You are absolutely correct! God has "the elect"
of the OLD testament who is
Israel. And NOW He has "the elect"
of the NEW testament who
are His Church. Everything changed when Jesus was
crucufied, and the Gentiles were grafted into the
Olive Tree. Now everyone who believes in Christ is "God's
elect".
YBIC, Bruce Warner"
Everything changed FOR THE GENTILE.
We were with out hope, and OUT SIDE
the common WEALTH of God.
NOW, we are brought near and into the HOPE of
Israel.
NOTHING has changed for the JEW accept that now,
they no longer have to gain salvation by the
works of the law,
but through the free gift of Messiah.
THEIR Messiah has COME!
"I say then, Has God REJECTED His people?
God forbid! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed
of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
God has not rejected His people which He
foreknew...." Rom. 11:1,2
"that you were at that time separate from Christ,
alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers from the covenants of the promise, having
no hope and without God in the world." Eph. 2:12
In BOTH these passages, he is speaking of
Gentiles.
Let us preach the love and hope of Messiah to the
Jew,
rather than reject them where God has not.
Let us hold out the message of hope, show
them love.
It is not our place to decide WHEN the Jews will
come to faith.
You will draw not one Jewish person to Jesus
by preaching replacement theology.
JDS