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When Israel Means the Church
So what we’ve been saying is, promises to Israel are to Israel. When you read about Israel, it means Israel, it doesn’t mean the church. – John MacArthur, Why Every Calvinist Should Be A Premillennialist (Part 5)
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In Romans 4, Galatians 4, Ephesians 2, etc., the Apostle Paul articulates the seed of Abraham (Seed, singular) as being Christ – not descendants of natural Israel – and Christ is the head, and the Church is His bride, His body, comprised of both Jew AND Gentile as one body – the Church – regardless of racial origin.
God has communicated to His Bride exceedingly clear.
A problem, and a false doctrine here only arises when people refuse to acknowledge the two Israel’s that God has spoken of through His Apostle, Paul, thus opposing God’s Word.
It really is that simple.
5 Pt. Salt 
Dispensationalists – and all of us, if we are careless – find a definition for a word and presume that word has the same definition everywhere! Context – within the paragraph, within the chapter, within the book, within the genre, within the testament and within the whole of Scripture tell us the definition for the specific use we are looking at.
Charles Spurgeon on December 6, 1863 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle:
“The covenant made with Abraham, to bless all nations by his seed, is not revoked; heaven and earth shall pass away, but the chosen nation shall not be blotted out from the book of remembrance. The Lord hath not cast away his people; he has never given their mother a bill of divorcement; he has never put them away; in a little wrath he hath hidden his face from them, but with great mercies will he gather them. The natural branches shall again be engrafted into the olive together with the wild olive graftings from among the Gentiles. In the Jew, first and chiefly, shall grace triumph through the King of the Jews. O time, fly thou with rapid wing, and bring the auspicious day.”
but charles s must have forgot that the first 500,000 christians were jews including all the apostoles and many more—see God cut off the jews 100% but all of them that repent and trust in Jesus alone and the blood of jesus are grafted back in that moment–they not need wait 500years for God to show them mercy–but at the moment they receive christ they are grafted in wow so why do people/fasle teachings are still floating