Dispensationalism...

No, I disagree. Israel's only connection with God was with the law. When the temple was destroyed, they ceased to be God's people forever, since the law was removed to give room for the Spirit to indwell in temples made out of flesh and bones: us!

Lastly, God has only people, not two, much less a nation.

https://biblehub.com/1_peter/2-9.htm

AMEN - The Israel of God = His Lamb Blood Washed Saints, Jew & Gentile, one in Messiah, Born of the Spirit of God = Sons of God.

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
1 John ch3

There is no Scripture I know that suggests such a thing as the Jews returning to the promised land. The come into the body of Christ, the New Covenant congregation of God.

If I ever wrote that the physical Jews were "cast off forever", I surely erred and mistyped. My belief is, they are cast off the promised land forever and ever. They had the entire land promised to them, they became so wicked that God did what he told them he would do, he cast them out of the promised land. There have been Jews all through the centuries whom God granted repentance and they came to Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Savior. So, I've never said, or meant to say they were cast off in that regard.

Covenants, Dispensations and the Rapture

The phrases "covenant of works", "covenant of grace" or "covenant of redemption" are not in the Bible, they are theological constructions. We do have the "Old Covenant" and "New Covenant" clearly stated in the Bible, the exact wording.

The word "dispensation" is not found in the NET2 Bible, the REB, NRSV, GNB, Weymouth NT, CEV or Williams NT. Rather than "dispensation" you find the words "stewardship", "a commission", "a trust" and "the task assigned". The Greek word for "dispensation" is "G3622 οἰκονομία oikonomia" and it is used in Isaiah 22:19, 21 in the Septuagint where it is translated "administration".

Theologians and men of God have used the word "dispensation" in the past, but nothing like these absurd uses of today. Two examples:

Joseph Benson, 18th century Methodist on Isa. 2:2 - "The Jews, it must be observed, divided the times or succession of the world into three ages or periods: the first, before the law; the second, under the law; the third, under the Messiah: which they justly considered as the last dispensation, designed of God to remain till the consummation of all things. “Accordingly St. Paul tells us, that Christ appeared επι συντελεια των αιωνων , at the consummation of the ages, or several periods of the world, Hebrews 9:26; and, speaking of his own times, saith, τελη των αιωνων , the ends of the world, or conclusion of the ages, are come, 1 Corinthians 10:11."

R.L. Dabney, 18th century Presbyterian: "We conceive the familiar and established division to be correct,which makes two dispensations only, the Old Testament and the New."

That misused word "rapture" is found nowhere in any translation that refers to the return of Christ on the last day. The word can be found in some translations as read in the following:

"Then when you reach the hill of God, where the Philistine governor resides, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the shrine, led by lute, drum, fife, and lyre, and filled with prophetic rapture...When they reached the hill there was a company of prophets coming to meet him, and the spirit of God suddenly took possession of him, so that he too was filled with prophetic rapture...When the prophetic rapture had passed, he went home." (1Sam 10:5, 10 13, REB)

"And Zechariah his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke in a rapture of praise." (Luke 1:67, Weymouth)

The etymology of the word "rapture" is an eye-opener:

rapture (n.)
c. 1600, "act of carrying off" as prey or plunder, from rapt + -ure, or else from French rapture, from Medieval Latin raptura "seizure, rape, kidnapping," from Latin raptus "a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape" (see rapt). The earliest attested use in English is with women as objects and in 17c. it sometimes meant rape (v.), which word is a cognate of this one.

The sense of "spiritual ecstasy, state of mental transport or exaltation" is recorded by c. 1600 (raptures). The connecting notion is a sudden or violent taking and carrying away. The meaning "expression of exalted or passionate feeling" in words or music is from 1610s."
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=rapture

The biblical Hebrew or Greek is not to be found behind the word "rapture". There is NO passage in the Bible describing the dispensationalists "rapture". It must be read into Scripture out of man's perverse mind.

No, I disagree. Israel's only connection with God was with the law. When the temple was destroyed, they ceased to be God's people forever, since the law was removed to give room for the Spirit to indwell in temples made out of flesh and bones: us!

Lastly, God has only people, not two, much less a nation.

Agree

Here is the scripture you have been evading.

This is the PLACE where the LORD restores the Third that HE brings thru the Fire.


For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. 15For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
16For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
19You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
23And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

ONLY ONE TREE Brother for the Jew and the Gentile

Why did God choose Israel?

Why did He choose YOU? because you are a good and righteous person?

You are the boys who BELIEVE in predestiny and election. Israel was chosen in Abraham who God foreknew. God KNEW that they would reject Him and by their rejection would bring salvation to the world.

It was REBELLIOUS Israel which has brought YOU salvation, the ones who gave Him up to be crucified. Salvation is wholly of the Jews.

You owe them my friend.

Paul didn't tell you that, you are dealing with half truths. You said that God does not chose people by ethnicity ... but He chose the Jews.
And God has not made any covenant with the Gentiles, all His covenants are with the Jews, even the new covenant in Christ's blood.

And we have not replaced Israel we have been joined to Israel. Made co heirs of THEIR covenants and fellow citizens of THEIR commonwealth not by obedience to the law or observance of ordinance but by faith in Christ.

This is what Paul warns you about, don't be wise in your own conceits, flaunting against the Jews.

He tells you a mystery, a hardening in part has come upon Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles are come in and so ALL Israel will be saved.

We can debate what ALL may mean in this context but it certainly does not mean they are cast away forever.

Pauls says they are NOT cast away forever ... stop arguing with Paul.

Was Abraham a Jew?

Paul didn't tell you that, you are dealing with half truths. You said that God does not chose people by ethnicity ... but He chose the Jews.
And God has not made any covenant with the Gentiles, all His covenants are with the Jews, even the new covenant in Christ's blood.

And we have not replaced Israel we have been joined to Israel. Made co heirs of THEIR covenants and fellow citizens of THEIR commonwealth not by obedience to the law or observance of ordinance but by faith in Christ.

This is what Paul warns you about, don't be wise in your own conceits, flaunting against the Jews.

He tells you a mystery, a hardening in part has come upon Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles are come in and so ALL Israel will be saved.

We can debate what ALL may mean in this context but it certainly does not mean they are cast away forever.

Pauls says they are NOT cast away forever ... stop arguing with Paul.

I left behind dispensationalism long ago. Modern day confusion that leads to hermeneutical leapfrogging to explain its eschatology and theology.

No, Abraham was a Gentile


No. He was a Gentile. God called him out of Ur of the Chaldees (Gen. 11:31-12:1). What is interesting is that the phrase "called out" is translated "Ekklesia" in Greek which means "church." So, every true believer that hears the call, is "called out" from the world to become a true Hebrew (Hebrew means the one who "crosses over.").

We have crossed over from the world's mindset to the kingdom of God.

A Jew on the other hand meant that he was part of the tribe of Judah, although the definition has changed today.

Was Abraham a Jew?