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Gentiles should be blessed through Christ, but nowhere in the pages of the Old Testament
Scriptures is there anything to lead us to believe that a dispensation was reserved by God
in which He would bless Gentiles in entire independence of Israel, and bless them
together with any Jewish believers on an entirely equal footing, absolutely ignoring all
distinctions of circumcision or uncircumcision, dispensing His favours in pure grace, and
lifting the whole sphere above the distinctions of flesh or earth to the possession of
spiritual blessings in heavenly places, in harmony with a choice and a promise that was
made before the disruption of this world's system--a promise made before the age-times.
Eph. 3: 2-9.
2. If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3. How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4. Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5. Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy
apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6. That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by
the gospel:
7. Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual
working of his power.
8. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9. And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world
hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Rom. 11:
24. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary
to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be
graffed into their own olive tree?
25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise
in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in.
Isa. 61:
5. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers.
6. But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God:
ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.