36.What becomes true the moment we clothe ourselves with Christ?

We become one with Christ. There is a new creation, in which all parts of our personality are becoming eternally transformed by being wrought in Christ, through contact with Him (II Corinthians 3:18; 5:17,18).

The new personality, in which all things have been made new in Christ, is the same in the slave and the citizen, is the same in the male and the female, is the same in the Jew and the Greek. It is a new creation, the first creation having passed away on the cross of Calvary.

Every member of the Kingdom of God is a clearly defined personality. Yet, we all are one in Christ in God—one as the Father and the Son are One.

The Gospel always is to the Jew first, and Christ will reveal Himself to the nation of Israel during the great tribulation period, as we understand the prophetic Scriptures.

The Book of Isaiah, as well as every other prophetic writing, is directed toward Christ and those who are in Christ. There is no other Temple of God, no other olive tree, no other Church, no other Kingdom of God, no other chosen people.

As soon as we put on Christ we enter the Messianic inheritance, into the promise made to Abraham, into the Kingdom of God. There is no Jewish Christian or Gentile Christian. All such distinctions cease in Christ. There is only the one Body of Christ.

There will not be a "Jewish remnant" in the last days (while the "Gentiles" are in Heaven), as some are teaching. A close look at the eleventh chapter of Romans (verse 5) will reveal that the "remnant" of whom Paul was speaking were the Jews who had become Christians through grace. The "remnant" of Jews were the original Christians, and included the writers of the New Testament.

If the first Christians were Jews (the remnant), and the Gentiles were added to this one Church of Christ, will God in the last days divide the one Church of Christ, taking the Gentiles to Heaven and leaving the Jews on the earth to suffer tribulation?

Is this sensible?

Does this doctrine agree with the third chapter of Galatians?

We do not think so. We think it is time to cease dividing the one Church of Christ into Gentiles and Jews, for such a division is contrary to the teaching of the Apostle Paul.