If they reject Christ, Jesus says they are of their "father the devil." How can a Christ-hating nation be the kingdom of God? What Bible are you reading? They are under the wrath of God! They are antichrist! They are blind! They are the synagogue of Satan! Only those who are born again (both Jew and Gentile) are God's elect and true Israel!
The problem I see with dispensationalists is that they artificially make a special protected class of sinner – Israeli sinners – to support their extra-biblical teaching. They somehow make them elect sinner. They present them as a specially blessed sinner. They are somehow chosen of God because of an accident of birth, and God because of their ethnic race, when this has never been the case, either in the Old Testament or the New Testament. Salvation has always been by grace, not race.
The reality is there are only two camps of human beings – saved and lost, those who belong to God and those who belong to the devil. There is no third group. Premillennialism invents a third group who are too righteous to be destroyed when Jesus comes and to wicked to be caught up and glorified. This group is totally unknown to Scripture. They create this to justify their ‘Segregation Theology’.
John the Baptist warned the Jews that anyone that refuses to receive Jesus “the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36). Jesus Himself splits mankind into two distinct camps (not three) in the parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew 13:38-39: “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.”
If one was to take an un-indoctrinated theological journey through the whole of Scripture from start to finish one would surely come to the definite conclusion that mankind is ultimately only divided into two types of people – those that personally know God and are consequently destined to everlasting bliss, and those that that are enemies of God and are therefore destined to everlasting punishment.
The wheat and tares are a symbolic collective inclusive representation of all mankind; the wheat representing “the children of the kingdom” (Matthew 13:38) – those saved by God’s wonderful grace; the tares representing “the children of the wicked one” (Matthew 13:38) – those outside of grace and of God. The righteous in this story are notably planted of God; the tares on the other hand are planted of the “enemy” – the devil. In fact, Matthew 13:39 states, “The enemy that sowed them is the devil.” This again corroborates the view that we are viewing the only two sole peoples that Scripture recognises. Plainly, if one isn’t of the Lord then there are of the devil. There are no hybrids.
If they do not embrace Christ they do not belong to God. They cannot be God’s chosen people if they reject Christ.
Jesus said in Luke 9:48, “whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me.”
Jesus said in John 15:23, “He that hateth me hateth my Father also.”
2 John 1:9: “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.”
There can be no dispute here, without negating the Word of God.
Those who not born again and only have one nature and are described by Jesus in John 8:44 as being of their “father the devil.” Why? Because He told them the truth (by way of the Gospel) and they refused to believe Him (John 8:45-46). Because of their rejection of Him and His truth, He told them “ye are not of God” (John 8:47).
There are not two God’s, two Saviors and two ways of salvation. There is one way, and that comes through Christ and His finished work at Calvary.
Paul reinforces this truth in 2 Corinthians 4:4, demonstrating that all those who reject our Lord and “the light of the glorious gospel of Christ” are “blinded” by “the god of this world” (Satan). They are deceived.
John deems anyone who denies “Jesus is the Christ (or Messiah)” as a liar” and an “antichrist.” This includes every single Jew and Gentile who rebels against God’s only provision for sin. There are no special exceptions or imaginary 3rd group of humans, as Dispies pretend. In 1 John 3:10 he shows that mankind is divided into two camps. One is called “the children of God” and the other is called “the children of the devil.”
Finally, Jesus admonished the church in Smyrna in Revelation 2:9, “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.”
Those who reject Christ are indeed of their father the devil. You dismiss these crystal-clear censures from Jesus, arguing: "it's one specific synagogue he addressing, I think." Well, He actually condemns 2 churches here that had large Jewish communities living around them that were apostate. Judaism is apostate. It has rejected their Messiah and is therefore condemned and unregenerate.
The Lord similarly condemns the unbelieving natural Jew in Revelation 3:9 for imagining that he was real Jew. Whilst speaking to the church at Philadelphia, He said, “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”
In Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 Christ succinctly describes the Jews that rejects Him and what He achieved at the cross as those who “say they are Jews, and are not.” What he is saying is: they are not real Jews. The Philadelphia Church, which would have been overwhelmingly Gentile, was here promised that God would cause the unbelieving Jews to come and worship at their feet. The Lord again exposed the delusion that did beguile (and does beguile) the natural Christ-rejecting Jews “which say they are Jews” but “are not, but do lie.” The true Jew today is a believer in Yahweh that is spiritually circumcised in heart, not merely physically circumcised.
Hi we are in agreement of two types of people saved and unsaved. The detour you take is replacing the church with Israel in the covenant with Abraham that God affirms it over and over. The Jews in Ezekiel 36 are gathered back to the mountains of Israel. God says He is doing this for His names sake. He notes that this group is gathered out of all the nations where they were scattered and that they profaned the name of the LORD in all the nations where they were scattered. He says in the days that they are brought back that He will remove the reproach of the nations and will give them a new heart.
‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to you, ‘You devour men and bereave your nation
of children,’ 14 therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,” says the Lord GOD. 15 “Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,” says the Lord GOD.’ ”
0 When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These
are the people of the LORD,
and yet they have gone out of His land.’ 21 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.
22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do
this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. 23 And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I
am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes. 24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do
them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. 29 I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that
were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 Not for your sake do I do
this,” says the Lord GOD, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!”
33 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable
you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by. 35 So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities
are now fortified
and inhabited.’ 36 Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places
and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken
it, and I will do
it.”
37 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock. 38 Like a flock
offered as holy
sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I
am the LORD.” ’ ”
They are born again this group which is those who go through the tribulation and make it will never hear the taunts of the nations again. Just as Luke one predicts the LORD delivers them and where is was said you are not my people you shall be called sons of the living God.