It is not enough to claim descent from Abraham in order to lay claim to the blessing accorded to Abraham:
"They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham" (John 8:39).
If that is not enough the apostle Paul makes it abundantly clear that the promise comes through the “seed” singular which is Christ; “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ” (Galatians 3:16) and both Jew and Gentile inherit the blessings through Christ: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Galatians 3:28-29).
Therefore this is not explicitly about Israel after the flesh. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed (Romans 9:6-8).
They don’t even quote the Torah correctly. The text speaks about Abraham not Israel. pic.twitter.com/xibFmHMmDz
I prefer the explanation given by this Jewish man who used to be a Zionist and I endorse his explanation….
It is not that God has no purpose with Israel as a nation or that the Church somehow replaces Israel but the nation finds its true fulfillment in Christ. The “New Jerusalem” comes down from heaven and the former things pass away.
Does God Really Bless Those Who Bless Israel? (45 min)
The most misquoted verse in the Bible must be the promise God made to Abraham in Genesis 12, where he told Abraham he would bless those who bless HIM and curse those who curse HIM. The covenant later in Genesis 17 was passed on to his Seed on the child, which was Jesus Christ, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what happened to those who cursed Him and those who blessed Him.
"And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed"(Gen12:2-3)
How do you bless Israel? Is sending them more weapons blessing them? Is enabling a genocide blessing them? Is praising their psychopathy blessing them? Is accepting their Chosenite status blessing them? Is encouraging their narcissistic feeling of superiority blessing them? Is wallowing in their sense of victim-hood blessing them?
As a Christian the only way to bless Israel is to preach the Gospel to them and encourage them to repent. The Gospel, or good news, is the blessing. The same Gospel that was received by Abraham:
"And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham" (Gal 3:8-9)
What gospel was this? It was justification through faith because Abraham believed the promise of a Messianic seed. Abraham “saw the place afar off” (Gen 22:4) and named the place of sacrifice Yahweh-Yireh (Gen 22:14) meaning that divine grace would be seen in that place (literally means Yah will be seen);
"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad" (John 8:56).
The descendants of Abraham are those who do the works of Abraham (John 8:39), for in obeying the command to sacrifice the fruit of his body and submitting himself to God in complete trust he actually fulfilled the whole law before it was even given (430 years later):
"Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws "(Gen 26:5)
So Abraham was justified by faith as are all his true descendants. That faith is messianic and it supersedes and fulfills the whole law.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
(Gal 3:16)
If you are a child of faith your father is Abraham, in fact it is God himself. If you are faithless you might as well be lawless and you have a different father (the serpent):
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.(John 8:40-45)