
Originally Posted by
flaja
God made the same promise to Jacob/Israel in
Genesis 35:10-11 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
The Bible plainly says that the Israelites would become multiple nations.
Abraham was the father of many nations which includes all the arabic nations.
Jacob was promised that "A nation and a company (or an assembly called) of nations shall be from thee. In Jesus Christ ( Who is called the Gatherer of Nations Isaiah 66 18 "And I, because of their actions and their imaginations, am about to come and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory. all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together by Jesus Christ who came through the line of Jacob. Also people from all nations shall be saved through Jesus Christ. ie The Church.
God does not want his people linked to oather nations in a physical sense. In the old testament he went to great lengths to rescue them from among other nations. He wants his chosen nation to be pure and seperate.
If we disagree , at least one of us is wrong!