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The Church, the New Israel, is therefore the fulfillment of the Old Israel. In the Old Israel, membership was by birth,<ref>Phillipians 3:5.</ref> and pagans were excluded from its citizenship.<ref>Ephesians 2:12.</ref> It is no more than the Israel of the flesh and what is important is to belong to the Israel of God. But "all the descendants of Israel are not Israel".<ref>Romans 9:6.</ref> Confronted with Jesus and the Gospel, a sorting takes place:<ref>Luke 2:34f..</ref> the fall of those who look for the justice of the Law and who harden their hearts when they hear the announcement of justification by faith,<ref>Romans 9:31; 11:7.</ref> and the rescue of those others , the "true Israelites",<ref>John 1:48.</ref> who constitute the remnant of Israel announced by the [[Scripture]]s<ref>Romans 9:27ff..</ref> and who are joined to the New Israel by the converted pagans. The Old Israel has not been definitively rejected, but at the time her incomprehension of the Gospel was manifested God wishes to awaken her jealousy.<Ref>Romans 10:19.</ref> When the pagans are converted in their totality, the partial hardening of Israel's heart will cease, "and thus all Israel will be saved".<ref>Romans 11:26.</ref> It will belong once again to that spiritual Israel which has entered into the way of salvation.

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* [[w:Israelites#New_Israel|New Israel]].

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