{"id":729,"date":"2012-09-21T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menorahmusic.com\/wp\/?p=729"},"modified":"2012-09-21T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:35:23","slug":"did-god-reject-jews-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menorahmusic.com\/wp\/2012\/09\/21\/did-god-reject-jews-and-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"DID GOD REJECT JEWS AND ISRAEL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is replacement theology & why is it flawed, and even\u00a0dangerous?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

Posted: September 20, 2012 in Uncategorized <\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

Joel Rosenberg’s Blog – Tracking events and trends in Israel, Russia and the epicenter<\/div>\n


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\"\"<\/a>Panel on \u201cReplacement Theology\u201d at the 2012 Epicenter Conference with (left to right) Joel Rosenberg, Pastor Skip Heitzig, Dr. Michael Rydelnik, and Dr. Michael Vlach.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Today, unfortunately, there are millions of people who believe that God has rejected Israel and the Jewish people. Some don\u2019t believe the Old Testament Scriptures\u00a0ever indicated that God sovereignly chose Israel to bless her, and chose to make her a blessing to all the families of the earth, and that He also sovereignly promised to give the Jewish people the land of Israel as an \u201ceverlasting possession.\u201d Others believe that yes, the Old Testament made those promises, but that the New Testament changed or modified or even abrogated those promises. Such views are known\u00a0as \u201cReplacement Theology,\u201d or \u201csupercessionism,\u201d or sometimes as \u201cfulfillment theology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tragically, such thinking among church leaders in Germany in the early 1900s created a poisonous, anti-Semitic\u00a0environment which Adolf Hitler latched onto, rode to power, and then manipulated for the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d and the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Replacement theology won\u2019t necessarily lead to genocide. But it can, and it has. Not all who hold various forms of Replacement Theology are anti-Semitic. Some are just misinformed or misguided.\u00a0And misguided bad theology can lead to misguided actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

At The Joshua Fund\u2019s\u00a02012 Epicenter Conference<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, we invited some of the world\u2019s foremost Bible scholars and theologians in these areas\u00a0to walk us through these sensitive and controversial issues. I\u2019m so grateful to report that not only did they do a brilliant job, they also communicated in a way that was easy \u2014 even enjoyable \u2014 to understand. Here are links to three important videos from the conference on these issues. I hope you find them helpful and will pass them along to others to watch and consider, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n