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Actually the Law was given in order to show the disparate groups that had joined to form Israel how to live. It had the same place as OUR laws in directing lives. It was a Law offering life (but not eternal life). Had they followed it their nation would have prospered. It was later Israel which turned it into a theological way of finding salvation. But OT saints received life in the same way that we do, through God's mercy and His provided sacrifices.
What is miraculous about it? A number of Jews and others who have aligned themselves with the Jews have found refuge as refugees in a land which was initially empty. Israel is not made up of Jews as you think of them. Few can prove any connections with the fathers. But it was a place which offered hope.
Equally interesting is that the Arabs have also taken refuge in Palestine on the grounds that they are Abraham's seed. Palestinian Arabs have no more substantial recent claim on the land than the 'Jews'. Their claim also is on the basis of the past.
The Palestinian Arabs.
No the church has been active AS Israel.
So the Jews who have been ousted were the believing Jews? There is only one body, the Israel of God, made up of believing Jews and their Gentile proselytes. It is not a matter of replacement but of continuation. God ALWAYS enabled Israel to continue through those who believed.
you misrepresent Rom 11.2. His people whom He foreknew are there shown to be the remnant who believed, the election of Israel. Don't pick out verses. Follow the argument.
Equally interesting is that the Arabs have also taken refuge in Palestine on the grounds that they are Abraham's seed. Palestinian Arabs have no more substantial recent claim on the land than the 'Jews'. Their claim also is on the basis of the past.
The Palestinian Arabs.
No the church has been active AS Israel.
So the Jews who have been ousted were the believing Jews? There is only one body, the Israel of God, made up of believing Jews and their Gentile proselytes. It is not a matter of replacement but of continuation. God ALWAYS enabled Israel to continue through those who believed.
you misrepresent Rom 11.2. His people whom He foreknew are there shown to be the remnant who believed, the election of Israel. Don't pick out verses. Follow the argument.
As it has been very clearly explained throughout this thread the idea of a future Jewish state has absolutely nothing to do with scripture. As all false teachings based on scripture, it is a wholly misunderstanding/misinterpretation of scripture. It is the typical format of deriving a premise and then looking for proof texts to support it even though they are taken out of context and are misinterpreted while disavowing what scripture actually teaches.
Some false doctrines are quite subtle and not easily discerned. However, when a theory such as dispensationalism can be very easily determined to have been developed by man quite recently and has no historical connection to the meaning of scripture prior to that point, this being the early 19th century it cannot be the meaning of scripture, nor the work of the Holy Spirit.
It is one of the surest test for false teaching. It was not known, believed, practiced prior to the historical point of entry, in other words it was not what the Holy Spirit gave ONCE, Jude 3, is not the unified Gospel from the beginning which has been preserved without change from the beginning.
There is NO content in all of scripture that teaches Christ will return two more times. That there is some future earthly kingdom of the Jews. It is as complete misunderstanding that the Jews of Jesus' day had about the Messiah being some earthly King that would remove the shackles of the Romans. Now we have modern man still holding, resurrecting old false beliefs of 2000 years ago.
The theory is a complete perversion of scripture because it denies the real content and meaning of who Christ is and what He has accomplished for man.
