Posted on 07/24/2025 5:40:14 PM PDT by metmom
In a powerful and timely conversation, Jack Hibbs and Amir Tsarfati confronted a growing theological trend that has significant implications for the church today: replacement theology. Together, they warned that this doctrine, which claims that the church has replaced Israel in God’s redemptive plan, not only contradicts Scripture but undermines the integrity of God’s promises and character.
“Replacement theology says that God is finished with the Jew,” said Hibbs. “That the church is now spiritual Israel, and that the Jew and Israel have been cast off by God forever. It is heresy.”
Tsarfati, founder of Behold Israel, echoed that concern. “There are now more churches that believe that God is done with Israel than churches that believe God is not done with Israel,” he said. According to him, this widespread view stems from a lack of understanding of God’s unconditional covenants. “It’s not about the faithfulness of Israel; it’s about the faithfulness of God.”
Their discussion highlighted the biblical foundations of God’s enduring covenant with Israel, from Genesis through the New Testament. Hibbs pointed to Genesis 17, where God declares His covenant with Abraham and his descendants to be everlasting. “This is not based on Abraham’s ability to obey, but on God’s promise,” Hibbs explained.
Tsarfati reinforced that idea by drawing a connection to modern-day believers. “If God can break His covenant with Israel, what makes you think He won’t break His covenant with you?” he asked. “He promised Israel He would never forsake her, even when she is disobedient.”
The two also addressed the prophetic significance of Israel in the end times. Hibbs emphasized Romans 11, where Paul makes it clear that God has not rejected His people. “Blindness has happened in part to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in,” Hibbs quoted. “That’s not abandonment—that’s a temporary hardening.”
Tsarfati added, “We’re watching God fulfill His Word before our eyes with the rebirth of Israel in 1948 and the Jewish return to the land. The prophets spoke of this. You cannot spiritualize that away.”
The conversation took a sobering turn as they discussed how replacement theology can lead to antisemitism and a distortion of God’s character. “If God lies to Israel, then He can lie to you,” Hibbs said. “But He doesn’t. His name is at stake.”
For both Hibbs and Tsarfati, this isn’t just theological—it’s spiritual warfare. “The enemy wants to erase Israel to try to stop God’s plan,” Tsarfati warned. “But he can’t. God’s Word will stand.”
Ultimately, this conversation acted as a reminder to believers that we are to honor God’s covenant with Israel. “Don’t let anyone convince you that God is done with the Jewish people,” Hibbs said. “Because if that were true, then we serve a God who breaks promises. And that’s not the God of the Bible.”
Also a Real Life with Jack Hibbs podcast with Amir Tsarfati.
“Amir Tsarfati and Jack Hibbs: Israel, Islam, and Bible Prophecy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2vizw7_taI
Video is 1:13:22 long.
There are "churches" (also known as Ivy League Indoctrination Centers) that 'believe' the Globull Climate Hoax.
I feel the urge to watch Charlton Heston and The Ten Commandments.
Who is the Israel of God in the New Covenant?
The Israel of God is no longer fleshly, natural Israel, but rather all believers in Jesus―along with a remnant of Godly believers of old. Jesus fulfilled all of the promises to Old Covenant Israel (Matthew 5:17; Luke 1:67-79; 24:44-47; Acts 13:32-34; Romans 1:1-4; 15:8-9; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Galatians 3:16). “Not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel” (Romans 9:5-8). The church extends beyond natural Israel to include Gentiles (Luke 2:32; Acts 9:15; 11:1, 18; Romans 11:11-32; Galatians 3:6-9, 25-29). This is not “replacement theology,” but rather “inclusion theology.” Here is a sampling of passages about this:
Galatians 6:14-16. In the context of the rest of Galatians (3:15-29; etc.), Paul refers to the “ISRAEL OF GOD” as those who walk according to the Spirit—by faith in Jesus Christ (and specifically not by works of the Jewish Old Covenant ceremonial law, including circumcision).
Galatians 3:6-9, 25-29. Heirs to the promise, i.e. the true sons of Abraham, come from faith in Christ, not physical descent.
Galatians 4:21-31. Physical Jerusalem, that is, the old covenant, is cast out making way for the New Spiritual Jerusalem (“the Jerusalem above”)—the new children of the promise.
Matthew 3:7-11. John the Baptist tells the Pharisees and Sadducees not to count on their physical descent. Indeed, they are about to be cut down in the wrath about to come (AD 70).
Matthew 21:18-19. Jesus curses the fig tree, an Old Testament symbol for Old Covenant Israel (Jeremiah 24; Hosea 9:10; Luke 13:6-9), and the fig tree withered away forever.
Matthew 21:33-45. Parable of the Tenants. Jesus tells the Jews that the kingdom is being taken away from them and given to another group, obviously the church. (cf. Isaiah 65:16)
Matthew 22:1-4. The Parable of the Wedding Feast. It was obviously the Jews who were invited to the wedding, but their refusal to accept Christ as Messiah would lead to their demise—“destroyed those murderers and burned their city.” (Matthew 23, the next chapter, details why the Jews were the object of Jesus’ wrath. Not only were they exceedingly sinful, but also refused to accept Him as Savior.)
