welcome back to narrow paath Doctrine my name is Jim this time around I have part three of the John MacArthur series why every calvinist should be a premillennialist really hope you're enjoying the series so far be sure to subscribe to the channel click the notification Bell to get updates when new videos come out in this series it is a six-part series share the video with his many people as you possibly can and of course give it a thumbs up that would be so helpful to promote the channel content here on YouTube this was originally preached part three back on April 15th 2007 enjoy we are in the middle of a study of eschatology focusing on Israel we are at the beginning of the bigger study of eschatology but kind of in the middle of studying the role that Israel plays in eschatology if you're wondering what eschatology is that is a uh long word it basically means the study of last things from the Greek word escaton which means last things what does the Bible say about the end of the world what does the Bible say about the end of History what has God planned for the end and what I've been saying to you is that it matters greatly to God how Redemptive history ends because the whole purpose of it is bound up in How It Ends the reason there is a created Universe the reason there is Humanity the reason there is a purpose unfolding in redeeming Sinners they're all focused in One Direction and that is toward the great consummation the great and in which God will be glorified God is moving everything sovereignly to his own purposed glorious end and what is wonderful for us is that he has revealed so much about it in the Bible there is so much that we can know about the end the Book of Revelation as we mentioned this morning tells us the most that's why we wanted you to pick up a free copy of the book because the time is near here so that you would have your own copy that would help you to understand the wonderful truths of the end laid out in the Book of Revelation and we're going to go through those elements of the end that are revealed in scripture as the weeks go by but scripture is very clear about one thing foundational to any accurate understanding of the end is an accurate understanding of the future of Israel this is the Cornerstone of biblical eschatology what I've been saying is pretty simple if you get Israel right you're going to get eschatology right if you don't get Israel right you will never get eschatology right it is impossible to fully understand Biblical teaching about the end times apart from understanding the future of Israel the future of ethnic Jew in God's plan and if you don't get Israel right then your eschatology is confused and you cannot be blessed and you cannot give God appropriate glory and you cannot have a full hope for what lies ahead so that his glory is diminished your joy and blessing are diminished as well getting Israel right means understanding what God has promised to do with Israel for Israel in the future that all goes back to the Old Testament where God made irrevocable unconditional unilateral promises and Covenants to Israel to be fulfilled in the future and within those covenants he promised that the nation would one day be saved a generation of ethnic Jews would be saved that they would inherit their originally Promised Land which God pledged to Abraham that they would become a blessing to the whole world that they would enjoy a kingdom over which God's anointed king the Messiah would rule from Jerusalem with Justice and righteousness and peace for a thousand years that he would rule the whole world from Jerusalem Israel being given a special place of blessing this must come to pass because God has chosen Israel for this purpose in the end it is then a matter of election Israel is God's elect the Bible calls Christ my elect the Bible calls the church God's elect and the go the Bible calls Israel my elect and thus it is strange very strange that it is the very historic Theology of sovereign election whose Advocates have denied this to Israel in the theological world where people believe in the doctrine of election more strongly than anywhere else they are more prone to deny Israel's election than anywhere else in fact they have come up with the idea that the church God's new and present elect receives all the promises once given to Israel all those promis and Covenants having been cancelled to Israel because of Israel's apostasy Israel's unbelief and Israel's rejection of Christ they then being permanently set aside all the promises come to the church where did this come from and I want to answer that a little bit tonight because you are very careful in how you consider the things that I teach you and I know the question will come up because it's already come up up how could they ever arrive at such an idea where did it come from there is no verse in the Bible anywhere that says the promises of God to Israel have been cancelled and the church is the new Israel you can't find that in the Bible the question is then where did it come from well it started historically with a man named Augustine in the fifth century and because he is such a formidable and shaping Theologian who really was the main influence in the lives of people like John Calvin and Martin Luther and John Owen and many other formidable students of scripture it has the power of these great names behind it the idea then which really began in a formal sense with Augustine flowed down through these great reform and found honor among those who rightly honor the reformers and so it has long survived however reformed theology as such is hardpressed to prove the point and in