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Michael Brown, delighted to be with you today here on the Line of Fire broadcast. I'm not giving out the phone number because I've got a stack of questions that were posted on our Instagram account, Dr. Michael Brown on Instagram.

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org. Just click subscribe and it'll be coming your way. All right. Chief Sloth asks, not that I believe

in fulfillment theology, but if being part of Israel was in fact a covenant

of physical people, how is it possible that they could be, quote, cut off from their people

as described in the later books of the Torah? And he gives a list of verses, Leviticus,

the 18th chapter, 20th chapter, numbers, different chapters, Exodus, etc. Well, you can actually go back

to Genesis 17, that the physical sign of the covenant was circumcision. So for Abraham's physical

descendants, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the men had to be circumcised on the eighth day or they would

be cut off.

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