When Religion Forum posters take the view that Israel is no longer God's chosen people or particularly blessed of God then I ask the posters to state their views towards Jews and races or genealogies because that particular belief is held by Christian Identity and other white supremacist groups, none of which are tolerated at all on Free Republic.
What I hold:
God's plan, from the beginning, was to redeem "a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages".
Paul tells us that "Israel according to the flesh" has many advantages:
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
And, again
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
All great advantages, all things that point to God's work in Christ. (And I note, parenthetically, that the concrete land promise that a certain eschatological school obsesses about, hardly seems to matter to the New Testament writers. Curious, that.)
I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Those that eat at the eschatological banquet come from all nations.
Are there physical descendants of the patriarch Israel who are now part of God's people through faith in Christ? Yes. Are there physical descendants of the patriarch Israel who are cut off through unbelief? Unfortunately, yes.
I find Christian Identity to be, just, weird. A crackpot racist sect.
Clear enough?
Another "red flag" is when the poster claims that the word "Adam" means white.
I've honestly never heard that one before.
GOODNESS!
With such a shocking level of Biblical ignorance,
NO WONDER
REPLACEMENTARIANS et al
are so clueless about eschatology!
Or perhaps Revelation 7, 10, 15, 20, 21 & 22 are not in their rubberized "Bibles?"
Shocking.