fact reformed exegesis that is the discipline of interpreting the scripture works very hard I think to manipulate the scripture to avoid the obvious they have come up with a view called a millennialism which says there is no Kingdom for Israel and for that matter there is no earthly Kingdom Period it denies then certainly a future Earthly Kingdom for a generation of ethnic Jews in which Christ Reigns on Earth and fulfills all the old Covenant promises rather it is called replacement theology the church replaces Israel and the blessings are spiritual the kingdom then becomes only a spiritual Kingdom and a Heavenly Kingdom and not an Earthly one at all in order to make this work as I said they have to work really hard at moving their theological points around and they have to do some very manipulative exag Jesus to avoid what is clearly is in the Bible scripture has to be then removed from its normal sense and placed in a category of interpretation so that it doesn't mean what it appears to mean as basic as Israel doesn't mean Israel so to say it simply to hold the view of a millennialist called replacement theology that the church replaces Israel in the promises of God Israel as God's elect is no longer God's elect canceled out to come up with this idea that there therefore is no real Earthly Kingdom to fulfill those promises and that they are fulfilled in the spiritual life of the church both now and in heaven you have to deny the nature of divine Sovereign election you have to basically say that when God called Israel his elect and when God gave them unconditional unilateral irrevocable promises he didn't keep them or he doesn't keep them so that election doesn't mean permanent election it might be temporary as in the case of Israel now I don't know anybody who believes in the doctrine of election who thinks it's temporary with the elect Angels or temporary with the elect son or temporary with the elect church so this has to be a category invented to accommodate replacement theology second thing that has to happen is you cannot interpret scripture in the normal meaning the normal sense in which it is written both in the Old Testament and the New Testament because clearly in both Testaments promises are made to Israel therefore Israel doesn't mean Israel Thousand Years doesn't mean a thousand years reigning in Jerusalem doesn't mean reigning in Jerusalem it means something else something not apparent in any normal interpretation of the language so you can see there's some extremes here in trying to make this work theologically when you have to reinvent the doctrine of election which is so sacred to us and when you have to change the normal meaning of the Len anguage now I want to having said that say this that throughout history there have been some in reformed Circles of great note who didn't buy this I am particularly as you probably known drawn more to Scottish reform theology than I am to Dutch reform Theology and one of my favorite Scots in the area of theology is horatius Bonner he's a 19th century preacher Scottish preacher and Theological writer in 1847 he wrote prophetic landmarks and he took a position very different from his reformed friends very different he was always a strong advocate of the doctrines of Sovereign Grace he was always a strong advocate of the doctrine of election he affirmed as well that election was forever and therefore affirmed the Primacy of the destiny of the Jews in the scheme of eschatology so he was going against the grain of his day and his compatriots this is what Bonner wrote in 1847 the prophecies concerning Israel are the key to all the rest true principles of interpretation in regard to them will Aid Us in dis disentangling and illustrating all prophecy false principles as to them that is Israel will most thoroughly perplex and overcloud the whole word of God end quote and that's right back to what I said and when I said it I hadn't yet found Bonner's comment he says you can't get eschatology right if you don't get Israel right he further wrote of his conviction as to biblical Clarity on this matter and his language is so magnificent that it needs to be thoughtfully repeated so let me read to you what Bonner wrote in 1847 I am one of those who believe in Israel's restoration and conversion who receive it as a future certainty that all Israel shall be gathered and that all Israel shall be saved as I believe in Israel's present degradation so do I believe in Israel's coming glory and pre Eminence I believe that God's purpose regarding our world can only be understood by Understanding God's purpose as to Israel now remember this is a Time long before they had ever been gathered back into their land he went on to say I believe that all human calculations as to the Earth's future whether political or scientific or philosophical or religious must be failure if not taking for their data or basis God's Great purpose regarding the latterday standing of Israel I believe that it is not possible to enter God's mind regarding the destiny of man without taking as our key or our guide his mind regarding that ancient nation that nation whose history so far from being ended or nearly ended is only about to begin he went on to say this he only to whom the future belongs can reveal it he only can announce the principles on which that future is to be developed and if he set Israel as the great nation of the future and Jerusalem as the great Metropolis of Earth who are we that with our philosophy of science we should set aside the Divine arrangements and substitute for them a theory of man human guesses concerning the future are the most uncertain