SETTLING THE FALSE THEORY OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY

[Davy]

Brethren in Christ, if you don't know your Old Testament history, then you will likely struggle with this:

1. There is no such thing as Replacement Theology. That is obviously a doctrine of men that Jews and their blind supporters in the Christian seminaries have come up with because they think God's Plan of Salvation can also be because of 'seed' birth, when FAITH on Jesus Christ is REQUIRED, even for flesh-born Israel.


2. What is their 'Replacement Theology', and how does it contradict The Bible as written?:

Definition of Replacement Theology per Got Questions website:

"Replacement theology (also known as supersessionism and fulfillment theology) essentially teaches that the church has replaced Israel in God’s plan. Adherents of replacement theology believe the Jews are no longer God’s chosen people, and God does not have specific future plans for the nation of Israel." ​

One of the modus operandi by Satan and his workers is their professing a bit of truth along with an added falsehood. The reality of God's Plan of Salvation through Faith on His Son Jesus Christ is that all... must bow to Jesus Christ as LORD. That is what is written in God's Word, particularly in The New Testament Scriptures (Romans 14:10-11; Psalms 72:11; Philippians 2:10; 2 John 7). That requirement of Faith on Jesus Christ supersedes any flesh-birth standing. This is why Apostle Paul said the following about Christ's Church, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28).


3. Still today, the false Jews teach orthodox Jews that they are God's chosen people above all Gentiles. The unbelieving Jews do not... recognize any such requirement of Faith on Jesus of Nazareth and His death and resurrection. They do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth is The Messiah of The Old Testament prophecies. And while God commanded the children of Israel to remain separate from the nations of Gentiles, and not marry into the families of the Gentiles, today's orthodox unbelieving Jews still attempt to lay claim to doing that separation, but in reality they are one of the most infiltrated groups of people, by the nations of Canaan in the holy land when Israel first entered the land, and then with strangers of the nations that crept in among the children of Israel and became religious Jews...

(See Judges 2 & 3; Joshua 9; 1 Kings 9:19-22; 1 Chronicles 2:55 about the Kenites of the land of Canaan that became the scribes of Israel; Ezra 2 about foreigners returning with the "house of Judah" from the Babylon captivity that had crept into Israel's priesthood; the Nethinims which were the bondservents of Cannanites that David appointed in service to the Levites per Ezra 8; that leaders of Judah had taken wives of the Canaanites and had children from them, Ezra 9. King Herod at the time of Lord Jesus' first coming was appointed king over Israel then, by the Romans. Herod was a puppet king born of Esau, and thus Herod was a convert to the Jew's religion and not actually born of Israel).


4. The Jude 4 Scripture prophesied that merging of the bloodlines of the children of Israel would happen, and was ordained to happen per God's Plan:

Jude 3-4
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
KJV

That is pointing to that creeping in of Christ's enemies as part of a bitter part of God's Salvation Plan. Like Apostle Paul said in Romans 9, "What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory", (Rom.9:22-23, KJV).

This is why the group of Israel's scribes and Pharisees at His 1st coming, sought to find a way to have Jesus executed. Not all Pharisees were 'crept in unawares' of Christ's enemies, but those who sought to kill Jesus were, even as Lord Jesus revealed them in John 8 when He said to them that God was not their father. Jesus even said their father was the devil (John 8:38-44). Lord Jesus was not... applying that to all Jews, but just to those who worked to have Him killed. So don't make the mistake thinking that all Jews represent the 'crept in unawares'.


5. The Promise by Faith on Jesus Christ was given first... by God directly to Abraham (Genesis 15; Galatians 3). The Gospel of Jesus Christ was thus preached first... to Abraham (Galatians 3; Romans 4).

That was before... God gave His Law through His servant Moses to the children of Israel, even 430 years before. The purpose of the law was to point... to the coming of Jesus Christ and His fulfillment of The New Covenant through His Blood shed upon His cross by His death and resurrection. God's law never offered His Salvation, it only served as a arrow pointer, as that is actually what the word Torah means, to point, like shooting an arrow towards.

