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A NEW COVENANT FOR GOD'S PEOPLE 111
from among the worldly nations a people for God's
name.-Exodus 19 :5,6, AAT.
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The purpose of the new covenant is to take
out of the nations a people for Jehovah's name,
a people on whom his name is called . The natural
Israelites were given the first opportunity to enter
into the new covenant, escaping from the curse
of the old covenant through faith in the impaled
Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant .
Only a remnant of some thousands of natural
Israelites did so, but not enough of them to make
up the full number of people for Jehovah's name .
For a week of years following Christ's appearing
Jehovah extended the natural Jews the exclusive
privilege, and then God sent Symeon Peter to
convert the first Gentile to Christianity . "Symeon
has related thoroughly how God for the first time
turned his attention to the nations to take out of
them a people for his name." Acts 15 :14, NW
All those taken into the new covenant, natural
Jew and natural Gentile, were anointed with God's
spirit and made spiritual Israelites . The natural
Jews that did not believe proved they were not
real Israelites : "for he is not a Jew that is one
on the outside, nor is circumcision that which is
on the outside upon the flesh . But he is a Jew
that is one on the inside, and his circumcision is
that of the heart by spirit, and not by a written
code." Romans 2 :28,29, NW These spiritual
Israelites constitute Jehovah's "very own out of
all the peoples" and become a "kingdom of
12 . What is its purpose? Who have been brought into it?