Were the Old Testament saints saved?
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Were the Old Testament saints saved? Did they know the Gospel? After all, the Bible says that "Scripture ... preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham" (Galatians 3:8). This teaching, with reference to the ingrafting of the Gentiles in Romans 11, reveals the "gospel reached beforehand to Abraham" to be identical to "Paul's Gospel."
Has anyone ever warned you that you might be placing yourself under a curse by keeping the Torah?
Paul wants you to understand this mystery: A partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
The Abrahamic prophecies find their greatest fulfillment only in the Messiah and the universal sweep of the Messianic Kingdom.