The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Israel being cut off

I do not spend a lot of time studying Eschatology, but it has been rolling around in my mind recently. I accept the view presented as Amillenialism, and have been considering the nation of Israel. We speak of them being cut off, but cut off from what? It isn't being cut off from the church/salvation because there are still Israelites being saved. As I thought on this, it came to my mind that they were not cut off from the "church" per se, but cut off from their mission as God's chief representatives on earth. This should make the church today take notice, we too, as the corporate church have lost our focus and are failing our mission. Today's church is all about evangelism, social works and a multitude of other aspects of the Christian life but nobody seeks after Holiness of life.

Worship should be a holy exercise and the priority of the church, but it is not. That was Israels primary responsibility, to be a holy people on earth with everything focused on God and His worship,being a people very much "unlike" the world, but they failed. It is the same with the church, we are to be a holy people on earth with worship as our priority, but we are failing, not being much different than the world. How much longer until the times of the gentiles comes to an end, when the Gentile church no longer has a mission, and are replaced by the nation of Israel?

I am just throwing this out there to spur some thinking, but I believe God can and will re-establish Israel as His chosen representatives on earth, restoring the primary mission to them due to the failures of the gentile church. This does not suggest the church on earth dies, but the chief place will be restored to the nation of Israel. I see the visible church on earth slowly dying so this is by no means far fetched.