This first installment of Grafted In – To the Israel of God challenges the claim that the Christian church replaced Israel as God’s covenant people. The speaker opens by discussing Luke 21 and cautioning against equating every conflict involving Israel with the final prophetic events. He defines replacement theology or supersessionism, then examines Marcion of Sinope and argues that separating the Gospel from the Hebrew Scriptures has influenced later Christian teaching. Against that separation, the Teaching cites Yeshua’s words about the Law and Prophets, Paul’s defense in Acts, Peter’s warning about misreading Paul, and passages connecting faith with God’s commandments. It then introduces Gentile inclusion as part of God’s purpose from the patriarchs onward, tracing the call of Abraham, Israel’s covenant calling, the olive-tree image, and Israel’s role as a light to the nations. Part 1 concludes with questions and a prayer for those affected by conflict in Israel. The speaker reserves fuller treatment of grafting in for Part 2.

Jacob to Jesus traces the Teaching’s account of covenant history from Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, and Ephraim through the division of Israel into the House of Israel and the House of Judah, the scattering of the northern house, and the work of Yeshua at the cross. The Teaching argues that many New Testament expressions—lost sheep, those far off, the elect, the one new man, and the olive tree—are best understood against this two-house history. Its central argument is that the divorced House of Israel faced a legal barrier to returning to her first Husband; the Teaching reads Deuteronomy 24 together with Romans 7 to explain the Husband’s death as the means by which that barrier is removed, followed by resurrection and reconciliation in Messiah. It then connects this restoration to the New Covenant, the gathering of the scattered, and the inclusion of those who belong to Christ as Abraham’s offspring.