The new covenant can be made only with the House of Israel—never with a Gentile

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law [Torah] in their inner parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jeremiah 31:33)

"The covenant that I will make with the house of Israel."

Here is the new covenant, or new testament. The new covenant cannot be made with a Gentile, only with the House of Israel. The description of the new covenant (which is the only new covenant) is repeated in the Book of Hebrews.

For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: (Hebrews 8:8)

God has reached out to Gentiles, calling them His people.

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. (Hosea 1:10)

The people who "are not my people" are Gentiles that God will adopt. But because the new covenant is made only with Israel, the elect Gentiles will never be separate from Israel, God’s holy nation.

A separate Divine covenant will never be made with Gentiles. The new covenant is for "the house of Israel and . . . the house of Judah."

Since this is true, how does a Gentile come under the blessing of the new covenant? Only by marrying the Lord Jesus. Asenath, the wife of Joseph, became an integral part of Israel by marrying Joseph. Gentiles become an integral part of Israel by marrying the Lord Jesus and then are eligible to partake of the new covenant.

As Asenath lost her identity as an Egyptian by marrying Joseph, so people lose their Gentile identity by marrying Christ.

Regarding the Law, the Torah, it never shall change. The concept of the Torah being abolished is one of the major misunderstandings of new-covenant theology.

The Ten Commandments, in their fullest interpretation and application, represent the eternal moral nature of God and are a judgment upon Satan.

The Torah shall never be done away. The difference between the two covenants is not that the Torah is done away. The difference is that under the old covenant the Torah was written on stone, parchment, and paper. Under the new covenant, the Torah is written in the heart and mind of the Israelite.

It still is the Torah and it still is the covenant made with the House of Israel. Under the new covenant, the Torah is greatly amplified in scope. God’s elect could not begin to keep the amplified version of the Torah were it not for the fact that the Word of God has become flesh and is being formed in them. Only as the Word, the Torah of God, is formed within us are we able to obey its holy injunctions.

The new-covenant Torah is kept through the Spirit of God, not through the efforts of the adamic nature.

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