If the Church is going to work with God on his ultimate plan for Israel and the nations, she needs to hear anew God’s voice concerning Israel’s everlasting election.  This is not just acknowledging that God loves the Jewish people just like any other nation, or that God has a sentimental attachment to her for historical reasons. It will mean embracing Israel’s continuing status as God’s everlasting beloved.

Wesleyan theologian R. Kendall Soulen senses this need, and states it well:

God—by his election of the Jewish people—has entered into an economy of mutual blessing with the human family that also places the human family in an economy of mutual blessing with one another, as Jew and as Gentile.  The church does not replace the Jewish people, nor does it erase the distinction between Gentile and Jew.  Instead, it embodies a promissory way of being Jew and Gentile together that— according to Christian understanding— is a foretaste of the reign of God.

Does God have a game plan whereby he brings history to a consummation and brings Jews and Gentiles together?  I believe so.  I am convinced that God will bring Israel and the Church to distinct blessings through the same Messiah.