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The Daily Word of Righteousness
If You Love Me . . ., #15
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, By abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, (Ephesians 2:14,15)
Let's take a look at the five teachings of dispensationalism we have mentioned.
Israel and the Christian Church are two separate entities . It is true, of course, that the physical land and people and the Christian Church are separate entities. But true Israel, the elect of God, comprise all who are part of Christ whether Jewish or Gentile. When the Lord Jesus and His saints descend from Heaven they will remove sin from the physical Jews. Those Jews will be born again into the Kingdom of God. All Israel will be saved.
The Kingdom of God will come to physical Jerusalem. Antichrist knows this. His purpose is to separate the Christian Gentiles from the physical Jews and send them off to Heaven. As long as this is true the Law will never go forth from Zion or the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem—exactly as Antichrist intends.
God has one kingdom for people of Jewish birth and another, heavenly kingdom for people of Gentile birth. This is an anti-Semitic teaching. The Gentile Christians will govern a kingdom in Heaven (completely without scriptural support) while the Jews govern a kingdom on the earth.
Since righteous behavior always is a case of spiritual power, earthly Jews can never create a righteous kingdom on the earth. Only the Lord Jesus has sufficient power to compel obedience. By the teaching of the two kingdoms, one earthly and one heavenly, Antichrist seeks to preserve his lawless reign on the earth.
The Lord Jesus is returning to "carry His waiting bride to Heaven." The emphasis of the Old Testament is that the Lord Jesus is returning to earth to establish justice and righteousness for the nations. The purpose of the Lord's return is not to carry off the light of the world to Heaven, it is to rule the nations with a rod of iron until they are willing to obey God's commandments.
He will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his law the islands will put their hope. (Isaiah 42:4)
The most elementary knowledge of the Hebrew Prophets will reveal that the Lord Jesus will return to the earth to compel obedience on the part of the saved nations. Of course, His saints will be with Him, ruling from Jerusalem.
The "dispensation of grace" was not revealed in the Old Testament but is a special parenthesis in God's dealing with man. This aspect of dispensational teaching has destroyed our understanding of the Old Testament. Christian people are left without a scriptural destiny.
The truth is, our destiny is found in the Hebrew Prophets. The new covenant is not a special parenthesis not found in the Old Testament. The new covenant was prophesied by Jeremiah.
"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people." (Jeremiah 31:31-33)
To be continued.