WHY GOD CHOSE ISRAEL
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Since "God is" the beginning of all things and the end of all things; in creating, He created ALL for His good pleasure and He created beings, which can come to KNOW Him.
There is a physical covenant and a spiritual covenant. The physical covenant is first, as the natural comes before the spiritual (1 Cor 15:46), Just as God created man in His image, but in the physical, but the Spiritual is in relationship, as God created and then spoke to Adam and later was heard walking in the garden calling for man.
(Genesis 12:1-3) Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (NKJV),
Then when you go to Gen 15 you see the physical and the spiritual come into play, as Abraham believed God for a son, who was to be Isaac, but God meant both Isaac and Jesus. Isaac the natural picture and later is offered by Abraham on Mt. Moriah (Gen 22), and then the spiritual Jesus comes in the flesh, and God the Father sent Jesus to die on the cross, to fulfill the spiritual need of the believer which is Christ in you the hope of glory" (Col 1:27) or we say relationship. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.
We see God in a natural way pass through the covenant sacrifice in Gen 15, as the burning lamp and smoking furnace, like God speaking to Israel from Mt. Sinai (Ex 19:18). Abraham by faith believed in a son promised and is rewarded righteousness, the same for us for believing "the Son" Jesus Christ for our righteousness. But this faith wasn't the issue of the promise except in the issue of being blessed by Abraham believing in Gen 12, faith came after God had promised.
In Gen 3 The only reason Adam and Eve walked out of the Garden alive is, because God provided a sacrifice to make skins to cover their sins. A blood sacrifice (a type) from the beginning was spilled, just as Christ blood was spilled for our salvation to live.
God knows all things before they happen Isaiah 46:10, and so He makes a covenant with someone who hasn't even made the step of faith yet. Like the older shall serve the younger, (Gen 25) with Esau and Jacob, as Esau rejected his birthright while Jacob deceived for it, but who really desired it? Jacob. Why would God say, "Abraham's seed forever", since knowing all things, He was going to replace Israel with the Church?
God promised the land of Israel (Gen 15:18), to Abrahams seed Isaac: from the great river Nile to the great river Euphrates. So Israel did not and has not ever, received all that land, but it will happen in the Millennium.
In your reading of Abraham and Isaac, did you ever wonder why when fear entered them, how they would consistently have compromised the promise to be defiled, as Abraham and Isaac both had their wives, Sarah and Rebekah lie about marriage. Yet, who kept the promise from being defiled and the promise nullified? God kept His promise and rebuked, Pharaoh and Abimelech for almost defiling, Why? Because God had made a promise and God will not allow His promise be defiled.
Israel's name was Jacob first, which means deceiver and didn't come to faith until wrestling with God (Gen 32) So God changed his name from Jacob the deceiver to Israel the prince with God, an honor, he knew in humility didn't deserve, but like to us who have come to faith, knowing we do not deserve such favor as being called a child of God. Jacob had believed in a God, but when returning he made the decision to make God his God, to walk in God's ways.
The problem which most of us have, as was with Israel, before faith we thought we were good enough to have heaven, but in reality, we broke His law and deserve death. When before the Mountain, God spoke down the Ten Commandments and the people shook, and when Moses told them to obey, they said they promised they would obey, thinking they could in their own strength and will. We find in less than 40 days, they fell short, and they broke first commandment, you shall have no other gods and then made an idol image. We have done the same thing.
Continuing the purpose of God choosing Israel. God said He chose Israel, not because they were bigger or better than anyone else (Deut 4:37; 7:7-8), but because of their fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This was the promise He made with them forever. Remember that word "forever" because the book of Revelation ends with Israel a nation and Jerusalem. And God isn't ashamed to be called by their name: God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and this is what God said to Moses in Exodus 3, look at:
(Exodus 3:14-15) And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.' (NKJV)
I AM WHO I AM or I AM THAT I AM, or I AM WHAT I AM, this is the word Jesus said many times proclaiming himself God "I AM" in the Gospel of John. Another way of saying I AM THAT I AM is: "Therefore I AM, whether I AM there". Whether implies the idea, no matter the good or the evil Israel does, God shall work with Israel to keep His promise to Abraham, Isaac and Israel. What did I say about Abrahams and Isaacs failure to protect the promise, they didn't and couldn't. Now you know why God walked through the covenant as the burning lamp and not Abraham, because Abraham couldn't keep the covenant and that is all our fault of sin. Abraham almost defiled the promise with Abimelech and then with Hagar and even tried to make it easier for God to keep his promise with Ishmael, but when God said, You shall have a son, Abraham is one with whom (Gen 2:24) Sara, so when God spoke to Abraham, it was to both Abraham and Sarah as one, not Hagar, who wasn't Abrahams wife at time of promise.
