I agree with all your post.
Just a note to
@CrowCross, The story of redemption is not National Israel/ethnic Jews---pause---
and the church---pause---ethnic Israel---the church in national Israel. It is the church as Israel---God's called out ones. Called out of the kingdom of darkness and brought One into the kingdom of God.
One peoples, one nation without borders (a holy nation), one kingdom, priests everyone, set apart for his redemptive purposes.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light.
Eph 2:11-16
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, there by killing the hostility.
It was done at the cross, and the above connects the old with the new, making it not a different dispensation as d'ism/a'mil does. Doing that makes an obvious distinction, a division into two peoples of God that Crow denies doing. Interpreting as the Bible does with a covenant relationship, joins the two into one.
And though Dispenastionalism does say that both are saved the same way, through faith in Christ, it has the Jews in some sort of earthly purgatory first, while the whole redemption moves backwards into the old for a thousand years. Something else Crow has refused though asked twice by quoting MacArthurs's text note quote to him, to deal with that (the return to animal sacrifices); he has refused to even acknowledge that the question was asked or the request made.
And then there is this: Eph 3:6
The mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Another interesting failure of understanding on the part of ethnic Israel, is the failure to do what they were supposed to do (which of course served God's purpose, but did not remove their responsibility, the one he gave them.) As unique to all other nations in that their God was a living and acting God, the other nations would see that and hear. At a crossroads of commerce as it was, this revelation of him would spread. Instead they only wanted to be a political power. But what they did not do, God himself did through the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ. Appointing just twelve men, to begin the taking of the good news to the ends of the earth. And so it was and is.
