As far as replacement theology goes, the Church teaches that the Jewish Nation was destined to give way to the Catholic Church as the fullment of God’s promise to Abraham that the whole world would be blessed through his descendants,the Jewish People. And that happened. It was through Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, all Jews, and through the Apostles, all Jews, that the Catholic Church began. Catholics today then are also descendants of Abraham, not in a racial sense, but in a spiritual sense.
“...the Church teaches that the Jewish Nation was destined to give way to the Catholic Church...”
That is not what the Bible teaches.
Refer to the Scriptures in the last posted comment.
“It was through Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, all Jews, and through the Apostles, all Jews, that the Catholic Church began.”
[that the “Catholic Church” began?]
The “Catholic Church” did not begin until Constantine. The first followers and believers in Yeshua Jesus] were Jews, not Catholics.
As far as “church” is concerned, read my treatment of this old ecclesiastical word:
A brief note on the english word “church”:
The word rendered as church in modern english Bibles dates back to the Middle Ages. That is, the modern recognized spelling of the word.
1st Tim 3:15 plainly states that the church is the “house of God”.
Throughout the Bible the House of God is also refered to as the temple of God.
In Matt Yeshua [Jesus] stated that the one who hears his words and does what he says is like a person who builds their “house” on a rock. And when the storms come, that house will not ‘fall’ because it is built on a rock.
In John 2:19 Yeshua [Jesus] said,-
“Destroy this temple [ House of God] and in three days I will raise it up again.”
Zechariah 6:12-”...behold the man whose name is the Branch; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord”
In Scripture the God of Israel is frequently refered to as the “Rock”.
David said “You oh Lord are the “Rock” of my salvation.
“The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me...”-2nd Samuel 23:3
God is the Rock
Matt 6:18-”...upon this Rock I will build my [ house, temple] and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
This is so important because their is a counterfeit Christian cult religion that teaches that the “temple” not made with hands raised up and is being built by Yeshua, “fell” and dissappeared from the earth until a man named Joesph Smith brought about it’s restoration in the mid-1800’s in America.
The above Scriptures serve to blow that false teaching out of the water.
Back to the word church.
William Tyndale who is responsible for the very first New Testament printed in the english language never use the word church a single time in his translation. Instead he used the word “congregation”.
Flash forward to the publication of the 1611 King James Bible. There were strict rules put in place for it’s translation. One of those rules was that the “old ecclesiastical words” be retained. Especially the word “church”.-
Metzger, Bruce, “The Bible in Translation”,p. 71, 2001
One thing that comes to mind concerning this is the possible lingering anger and animosity towards William Tyndale held by Papal authorities.
After all, Tyndale along with Luther, Wycliffe, and other reformers were very steadfast in their insistance that there is no Biblical basis for the office of a “Pope”.
Now if that wouldn’t get a Papal Catholic fatwa slapped against you, nothing would.
Indeed, in Scripture we find a list of designated postions such as teachers, evangelists, pastors, prophets, emissaries [apostles]. But no “Pope”.-Ephesians 4:11
And these were for the work of the ministry and the edifying the “body” of believers. The “body” which are the “living stones” :
“...you yourselves , as living stones , are being built into a spiritual “house” to be priests set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah.”- 1st Peter 2:5
We who by God’s unmerited, undeserved favor, have come to embrace and follow the Christ [ Messiah] , experiencing the forgiveness of all our sins, we have not replaced Israel, nor succeeded Israel, nor become a new Israel,—
rather as Paul says “...we have been grafted in”. We have been made partakers of the salvation that Yeshua [Jesus] plainly says in John 4:22 is “...of the Jews.”
Video, audio link:
Israeli Pastor Wayne Hilsden of the King of Kings Worship center in Jerusalem, speaks on the topic of the “New Covenant”-
http://www.kkcj.org/teaching/sermon/the-renewed-covenant/