I am told many times by these Christians that I am not understanding Scripture. They are always eager to say that I am practicing heresy but will never provide proof that substantiates their claim. I am a broken record when it comes to needing Scripture to prove ones belief. To just say something as fact but not support it from the Bible does not cut it with me.

Also, it is a two way street concerning the accusation that one is not understanding Scripture.

I have repeatedly said to let Scripture interpret Scripture. The specific verses of Hebrews 9:9-10 and Chapter 10: 4-6, 9-12 make it clear that the sacrificial system is gone forever - Jesus was our One final sacrifice - Once for all time. These, that show the sacrifical system is now obsolete, are prime examples. This language of the fact that Christ paid it all in full, that He is our sacrificial lamb, that we are the temple of God is what the whole New Testament is about. Its not that the New Testament has done away with the Old, but its that the shadow of the OT is fulfilled by the Substance of the NT. Jesus and the Gospel is that Substance.

We also have all the writings of the inspired NT writers who confim these things. Whereas the hang up of Christian Zionists and Dispensationalist is that the OT promises were to a race of people. And since God never backs off from His promises then there is much yet to be fulfilled for the Jew.

It seems like they are saying,"never mind that Paul clears all this up in chapters 9-11 of Romans, and never mind what Hebrews says about these things, and never mind that John the Baptist said God can make descendants from stones, and never mind, in essence, the whole NT. God said it in the OT and that settles it."

What a box of narrow minded, confining set of misunderstandings they have put themselves in.

Here is an example of what I mean when I say Paul clears it up:

Look at it close: He first says not all Israel is Israel (9:6). What does that mean to you?

Then he quotes Hosea in 9:25 “ I will call them My people, who were not My people,…Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.”

Then in chapter 10 Pauls crys out in hope that his race of people will be saved.

Then in chapter 11 Paul says: 1 I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. When Paul addresses the question of whether God has cast off all ethnic Israel, he mentions (as the ones that God has not cast off) only those “whom He foreknew” (Rom.11:11-2). This is a clear reference to those who are faithful Jews (at least this was the case three chapters earlier—8:29-30). To the question, “Has God cast off [all of] the Jews?” Paul’s answer is, “No, He has saved a remnant (who are now believers on Christ), of whom I myself (Paul) am an example. The rest have indeed been cast off (”hardened” and “blinded”—Rom. 11:7-10).”

This is not rocket science. It just requires letting Scripture interpret Scripture.
Paul thus says that only a remnant of ethnic Israelites will be saved, which are the ones that God foreknew (i.e., the Jews who have become disciples of Christ, whom Paul regards as branches who were NOT broken off the olive tree).

It seems unmistakable that Paul teaches all these things. If so, then we need to recognize (from context), case-by-case, when Paul is using the word Israel to speak of ethnic Israel (most of whom will not be saved, according to Paul) and when he is referring to the reconstituted Israel (comprised of all the branches on the olive tree, whether Jew or Gentile—all of whom, says Paul, “shall be saved”).

Distinguishing between these two is not as difficult as some might imagine. It only requires paying attention to Paul’s entire flow of thought, rather than drawing out a few isolated verses and trying to assign meaning to them without consulting their context.

So-called “replacement theology” does not argue that Israel (the olive tree) has been “replaced” by a new “Church” tree. It teaches that Gentile branches that have believed have been grafted in where unbelieving Jewish branches were removed—thus “replacing” the missing branches, not the tree. If we look at Paul’s actual statements in Romans 9 through 11, we can hardly miss this.

This, from Paul, is just a sampling of what this whole plan of salvation is about. Its not about land, its not about a race of people and its not about politics. Its about truth, understanding truth, and living by truth.