Who is God calling out now that Israel is blinded, and what is that group called?
God is now calling out Gentiles as a people for His name, on a personal rather than national basis. This group is called the church, which is His body, the Body of Christ, as referred to in Paul’s epistles. Individual believers from around the world are being added to it.
Les teaches that though a Jew still has every opportunity for salvation just as Gentiles do, it is now on a personal basis, not a national one. So God is now calling out Gentiles as a people for His name. Referring to Paul’s epistles, this group is called the church which is His body, the Body of Christ. Les illustrates the church with the development of a fetus in the womb: the mother’s body places cells until the little one is complete and the cell-making stops, then comes delivery. The church is the same way—God has been adding individual believers from all around the world: Chinese, Japanese, Russians, Germans, French, British, Americans, Canadians, and whatever.