How I Learned I Was Wrong
What do you do when you’re teaching one thing and the Bible teaches another? “Now, the New Covenant, that’s ours. That’s for us as Christians.” I can still hear myself speaking those words to my Bible study ladies several years ago as I finished teaching a class on the Old Testament Covenants God had made with the nation of Israel. As I read Jeremiah 31:31–34 (the promise of tGet More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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Thank you for reading the article and sharing your thoughts.
The New Testament explicitly teaches that the New Covenant has been enacted with all the house of Israel and the house of Judah. Heb. 8:6-7. (The Church.) And that the old Covenant has passed away. Israel is and always has been the Church. Peter states in Act 3:23 that all those who don’t hear that Prophet, Jesus will be cut off from among the people. (Israel, the Church). Under the New Covenant Israel the Church is expanded all over the world. Israel the Church is and always has been a multi-ethnic covenant people of God. Not some narrow racial or ethnic group. People were were either added to or cut off from Israel by whether they kept the covenant.
The church is not under the New Covenant. We are “children of the promise” just as Isaac was.
Isaac was born as a miracle child as promised. Before any Covenant with Israel was given, Abraham was promised that through him, ALL the families of the earth would be blessed.
We in the church have been blessed because God keeps His promises. Jesus said in John 4, “Salvation is of the Jews.”
So we too have believed the promise of God in the Scriptures written by Abraham’s people and we too have experienced a miracle birth into new forever life. Praise the Lord! We are not Israel but we are the Bride of Christ forever and ever. Jesus said, “Abraham saw my day and he was glad.”
We share in Abraham’s joy!
Regarding your thoughts about where the church fits in the new covenant: I have learned and would like to discuss that the new covenant doesn’t really apply to the church at all. Please read all of Paul’s epistles regarding the “Mystery” from Romans to Thessalonians. The church is referred to as the “Body of Christ”. It seems that we are part of the “Groom” and not the Bride. Also, the rapture designates the church as to be with Christ (being the Head of the Body). What do you think?
Amen, it is just not taught, many false doctrines come from taking from Peter to pay Paul. This needs to be corrected in the churches as the people are believing the wrong gospel.
In some of the facebook eschatological groups I’m, or was in having just recently left them, it astounds me how many think that the church is either the new Israel or at least a part of Israel. We are a branch of the tree, but the tree isn’t Israel, which is also a branch of the tree, the tree is Christ. For a saved person to believe and teach any form of replacement theology is heresy. Thankfully for them it’s not a salvific issue, in most cases. In some instances, they aren’t saved because they reject other foundational doctrines, but that’s a different story for another day. While they don’t and can’t lose their salvation, they can and do forfeit rewards for not being faithful servants and stewards of God’s words and ways. One told me the other day, he was a true spiritual Jew because he was saved. When confronted with the question of being a physical Jew he was forced to say he was a Gentile. I was compelled to tell him then that Scripturally he’s just a spiritual Gentile. A true spiritual Jew is a physical Jew who has accepted Yeshua as Messiah. We also call them fulfilled, completed or Messianic Jews. And as Walter Cronkite used to say, “that’s the way it is, February 23, 2022.”