By Greg Holt

“For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Lord, becamest their God.” 1 Chronicles 17:22  Underlining mine.

For all those who hold hatred in their hearts for the Jewish people, or see them as being divorced from God, and therefore excluded from His Church – you have done foolishly, and sinned against the ʟᴏʀᴅ God.

For who is Christ but a Jew – the God/man, born of the tribe of Judah, whom honored all the requirements of the Jewish faith while on Earth.

Whom did Jesus go to while here?  It was not the Gentiles, rather it was always the Jewish people.  When did Jesus separate Himself from the Jewish people, or proclaim that the Jews were, or were to be – excluded from His Church?

Which New Testament book spoke of the exclusion of the Jewish people from the Kingdom of God?  Which New Testament author, offered so much as a slight against the Jews?  Peter rebuking the Jewish people for the death of Jesus does not count – and, 3000 people were saved that day after Peter’s witness to them, most if not all were Jews (Acts 2:14–41).

Replacement theology is evil, plain and simple.  Those who believe this doctrine of evil, have deceived themselves, and are blinded by their own hatred and derision.  Their foolish hearts are hardened and blinded by God – just as the Pharisees were in Jesus’ time.

The Bible makes it clear that the One and only Savior, Jesus Christ was born in Israel, died in Israel, rose from the dead in Israel – and His Second Coming will be in Israel.

All of the New Testament authors excepting Luke, were Jews.

“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.” Luke 1:32

Jesus, when He returns, and rules the Millenium Kingdom, it will be from the throne of David, this throne is eternal, as is Christ.  2 Samuel 7:13 states that the throne of David will be forever, unending, permanent.  King David was a Jew, and named, “a man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22).

Jesus is referred to as the “Son of David” many times in Scripture (Matthew 15:22; Matthew 20:30; Matthew 21:15), this is a Messianic title – Jesus is the Savior, the redeeming King, and the rightful ruler of the Earth, He is also of the lineage of David.

“I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.” Revelation 22:16b

Jesus is the root of David, He created David – He (Jesus) is also the Descendant of David, the Messianic Eternal King.

When God renews, remakes – whatever He will do, the Earth, then will He bring down from Heaven, the New Jerusalem.  God will reside with man in Israel.

In Romans 11, Paul states throughout this chapter an undeniable fact – God never abandoned, divorced, turned away permanently, or otherwise disinvited or removed the Jewish people from Himself, or His Church, this is a lie.

“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.” Romans 11:1

Paul emphatically states that God never cast away his people!  He goes on to state that he (Paul) is of the tribe of Benjamin.  That in itself is very interesting.  Why?  The only tribes to continue following God after the exile were Benjaman, and Judah (Levi too, but Levi was not considered to be a tribe).  The tribes of Benjamin and Judah are also considered to be of the “purest” blood of the Jews.

Romans 11:7 states that some of the Jews were saved, others, most, were hardened – their own willful disobedience to God blinded them to the reality of Christ and the Gospel of God.  They were and still are blind – blind, not forever excluded.

Verse 15 plainly states that the Jewish people will be redeemed –

“For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?”

It is the temporary casting away of the Jews, that allowed for the salvation of the Gentiles, or the modern Church.  This is made even more clear in the following verses.

Verse 16 speaks of the “root,” and the “branches.” –

“And if the root of them, namely, Abraham, was holy and beloved of God, so are the branches still beloved for the father’s sake, and so will be once more, in his good time, admitted to his favour.” (Source)

Paul then issues a stern warning to the Gentiles (The Church), to be not high-minded, not to boast – for if God did not spare the natural branches (The Jewish people) of the olive tree, nor will He spare the sinning branches (The Church – Romans 11:16-22).

“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?” Romans 11:24

The original cultivated olive tree was the Jewish people.  The Jewish people, the “branches,” were “cut” off of the olive tree – then the Gentiles (The Church), which people were a wild uncultivated olive tree, these “branches,” were cut off, and grafted into the original olive tree.  The Gentiles were never a tree on their own – they were, and are a part of the Jew’s olive tree.

The “Church” is not the original chosen people of God, the Church became chosen of God because of the Jews, and the Jews will rejoin the Church of God.

Ask the Lord for forgiveness, and depart from hatred and contempt of the Jewish people – for this is a serious sin against God.