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I find it extraordinarily providential that we are going through the Epistle to the Galatians in Adult Sunday School right now, when the questions about ethnic Israel and the 'land grant' are resurfacing yet again.

Premillennial Dispensationalism has done such immeasurable harm to the church and to the world. Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have bad consequences.

There is only one who can lay claim to any kind of 'divine right' to that little slice of land in the Middle East (because he lays claim to the entire cosmos), and that person is Christ Jesus--the Israel of God. It was promised only to him (see Galatians) and only he may claim it.

And one day, perhaps soon, he will.

Weatherall 2y ago

yeah this is one of my main questions... they were left to wander by god for being disobedient, and, it would seem, for rejecting their God and His Messiah...

So, then, was the Balfour Declaration God's invitiation or fulfillment of his promise to give them their land back ?

Or was it mans corruption that got the land back ?

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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 2y ago

The short answer, in my view, is the latter.

But God is sovereign over all things, and "is doing a million things in every thing he does." There could be some prophetic importance to it all, but it doesn't mean they're necessarily the "good guys." And Paul is very clear that "all the promises are yes and amen in Christ," that "if you are in Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring indeed, heirs according to promise," and that his offspring are not counted according to blood/ethnicity but according to having the same faith in Christ that Abraham had.