Les Feldick Bible Study

Who is considered a Gentile?

A Gentile is everyone who is not descended from the bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the twelve patriarchs. Since the Jew came about through God's distinctive call of Abraham, all other peoples—Arabs, Oriental, African, European, or American—who are not of that line are non-Jews, and therefore Gentiles.

Les explains that when God put His finger on Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees and gave him the covenant, He brought Abraham out of the mainstream of humanity to become the father of a whole new race of people, the nation of Israel. That is why the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is studied—they brought about the nation of Israel, a separated race no longer part of the Gentile families. So when asked who is a Jew and who is a Gentile, the answer is that a Jew is anyone who has come from the bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the twelve patriarchs, and a Gentile is everybody else. Whether they are Arabs, Oriental, African, European, or American, if they are not of that line, they are a non-Jew and a Gentile. Les urges the listener to remember that the Jew came about because of that distinctive call of Abraham, where God said, "I will make of thee a nation of people," and they were a separated people off of that mainstream of humanity.