Isaiah 19:23-25
19:23 At that time there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will visit Egypt, and the Egyptians will visit Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.
19:24 At that time Israel will be the third member of the group, along with Egypt and Assyria, and will be a recipient of blessing in the earth.
19:25 The Lord who commands armies will pronounce a blessing over the earth, saying, “Blessed be my people, Egypt, and the work of my hands, Assyria, and my special possession, Israel!”
Isaiah 56:5-6
56:5 I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument
that will be better than sons and daughters.
I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.
56:6 As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him,
who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants –
all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,
and who are faithful to my covenant –
Zechariah 2:11
2:11 “Many nations will join themselves to the
Lord on the day of salvation,
and they will also be my
people. Indeed, I will settle in the midst of you all.” Then you will know that the
Lord who rules over all has sent me to you.
Romans 11:17
11:17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,
Romans 11:1
Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final
11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Colossians 3:9
3:9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices
Ephesians 2:19-22
2:19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
2:20 because you have been built
on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
with Christ Jesus himself as
the cornerstone.
2:21 In him
the whole building,
being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
2:22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:1
New Life Individually
2:1 And although you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
Ephesians 2:4-6
2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
2:5 even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! –
2:6 and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,