Hey, I posted this in another discussion, but I think it has important things in it if anyone wants to take the time to dissect my ramblings(lol) but seriously...this is an important topic, so I'm glad to see multiple threads about it.
"I'm not sure why the debate of replacement theology is even a thing, the bible is very clear that physical Israel(flesh and blood) was the type and shadow of Christ(the spirit). Israel according to the flesh was the Son of God(exodus 4:22) but Israel according to the flesh was crucified in Christ on the cross, the old passed away and the new has come. The old covenant was a shadow and picture of what was to come in Christ(colossians 2:17, Hebrews 8:5) but Christ, that is CHRIST IN YOU the hope of glory is the fullness, the coming of the lord, the substance that the OLD did not have. the SON, Israel, are those in Christ, JESUS is the head of the Son of God, and his body, the body of Christ, "Christians" are the body of the Son.
This isn't something that should be a mystery to those who claim Jesus Christ/Holy Spirit, its what the spirit teaches(1 john 2:27) so any flesh and blood Jew, is EQUAL to flesh and blood gentiles. because flesh and blood CAN NOT inherit the kingdom. it never was about flesh and blood. it ALWAYS was about the spirit, always was about Christ. it was hidden(not revealed) in the old covenant but it IS REVELAED in Jesus Christ/spirit of Christ. there is adam(natural man/doesn't have the promise/cut off) and there is Christ(spiritual man/led by the spirit/is the promise/filled with the father) only one of those are Israel. Adam was nailed to the cross, and ONLY Christ/spirit was raised up, went to the father and came back down...adam stayed in the grave. so if you call adam the son of God, you are calling FLESH AND BLOOD the inheritor of the kingdom of god. whether Jewish adam, Christian adam, Hindu adam, ...all those things FADE because IN CHRIST there is no jew, or gentile, and CHRIST is the thing that remains, and is not shaken and removed. the whole entire bible speaks to this...its not replacing anything...it ALWAYS WAS CHRIST, there was the old shadow(evening) of the old covenant, with its temples and Sabbaths. and there is the NEW(Day) covenant of Christ, where Christ is the temple, Christ is the Sabbath, Christ is the fast, and the healing and the salvation and the SON. those in the DAY, see this, those in THE NIGHT are drunk on harlotry(double mindedness/doubt/self(flesh) led teaching) Those in the night are taken like a thief in the night, by the DAY, but those who are OF the day(and even ARE the day) wont be taken like a thief, see Christ, see the Son, see the Father, see the unity, see their inheritance and love it, and don't trade it like an Esau for pottage(flesh) in order to walk in LOVE which is the perfect that has come, the fullness of the knowledge of the SON, in order for the body to be built up into HE who is the head...there needs to be a SEEING of the day, what it is, where it is, who it is, why it is. if the day of the lord is still a far off...then you aren't OF that day and still in the night, still waiting for a messiah and still in your sins. the reason certain people push the idea and understanding of this is because it is THAT important. its TRUTH and love upholds the truth. its not replacing anything, it ALWAYS WAS CHRIST. Christ always was and always will be the ONLY ISRAEL. physical Israel according to flesh or the gentiles according to flesh BOTH are not the Son, both are not Israel, but NEED the day of the lord, the Sabbath rest. and its sad to watch most of "Christianity" blindly abide in the night, when the day is more than proclaimed in scripture, its noon day, brightest it can be, and everyone is blind and stumbling around being led astray by wolves and false christs. the WORLD needs to enter the rest...and I guarantee you...the rest is not looking to the future for anything. you look to the future for something you miss the day NOW. you wait for another temple, another Jewish covenant, another ordinance and shadow and OLD temporary covenant, you are also waiting for ANOTHER Christ, and you miss the one that is HERE, you miss Christ in you the hope of Glory. you miss the inheritance of Israel. the ONLY Israel is that of spirit. not that of middle east real-estate, not that of bloodlines, all flesh and blood equally has an entrance available to the for the kingdom of god that come WITHOUT outward observation...so while the majority of darkened understanding Christians that are still very much in the night, seek signs and wonders and outward observations of a kingdom coming, those who know the father, walk into the light of the day, get adam revealed to them, reject adam for Christ, and KNOW WHO THEY ARE, and no one will take their crown(which, as paul said was each other) this isn't to say one person according to the flesh is any worse than another...
I don't go for bigotry and neither does God, of anyone after the flesh. all in the flesh are equally not In christ, and all in Christ are equally the son/Israel. There is CHRIST and it/He is not flesh and blood(no longer know Christ after the flesh), and HE is the only Israel. always was, always will be, with out end. HE is the promised land, the holy ground. HE is the day. the sababth, the lord of that day, and we are grafted into that day, he is Zion, and we are Zion in HIM, we are GODS rest, in christ because ZION is the eternal rest of the lord. its not a mountain in the middle east, its not anything of the temporary, it is in you, the kingdom is in you, and all those with eyes to see will enter said kingdom. And like Jesus told the Pharisees, its a fixation on what you see with natural eyes, that keeps you and others out of that kingdom, out of zion, and away from the inheritance of Israel
Psalms 132 - "For the Lord has chosen Zion;He has desired it for His dwelling place:14“This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
The rest of God is his people, and his peoples rest is himself. its eternity IN YOU hidden so that none can find it(Ecclesiastes 3:11) that is was and always will be True Israel."