Purity said:
Veteran, a sound point to assist those to better define God's plan with natural Israel. He will eventually through their refining become Spiritual Israel. What mindset ought the Christian possess as Paul taught in Rom 15:27 concerning our partaking of their spiritual things.
Gentiles (CB forum) have been aliens from the commonwealth of Israel Eph 2:11-22 cp Eph 3:16 & John 4:22, but now they are attached to the hope of the promise made of God to the fathers (Acts 26:6KJV).
Purity
p.s Note to Rex the Church has not replaced Israel but we have been grafted into their Olive Tree.
In essence there can be no such idea as 'Replacement Theology' based on what Apostle Paul showed with the "commonwealth of Israel" idea. Replacement is only a theological term meaningful to those who follow man's doctrines of Dispensationalism which attempts to separate the seed of Israel apart from Christ's Church so they can try and push their Pre-trib secret rapture theory. It is not a concept written in God's Word, but by men.
Because so many fail to study the Old Testament Books like we're supposed to, they haven't understood what the new name of Israel which God gave to Jacob is really about. It's the Salvation name, and it's tied to God's promises and covenants in The Gospel Faith which Abraham believed (Gal.3).
This is why the unbelieving seed of Israel is cut off as long as they remain in unbelief.
The other matter is that God did reserve certain specific promises to the seed of Israel regardless, the 1 Kings 11:31-37 Scripture for one, which is why a remnant of the seed has always dwelt at Jerusalem. God made that promise for king David's and Jerusalem's sake, not their's because they rebelled against God, but because God chose Jerusalem to put His Name there.
But the rest of the promises went to the believing seed of Israel and the believing Gentiles graffed in with them, as Christ's Church. This is the part the Jews especially hate and call Replacement Theology, simply because the false Jews over them hate our Lord Jesus Christ and actually all of God's people.
When God split old Israel into two separate kingdoms per 1 Kings 11, and gave 10 tribes to Jeroboam of Ephraim, that was in prep for The Gospel of Jesus Christ coming and the moving of His vineyard to the new nation that Jesus said would bring forth its fruits (Matt.21). When our Lord Jesus said that to the priests and elders of the Jews in Jerusalem, the 10 tribes had already been removed out their care, and had migrated to new lands where The Gospel would be sent to, and they along with the Gentiles, would believe on Christ Jesus. And that's when God's promises and covenants went to the "commonwealth of Israel" of Christ's Church established mainly in the Christian west.
That's why Judah in Jerusalem no longer has a king from the seed of Israel over them; do not rule the gates of their enemies coming and going; do not hold the majority of the best lands and resources of the earth; and do not fit the promise to Ephraim that he would become "a multitude of nations" (Gen.48). ALL... those promises were from God give first to Abraham, and they then went to Isaac, then Jacob, and then fell upon Joseph and his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, where it still is today. The Jews hate that, but it is written in God's Word, and most of all, it is fulfilled history.