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Genesis Church Podcast
Ascension Questions Answered | 5.25.25 | Pastor Bob Tome
From the series "After the Resurrection: Easter to Pentecost"
Acts 1:6-11 - When Jesus revealed Himself as the promised Davidic King who would restore Israel (Acts 3:19-22), He was rejected by the Jews, exactly as Isaiah had prophesied (Isaiah 52-53). Jesus therefore called His disciples to fulfill Abraham’s commission to bless the nations (Genesis 12:2-3) by preaching the gospel of the Kingdom to all nations until the end of this age (Matthew 28:18-20). Paul thus preached the gospel of the Kingdom to the Jews and was repeatedly rejected (Acts 13-28); in consequence, Paul brought the good news to the Gentiles, who in turn became Abraham’s spiritual seed by faith and heirs of the promises to Abraham and his seed (Galatians 3-4).
This is what Paul meant in Romans 11 by the Gentiles being “grafted” into the “olive tree” and nourished by the “root” (Abraham’s spiritual seed). The tree thus signifies the collective people of God; the “wild branches” grafted in are Gentile believers; the “natural branches” that are cut off are the Jews in unbelief. Jewish believers remain in the tree but are joined with Gentiles and “made” into a “new body,” the Church (Ephesians 2:11–22).
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