Adam,
Thank you for your comment, brother. In Ezekiel's description of the millennial kingdom and Temple, he depicts the Levite clan of Tsadok being restored as priests. Is it in your view that these sons of Tsadok are literally and genetically descended from Tsadok? Furthermore, Jeremiah and Hosea and many other prophets indicate 10-Israel and Jew-dah will be restored to the Land. I'm not sure how you or anyone could spiritualize or allegorize those realities. Obviously, Yah is not simply concerned with the Spirit only or the Flesh only. We must keep a balanced view on this. Yes, native-born Israelites were cut-off from the Assembly in antiquity (e.g., Korah and many Simeonites)... and yes non-natives were grafted in (e.g., Caleb and Ruth), but to disregard the physical and unconditional promises given to Abraham, Isaak, and Jacob would force you to blot out huge tracts of scripture. Also, there is a reason (IMHO) Yah designed the human y-Chromosome the way He did. Probably many reasons, but one significant one was to have a confirming slow-changing witness or confirmation of the promise of multitudes that He made. He is not a Liar.
The flesh and the physical has received a bad rap for at least a couple thousand years. Very early on, there were so-called Christian sects (e.g., Marcionites) that perceived everything in the natural to be innately evil or at best contemptible, and only Spirit was good (in their religious paradigm). Some of that dogma crept into "the Church" and in my opinion, it is almost completely unreasonable and illogical. Does flesh make decisions to do evil on its on accord? Or is flesh told to do evil by degenerate minds? The word "carnal" and "physical" are not interchangable words.
These are good things to ponder. Thanks again for your comment.
Hanok
