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Reading Paul, you see that the olive tree which refers symbolically to the Jews, had the dead branches broken off, and the gentile believers grafted in. Thus, as promised, a remnant was once again saved, and together there is now one Israel, not two.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Reading Paul, you see that the olive tree which refers symbolically to the Jews, had the dead branches broken off, and the gentile believers grafted in. Thus, as promised, a remnant was once again saved, and together there is now one Israel, not two.

Amen!!!

I don't understand how dispensationalists get around the clear meaning of the New Testament...

"For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." -- 2 Corinthians 3:10-17

"That which is abolished." Dispensationalists deny the old covenant was abolished by Christ. They deny that...

"In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." -- Hebrews 8:13

And I don't get it.

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Reading Paul, you see that the olive tree which refers symbolically to the Jews, had the dead branches broken off, and the gentile believers grafted in.

But this doesn't mean that God is done with Israel. It means we've been blessed to be grafted in. All the branches weren't destroyed.

Also, if God is done with Israel why return to Israel and why create a new Jerusalem with 12 gates leading into it named for the 12 tribes of Israel?