of all uncertainties and human hopes buil upon these guesses are sure to turn out the most disappointing if not the most disastrous of all failures I believe that the sons of Abraham are to and the desert will rejoice and Blossom as the rose I believe that meanwhile Israel shall not only be Wanderers but that everywhere only a Remnant a small Remnant shall be saved that it is for the gathering in of this Remnant that our missionaries go forth I believe that these times of ours are the times of the Gentiles and that Jerusalem and Israel shall be trotten down of the Gentiles till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled I believe that the completion of what the apostle calls the fullness of the Gentiles will be the signal for the judgments which are to usher in the crisis of Earth's history and the salvation of Israel and the long expected Kingdom why did he believe that because that's exactly what the Bible says I love the comment of Barry Herer who has written a new book called future Israel it won't be out till July it is the end of the argument it's that good I got a pre-publication copy 450 pages I couldn't put it down I read right through it in two days and I thought this guy's been reading my mind and then I got a letter from him saying I heard your message that you gave at the shepherd's conference on this subject and I find myself tripping over my amens but in this amazing book researched better than anything I've ever seen on the subject scholarly and yet warm-hearted and readable Herer comments on some of these men who were going against the grain of a millennialism like Bonner in fact he comments on Bonner's writing and says how refreshingly different is the attitude hear from that of Augustine and Calvin undergirding this teaching is not the eschatological blending of national Israel into mere shadowy insignificance and obscurity but rather the acknowledgment that while Grace has blessed the Gentiles in a grand manner so too will the same grace of God according to the same Sovereign purpose ultimately bless the Jewish people in a most climactic and triumphant sense end quote another writer William Van Gan writing in the Westminster theological Journal 1983 said Israel is the hermeneutical Crux in the interpretation of Prophecy I love it when it comes out of Westminster Theological Seminary which of course is a seedbed of amillennial thinking but there are men and there always have been who take the word at its Face Value the key to esoy then is judeo centrism if you want to coin a phrase the SE the key to eschatology is judeo centrism which alone provides the cohesive base to integrate the various features of biblical prophecy still for centuries right up until now and I want to talk to you a little bit about this there is a strong uh let's let's use Barry Horner's term anti-judaism there is a strong anti-judaism not semitism not anti-Semitism as though it were a racial thing but anti-judaism as though it is a religious thing there is a strong anti-judaism in reformed theology saying Israel has lost its election lost the right to all its covenants and promises for example George Murray writing in Millennial studies says to be sure the nation was sovereignly chosen by God but God no longer deals with them as a chosen Nation I don't want to put words in their mouths so there are their own words they were chosen they aren't chosen anymore they were elect they're not elect anymore some contemporary anti-judaism replacement theology anglicans are so derogatory as to be anti-israel and pro Palestinian in fact some of them according to Herer would be delighted if the Arabs pushed Israel right into the Mediterranean Sea this comes very clear in the book future Israel which Herer writes is quote dedicated to the elucidation of the Prill perspective especially as it focuses on National Israel that has been ignored belittled and distorted in calvinistic reformed and Sovereign Grace circles end quote pretty direct but true Horner goes on to say the wrong perception of Israel and the Jews by so-called Christians has produced consequences of horrific proportions during the history of the Christian Church such a shameful Legacy perpetrated during the illustrious reformation and onwards remains undiminished largely unconfessed and still prevalent in substantial degrees up to the present within a calvinistic reformed and Sovereign Grace environment end quote what do you saying is that while we're being told we ought to apologize as a nation for the early attitude in America manifes in slavery toward African-American people we ought to start apologizing to the Jews for the way the American church has treated them with its replacement theology based on chapter 12 of Genesis if a Christian's eschatology produces indifference toward the children of Abraham or Detachment from the children of Abraham or or antagonism toward the children of Abraham you're in trouble because the abrahamic Covenant says you bless them and God will bless you you curse them and God will curse you the issue then is does Israel have a future as a nation scripture says it does many in the reformed tradition deny that typical of this are the words say of a Dutch calvinist Herman Ritter boss in his book Paul in outline of his theology I quote him the church then as the people of the New Covenant has taken the place of Israel and National Israel is nothing other than the empty shell from which the Pearl has been removed and which has lost its function in the history of redemption it's over for them as a nation now you have to ignore the clear words of Zechariah 12-14 Ezekiel 36-39 Romans 9-11 