[Iscool]

That is the essential difference, that the church is not Israel and thus, does not receive those promises made to Israel in the unconditional covenants.

So then, if Christians endure to the end, they will eventually be saved???

[fortheDeclaration]

[That is the essential difference, that the church is not Israel and thus, does not receive those promises made to Israel in the unconditional covenants.]

So then, if Christians endure to the end, they will eventually be saved???

At the Rapture, all true Christians (born again by faith), are taken to heaven.

Now, during the 7 year tribulation period, there will be many Jews and Gentiles who will be saved and martyred as a result (Rev.7:14).

Those Gentiles who do survive to the end, will be judged on how they treated the Jews and if they treated them well, they will be able to enter into the Millennial kingdom (Matthew 25:31-46)

Christian is a very specific designation which only applies to those who are saved between the beginning of the Church at Pentecost (Acts 2) and its removal at the Rapture (1Thess.4, 1Cor.15.)

All of those who are saved after the Rapture are not considered dispensationally as 'Christians' since they do not have the same relationship with Christ, one of which is the permanent indwelling of Holy Spirit resulting with the believer being in personal union with Christ as His Bride and thus, part of His own body.

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FTD:That is the essential difference, that the church is not Israel and thus, does not receive those promises made to Israel in the unconditional covenants.

I was just reading Roms. 11:24 and we are grafted into the tree, but the Jews who in the end are saved are grafted into it as well. I don't think we remain distinct after we are saved.