In light of these five previous posts, I have five theses on the Church and Israel. (1) The church does not replace Israel, but is the representative of Israel in messianic age. Ethnic or empirical Israel is not so much replaced as expanded in scope to become a renewed messianic Israel. God is not finished with national Israel and salvation will yet avail for them. However, the locus of God’s covenanting and electing activity is clearly the church made up... Read more