The flotilla and the Third Intifada

From Melanie Phillips:

"Two Israeli soldiers in the reserves are seeking to bring a private prosecution against those activists who took part in the first Gaza flotilla -- and who are planning to take part once again in the current one -- for the crimes of assault and soliciting aid for an attack."

Read the article HERE

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Seismic Shock has been monitoring the activities of Anglican Priest Stephen Sizer. You can read all about it HERE

Israel's Three Must's and Jehovah's Seven I-Will's

This is a small tract written by David L Cooper:

My reason for running in the Biblical Research Monthly the department of "Israel's Place in the Plan of God" is that a clear grasp of this doctrine is essential to the proper understanding of the teaching of the Scriptures in general; for apart from it one cannot comprehend the significance of numerous passages in both the Old Testament and the New. As we see from a casual reading of the original promise (Gen. 12:1-3), which is the basis of all prophecy, and the predictions immediately growing out of it recorded in Genesis, Abraham and his seed were chosen to be the channel of world blessing. Hence to misunderstand the divinely elected position of Israel in the world is to view the Scripture from the wrong perspective. To look upon the Word of God and His providential workings in the world from the incorrect point of view is to see things in a distorted manner; and to receive the wrong impressions concerning His plan of the ages is to be unable to conform one's life and activity to the perfect will of God and to cooperate with Him fully and intelligently. In view of these momentous facts one can see that it is absolutely imperative for one to understand the scriptural teaching concerning Israel's place in the plan of God.

In many places throughout the Scriptures we see statements which give this plan more or less completely. Among them may be mentioned the one which deals with Israel's future return to God found in Deuteronomy 30:1-10. To this passage we shall now address ourselves. I assume here that the reader will turn to this section of the Word and examine it carefully before he studies this article. This block of scripture properly falls into two natural sections: (1) Israel's three must's (vss. 1,2); (2) Jehovah's seven I-will's (vss. 3-10)...keep reading

Supersessionism

What is Supersessionism?

Theopedia chimes in:

Supersessionism is the traditional Christian belief that Christianity is the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism, and therefore that Jews who deny that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah fall short of their calling as God's Chosen people.

Supersessionism, in its more radical form, maintains that the Jews are no longer considered to be God's Chosen people in any sense. This understanding is generally termed "replacement theology."

The traditional form of supersessionism does not theorize a replacement; instead it argues that Israel has been superseded only in the sense that the Church has been entrusted with the fulfillment of the promises of which Jewish Israel is the trustee. This belief has served not only as the explanation for why believers in Christ should not become Jews, but is also the reason that Jews are not exempted by the Christian churches, from the call of the Gospel to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation from sin and from the penalties due to sin.

In recent times, the doctrine of supersessionism has been blamed for mistreatment of the Jews in the past. Some liberal Protestant groups have therefore formally renounced supersessionism, affirming that Jews and other non-Christians have a valid way to find God within their own faith, which breaks from historic Protestant teaching. Dispensationalism affirms that salvation is only through faith in Christ, and that Jews fall short of obtaining the kingdom of the promised Messiah, unless they are converted to Christianity. However, in their view, a future mass conversion will result in the restoration of the nation Israel prior to the Millennium, apart from the church dispensation. This anticipation of a future role for the ethnic and geo-political nation of Israel in the plan of God, apart from the Church, is what is meant by some dispensationalists who style themselves as rejectors of "supersessionism" or "replacement theology", and thus they are using the terms in a way that is distinctive to their expectation of future events.


Again, from gotQuestions.org:

What is replacement theology / supersessionism?


TheologicalStudies.org has a list of articles on this subject:

Defining Supersessionism

Three Categories of Supersessionism

The Importance of Supersessionism to Theology

12 Reasons Supersessionism/Replacement Theology is Not a Biblical Doctrine

The Arguments for and against Supersessionism

Famous Theologians Who Affirm a Future for Israel

Does Acts 1:6-7 Teach the Restoration of the Nation Israel?

Justin Martyr and Supersessionism

Origen and Supersessionism

Augustine's Contribution to Supersessionism

Martin Luther and Supersessionism

Karl Barth and Supersessionism

Supersessionism, the Holocaust, and the Modern State of Israel

The Supersessionist View of 1 Peter 2:9-10

Does Matthew 21:43 Support Replacement Theology?

Is the Church Called "Israel" in Romans 9:6?

Matthew 19:28 and Luke 22:30: New Testament Evidence for the Restoration of the Nation Israel

Matt 23:37-39 and Luke 13:34-35: NT Reaffirmations of the OT Expectation for Israel