In Galatians 3, Apostle Paul thus says that those of Faith (on Jesus Christ) have become the "children of Abraham", and that those of Faith inherit with... faithful Abraham. That means regardless of one's birth.

Yet Orthodox unbelieving Jews do not believe that. They still think they only... are the special people of God. And thus God has closed the spiritual eyes and ears of the majority of the Jews according to Apostle Paul in Romans 11:7-10, and Romans 11:25-32).

That Galatians 3 Truth which Apostle Paul showed about The Gospel of Jesus Christ having been preached to Abraham first, before the giving of the law, stands as proof to the Jews that it is the fulfillment of The New Covenant through the Blood of Jesus Christ which is the actual Salvation Plan from GOD The Father via His Son, and not... the old covenant which is now dead. It is thus the Promise by Faith on Christ which is GOD's Salvation, and not law keeping or seed-birth.


6. Because of the error by the orthodox unbelieving Jews who still believe they are under the old covenant, God is going to send them "strong delusion" at the end of this world (2 Thess.2). Those unbelieving Jews still reject Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah, The Christ. So God is going to send them a false-Messiah that will have the power to work great signs and miracles to appear as if he were God, The Christ. Those in Christ are not... to take part in bowing to that coming false-Messiah which the unbelieving Jews will bow to. The unbelieving Jews know that The Messiah of The Old Testament prophecy is to come. But they still do not recognize that He had come as Jesus of Nazareth, nor that He was crucified for all who have Faith on the Gospel Promise that Abraham believed.

 

[Davy]

A more thorough Bible study in The Old Testament Books about the Promise by Faith first given to Abraham, and then its transfer by God through Abraham's seed, reveals that the Gospel Promise by Faith was always part of Israel's heritage. Only when Lord Jesus came to die on the cross was it revealed that it was Israel's initial responsibility to take The Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations, to include the Gentiles. Here is a short outline that follows that historical transfer of The Gospel after Abraham's day. Along with that Gospel of Jesus Christ first preached to Abraham, God also gave Abraham promised blessings that go with that Gospel...


1. Abraham receives The Gospel Promise by Faith from GOD, and Abraham believes God and it is counted to Abraham as righteousness (Genesis 15).

2. God blesses Abraham, that his seed will be as many as the stars of heaven, and promises to Abraham that he and his seed will inherit the land from the river in Egypt (Nile) to the river Euphrates. This is to include the believing Gentiles on that Gospel Promise by Faith on Jesus Christ also (Genesis 15; Galatians 3).

3. God reveals to Abraham that he would be the father of many nations (Genesis 17).

4. God promises to give Abraham a son (Isaac), and He would establish His covenant with him as an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17).

5. Because Abraham obeyed God in willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, God stopped him from doing it, and because Abraham was ready to obey, God gave Abraham more promised blessings. God told Abraham that He would multiply his seed as many as the stars of the sky, and sands of the sea. And that Abraham's seed would possess the gate of his enemies, and all nations would be blessed, i.e., by The Gospel of Jesus Christ (Genesis 22).

6. God then tells Abraham's son Isaac, that He would give him all the Blessings He promised to Abraham (Genesis 25). Thus God's Birthright included The Gospel to Abraham, and His Promised Blessings to Abraham, and to Abraham's seed in Isaac after him (see Genesis 21:12 and Romans 9:7).

7. Isaac's wife Rebekah bears Esau the elder, and Jacob the younger. Because of the struggle in her womb, she prays to God about it, and He tells her two manner of people are in her womb, and the elder (Esau) shall serve the younger (Jacob). (Genesis 25).

8. Isaac's son Esau is a cunning hunter of the field, but Jacob is domestic living in tents. Hunting becomes scarce for Esau, and he sees Jacob has red pottage, and asks Jacob to feed him. Jacob asks Esau to give him his Birthright. So Esau agrees as he says he is about to die (of starvation), so what profit is that Birthright to him, thus treating God's Birthright as something to be traded or sold, profaning it (Genesis 25; also see Hebrews 12:16-17).

