In light  of eternity

Galatians 6:16

“And all who will follow this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.”

Romans 9:6-8

“But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: ‘through Isaac your descendants shall be named.’ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.”

Mark 1:14-15

“Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the gospel.’”

Genesis 12:1-3

“Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing; And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.’”

Jeremiah 31:31-34

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: After those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”

Matthew 28:18-20

“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’”

Genesis 12:1

“Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you.’”

Romans 4:13

“For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.”

Matthew 28:18

“And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.’”

Galatians 3:7

“Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.”

Galatians 3:28-29

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.”

Romans 2:28-29

“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit…”

Colossians 2:16-17

“Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day — things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.”

John 4:23-24

“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth… God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Hebrews 8:5

“They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle…”

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”

Galatians 5:16, 22-23

“But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh… But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”

Romans 8:1-4

“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”

Colossians 1:13-14

“For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”

1 Corinthians 15:24-28

“Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father… so that God may be all in all.”

Ephesians 1:20-23

“He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places… and gave Him as head over all things to the church.”

Romans 11:17-18

“But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches…”

Romans 11:23-24

“And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.”

Romans 11:36

“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.”

Ephesians 2:14-16

“For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall… that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace.”

Ephesians 3:6

“to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”

Galatians 6:16

“And all who will follow this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.”

Romans 9:1-3

“I am telling the truth in Christ… that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

Romans 10:1

“Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.”

Romans 11:1-2

“I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! … God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.”

Romans 8:18-23

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God…”

Philippians 3:20-21

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory…”

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

“Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed… the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”

Ephesians 4:15-16

“But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.”

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

“For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”

Galatians 6:16

“And all who will follow this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.”

“The whole content of this preaching can be summarized as the proclamation and explication of the eschatological time of salvation inaugurated with Christ’s advent, death, and resurrection.”

“The central theme of Jesus’ message, as it has come down to us in the synoptic gospels, is the coming of the kingdom of God or, as it is usually expressed in Matthew, of the kingdom of heaven.”

“It may be rightly said that the whole of the preaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles is concerned with the kingdom of God, and that in Jesus Christ’s proclamation of the kingdom we are face to face with the specific form of expression of the whole of his revelation of God.”

“The ‘old things’ stand for the unredeemed world in its distress and sin, the ‘new things’ for the time of salvation and the re-creation that have dawned with Christ’s resurrection. He who is in Christ, therefore, is new creation: he participates in, belongs to, this new world of God.”

“The basis for an understanding of the coming of the kingdom of God, therefore, centers in Jesus Christ. It is he, as God’s promised Messiah, who gives answer to the questions and problems about the nature of the kingdom, the manner of its coming, the way in which it is now present in history, and its future, final realization beyond history.”

“In short, we find that the kingdom has come in Christ’s accomplished redemption, the reality and saving power of which, as announced in the gospel, being experienced through faith by union with Christ. But the full and final realization of the kingdom yet awaits the triumphal return of Christ in power and glory upon the clouds of heaven.”

“Land did not begin to be theologically significant with the promise given to Abraham. Instead, the patriarch’s hope of possessing a land arose out of the concept of restoration to the original state from which man had fallen. The original idea of land as paradise significantly shaped the expectations associated with redemption.”

“This principle has great significance when it is applied to the idea of land as experienced by Israel under the administration of the old covenant. The promise of land also originated in the heavenly realities and not merely in the temporal experiences of Israel.”

“But the concept that this particular land belonged to the Lord can be understood correctly only if the Lord’s claim to the whole earth is recognized. This idea finds expression in the record of God’s creation of all things, as well as in a number of subsequent passages…”

“Now it is quite appropriate to speak of the certainty that the conditions of the covenant would be fulfilled, so that the intended blessings would come. But the covenants of God still had conditions. Recognizing this fact, the student of Scripture must look forward to One who would fulfill the conditions of the covenant perfectly on behalf of his people.”