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! Division In The Church
 
!! Israel and the Church
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*How does the nation Israel fit into the plan of God?
There are three main interpretations of the scripture concerning this doctrine in the church today.
The "Covenant" theology, "Reformed Grace" theology, and "Dispensational" theology.
Since dispensational theology seems to be most prevalent in my area at the time it may be good to focus our attention on it first.*
*    Historically dispensational theology was not known until the mid 1800"s.
At a meeting in the church of Edward Irving in March of 1830, Miss Margaret McDonald, in a vision, gave a prophecy in which she spoke of the visible, open, and glorious second coming of Christ.
As the utterance continued she then began to speak of another coming of Christ- a secret coming in which Christ would come and rapture those who were truly ready and looking for His return.
Those who were left behind would then go through a tribulation period.
Pastor Irving began to teach this only amongst his own congregation.
In a Plymouth Brethern Church of England, however, a man named John Nelson Darby introduced it into the main stream of prophetic interpretation.
This teaching is basically unchanged from Pastor Darby's writings and is seen predominantly in a reference Bible written by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield.*
*    Those who accept this teaching believe that Israel and the church are two separate bodies.
Israel being Christ's earthly kingdom and the church being Christ's heavenly kingdom.
Most dispensational teachers believe that a large percentage of the Old Testament is written concerning the nation Israel and is unfulfilled, whereas the New Testament is written primarily for the Church.
A further division is made by a group known as ultra-dispensationalists who believe only Paul's prison letters are applicable to the church.
Some of the statements which reflect these beliefs are as follows:*
*Regular Baptist Press*
*"We believe in the premillennial return of Christ, and event which can occur at any moment, and at that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised in glorified bodies, and the living in Christ shall be given glorified bodies without tasting death , and all shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air before the seven years of the tribulation.
(I Thess.
4:3-18, I Cor.
15:42-44; 51- 54; Phil.
3:20,21; Rev. 3:10) We believe that the Tribulation, which follows the Rapture of the Church, will be culminated by the revelation of Christ in power and great glory to sit upon the throne of David and to establish the millennial kingdom.
(Dan.
9:25- 27; Matt.
24:2 9-31; Luke 1:30-33; Isa.
9:6,7; 11:1-9; Acts 2:29,30; Rev. 20:1- 4, 6)*
*Hope of Glory Bible Church*
*"Sixth, we believe that the message of grace for today was given to and through the Apostle Paul (Rom.
11:13; Rom.
15:8.16).
Paul is the Apostle that brought the message for today, not Peter and the 12 (Gal.2:7).
Since we believe this is so we sincerely believe one must rightly divide the Word of God (II Tim.
2:15) and that our walking orders for today are found in Paul's writing's Romans through Philemon.
All scripture is for us (II Tim.
3:16,17) but not all written to us."*
*    An in depth study of this doctrinal belief shows that its followers adhere to the supposition that the main purpose of God is to set up a physical kingdom on this earth for the Jews and that the church age of which we are now a part is merely a parenthesis in this eternal plan.
There are two groups who oppose this view of scripture, both are reformed in their theology (meaning they adhere to the teaching of the fathers of the reformation, who in turn followed the teachings of the apostolic church).*
*    The first we will look at is the Covenant theologist.
Those who adhere to this doctrinal belief, believe that the promises made in the Old Testament were fulfilled by Christ when he established His church on the earth.
They believe in only one kingdom, that being the spiritual kingdom of God which is made up of all saints from Adam on.
Their main difference of interpretation with the Grace Theology, which we will look at later on, deals with the advancement of the kingdom.
Covenant theologians adhere to infant baptism because they believe that the children of believers are to be sanctified in Christ in the same way as the infant Jews were sanctified by circumcision in the Old Testament.*
*The Westminster Confession of Faith contains a very good explanation of Covenant Theology:*
*Chapter XXVII "Of the Sacraments" Paragraphs IV-VII read as follows:*
*"Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, (Mark xvi.
15,16; Acts viii.
37, 38) but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized.
(Gen.
xvii.
7, 9, with Gal.
iii.9, 14 and Col.ii.
11, 12, and Acts ii.38, 39, and Romans iv.
11, 12; I Cor.vii.
14; Matt.
xxviii.
19; Mark x. 13- 16; Luke xviii.
15; [Am.
ed.
Acts xvi.
14, 15, 33].
Although it is a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance, (Luke vii.30 with Exod.
iv.
24-26) yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it, as that no person can be regenerated or saved without it, (Rom.iv.
11; Acts x. 2. 4, 22, 31, 45, 47.) or that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated (Acts viii.
13, 23.)
The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered (John iii:5, 8,); yet, notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Ghost, to such, (whether of age or infants) as that grace belongeth unto, according to the counsel of God's own will, in His appointed time.
(Gal.
iii:27; Titus iii.
5; Eph.
v. 25, 26; Acts ii.
38, 41) The sacrament of baptism is but once to be administered to any person.
(Titus iii.
5)"*
*The "Reformed Grace" theologian believes in the baptism of only those who are regenerated.
They agree with dispensationalists that baptism is to be administered only to those who have been regenerated, thus the term "believers baptism", (The ultra-dispensationalist does not believe baptism is for the church age) but being of the reformed faith they adhere to the belief of only one kingdom, one judgement, and one return of Christ.
This can be seen in the following confession of faith.*
*The Baptist Confession of Faith 1689*
*Chapter 29 "Of Baptism", chapter 31 "Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Ressurection of the Dead, and Chapter 32 "Of the Last Judgement"*
*Chapter 29 "1.Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with him in his death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into him; (Rom.
6:3- 5, Col. 2:12, Gal.
3:27) of remission of sins (Mark 1:4; Acts 22: 16) and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, and to walk in newness of life (Rom.
6:4). 2 Those who do actually profess repentance toward God, faith in, and obedience to our Lord Jesus, are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.
(Mark 16:16; Acts 8:36, 37; 2:41; 8:12; 18:8.)*
*Chapter 31 2.** At the last day, such of the saints as are found alive shall not sleep, but be changed; (I Cor.
15:51, 52; I Thess.
4:17) and all the dead shall be raised up with the selfsame bodies, and none other; (Job 19:26, 27) although with different qualities, which shall be united again to their souls for ever.
(I Cor.
15:42, 43) 3. The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of God, be raised to dishonor; the bodies of the just , by his Spirit, unto honor, and be made conformable to his own glorious body.
(Acts 24:15; John 5:28, 29; Phil.3:21)*
*Chapter 32 1.** God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by Jesus Christ; (Acts 17:31; John 5:22, 27) to whom all power and judgement is given of the Father; in which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged, (I Cor.
6:3; Jude 6) but likewise all persons that have lived upon the earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of their thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or evil.
(II Cor.
5:10, Eccles.
12:14; Matt.
12:36; Rom.
14:10, 12; Matt.
25:32 to the end)."*
*    As can be seen in the above statements and by reading the scriptures given, the main difference in all statements given is in interpretation of the scriptures.
Whereas the reformed grace and covenant theologian adhere to a present spiritual fulfillment of prophecy seen in the church, the dispensationalist sees a future physical fulfillment which concerns the Jewish Nation.
So far as baptism is concerned the dispensationalist and the reformed grace theologian see it as a sign of the death, burial and resurrection of the believer in the finished work of Christ, while the covenant theologian looks at it as a sign and seal of the covenant of salvation for God's people.*
*    Can these differences be adhered to without animosity between brother's in Christ, or are they true reasons for dissension in the universal body?
First of all, concerning Israel and the church, what we see is a doctrinal issue which has absolutely no bearing on the life of the believer at this time.
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