Are The Jews the True Israel?
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The Church does not replace israel. The Church is Israel in its matured form. The Old Testament promises to israel are not nullified, they are fulfilled in Christ Jesus. The church is not a replacement theology, it is a fulfillment theology.
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Alright, first, we must understand that the covenant promise
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was never ultimately about Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob.
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They were shadows pointing forward to the ultimate seed to come through that promise.
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That seed that was promised in Genesis 3.15.
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The seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent.
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And this should not shock any of us, because why?
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Well, Jesus is said to be the true and better Adam, who is our better and righteous federal head.
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He is said to be the true and better Moses, who saves us from real spiritual slavery.
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He is said to be the true and better Joshua, who leads us into the real promised land.
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He is said to be the true and better David, who is a better king over his people.
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So, of course, he would be the true and better Jacob,
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who wrestled with God not in the desert, but in Gethsemane.
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Not struck in the hip, but crushed on the cross.
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Now I'm going to show you a passage of scripture that absolutely confirms what I'm saying.
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Joseph, and took the child and his mother by night and
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departed to Egypt and remained there until the death
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the Lord had spoken by the prophet, quote, out of Egypt
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Everything from, as soon as God intervenes and says to Eve and makes the
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protovangileum in Genesis 3.15 and promises a Savior to come, everything is
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working to prepare us for and point us to that seed, Christ.
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He is the ultimate fulfillment and substance of the entire covenantal promise system.
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And through Christ, the covenant has expanded beyond national Israel
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to everyone who has faith from every tribe, nation, and tongue.
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So what was started as a seed of faith in a national group has bloomed into a harvest of faith in an international group.
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This is again why Jesus says in the Great Commission,
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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them to obey all that I have commanded.
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the gospel was this kind of expansion from national to international it was i have just
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redeemed humanity and i have just redeemed the world go get those nations they are mine
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it's basically what's being said in the great commission
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now the church does not replace israel you're going to get some person that says oh that's
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replacement theology that the church replaces israel no the church is israel in its matured form
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okay the church does not replace israel the church is israel in its matured form let me explain
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the old testament promises to israel are not nullified they're not nullified they are fulfilled
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in christ and his body the church so to be very clear be very very clear here when god was making
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and then there are people who are of the covenant.
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there are people in the covenant through baptism
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Those Christ-believing, faith-filled Jews of the Old Testament were the early church.
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But the early church, you can go back to Genesis, where I believe that Adam is the first member of the church.
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Because in Genesis chapter 4 is the first prayer ever recorded in Scripture.
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And he is begging by faith, trusting in God for them to send that promise to serpent crusher.
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You don't make prayers like that without faith.
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And so, while we don't have absolute clarity, I believe the early church starts with Adam.
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Do you not believe that Moses is part of the early church?
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And every other Old Testament saint that you read of in Scripture.
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They were the early church, the early body of Christ, the true Israel.
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So to equate the modern geopolitical nation of Israel with the true Israel of God,
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To confuse those two realities is to commit a serious theological error.
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It shifts our eyes from the spiritual and the universal to the physical and the national.
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And what happens in America when Israel starts getting into war?
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It shifts our eyes from the spiritual and the universal to the physical and to the national.
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You know what? It's going to just get worse and worse.
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In fact, if it gets worse fast, then maybe Jesus will come back soon.
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it reduces the glorious christ-centered fulfillment of god's covenant promises
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to an ethnic nationalism that bears no resemblance of the gospel that is saving
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people all over the world it takes one people of god in christ and produces two peoples of god
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It really, truly creates polygamy as God has two brides, Israel and the church.
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This is not how the scriptures defines his people.
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For he himself is our peace, who has made us both, Jews and Gentiles, one.
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and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
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that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two,
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so making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross.
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I don't know how you arrive at two peoples of God from passages of scripture like this.
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Jesus hating ethnic Israel as God's chosen people
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and the church as some kind of temporary parenthetical pause
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of redeeming the Gentiles in separation from Israel
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only so that Jesus can come back and restore the kingdom
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and have two separate peoples in heaven and earth.
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The true Israel is not a nation defined by borders, lineage, or ethnicity.
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It is the body of Christ composed of all who believe, both Jew and Gentile.
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it's why paul says in galatians 3 28 through 29 there is neither jew nor greek you've in fact
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you've lost your identity you're in christ not that you're not american or not that you're not
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japanese or whatever it may be but the primary identification that you have is not your skin
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color or your country but it's christ everything else falls below that
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there is neither jew nor greek for you are all one in christ jesus
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and if you are christ then you are abraham's offspring heirs according to the promise
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get your systematic helmet on and just let that all kind of soak in and make sense to you