Have you sinned after receiving salvation through Christ? yes! We have been saved, are being saved and shall be saved. So when you look at Israel, all who have come to faith are in the vine, but any branches not bearing fruit of faith are cut off, or pruned so to bear fruit of faith. Just as a believer in Christ is saved and in sanctification they are being saved, meaning as you grow in Christ, you cut off or prune away the parts of your life which are not bearing fruit for Christ, but you are still in this body of sin, waiting for the resurrection into a new body, or finished saved, complete.
Remember the natural before the spiritual. So God "I AM THAT I AM," "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" shall keep His promise to Israel, to show the whole World that God IS GOD and there is no other. Even Moses declares this to Pharaoh: Exodus 7:5; 8:22; 14:4,18; and look at Isaiah 43:
(Isaiah 43:10-25) "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the LORD, And besides Me there is no savior. I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses," Says the LORD, "that I am God. Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?" Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, And bring them all down as fugitives-The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships. I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King." Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea And a path through the mighty waters, Who brings forth the chariot and horse, The army and the power (They shall lie down together, they shall not rise; They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick): "Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I give waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My people, My chosen. This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise. "But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob; And you have been weary of Me, O Israel. You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, Nor wearied you with incense. You have bought Me no sweet cane with money, Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices; But you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities. "I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins. (NKJV)
When you understand Israel is God's witness as the Apostles were Jesus witnesses. No matter what Israel does, God is proven by Israel. Israel doing good, and Israel doing evil, God shall be glorified and proven. So instead of God destroying Israel, nations like: Amorites, Canaanites, Edomites, Moabites and Ammonites, God maintained Israel through the deportations of the Assyrians and Babylonians and dispersion throughout the world, Just as God said would happen if they refused to walk in His ways. God's law of Israel not mingling, even though did many times, still didn't get mingled and forgotten like nations above.
(Deuteronomy 28:63-67) "And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. "Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known-wood and stone. "And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. "Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. "In the morning you shall say, 'Oh, that it were evening!' And at evening you shall say, 'Oh, that it were morning!' because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. (NKJV)
These verses have and are coming to pass. Aren't these verses what it is like for Israel today? Even as many Israelites are back in the land today, there is not much ease, as they are surrounded by the enemy, wanting to destroy them. Israel is Israel, doesn't matter if it came through Zionist movement, selfish or not, political or not. Saying, "Political" Israel is using 'political" to disqualify the legitimacy of today's Israel, but anyone who is of Israelite descent is Israel and is fulfilling prophesy of the scriptures, as spoken:
(Deuteronomy 30:1-6) "Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God drives you, "and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, "that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. "If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. "Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. "And the LORD your
God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. (NKJV)
God made promise to Abraham, his seed, descendants again with wife Sara, meaning Isaac's descendants would have possession of the land from river Nile to river Euphrates. Yes many of Abrahams the other seeds, Ishmael and Keturahs sons, descendants have possessed that and more so the more over extends the promise and the promise was for the nation of Israel specifically. So since they have never possessed all that land and if the church replaces Israel, then God failed Abraham in the promise, and I can tell you God never fails. Even when King Jeconiah or Coniah (Jer 22) defiled Gods promise, God even testifying this Coniah shall not have a descendant on the throne of David, was still able to keep his promise, not through Joseph (Mt4), husband of Mary, the Son of David royal line, but through Mary (Lk4) descendant of Nathan the son of David King of Israel. Notice how God works all for his promise, even the natural.
Read book of Daniel, and you shall see how God used Daniel and 3 boys to testify to Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar who the true God is, even Nebuchadnezzar came to faith Dan 4, So he having small miracles believed, and Pharaoh having many miracles still wouldn't believe, and then Belshazzar knowing the testimony of his father, mocked the God of Israel with using and defiling the temple utensils and Daniel told him his kingdom was done that night. Daniel 5. When Cyrus showed up outside of Babylon, and took the city, the Israelites came to Cyrus and showed him his name is in the Bible Isaiah 45, and later we know Darius responds to the Daniels faith by Daniels faithfulness to stand for God and His righteousness. Daniel 6. The book of Ester is another work God uses to prove to the world, He is God and there is no other. The question always is "Will they confess, their need for Christ?" And we know in the same Chapter 45 says:
Isa 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
look at what God continues in Isaiah 45:
(Isaiah 45:17-25) But Israel shall be saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or disgraced Forever and ever. For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD, and there is no other. I have not spoken in secret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. "Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save. Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me. "Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath. He shall say, 'Surely in the LORD I have righteousness and strength. To Him men shall come, And all shall be ashamed Who are incensed against Him. In the LORD all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.'" (NKJV)
What does God say? "Israel shall be saved by the LORD, with an everlasting salvation" and "In the LORD all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory".
