Ephesians 2:11-22 shows the relationship between Jewish and Gentile believers in the church. But what does that mean for Israel? Does the creation of the “one new man” mean that Israel, as a nation, has no more part to play in the plan of God in history? In the following I argue in the negative. Gentile believers and Jewish believers are united as one body in the church at this present time–the church age–and that the basis for unity is the abrogation of the Law of Moses through the death of Christ. The unilateral promises made to ethnic Israel need not be taken up into the creation of the church,…