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Ephesians 2:12-13
Excerpted from: Truth (Part 4)

Israel, the only nation that God was working with on earth, was only one nation, and really a minor nation at the time that this was being done. They were a small people, a weak people, by God's own definition. But how many other families of people are there on earth? The peoples of the earth are overwhelmingly Gentile, not Israelite and the greatest diversity of people is Gentile, not Israelitish. So He is dealing with people of very great diversity.

What he is describing here is a people, as far as he was concerned, who are underprivileged. Not only are the Gentiles of great diversity, they are also underprivileged in terms of their relationship with God. God revealed Himself to the Israelites. But to the rest of the world, He did not.

It is not that they could not find some aspects of Him, because as Romans 1 says that what is known of God is manifest. They can find out that there is a Creator God, but He still did not reveal Himself to them and as a result they did not know about the covenants. They did not know about His law. They did not know about a lot of things: what the hope of mankind was, the resurrection of the dead.

These people had no rights as citizens, even of Israel, and therefore, they could not even hope to have any kind of fellowship with God. They were cut off from all of the blessings of the covenant, and ignorant of God. Therefore, they could not believe in Him. Do you see why they were underprivileged?

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