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Ezekiel 47:22

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You will divide it as a property for yourselves and for the foreigners who live among you and who have had children among you. These foreigners will be residents—they will be like natural born Israelites. You will divide some land for them among the family groups of Israel.

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\{In the future,\} the Lord will again show his love to Jacob. The Lord will again choose the people of Israel. \{At that time,\} the Lord will give those people their land. Then non-Jewish people {\cf2\super [146]} will join themselves to the Jewish people. Both people will join and become one family—Jacob’s family.

“You will divide the land for the Israelite family groups by throwing lots. {\cf2\super [423]} At that time, you will separate a part of the land. It will be a holy part for the Lord. The land will be 25,000 cubits {\cf2\super [424]} long and 20,000 cubits {\cf2\super [425]} wide. All of this land will be holy.

“So you will divide this land among you for the family groups of Israel.

The family group where that resident lives must give him some land.” The Lord my Master said these things!

And that is the land that you will divide among the family groups of Israel. That is what each group will get.” The Lord my Master said these things!

You must treat foreigners the same as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners like you love yourselves. Why? Because you were foreigners one time—in Egypt. I am the Lord your God!

When the Jewish believers heard these things, they stopped arguing. They praised God and said, “So God is allowing the non-Jewish people to change their hearts and have life the same as us!”

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.

That Scripture says “any person” because there is no difference between Jew and non-Jew. The same Lord is the Lord of all people. The Lord gives many blessings to all people that trust in him.

This is that secret truth: that the non-Jews will get the things God has for his people, the same as the Jews. The non-Jews are together with the Jews in the same body. And they share together in the promise that God made in Christ Jesus. The non-Jews have all these things because of the Good News. {\cf2\super [23]}

So you must also love those strangers. Why? Because you yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.

In the new life there is no difference between Greeks and Jews. There is no difference between people that are circumcised {\cf2\super [16]} and people that are not circumcised, or people that are from some foreign country, or Scythians. {\cf2\super [17]} There is no difference between slaves and free people. But Christ is in all those believers. And Christ is all that is important.




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