How does the "church age" end before the Second Coming of Christ, when the New Covenant is found to be "everlasting" in the verses below?
Heb 13:20 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Heb 8:13 In that He says, "A NEW COVENANT," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Heb 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
Heb 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Heb 12:24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
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baberean2,
Do you ever think for yourself? Or are you so blinded by your denominational view you can't see the forest for the trees? Doesn't sound like a biblical Berean to me.
1. The law was to be forever but not under the Old Covenant. Jeremiah 31:31-34 proves this and this is why they could not behold the abolishment of that Old Covenant 2 Corinthians 3:13.
2. The NC came in at the Cross of Christ and his resurrection.
Galatians 3:17; And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Verse 18; For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it by promise.
Verse 19; Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of of a mediator.
3. The promises in the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants for Israel and not the church Genesis 12:1-4-15; 2 Samuel 7:4-16; 1 Chronicles 28:7-8; Isaiah 2:2-4; 9:6-7; 66:6-9; Ezekiel 37:24; 15-28; etc.
These scriptures show and prove that Old Covenant couldn't prevent the New Covenant taking its place, the New Covenant couldn't prevent the eternal promises of the gifts and callings of the nation of Israel when they repent Romans 11:25-29.
4. The church age saints being raptured cannot prevent the gospel being given to the nation of Israel or Gentiles because they will realize how much they messed up when we are gone.
God will use the prophetic videos left behind of the prophecy teachers that preach the pre-tribulation rapture Revelation 4:1.
Revelation 19:11-15 shows saints coming out of Heaven with Christ and not the rapture of 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 where the Lord is descending out of Heaven with only dead saints with a shout to rapture his earthly saints.
Revelation 19:11-15 Christ is coming out of Heaven with his saints to make war not rapture his saints.
Revelation 19 shows no shout from Heaven at all, but out of his mouth goes a sword to smite the nations and will rule with a rod of iron over the earth.
5. You go to seed with the spiritual Jew theory. This extreme is why you take the scripture out of context and steal the nation of Israel's gifts and callings and attribute them to the church.
All saints will have rulership positions but even the church age saints will not have the exact positions in the KoH reign.
Israel's covenants are eternal and no matter how much they sin they will have a remnant of grace there will be a generation who will believe in Christ and take their rightful place in the KoH reign at the head of the nations Isaiah 2:2-4 where the law will go out of Zion. Zion will be the capitol of the earth and in the land of the nation of Israel.
Ezekiel 37 shows the promise of the land and the KoH reign and Joel 2 of the restoration of creation and Acts 3:19 are all tied into the restoration of all things that started when Adam and Eve sinned and lost the physical and spiritual rule.
6. Because the church age involves the timing of the NC, and includes the mystery of the church of Jew and Gentile in one body alike you assume that the church has to be present in the tribulation to provoke Israel to jealousy?
The church of Jews and Gentiles provoke the nation today but they haven't got the clue because they are still blinded just like in Paul's day in 2 Corinthians 3:14.
If Paul believed in your spiritual Jew to the extreme theory there would be no reason to say that all individual Jews will be saved when the time of the Gentiles come in and Christ will take away their sins connected to the election and their gifts and callings. why and what are you saying?
One, he is talking about the nation of physical Israel because Christ comes back to not only take the kingdoms of the world Revelation 11:15; and save Israel who will be encompassed by the nations of the world Zechariah 14:1-4; 1:1-21.
Two, the true church is not backslidden or trodden under the foot of men for the gates of hell should not prevail against it Matthew 16:18.
Third, unbelieving Jews can be enemies to the church, but as touching the election (Jewish remnant)? they are beloved for the father's sake.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
These last two scriptures make no sense if Paul is talking about only unbelieving Jews and not the nation of Israel.
Why? Because the unbelieving Gentiles are just as important as the unbelieving Jews for they all need to be saved.
7. Your spiritual Jew extreme theory is assumption, wrong deducing, non-recognition of proper contexts, impossible to reconcile with all the scriptures on the subject and not to mention the nation of Israel's gifts and calling is without repentance which means it is eternal conditioned on obedience which will happen in the tribulation.
There is no logic in your view humanly or Heavenly speaking according to the scriptures.
Your unfairness in exegesis which I have already proved you do you continue to ignore the truth and continue to ask questions or say anything to keep the conversation going to try and show your position is somewhat relevant when it isn't. Jerry kelso