First off Jesus is not the Olive tree. He says "I am the vine, you are the branches." He does NOT say I am the Olive tree. Let's see what is said about the Olive tree.
David said this.
But I am LIKE A GREEN OLIVE TREE in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
Psalms 52:8
Jeremiah said this.
“What has My beloved to do in My house, Having done lewd deeds with many? And the holy flesh has passed from you. When you do evil, then you rejoice. The Lord called your name, GREEN OLIVE TREE, LOVELY and of GOOD FRUIT. With the noise of a great tumult He has kindled fire on it, And its BRANCHES ARE BROKEN. “For the Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the EVIL OF THE HOUSE of ISRAEL and of the HOUSE of JUDAH, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”
Jeremiah 11:15-17
So we see that ISRAEL is the Olive tree and the apostle Paul knew this when writing Romans 11:17-27 Israel is the cultivated Olive tree and Gentiles from the wild olive tree are grafted in to Israel the cultivated Olive tree.
Furthermore we can look at these verses that say we were apart from Israel but were brought in to Israel by the blood of Christ.
Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— that at that time YOU WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL and STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:11-13
The "Threefold root" of the Good Olive Tree was HOLY because separated, and as the "Root" was holy so were the "branches." We next read that "some," not all, of the branches were broken off. They were not broken off that the Gentiles might be grafted in, but they were broken off because of "UNBELIEF," and the Gentiles were not grafted in that they might supplant, or take the place of the branches that had been broken off, but that they, as branches of a "WILD Olive Tree," might be PARTAKER of the "root" and "fatness" of the GOOD Olive Tree. We see from this that the "GOOD Olive Tree" is not rooted up and destroyed and a "WILD Olive Tree" planted in its place, but it still remains alive and gives life to both the "Good" and "Wild" Olive branches. So we see that those who claim that the "Wild Olive Branches" that are grafted in represent the Church, and that the Church has taken the place of Israel, are in error, for the "Wild Olive Branches" do not remain on the "Good Olive Tree," but will be broken off that the original branches may be grafted back again. Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ are alike Abraham's spiritual children, and are joint partakers of the "root" and "fatness" of the "Good Olive Tree," for Christ was of the seed of Abraham. Those Jews who rejected Christ and thus broke away from the religion of Abraham, are the branches, who, through unbelief, are broken off.
In grafting the practice is to graft the "Good" Olive on the "Wild" Olive so as to improve the fruit of the "Wild" Olive. If the "Wild" Olive is grafted on the "Good" Olive the effect is the reverse, and the "Good" Olive will run to wildness. So Paul knew what he was talking about when he said that the grafting of the "Wild" Olive on the "Good" Olive Tree was "CONTRARY TO NATURE." From this we see that the injection of Gentilism into Judaism is not beneficial to Judaism. That Judaism is of purer stock than Gentilism, and for the purification of Judaism, Gentilism, or the "Wild" Olive branches, must be removed, or cut off, from the "Good" Olive Tree, and be replaced by the grafting back again of the "Natural Branches." Rom. 11:21. By Gentilism we mean that part of the Gentile world known as Christendom, or the professing Church, as described in the Kingdom of Heaven parables of Matt. 13. And it is only the Laodicean part of it that God says He will "SPUE OUT OF HIS MOUTH" (Rev. 3:16), that as "Wild" Olive branches God will remove from the "Good" Olive Tree, for all true believers who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and that make up the true Church the "Body of Christ," and belong to the "Spiritual Israel" of God cannot be displaced.
The Parable of the "Two Olive Trees" teaches three things, and what is very important, the order in which these three things take place.
"Blindness in part is happened to Israel until the 'FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN.'"
By the "FULNESS OF THE GENTILES" is not meant the "Times of the Gentiles," but those Gentiles who shall be saved through the Gospel. And when the last Gentile shall be thus saved the FULL NUMBER of saved Gentiles will be complete.
That the "Wild Olive Branches" that are grafted in do not take the place of the branches that were broken off, and because they shall not "continue in God's goodness" they shall be broken off again.
That God has not "Cast Away" His people Israel, and that He will revive the broken off branches and graft them back again.
Now to address the issue of circumcision. It is stated in Genesis that circumcision is for the descendants of Abraham through out their generations but according to what Jason Sparks says the New Testament says circumcision is done away with. That is a HUGE contradiction in the Bible if what you say is true.
God said this
And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant. He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
Genesis 17:9-14
Jason Sparks says
To argue that the New Testament still teaches necessity of physical circumcision is just insane because it clearly teaches that it is not."
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