Although some Christians assert that they do not subscribe to “replacement theology,” they unfortunately have a bottom-line view which is equally gloomy. These Christians wrongly assert that 144,000 Jews (Revelation 7:4) will become believers in the Lord Jesus and serve as preachers to a “post rapture population” of earth during a “7-year tribulation.” Their success will be limited, saving only 1/3 of the Jews and 1/4 of the Gentiles. Also, if carefully questioned about the billions not responding during the “tribulation”—they must admit that they believe the rest will be lost forever to the flames of the “lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:15) Such a view would also leave everyone who died without belief in Jesus Christ— including Holocaust victims—to suffer eternally. Thus, most Christians who are “Pre-Millennialists” (expecting Christ’s return before the Millennium) teach an End Time Armageddon with permanent devastation. They offer no hope in Christ’s Kingdom for anyone who dies in Armageddon including all unbelieving Jews and Gentiles alike.

But is that really God’s Plan for the children of Israel? or mankind? God Himself promised that He would gather Israel to My Land (Joel 3:2) and plant them there “with My whole heart.” (Jeremiah 32:41) Why then would God allow such destruction—since He promised they would “never again…be uprooted from the Land I have given them”? (Amos 9:15 _NIV)

Still others, the “Post-Millennialists,” expect they will actually first convert the world—fulfilling the command of Jesus to “occupy” until he returns. (Luke 19:13) These Post-Millennialists expect to gain control and rule the Earth before Jesus’ second advent. They seek to establish “Theonomy”—Biblical Law—to govern the US and the world. Their hope and prospects for Israel are not brighter than their view and prospect for all of mankind.