>> “Oh BTW, first I ever heard dispensationalism equates Jews with Israel.” <<
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The conflation of the two in assessment of prophecy is the foundational characteristic of Dispensationalism.
This is how the imaginary “dispensation of the age of grace” gets inserted between the end times, and the “fullness of the gentiles.”
That is their way of disguising the fact of Matthew 15:24, to make the ‘church’ separate from the “lost sheep of the House of Israel.”
Dispensationalism sees the House of Israel coming together with the House of Judah in present day Israel, disregarding the prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in the Revelation, and depends on an imaginary secret rapture to separate “the church” from Yeshua’s congregation that they have in Israel somehow.
It all just doesn’t hold together. It even disregards present day Israel’s laws that would prohibit their migration. Then they often call themselves “Christian Zionists,” whatever they think that is.
There are many such examples but I'll just pick one...
Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
You know who they, their and them are??? It's Israel...You know who the Gentiles are??? NOT Israel...Simple as that...