Does Torah foreshow that gentiles will be saved by faith in Jesus? ~ Cross reference of Galatians 3:8 to Genesis 12:3, Genesis 18:18, Genesis 22:18
Paul insists that all the blessings G-d gave Abraham that though him "all nations will be blessed" is a prophecy about Jesus. His point is that through Jesus, all the nations have been blessed. While he is correct that though Abraham all nations will be blessed, his assertion that Jesus is that fulfillment needs to be examined.
It is true that the Jews are G=d's special people and through them, G-d will bless the nations with the truth [Torah] when the messianic age commences. There are several passages that describes the messianic age as how Eden was.
Jesus never accomplished any of the things that the messiah was supposed to do both for Israel and the world. Most importantly after he came the messianic age did not start. On the contrary the world got worse in the last 2000 years.
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All Greek Text references are from NIV and Tanakh references are from Chabad.
This post is not intended to offend anyone's faith but for those people who are Seeking the truth of THE ONE TRUE G-D of the universe to who we owe all our love, gratitude & devotion.
My encouragement to you is that you read the whole chapter of Tanakh that the Greek text quotes so you get the context and understand what G-d actually said.
G-d Bless and Seek THE Truth.
Galatians 3:8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you.";
Genesis 18:18 And Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the world will be blessed in him.
Genesis 22:18 And through your children shall be blessed all the nations of the world, because you hearkened to My voice."
My encouragement to you is that you read the whole chapter of Tanakh that the Greek text quotes so you get the context and understand what G-d actually said.
G-d Bless and Seek THE Truth.
Galatians 3:8 Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you.";
Genesis 18:18 And Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the world will be blessed in him.
Genesis 22:18 And through your children shall be blessed all the nations of the world, because you hearkened to My voice."
- If you read the below passages that talk about how the world will be when the messiah comes, you will see that Jesus did not accomplish his mission.
- Christians have come up with a second coming approach to Jesus's failure and I guess we just have to wait and see if Jesus does indeed come back.
- Isaiah 11:1 And a shoot shall spring forth from the stem of Jesse, and a twig shall sprout from his roots. 2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and heroism, a spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord. 3 And he shall be animated by the fear of the Lord, and neither with the sight of his eyes shall he judge, nor with the hearing of his ears shall he chastise. 4 And he shall judge the poor justly, and he shall chastise with equity the humble of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shall put the wicked to death. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his loins. 6 And a wolf shall live with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie with a kid; and a calf and a lion cub and a fatling [shall lie] together, and a small child shall lead them. 7 And a cow and a bear shall graze together, their children shall lie; and a lion, like cattle, shall eat straw. 8 And an infant shall play over the hole of an old snake and over the eyeball of an adder, a weaned child shall stretch forth his hand. 9 They shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount, for the land shall be full of knowledge of the Lord as water covers the sea bed. 10 And it shall come to pass on that day, that the root of Jesse, which stands as a banner for peoples, to him shall the nations inquire, and his peace shall be [with] honor. 11 And it shall come to pass that on that day, the Lord shall continue to apply His hand a second time to acquire the rest of His people, that will remain from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from Cush and from Elam and from Sumeria and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. 12 And He shall raise a banner to the nations, and He shall gather the lost of Israel, and the scattered ones of Judah He shall gather from the four corners of the earth. 13 And the envy of Ephraim shall cease, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, nor shall Judah vex Ephraim.
- Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will set up of David a righteous shoot, and he shall reign a king and prosper, and he shall perform judgment and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name that he shall be called, The Lord is our righteousness.
