Page 405 of your book, Israel in the Messianic Kingdom, the Four Facets of the Final Restoration, and then you get to the prophetic development. I think we'll start there. The prophetic development, we're going to spend some time on there. I'm not going to go through every passage on the prophetic development because there's just a ton of them. And what I want you to see from the prophetic development of the restoration of Israel is that there are so many scriptures dealing with this this is a very difficult thing for people to explain away and so either you have to get into replacement theology and totally allegorize it or spiritualize the text or these passages obviously are gobbledygook and don't mean anything Because there's so many of them that point to God's not done with Israel. He's going to use them again. It's extremely hard to deny. And here's the deal. I know I'm speaking to the choir and like, yeah, I know Israel. I know Israel. But man, I am talking to people, other Christians that are outside of our church, outside of our fellowship. And the whole subject of Israel is foreign to them. they trip up they do not understand it and they go to churches that never touch the subject and so you're going to just look at it and we're going to do a couple of passages but i'm not going to overwhelm us all tonight because there's so many of them it's just hard to deny but i would say this if someone's starting to have a problem with understanding israel i would give them this section of your book and photocopy it or whatever and say hey You need to read this and get up to speed on what the Bible says about Israel's final restoration. The church did not replace it. We'll look at that a little bit tonight about what Paul had to say about Gentiles. But anyway, let's take a crack at a couple of passages that show we did the basis for the new covenant. And then we talked a little bit about that. We'll talk a little bit more about how the church plays into the new covenant. But we want to look at the prophetic development. So if you go to Isaiah 29 right there in the middle of page 405, we'll just read this real quick. Therefore, thus says Yahweh who redeemed Abram concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. But when he sees his children, the work of my hands in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, yea, they shall sanctify the holy one of Jacob. and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel. They also, that air and spirit, shall come to understanding, and they murmur, shall receive instruction." So it's talking about a future national regeneration of Israel. They're not going to be ashamed like they are in today. If you move down real quick, another thing that reiterates it is Isaiah 30, 18 through 22, and Isaiah is full of language like this. And therefore will Yahweh wait, that He may be gracious unto you. And therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you. For Yahweh is the God of justice. Blessed are all they that wait for Him. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious unto you. at the voice of your cry, when he shall hear, he will answer you. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, just for curiosity's sake, that term right there, the bread of adversity, water of affliction, is referring to the day of the Lord, the great tribulation. So it's a prediction that they're going to go through that great tribulation. Yet shall your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers, and your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, this is the way, walk ye in it. So it's referring to, again, their religious leaders leading them to the right path to the Messiah. When you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left and ye shall defile the overlaying Of your graven images of silver and the planting of your molten images of gold you shall cast them away as an unclean thing you shall say unto it Get you hence And there's another passage that goes along with this is zechariah 13 where once their national regeneration happens if you recall The people of israel start killing false prophets. They get rid of all the idols, but they start killing false prophets. In fact They're so zealous for Jesus at that point in time that they were willing to kill their own children if their children is involved in idolatry or false prophet or whatnot. And so it's real deal stuff, man. They're hardcore when they convert. So that's the idea of the getting rid of the graven image and whatnot. just one more and then i'll leave it at that isaiah 44 1 through 5 yet now here oh jacob my servant and israel whom i have chosen chosen for service okay thus says yahweh that made you informed you from the womb who will help you fear not oh jacob my servant and you jeshu run Jeshurun is a nickname for Israel. Jeshurun means upright or straight. It's a nickname for Israel. And there's about four times the Bible used that name for Israel. It means upright. Whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon your seed and my blessing upon your offspring. And they shall spring up among the grass as willows by the water courses. One shall say, I am Yahweh's, and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob. Another shall subscribe with his hand unto Yahweh, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Okay, so the idea, and then you can look at the next right there, another chapter in Isaiah, then you go over to the other page, Isaiah 45 is basically saying the same thing, Jeremiah 24, seven, Jeremiah 50, pardon them, and I will leave a remnant, Ezekiel 11, talks about this if you