Church is not spiritual Israel; rather, Israel and the Church are two separate entities in God’s dealings with mankind. The Church and Israel are dealt with in entirely different ways and have wholly different futures. The future of the Church climaxes in “the rapture.” The future of Israel climaxes in the great tribulation, the battle of Armageddon, and the millennial reign of Christ on the earth. Among evangelicals, both the allegorical and the literal systems of interpretation affirm the doctrine