Companions of Christ and the Heavenly Calling

We are occupied at this time with that great thing that God is doing in this dispensation. He is constituting a new, heavenly Israel and preparing it for the day when its King comes and it will reign with Him forever. The members of this spiritual Israel are called, "the companions of a heavenly calling" - the companions of Christ. 


The point at which we have arrived just now, is that in the constituting of the spiritual Israel, God is following the same line as He took with the earthly Israel, but with the one great difference: that with the earthly He followed temporal lines; with the heavenly He is following spiritual lines, but they are both one in principle... I think it must be perfectly true that this is what God is doing. The letter to the Hebrews is the great document of the transition from one Israel to another, and there are many evidences in that letter of this truth.