When did the Original Jewish Church, the Apostles, the 3000 on Pentecost, etc.. CEASE being National Israel?
The Church has never REPLACED Israel, it always WAS, and Remains Israel...
Saying the Church has replaced Israel would be the same as Saying the 7000 Faithful of Israel who refused to Bow their Knee to Baal also "Replaced" Israel(
1 Kings 19:1-18;
Romans 11:2-36)
Saying the Church has replaced Israel would be the same as Saying The Faithful "Church" of the nation in the Wilderness "Replaced" Israel when they entered the Promised Land (
Numbers 14:26-45;
Numbers 21:5-9;
Numbers 16:1-50,
Acts 7:38-45)
Saying the Church has replaced Israel would be the same as Saying the small but faithful remnant In Isaiah's day "Replaced" Israel. (
Isaiah 10:22-23;
Isaiah 1:7-9;
Romans 9:27-29)
The Church NEVER Replaced Israel, the Church is, and always was, the Faithful Remnant OF Israel, and indeed is the
only entity through which the continuation of the BIBLICAL NATION of Israel itself MUST be counted, for the rest were cut off forever (Acts 3:22-24)
God struck down thousands of rebellious Israelites in the wilderness (Num 14:26-45; Num 21:5-9; Num 16:1-50), though
the church was preserved and led to the Promised Land (
Acts 7:38-45); In Isaiah's day, apostasy became so rampant that "All Israel" continued to exist through a small but faithful remnant (Isa 10:22-23; Isa 1:7-9; Rom 9:27-29); And again as mentioned above, in Elijah's era, the multitude of Israelites who worshiped the false god Baal was so great that "All Israel" narrowed to a mere seven thousand men (
1 Kings 19:1-18; Rom 11:2-4). Lastly, at the close of the Old Testamental age, Israel was again reduced to a small remnant of faithful elect ones (Rom 11:5). The Jewish Pharisees and temple rulers grew wicked to the point of killing God's holy Messiah and apostles (1 Thess 2:14-16), and throngs wanted Caesar as king instead of Messiah, the son of David (Jn 19:15). Then, as in times past, "
All Israel" survived and continued on EXCLUSIVELY through the faithful sons, the Nazarene Sect (The REMNANT), while the unfaithful apostates were "cut off" from among the people FOREVER.
Just as the
jewish church abode with Moses in the wilderness (Acts 7:37-38), so Jesus had
HIS jewish church (Mt. 16:18-19).
St. Paul said that when the nation was in mass apostasy, the TRUE NATIONAL Israel was carried on not through the lineages of the wicked sons but rather through the OBEDIENT FEW (called the "remnant"), such as was true in Isaiah's day (
Romans 9:27-29) and Elijah's day (
Romans 11:3-5).
St. Peter says the same thing at Acts 3:22-24, where it is clear that the wicked jews who refuse Christ were to be "cut off from among the People of Israel" while the faithful jews (John the Baptist, Joseph and Mary, the Twelve, the Seventy, the three thousand on Pentecost day, and many thousands of other jews) were the True Faithful Israel.
And within a few years after Pentecost, the faithful Israel learned how to start accepting both jewish
and also gentile followers from all over the empire to convert into their Nation (
1 Peter 2:9-10; Mt 21:40-45). And so the tiny remnant True Israel grew into a worldwide Judaism living under the promised NEW covenant of Israel's Messiah.
And so it was also in Moses' day, when the countless thousands of wicked sons of Abraham were slain in the wilderness while the faithful sons of Abraham survived and got to enter the Promised Land.
We must NEVER count the continuation of Israel through the wicked sons but rather always through the faithful remnant!
Israel survived *exclusively* in the sect of the Nazarenes. They received with joy their promised New Covenant and obediently rejected all former biases against the non-Abrahamic families of earth so that Genesis 12:3 might finally be attained (Gal 3:7-9/Rom 4:13-18)---via the work of the Jewish Messiah. This sole surviving form of covenant Judaism is known worldwide as Christianity, the Jewish church gone global.
The church always was the covenanted Israel, the church continues to be the covenanted Israel. The only difference is that the NEW covenant of Israel enabled Jewish fullness to be bestowed upon gentile people groups (Gen 12:3).
The REAL "replacement theology" is the one who seeks to REPLACE the Faithful Sons of Abraham with the Wicked ones as the true Heirs.
Such is, sadly, RAMPANT here on CF.
Modern Secular Israel has Legalized Gay Marriage
Do you Bless that Israel?
Modern Secular Israel has Legal on demand FREE abortion for any female 15 years old and up.
Do you Bless That Israel?
Here is the Scriptural TRUTH about the Identity of Israel:
The Israelite apostles of the Jewish Messiah say I am a Jew (
Romans 2:27-29), say I am "Abraham's seed" (
Romans 4:16/
Galatians 3:29), say I am "the peculiar people, royal priesthood,
holy nation" (
1 Peter 2:9-10), say I am the circumcision-less Israel of God (
Galatians 6:15-16), say I am "no longer a stranger but
a fellow citizen of the commonwealth" (
Ephesians 2:19), say I was once not a people but now am the people of God (
1 Peter 2:10) and say I am the circumcision (
Philippians 3:2-3).
Each and every one of these statements takes a key identifier/distinctive of Israel and labels me with it. Meanwhile, Christ calls the disobedient genetic sons of Abraham the "sons of satan" and the "synagogue of satan" (
Revelation 2:9/
John 8:39-47), and St. John says that those who deny the Son have no claim whatsoever to the Father (
1 John 2:23)
