Theological term
Eschatological Israel
2 sermons · All terms
Ask FGBC #14: How do we connect modern day Israel to Old & New Covenant Promises?
How should Christians understand the modern state of Israel, the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants, and the land promises in light of the New Testament? This Q&A exchange argues that the church is not a replacement for Israel but is the eschatological Israel of Old Testament prophecy — one people of God, Jew and Gentile together, united in Christ. Dispensationalism's two-peoples-of-God framework is evaluated and rejected on hermeneutical grounds, with Romans 11, the Davidic covenant, and the land promise examined in turn. The conversation broadens into the necessity of reading Scripture canonically and horizontally, the value of confessionalism, and the danger of allowing political rhetoric to distort biblical interpretation.
The Parable of the Vineyard, Part 2
Matthew 21:40–46 brings the Parable of the Vineyard to its sobering conclusion: Jesus draws three implications from the parable — the witness of the Old Testament (Psalm 118), the transfer of the kingdom from ethnic Israel to the church composed of Jew and Gentile, and the promise of crushing judgment on all who reject the Messiah. The sermon argues that this transfer of the kingdom is not replacement theology but fulfillment in Christ, the true Israel, in whom all the promises of God find their terminus. The patience of God that runs through the parable is not inexhaustible, and the only refuge from the coming judgment is faith in the Christ who was rejected, crucified, and vindicated as the chief cornerstone.