go to the next page Ezekiel 36 I will sprinkle clean water on you again referring to the New Covenant you look at Hosea 1.10 also discusses this you move to Hosea 14 discusses this you move to Joel 2 about the Holy Spirit being poured out If you go to the next page, Micah 7 refers to this, Zephaniah 3 refers to this, and then you actually move into the New Testament, and I will unpack that a little bit. Romans 11, 25 through 27, it says this, For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen israel until the fullness of the gentiles become in and so all israel shall be saved even as it is written there shall come out of zion and the deliverer he shall turn away the ungodliness from jacob and this is my covenant unto them when i shall take away their sins. And you probably know that passage very well. That's what I want to unpack a little bit tonight. Okay? So again, like I said, there's a lot of passages that refer to the regeneration of Israel. I would just photocopy them or whatever and give it to anybody that's into replacement theology and say, you've got to deal with these passages. You've got to deal with a future restoration of Israel. Because that never happened in their history. They can't point historically to when they were restored. Yeah. Their argument is that Israel has been done away with because of the rejection of the Messiah. Let me read a passage that they take out of context before we get to Romans 11. I'm in Matthew 22 or 23, I'm sorry. I know it's somewhere in there. If you can find, see there in 22 or 23, somewhere in there. What Jesus says is he curses that generation and he says, the kingdom will be taken from you. And notice the exact words he says. and will be given to another generation." Now, if you can find that in Matthew 22-23, find that, call it out for me. They take that passage like that and say, see, he's done with Israel. But if you note what he specifically said, the kingdom will be taken from you, that generation, and given to another generation. What generation could he be referring to? Yeah, another Jewish generation is what he's referring to, not a Gentile generation. They take that passage and just totally take it out of whack and say, yeah, see, he's done with them. And it's like, no, you don't understand what generation means. Generation is a generation of Jews. And then when the judgment of 70 AD, it's to the first century generation, not to perpetually every Jewish generation. And so a lot of it, Stephen, I think you start getting into playing games, not us, but them with the scripture, because you either gonna have to take it in context and take it for what it says, or you're gonna have to twist it and say, well, you know, no, he cursed all the Jews and they're forever done. And it's like, well, then what do you do with the apostle Paul? Because Paul is making the point. Yeah, Don. Yeah, it really does. You sure do. You have to. And in essence, I mean, that's why I think there's a good book. You guys email me if you want it. I'll recommend it to you by Andy Woods on the kingdom. He wrote his doctrinal dissertation on the kingdom. And his whole point is, if you get this one messed up, you're gonna get the whole thing messed up if you don't understand the kingdom. And it's a very good book, highly recommend it. And so Don, you're absolutely right. If the kingdom is not literal and the kingdom is not Jewish in nature, and look at all those passages, where does that regeneration happen? It happens in the kingdom. That's when Israel's finally restored. And, man, if that doesn't happen, then you've got all these promises hanging out there that are not going to be fulfilled, or they'll say, well, they get fulfilled in the church. And then here's my point. How do they get fulfilled? Like, for instance, the land covenant. How does the church assume land? I don't get it. Oh, is it 21? Okay, I was one chapter, I knew it was somewhere in that neighborhood. 21 what? 2143 okay, thank you guys and and so that generation passage right there. It's referring to a future Jewish generation people which will be the remnant in the tribulation that actually comes to faith in Messiah and Then someone's someone had a hand here. No Yeah, The Coming Kingdom by Andy Woods. The Coming Kingdom by Andy Woods. I strongly recommend it. It's a big, thick one, man, and it's written on a seminary level, I would say. It's not a layman's book. But I would probably add that one to your library to understand the kingdom and how literal it is and what it means and the implications of it. You're learning it now. It's not gonna be new stuff that you don't know, but I think it's good to understand that there's a robust scholarship to understand the kingdom literally versus these people that are just allegorizing the kingdom. I mean, some people think they're in the kingdom now, for goodness sake. Okay, yeah, yes. Yeah, yeah, Andy's a pretty good writer. So if you guys are interested in that one, I would highly recommend that one. I have it, it's a real good resource, and it's a thick one, though. It's a pretty thick reading. Okay, so to then understand this last passage that we just came through right here, Romans 11, then, well, let's unpack Romans 11 and try to figure out what Paul is trying to say here. If you go to Romans 9, 10, and 11, this is Paul's explanation of what's going on with Israel. Because you have Jews and Gentiles in the church, and a lot of the Gentiles are getting a little uppity. And I will say this, there's a lot of Gentile envy to the Jewish relationship with Yahweh, even though they're in unbelief. I find it very interesting that even in