
Both A-mill and Post-mill adherents essentially embrace a Replacement theology which extrapolates that any covenant relationship God made with Israel has been annulled at the First Coming of Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is their view that God is finished with the Jewish people as a nation, and they regard as justified individuals and nations that hesitate to recognise the State of Israel as legitimate, now or in the future. In their opinion, no Temple of God is to be re-built in Jerusalem, and no Millennial Kingdom for Israel is to be established with Jerusalem as its capital, any time in the future. What's more, according to Replacement theology, all of God's promises to Israel have been transferred to the church, which is the spiritual Israel.
There is absolutely no foundation, Scriptural, pragmatic or lexical, for the assertions of the Replacement teachings. For one, the church comprises both Jewish and Gentile believers in Jesus Christ and, so, is neither a nation nor a theocracy. On the other hand, physical Israel has always referred to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God gave the Land Covenant. For another, the Promised Land was never extended to the church, which is a separate entity from Israel and is under the New Covenant which is the Covenant of Grace.