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Replacement theology refuted! By: David Ben-Ariel

clearly teaches that the Hebrew God chose Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for a special
purpose to ultimately affect all humanity.
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User? God first revealed Himself to "the fathers" and promised to be their God and the
God of their descendants. The rest of mankind was "temporarily" left in the dark and
to their own devices.

God drafted the 12 Tribes of Israel to become His Servant Nation. Moses rejoiced in
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Marketing the Jews (Rom. 3:1-2). And please note that this was written AFTER the Church was
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View all Categories The lying proponents of "replacement theology" deny that there's any advantage to
being a Jew or an Israelite. The apostle Paul, under inspiration, strongly disagrees!
He wisely continues Jesus' recognition of the Jew's God-given authority: "The
scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you
Submit observe, that observe and do" (Matt. 23:2-3). And Moses prophesied that the Jews
are to retain their God-given authority until Christ restores Israel as "One Nation
under God."

Moses didn't say that Gentiles or the Church had any right to covet or steal that
responsibility from the Jews: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, UNTIL Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be" (Gen. 49:10). Jesus didn't do that at His first coming,
which is why His disciples asked Him after His resurrection and just before His
ascension: "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts
1:6). The King of the Jews will accomplish that divine mission when He returns!

God formed Israel as His Holy Nation, instructed them as His Son, and inducted
them into His Divine Service. They received a special calling to become a
KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, a MODEL NATION, a LIGHT TO ALL NATIONS. God
decreed Israel would be "above [not equal to] all people, And ye shall be unto me a
kingdom of priests, and an holy nation" (Ex. 19:5-6).

NO OTHER NATION CAN COMPARE TO GOD'S RELATIONSHIP WITH

ISRAEL AND HIS REVELATION TO THEM! (Deut. 4:5-8). Please understand that
this utterly unique relationship and revelation is what made Israel great, it wasn't
something inherent within them. It was a gift and a blessing they had received from
God, despite themselves. It wasn't because they were any better than anybody else; it
wasn't because of their race; it was because of GOD'S PURPOSE AND GRACE
(Deut. 7:7-8; 9:5; Matt. 3:9; Rom. 3:23; 9:10-18).

The apostle Paul wrote to Church brethren, about their different gifts and calling
(they weren't all equal): "For who makes thee to differ from another? And what do
you have that you didn't receive? Now if you received it, why do you glory, as if you
hadn't received it?" (1 Cor. 4:7). It is by God's design that individuals and nations
should have different and distinct gifts and callings.

It is our Heavenly Father who directs and establishes us where we belong in His
plan, whether it's in the Church or among the nations (Deut. 32:8). Who are we to
question His wisdom or to quarrel about positions? (Isa. 45:9-10; Matt. 20:23; 1 Cor.
12:18).

Jesus is the Firstborn of many brethren, the Church is the collective firstfruits of
humanity, and ISRAEL IS THE FIRSTBORN OF MANY NATIONS! In fact, Isaiah
19:25 pronounces: "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands,
and Israel mine inheritance." God has dealt with those three nations more than any
others on earth. That is His choice and prerogative. But for now, God has privately
tutored Israel like He commands fathers to teach their sons (Deut. 6:7).

God has never referred to any other nation as His Son! Only Israel has that honor:
"Thou art my Son" (Ps. 2:7), and "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and
called my son out of Egypt" (Hos. 11:1). We're the little boy that will show the way
to the whole world, once God has subdued our sins, conquered our enemies and
changed their bestial natures to befriend us (Micah 7:19-20; Isa. 11:6; Zech. 8:23).

We need to grow up and we will. Israel has been given a head-start in spiritual
education, a special advantage, compared to others. We're not yet mature as a grown
man but at least we're a child while others are still acting like animals! (Lev. 26:22;
Rev. 13:18). Nevertheless, "I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will
hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a
light to the Gentiles; I am the LORDand my glory will I not give to another" (Isa.
42:6,8).

God will faithfully fulfill His purpose for calling physical Israel. He will finish what
He's started with our nation! He won't offer that opportunity to any other! God
promises, despite the demonic doctrine of replacement theology: "This people
[Israel] have I formed for myself: they shall show forth my praise" (Isa. 43:21). Not
Germany or Italy or Ethiopia! Do we believe God? Do we doubt He's capable of
redeeming Israel? Replacement theology doesn't trust God and denies His saving
power! It attempts to limit the Holy One of Israel!

God refers to future events as if they had already happened, since He knows He'll
bring them to pass! (Rom. 4:17). Israel is the first nation that God has called out of
spiritual Babylon, but they're only the first and not the last. God has called physical
Israel to prepare them to serve as a CONVERTED NATION with but under His
brilliant Kingdom of God-Beings, just like the GLORIFIED CHURCH is destined to
serve as Immortal Priest-Kings, with but under Christ! (Rev. 3:21; 20:6).ISRAEL
WILL BE THE FIRST NATION TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT! (Ezek. 39:29;
Isa. 44:3). Then we'll share our spiritual blessings with all mankind: "But ye [Israel]
shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our
God; And [Israel's] seed [physical descendants] shall be known among the Gentiles,
and their [literal] offspring among the people: all that see them shall [finally]
ACKNOWLEDGE THEM, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed"
(Isa. 61:6,9; Isa. 60:14). And at that time the tribes of Israel will acknowledge Judah
for faithful service (Gen. 49:8, Zech. 8:23).
Christ will rule from Jerusalem as Israel's God-King, and yet there will also be a
human prince and other mortals reigning under Him (Jer. 30:21; 33:26; Ezek. 46;
Zech. 14:16). Likewise, internationally, the human nation of Israel will rule with but
under the divine Kingdom-Family of God, and Zadok's physical descendants will
faithfully serve in the Temple at headquarters (Ezek. 44:15).

