One of the major reasons that the Jews reject Jesus Christ is because they do not see nor discerned the two comings that have been prophesied in scripture. Their mindset is to look forward and to see him coming to set up a kingdom here on earth rejecting all the nations that have come against them and they are waiting for this. Therefore they have rejected and did not receive him at his first coming accusing him of blasphemy and making himself equal with God. They have rejected so many of the prophesies of his first coming and that has attributed to their blindness and hardness of heart that has kept them in unbelief. However, when he comes for the second time they will see him as he is and will see the nail scars of the one they have pierced. They will turn to the Lord in mourning and God will deliver them and turn again unto them and they will know that the one they rejected all this time has come to restore them as his people.
They will not be part of the church and body of Christ. They will be God's chosen people, elect and precious but will not be the bride of Christ.
Only those Jews and Gentiles who believed in his first coming will make up the church and body of Christ and will be the bride of Christ because they believed in his shed blood of the cross by faith for the remission of their sins.
FPC _Jackson
A Brief Background to Dispensationalism
The dispensational system of theology, if we are honest, is actually a Nineteenth Century phenomenon. Now I don’t want to get into an argument about these things. I know many good dispensationalists like to trace elements of dispensational teaching and belief way back into the history of the church. But as a historical theologian, and that is what I am by profession, I can pretty confidentially tell you that the system of dispensational theology is a Nineteenth Century phenomenon in the history of the church. It is particularly associated with John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren movement in Britain in the Nineteenth Century, and in America, with the name C.I. Scoffield, Cyrus Ingersoll Scoffield.
The dispensational movement created its own seminary in Dallas. And has for many years had control of a very theological journal, called, Bibliotheca Sacra, that has been sort of the official journal for dispensationalism. And many of you are aware of Dallas Seminary and of Bib Sac and of folks in the Bible Church movement, who would be very much indebted to the dispensationalist tradition.
Differences - Eschatological
Now, the differences between Dipensationalism and Covenant Theology are not mainly in the area of Eschatology. When we say Eschatology, we are talking about usually the end time and especially the time of the coming of Christ. Dispensationalists are premillenial, because it is essential to their theological system,
it is perhaps the fundamental point of Dispensationalism that Israel and the Church are distinct, and the Law-Gospel distinction must be preserved at all costs. That is the very heart and core of classic dispensationalism. You should never, ever mix up Law and Gospel,
and you should never ever mix up Israel and the Church
Differences – Literal Israel and the Church
Now, as we have said, eschatology is not the fundamental difference between Covenant Theology and dispensationalism, but eschatology is simply an implication of the fundamental difference.
The fundamental difference is actually seen in the difference between Israel and the church.
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Covenant Theology sees all believers in essential continuity. There are not two peoples of God. There is one people of God.
Covenant Theology going back to its concept of the Church and God’s sovereign election from before the Creation, strenuously argues that there is only one people of God in all ages and there is only one destiny for all the people of God.
Dispensationalism, however, contends that God has two peoples with two destinies.
And again, I am speaking of a classic form of dispensationalism.
The two peoples of God, Israel and the Church, have two separate destinies.
They see Israel, with the earthly millennial reign of David in the land of Israel restored to its Davidic and Solomonic boundaries.
For the Church, there is heaven.
So, for the dispensationalist, there are two peoples and two separate destinies.
Dispensationalism = TWO COVENANTS
TWO COVENANTS = DUAL COVENANT
Dual-covenant theology is a Christian view of the Old Covenant which holds that Jews may simply keep the Law of Moses, because of the "everlasting covenant" (Genesis 17:13) between Abraham and God expressed in the Hebrew Bible, whereas Gentiles (those not Jews or Jewish proselytes) must convert to Christianity or alternatively accept the Seven Laws of Noah to be assured of a place in the World to Come.
Many forms of Christianity, especially Conservative Protestants, consider this view to be
heresy