I believe it’s safe to say that every true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ has their confidence in Christ, and what’s also true is that we have a firm assurance in the validity and accuracy of the Scriptures. With that said, what many people are feeling and saying about Israel amid rising geopolitical tensions, resurgent antisemitism and questions about how Christians should think about the Jewish homeland and the Jewish people must be tested against the Bible.
Just as the church has been tested throughout the ages as to whether or not it would obey God’s Word, so today the church is undergoing a time of purification and separation, not unlike what Jesus prophesied would happen as we enter deeper into the Last Days prior to His appearing.
Replacement theology is nothing new; in fact, from the beginning, Satan has sought to replace God’s Kingdom with his own. It was Satan who visited Jesus in the wilderness and offered Him a replacement—the kingdoms of this world if Jesus would bow down and worship him. The replacement, reproduction, reinvention and redefining tactics of Satan have always been a predictable scheme. Satan has always sought to either twist the Scriptures or to prevent their prophetic fulfillment. Sadly, in many quarters Biblical theology has given way to emotional theology, which is anything but clear.
Simply put, replacement theology teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s redemptive plan. Those who believe in replacement theology believe the Jews are no longer God’s chosen people, and that God no longer has a specific future plan for the Jews or the nation of Israel or His Promised Land.
Replacement theology teaches that the promises made to Israel in the Bible are now to be fulfilled in the Christian church, not with Israel. The prophecies in Scripture concerning the blessing and restoration of Israel to the Promised Land are spiritualized, allegorized and reinterpreted into things regarding the church.
Major problems exist with this view, such as the continuing existence of the Jewish people throughout the centuries. Specifically, with the revival of the physical, modern state of Israel, which took place in one day, on May 14, 1948, and was recognized by the United Nations, spearheaded by the U.S. under President Harry Truman’s leadership.
If Israel has been condemned by God and there is no future for the Jewish nation, how do we explain the unexplainable, supernatural, Biblical survival of the Jewish people over the past 2,000 years, despite constant attempts by their enemies to destroy them? How do we explain Israel’s reappearance as a nation after being driven to the four corners of the Earth after A.D. 70?
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It is not a division of the church. It is a division of what chosen means. Initially GOD chose to bestow the word to a group in need with requirements or commandments. Subsequently GOD chose to send his SON for redemption. The meaning of chosen was redefined to mean an action on the part of those to that believed that GOD’s SON was the opportunity for salvation. It becomes a matter of choice that was changed from GOD to the those that chose to believe. The only opportunity to be with the Father is acceptance of the SON. There is where the choice changed. The burden was no longer on GOD, but instead on his children. The chosen becomes those that choose to accept the SON. Not a replacement but a choice.
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