I think that clearing things up would be helpful, for a more fruitful conversation.
To the OP: I do not believe in so called "replacement theology", whatever it is, for one simple reason. If you have ever truly loved someone, you would know that they cannot be replaced... ever. I think a lot of people posting here are being simply misunderstood. I dont think anybody is saying that Jews got replaced. A chunk of them fell off, and Gentile believers were joined to the precious remnant and they are now together in Jesus. But this is nothing new, majority of the physical Jews were backsliding and they were killing the saints among them. The apostles were Jewish, right? He will gather the lost sheep again. HOW precisely will He do it seems to bring disagreement. Well, guess what? None of us can prove they are right. I will love whom Jesus loves and hate what He hates. My signature says do not curse the deaf. Majority of physical Jews are currently deaf to the Gospel. We need to draw them with love.
I believe Word of God is BOTH spiritual and literal, true on all levels, and God is able to bring it to fulfillment even contrary to our logic. The controversy on this thread is reminding me of i.e. Calvinism vs Arminianism, when both sides are right and both are wrong by excluding the other: God did preordinate us and also we do have free will. And He can make a stone that He cant lift, too. It only surpasses our scope of logic.
I dont know everything and I allow the possibility that someone with opposite opinion might be right and I be wrong on something. I do not deny various physical manifestations from the prophecy during the end times. We just dont know how exactly it will come to pass, until it comes to pass... which is exactly the purpose, to know it then. Which we will, because we read all these Scriptures now and we are warned against the antichrist and all that
Also, I am strongly inclined in spirit to understand many passages spiritually. Calling me names cannot change this... please respect me and bless my studying instead. I dont even know what most of the words I was called meant, I had to look up on Google.