If you are depending on religious deeds and rituals to establish a relationship with God, it won’t happen. Christ is the only way you can have access to Heaven for He is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except by Him (John 14:6). 2. Aliens: “aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise” vs. 12 The word “aliens” is from the word apallotrioo {ap-al-lot-ree-oʹ-o} which means “to shut out from fellowship and intimacy; to estrange or to