This project represents my own theological journey. Having grown up in a conservative, dispensationalist home and having graduated from The Master’s College, I was taught that Israel and the church were two different people groups. Two separate entities with two separate destinies. The church was now living in something of an unexpected parenthesis in the broad story line of the Bible. Predictably, I grew to envy the nation of Israel, as I wanted to inherit all of God’s promises
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