Israel Moments | The Physical Nation of Israel Has Been Replaced

Israel Moment #14 - The Physical Nation of Israel Has Been Replaced
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Hello this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe Arizona. Today I want to talk about Mathew 21:43. The Bible reads “Therefore say I unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” Now this is spoken to the Jews, and he is telling them the “kingdom of God is going to be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” Now what I have been teaching in this series, a lot of people will call it “replacement theology”, and they will say “you’re teaching replacement theology!” Well here’s the thing, isn’t this replacement? If the kingdom of God is taken from YOU and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof, you’ve been replaced! You WERE the people of God, you WERE that holy nation of the Old Testament, but now you have been replaced. And today, the physical nation of Israel has been replaced by believers, by a holy nation made up of all believers in Christ, whether they be Jew or Gentile, no matter what the nationality. We who believe in Christ in the New Testament, are the holy nation.
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Now this scripture in Mathew 21:43 could not be any clearer when it says the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. So those who still want to hang on to this doctrine of “the physical nation are still God’s chosen people”, they have to really grasp at straws. So what they’ve come up with is “Wellllll, you know, the kingdom of GOD was taken from them, but the kingdom of HEAVEN has not been taken from them.” And they will try to say that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are “two different things”. And so “even though they lost the kingdom of God, they still did not lose the kingdom of heaven.” But wait a minute. The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of heaven are the exact same thing in the Bible. The Bible uses the same term over and over again to refer to the same thing.
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For example, in Mathew chapter 19, we have the story about the rich young ruler. And it says in verse 23 “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” So in verse 23, he says that the rich man is going to find it difficult to enter into the kingdom of Heaven, and then he says “I am going to say to you AGAIN, the same thing that it’s difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”. So right there we see that he’s using kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven interchangeably. So this idea that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven are two different things is just a myth. It’s just a fairytale, it’s not scriptural. For example, in Mathew chapter 3, it says repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Well if you go to Mark chapter 1 it says that the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe the Gospel. So, all you have to do is just look up every time it says “kingdom of heaven”, and every time it says “kingdom of God”. And you will find a tonne of places where they are used interchangeably, where you can prove that they’re both the same thing.
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Now I heard one of these say “well, you know, the kingdom of heaven CAN’T be the kingdom of God because GOD is not heaven, and HEAVEN is not God.” And this guy though that he was really clever with that. You know, “GOD is not HEAVEN, HEAVEN is not GOD”. But this actually makes no sense. Because if we took any king on this earth, and applied that same logic it makes no sense. For example, let’s say David. He was a famous king. What if we talked about the kingdom of David? And then we talked about the kingdom of Israel at that time, that David was the king? Are we talking about two different kingdoms? Is the kingdom of...”Well, DAVID is not ISRAEL, and Israel is not DAVID.” So therefore you know, the kingdom of David is different than the kingdom of Israel?? No. David was ruling over Israel, okay? So it’s the same kingdom. For example, there is a king over in Norway today, King Haakon, okay? So is the kingdom of Haakon different than the kingdom of Norway? Obviously either of those would be referring to the same kingdom. And so the kingdom of HEAVEN is also the kingdom of God because God is the King of Heaven. Because Haakon is the King of Norway. Because David is the King of Israel. There aren’ t two kingdoms over there in Norway. There weren’t two different kingdoms, of course eventually the kingdom of Israel was split, but that’s another story. But when David was ruling over the united kingdom, the kingdom of Israel, and the Kingdom of David were the same thing. So it’s just ridiculous to say that the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Heaven are different. And the reason why people came up with that, is just to try to let the physical nation of Israel hang onto something. “Well, okay... You lost the kingdom of God, but you still got the kingdom of Heaven.” WRONG. They’ve lost both. And it’s not even accurate to say they’ve lost both, because there is no both. It’s one kingdom. The kingdom of God, and the kingdom of heaven are the same thing, and it’s been taken from the children of Israel, and it’s been given to a nation that will bring forth the fruits thereof. He said “think not to say within yourselves we have Abraham to our father”, because he said “every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, it’s hewn down and cast into the fire.”
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Main Scripture/s Mathew 21:43
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