What did God begin after Israel was set aside?
After Israel was set aside in unbelief, God began something totally different: the outcalling of the Body of Christ, the Church Age. This Pauline revelation has nothing to do with Old Testament prophecy or Israel, and it prepares the world for the next event, the rapture or outcalling of the Church.
Les explains that shortly after Pentecost, when Israel was no longer going to believe Jesus was the Christ, God sent them back into the mainstream of humanity. They were no longer the evangelists but the wandering Jew, a nation steeped in spiritual blindness and unbelief. At that point God began something totally different, marked in parenthesis: the outcalling of the Body of Christ, the Church Age. Les says this is a Pauline revelation, and it prepares the world for the next event on God's calendar, the rapture or outcalling of the Church. Because it is Pauline revelation, it has nothing to do with Old Testament prophecy or the nation of Israel, and it must be taken out of the way before God can pick up again with Israel and bring out the final seven years, divided 3 1/2 and 3 1/2, and the appearance of the Antichrist.