Exactly. There's no doubt I'm a descendent of Japheth. But take note from Noah's prophecy:
27 God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant. Gen 9
Brought to be understood in the NT:
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Ro2
3 for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh: Phil 3
'In the spirit, not in the letter',it seems that's something you dispies are incapable of grasping.
Do you teach that a man who walks into a chicken house becomes a chicken? Or. the man who enters a garage becomes a car? The prophecy says Japheth will dwell in the tents of Shem, it does not say he will become a Shemite. You added that part.. That is not even the intention of the prophesy. Good grief. A Jew is one of the two tribe nation of Judah, Benjamine and Judah, as opposed to the 10 tribe nation of Israel. Judah was comprised of two of the 12 tribes of Israel. The first mention of the ethnic name Jew is in Esther. Her uncle was Mordecai, who was from the tribe of Benjamin, not Judah, and he, a Benjamite, was the first person to be called a Jew. The 10 tribes designated "Israel" had long since lost their national identity and home land.
Es 2:5 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;
Ro 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people (he is speaking of the ethnic people of God, Israel)? God forbid (this means NO). For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
Paul was saved in 37/38 AD. He wrote Romans in 58 AD. This means he had been saved for 20 years already when he wrote that he was still a Jew. All the history of the NT from Acts 1 to Acts 18 had passed when he wrote the epistle to the Romans from Corinth. The gentiles who began to be saved in Acts 10 in the year 40 AD and who now had an 18 year history of being saved were still gentiles. In this same Romans epistle and the same chapter he addressed the Roman gentile Christians in verse 13. He said this;
Ro 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
He did not think they had become Jews at their conversion.
National Jews and Israelites had failed to believe in Jesus as their King and savior, and were cast off nationally and God dealt with saving them individually, meanwhile introducing a spiritual kingdom with a heavenly inheritance, rather than a physical one as promised in their OT history, into which they would become citizens by the one at a time new birth through faith in the death burial and resurrection of their Messiah Lord. The gentiles were accepted later and were invited in by grace through faith to fill this house. This did not negate the Abrahamic promises to this nation/family whose promises were physical and earthly but required that
every one of them be born again and not just a remnant before the kingdom could or would be inaugurated.
I am not guessing about this because it is a firm pronouncement of scripture for those who believe.
Ro 11:25 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.
Still speaking to gentiles, he continues;
26 And so
all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
The operative word concerning Israel is "all" must be saved for a national kingdom because Jesus will not rule over rebels but those who are born again only. This remnant of Israel along with gentile believers are the heavenly people of God that is his church, his body, his bride, who will dwell with him in Heaven and rule and reign over the earth with him.
The scriptures do make sense.