particularly and you also have to do damage to your own understanding of Sovereign Grace because you are saying that Israel failed to believe Israel failed to embrace Christ and so Israel on its own failed to do what it was supposed to do by saying that you would have to also say that Israel would have guaranteed its own place in the future purposes of God if on its own it had done what was right problem is nobody can believe except by The Sovereign Grace of God Israel has failed but that has not altered God's plan because the generation which is elect has not yet come to believe that the church somehow has earned the promises given to Israel because we pulled it off on our own and Israel didn't that kind of thinking is foreign to our doctrine of Sovereign Grace do we fail to grasp that we as a church exist only by Divine Sovereign Grace and that we are no more able to believe than the Jews were able on their own to believe do we think that somehow we've inherited the promise because we were able to do what they were not able to do the truth of the matter is we were unable to do what they were not enabled to do because that generation has not yet come and if Romans 9 through1 and we'll get to that teaches anything it teaches that salvation is by Sovereign Grace and election alone for the church now and many Jews who are brought into the church and for Israel in the future to make a human contingency or a human achievement the factor in prophetic fulfillment is not true to the doctrine of Sovereign Grace so you're asking the question how in the world did this idea get such momentum well as I said it was Augustine North African church father came up with this idea established the idea that the church was the new Israel 13th century the church establishes replacement as canonical law it becomes the official dogma of the church let me give you a little bit of the history written by Robert wistrich Augustine even likened the Jewish people to Cain the first criminal recorded in Biblical history who had murdered his own brother and merited death but instead had been condemned to wander Unhappily Ever After Austine saw the Jewish people like Cain alive but dispossessed a Perpetual Wanderer the Jews Augustine said might deserve to be eradicated for their crime rejecting Christ but Augustine preferred that they would be preserved as wandering Witnesses Until the End Time witnesses to what happens when you reject the truth Augustine did suggest however that they would turn to Christ at the last judgment the canonical legislation of the church in the 13th century fully institutionalized the reprobate status of the Jew and the doctrine which the church called cidus Jude Orum the Perpetual servitude of the Jews the Jews then had to be subordinate to Christians they could exercise no position of authority and Christian Society had to be rigidly protected from contamination through living eating or engaging in any sexual relationship with a Jew that was church law the Lan Council 13th century the year 1215 codified this to segregate the Jews and in the 13th century the Lan Council segregated the Jews by requiring them to wear distinguishing dress in Germanic lands they wore a conical hat and what they called a Jew badge usually a yellow disc sewn into their clothing whose color symbolized Judas betraying Christ for gold coins that was what was done to them in Latin countries the effects of the badge required to be worn and the conical hat were to make the Jews more visible and vulnerable to attack which reduced their ability to travel and so they formed ghettos 1200s the German Reformation few hundred years later under Luther's guidance LED in a very unfavorable direction for the Jews the seed of hatred was swn deep Luther did nothing to remove it it eventually found its full flower in the Third Reich with Hitler and the German Protestants showed themselves amazingly receptive to Nazi anti-Semitism that was so ingrained for so many centuries you can go back to the Council of NAA in 3:25 Council which was debating the nature of Christ came up with the right under understanding of the nature of Christ but in the documents of the Council of NAA Jews are called that odious people this attitude stuck and it stuck throughout the Middle Ages they were mostly resented hated and often killed in the 14th century Jewish books were burned at the end of the of the 13th century they were expelled from England by Edward I and allowed to come back 350 years later under Cromwell in 1144 in Norwich England the Jews were charged with killing their babies to drain the blood to use in the matsos the unleavened bread of Passover of course in the 16th century time of the Reformation pervasive anti- Jewish attitudes pervaded in Europe hio Oberman writing in a book the roots of anti-Semitism says hatred of the Jews was not an invention of the 16th century it was an inherited assumption and sad to say the Reformation didn't change it 1648 the Ukrainian Jews were butchered and it is a strange and sad thing to say that in the last sermon that Luther preached before he died he called for all Jews to be driven out of Germany he was fighting on another front never really got around dealing with that issue which was so ingrained in the culture this this led to this amillennial replacement Theology and it became so ingrained interesting further study that um Barry Herer points out the CRC which is the Christian Reformed Church Dutch reformed Calvinism squelched all premillennialism and interestingly enough they they they would not tolerate anybody believing in a future Kingdom for Israel anybody who did was placed