36.On what foundation have the Gentile believers been established?

On the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, all of whom were Jewish by race.

No new foundation was laid by the Lord when He began to call the Gentiles to Himself. There is only one foundation of the Kingdom of God, and that is the Word of Christ that has come from the mouths and lives of God’s holy Prophets and Apostles. Whether David, or Jeremiah, or Malachi, or Peter, or Paul, or James, only one testimony concerning Christ has come forth, only one Spirit of Christ has spoken to God’s elect.

When we divide the Kingdom of God into Jews and Gentiles we contradict Paul, we establish two separate foundations, and we make impossible any coherent understanding of the Scriptures.

There is only one foundation, and that is the Word of Christ brought into being through God’s Apostles and Prophets. The Prophets of the old covenant, and the Apostles of the new covenant, spoke of the same chief Cornerstone and stood on the same chief Cornerstone. Although all the Apostles and Prophets were Jewish by birth, they spoke of a kingdom that is spiritual, that is constructed from all those in whom Christ has been formed.

The new Man, who is the Body of Christ, stands solidly on the Rock, Christ, as He has been revealed through the Apostles and Prophets of the Lord. There is no connection or relationship to the race of the old man, whether he was born a Jew or born a Gentile. These distinctions cease forever in the Kingdom of God.