantage of being born into Abraham's household and service, and later born
among the people who had
the oracles of God. I.e. Unlike other nations, they had the Book of the Law by which any person on earth could read, believe, and partake of God's covenant, whether Israreli born or born stranger.
The advantage is not because of their racial/ethnic
breeding. Abraham was Syrian born.
And his household servants, that also made covenant with God by circumcision, were Egyptians and Canaanites. They did not enter into covenant, nor were useful to God, by natural birth.
Unlike false tradition of men, Scripture never speaks of God's covenant being, 'The Abrahamic covenant', or 'The covenant of the Jews'.
They were covenant people of God by having the same faith of Abraham toward God first in circumcision, and also the law. None of them were covenant people of God,
because they were Israeli/Jews. They had an advantage over other nations in being born Israeli/Jews, but they only had covenant by faith toward God.
And today, the new covenant of Christ is greater, not because it's 'no more' a matter of birth, which it never was, but because the resurrection of Jesus Christ and His gospel preached by the Holy Ghost, is far greater throughout the world, than the proselytization of old covenant circumcision and law of Moses.
Now, anyone born into a household of faith in Christ, has a natural advantage over unbelievers, whether Jew, Greek, Barbarian, Egyptian...
But, as with the old, so with the new covenant of God in Christ Jesus, being born into a house with the oracles of God, does not make a newborn covenant person of God by natural birth.
There was a natural advantage in being born of a Jew, and is a natural advantage of being born of a Christian, but not because of natural breeding.
Believers readily agree that becoming a covenant Christian with Christ, has nothing to do with natural birth. But many believers wrongly believe, that becoming a covenant child of Abraham and Israel had to do with being born of natural seed. It didn't:
Gal 3:7
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
