If you are in Christ—who is the “Chosen One” of God—then you may partake in the same promises that have been attributed to Christ. Some Christians mistakenly apply the promises to ethnic Israel, rather than to Christ Himself. This error is fairly recent, having been largely popularized by John Nelson Darby in the 1830s. In America this doctrine (known as Dispensationalism) has become the dominant theology for most mainstream Christian denominations.6
