[2sheep]

You wrote, emphasis mine: > I have a comment, and please feel free to critique. Was not the covenant with Israel that God would scatter tham when they are disobedient, but bring them back together if they repent and renew the covenant?

> So are dispensationalists claiming that ethnic Israel repented of their sins in 1948 when they were made a physical, political nation by the UN? This is impossible, because the basis of repentance is faith in Christ, and the Jewish nation has as yet offerend no such repentance as a whole

> So how could the establishment of Israel be a prophetic event?

Your entire argument hinges on your statement in bold type above. Let me turn that around and put it to you that your Messiah is identified in John chapter 1 as the Word made flesh. Now, if it pleased G-d to hide his identity from them for a time, might not He also have hidden from you how Israel gets saved? You might like to pray about that and see if light dawns in your understanding. Hint: read Romans chapter 11.

[TomSmedley]

might not He also have hidden from you how Israel gets saved?

This is interesting. SO there is another free-range savior on the hoof out there? And an alternate means of salvation? WHat a cute idea!