I see the time before Christ and the time after Christ.
Israel is a democracy that should be supported by United States foreign policy. But regarding God's people, it is just a pile of dirt and rocks like the rest of the planet, no better and no worse.
To venerate real estate is no different than what the papists do with their "holy" scraps and relics.
I don't understand Christians who do not see Christ in the Old Testament or who believe that all men are not commanded today to kneel to Jesus Christ alone.
B.C./A.D.
Those are the only "dispensations" that mean anything.
>> “ But regarding God’s people, it is just a pile of dirt and rocks like the rest of the planet, no better and no worse.” <<
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God’s word says otherwise.
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>> “I don’t understand Christians who do not see Christ in the Old Testament or who believe that all men are not commanded today to kneel to Jesus Christ alone” <<
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I agree, but what does that have to do with this discussion?
To venerate real estate is no different than what the papists do with their “holy” scraps and relics.
No venerating RealEstate per se.
ALMIGHTY GOD DECLARED what HE would do with the Real Estate
IN BEHALF OF HIS EVERLASTING PROMISES TO HIS BUDDY ABRAHAM
. . . AND FOR GOD’S OWN GLORY.
AND HE’S NOT NEAR FINISHED WITH THAT PROJECT YET.
He has YET to deliver to Jacob’s kids all the land to the boundaries HE DECLARED HE WOULD DELIVER.
EVERY ONE OF GOD’S PROMISES ARE RELIABLE—PARTICULARLY THE ONES HE STRESSED WERE EVERLASTING TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB’S KIDS.
And THEN HE added the emphasis about those EVERLASTING PROMISES being in force as long as there are stars, sun, moon. . .
Y’all have NEVER come remotely close to explaining all that away. And y’all never well. Can’t be done.
Y’all may delude yourselves that the REPLACEMENTARIAN NOTION OF THE CHURCH = ISRAEL explains it all away. That doesn’t come close. Utter nonsense.
Yeah—The Church is GRAFTED IN—to THE ORIGINAL VINE! DOH!
It still boggles my mind how rubbery y’alls Romans is.