9. Isaac becomes old and cannot see well. He asks Esau to go hunt venison, prepare it, and bring it. While Esau is out hunting, Rebekah sets up Jacob to mimic Esau, and go into his father Isaac and receive the Birthright Blessing (Genesis 27).

10. Isaac unknowingly gives Jacob the Birthright Blessing he received from God that was first given through Abraham. Again that Blessing contained:

a. Care of The Gospel of Jesus Christ​

b. A seed as many as the stars of heaven, and the sands of the sea​

c. Possession of the gate of his enemies (i.e., the going and coming of one's enemies)​

11. Esau returns from hunting and goes into his father Isaac for the Birthright Blessing. But Jacob had already received it. Esau cries for Isaac to give him the blessing, but Isaac tells Esau that he would dwell "away from the fatness of the earth" (Genesis 27:39). The KJV, NKJV, ASV, Darby Bible, Douay-Rheims Bible, New Heart English Bible, Noah Webster's Bible (1833), World English Bible, Young's Literal Translation, all... have it rendered that Esau received the same blessing of the fatness of the earth, etc., that Jacob received. But those are mistranslations of the Hebrew, which Jacob had already received the Birthright and Esau's dwelling would be 'far from' the fatness of the land, which would be the desert where Esau later dwelt.
The Bible in Basic English; the ESV, God's Word Translation; Lexham English Bible; The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language; New Living Translation; and the NIV; all have it as 'away from', or 'far from the fatness of the land' for Esau.

12. Isaac in final calls to Jacob, and transfers God's Birthright Blessings originally given to Abraham officially to Jacob and to his seed (Genesis 28).

13. Jacob on his way to Haran sets up a place to sleep, making stones his pillow. He dreams of angels ascending and descending a ladder between heaven and earth. Jacob then sees The LORD Which then promises to Jacob the lands where Jacob laid, and to his seed (Genesis 28).

14. Jacob then awakes and understands that place represented the gate of Heaven. Jacob then takes the stone made for his pillow and anoints it with oil. Jacob then calls that place Bethel, which means 'House of God'. Jacob calls the stone "God's house" (Genesis 28).

15. Jacob wrestles with the Angel of The LORD, and would not release him until he blessed Jacob. Jacob is told his name would no longer be Jacob, but instead Israel, because as a prince Jacob had power with God and had prevailed, which is the meaning of the name Israel, and is about the 'overcomers' with God (Genesis 32).

16. GOD makes Jacob's new name Israel official, with blessing Jacob with the transfer of God's Birthright that was first given to Abraham, and then to Isaac. God tells Jacob that He would make of Jacob's seed "a company of nations" (Genesis 35). This would relate to the prophecy to Ephraim's seed given in Genesis 48 where Ephraim's seed was promised to become "a multitude of nations". Jacob had twelve sons that would become the twelve tribes of Israel. But the nation of Israel would only be but one... nation, not a company of nations. Thus even as far back as Genesis 35, God was showing how His Birthright Blessing first given Abraham would wind upon Ephraim and his seed in the far future, and it would eventually involve Christ's Church.

17. Jacob's son Reuben was the eldest, so God's Birthright should have been transferred from Jacob to him. But Reuben lay with Jacob's concubine Bilhah, so Reuben lost the Birthright, and the Birthright was given to Joseph (Genesis 35:22; also 1 Chronicles 5:1).

18. God's Birthright then goes to Joseph's two sons born to him in Egypt, Ephraim and Manasseh. The Birthright portion of the king line of the house of David would remain with the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 5 and Genesis 49).

