Just to round off what I said the other day, I just have a couple of Scriptures to add.
Jesus told this parable which explains how God’s chosen people, rejected their Messiah, the very One Who came to save them. They did not recognize Him.
33 “Now listen to another story. A certain landowner planted a vineyard, built a wall around it, dug a pit for pressing out the grape juice, and built a lookout tower. Then he leased the vineyard to tenant farmers and moved to another country. 34 At the time of the grape harvest, he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop. 35 But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. 36 So the landowner sent a larger group of his servants to collect for him, but the results were the same.
37 “Finally, the owner sent his son, thinking, ‘Surely they will respect my son.’
38 “But when the tenant farmers saw his son coming, they said to one another, ‘Here comes the heir to this estate. Come on, let’s kill him and get the estate for ourselves!’ 39 So they grabbed him, dragged him out of the vineyard, and murdered him.
40 “When the owner of the vineyard returns,” Jesus asked, “what do you think he will do to those farmers?”
41 The religious leaders replied, “He will put the wicked men to a horrible death and lease the vineyard to others who will give him his share of the crop after each harvest.”
42 Then Jesus asked them, “Didn’t you ever read this in the Scriptures?
‘The stone that the builders rejected
has now become the cornerstone.
This is the Lord’s doing,
and it is wonderful to see.’
43 I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that will produce the proper fruit. 44 Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone it falls on.”
So Jesus said to the Jewish leaders that the Kingdom would be taken from them and given to another nation…. which was the Gentiles… anyone who wasn’t a Jew. And today, that nation is the Church. (See 1 Peter 2:9-10)
Has God finished with Israel as a nation? Has the Church become His “new Israel”? I don’t believe so to both questions. God still has a purpose for His original chosen people! You can read about it in Romans 9 to 11. Read and see what their destiny is!!
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April 6, 2009 at 10:00 am |
Yes, I agree. The ‘Replacement Theology’ as it concerns the Jew’s is by far the most outrageous doctrine I’ve ever heard.
The Lord told the Gentiles that they were the “wild olive branch’ grafted into the vine because of Israel’s rejection of Him, however continued to say, “how much more should the natural olive branch be grafted back in again?”
I believe we are witnessing that in our times.