under investigation you can find that in their own history they actually went so far as to forbid preaching or discussing premillennialism wiri says in his book anti-Semitism the longest hatred the augustinian theology read enforced the notion of the Jews as a Wandering homeless rejected and accursed people who were incurably carnal blind to spiritual meaning perfidious faithless and apostate their crime being one of cosmic proportions merited permanent Exile and subordination to Christianity one writer WJ Greer writing in the most in the momentous event said the power of Augustine is best seen in the fact that he removed the ghost of premillennialism so so effectively that for centuries the subject was practically ignored now this actually continues to be an issue today in our modern world our tolerant world a world that Embraces everybody and everything there is still this subjective sort of imposition presuppositional anti-judaism if not anti-Semitism not necessarily racist but this anti-judaism mentality Melanie Phillips a Jewish columnist for the London Daily Mail wrote a really an amazing article about the Anglican Church hostility toward Israel this is some of what she said the church's hostility has nothing to do with Israel's Behavior toward the Palestinians and she was she wrote this after she went to a conference of the anglicans discussing Israel and the Palestinians the current situation this is what she wrote the church's hostility has nothing to do with Israel's Behavior toward the Palestinians this was merely an excuse the real reason for the growing antipathy was the ancient hatred of Jews rooted deep in Christian Theology and now widespread once again a Doctrine she wrote going back to the early church fathers suppressed after the Holocaust has been revived under the influence of the Middle Eastern conflict this Doctrine is called this is a Jewish writer replacement theology in essence it says that the Jews have been replaced by the Christians in God's favor and so all God's promises to the Jews including the land of Israel have been inherited by Christianity she got it exactly right that is replacement theology you can go to um websites like Christian zionism. org and other websites and find many Anglican leaders that are pro Palestinian think Israel has absolutely no right to the land Christian anti-judaism is strong in the UK very strong much to the Delight of the two million Muslims that now live there it's interesting to find the quote unquote Anglican Church taking their view of Israel one writer Colin Chapman an Anglican who wrote who promised land question mark says Israel is responsible for Hamas and Islamic Jihad he is supported by the way by such notable Scholars as NT Wright who says Israel doesn't mean an ethnic people but it means a worldwide family to support his own view Chapman says the Old Testament is not the inherent word of God it is simply a very ethnocentric interpretation of israelitish History well all of that and that's probably more than you wanted to hear but the things I say here go far and wide you understand that it's time for Bible believing reformed Sovereign Grace Christians who affirm scriptural inherency and legitimate interpretation to drop this tragic error and get Israel in the right place where we're never going to understand God's unfolding purpose to say nothing of having some kind of bad attitude toward these people absolutely unacceptable that is not to say that the Israel of today in the land of Israel is God's people the race is chosen a future generation will be saved but present day Israel lives in apostasy and unbelief and the rejection of Jesus Christ and can claim no protection from God now God will preserve them as a race God is not obligated to protect them currently as a people they are under Divine judgment as are all people who reject Christ but they do have a future now that being said I have very little time left but we need to look at the Bible for a moment I I said I wanted to go through some questions to answer this dilemma is the Old Testament uh Millennial where the Jews of Jesus day a millennial was Jesus a millennial were the apostles who wrote the New Testament and those Associates to the apostles a millennial we the early church fathers are Millennial we're going to answer those questions and then give you some very important conclusions first question is the Old Testament uh Millennial we started didn't we last time with the abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 12 and following chapters and we said that obviously God promised Abraham a seed a nation a land blessing and through them blessing to the world specifically a nation a nation that would grow like the Sands of the Sea and the stars of the heaven a nation that would have a land and possess the land and be blessed and be a blessing to the world and through that Nation a seed not just seeds but a seed as the Apostle Paul describes it in Galatians meaning a ruler a messiah which assumes a kingdom it's all in the abrahamic Covenant we saw that last time the Second Great Covenant in the Old Testament is the davidic Covenant and I want to just show you that briefly turn to 2 Samuel chapter 7 2 Samuel chapter 7 Our intention is not to cover every aspect of this passage but to draw out those things that are pertinent to answering the question is the Old Testament a millennial the davidic Covenant this is a covenant made with David it really is an expansion and an extension of the abrahamic Covenant it's not something disconnected it's something very very connected 2 Samuel chapter 7 verse 12 when your days are complete