This creates a scenario in which dispensational premillenarians are able to look to the land promises in the Abrahamic covenant as still applying to the nation of Israel, undergirding their argument for the necessity of a future millennial kingdom. This is also why dispensationalists so ardently defend the proposition that ethnic Israel has a future in God’s economy against those amillenarians who do not see a future role for ethnic Israel. If it can be shown from this text that “all Israel” refers to the full number of the elect[12] or the sum total of all “true Israelites”[13] and not ethnic
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