End Times // The Church and Israel – End Times Prophecy // Jason King // December 6, 2023

The Church and Israel – End Times Prophecy

Why do Christians disagree about the End Times?

Has the church fulfilled or fulfilling the plan of God's salvation for the world that was a part of the Abrahamic covenant?

Will the church fulfill God’s plan for the future?

Has the church fulfilled God’s purpose for God’s people?

Who are the people of God?

 “Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.”

Galatians 3:7-9 (ESV)

"The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ”

Galatians 3:16 (NIV)

"In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[g] nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise."

Galatians 3:26-29 (ESV)

“For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.”

Romans 9:6-8 (ESV)

“What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea,

Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’

And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: ‘Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” And as Isaiah predicted,’”

Romans 9:22-27 (ESV)

“I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew…So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace…But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.”

Romans 11:1-2, 5 (ESV)

“So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!”

Romans 11:11-12 (ESV)

“Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved”

Romans 11:25-26 (ESV)

“Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved”

Romans 9:27 (ESV)

“And in this way all Israel will be saved”

Romans 11:26 (ESV)

The Salvation of Israel and the second coming of Christ. 

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Matthew 23:37-39 (ESV)

"The Deliverer will come from Zion,
    he will banish ungodliness from Jacob; 

and this will be my covenant with them
    when I take away their sins.”

Romans 11:27 (ESV)

Is this a return from the heavenly Zion to save Israel?

Is this referring to spiritual salvation offered from Zion? 

“and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb”

Revelation 14:1 (ESV)

“’Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 10:11 (ESV)

“For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For ‘everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

Romans 10: 12-15 (KJV)