Hi JDS,

 

You misunderstand my point completely. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY AT ALL!  I believe what the Scriptures teach. Here Is what the Scriptures teach:

 

Acts 15:7-9

".......Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. So God who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, AND MADE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN US AND THEM, purifying their hearts by faith.

 

Romans 10:11-13

"For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame. FOR THERE IS NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE, for the same Lord overall is rich to all who call upon Him."

 

The UN-BELIEVING JEWS as well as the UN-BELIEVING GENTILES will NOT BE SAVED. Not only are the believing Gentiles saved , but the believing Jews are saved as well. It is now "equal opportunity" for both Jew as well as Gentile to be saved or condemned.

 

The Age of Grace will end for the Gentiles at the moment of the rapture, but not for the Jews.  Both the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles, who have previously died in Christ, will be resurrected and taken up in the rapture along with the believing Jews and the believing Gentiles who are alive and remain in Christ. AFTER the rapture the  "blindness in part" will be removed from the Jews who are brought to be believers in Christ during the forty-two month long wrath of God tribulation.

 

 BOTH THE BELIEVING JEWS AND THE BELIEVING GENTILES ARE NOW GOD'S  ELECT.  Those who DO NOT believe ARE NOT God's elect. You must believe to be 'elected'.

 

YBIC, Bruce Warner