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Beautiful summation by Gab's Andrew Torba"

Jesus is the true Israel, not an apostate nation of unbelieving Jews formed in 1948. Christ’s Church has inherited the promises made to Israel.

Israel was called to be a light to the nations (Isaiah 49:6). However, Israel failed in their mission multiple times. In the New Testament, this mission is taken up by Jesus (Luke 2:32), who becomes the true light to the nations.

In Romans 11, Paul uses the metaphor of an olive tree. The natural branches (Jews) were broken off because of unbelief, and wild branches (Gentiles) were grafted in. Yet there’s hope that the natural branches can be grafted back in ONLY if they accept Jesus Christ—who is the root. (Revelation 22:16)

The root is NOT ethnic Jews and it's not some modern nation state in the middle east, it's Christ Himself.

The theological implications of viewing the Jewish people or the modern nation state of Israel as having a unique relationship with God despite rejecting Christ undermines the significance of Jesus' role in reconciling humanity to God and contradicts the entire New Testament.

The core message of Christianity is centered around the belief that Jesus is the Son of God, who came to earth to offer salvation to all people through his death and resurrection. Those who call themselves Jews today do not get a special get out of hell free card for being born into a particular ethnic group and continuing to reject Christ.

They don’t have some "side deal" with God. No one comes to the Father without the Son. (John 14:6) They reject the Son and therefore they do not know the Father. (John 8:19) They do not worship God, they belong to their father the devil as Jesus said in John 8:44.

Paul explicitly states that not all of ethnic Israel is truly Israel (Romans 9:6). He goes on to say that it's the children of promise, not physical descent, who are Abraham's offspring. (Romans 9:8)

Jesus offers further clarity on this topic in John chapter 8 where the Jews appeal to their ethnic identity in response to Him saying "we be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man."

Jesus' response to them is revealing: "I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham, but now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

"Ye do the deeds of your father. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."

Jesus ends by saying "Before Abraham was, I am" and then the Jews tried to stone him.

The book of Hebrews makes it crystal clear: the Old Covenant is obsolete (Hebrews 8:13). It's done. Finished. Over. The New Covenant in Christ's blood has replaced it entirely.

The Church fulfills God's promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed through him (Genesis 22:18) and his seed, who is Christ. (Galatians 3:16-18)

The belief that ethnic Israel (Jews) retain a distinctive status apart from the Church misinterprets Scripture. It neglects the transformative nature of Christ's work. He did not simply enhance Israel; He fulfilled its purpose and extended it to embrace all who believe.

If your pastor is preaching anything else on this subject, you're not in a church.

You're in a synagogue of Satan.