>>507224335Now hard dispensationalism is wrong. But the relationship is:
1. God chose one family and its many descendants (Israel) to bring the Messiah out of, and give his law into their keeping.
2. These people were to adhere to a set of laws designed to segregate them from the rest of the world, to be "different"
3. Messiah is born into them, and begins His ministry in Israel.
4. Messiah is crucified to fulfill prophecy and to have His sacrifice be an atonement for sin.
5. Messiah resurrects, His mission now becomes to spread the Gospel to the entire world, including Gentiles.
6. In Acts 10, Peter is again instructed to bring the Gospel to the Gentiles, and for the laws put on Israel are no longer in force, because now there is not cause to segregate God's people from the rest of the world physically, but spiritually. So Christians aren't bound by the Mosaic laws, including circumcision.
7. Romans 11, Paul explains how no, the Church does not REPLACE Israel, they are grafted into it, they're part of Israel now, Christ God/Christ is the root, and the Jews/Christians are branches. Some of the Jewish branches were broken off, and gentile branches grafted in.
8. However, those broken off Jewish branches can still be grafted back in, and that is what's going to happen in the end. Jews will come to faith in Christ, Paul explains that a partial blindness has happened to Israel, so that the Gospel can go to the gentiles, and the gentiles provoke Israel to Jealousy. When the fullness of the Gentiles come in, that is, those who will be saved get saved, God will heal Israel's blindness, and they'll turn to Jesus, and that will save Israel.
They have to turn to Jesus though, they're not saved apart from Him.
But it's going to be a miracle. Read Revelation 7. The 144,000 are Jews, the uncountable multitude are the gentiles. Zechariah 13 explains 2/3 of Jews perish, 1/3 get saved.