my own church, I will get complaints about people saying, well, why is this always about Israel? And I said, you haven't figured this out? This is not about you. This is not about having your best day. And I always get it from immature believers that are new to our church, and they've never heard it. They've come to churches that don't even talk about Israel. And then all of a sudden, they're thrust into our congregation. And I'm hot and heavy in the book of Revelation, and it's all about Israel. And they're like, I've never heard this. And they're actually offended by it. And why would they be offended by something like that? Why would a Gentile be offended at hearing, hey, this whole thing is about Jews? It's a jealousy thing. And they don't fully, and then you'll see this jealousy from Gentiles, not all Gentiles, you'll see it happening with Paul's trying to curb it. in Romans. And I can see as a pastor, I see it today, but I don't see it in mature believers. I see it in immature believers. That's where I see the pushback on why is this always about the Jews? It's always the same thing about the Jews, the Jews, the Jews. And it's like, dude, everything hinges on the whole Jewish concept. Do you not know what the Old Testament's about? The church was Jewish. Anywho, it is the same jealousy that you see Cain exhibiting towards Abel. That's really where it comes from. It's a spiritual envy. They are God's people. There's no doubt about that. They're in disobedience right now, but they're going to be used again. And you have to come to grips with that as a Gentile. And just realize, OK. But I do maintain we have a wonderful position in the Messiah in the body of Christ, which is a very privileged position that no Jew before us ever had. So it's not like we're an afterthought. We were always included into the plan of God, but The problem that you'll see with Paul is the times of the Gentiles will end, and then he'll pick up the program with Israel. So if you want, you can follow along with me. If not, you could just listen to me. This is in Romans 11, and I want to unpack this to understand how do we play a part into the new covenant? I say then, has God cast away his people? What people? The Jews, that's the context, right? Certainly not. So there's to every replacement theology person, what do you do with that passage right there? For I also am a Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. That's Paul's pedigree. God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life. But what does the divine response say to him? I have reserved for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed and need to bail. Even so then, at the present time, right now even happening, okay, our present time. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Now this is not referring per se to salvation. This is a passage of that God chose Israel and that there will always be a remnant that survives, okay? And what you start seeing here is that Even to this day, there's a Jewish remnant that is believing in Messiah. They might be small, no matter what part of history, but they do survive. Now, what you see here in this passage, and then you marry this with Paul in Ephesians chapter two, and you start finding out, oh, the Jews occupy two positions. right now currently. Saved Jews. A saved Jew occupies a position in the body of Christ And a saved Jew occupies a position in the remnant of Israel, according to the Apostle Paul here and the Apostle Paul in chapter 2 of Ephesians. So they have dual status, if you want to call it. We have one status, we're in the body of Christ, but we do not occupy the remnant of Israel. That's his point here, that God has not cast away his people. He's even right now preserving remnant now he goes into a fuller argumentation if you follow him verse 6 and if by grace then it is no longer of works so the Jews thought that you obviously they could work their way to salvation and Paul's already made this point all through Romans that you can't earn your salvation But if it is by works, it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work. What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks, but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded? So he quotes then to explain what he means by this. Just as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear to this very day. And David says, let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them. Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see and bow down their back always. So the idea is this. The reason Israel hasn't received their Messiah is due to their lack of faith. They thought they could earn their righteousness by works. That's why he mentions works. That's the Jewish mindset. I'm saved by simply being a Jew, and I'm saved because I keep Torah. That was a Jewish thought, okay? And that's what Paul's trying to counteract in Romans 9, and virtually all through Romans, is that you're not moral enough to be perfect by Torah. Okay, so then his point is in verse eight through 10 is this, the reason that many of the Jews are blinded today is because they refuse to come by the way of faith, faith in Messiah specifically. Hence the penalty for not believing in their Jewish Messiah is given right there by Isaiah. He's given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they can't see, ears that they can't hear. That's the penalty for not believing in the Messiah. Don't put the cart before the horse because Calvinists wanna do that before it, that right now God has blinded the Jews and that's why they can't see him. No, no, no, no, no. It is a penalty, if you read Isaiah, it's a penalty attached to those who reject the Messiah, specifically the Jews. Now every Jew gets a chance to come to faith in Him, just like you and I do. But the same thing will happen to you and I. If you constantly refuse the gospel, constantly, over and over again, what happens to you? You're gonna have ears that don't hear and eyes you can't see. Your heart becomes calloused, you can't hear. It is a penalty attached to rejecting the truth that happens not only to Jews, but to Gentiles, and that's Paul's point. So then he goes on in the diatribe and continues, so follow me in verse 11. