Tuesday 3 January 2012

The One Year Bible - Day 252

I don't know if you have ever thought about it but almost all Old Testament prophecy concerns Israel, much of it related to the exile and return of the Israelites to Babylon but about Israel nonetheless. How strange then that many Christians have very little in the way of theology regarding Israel from the point of view of the church and Christianity. I would reckon that most Christians would either say that they have no view on Israel or else they would say that the Christian church has replaced Israel in God's heart. Sadly, this is simply not possible to marry up with the scriptures that make very bold and in some cases eternal promises to Israel. We need better teaching in the church if we are to understand these vitally significant people and not to get our 'theology' from the (seemingly) mostly anti-Israeli media.

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