Yes, you can say God favored Israel, but remember not because of how good, better or bigger they are but because God can change their lives from evil to good. So if god can change their lives, God can change your life.
The nation of Israel today is in the same state of unbelief as Jacob and the 11 brothers, rejecting Gods work that Joseph would rule over them by his dreams in Genesis 37, but as Joseph's brother rejected and then with all the world's problems with a famine, the 11 brothers had to go before Joseph for the need of sustenance and survival. The same has happened as Israel rejected Christ (John 1:11) and crucified Him, as they sold Joseph, so in the end times of the 70th week of Daniel 9, or called Jacobs trouble. The end times or tribulation will be the crying out to the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, to sustain and deliver them from their enemies, while confessing Him as Lord and He shall come in Rev 14 to Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives on the east side of the temple gates, being the Kings gate, (how the sun rises in the east) and Rev 19 to conquer the surrounding armies against Jerusalem.
Consider this, The book of Daniel is a prophetic book as well as historical. Dan 2 shows a statue of the final governments until the rock from above destroys it and establishes a
government of righteousness. The head of gold was kingdom of Babylon, Silver arms and chest was Medes and Persian Empire, Bronze mid section was Grecian Empire, and then legs are iron being the Roman Empire, Israel is a part of all 4 of them, so how is Israel out of the picture or replaced by the church, when the last kingdom are the feet of clay and iron and ten toes or the continuation of the Roman Empire (republic). The last kingdom, another beast of the final beast Daniel 7 and also in Revelation 12. Cannot be, since, there is a temple, not a church opposite the Mount of Olives, where the 2 witnesses (Rev 9) preach and call down fire from the temple Mount, doesn't have a Kings gate and the church is not ruled from Jerusalem.
Even the Hebrew letter Shin, representing God's name is etched into the landscape, or topography of the land of MT Moriah as Kidron valley east side of temple, swoops to the west as the Hinnon valley and then swoops north to the valley of Armageddon, and the Tyrophoeon valley in the middle. God wrote His name into the soil of the land of Jerusalem like to western NY the lakes are called Finger lakes, as it looks like God took His fingers and scraped the land for lakes. 2Ch 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. Ps 102:21 Isa 18:7 Joel 2:32, Wow, Why does it say Israel and not church, Why are there no scriptures or prophesy in the Old Testament verifying church would replace Israel, Remember the natural before the spiritual.
Does the church raise up a church on the temple mount and shall it be defiled by the Antichrist, since church replaces Israel. Look at these 2 verses:
Mr 13:14 But when you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that reads understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Lu 21:20 And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.
Why would Jesus say this to the church if the church is not in Jerusalem and Judea. We can understand spoken to Israel, but not to the church, since Israelites have the majority of the population of Israel.
Look at Zechariah, do not all these words describe Israel today and the book of Revelation?
(Zechariah 12:1-10) The burden of the word of the LORD against Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him: "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. "And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples (nations); all who would heave (cast away, reject) it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. "In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. "And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the LORD of hosts, their God.' "In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place-Jerusalem. "The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. "In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them. "It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. (NKJV)
(Isaiah 51:17-23) Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His fury; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, And drained it out. There is no one to guide her Among all the sons she has brought forth; Nor is there any who takes her by the hand Among all the sons she has brought up. These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you? -Desolation and destruction, famine and sword-By whom will I comfort you? Your sons have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets, Like an antelope in a net; They are full of the fury of the LORD, The rebuke of your God. Therefore please hear this, you afflicted, And drunk but not with wine. Thus says your Lord, The LORD and your God, Who pleads the cause of His people: "See, I have taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The dregs of the cup of My fury; You shall no longer drink it. But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you.' And you have laid your body like the ground, And as the street, for those who walk over." (NKJV)
Doesn't this sound like Jesus in Rev 14 & 19 coming to conquer, to defend Israel and Jerusalem, then afflicting those nations which afflicted Israel?
Just as Moses said, De 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto him you shall hearken;
Didn't Moses come and deliver Israel out of the hands of the world, Egypt, which afflicted them and then with Egypt's strong hand forced Israel to God deliverance through the Red Sea, only having after the days previously had participated in Passover, which Christ fulfilled on the cross. As Israel believed to do Passover and then to be at their end with Egypt's threat, like Beast (nations) in Rev 16 and then God fought against Egypt but Israel went through
the Red Sea to the Promised Land. Just as Israel went through the affliction of baptism to call upon Joseph for their salvation, so Israel in the end will go through the affliction of baptism to call upon Jesus the Messiah for their salvation as stated in Zechariah 12.
Can you not see the parallels of prophesy, with Moses to Jesus, to Joseph and brothers to Jesus and 12 tribes of Israel.