All of the above glorifies God for his tender mercies and faithfulness to our fathers
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It reveals that "with God all things are possible." It
confirms that "I would not, [Gentile] brethren, that you should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, UNTIL the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so, all Israel
shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall
turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is my covenant with them, when I shall
take away their sins; as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes
(Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), FOR THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE
IRREVOCABLE" (Rom. 11:25-29).

Those who foolishly push replacement theology are "wise in their own conceits."
They have shamefully twisted the Scriptures that refer to spiritual Jews, to spiritual
Jerusalem, the spiritual Temple and spiritual Israel - that generously admits repentant
Gentiles into the SPIRITUAL COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL - to spiritualize
away God's faithful promises to physical Israel! Now that they've been admitted, they
jealously want to exclude Judah and usurp Israel from their rightful place in God's
plan! (Rom. 11:24). Individual Israelites may fall away, converted Gentiles grafted
in, but the NATION OF ISRAEL is here to stay!

"O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from
thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance; We are thine:
thou never barest rule over them [Gentiles]; they were not called by thy name" (Isa.
63:17-19).

Some Gentiles have forgotten that God hasn't called Israel to become spiritual
Gentiles, but has called everyone to become spiritual Israelites! They've forgotten
that ISRAEL IS THE HOLY ROOT to which they've become attached. Paul warned
them: "Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, thou bearest not the root, but
the root thee" (Rom. 11:18).

They forget that the Church is CONVERTED ISRAEL that embraces righteous
Gentiles. They've ignored the biblical principle of DUALITY. That there's the
physical and there's the spiritual, and that both have their ordained place. Satan is the
one who would love to spiritualize Israel away into oblivion. He wants God to break
His promises to physical Israel and let them die in a spiritual holocaust!

However, God refuses to forget His physical people Israel and His holy purpose for
them! "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion
on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee" (Isa.
49:14-15,Jer. 31:20).

We're supposed to ENCOURAGE ISRAEL TO REMEMBER THEIR ROOTS AND

JUDAH HIS RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE GOD, not discourage them.
Nevertheless, God remembers them and places His special protective seal upon
144,000 Israelites before the Day of the Lord (Rev. 7:4), and purposely names the 12
gates of the New Jerusalem after the 12 Tribes! (Rev. 21:12). This ought to prove
that Israel remains first and foremost in God's Mind (Zech. 2:8). After all, salvation is
to the Jew first and then to the Gentile (Acts 3:26; Rom. 1:16).

Paul addresses the nonsense of those who would belittle Israel by asking, "Has God
cast away his people? GOD FORBID!" He goes on to show that God has always
graciously preserved an ISRAELITE REMNANT, a "holy lump," even when He
permitted the majority of Israel to go astray so that He could meanwhile recruit
Gentiles (Rom. 11:1,5,16).

Those who preach the polluted propaganda of replacement theology would say
 physical Israel doesn't matter any more, but Paul clearly fought against such
damnable lies! He also reminded his Gentile audience that it's the Israelites who were
given everything from the Land Covenant to the Law (Rom. 9:4-5).

Those who preach Satan's lies against Israel had better read and believe and take
warning! God says, despite Israel's horrible sins, "I WILL NOT CAST THEM
AWAY, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant
with them: for I am the LORD their God. But I will for their sakes remember the
covenant of their [physical] ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt
in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD" (Lev. 26:44-
45).

And with physical Judah and Israel, God promises to enter into a new or renewed
covenant: "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a NEW
COVENANT with the House of Israel, and with the House of Judah" (Jer. 31:31).
God also states emphatically that just as surely as the sun, moon and stars continue
to shine, "If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed
of Israel also shall cease from being a NATION before me forever. Thus saith the
LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched
out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith
the LORD" (Jer. 31:35-37).

Again, God has heard the lies of those who say that He's spiritualized away His
precious promises, that the TWO PHYSICAL FAMILIES OF ISRAEL AND
JUDAH (and literal descendants of David and Levi) aren't important anymore, and
says such blasphemers "Have despised my people, that they should be no more a
NATION before them. Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and
night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; Then will I
cast away the SEED of Jacob (unconverted Israel), and David my servant, so that I
will not take any of his seed to be RULERS over the seed of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them" (Jer. 33:17-
26).

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer in Ohio and author of Beyond

Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall.
(http://www.publishamerica.com/shopping/shopdisplayproducts.asp?catalogid=7144)
With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others
improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out Beyond Babylon
(http://beyondbabylon.blogspot.com).
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