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not, like fall away completely is the idea. But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. So we've been incorporated into something that they should be jealous of. Okay, so follow Him. Now if their fall is riches for the world, their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness? So look at what's happened to the Gentiles and the world because of them not believing the Messiah. and how the Gospels went out to the Gentiles, and Gentiles are coming in in droves. But what would happen if they were saved? It would expand the reach to the Gentiles, is his point. So right now, we're not operating full steam, because the Jews are not believers, or at least the whole country isn't. For I speak to you Gentiles." Now here's his point to us Gentiles and in the Roman Gentiles. And as much as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry. If by any means I may provoke jealousy, those who are of my flesh, the Jews, and save some of them. What's this jealousy about? For if their being cast away is reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? So again, he reiterates the point. For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. Now he's building an argument, so hold on here. He's referring to a root, he's referring to branches, and he says the root is holy. And obviously from branches comes fruit. He's starting to build an imagery of a tree. If you follow him, this is how he's arguing. He's arguing in an agrarian argument. And he goes, and if some of the branches were broken off and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and with them become a partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive tree or the sap of the olive tree. Do not boast against the branches, but if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. The branches in Paul's diatribe represent people groups. And there's only two people groups in the Bible, Jew and Gentile, okay? And so he's saying a branch was broken off or branches were broken off per se of the Jewish people. Why are they broken off? Because his whole argument in Romans is because of unbelief, okay? But you, being a wild olive, have been engrafted into the root. Okay, keep following. You will say then, so he's expecting a Gentile to come back to him. Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Well said, I agree with what you're saying. But he goes, because of unbelief, they were broken off. And you stand by faith. Stand where? I stand in the place of blessing, taking in the sap from the tree. This is what he's pointing to. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore, consider the goodness and severity of God on those who fail severity, but towards you, goodness. If you continue in His goodness, if you continue in His goodness, otherwise, you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, there's the capstone right there, in belief and unbelief, they will be grafted in for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into the cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted in their own olive tree? Let's just stop there. Where is he going with this? This seems like a very complicated passage. He's saying, look, if you don't continue in faith, you also would broken off as well. So if you start boasting against the branches that are broken off, you're gonna get yourself broken off too. Is he referring to salvation? He can't. Because that would contradict everything the Apostle Paul has said in not only the book of Romans, but other books where it's by faith alone that you're saved and you're eternally secure. And he makes that point very clear in multiple passages, and even in Romans 8, that nothing can separate you from the love of God, right? Once you make that decision, you're in there. So what is he referring to as far as being broken off? That you Gentiles run the risk, just like Israel, of being broken off. So let's explain then what they're attached to. The root is the Abrahamic covenant. That is the root, the tree and it grows the tree. The branches refer to the Jews and the Gentiles. The place of blessing is to be attached to the tree. The tree is all the other covenants that are encapsulated in the root. The root is Abraham, the patriarchs are the ones driving the promises of this, or God made the promises to the patriarchs, Abrahamic covenants. Within the Abrahamic covenant are the other covenants, and they build the tree up. The land, Davidic, and new. Those are the three aspects of the Abrahamic covenant. Believe it or not, I know this is a difficult passage, but Paul assumes you know this. Because he's just throwing things out, like, yeah, you remember the root? Yeah, yeah, okay. And he's just, so we assume that Paul taught this concept to them, to them. And then he's referring back to them and saying, now you remember? He'll do that to like the Thessalonians. He'll say, don't you remember when I was with you, I taught you this? He taught them the whole eschatological scheme. So