Reference

Acts 3:25

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
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And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

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Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

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Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

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Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

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Israel as Distinct
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Israel as Distinct

The verse, while addressing "children of the prophets" and referencing the Abrahamic covenant, does not explicitly state that this distinctness is *separate from the Church*. A counter-argument could be that the Church, particularly in Pauline theology, is understood as the spiritual inheritor of the Abrahamic covenant (Galatians 3:29), and thus the blessing to "all the kindreds of the earth" is fulfilled through Christ and His body, the Church, which includes both Jew and Gentile. Therefore, th