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Sorry Delvianna, I have been away and this got overlooked.Concepts/teachings dont conflict with each other. So if you make a statement that says the church is now the true Israel, then nothing else in the bible should conflict with that view. The problem is, there ARE conflictions.
The reference to the "body of Christ", the reference to a distinction between "Christians" and "Jews" when Paul taught.
With this issue of who is the true Israel of God, we must go right back to when the ten Northern tribes separated from Judah, after King Solomon died. This separation was as God Planned - 1 Kings 12:24.
Not long after, the Assyrians came down 'like a wolf on the fold.....', as Tennysons poem says and they were exiled to Northern Assyria, now the Caucasus region. The historical record and by many other means, prove they migrated across Europe and the Prophesies Promises to them by Jacob and Moses, indicate who they are today.
Therefore; the House of Israel is still scattered among the nations, James 1:1, 1 Peter 1:1, and it is mainly them who have accepted the Gospel Message. WE Christians await the fulfilment of our destiny, as we go to live in all of the Holy Land, being the people God always wanted there, but has never yet had.
In Amos 2:4-5, the fate of Jewish Israel is described, Amos 9:6-15 tells of the restoration of Christian Israel.
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