We Do Not Replace The Olive Tree, But We Join In With The True Vine Of David.

2 Peter 1:2-4

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

• If we are Gentiles (non Jew) who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Messiah, then we have been grafted in to these eternal promises (we have not replaced Israel... sorry replacement heretics). These promises show us the true character of God through Christ Jesus, as the promises were originally made to Abraham (Genesis 15), Isaac, Jacob and their descendants (Romans 11:1/36), while we were grafted in through grace and mercy (John 3:16/21).

• We do not merely cling to the promises, but we cling to the One who made them (Hebrews 13:8), for it is He who fulfills them perfectly for His glory and people, first to the Jew and then to the Gentile... (2nd Corinthians 1:20). If a Gentile follower of Jesus forgets that we have been 'grafted in' (Romans 11), then we become arrogant like the rest of the Western church has turned out today (Jew hatred in America has exploded beyond Nazi Germany levels since October 7th 2023). Understand that those who hold to Jew hatred as such will eventually follow the antichrist.