John 1:12-13. The children of God are believers, and not by blood.
John 8:31-47. Jesus explains to the Jews of his day that they are not truly offspring of Abraham, but rather are offspring of the devil.
Romans 2:28-29. “For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not the letter.”
Romans 9:5-8. Paul taught that not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel (“FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL ISRAEL WHO ARE ISRAEL”), and not all are children of Abraham. It is not the children of the flesh (i.e. their ethnicity) who are children of God (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:16.)
Romans 11:5, 11-32. Branches (of Israel 11:21) were broken off because of unbelief and Gentiles grafted in by faith in the Hebrew Messiah. Whoever accepted Christ, both Gentiles and a remnant of faithful Jews are saved (11:5).
Ephesians 2:11-3:13. Gentiles are no longer aliens but are fellow citizens in a new dwelling place, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets (cf. Revelation 21:14).
Ephesians 2:15-16. Jews and Gentiles became “one new man in place of two,” thus “one body.”
Philippians 3:3. The church is the real “circumcision.” Circumcision is the special sign of God’s covenant with Abraham and Israel (Genesis 17:10, 13), so the Christian church has become God’s covenantal people.
Colossians 2:6-3:17. Paul explains in this passage that physical circumcision had been replaced by spiritual circumcision, thus spiritual Israel—believers being made spiritually alive IN CHRIST. (See also Philippians 3:3).
Hebrews 8:5-13. The Old Covenant was being replaced by a New Covenant as predicted in the Old Testament (Jeremiah 31:31-34; etc.)
1 Peter 2:4-10. The new chosen race is the Christian church (building motif).
1 John 1:23; 2 John 9. Anyone who denies Christ does not have God. (That would exclude non-believing Jews from the kingdom.)
Revelation 2:9; 3:9. There are those who say they are Jews, but are really are a “synagogue of Satan.”
Revelation 19:7, 21:2, 9-27. The New Jerusalem is the bride of Christ, the church—which is built on the foundation of the apostles (ref. Ephesians 2:20).
Conclusions. This is about the changing of the covenants. Israel’s covenant with God was contingent on obedience (Deuteronomy 28-32)! Throughout the Bible, Israel’s relationship with God is portrayed as a marriage (Isaiah 54:5; 62:4; Jeremiah 2:2; 3:14, 20; 31:31-34; Ezekiel 16:8, 32, 38; Hosea 2:2, 7, 16; Malachi 2:14). Whenever Israel was unfaithful, she is characterized as a harlot or adulterer (Deuteronomy 31:16-18; Isaiah 1:21; Jeremiah 2:20; 3:6-9; Ezekiel 6:8-9; 16:15, 26, 28; Hosea 1:2; 6:10; 9:1). The central theme of Revelation is a story of two women—the harlot Babylon who is judged/divorced (Revelation 17:1, 5, 15; 18:9, 21; 19:2) and God’s new bride the New Jerusalem (Revelation 19:7; 21:2, 9). The faithless harlot is apostate Old Covenant Israel. The new bride is the Christian church, the wife of the Lamb, the New Jerusalem (Revelation 3:12; 19:7; 21:2, 9-27). Compare to the Parable of the Wedding Feast in Matthew 22:1-14, as well as such passages as John 3:29; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25-27.
The notion that Israel is separate from the church, and that Israel will re-emerge as pre-eminent among nations is not supported by the texts.
For more on dispensationalism, check this out:
https://prophecyquestions.com/category/dispensationalism/
Romans 11:25-27 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy. For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
The Ezek 38 cult will hate you for posting that.
And a link to the whole chapter to read it all in context.
Romans 11
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2011&version=ESV
It's supported by Scripture.
I take it that you don't believe in the Thousand Year Reign of Christ from Jerusalem either.
Amen and amen.
I do not believe the lineage of Jacob has been cut off at all. Of course, no where in the HOLY Bible is England referenced as an entity that provides them a homeland.
A government and/or a religion can become focused inward on its bureaucracy, privileges, rank, and rules to live by its establishment and institution. That lends to the surrounding culture and followers, a belief that they must satisfy the rules, to live.
The effective rulers and bureaucrats, tend to preach, demand, order, command that the people must be obedient! While too many of the very same ruling class establishment members behave differently.
Such was the situation, into which God sent Jesus, to make clear, that we live not only by rules, but also by faith in Him.
And that, upset the enough of the established clubhouse members and board of directors, that, they imagined they could bury Jesus “and be done with it.”
But they could not bury His word.
Prefer God
Love Truth
Be Kind
Jesus is living water,
the well of Bethlehem
by the gate,
Satisfying the thirst of David,
nearby the Siloam Pool.
25 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:[d] a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
27 “The Deliverer will come from Zion,
he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;
“and this will be my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”
28 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now[e] receive mercy. 32 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
Bkmk
That’s because Scripture is centered around Israel.
And it was GOD who brought them back, but I don’t see that God is obligated to tell HOW He fulfills prophecy, who He uses to do it.
Good post!
What do you think “all Israel will be saved” means?
Jeremiah 31.
Amos 9:15.
Israel is important. But MUCH MORE important is the life from the dead, as Jewish people around the world turn on and belive on thier Jewish Messiah.
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