Peter declared prophesy has a greater surety or proof than his experiences, because when Jesus fulfilled prophesy, He proved His validity of who He "IS" (2Peter 1:19-21).
So any prophesies not fulfilled in Old Testament with name of Israel, still have to be fulfilled.
Look at Jeremiah 31:
Jer 31:1 "At the same time," says the LORD, "I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people."
Jer 31:2 Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness-Israel, when I went to give him rest."
Jer 31:3 The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Isn't this "IAM THAT IAM" named forever "God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?"
Jer 31:4 Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.
Jer 31:5 You shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and eat them as ordinary food.
This has been happening since 1880 as Jews started back to land of Israel and started re- plenteously the land to make it pliable for growing, since Muslims destroyed the land.
The Balfour declaration 1917, League of nations mandate 1922, and the May 14th 1948 in the U.N. re-establishing the nation of Israel.
The U.N. in 1947 which brought partitions for Israel and the Arab states. the world accepted it just as God said:
Isa 66:8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
What nation has had a one day birth?
Jer 31:6 For there shall be a day when the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim, 'Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.'"
Jer 31:7 For thus says the LORD: "Sing with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel!'
Jer 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them from the ends of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child And the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there.
Jer 31:9 They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.
Jer 31:10 "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare it in the isles afar off, and say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.'
Jer 31:11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he.
Jer 31:12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, Streaming to the goodness of the LORD-For wheat and new wine and oil, For the young of the flock and the herd; Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, And they shall sorrow no more at all.
Jer 31:13 "Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old, together; For I will turn their mourning to joy, Will comfort them, And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.
Jer 31:14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD."
Jer 31:15 Thus says the LORD: "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more.”
Jer 31:16 Thus says the LORD: "Refrain your voice from weeping, And your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD, And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
Jer 31:17 There is hope in your future, says the LORD, That your children shall come back to their own border.
Jer 31:18 "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: 'You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained bull; Restore me, and I will return, For You are the LORD my God.
Jer 31:19 Surely, after my turning, I repented; And after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, Because I bore the reproach of my youth.'
Jer 31:20 Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For though I spoke against him, I earnestly remember him still; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says the LORD.
Jer 31:21 "Set up signposts, Make landmarks; Set your heart toward the highway, The way in which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, Turn back to these your cities.
Jer 31:22 How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth-A woman shall encompass a man."
Jer 31:23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: 'The LORD bless you, O home of justice, and mountain of holiness!'
Jer 31:24 "And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all its cities together, farmers and those going out with flocks.
Jer 31:25 "For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul."
Jer 31:26 After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me.
Jer 31:27 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
Jer 31:28 "And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.
Jer 31:29 "In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'
Jer 31:30 "But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
We see Israel now rejecting, but Jeremiah in the next verses declares they will receive the New Covenant.
Jer 31:31 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-
Jer 31:32 "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
Jer 31:33 "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Jer 31:34 "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Has this verse been completed as we continue to say, "Know the Lord," even in the church? Here is proof that God isn't done with Israel
Jer 31:35 Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name):
Jer 31:36 "If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the LORD, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever."
Jer 31:37 Thus says the LORD: "If heaven above can be measured, And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel For all that they have done, says the LORD.
Again IAM THAT IAM or no matter what Israel does, IAM THERE
Jer 31:38 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
Jer 31:39 "The surveyor's line shall again extend straight forward over the hill Gareb; then it shall turn toward Goath.
Jer 31:40 "And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever." (NKJV)
If none of the above verses can change your mind, that the church doesn't replace Israel, then know Bible is a law book and contract, just as your salvation through Christ is a contract or law. So to change the meaning of the words is to change the law and what does God say about changing the WORD of God Deut 4:2
Anyone who changes the Word of God to fit their narrative, like Church replaces Israel, even Spiritually and say God is done with Israel, is under the curse.
Deut 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
De 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
De 4:4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. (KJV)
Jesus came in the physical to fulfill prophesy, if you can change it, then how can you be sure Christ shall return?
If God can be done with Israel and not keep his promise to them, how can you be sure God can keep His word of your salvation through Jesus the Christ? You cannot, and then you have no valid contract to assure your life in Christ.
Why God chose Israel johnmarcusnet, look at the hebrew letter “shin” it looks like a “W” which is etched into topography of Jerusalem, the valleys. then what does it look like, A thorn bush, a crown, or a thicket, where are these found Genesis 22:13; Exodus 3:2; and Jesus crown of thorns, who was Crucified by Israel, Yet God chose Israel, even though He knew they would reject Him, even until toady, yet God is there and it is proven no matter how, good or Evil. God returned them to the land. Abraham sacrificed that ram caught in the thicket, in substitute to his son Isaac, and Israel crucified Jesus as a sacrifice for their salvation.
