Replacement theology? Yes or No.
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True from beginning to end.
GOD never change
thank God.If God changes all the time, one time based on ethnic blood, one time based on Jesus blood.... oh, my, that will be terrible.
This Verse definitely destroys the (replacement idealisms)
Jesus replace red ox?
No, always Jesus. Red ox
was only a shadow, or not even. Millions of ox can wash away sin?Abraham replace Jesus?
No.
Secular system replace Kingdom of God?
No.
From a purely Kingdom of God perspective we should be neither pro- nor anti- Israel. The relevance they have today is that God works where people are looking. The natural nation of Israel is simply not our business. Jews and Arabs and Persians all need Christ.
Consider: If you prefer one group over another because of their nationality, you are racist. You may also be held liable, by God, for preventing the salvation of those from the other groups.
Consider: If you prefer one group over another because of their nationality, you are racist. You may also be held liable, by God, for preventing the salvation of those from the other groups.
What if one receive millions of donations to one s church, one s campaign to promote isreal state?
One love both Jesus and money, and status..... tough choice...
Sorry, but I need to know for sure what you're your saying.
If I'm understanding you correctly, that is the standard for Calvinists these days, and I disagree with it. But no need to get into that if that's not what you believe. So, are you saying that Abraham was credited, he was actually imputed with the righteousness of God at that moment?
In other words, since the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world, it can apply, imputed to Abraham, when he believed, just like it is for us today?
If that's what you're saying?
Do you hear the radio silence from the historicists and replacement theology crowd upon confronting this prima facie evidence?
So do I.
Denying (without biblical support) the certain RESTORATION of the Nation Israel (this accord to God's gracious plan) seems all too anti-Semitic for my taste.
Of course. Then there is the intentinal idiom of the fig tree.And Christ Jesus is the TRUE vine... He said so.
In biblical symbolism, the fig tree frequently serves as an idiom for Israel's national identity, spiritual health, and end-times destiny. Tracing this motif from the Prophets through the Gospels reveals a clear prophetic progression: national privilege, covenant judgment, end-time rebirth, and ultimate kingdom restoration upon true repentance.
1. Old Testament Foundation: Israel as the Fig Tree
Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, God uses agricultural metaphors—the vine, the olive tree, and the fig tree—to represent Israel's relationship with Him.
* Hosea 9:10: God describes His initial delight in Israel, stating, "I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time."
* Jeremiah 24:1–10: God uses a vision of two baskets of figs to separate the faithful exile remnant ("good figs") whom He promises to restore, from the disobedient rulers ("bad figs") appointed for destruction.
* Joel 2:21–27: Joel connects national repentance with physical restoration, promising that when the people return to God, "the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their full strength."
2. Jesus' Prophetic Sign: Judgment and Rebirth
Jesus explicitly used the fig tree idiom to signal both near-term judgment and far-term restoration:
* The Barren Fig Tree (Luke 13:6–9): A parable emphasizing divine patience, warning that failure to bear spiritual fruit would lead to being cut down.
* The Cursed Fig Tree (Matthew 21:18–20): By cursing a leaf-covered but fruit-barren fig tree during Passion Week, Jesus symbolically enacted judgment upon hypocritical religious leadership, foreshadowing the temple's destruction in 70 AD and national dispersion.
* The Budding Fig Tree (Matthew 24:32–34): In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus transforms the symbol from judgment to hope: "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near." Eschewing mere leafiness without fruit, this budding symbolizes the physical rebirth of Israel as a national entity in the end times.
3. Spiritual Repentance and Kingdom Restoration
Scripture clarifies that physical regathering in the land precedes the spiritual rebirth that secures the promised kingdom:
* Zechariah 12:10–13:1: Israel's final restoration occurs when God pours out a "spirit of grace and supplication," causing the nation to mourn over their Messiah ("they will look on Me whom they have pierced"), opening a cleansing fountain for sin.
