Today we're going to talk about one of the issues that Jeff and I feel causes the most confusion when it comes to Bible prophecy and eschatology.

Stay tuned. Hey, so today we're talking about a topic that I think trips up a lot of people.

Even aside from prophecy and eschatology, it's a question that a lot of people have,

even longtime seasoned believers who

have studied the word and have read it from cover to cover, still wrestle with this question

and wrestle with the answer to this question and how you study it and how you figure it out.

Today we're talking about what's the difference between Israel and the church.

Jeff, why do you think that causes so much

confusion and why do you think it's such a big deal? Well, I think one way, Todd, is that

people always think about Israel as being God's chosen people. And that phrase in of itself

creates a little bit of confusion because we have trouble

separating the Jewish people just as Jews and, you know, as being individual Jews, as opposed

to the nation of Israel. And when God talks about the being, the Israel is God's chosen people,

he's talking about the nation of Israel that he has a special

covenantal relationship. But then comes the New Testament. It's like, wait a minute, we're done with the

Old Testament. That means we're done with Israel, right? We're done with all that stuff. You know,

we don't slaughter animals anymore or, you know, have, you know, the curly sideburns and all that stuff,

you know. So what's the deal? I mean, why, why are we so

different or should we be different? And isn't the church just an extension of Israel now?

And we're the new Israel. So now in theological circles, people call this replacement theology

that the church has replaced Israel. So we want to address

what are the differences between Israel and the church and what do we share? What are the things that

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