Has the Church Replaced Israel?
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- Before Jesus ascended into heaven, His disciples asked, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
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- He said, It's not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority, but you will receive power when the
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- Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
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- The disciples believed, as most Jews did, that the Messiah was going to make Israel great again, as it was under Kings David and Solomon.
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- But Jesus said that with the Holy Spirit, you will go into the world preaching the gospel, and this will be done for as long as the
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- Father has determined. In other words, Jesus was saying that the preaching of the gospel will be the revival of Israel.
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- Whoever believes the gospel of Jesus Christ is true Israel. Now some will decry this as supersessionism.
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- The church has not replaced Israel, they will say. Of course it hasn't. The church is the expansion of Israel.
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- Paul referred to true believers as the Israel of God. Romans 2, 28 -29 says no one is a
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- Jew who is merely one outwardly, but a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision a matter of the heart.
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- Romans 9, 6 says for not all who are descended from Israel, meaning ethnic Israel, belong to Israel, meaning spiritual
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- Israel. In Romans 11, we're given the picture of a cultivated olive tree. Branches have been cut off, and Jews and Gentiles grafted into Christ together.
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- Then verse 26 says, in this way all Israel will be saved, meaning true