God tells David you'll lie down with your fathers I'll raise up your descendant after you who will come forth from you I will establish his kingdom now in verse 13 He Shall build a house for my name I will establish the Throne of his kingdom forever so we know he's not talking about Solomon he's talking about a forever Kingdom he does speak of Solomon the one who will be a son and commit iniquity and be corrected but down in verse 16 he moves again Beyond Solomon to the forever king and the forever Kingdom your house your kingdom shall endure before me forever your throne shall be established forever God is saying to David out of your loins out of your line is going to come a king with an everlasting Kingdom over in 2 Samuel chapter 23 we come to the last words of David as he comes to the end of his life and his last words are recorded for us here and if you'll drop down down into verse five this is what David knew to be true and what he said at the end of his life truly is not my house so with God in other words to be blessed by the god of Israel the rock of Israel the one who rules is not my house so blessed for he has made an Everlasting Covenant with me ordered in all things and what's the next word secured for for all my salvation and All My Desire will he not indeed make it happen will he not indeed a better way to translate do it it is an Everlasting Covenant what is promised to David a house that is a progeny a seed a kingdom and again it sounds go back to chapter 7 so much like the abrahamic Covenant verse 12 I will raise up your descendant I will establish his kingdom verse 13 I will establish the Throne of his kingdom forever verse 16 your house your kingdom shall endure before me forever your throne shall be established forever I will I will I will this extends the abrahamic Covenant yes a kingdom yes a king and the King through the line of David an eternal Kingdom that will not only Bless the people who are the sons of Abraham but a kingdom that will bless the world Psalm 72 uh just quickly Psalm 72 speaks of the reign of the great king who will come and establish his kingdom and bring peace to the people in verse three in the hills in righteousness and so forth it goes on to describe this wonderful glorious Kingdom this is a Psalm that speaks of an enduring name verse 17 an increasing name that all the nations will call Blessed Verse 18 blessed be the the Lord Lord God the god of Israel who alone works wonders blessed be his glorious name forever May the whole earth be filled with his glory amen amen David is celebrating here the wonderful promise of the king he will rule according to verse 8 from sea to Sea from River to the ends of the Earth Etc you can read it for yourself Psalm 89 is another of these great Psalms of the king that celebrate the Covenant that God made with David and again Psalm 89 has those same magnificent characteristics of the kingdom it ends with the same approach verse 52 blessed be the Lord forever amen and amen and Psalm 89 is directed right at the Covenant God made with David look at verse 35 once I have sworn by my Holiness I will not lie to David his descendants shall endure forever and his throne as the son before me it'll be established forever like the moon and the witness in the sky is faithful God is here binding himself to this great Covenant it is unilateral I will I will it is UNC conditional God says I will do it there are no human contingencies it is irrevocable the language of Romans 11 the gifts and callings of God are without repentance they are irrevocable it is a grant that can never be taken away there is no other way to interpret these covenants but both the abrahamic Covenant and the davidic Covenant depend on one other Covenant let me show it to you Jeremiah 31 Jeremiah 31 and this is all that we will do for tonight Jeremiah 31 the abrahamic Covenant expands into the davidic Covenant which expands into the New Covenant which is the only way that the promises of the abrahamic and davidic Covenant can come to pass this is the only means of fulfillment and it is the New Covenant Jeremiah 31 verse 31 also made with Israel verse 31 behold days are coming declares the Lord when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not like the Covenant I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt not like the Mosaic or stic Covenant the Covenant of law not like that my Covenant which they broke although I was a husband to them declares the Lord see here's the Dilemma you have the abrahamic Covenant with all its promises you have the davidic Covenant with all its promises and how do you get to the Fulfillment of those you have then the Mosaic Covenant which only proves that they can't qualify for the blessings of the abrahamic and the davidic because they can't keep the Mosaic so the Mosaic Covenant only curses them you got to come to the New Covenant the New Covenant isn't like the Mosaic Covenant this is a covenant verse 33 which I will make with the house of Israel after those days sometime in the future declares the Lord and here is the kind of Covenant this is I will put my law within them and on their heart I will it and I will be their God and they shall be my people that's the New Covenant it is that Covenant which God promises one day he will change their hearts and write the law inside of them and then he will be their God and they shall be his people and again would you please notice this is the Covenant I will make I will put my law on their heart I will write it I will be their God there are the ey Wills again it is an unconditional unilateral Sovereign gracious irrevocable Covenant how