When you guys accuse us of replacing the Jews with the church, it's like saying Christians have replaced the Catholics as God's chosen people.
God's chosen people have always been the church. Adam was the church, Abraham was the church, Jacob was the church and all of his saved offspring were the church.
The church is the bride of Christ, she was in her CLOSET in the Old Testament. She came came out of her closet when JESUS came forth from his 3 DAY visit to his chamber.
Joe_2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
One more time. The church has been in existence from the beginning, she was hidden from the world in the Old Testament. She was revealed when she came out of the closet she was hiding in when Christ rose from the dead.