The post certainly does explain how God deals differently with the Church and Israel, and if you don't see it it is because you don't want to; it conflicts with what you think you know.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree and wait until the Tribulation to find out if the Church and Israel are different or the same.
Then how do you explain Hosea? Because she played the harlot by going after false gods, God issued the house of Israel a bill of divorcement (Jer 3:8 also), but promised to remarry her one day (see Hosea 2 and others).
In fact, Hosea, and what God instructed him to do by marrying his prostitute wife and naming his children as such, is a picture of the relationship between God and the house of Israel.
Hosea 1:9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
Interesting how Peter applies that very thing to the new believers to whom he was writing -
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
So what's the deal - does God marry Israel and Jesus marry the church or what? Or maybe there's just one bride after all.
The post certainly does explain how God deals differently with the Church and Israel, and if you don't see it it is because you don't want to; it conflicts with what you think you know.
I used to be a pretrib rapture dispensationalist, and it was only through prayer and intense study throughout the whole of scripture that I no longer am.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree and wait until the Tribulation to find out if the Church and Israel are different or the same.
Fair enough. I only hope we both keep an open mind, as we see through a glass darkly after all, with flawed, human eyes.