irrevocable is it verse 35 thus says the Lord who gives the son for light by day the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by Knight this is reminiscent of the psalm we just read who stirs up the sea so that its waves Roar the Lord of hosts is his name the Creator God the upholder of his creation if this fixed order departs from before me declares the Lord then The Offspring of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever wow as far as I can tell everything's still going the way it's supposed to right Sun's doing what it's supposed to do stars are doing what they're supposed to do the moons are doing what they're supposed to do and therefore God hasn't changed his mind thus says the Lord verse 37 if the heavens above can be measured and they can't and the foundation of the earth searched Out Below and it can't then I will also cast off all The Offspring of Israel for all that they have done declares the Lord there is in one passage the answer to replacement theology God is Not going to cast off Israel even for what they have done and listen to this the New Covenant was given through Jeremiah at a time when Israel's Disobedience was so severe they were punished by God they were under Divine punishment under Divine Judgment at the very time this Covenant was given to them Jeremiah is what kind of prophet he is a weeping prophet weeping over Israel's judgment the Captivity the New Covenant is not a reward for their faithfulness it is given in spite of their unfaithfulness God says there will be a day when I will change their hearts s sovereignly and I will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall not teach again verse 34 each man his neighbor and each man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me the whole nation from the least of them to the greatest of them declares the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more there's a word for that salvation this is the promise of salvation to Israel promise them a seed promise them land promise them a kingdom promis them a king but they can't have any of it unless God Saves them and he will and he will not change his plan anymore than he will allow the fixed order of his creation to be altered and when that Covenant comes he'll write his law on the inside we as Gentiles how do we fit in hey we're going to be in the Kingdom we are the beneficiaries of all the promises to Abraham we have been blessed through Abraham right Messiah is a son of Abraham we by faith are children of Abraham we'll possess all those promises we'll be there in the Kingdom what about the promises to David of a kingdom a king he's our King too it's not exclusively Israel's it is the Fulfillment of promises made to them they are the witness people through whom God fulfills his promises but they embrace the world the world is blessed as even before that we are blessed in the tents of Shem because it was Shem who produced Abraham now we'll be there in the Kingdom will receive all the blessings of the Glorious reign of Christ on Earth whether we've been glorified before or whether Saints enter into the kingdom who are alive at the time we'll all be there all who believe we'll all receive the benefits of the reign of Jesus Christ on his throne and we all are saved on the terms of the New Covenant which is ratified in the blood of Christ on the cross and by the ratification of that blood he makes the New Covenant valid and we all enter into salvation through the New Covenant and he's written his law on our hearts as well we all get in on all of it we're not denying that I'm not saying that we are not going to be the recipients of the promises to Abraham promises to David and Promises of the New Covenant given here to Jeremiah we are all the recipients of those things as well but not replacing Israel the New Testament includes the El the New Covenant I should say or the New Testament in his blood the New Covenant includes the elements of the abrahamic Covenant and the davidic Covenant if you go back in the early part of Jeremiah 31 even earlier in that chapter just start reading the chapter read all the way up to verse 30 and you're going to see some very physical blessings that are going to come in Jeremiah 31 to all of us to The Wider world where either where where even going to come under the great reign of the great king we're all going to serve the great king all the nations of the world are going to come under his Sovereign righteous glorious rule find indications of that back in Chapter 30 if you want further details on the New Covenant turn to Ezekiel 36 let me just very quickly have you look at Ezekiel 36 just so you have a little bit of familiarity with it this rehearses again the same terms the same realities of the New Covenant verse 24 I will take you from the Nations gather you from all the lands bring you into your own land then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your Idols here we go again I will take you I will sprinkle I will cleans moreover verse 26 I will give you a new heart put a new spirit within you I will remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh give you a heart of Flesh I will put my spirit within you cause you to walk in my statutes you'll be careful to observe my ordinances you'll live in the land that I gave to your forefathers so you will be my people I will be your God moreover I will save you from all your uncleanness magnificent magnificent language verse 30 three on the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities I will cause the cities to be inhabited in the waste places to be rebuilt now he says once I cleanse you the kingdom