REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY: THE BACKDOOR ASSAULT ON THE INTEGRITY OF SCRIPTURE

Jonathan Brentner ^ | 2/27/24 | Jonathan Brentner

[Roman_War_Criminal]

[BereanBrain]

For those who ascribe to “replacement theology” - that the Church has replaced completely the Jews (and Israel).

1) Read Romans 11
2) If the Church has replaced the Jews, and gets all the positive promises, then why not all the negative promises too? Do you want those as well? If you know your old testament, you would not want to live under that.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

It’s called separating the wheat from the tares.

Tares believe in “replacement theology”.

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[Angelino97]

Matthew 12:33-46

33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. 34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.

35 “The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. 36 Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. 37 Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.

[odawg]

“
In the past few years, I have heard several sermons given from the viewpoint that Jesus is now reigning in fulfillment of prophecies...”

Let’s see now:

Matthew 28:18-20:

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

“all authority” seems a good indication of a “reign” on Earth, now.

Not a word about Israel. John, in Revelation, says not a word about Israel. The entire New Testament says not a word about an Israel, in any fashion, representing the Kingdom of God on Earth.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I knew the Jew-hating/Israel Blessing denier would be here.

Thanks for showing your hand...again....

[DSH]

The mere fact that you would post the flag of the modern nation-state of Israel — a wholly secular state that not only tolerates but embraces non-biblical, immoral values — is itself evidence of the fact that there is a sick, entirely worldly political agenda motivating those who promote the heretical nonsense that is “dispensational” theology.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

And another God-Hating/Jew-Hating/Bible denier comes here.

They really are triggered and coming out of the woodwork like roaches.

Separating the Wheat from the Tares....

[chajin]

43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.

That's right. He was talking about them. He was not talking about all Israel. Later, Paul described the distinction as being that Israel was the original grapevine, and the Gentiles were being allowed to be grafted on that grapevine, so there is one grapevine, and it is Jewish, but producing fruit by and for Christ. The church has only recently come out of its theological fog and recognized Scripture's words for what they say, that the children of Israel are still the chosen people of God, and the Gentiles are lucky to be allowed in, for which all we Gentiles can thank Jesus.

[JesusIsLord]

Hebrews 8:13...In that He says, "A new covenant, " He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Hebrews 8:6-9 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.

Hebrews 10:3-10 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, "Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God."" Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them " (which are offered according to the law), then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Galatians 3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Galatians 3:24-25 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, "Know the LORD," for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

Matthew 5:17-20 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Galatians 3:17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect.

Galatians 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

Matthew 19:16-17 Now behold, one came and said to Him, "Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?" So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

John 10:35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

Acts 15:1 And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

Galatians 4:21-24 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar'

Hebrews 9:10 concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

[fidelis]

"Preterism, another child of Replacement Theology, sprang up in the 1500’s in response to the Reformer’s insistence that the pope was the antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church his kingdom."

That is incorrect. Many of the early Church Fathers were at least preterist, including St. Augustine:

"Many passages I omit [in writing about the Last Things], because, though they seem to refer to the last judgment, yet on a closer examination they are found to be ambiguous, or to allude rather to some other event,--whether to that coming of the Saviour which continually occurs in His Church, that is, in His members, in which comes little by little, and piece by piece, since the whole Church is His body, or to the destruction of the earthly Jerusalem. For when He speaks even of this, He often uses language which is applicable to the end of the world and that last and great day of judgment, so that these two events cannot be distinguished unless all the corresponding passages bearing on the subject in the three evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are compared with one another,--for some things are put more obscurely by one evangelist and more plainly by another,--so that it becomes apparent what things are meant to be referred to one event." (City of God XX.5)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Not a word about Israel. John, in Revelation, says not a word about Israel.

Most prophecy in Revelation deals with the Jewish people.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

I would have to agree that Augustine was a believer in Preterism. A lot of his beliefs were not on par with other “early church fathers”.

[odawg]

“I knew the Jew-hating/Israel Blessing denier would be here. Thanks for showing your hand...again....”

Was Israel blessed in 70 A D?

Was Israel blessed in about 650 B C?

Or do you need time to think up more smears?

[Angelino97]

Paul was simply saying the Church is open to everyone. That the Jews who rejected Christ (broken branches, no longer on the vine) can still change their minds and accept Christ (be re-grafted onto the vine).

All the promises to the Jews were fulfilled in Christ. There are no other promises. The modern state of Israel is not part of any divine promise to anyone.

[OneVike]

Many through the ages since Augustine showed up, are of the belief that he ushered in many Greek many humanistic beliefs into the church.

[OneVike]

Not a word about Israel. John, in Revelation, says not a word about Israel.

I suggest you reread the book of Revelation. Especially chapter 7:1-8. When each tribe but on e is mentioned, it is the same thing as mentioning thew whole of Israel. Wee can get into the reason Dan is missing in another post, but Jacobs sons are all mentioned with Manasseh replacing Dan

Rev 7:1) After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.
Rev 7:2) Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,
Rev 7:3) saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
Rev 7:4) And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:
Rev 7:5) of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed; Rev 7:6) of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed;
Rev 7:7) of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed;
Rev 7:8) of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

[Gil4]

John, in Revelation, says not a word about Israel.

Revelation 7:2–8 (NIV84)
2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: 3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.” 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

5 From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
6 from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
7 from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
8 from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

[Gil4]

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