19. Jacob (Israel) transfers God's Birthright Blessing to his son Jospeh (Genesis 48).

 

[Davy]

20. Jacob then blesses Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, and says "they shall be mine", and "they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance," i.e., as Israel. Joseph presents Ephraim the younger on Jacob's left hand side, and Manasseh the elder on Jacob's right hand side, which was the side to receive Jacob's Blessing of God's Birthright. But Jacob crossed his hands and put his right hand of Blessing upon the younger Ephraim's head. Joseph tried to correct his father Jacob's hands, and told him that the elder Manasseh was on the right. But Jacob said he knew that, however, and that Manasseh would also become "great", but his younger brother Ephraim would become greater, as Ephraim's seed would become "a multitude of nations." (Genesis 48).

21. The final transfer of God's Birthright landed upon Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh per 1 Chronicles 5. There is no later transfer written of in God's Word. This means God's Birthright today is still upon the seed of Ephraim, and the king line promise and law is still with the tribe of Judah per Genesis 49.

22. Starting in 1 Kings 11, because king Solomon of the tribe of Judah of the house of David, had allowed his many foreign wives to bring their idols in among the children of Israel, something that God hated, God split the old kingdom of Israel into two separate kingdoms, but waited to do it in Rebhoam's days, Solomon's son and heir.

23. The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin made up the southern "kingdom of Judah" at Jerusalem-Judea, also called the "house of Judah". The northern "kingdom of Israel" in the northern lands with its capital city at Samaria was made up of the northern ten tribes of Israel. This northern kingdom was also known as the "house of Israel". God separated Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim which Solomon had placed as governor over the northern ten tribes, and instead God made Jeroboam "king of Israel" over the northern "kingdom of Israel" (1 Kings 11 & 1 Kings 12).

24. King of Judah, Rehoboam, Solomon's son of the house of David at Jerusalem, sought to bring the northern ten tribes back into his kingdom, but God said no, that this split was of Him (1 Kings 12).

25. Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim, king of Israel over the northern ten tribes, being afraid that many of the northern ten tribes would go to Jerusalem to worship and augment the "kingdom of Judah", instead setup two gold calf idols in the north, one in the city of Bethel, and the other in Dan. And instead of allowing the Levite priests in the north to perform their priestly duties, Jeroboam setup common priests of the people (1 Kings 12).

26. Because of Jeroboam's false worship in the north, the Levites left the north and trekked south and joined with the tribes of Judah and Benjamin at Jerusalem-Judea. Also a small remnant out of the northern ten tribes refused Jeroboam's gold calf idols, and also went south and joined with Judah (1 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 11).

27. Rehoboam, king of Judah over the southern "kingdom of Judah", and Rehoboam of the tribe of Ephraim and king of Israel over the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel", then had war against each other (1 Kings 14:30).

28. Eventually God had enough of Jeroboam's false calf idol worship in the north among the ten tribes. So God brought the kings of Assyria upon the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel", in stages, and they took the ten tribes all captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, never to return to the holy lands. Only the "house of Judah" remained in the holy land (2 Kings 17). To this day the northern ten tribes, which made up the majority of the children of Israel, are still scattered in the countries among the Gentiles.

29. Per God's prophecies in the Book of Hosea about what He would do to the northern ten tribe "house of Israel", He said He would scatter them to the wilderness, and give them the fullness of the Baal idol worship they forget Him for. And they would not find their paths back to the holy land, but would forget God's Feast days, new moons, and sabbaths, losing their heritage as part of the children of Israel. They would be scattered among Gentiles, and live as Gentiles. God then said the time would come when He would take the names of Baali they called Him out of their mouths, and He would given them a New Covenant, and become His people again. God revealed that during this period of the northern ten tribes scattering that the "house of Judah" would remain faithful to Him, and remain in the holy lands. Thus the ten tribe "house of Israel" became known as the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel to the Jews and to history (Book of Hosea).

30. After a period of about 120 years after God had scattered the ten northern tribes of Israel to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, the three tribe "house of Judah" at Jerusalem-Judea also fell away from God into idol worship.