comes and the desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passed by and they will say this desolate land has become like the Garden of Eden and the waste desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited and the Nations that are left round about you will know that I I the Lord have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate I the Lord have spoken and will do it thus says the Lord God this also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them I will increase their men like a flock like the flock for sacrifices like the flock of Jerusalem during her appointed Feast so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men and then they will know that I am the Lord I will I will I will this is all Sovereign work on God's part there are no human contingencies God will will do it in the language of chapter 37 he will gather the dry bones of Israel is the Old Testament a millennial not hardly when God gave unilateral unconditional Sovereign gracious promises to Israel they will be fulfilled by an elect people in the future whom God will enable to repent and believe these promises are guaranteed by Divine faithfulness and to be fulfilled like all his salvation work by divine power in Divine time and when God says those promises are irrevocable they are irrevocable and you cannot without impunity for any seemingly convenient idea or assumption say they are voided you say what about Israel's apostasy doesn't cancel the promises as I said when he gave them the New Covenant they were under judgment furthermore Jesus reiterates the New Covenant ratifies the New Covenant in his blood at the very hands of the apostate Jews the New Covenant is reiterated to Israel through their own Messiah at a time when they were under apostasy and on the brink of judgment which came a few years later in 70 AD but Israel will exist through these judgments until the covenants are fulfilled I just have to show you one other text so I don't have to go back over this Zechariah 12 quickly verse 10 I did an entire study on Zachariah it's available on tape I did it many years ago but it's still just a riveting study Zechariah 1210 just follow quickly I will pour out on the House of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem this is more New Covenant language the spirit of Grace and of Supplication here it is I will I will and they will look on me whom they have pierced wow in the future God is going to pour out on the House of David on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of Grace and supplication they will look on me whom they've pierced they will mourn for him as One Mourns for an only son they're going to mourn for the Messiah that they crucified and they're going to weep bitterly over him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn in that day there will be great mour in Jerusalem and like the mour of Hadad Dron in the plain of megiddo and the land will mourn every family by itself and it goes to listing all the family in the day that They Mourn in the day that they look on the one they pierced in that Day verse one of chapter 13 in that day a fountain will be opened for the House of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurity what is a fountain going to do wash them and cleanse them and in that day declares the Lord here come the ey Wills I will cut off the names of the idols from the land they will no longer be remembered I will also remove the prophets of the unclean Spirit from the land and so forth and so on verse 8 it'll come about in all the land declares the Lord two parts in it will be cut off and perish oh 2third of the Jews will perish onethird will be left that will be that final Israel that is saved I'll bring the third part through the fire refine them as silver is refined test them as gold is tested they will call on my name I will answer them I will say they are my people they will say the Lord is my God finally this is how it ends and when that happens verse 9 of 14 the Lord will be king over all the Earth the Lord Lord will be king over all the Earth in that day the Lord will be the only one there will only be one religion in the kingdom and his name the only one all the land will be changed into a plain from giid rimen south of Jerusalem Jerusalem will rise and remain on its sight from Benjamin's gate as far as the place of the first gate to the corner gate and the Tower of Nel for the King's Wine presses people will live in it there will be no more curse Jerusalem will dwell in security well that's good news huh amen a secure Jerusalem verse 16 then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the king the Lord of hosts and to celebrate the Feast of booths it will be that whichever of the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the king the Lord of hosts there will be no rain on them and if the family of Egypt doesn't go up or enter there'll be no rain falling on them it'll be the plague with which the Lord smites the Nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles this will be the punishment of Egypt the punishment of all the nations who don't go up to celebrate this is when the Lord Reigns and he's going to call for the restoration of ancient Feast because now they will have new meaning and the whole world better come and worship verse 20 in that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses holy to the Lord and the cooking pots in the Lord's House will be like the bowls before the altar everything will become sacred even the bells hanging on the animals that's the kingdom clearly the Old Testament sees a kingdom after a future salvation of Israel