1. What does the Bible predict will happen in the future? How will God fulfill His promises to His...
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1. What does the Bible predict will happen in the future? How will God fulfill His promises to His people? Are the promises that God made to Abraham still
What does the Bible predict will happen in the future? How will
God fulfill His promises to His people? Are the promises that God
made to Abraham still being fulfilled? Does Israel have a special
place in the coming of Christ? Will the temple be rebuilt and all
Israel be saved? 2
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The most popular religious teaching concerning these questions
is given by the premillennial dispensationalists. They teach that
Jesus is returning to rule over a physical kingdom on earth for
1,000 years. Israel will be restored as a nation and return to God
corporately through a national conversion to Christ. The temple in
Jerusalem will be rebuilt, along with the worship of the Temple.
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Slide 4
The Biblical teaching concerning the place of the nation of
Israel includes at least four elements. Selection Testing Rejection
Replacement 4
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Selection: Almost two thousand years before the birth of
Christ, Jehovah selected Abraham to be the founder of a new nation.
Genesis 12:2 5
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Abrahams offspring were given a special law and system of
worship designed to separate them from the other nations of the
world. Exodus 19:5-6 6
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Gods selection of Abraham, and thus Israel, was not due to any
holy character, or just for their benefit, but as a means whereby
He would bring Christ, as the coming Messiah of the Jews, and the
Savior of the world. Galatians 3:24-25 7
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Testing: For some fifteen hundred years the Lord God attempted
to cultivate the nation of Israel to be a people that reflected His
character and purpose. Jeremiah 32:23 Luke 13:34 8
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Rejection: The rebellion of the nation consummated with the
murder of Jesus Christ. 9
Slide 10
Israels unique status with God was conditional. Deuteronomy
28:1 10
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Jesus foretold this Divine judgment in several of his later
parables, including The Parable of the Wicked Tenants Matthew
21:33-44 11
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This parable came to fulfillment when the Roman armies came
against Palestine in A.D. 70, and Judaism was destroyed. 12
Slide 13
With the coming of Christ, there was also an end to the law of
Moses, and thus the separateness of Israel as Gods covenant people.
Ephesians 2:14-16 13
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The writer of Hebrews points out that the law of Moses was
inherently weak in several ways and that God had promised a new
covenant based upon better promises. Hebrews 10:9-10 1 Peter
1:18-21 14
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Replacement: As a consequence of Israels rejection of the
Messiah, God has replaced physical Israel with a new nation,
spiritual Israel. Romans 2:28-29 15
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Those who submit to the gospel plan of redemptionwhether Jew or
Gentile become children of God, and thus are constituted as the
true seed of Abraham Galatians 3:7-9 Galatians 3:26-29 1 Peter 2:9
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Slide 17
Although, in fulfillment of the promises to Abraham, physical
Israel WAS a special people to God, with the coming of the Gospel,
there was no intrinsic value in being a physical descendant of
Abraham. Matthew 3:8-10 17
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In several of Jesus later parables He depicts Israel as those
who reject 1)the royal invitation to the marriage,( Matt. 22:1-8) ;
2) the reign of the Nobleman over his household (Luke 19:14) ; 3)
or the invitation to a great supper (Luke 14). 18
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Although Israel, as a nation, lost its land and its status as a
favored nation in the eyes of God, the spiritual blessing of
salvation remained. Romans 10:12-15 19
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Paul goes on to say that God has not cast off His people, but
rather provided a remnant, according to the election (choosing) of
grace (11:5). Rom 11:26-27 20
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Paul anguished over his brethren in the flesh: Romans 9:1-5
Romans 10:1 21
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Israel fulfilled its purpose in the Devine plan. Selection
Testing Rejection Replacement Israel can be saved just as we can be
saved only through Jesus Christ. 22