31. God then brought Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, upon the "house of Judah" at Jerusalem-Judea, and he destroyed Jerusalem, the wall, and the temple that Solomon built. God ordained this punishment upon the Jews of the southern "kingdom of Judah". Zedekiah, king of Judah, was the last king of the house of David of the tribe of Judah to sit upon a throne in Jerusalem at that time when Nebuchadnezzar took those of the "house of Judah" captive to Babylon. God had told the Jews of that "house of Judah" that they would go captive to Babylon for seventy years, and to not fight against it, because He promised to take care of them while captive to Babylon (see Book of Jeremiah).

32. The prophet Jeremiah and the "king's daughters" of Zedekiah, king of Judah, escaped the Babylon captivity by Nebuchadnezzar, and was taken by bandits to Egypt where Jeremiah and his entourage disappear from Bible history. Yet God has also promised Jeremiah that He had made him a prophet to the nations, for also to build and to plant (Book of Jeremiah).

33. After the Babylon captivity of the "house of Judah", a small remnant of the Jews returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. That is the name (the title of Jew) which the Jewish historian Josephus said those who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylon captivity called themselves. They represented only the southern tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and a small remnant of the northern ten tribes that refused Jeroboam's calf idols, and also the strangers who dwelt in Judea which went captive to Babylon with them. The majority of the "house of Judah" captive to Babylon remained there, as God had blessed them with building houses and planting vineyards, and their numbers increased. So they got comfortable. But God said those would be further scattered through the countries, and they were. (Book of Jeremiah).

34. In Romans 9:24-26, Apostle Paul quoted from the Book of Hosea to Gentile Roman Christians about the ten tribe "house of Israel", and Paul applied that Hosea prophecy quote of God rejoining the believers on Jesus Christ of the lost ten tribe house of Israel back to Him along with the believing Gentiles.

35. Per the Old Testament prophet Amos in Amos 9:9, God promised He will gather the lost ten tribes of the "house of Israel" like grain sifted through a sieve, and not the least grain will fall to the earth. That will occur at Christ's future coming, and will involve only 'believers' on Jesus Christ, His Zadok, The Just, the believing Gentiles with them.

 

[Davy]

Per Ezekiel 37, God revealed the future event when He will rejoin the two separate nations of Israel back together in final. God told Ezekiel to take two sticks, and write upon one for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for the "house of Israel", i.e., the ten tribes. And then He told Ezekiel to take another stick and write on "for Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions." God then told him to join both sticks together, and let the people see Ezekiel do it.

God then said...

Ezek 37:21-24
21 And say unto them, "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be My people, and I will be their God.

24 And David My servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in My judgments, and observe My statutes, and do them.
KJV

Because many of my brethren fail to study their Old Testament history, they are not aware of that old split of the kingdom of Israel in Solomon's day, and thus do not understand that individual prophecies were given to each separate house, the "house of Judah" or Jews, and the "house of Israel" of the ten lost tribes. This means those Biblically illiterate are also unaware that the title of Jew is not a title used by the northern ten tribes that were scattered out of holy land first by God. Yet the northern ten tribes that God put Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim over as king, are the ones who made up the "kingdom of Israel" or "house of Israel" , the majority of the children of Israel (1 Kings 11 & 1 Kings 12).

In Psalms 108, God would call Ephraim "the strength of Mine head". In Deuteronomy 33:17, God would show His Blessing would fall upon Ephraim and Manasseh as like Joseph who was separated from his brethren...

Deut 33:16-17
16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of Him That dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
KJV

The Genesis 48 prophecy that the seed of Ephraim would become "a multitude of nations" is very telling also, though not many study enough of their Old Testament histories to understand it. That prophecy that Ephraim's seed would become "a multitude of nations" and that his brother Manasseh would also become "great", was first given as a prophecy to Jacob in Genesis 35, that Jacob's seed would become "a company of nations".

Yet the nation of Israel has only ever been but one nation in the holy land, not a "multitude of nations" per the prophecy. One should... eventually figure it out, that since Christ and The Gospel was preached first at Jerusalem and then rejected by the majority of Jews there, that where The Gospel then later was preached and actually took hold over whole nations, that should be easy to figure out who all those "multitude of nations" represent.