The Holy Spirit started leading me to a fuller picture of What's Really Going On years ago, and then stepped it up within the past decade. It's been a process-journey, not a boom!-revelation. Since the Hamas attack on Gaza (10/7/23), accurate hermeneutics for matching Bible history with current events have become more important—especially if one is confronted by a Replacement Theology Activist (which happens a lot in social media groups).
My exploration into this began as a comfortably paced realization that the spiritual world is very real, which I very much needed because my childhood church believed in evolution and therefore, instead of recognizing that the Canaanite's gods were evil spirits, I was taught all that 'false idol stuff' was made up by primitive, non-scientific minds. But as an adult I came to understand that there is an unseen realm that rebelled against God and has been playing out its spiritual war on battlefield Earth. God created Earth for humans He made in His Image, and He covenanted with His creation to enable them to overcome evil. Some covenants have term limits, but others like those with Adam, Noah, and Abraham are eternal (or more accurately, everlasting in all dimensions or for as long as Earth-time remains).
The Abrahamic Covenant began as a promise in Genesis 12:1-9 and was completed/ratified (fully cut) in Genesis 17. It established geographic real estate for God and it designated which people (nationality) would be the overseers. It was continued through Isaac, Gen 26:2-5, the son of The Promise. This is the covenant that backed up Joshua's conquests after the Israelites had been MIA in Egypt and the wilderness for over 440 years. Genesis 17:7 establishes it as an everlasting covenant. Unlike portions of later covenants made with Moses and David, none of the Abrahamic Covenant concludes with/at/upon Jesus' resurrection.
The perpetuity of Abraham's covenant is reinforced by several Old Testament prophets and in the Psalms. The New Testament clarifies and confirms this in Romans 11:2. Additionally, endtime prophecy regarding what is commonly called 'Armageddon' and Jesus' Second Coming shows that this land given to Abraham will be in the control of his descendants. Therefore, The Church, The Bride of Christ, is not occupying the land of Israel at the time of Christ's return; it is under the control of a political beast system. (descendants gone bad?)
I've had replacement theology nitwits in online religion forums try to tell me I am promoting a false doctrine in saying the Land is Israel's because "The Church" is in charge now and the Church doesn't get overthrown. No, I am not saying that the church gets overthrown. (Anyway, the Church is the Bride; she gets married.) The Land, Eretz Yisrael, is God's under the everlasting covenant, and as we move from the Church Age to the Kingdom Age the world will see that the Abrahamic Covenant still holds when Jesus returns to reign on Earth.
Those who pursue "Replacement of Israel by the Church" are going to end up in a ditch. Yes, in Luke 21:24 Jesus talks about Jerusalem being under control of the Gentiles for a time, but that does not mean they are there legally (with a scripturally-legal claim) or that Allah-worshiping Palestinians "deserve" the land covenanted to Abraham. Paul explains in Romans 11:25; Israel experiences a partial hardening by God, not a full replacement. The partial hardening happened to Israel, but with a time limit, only until "the fullness of the Gentiles has come in." (a related but different topic)
Abraham's Covenant is everlasting; today's politics are not.
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