DOES the Land of Israel truly belong to Israel? PT 7
This will be a time of great difficulty for the Jewish people, but we will be miraculously delivered out of it: "Alas! for that day is great, there is none like it; and it is the time of Jacob's distress, but he will be saved from it" (Jeremiah 30:7). The fires of anti-Semitism will reach their hottest point in the near future, but with YAHWEH’S help, we will come through our fiery trials to a time of unparalleled salvation. Israel's salvation and blessing will then overflow to the other nations of the world.
Sadly, many Christians won't accept these facts because they accept “Replacement Theology," the erroneous teaching that Yahweh Elohim is finished with the Jewish people and has replaced Israel with the Church. Speaking to us through the prophet Jeremiah, YAHWEH Elohim specifically warns against having a theology that denies Israel's future destiny:
"Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which YAHWEH Elohim chose, He has rejected them?' Thus, they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight. Thus, says the YAHWEH, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of Heaven and Earth I have not established, then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from His descendants’ rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them'" (Jeremiah 33:24-26). All of YAHWEH’S promises to the Jewish people will literally be fulfilled!
Followers of Messiah must repudiate "Replacement Theology." No one who claims to follow the Messiah ought to teach or believe that the Jewish people have been lost, destroyed, replaced, superseded, permanently set aside or continually exiled from their Land.
Don't ignore the admonition given by Rabbi Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, specifically directed to Gentile Followers of Messiah, which I paraphrase here:
“But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you. You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
Well! For unbelief they were broken off. And you stand by faith. Do not be high minded, but fear. For if YAHWEH did not spare the natural branches, fear that it may be He will not spare you either. Behold, then, the kindness and severity of YAHWEH: On those having fallen, severity. But on you kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise, you will also be cut off. And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For YAHWEH is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the natural wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a good olive tree, how much more these being according to nature will be grafted into their own olive tree?” (Romans 11:17-24).
"do not be arrogant toward the natural branches, the Jewish people. YAHWEH chose them to be the root of the Tree of Salvation. They support you - you don't support or replace them! Only some of them were broken off from the Tree of Salvation - not all of them. Moreover, it is YAHWEH’S plan to graft the entire Jewish nation back into the Tree of Salvation, so don't be arrogant or conceited toward the Jewish people. Be respectful to them, lest YAHWEH Elohim punish you!"
. . . to be continued. . .
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