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@ Dikaios1517
2025-04-18 15:40:17
Nailed it!
The only thing I might have worded differently is when you said "Christianity, Christ's church, succeeds and becomes Israel." The church is, was, and always has been the Israel of God. It did not take over that role from the Jews.
True Israel has always been those who are the believing remnant.
As we passed from the Covenant of Grace prior to the incarnation of Jesus Christ to that same Covenant of Grace after his ascension, the people of that covenant didn't shift from the Jews to the Gentiles; it expanded. Before it had been almost exclusively, with some notable exceptions such as Ruth, for believing Jews. It expanded to be believing Jews and Gentiles. It's just that the declaration of Jesus as the long awaited Messiah quickly acted as a litmus test of who the true believers among the Jews really were, and showed that the vast majority were not, because they rejected him.
The Church did not "become" or "replace" Israel. It is the rightful continuation and expansion of the covenant people of God, true Israel.