JEWS - REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY - NYOBS 07.57

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 7 - ESCHATOLOGY

REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY – RABBIT TRAIL

• This is a concept that Jewish Israel failed to recognize the Messiah Jesus Christ, and after centuries has now been replaced by the Christian Church as God’s chosen people.  Israel now has no role in God’s future work. – This is a FALSE doctrine of the New Age movement.
• Jesus Christ is the life giving Vine.  God broke off the branches of unbelieving Israel and grafted in the believing Gentiles.
• BUT, if the broken branches of Israel will believe, He has promised to graft them back in.
• LISTEN: The Vine is Jesus Christ and the branches are Jewish Israel - When you as a Gentile are grafted into the vine, you become part of Jewish Israel.  Your roots are Jewish.
• All Israel is therefore; the natural branches of the vine; the believing Jews - Plus the un-natural wild branches that were grated in; the Gentiles - Plus the broken off branches that were grafted back into the vine; the returning believing Jews.
• SO, when you see ALL ISRAEL spoken of, it includes all believers.  We are “All Israel”.
• If we are arrogant toward the Jew, because we have been grafted into the vine, God will judge us.   God will bless those who bless the Jews and curse those that curse them.
• If it were not for the Jews we would not have the scriptures, prophets, apostles and our Messiah. 
• Israel’s blindness to the Messiah will be removed when the fullness of the Gentile has been completed.  This will occur during the tribulation period.

Rom 11:1

11:1 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. NIV

Rom 11:5

5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. NIV

John 15:5

5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. NIV

John 15:1-2

1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. NIV

Rom 11:17-21

17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."

20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. NIV

Rom 11:23-24

 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! NIV

Gen 12:3

3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." NIV

Rom 11:25-26

25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: NIV