One New Man is named in Ephesians, speaking of the merger of the Jew and the non-Jew:
Ephesians 2:14. For He is our peace, the One Who has made both things into one and Who has loosed the dividing wall of the fence, cause of the enmity to His flesh, 15. by His nullifying the tradition of the commandments by decrees, so that He could create the two, Jewish and non-Jewish, into One New Man, establishing peace 16. so He could reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, as God killed their enmity by means of Him, Y’shua. 17. And when He came He proclaimed the Good News of peace to you, to those far away, and peace to those near: 18. because through Him we both have the introduction to the Father by means of one Spirit. 19. Therefore then, you are no longer aliens and strangers, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God, 20. building upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Messiah Y’shua being His cornerstone, 21. in Whom the whole building being constructed is being fit together into a holy sanctuary in the Lord, 22. and in Whom you are built together into a habitation of God by the Spirit.
The Bride of Messiah has been grafted into the Jewish olive tree, so the non- Jews are the yet-to-be believers gathered in by End-Time evangelism. Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a few years ago at a Day of Unity of Christians and Jews in Jerusalem, said that the two birds of Genesis 15:10 were not divided, but released with one bird representing Christians, the other representing Jews. They were released to take God’s love to the world.
There is a vicious, malicious, incorrect doctrine still finding adherents today saying the New Testament replaced the Torah and all the Hebrew Scriptures. Those promoting that false doctrine apparently have not read Hebrews 10:28:
Hebrews 10:28. Anyone who has set aside the Torah (Teaching) of Moses dies without pity on testimony by two or three witnesses: 29. how much more worthy of punishment do you suppose the one will be who trod down the Son of God and who looked upon the blood of the covenant, by Whom he was sanctified, as defiled, and has insulted the Spirit of Grace? 30. For we know the One Who said,
“Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay.” (Deuteronomy 32:35) And again,
“The Lord will judge His people.” (Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14) 31. It is fearful to fall into the hand of the Living God.
That fateful event will take place for those who reject their Jewish Roots! The One New Man is steadily being established right now.
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