BANDERSNATCH
Senior Member
Then why is Paul preaching that the Gentiles were strangers to the Covenants of promise? Why is Paul telling us there was a dividing wall between the Jew and Gentile? Why is Paul telling us in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Are you saying the dividing wall was just between the Tribes of Israel?
I've never heard Ephesians 2 explained that way considering who Paul was sent to preach to.
Paul is correct. There was hatred between the Southern kingdom and Northern kingdom at that time. Gentiles (non-Jews) were not allowed past the "court of the Gentiles", which was NEVER part of God's design plan for the temple! Only the Holy of Holies was off limits to all but one man.