Chosen Generation/Once not a people: 1 Pt 2:9-10 -- To believers, or to Israel only?

[YosefHayim]

Here's something I saw put forth. 1 Peter 2:9-10 says

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Romans 10:19 quotes Deuteronomy 32:21 saying

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
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Both passages are addressing those who "are no people". The first is saying the "not a people" have been made a people of God. The Second two verses are saying that Israel would be provoked by those who are "no people".

Isaiah 7:8 says that Ephraim were once not a people:

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
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So with these few verses strung together, the notion was put forth that Ephraim was once a foolish nation which was not a people, and God provoked the other tribes of Israel to Jealousy because of Ephraim. Ephraim was than brought back to Israel being the gentiles grafted in.

 

[ezrider]

To add unto you thought:

Hosea 1:6-11
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

 

[Sinthesis]

Here's something I saw put forth. 1 Peter 2:9-10 says

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Romans 10:19 quotes Deuteronomy 32:21 saying

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
​

Both passages are addressing those who "are no people". The first is saying the "not a people" have been made a people of God. The Second two verses are saying that Israel would be provoked by those who are "no people".

Isaiah 7:8 says that Ephraim were once not a people:

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
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So with these few verses strung together, the notion was put forth that Ephraim was once a foolish nation which was not a people, and God provoked the other tribes of Israel to Jealousy because of Ephraim. Ephraim was than brought back to Israel being the gentiles grafted in.

I would string these ideas together differently. Remember that Ephraim was around as a people, grafted into Israel, before and when Moses set down Deuteronomy. Christianity is not 'a people' in the sense that there is no racial requirement. However, Christianity is heir, through Jesus Christ, to all the promises made to the patriarchs, which provokes Judaism to jealousy. Ephraim symbolically prefigured this when he was adopted by Jacob(grafted into Israel) even though Ephraim's mother was Egyptian.

 

[TheCurseoftheRodain]

Yes, 2 Cor 1:20

 

[YosefHayim]

Ephraim symbolically prefigured this when he was adopted by Jacob(grafted into Israel) even though Ephraim's mother was Egyptian.

Could explain this further?

 

[ezrider]

Could explain this further?

Jacob had twelve sons. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers into the land of Egypt, and through his faith and by the Grace of the Lord, rose up to rule over all of the land, subject only to Pharaoh. Joseph was given an Egyptian bride of the royal house and she bare him two sons. Ephraim and Manasseh. As Sinthesis stated, Jacob adopted Joseph's two sons into his own house, and at various places throughout the scripture, they have been named as one of the twelve tribes. Sometimes being cast off, and then seemingly named once again.