Replacement Theology has been taught over many years that the Church has replaced the Jewish people.  Did God reject the Jews and Israel as a nation when they rejected Jesus as the Messiah?  Many believe that the answer is “yes,” and that the converted Gentiles have replaced the Jews and now Abraham’s seed has lost their everlasting covenant with God.   Did the Gentiles replace Israel with God?  Did God take the covenant from the Jews and replace them with a covenant with the Gentiles?

    It all started with Abraham in the Bible, marked a definite time in God’s dealing with Mankind.  The generation that grew up after Noah began to turn away from the Lord and attempted to build the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9).  God turned from dealing with people and nations to call upon one man through whom He would raise up a new nation, Israel, which would be God’s unique people.

    Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot 12 sons that later became God’s chosen people.  Jacob’s name was changed to Israel (Genesis 35:10).  Jacob’s family went into Egypt because of a great famine and was there for 400 years before leaving to be led out by Moses (Acts 7:6).

    Then with many years of famine and wars Israel finally ended up in the land conquered by David and there his son Solomon builds a temple at Jerusalem (1 Kings 9:10) where Jesus was crucified by Pilate to please Caiaphas the high priest (John 19:5-6).

    God gave the covenant to Abraham, passed down to Jacob in whom the contract was given to the children of Abraham, the 12 tribes of Israel; and it was an everlasting agreement between the two parties.
 
   When Jesus became the age of 30 He shows up at the Jordan River to be baptized by John the Baptist (Mark 1:9), and then He started his ministry for 3 ½ years, to minister to the House of Israel.  He told His disciples not to go to the Gentiles the following 3 ½ years, but to the lost tribe of Israel after His death (Matthew 10:5-6).  God’s covenant never was taken from Israel because of the high priest and the Jewish people who rose up and killed the Messiah and said: “his blood would be on them and their children” (Matthew 27:25).

    God made a place for the Gentiles in the Abrahamic covenant with Israel.  These promises were made to righteous Jews.  Those promises in that everlasting covenant must and will be fulfilled in the New Covenant, for Jesus was the promised seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:16).  That covenant was that all families of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3).

    God foreknew that they would reject their Messiah and in the last days repent and accept Him when He said that He would pour His Spirit upon Jerusalem and that they would look upon him whom they pierced and mourned for Him (Zechariah 12:9-10).

    Actually, Jeremiah the prophet is speaking of having a new order or covenant in human affairs.  The new covenant will be marked by Pardon and Grace, by firsthand fellowship of the interval with God, and by making it very clear concerning the will of God.