29 Dec 2011
Hebrews 8:8
Hebrews 8:8: “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:”
Replacement theology bothers me tremendously. There is simply no Biblical evidence – none – that God has washed His hands of Israel, taken His promises away from them, and applied them to the Church. The Church has not replaced Israel. As you can see here, God promised to one day make a new covenant with – who? – with the house of Israel! As Paul said so clearly in Romans, God has not cast aside Israel. They have been blinded, but only for a time. Once the “fulness of the Gentiles” has been brought in (Romans 11:25), that blindness will stop and God will begin to draw Israel back to Him. As He says here:
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
That day is coming.