a lot of times Paul would just throw things out there and he doesn't explain it because he's already taught it when he was there in person. So the place of blessing for the Jews was to be obviously attached to the tree. and then they're broken off, but then yet there's a remnant according to election. So what does it mean to be the people of God? What does it mean to be the ami of God? And it can't be about salvation. So he is dealing with people groups. Okay, so if he is dealing with people groups and not salvation, then his argument is this. There's no doubt we see there's a remnant of Jews that are saved. But as for a people group, the Jews have rejected their Messiah. They have decided to detach by a lack of faith in the Messiah and how to gain righteousness from the tree. So the branches are broken off metaphorically because of why? Their unbelief as a nation, as a people group, as a whole. Even though there's a remnant, he's saying, okay? So in 11, he's dealing with the Jewish people group. that God had called the Jews to be a people group, to be a light unto the nations, to give the gospel to everybody. Obviously, not all of Israel is Israel. He says that in Romans 9. Not all of them are saved, but he did choose this nation to be a light to all the nations as a people group. Okay? So his point then is this. Because the majority of that people group don't believe, they were broken off. And then God raised up the Gentiles, another people group, to be attached to the tree. But he's saying, if the Gentiles don't continue in faith, they too will be broken off, and I will start the program with Israel again. And how much better is it when the natural branch comes back into the tree versus the wild, uncultivated olive branch of the Gentiles? So basically what Paul is saying, and starts there and ends with us today, for about the last 2,000 years, The Gentiles have been the ones in the place of blessing of the tree. And then Paul is very specific of what kinds of blessings you receive. The kinds of blessings that you receive as Gentiles are spiritual blessings of the new covenant, which is the blessing aspect of the Abrahamic covenant. So you'll see this in Ephesians 1. He says you're blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly. He doesn't go any further than that. And that is attached to the Abrahamic covenant. So we stand right now as a people group, Gentiles stand right now attached to the tree. And there's two aspects to this. Number one, the Gentiles then must be about the work of evangelism. Number two, the Gentiles must continue to respond by faith in the Messiah. If they do not evangelize, if they do not respond in faith, I will break the Gentiles off for unbelief. Now there always will be a remnant of Gentiles that do believe, but as a people, will people stop using them? And do you know when that time ends? Yeah, it's the rapture. It's getting close. Now follow what he says here. If you continue on, he'll tell you when. Verse 24, for if you were cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature, and which cultivated a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are the natural branches of the Jewish people, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. That's when the Gentile branch will be broken off. Of when the Gentiles get, the last Gentile in this era gets saved, that will signal the rapture. Again, we don't know who that last Gentile will be, but that will signal the rapture. That's when the rapture will happen. We won't know that, and then get into the rapture as a signless event. But that's how it ends this era, and then God starts working on putting back the Jewish people onto the place of blessing. Now, being attached to the place of blessing does not necessarily guarantee salvation. It does not. It just means you're in the place of blessing. Currently, as we speak, the Gentiles are in the place of blessing. But I can tell you this, and you can tell me as you evaluate things in the world, how are the Gentiles responding to the gospel? I want you to see a parallel. The way you see the Gentiles respond to the gospel, especially the millennial generation and generation Y, is what was going on in the first century with the Jews. Same stuff. Not responding. Okay. Let me go even further. The same circuses you see going on in churches is the same type of circus that's going on in the synagogue in the first century. They were making up stuff, not obeying Torah, Mosaic law. They're making up their own laws, doing crazy things, crazy thoughts, crazy theology. It was basically, Pharisaism was apostasy, okay? And what we're seeing now in the church is the Gentiles, I'm watching the Gentiles be broken off. There's very few churches that even teach the scriptures anymore. It's Lollapalooza. You've got gay and lesbian priests in some of these churches. They're marrying gays. They're sodomites. And they're doing everything they can contrary to the word of God, which is exactly what the synagogues were doing. Now, not to that depravity, but the Gentiles, man, when they go hog wild, they go hog wild. They don't hold back. Gentiles go crazy. And now what you're seeing in the churches, I listen to these TV preachers, I cannot discern any biblical knowledge coming from them. None, none. They're taking on basically paganism, rank paganism. Well, it tells me and it signals to me as a pastor and should signal to you that the fullness of the Gentiles is coming to an end. We're not seeing the responses. of salvation, like before we saw in America. We are not seeing the churches do what they need to do. Now, yes, you go in the third world