- Jeremiah 30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: 2 So said the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: Write for you the words that I have spoken to you, on a scroll. 3 For, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will restore the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will restore them to the land that I gave their forefathers and they shall possess it. 4 And these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 5 For so said the Lord: A sound of quaking we have heard, fear, and there is no peace. 6 Ask now and see whether a male gives birth. Why have I seen every man [with] his hands on his loins like a woman in confinement, and every face has turned to pallor? 7 Ho! For that day is great, with none like it, and it is a time of distress for Jacob, through which he shall be saved. 8 And it shall be on that day, says the Lord of Hosts, [that] I will break his yoke off your neck, and I will break your thongs, and strangers shall no longer enslave them. 9 And they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will set up for them. 10 And you, fear not, My servant Jacob, says the Lord, and do not be dismayed, O Israel, for behold I save you from afar and your seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall again be silent and at ease, and no one will frighten them. 11 For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you, for I will make an end of all the nations where I dispersed you, but of you I will not make an end, but I will chasten you in measure, and I will not completely destroy you.
- Jeremiah 33:14 Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will establish the good thing that I spoke concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 15 In those days and in that time I will cause to grow for David a plant of righteousness, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days, Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely and this is the name that He shall call it, the Lord is our righteousness. 17 For so said the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel. 18 And of the Levitic priests, there shall not be cut off from before Me a man offering up a burnt offering, or burning a meal-offering or performing a sacrifice for all time.
- Ezekiel 34:24 And I, the Lord, shall be to them for a God, and My servant David [will be] a prince in their midst; I, the Lord, have spoken. 25 And I shall make with them a covenant of peace, and I shall abolish the wild beasts from the land, and they will dwell securely in the desert and grow old in the forests. 26 And I shall make them dwell around My hill for a blessing, and I shall bring down rain in its time; they will be rains of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field will give forth its fruit and the land will give forth its produce, and they will know that I am the Lord when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from those who enslave them. 28 And they will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them, and they will dwell securely, with no one frightening them. 29 And I shall establish for them a plantation for renown, and they will no longer be hidden because of hunger in the land, and they will no longer bear the disgrace of the nations. 30 And they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and they are My people, the house of Israel, says the Lord God. 31 And you are My flocks, the flocks of My pasture, you are man; I am your God," says the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 37:24 And My servant David shall be king over them, and one shepherd shall be for them all, and they shall walk in My ordinances and observe My statutes and perform them. 25 And they shall dwell on the land that I have given to My servant, to Jacob, wherein your forefathers lived; and they shall dwell upon it, they and their children and their children's children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever. 26 And I will form a covenant of peace for them, an everlasting covenant shall be with them; and I will establish them and I will multiply them, and I will place My Sanctuary in their midst forever. 27 And My dwelling place shall be over them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me as a people. 28 And the nations shall know that I am the Lord, Who sanctifies Israel, when My Sanctuary is in their midst forever."
- Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall remain for many days, having neither king, nor prince, nor sacrifice, nor pillar, nor ephod nor teraphim. 5 Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God and David their king, and they shall come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness at the end of days.
- Zechariah 9:9 Be exceedingly happy, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold! Your king shall come to you. He is just and victorious; humble, and riding a donkey and a foal, the offspring of [one of] she-donkeys. 10 And I will cut off the chariots from Ephraim, and the horses from Jerusalem; and the bow of war shall be cut off. And he shall speak peace to the nations, and his rule shall be from the sea to the west and from the river to the ends of the earth.
- Zechariah 13:1 On that day, a spring shall be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for purification and for sprinkling. 2 And it shall come to pass on that day, says the Lord of Hosts: I will cut off the names of the idols from the earth, and they shall no longer be mentioned. And also the prophets and the spirit of contamination I will remove from the earth. 3 And it shall come to pass, if a man still prophesies, that his father and his mother-his parents-shall say to him, "You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord." And his father and his mother-his parents-shall thrust him through because of his prophesying. 4 And it shall come to pass on that day that the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not wear a hairy mantle in order to lie. 5 And he shall say, "I am not a prophet! I am a tiller of the soil, for a man entrusted me with his cattle from my youth." 6 And one will say to him, "What are these wounds between your hands?" And he shall say, "That I was smitten in the house of my friends."
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