"The view I hold presently is that God has "put aside" Israel for now in favor of the Church, but will deal with them one more time at the end of history."
Hi Tom,
God never 'put Israel aside'! For a time He chastised Israel in the Babylonian and Assyrian Captivity, but He never 'put them aside'. Also, he used Israel's temporary rejection of Jesus to fulfill the promises to Abraham that he would be the Father of many nations under the New Covenant, and then He completed the salvation of the Remnant of Israel (and thus all Israel shall be saved) as He had promised. The Jewish remanant in the first century was definitely in the tens and probably in the hundreds of thousands. This is the salvation of the remanant of Israel that God used to Evangelize the whole world in the New Covenant in Jesus's Blood. The New Jerusalem is the Christian Church--the Body of Christ.
There is only one way to be a "Jew" under the New Cocenant and that is through the Blood of Jesus. The New Covenant in Jesus recreates the human spirit into the lost image and likeness lost in the Garden and then God fills us with the Holy Spirit that we can become the sons of God and members of the household of Eternal Tabernacle.
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When you state that:
"The view I hold presently is that God has "put aside" Israel for now in favor of the Church, but will deal with them one more time at the end of history.",
it implies that the Eternal New Creation of the sons of God--the Christian Church---is only a mere perenthesis betweeen two Jewish dispensations.
The Jewish dispensation of the old Covenant was only the shadow and figure of the spiritual reality that Jesus was to establish in the New Covenant. The Body of Christ--the sons of God--created through the Blood of Jesus is not some temporary perenthesis that evaporates after some canral "Jewish kingdom" is supposedly established in the endtimes, but rather it is the essence and purpose of the Old and New Testament. The Church is Eteranl and the very vision that Abraham perceived by faith. The Church is the Holy Temple, the New Jerusalem, where Christ and God will dwell for Eternity. That holy Temple is the hearts of the Christian people.
The Pharisees, Scribes and Jews who rejected Jesus were looking for a carnal and worldly kingdom because they lacked the faith and vision of Abraham. These Jews were in constant opposition to the New Israel of God in Christ.
In contrast to this dark light there were the Jewish Apostles, disciples, and other Jews who accepted Jesus's Kingdom of the heart-- the Kingdom of God. After the Resurrection and Ascension, Jesus baptized these Israelites of faith with the Holy Spirit and founded His New Covenant Christian nation--the New Israel of God.
In 70A.D God put an end to this division of the ancient Hebrew religon between the New Covenant Israel of God in Christ and the old covenant Israel who rejected Jesus. God put an end to the division by destroying the old covenant Temple, Levitical priesthood, Aaronic priesthood, Ark of the covenant along with all the Temple furniture and the genealogies. Between 1 and 2 millions Jews who rejected Jesus were destroyed in the siege of Jerusalem in 70A.D. and the rest scattered. The Temple Judaism and Israel kingdom of the old covenant had been destroyed and superseded by the New Israel Kingdom of God with Jesus Christ as King and Melchizedek High priest.
In 90 A.D. Rabbi jochanan ben Zakkai and a handful of antichrist Jews settled in Jamnai and began the establishment and creation of modern Talmudic Judaism by intiating his Palestinian Talmud which was completed amost four centuries later when the leaders of modern Judaism moved to Babylonia. The final Talmud in Babylonia was called the Babylonian Talmud and became the basis of modern Judaism. The bedrock of the Babylonian Talmud is a rejection of Jesus.
The Babylonian Talmud reflected the dark vision of the Pharisees and scribes who had rejected Jesus's Kingdom for their worldly and fleshly kingdom. They officially denounced the 350 year old Greek Septuagint because it gave too much support to the claims of Jesus.
The Babylonian Talmud reinterpreted the OT prophecies to reflect a rejection of Jesus. The Talmudic Rabbis fabricated traditions to deny Jesus's Messianic fulfillment of the OT prophecies. They fabricated a very vile and distorted history of the life of Jesus that became known as the Toledot Yeshua (The History of Jesus). This false Talmudic teaching on the life of Jesus is still use in the theological formation of modern Rabbis. |
