National Israel is God's chosen people and still is. There is no such thing as the "Replacement Theory" as I think you know.
Find a thread already set up and I will come there and discuss this with you~As much as we owe the nation of Israel, we owed it to the children of God's promise among them, past, present, and future, yet there are no promises for them
AS A NATION, outside of this dispensation of grace, or the times of Jesus Christ; once he returns then the world will come to its end, and then the resurrection of all that have ever lived, shall come forth to be judge, with each receiving their just dues according to the word of God.
Just in case you cannot find one~I will said this once and not again in this thread:
C.I. Scofield: “It is important to see that the nation has never possessed the whole land.”
Scripture: “So Joshua took the whole land” (
Joshua 11:23). “And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein” (
Joshua 21:43-45).
The Palestinian Covenant gives the conditions under which Israel entered the land of promise. It is important to see that the nation has never as yet taken the land under the unconditional Abrahamic covenant, nor has it ever possessed the whole land.
With these bold words Mr. Scofield tries to lay the foundation for his Millennial
scheme of a future national restoration of physical Jews to Palestine. He reasons as follows:
God never gave the whole land to Israel, so
there must be a time in the future when He will give them the whole land.
God never gave the land to Israel under his so-called unconditional Abrahamic covenant, so
there must be a time in the future when He will give it to them unconditionally.
Since the present age is the “parenthesis” of the Church, this future restoration must occur after the Rapture – even during a 1000-year reign of Christ in Jerusalem.
THUS SAITH THE LORD
God promised the land to Abraham personally (
Genesis 13:15,
17;
17:8).
God promised the land to Abraham’s seed (
Genesis 12:7;
13:15;
15:18-21;
17:8;
26:1-5;
28:13-14).
Abraham never received even one foot of ground in Canaan as a gift from God (
Acts 7:5); he even had to buy a burial place for Sarah (
Genesis 23:1-20). He was a stranger in Canaan, and he lived the life of a nomad in tents (
Hebrews 11:9).
Abraham knew God intended heaven by the promise of the land (H
ebrews 11:13). He saw the promise of heaven afar off; he was persuaded of it; he embraced
this superior fulfillment; and he acknowledged that he was a stranger and pilgrim in Canaan. He set his affection on things above rather
than on things on the earth (
Colossians 3:1-4); He saw the day of Jesus Christ and desired it (
John 8:56).
Abraham didn’t want the physical land of Canaan (
Hebrews 11:10,
14-16).
He wanted heaven. Who would want a piece of inferior ground just to grow old and die? God promised
him glory, the world to come and eternal life. (Hebrews 2:5) He looked for a city with everlasting foundations ~ built by God, not some temporal city of Canaan. He desired a
far better country than Canaan: he desired a heavenly country and the heavenly Jerusalem – even Mount Zion, where his Friend God dwelt (
Hebrews 12:22-23).
God intended the promises to Abraham spiritually. Abraham understood them spiritually; he believed them spiritually; and he preferred the infinite superiority of heaven to the earthly country of Canaan. He walked by faith (
II Corinthians 4:17 – 5:8). Did God keep His promise to Abraham by giving him heaven instead of Canaan? If I promise you $10 but give you $1,000,000 instead,
did I keep my promise? Of course! God fulfilled His promise
infinitely better with the world to come!
The promises made to Abraham and his Seed are truly fulfilled
in Jesus Christ, for He is the true Seed of Abraham (
Galatians 3:16). This fact is extremely important and conclusive in any promises to Abraham. And the true heirs of the promises are those in Jesus Christ by faith – the children of Abraham by God’s definition (
Galatians 3:7,
28-29). God’s promises are not fulfilled in the fleshly descendants of Abraham, who were never the children of God (
Romans 9:6-8;
Revelation 3:9).
Nevertheless, national Israel did indeed receive the whole land just as promised. Not a single aspect or dimensional compromise was made. They received everything ever promised (
Joshua 11:23;
21:43-45;
23:14-15;
I Kings 8:34,
56;
Nehemiah 9:7-8,
22-25;
Exodus 23:27-31;
Numbers 34:1-15;
Deut 11:22-25;
Psalm 44:1-3;
105:43-45;
135:10-12;
Acts 7:45;
Joshua 2:24; jos 3:9-11; 22:4; 24:13;
II Chronicles 6:25;
Jeremiah 32:21-23).
The
true Jew is a regenerated person of
any race (
Rom 2:28-29;
John 1:47). Christ united
Jews and Gentiles into one body and kingdom by His blood (
Eph 2:11-22;
I Peter 2:4-10). The tabernacle of David is being rebuilt with Gentiles, mostl in the last days, with some Jews here and there, not many. (
Acts 15:13-18).
No longer is there any difference between Jews and Gentiles (
Gal 3:28;
Col 3:11).
Now saved Gentiles are as Isaac, the promised sons of heaven; and unbelieving fleshly Jews are as Ishmael, the rejected sons of petition. (
Gal 4:21-31). If that's too hard for you to accept, then you have a problem with the scriptures.
Mr. Scofield’s
scheme of a future restoration of fleshly, national Israel to world preeminence
is a Jewish fable and lie that Paul condemned (
Titus 1:14). God took the kingdom from the Jews and gave it to the Gentiles (
Matt 21:33-46) The reformed kingdom is here permanently
for believing Jews and Gentiles (
Heb 12:18-29), with Jesus Christ on His throne (
Acts 2:33-36;
Eph 1:20-23;
Rev 2:27;
7,
21;
12:5).
You need to seriously reconsider
replacing your man made doctrine with the truth of the word of God, enough said. I was taught this lie when I first came to Christ back in the early seventies and but very soon saw through it for what it was worth.
