“Because the history of Israel is the history of the church,”
False.
That smacks of heretical “replacement”, or “fullfilment” theology.
Recomended reading:
http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/columns/2011/04/07/israel-and-fulfillment-theology.html
what LNF posted was standard Christian belief, orthodox, historical and biblical. absolutely nothing “heretical” about it. who are the promises made to Abraham for, believers or a certain ethnic group?