and absolutely it's happening there, but for how long, I don't know. But especially in America, you can at least say for America, or at least North America and Europe, that the fullness of the Gentiles is ending here. The salvations of people getting saved is dismal, absolutely dismal of people getting saved. especially the younger generation. So I think we're starting to see that. And so Paul's point then in all of this is, You Gentiles are gonna be eventually broken off. And he's gonna put the people group of the Jews back in and then he'll start that. And that will signal the whole tribulation and all the other stuff. All that to say then is this, what part of the new covenant do we play in? We play in the blessing aspect of the Abrahamic covenant and the blessing aspect that goes through the Abrahamic covenant to the new covenant of all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. Hence, to be very specific, that means you and I do not have land rights in the promised land. We do not have land rights. We understand that Jesus is not on David's throne currently. He's on the Father's throne. To be on David's throne means that the divinic covenant then is put into effect, and it's not. You cannot say that Jesus is on David's throne. You can't have George Lads already not yet. That's not how we view things. So, that being said, I know that's a long way to get to this, This is why when you understand Romans, it prevents replacement theology right there in that chapter. It says we are partakers, not overtakers. We partake of the sap. I don't know if that makes sense to you. I know that seems like a lot, but that's what's really behind why God is using Israel again in the future, because the Gentiles stopped responding. Now, yeah, Gentiles will get saved in the tribulation. There's no doubt about that, but a remnant will. But like, if you think back of Christianity for the last 2,000 years, you can see the impact that it had on the Gentiles. It was huge. Turned the whole Western world upside down. And we reap the benefits of this now, of living in a Western society that has Judeo-Christian foundations. But that's no more in Europe. That's not happening here anymore. People don't care about that anymore. So there's a lot of prophetic things in there as well, as you can see. Any questions, comments? Yeah. You are called the people of God when you're tapped into the sap. We are considered the people of God. Now there's other passages that refer to us as the people of God. But that's gonna end, because the minute we're removed from that, God puts back the original people of God, which is His point, the natural branch that's cultivated, and they become the lo ami. Right now, the ami, they're the lo ami right now, you're not my people. So when God tells Israel, you're not my people, that means they have been removed as a people group from the sap. But please don't make this mistake, guys. Just because we're taking of the sap doesn't mean we're the new Israel. Please understand that. It just means when you use the term people of God, And he refers to the people of God, obviously, in this text. He calls them the Jews, obviously. But when you're known as the people of God, it just means that that's the vehicle, the people group, God is using to evangelize and pour out his grace to them for salvation. But the minute you stop doing what you're supposed to do, he removes you from that position. So it's not a replacement. Don't think it's a replacement. It's just who is standing in the place of blessing at that time. and being used as a servant at that point. That's all he's saying about that. Yeah, and I understand where that's coming from. I can understand that because Our destiny is the New Jerusalem. Their destiny is planet Earth and the kingdom. And so a lot of that bridges from that concept. And then obviously the physical blessings given to them along with the spiritual blessings. And then when you read about the kingdom, there's a lot of mixture of spiritual and physical. with the Jews. With us, all you have is spiritual blessing. So I think, David, that's a pretty good, accurate way of describing things, especially when our home is New Jerusalem. We don't inherit the land. The Haaretz is Israel's. And so I think that's pretty accurate. It's fairly accurate. Any other questions? Yeah. No, not necessarily. That's God's decision on when He removes somebody or attaches somebody to the place of blessing. I think it's in concert with that, because if you do remove all saved Gentiles in the rapture, and Jews as well who are saved, who's left to do the work of evangelism? Yeah, so you can see that the 144 are called firstfruits. Okay, they're firstfruits. And so you can see they're the first ones of the Jews to experience that engrafting. So again, we're talking spiritual. I don't know the timing of this, and maybe there's some overlap. But once we're gone, the 144,000 take control, and they just start evangelizing. That's exactly what they're supposed to do. And then they evangelize not only the Jewish nation, but the whole world. And in concert with that, you have the return of the two witnesses, and then you also have the return of Elijah. And so obviously, with all that coming there, you can definitely say, oh, he plugged them back in. He plugged them back into this place of blessing, to the sap of the Abrahamic covenant. And all these promises you just read tonight are saying they get back into the place of blessing. They get back put into the sap, so to speak, of the tree, of the olive tree, and reap that reward. So it's in concert to that, yeah. Well, they're considered