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Posted on: June 19, 2025 at 10:56:15 CT

of scripture to understand that the promise given to Abraham is for his Seed (Christ) and those who are joined with him by faith.

This was predicted by the prophets Joel, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Zechariah

John the Baptist previewed this truth when he told the Israelites that God can raise children of Abraham from stones.

Jesus taught explicitly that if you do not believe in the one who the Father sent, then you have no part with the Father. He also taught via parables that the Kingdom was being taken away from the nation of Israel and given to another (parable of the Tenants and the Fig Tree). He wept over his brothers by blood knowing that Jerusalem and the temple were going to be destroyed by God's decree and the nation would be no more.

The apostle John states numerous times that those who do not believe that Jesus is the Christ are an antichrist - this includes Jews who do not believe. He called the 1st century nation of Israel the Whore of Babylon and worshippers in the Synagogue of Satan in his Apocalypse.

In Romans 9 through 11, Paul explicitly states that those who are Jews are blood are not the Israel by promise, they have been torn off the tree of Israel and another people have been grafted in. The true Israel of God are those who are children of faith.

In Galatians 3 and 4, Paul again states that the promise to Abraham in Genesis was ultimately fulfilled in Christ. For those who are united with Christ in his death and resurrection, the promise is to them as well. In a metaphor pointing to the Free Woman (Sarah) and the Slave Woman (Hagar) Paul associates those who are Jews following the law (Saini) and of the nation of Israel (Jerusalem) as the children of the Slave Woman, Hagar, and not that of Sarah, by which the seed of promise was born.

God ultimately ended any covenantal relationship with Israel through the invasion of Babylon, the scattering of 10 tribes, and the destruction of the first Temple but by his mercy brought them back. However, when they rejected his only begotten Son, he sent Rome to destroy their nation, the second/third Temple and to scatter what remained (both in AD 70 and 135).

There is more scriptural proof of this found in Hebrews, Acts, and 2 Corinthians (and in Christ's teachings) that is too long to include in this format.