President Trump has repeated several times when referring to this peace deal: paraphrase: the biggest thing since 3,000 years or at least 500. So what happened about 3,000 years ago?
Answer:
United Kingdom of Israel: The traditional date for King David becoming king is 1006 BC, marking the start of a "golden age" for the kingdom under his rule and his successor, Solomon.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
What happened about 500 years ago? Several things, including Protestant Reformation and the discovery of America by Columbus. What just happened? Trump signed an EO bringing back Columbus Day as the holiday and ditching indigenous people day at the federal level.
Things that make you go hmmmm.
The first problem with your example is that is implies God changes. He is eternal, and thus changeless.
The Law is given to a specific people for a specific purpose, to prepare the way for Christ. It is not how God treated all of Mankind, just a set way of life for a particular people. Hence a Covenant not some thing bound to time, as God himself is also not temporal. Not that it matters since the Torah was never implemented by the Israelites anyways. It also served to show how political power is not salvific, despite all the utopian systems since then.
Specific people, specific purpose, specific period of time.
Congratulations, you're a dispensationalist.
Again, the definition:
How is that any different than what you just said?
Exactly. Because if it was, it wouldn't be dispensationalism according to the definition, would it? "Distinct eras".
AI response:
" and holds that God has separate, ongoing programs for the nation of Israel and the church"
This part. Israel IS the Church. Heirs of Abraham according to the promise and not by blood. A priestly people according to the Order of Melchizedek, with Christ as eternal High Priest. Not the Order of Aaron.
You're conflating two completely different topics in my opinion.
One being dispensationalism as defined, the other as to whether modern day Jews are saved.
Dispensationalism is true (God has dealt with mankind differently during different periods and with different groups of people).
And modern day Jews are not saved unless they've accepted Christ as their savior.
I asked AI a question and it answered it pretty well: does dispensationalism consider Jews to be saved without Christ or a messiah?
I think you're trying to pain a picture that dispensationalists think that modern day Israel / Jews will make it to heaven without accepting a messiah -- I think that is a mischaracterization of what dispensationalism is.
The key is in the name.
dis·pen·sa·tion /ˌdispənˈsāSHən/ noun 1. exemption from a rule or usual requirement. "although she was too young, she was given special dispensation to play two matches"
A simple example is Thanksgiving. This US holiday occurs during the Nativity Fast, so Bishops and Metropolitans give a dispensation (or Economia in greek), to ignore the fasting rules, as the holiday is fitting with Christianity.
The specific dispensation in Dispensationalism, varies depending upon who you speak with. Either on Christians supporting the State of Israel (given that they are atheists or revilers of the Lord), proscribing proselytizing the Jews (RC has just done this too), etc. OR on the need for the Jews to repent, be baptized and convert.
This directly contradicts the Great Commission in order to fulfill a very particular interpretation of The Revelation of John. One that didn't emerge until the late 19th century.