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.
" 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.
I don't know how you don't see that every time you define dispensation, you're making my exact point.
Every example you gave involves a rule system that applies to two different groups differently. Google "theology-related definition of dispensation".
Most of the world are atheists and revilers of the Lord. 2% of Jews are Christian in Israel, 1% of Chinese are Christian. Should people not support China by praying for them?
Even if you take Messianic Jews out of the equation, you don't have to like Jews to realize there are many end-time prophesies which require the existence of a Jerusalem controlled by Jews.
The temple will be rebuilt for the anti-Christ to enter it and proclaim himself as God. There's no getting around that scripture having a requirement for Jerusalem to be governed by Jews.
Obviously getting around it is easy enough or Preterism wouldn't exist. Roman Emperors entered and the destroyed the Temple. They claimed divinity.
There is no set interpretation of the Revelation of St. John.
Even if the interpretation is correct, supporting the State of Israel to perform such is akin to supporting Judas Iscariot, in order for Christ to be crucified.
One does not put the Lord to the test.
The prayers we have for our enemies is for the Lord to have mercy on them, and for them to convert.