I am following up my previous article “God has worked with Israel and the church at the same time in the past in AD 70” with an extract from an article last year:
In the Present
God also works with Israel and the church at the same time, not just in the past, but the present:
“(19) But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.” (20) And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.” (Rom 10:19–20)
“I ask then, they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall, did they? Absolutely not! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous.” (Rom 11:11)
“For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.” (Rom 11:25)
These passages teach that God in this present church age is working with Israel to make them “jealous.”
This shows that pretrib logic fails when it is claimed that the church “cannot be here” for the last part of Daniel’s prophecy.
