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MORE DISP. VS. COVENANT THEOLOGY thoughts.

Dispensationalism lays great stress on the so-called unfulfilled promises of the Abrahamic covenant and insists that the lawful heirs of these promises are the physical descendants of the faithful patriarch, regardless of their own faithlessness and rebellion against God. Just as the true heirs of a dead man's last will and testament are identified only by a careful examination and strict adherence to the demands of the document, so too are the heirs of the Abrahamic promises identified.

The Old Testament itself that the unbelieving Jews were cut off from any covenantal relationship with Abraham in the First Century and therefore have no claim whatsoever to the benefits thereof until they come to faith in Christ and are grafted back into the "Israel of God" as it is now manifested to the world in the Christian Church.