In this essay we are concerned to investigate the relationship of Israel to the nations under the Old Covenant, and how this relationship compares with that of the church to the world under the New Covenant. My purpose is to challenge directly the assumption that Israel were the only saved people during the Old Covenant period. I assert that while Israel alone were priests, God generously redeemed many other people before the coming of Jesus Christ, It is the burden of this essay to demonstrate this thesis from the Scriptures…

Read the rest at The Sociology of the Church (p. 95).