because they're dual status, obviously. So because they're part of the body of Christ, they get as grace to be removed. Yeah, they're considered part of the church. Yeah, that's what's different. So let's go past the second coming. When they come back and we come back. They rule and reign on the Haaretz, the Jewish parcel of land. That's where they are. You and I go to our Gentile zones, and we rule and reign in the territories of the Gentiles. And so that's different. The reward is different. There's no doubt about it. They go to the Haaretz, we don't. Now, we will visit the land, we will visit Jerusalem periodically, at least I can say once a year, but you and I, as Gentiles, do not get into the land at that point in time. Not that we're not permitted, it's just that doesn't belong to us. It belongs to the Jewish nation. Their reward's a little different, but because they're in the body of Christ, they have access to the new Jerusalem, like we do, and they go back and forth. In fact, well, all believers would have all times, but there's where you start to see the difference between the Jew and the Gentile. the way it flushes out in eternity is a little bit different. And if you notice the New Jerusalem, it keeps distinctions. And I'll preach on this when we're in Revelation 21 and 22, it keeps ethnic distinctions. It calls the nations or the ethnos come in and out of the New Jerusalem. If you look at the gates, what do they have? What are the names on the gates? The 12 tribes of Israel. What's on the foundations? the 12 apostles. So even in the New Jerusalem you have a distinction between Jew and Gentile or the church and Israel is definitely distinct and it's kept there for all eternity. I mean that stuff's etched in the stones of the New Jerusalem forever. So what is God trying to say when he keeps those distinctions? Because I know a lot of people think well we just all should be blended up together we're all the people of God. Why? We intermingle with each other, we intermingle with Jews and Gentiles and we're all there, but why is it that Brandon is a Gentile forever? Why is that? What's the point there? No, no, you're not second class citizens, but why do you keep your distinctives? That he came from the era of the 21st century, He was a Gentile in America. Why does that tag stay on you? Maybe. What is God trying to say by saying, this is an Italian that lived in the 500s. He still keeps the nations, the ethnos. Your ethnos is still kept. Why? To show that God has made himself available to all people of all times. So Eric is onto something. God actually gets glory by you keeping your ethnos and your distinctions in heaven, or eternity, I should say, because we'll be on planet earth. Why would God get glory for that? Right, but in heaven, you'll be known as Sandy, and Sandy lived in the 21st century, and she's of this ethnicity of the 70 nations. Hooray. Why is that a glorifying thing to God? Yeah, you're right. You're using the phrase trophy and that would bring God. So what you can surmise from this is why ethnic distinctions between Jews and Gentiles are kept is because you'll see a phrase that repeats itself over and over and over again in the scripture. That basically he has saved everyone from every tribe, language, tongue, and nation. There's a fourfold distinction in the scripture. And why does he give the fourfold distinction? That I'm saving everybody from all four categories. Simple. God is saying, I'm not capricious. I'm not an arbiter of salvation. I offer salvation to all people groups. And the proof is what? Look at all of them. All of them are from different eras, different tribes, language, tongues, nations. Who's he doing this for? Not just for him, but what is he proving? And to who? Us? The Calvinists? Is he proving to the Calvinists? Look, I get what everyone's saying. What are you guys talking about? There's only elect. Who would he be proving this to? He said, look at them. Every tribe, tongue, language, and nation, not only Jew and Gentile, but every era, every nation is now seen here in the New Jerusalem. What is the accusation against him then? Oh yeah, there's accusations. But who's making the accusation? It's Satan. What is he accusing? Yes, you're arbitrary. Don't you see it? You're capricious. You do things on whims. And over and over and over, you'll see in the scripture that God says, I have no partiality. Constant, he'll repeat himself. I have no partiality, no partiality. Why does he keep saying that? because the accuser keeps saying that God shows partiality, that God has his favorites, just like the Calvinist says. So yeah, so the whole point is, If you're watching this, and why he's letting the Jews take part of the SAP, and then now the Gentiles, and you can see this in Acts 15, that he's building a people of his own, by his own name, from the Gentiles, he'll say this, and why? To display his mercy and glory and grace to all people, groups of all times, so that the accusations can stop. Look at him. The proof is in the pudding, and you're the proof. Whatever background you have is adding to the proof that God is not capricious, that He's not arbitrary, that He extends salvation to all peoples, both slave and free, Jew, Gentile, right? Man, woman. Why does Paul use those phrases? You see the connection now? That's the purpose. So he doesn't exclude people from the sap. He doesn't exclude people from the tree. He's using different people group, the Jew or Gentiles, to get the message out to all peoples. That's the whole point. That's the point. That's the point. That's the point. That's the point. That's the point. That's the point.