What is the relationship between the Church and Israel? In order to understand the purpose and mission of the Church, it is necessary that we understand how it fits into God's redemptive plan. Paul provides answers to this question through the analogy of broken off and grafted-in branches with a common olive tree root.
Contrary to the false teachings of the First Fruits of Zion (Hebrew Roots Movement), the root is NOT the Law of Moses, but rather the promise to Abraham which preceded it by over 400 years. God built the Church upon a promise, not a Law, upon his grace {See the book of Hebrews for the fullest development of these themes in Scripture}.
How then do we relate to Israel? Those Jews who believe in Jesus are our brother and sisters in Christ, those who reject Jesus are the children of God who have wandered from home, and we as God's adopted children must treat our position with humility, and those whom God has promised to one day restore (the Jews that don't believe in Jesus) as family.
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