Replacement theology

ebedmelech said:

but I still study on that.

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Keep it up!
Role Reversal:
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
However, it is only a few of the many generations of believers since the time of Jesus, who have understood the truth of how the amazing role reversals in God’s great plan have unfolded in world history. The majority who have been taught only part of the Gospel, now naively believe that Israel, namely the Jewish people as an ethnic group still have a place in God’s plan and they will be removed to safety.

Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Amos 2:4-5

As everyone knows, the Jewish nation refused the leadership of Jesus Christ. Despite the fact of the free gift of the Lord’s unmerited favour being now available to all peoples, many Christians refuse to accept any termination of God’s grace towards physical Israel, instead insisting the salvation of all the Jews in Christ will happen when Jesus Returns. They do this because the separation of Israel and the Church is an immutable tenet of the rapture theory.

But the Old Testament prophets stated the redemption of the remnant of Israel was to happen in a way that would cause the roles to reverse when it occurred.
In the passage that speaks of Israel as the “clay” and the Lord as the “potter,” Jeremiah 18:1-6, saw how the Lord was going to reconfigure Israel from a flesh and blood family into a spiritual entity, through Jesus. John 3:16

Romans 9:8…It isn’t the children of Abraham by natural descent who are the people of God, but all those born into God’s Promise, Jesus, who are the true children of faith.

Isaiah 29:14-16 & Habakkuk 1:5 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a great work and a wonder…Surely Your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? You will not believe this work when you are told of it.
The “work”, or the object of the potter’s effort, was the advent of Jesus and His atoning sacrifice for all people and it was performed to fulfill God’s promise to bring about the spiritual Israel of God, consisting of individuals from every race, nation and language. Revelation 5:9-10

As the Apostle Paul cited Romans 9:21 to the Jews who rejected the salvation offered by Jesus, he indicated the long prophesied role reversal, in which the Lord’s chosen people transitioned from an earthly family to a Spiritual body, had occurred in the astonishing life of the carpenter from Nazareth: Matthew 28:19

Acts 13:26-27 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, to you is the Word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day, that they have fulfilled those prophesies in condemning Jesus.

Over the centuries, the false teachers who have crept into the church have taught the idea that God will yet redeem ethnic Israel, when their chance already occurred two thousand years ago.
When the Apostle Paul quoted Habbakuk’s prophecy concerning the “marvellous wonder” which had occurred through Christ bringing about the Spiritual salvation of humankind, he also quoted from Isaiah concerning the great change of identity – the Lord’s turning of things upside down – when God changed Israel from an ethnic people to a Spiritual entity.

As the no longer chosen flesh and blood Jews realized the Christians were now the Spiritual house of Israel, through which God would shine His light to the nations, they adamantly opposed the salvation which Jesus offered:
But when the Jews saw the multitudes [responding to the Gospel], they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts 13:45

When God opened the door of salvation to the Gentiles, the physical Jews came to see that they were left behind in God’s amazing plan to redeem the Gentiles through the Blood of Jesus. The Jews had read how the prophets said the light of God would shine to the rest of the nations through His servant, but they falsely applied the role of servant to themselves.

Isaiah 41:8, 42:1 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Behold my servant, whom I uphold…I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee as a covenant of the people for a light to the Gentiles.
This specifically refers to Jesus and by extension; to all who follow Him.

As a result, the Jewish leaders say the Messiah has not yet arrived, and they continue to claim themselves as the bearers of God’s Word. They also claim, just as the false prophets in the contemporary Christian church now mistakenly assert, that God will yet save ethnic Israel, when He’s already fulfilled His redemptive promise.

Romans 10:21 To the Jews he says: All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and defiant people.
Romans 11:1-6 I ask then, Has God rejected His people? God forbid. God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin and we have the same access to God’s grace as the Gentiles.

After the Jews intensely opposed the Gospel because they saw how the Christians had inherited the role of Israel, they persecuted the believers – blaspheming the “marvellous work” the LORD had achieved through Jesus. Paul and Barnabus confronted them, and left no doubt the rapidly growing body of Christ was to be considered Spiritual Israel, as Paul quoted the very same prophecies which showed Israel was to be the Lord’s light to the Gentiles, and undeniably applied them to the believers in Jesus Christ.

Acts 13:46-48, quoting Isaiah 42:6 & Isaiah 49:8, Then Paul and Barnabus waxed bold, and said, it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing that you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. For so has the Lord commanded us, saying I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.