Which do you believe about the future according to Bible prophesy?
The millennium has already happened! |
Or |
The millennium will happen after the Second Coming of Christ. |
The Church is the New Israel! |
Or |
God’s Covenants with Israel are irrevocable and will be fulfilled. |
Which is it? Were the covenants God made to Israel somehow transferred to the Church or are they even still standing? Is the millennium a future event or has it already occurred? If one questions the timing of the millennium, one must also question the prophets of the Old Testament, as well as all the events portrayed in the book of Revelation. Are they all allegorical? Have they already happened? Or are they yet to happen in the future?
The place of Israel in biblical theology has long been debated. At the heart of the debate is the question of divine faithfulness. Do God’s promises to Israel persist unchanged with a future fulfillment in Christ and in the end times or are they transposed into the life of the church?
Historically, much Christian theology has tended toward supersessionism (also known as Replacement Theology) —the view that the church replaces Israel as the chosen people of God. The renewal of the nation of Israel in the mid-twentieth century prompted interest in the Jewish roots of Christianity which, in turn, provoked reevaluation of Israel’s continuing role in salvation history and its eschatological role. Within evangelical scholarship, some argue for the church’s participation in Israel’s promises, while others stress a future national restoration for Israel within God’s eschatological plan.
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