I was recently asked, based on my end time beliefs, whether I thought that there would be a sizable Jewish conversion in the last days and what I thought about a "self-proclaimed evangelical group that specifically targets a race/ ethnic group as the true inheritors of the Kingdom."

Here is my response...

I do believe that there will be a turning of the Jews (ethnically speaking) to Christ as seen in Romans 11.  I do not believe that God’s plan will turn primarily to ethnic Jews again, but that there will simply be many Jews who will repent and trust Christ.  I believe that the fulfillment of Israel (The True Israel as Paul would put it) is one man…Jesus of Nazareth, who fulfills all that Israel did not (i.e. He fulfills the law, circumcision, descedant of David, etc.).  As a result of our identity in Christ, we too are Jews (spiritually speaking, or as Paul would say "circumcision of the heart") and consequently all the promises of God apply to us because of our union with God's Son.  Therefore, I do not see two future peoples of God (the church and Israel), rather I see one people of God…those who belong to the true Israel (Jesus Christ). 

Through the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God’s inheritance is open to all people groups.  In my view, to say that one particular ethnic group is the “people of God” is to completely miss the centrality of Jesus Christ in the redemptive plan of God.  God’s plan was never “Adam” but the “True Adam”, it was never “Israel” (ethnically speaking”) but the True Israel (ethnically speaking).  True inheritors of the kingdom, now and in the end times, are all of those who find their identity in Christ, the Israel of God!

Pastor Wes