This was a very truthful well explained article. We don’t hold to the beliefs of that last paragraph of Jesus coming back to rule the Kingdoms of the earth. The 1000 years represents the years through all of the Church age where Satan doesn’t have full control by being thrown into the bottomless pit and after the church age he will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.  Read Revelation 19:6 to 20:10.  That teaching is part of the Dispensational teachings but this author is not a dispensationalist.  The book of Revelation is not to be interpreted literally in the future. It is a spiritual book for all ages since Christianity began.

Truth Uncensored Afrika.

Paul’s Writings

Paul, as the Apostle to the Gentiles, bore the responsibility of helping the Gentiles to understand what had taken place that suddenly opened the way for them to come to God through faith. To the Romans, Paul explained that “he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly … but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly” (Romans 2:28-29). We have already seen that simply doing Jewish things was not enough to please the Lord (Isaiah 1:11-15). Now Paul adds to that by stating that just because someone is born into the family of Abraham, it does not make him a Jew inwardly; Abraham was justified before God because of his faith in Him (evidenced through his obedience to the voice of the Lord), therefore, anyone who is without that faith is not truly a descendant of Abraham – a Jew.

To the Galatians, Paul explained that Abraham received the promise that began in Genesis 3:15 – “And I [Jehovah] will put enmity between thee [Satan] and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it [He] shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”16 He goes on to explain that “her seed” speaks of none other than Christ, the Promised One (Galatians 3:16). The Law of Moses, we are told, “was added because of transgressions, till the seed [Christ] should come to whom the promise was made.” (Galatians 3:19). Without any doubt, the promise, which God made to Abraham, that through him all of the families of the earth would be blessed, found its fulfillment in Christ; He is the One Who has blessed everyone in the world, and He came into this world as a child of Abraham.
To the Ephesians, Paul explains for us that Jesus not only brought salvation from sin, but He removed that which had, from the time of Moses, separated the Jews from the Gentiles – the Law of Moses. “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off [Gentiles] are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one [the Jew and the Gentile], and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances [the Law of Moses]; for to make in himself of twain [Jew and Gentile] one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross …” (Ephesians 2:13-16). Here is the explanation of what Jesus meant when He said that He would shepherd only one flock; there is not a flock of Jews and a separate flock of Gentiles – we are all ONE. The kingdom of God is one; the Jews of Jesus’ day lost the kingdom because of their unbelief; the kingdom has received us through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Conclusion

From what we have just seen, what should our view of modern-day Israel be? Are we to join with John Hagee in supporting the nation of Israel as much as we can? Or should our focus be to live in obedience to the Lord Who paid the price for our sins so that we can be a testimony of His presence in the world today?

In Romans 11, Paul tells us that we (as Gentiles, branches from a wild olive tree) have been grafted into the Root (the Lord Jesus Christ), whereas the Jews (those of the fold – John 10:16) have been broken off because of unbelief (Romans 11:17-21). We are spiritual Israel, for we are in Christ by faith; “all Israel shall be saved” when the last person joins that one flock of the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 11:26). In the words of the Scriptures: “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature” (Galatians 6:15).

God chose Abraham so that through him would come the Seed (Christ); this is the fruition of the promise that through him all of the families of the earth would be blessed. As Christ completed His work of salvation, and ascended into glory, He brought to an end the unique role of the nation of Israel in history. The vail before the Holy of Holies was torn open when He died upon the cross, and, through the New Covenant that He set in place, there came a new means of reconciliation with God. The sacrifices were ended, the priesthood was replaced, and the temple was no longer required. With the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD, God removed the last vestiges of Jewish tradition so that His people would seek Him through faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ only! The Jews were God’s chosen people to carry the promise forward, and to receive the Law of Moses (Romans 3:1-2), which foreshadowed the work that Christ would complete while He was on earth. That task has been accomplished in full.

Paul asks the question, “Hath God cast away [rejected] his people?” (Romans 11:1), to which his answer is: “God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew” (Romans 11:2).17 To the Ephesians, Paul explained this foreknowledge: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly placesin Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will …” (Ephesians 1:3-5). Even though, being omniscient, God knows who will accept His salvation, it does not mean that His knowledge is deterministic; He has not predetermined some people to salvation, and others to damnation. The choice always rests with the individual! Moses admonished the people of Israel to “choose life” (Deuteronomy 30:19), Joshua challenged them to choose whom they would serve (Joshua 24:15), and we are told that whoever is believing on Jesus Christ should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16) – choosing and believing are all things that we are called upon to do; God has not, nor will He, do it for us.
Habbakuk, a prophet to Judah before they were exiled, declared that “the just shall live by his faith” (Habbakuk 2:4b); or “a righteous man by his faithfulness liveth.”18 It was not hidden from Israel that despite the many required activities of the Law of Moses, faith was still the key that opened the door to a relationship with the Creator. Paul states that the Gospel was preached to Abraham through the promise that all peoples would be blessed through him; that was the Good News of Christ coming to pay the price for the sins of the world (Galatians 3:8). Christ has purchased our freedom from the law of sin so that we might receive the blessing that was promised through Abraham: the Spirit of God Who comes to abide within us when we place our faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:13-14; Romans 8:9)! Paul brings the Galatians to this conclusion: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:28-29). The modern-day nation of Israel is of no spiritual significance in God’s eyes; as a nation, they accomplished the purposes that He desired when Jesus came to earth, and their rejection of Him as their Messiah was confirmation that they still did not understand that God desired faithfulness, and not just works.
The obsession that many Evangelicals have with the nation of Israel comes partly from the dispensational error that is made by separating Israel from born-again believers (commonly called “the church”). By creating this artificial distinction, which finds no basis in Scripture, they are required to perpetuate the usefulness of Israel within God’s economy in order to explain some of the events that are prophesied to take place in the days ahead through which “the church,” in their view, will not participate. Because they view “the church” as being a parenthetical institution in God’s dealings with man, they must bring Israel back into their own as a nation so that the rest of prophecy can be fulfilled. This has become such a prominent understanding among professing Christians today, that to hold to anything other than this is to invite looks of incredulity. However, the fact remains that the Scriptures are filled with the clear teaching that the purposes of Israel are completed and that, in Christ, they are the same as the Gentiles. Within our minds, the Jews must hold no higher place of significance than our next door neighbor.
Will the land that Israel occupied (the Promised Land) hold any significance in the days ahead? That is a decidedly different matter, and the answer to that would be, yes! When the Lord Jesus Christ returns to establish His reign on earth, we are told that He will inherit all of the kingdoms of the earth (Revelation 11:15), and we are told that He will reign from Jerusalem, like unto His earthly forefather, David. “Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem …” (Isaiah 24:23). After Satan is released from his thousand-year stay in his prison, he will gather the peoples of the earth in battle against the Lord, “and they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city [Jerusalem]” (Revelation 20:9). Clearly, this will be the center from which the peoples of the earth will be ruled with a rod of iron.

• Comment by Truth Uncensored Afrika: This was a very truthful well explained article. We don’t hold to the beliefs of that last paragraph of Jesus coming back to rule the Kingdoms of the earth. The 1000 years represents the years through all of the Church age where Satan doesn’t have full control by being thrown into the bottomless pit and after the church age he will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.  Read Revelation 19:6 to 20:10.  That teaching is part of the Dispensational teachings but this author is not a dispensationalist.  The book of Revelation is not to be interpreted literally in the future. It is a spiritual book for all ages since Christianity began.