(Truth in the Last Days — Post 19) Introduction Few passages in Scripture are appealed to more often to defend a future national restoration of Israel than Romans 11. Many believers who are unconvinced by land-promise arguments still feel that this chapter must predict a coming large-scale Jewish turning to God as a distinct covenant…
Amir’s Claim Amir Tsarfati insists that Romans 11 proves God has a separate plan for the political nation of Israel. He argues that Paul’s words — “all Israel shall be saved” — must mean a future mass salvation of the Jewish people as a nation, distinct from the Church. According to Amir, if the Church…
Why the Church Is Not a Parenthesis “So we, being many, are one body in Christ.” — Romans 12:5 (KJV) “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:28 (KJV) Christian Zionism teaches that the Church is a temporary pause in God’s plan — a “parenthesis” between…
Hebrew Roots and the Return to Bondage Series Subtitle: A Biblical Look at Romans 11 and What It Actually Means to Be Grafted In 1. Introduction: The Misused Olive Tree One of the most cited and misunderstood passages used to justify Hebrew Roots theology is Romans 11. The image of Gentiles being “grafted in” has…
Dismantling the Core Division at the Heart of Dispensationalism “The church is a New Testament organism… Israel is an ethnic/national entity…”— Mike Vlach, Dispensational Theology This is the sine qua non of Dispensationalism: that God has two distinct peoples, two plans, and two sets of promises. But Scripture tells another story — one rooted not…