* Romans 11:25–27: Paul confirms that Israel's partial hardening is temporary until the "fullness of the Gentiles has come in," after which "all Israel will be saved" through covenant redemption.
* Kingdom Peace (Micah 4:4, Zechariah 3:10): The prophetic vision of the Millennium concludes with every person sitting "under his vine and under his fig tree"—the ultimate biblical idiom for security, blessing, and peace under
Messiah's rule.
"You see, the Old and New Testaments are dispensations by definition, and when understood correctly, the Covenants and dispensations are not hostile to each other, but work in harmony. God does deal with people differently from the OT to the NT, and those two dispensations are qualified by the covenant promises made and covenant promises received."
How can anyone can deny the fact of this matter?
Extreme prejudice comes to mind. Among other nefarious motives.
[Act 15:14-17 KJV]
14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
James recognizes that the Gentiles have (and are), in the present CHURCH AGE, being saved by faith as they are.
15 And to this ***agree*** the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
James then exegetes Amos 9 to DEMONSTATE that in the MILLENIAL AGE, there will LIKEWISE be Gentiles who will be saved.
This is his argument: the present phenomenon is NOT unprecedented, rather it concatenates with this future prophecy.
Oh, I’m not a Calvinist either. Men’s spirits belong to God who gave them. Every man and woman has a spirit, an endowment of God’s being, in them. It is what God breathed into Adam and made him a “living being”. But man’s spirit becomes the sources of his life only by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. This is called “being found”.Sorry, but I need to know for sure what you're your saying.
So, are you saying that Abraham was credited, he was actually imputed with the righteousness of God at that moment?
In other words, since the Lamb was slain from the foundations of the world, it can apply, imputed to Abraham, when he believed, just like it is for us today?
If that's what you're saying?
The rub is that man may, in his own strength, resist God and prevent this empowerment. In that state, man remains “lost”. The reason man may not take credit for his own salvation is that God created the spirit in man that can respond to God: indeed man’s spirit is of God’s spirit.
So no, Calvin got it wrong. He was influenced by the idea that reason was the highest level of mindfulness and, as such, could not get out of his own head.
What you see with Abraham is no resistance. He believed. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God”. God spoke to him and he believed, he did not resist “and it was credited to him as righteousness”. He was a son following his father, like Adam at first and ultimately like the Word (Christ) and the Deep (God): God the Father and the only Begotten Son. This is what we are restored to in Christ.
The Whore of Babylon is old covenant Jerusalem.
Revelations 11:8 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the GREAT CITY, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
The city is Jerusalem, and she is on trial for adultery before God.
The two witnesses are present in accordance with the law, and are given the signs of Moses.
Revelation 14:8
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that GREAT CITY, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Jerusalem, which was also the murder capitol of the world of saints and prophets, is found guilty and executed.
It was customary (by the Romans) to write the title of the accused and the crime in capitol letters over the head of one sentences to death.
Jesus was crucified under the sign: "JESUS OF NAZARETH KING OF THE JEWS".
Jerusalem was seen with the sign: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
It was foretold throughout the Bible that this would be the fate of Jerusalem.
Mathew 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
The woman in Revelations 12 is not any earthly nation, but the Hebrew early church.
The chapter takes us back in time to tell the story.
Paul wrote Romans 11 before the destruction of Jerusalem, and speaks of a remnant of his kinsmen that will be part of this church.
He says nothing that indicates that he has hope for the earthly nation.
There's a lot of negative criticism of James Tour. I suggest readers thoroughly vet him before taking him at his word.
As far as RT goes,it's misunderstanding of Scripture.
Christians haven't replaced the Jews in the heart of God. The church is the spiritual continuation and fulfillment of Old Testament Israel.
Galatians 3
How can church replace jews?
In ot, many jews bow down to baal, pagan worship....
Maybe fake church replaced them?
Very confusing. People keep saying replacement. What replace what?
Good question. You'd have to ask those who hold to replacement theology.