What was Israel's role after being sent back into the mainstream of humanity?
After Israel was sent back into the mainstream of humanity, their role was no longer that of evangelists. They became the wandering Jew, a nation steeped in spiritual blindness and unbelief, while God began the totally different work of outcalling the Body of Christ, the Church Age.
Les explains that shortly before A.D. 70, after the original day of Pentecost when Israel was no longer going to believe that Jesus was the Christ, God sent them back into the mainstream of humanity. They were not now to be the evangelists, but simply to be that wandering Jew, a nation of people steeped in spiritual blindness and unbelief. At that point God began something totally different: the outcalling of the Body of Christ, which is called the Church Age. This is a Pauline revelation, preparing the world for the next event, the rapture or outcalling of the Church, which is His Body. Since 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 picks up with Israel and brings out the final seven years, divided 3 1/2 and 3 1/2, and the appearance of the Antichrist.