Quote Originally Posted by CatholicCrusader
The Church is the New Israel, and the Church is One Body (albeit a bit dysfunctional at this point in time) so that has come to pass.

And when the Church follows the Lord's command to participate in the Lord's Supper, he comes to us, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, in the Eucharist.
You forgot the spirit, the most important part of man.

I believe God keeps in mind 3 groups at all times: Israel, Gentile Nations, Church. Israel is the first nation God revealed Himself to and maintains His promise to one day make them the center of all nations from where Jesus will reign 1000 years in the 3rd Temple.

Revelation 20.3 says, "And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season."

Are the nations deceived today? Yes. They war and we hear rumours of wars. Therefore, is the 1000 years occurring now? No. Of course not.

Has Satan been thrown into the pit for 1000 years yet? No. Of course not. He is still operating from 2nd heaven deceiving the world; he is even called the god of this world today.

When Jesus returns to reign on earth for 1000 years He casts Satan into the pit then at the end of the millennial kingdom, "after that he must be loosed a little season."

Why does God loose Satan from the pit for a short while at the end of the 1000 years? To show Satan will never repent, God's good pleasure to finally remove Satan by casting him into Hell for eternity with all the unregenerates, Roman Catholics and other unsaved souls. And to show that man still yet had some hidden sin and selfishnesses.

This is all done before the New City (New Jerusalem) and the New Earth commence, that John viewed from that great high mountain in Revelation, called Mount Olympus, the largest mountain in the solar system on Mars.