Heidelcast 166: As It Was In The Days Of Noah (12): The Israel Of God

by Heidelcast on December 6, 2020

It is the Dispensational-premillennial belief that God made a promise to Abraham (Genesis chapters 15 and 17) that he would give to him an earthly, national people with the result that, in the Dispensational view, it has always been God’s intention to have such a people and if the Jews refused the first offer (or Jesus refused their terms) then there must be an earthly, Jewish, Palestinian, kingdom in the millennium. According to Dispensationalism, God was so committed to creating such an earthly, national people that this was the primary reason for the incarnation, birth and ministry of Christ. Had they accepted his offer of an earthly kingdom, Jesus would not have died. In this scheme, Jesus’ saving death on the cross is a happy by-product of God’s plan for national Israel. It is also an article of faith among many Premillennialists that the creation of a modern Israeli state, in 1948, is a providential confirmation of their claim that the Jews are God’s earthly, national people and that further, God continues to work out history along two parallel tracks, with an earthly Jewish people and a spiritual, Christian people. This way of proceeding, however, is full of difficulties. In this episode we looking at some of these difficulties and offering a more biblical alternative.

 

 

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